A critical history of English literature
By: by David Daiches
Publisher: Secker & Warburg
Published: 1960
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: English literature; History and criticism
Description: From Anglo-Saxon times to the present, the poetry, prose, and dramatic achievements of each period in English literature.
Table of contents: title: v. 1; title: Anglo-Saxon literature --; title: The development of Middle English prose and verse --; title: Middle English literature: fabliau, lyruc dream allegory, ballad --; title: Chaucer, Gower, Piers Plowman --; title: The end of the Middle Ages --; title: The early Tudor scene --; title: Spenser and his time --; title: Drama from the miracle plays to Marlowe --; title: Shakespeare --; title: Drama from Jonson to the closing of the theaters --; title: Poetry after Spenser: The Jonsonian and metaphysical traditions --; title: Milton --; title: Prose in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries --; title: Scottish literature to 1700 -- v. 2; title: The resoration: drama; Dryden --; title: The Augustan age: Defoe, Swift, Pope --; title: Poetry from Thomson to Crabbe --; title: The novel from Richardson to Jane Austen --; title: Eighteenth-century philosophical, historical, and critical prose, and miscellaneous writing --; title: Scottish literature from Allan Ramsay to Walter Scott --; title: The romantic poets I: Blake, Wordsworth, and Coleridge --; title: The romantic poets II: Shelley, Keats, and Byron --; title: Familiar, critical and miscellaneous prose of the early and middle nineteenth century --; title: Victorian prose: John Henry Newman and William Morris --; title: The Victorian poets --; title: The Victorian novel --; title: Drama from the beginning of the eighteenth century --; title: Twentieth century poetry --; title: The twentieth-century novel.