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A CRITICAL HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL I : FROM THE BEGINNINGS TO MILTON /

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Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: London: Mandarin, 1960.
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245 |a  A CRITICAL HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL I :   |b FROM THE BEGINNINGS TO MILTON /  |c David daiches 
260 |a London:  |b Mandarin,  |c 1960. 
300 |a viii,534 p. 
500 |a Professor David Daiches' critical history gives the reader a fascinating insight into over twelve centuries of great writing. With enormous intelligence and enthusiasm, he guides the reader through this vastly complex and rich tradition, finely balancing historical background with highly informed criticism. Daiches' ground breaking work is essential reading for all lovers of literature. 
505 |a VOLUME 1 1. Anglo-Saxon literature 2. The development of middle English prose and verse 3. Middle English literature fabliau, lyric, dream allegory, ballad 4. Chaucer, gower, piers plowman 5. The end of the middle age 6. The early tudor scene 7. Spenser and his time 8. Drama from the miracle plays to marlowe 9. Shakespeare 10 Drama from Jonson to the closing of the theaters 11 Poetry after spenser: the Jonsonian and the meta physical tradition 12 Milton 13 Prose in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries 14 Scottish literature to 1700 VOLUME 2 15. The restoration 16. The Augustan age: Defoe swift pope 17. Poetry from thomson to crabbe 18. the novel from Richardson to Jane austen 19. 18th century philosophical, historical and critical prose and miscellaneous writings 20. Scottish literature from allan ramsey to walter scott 21. The romantic poets I: Blake wordsworth, and coleridge 22. The romantic poets II: Shelly keats and Byron 23. Familiar critical and miscellaneous prose of the early and and middle 19th century 24. Victorian prose: 25. The Victorian poets 26. The Victorian novel 27. Drama from the beginning of the 18th century 28. 20th century poetry 29. The 20th century novel Index  
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