A Short History of English Literature 2nd Edition by Harry Blamires ISBN 9781134942091 1134942095

First published in 2012. This work of introduction is designed to escort the reader through some six centuries of English literature. It begins in the fourteenth century at the point at which the language written in our country is recognizably our own, and ends in the 1950s. It is a compact survey, summing up the substance and quality of the individual achievements that make up our literature. The aim is to leave the reader informed about each writer’s main output, sensitive to the special character of his gifts, and aware of his place in the story of our literature as a whole.

A Short History of English Literature 2nd Edition Table of contents:

1. The Fourteenth Century

2. Fifteenth-Century Poetry and Prose

3. The Early Sixteenth Century

4. Elizabethan Drama (Shakespeare and His Predecessors)

5. Jacobean Drama (Shakespeare’s Contemporaries and Successors)

6. Elizabethan Poetry

7. Metaphysical and Cavalier Poetry

8. Elizabethan and Seventeenth-Century Prose

9. Milton to Dryden

10. Restoration Drama

11. Origins of the Novel

12. The Age of Swift and Pope

13. The Age of Johnson

14. The Eighteenth-Century Novel

15. The Close of the Eighteenth Century

16. Wordsworth and the Romantics

17. Scott and Contemporary Novelists

18. Victorian Poetry

19. The Victorian Novel

20. Twentieth-Century Drama

21. Twentieth-Century Poetry

22. The Twentieth-Century Novel

Chronological Table of Writers (By Date of Birth)

Bibliography

Chapter 1: The Fourteenth Century

Chapter 2: Fifteenth-Century Poetry and Prose

Chapter 3: The Early Sixteenth Century

Chapter 4: Elizabethan Drama

Chapter 5: Jacobean Drama

Chapter 6: Elizabethan Poetry

Chapter 7: Metaphysical and Cavalier Poetry

Chapter 8: Elizabethan and Seventeenth-Century Prose

Chapter 9: Milton to Dryden

Chapter 10: Restoration Drama

Chapter 11: Origins of the Novel

Chapter 12: The Age of Swift and Pope

Chapter 13: The Age of Johnson

Chapter 14: The Eighteenth-Century Novel

Chapter 15: The Close of the Eighteenth Century

Chapter 16: Wordsworth and the Romantics

Chapter 17: Scott and Contemporary Novelists

Chapter 18: Victorian Poetry

Chapter 19: The Victorian Novel

Chapter 20: Twentieth-Century Drama

Chapter 21: Twentieth-Century Poetry

Chapter 22: The Twentieth-Century Novel

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