Landmarks of English literature.
By: By Henry J. Nicoll.
Publisher: D. Appleton and company
Published: 1883
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 460
Subjects: English literature -- History and criticism
Notes: Deals "solely with the very greatest names in the several departments of English literature".--Introd.
Table of contents: title: Introduction.; title: The dawn of English literature.; title: The Elizabethan era. The Elizabethan dramatists.; title: The successors of the Elizabethans.; title: The restoration.; title: The wits of Queen Anne's time.; title: Our first great novelists.; title: Dr. Johnson and his contemporaries.; title: The new era in poetry.; title: Sir Walter Scott and the prose literature of the early part of the nineteenth century. The Waverley novels.; title: Our own times.; title: Periodicals, reviews and encyclopædias.