Book description
CONTENTS:
1. Anglo-Saxon Prelude
2. The Age of Chaucer
Poets of the Fourteenth Century
The End of Middle Ages
3. The English Renaissance
Pre-Elizabethan Verse and Prose
4. The Elizabethan Age
The Rise of the English Drama
Shakespearian Heyday
"The Faerie Queene"
"Rare Ben Jonson"
Song-writers and Sonneteers
Courtier Poets
Elizabethan Prose
5. The Seventeenth Century
The Jacobean Drama
King James’s Bible
Bacon and the Pursuit of Truth
Poets Sacred and Profane
Prose Writers
John Milton
Later Seventeenth-Century Prose
Diarists
Later Seventeenth-Century Verse
Tragedy and Comedy
Restoration Comedy
John Dryden
6. The Eighteenth Century
Alexander Pope
Swift and the Age of Anne
The Birth of the Modern Novel
Eighteenth-Century Verse
The Growth of the Novel
Johnson and Boswell
Eighteenth-Century Prose
Gothic Fantasy
Sheridan and the Comedy of Manners
7. The Nineteenth Century
Crabbe and the Romantic Revolution
The Nineteenth-Century Novel
Critics, Essayists and Men of Letters
The Art of Prose
Later Nineteenth-Century Verse
The Pre-Raphaelite Poets
The Aesthetic Movement
8. Twentieth-Century Epilogue
The Novel
The New Novel
English Verse 1914-45
The Drama
Critics and Biographers