Five poems, 1470-1870
Subtitle: an elementary essay on the background of English literature
By: E.M.W. Tillyard.
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Published: 1948
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 127
Subjects: English poetry -- History and criticism.
Other titles: Poetry and its background
Notes: Published later: 1961 under title: Poetry and its background.

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The testament of Cresseid, 1470? / Henryson; title: Orchestra, 1594 / J. Davies; title: Ode on Anne Killigrew, 1686 / Dryden; title: The rime of the ancient mariner, 1798 / Coleridge; title: Hertha, 1870 / Swinburne.