history of English poetry
By: by W.J. Courthope.
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1920
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: English poetry -- History and criticism
Table of contents: title: v. 1.  The Middle Ages. Influence of the Roman empire. The encyclopædic education of the church. The feudal system.; title: v. 2. The Renaissance and the Reformation. Influence of the court and the universities.; title: v. 3. The intellectual conflict of the seventeenth century. Decadent influence of the feudal monarchy. Growth of the national genius.; title: v. 4. Development and decline of the poetic drama. Influence of the court and the people.; title: v. 5. The constitutional compromise of the eighteenth century. Effects of the classical Renaissance, its zenith and decline. The early romantic Renaissance.; title: v. 6. The romantic movement in English poetry. Effects of the French Revolution.