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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
John Drinkwater |
ISBN: | 1419146165 9781419146169 1419180908 9781419180903 1419180991 9781419180996 |
OCLC Number: | 437268436 |
Notes: | Facsimile reprint. Originally published: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1923-1924. "With about 500 illustrations of which many are in colour." "In three volumes." Published in parts with The outline of art edited by Sir William Orpen as: The outline of literature and art / edited by John Drinkwater and Sir William Orpen. |
Description: | 3 volumes : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | v. 1. The first books in the world -- Homer -- The story of the Bible / by E.W. Barnes -- The English Bible as literature -- The sacred books of the East -- Greek myth and the poets -- Greece and Rome -- The Middle Ages -- The Renaissance. v. 2. William Shakespeare, 1564-1616 / by Harley Granville-Barker -- Shakespeare to Milton -- John Milton / by John Drinkwater -- Marvell and Walton -- John Bunyan -- Pepys, Dryden, and the restoration dramatists -- French literature in the age of Louis XIV -- Pope, Addison, Steele, Swift -- The rise of the novel -- The eighteenth-century poets -- Dr. Johnson and his circle -- Edward Gibbon and other eighteenth-century prose-writers -- Robert Burns -- The literature that made the revolution -- Goethe, Schiller, and Lessing -- Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey, and Blake -- Byron, Shelley, Keats. v. 3. Scott, Dumas, and Hugo -- Early nineteenth-century essayists -- Victorian poets -- Dickens and Thackeray / by G.K. Chesterton -- The Victorian novelists -- The New England writers -- The nineteenth-century French writers -- The great Victorians -- Modern writers, American and European -- Some later Victorians -- Dramatic literature -- English poetry since Swinburne / by Gilbert Thomas -- Later day writers. |
Series Title: | Kessinger Publishing's rare reprints. |
Other Titles: | Outline of literature and art. |
Responsibility: | edited by John Drinkwater. |
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