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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Simonds, William Edward, 1860-1947. Student's history of English literature. Boston : Houghton, Mifflin and Co., ©1902 (OCoLC)568747413 |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
William Edward Simonds; Houghton, Mifflin and Company,; Riverside Press (Cambridge, Mass.),; H.O. Houghton & Company, |
OCLC Number: | 952555 |
Notes: | Includes index. On spine: History of English literature. |
Description: | v, 483 pages, 3 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, facsimiles, maps, portraits ; 20 cm |
Contents: | The Anglo-Saxon period. Britain and the English ; Anglo-Saxon poetry ; Anglo-Saxon prose ; The nation and the language -- The Anglo-Norman period. The new invasion ; Development of Middle English literature ; The age of Chaucer ; Geoffrey Chaucer: poet of the dawn -- The fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The fifteenth century: the Renascence ; First half of the sixteenth century ; Representative prose and verse in the Elizabethan Age ; Development of the English drama ; William Shakespeare and his successors -- The seventeenth century. The last of the Elizabethans: Bacon ; The Puritan movement: Milton ; Seventeenth century lyrics ; The restoration: Bunyan, Dryden -- The eighteenth century. The Augustan age of English prose ; The poetry of Alexander Pope ; Rise of the English novel ; Essayists of the second half ; The Romantic movement in English poetry -- The nineteenth century. The new poetry: Wordsworth, Coleridge -- The Romantic movement in fiction: Scott ; The revolutionary poets: Byron, Shelley ; Romanticism in English prose: Lamb, De Quincey ; The great essayists: Macaulay, Carlyle, Ruskin ; Maturity of the novel: Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot ; The Victorian poets: Browning, Tennyson. |
Responsibility: | by William Edward Simonds. |
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