A Short History of English Literature

Harry Blamires

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2020
• eBook ISBN: 9781000153255
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: English Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

This book guides through some six centuries of English literature, beginning with Chaucer's time, and goes on to analyse the background, interconnections and major achievements of individual writers in each period. It is useful to the student of English literature and to the general reader.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Preface to the edition of 1984
• 1 The fourteenth century
• 2 Fifteenth-century poetry and prose
• 3 The early sixteenth century
• 4 Elizabethan drama
• 5 Jacobean drama
• 6 Elizabethan poetry
• 7 Metaphysical and Cavalier poetry
• 8 Elizabethan and seventeenth-century prose
• 9 Milton to Dryden
• 10 Restoration drama
• 11 Origins of the novel
• 12 The age of Swift and Pope
• 13 The age of Johnson
• 14 The eighteenth-century novel
• 15 The close of the eighteenth century
• 16 Wordsworth and the Romantics
• 17 Scott and contemporary novelists
• 18 Victorian poetry
• 19 The Victorian novel
• 20 Twentieth-century drama
• 21 Twentieth-century poetry
• 22 The twentieth-century novel
• Chronological table of writers
• Bibliography
• Index