A history of English poetry
By: by W. J. Courthope.
Publisher: Macmillan and co.
Published: 1910
Place of publication: New York; and London
Language: eng
Subjects: English poetry -- History and criticism.
Table of contents: title: I. The middle ages. Influence of the Roman empire. The encyclopædic education of the church. The feudal system.-II. The renaissance and the reformation. Influence of the court and the universities.-III. The intellectual conflict of the seventeenth century. Decadent influence of the feudal monarchy. Growth of the national genius.-IV. Development and decline of the poetic drama. Influence of the court and the people.-V. The constitutional compromise of the eighteenth century. Effects of the classical renaissance, its zenith and decline. The early romanatic renaissance.-VI. The romantic movement in English poetry. Effects of the French revolution.