A Literary History of EnglandThis is Volume II of five on a series providing a comprehensive history of the literature of England. Volume II looks at the Renaissance period (1500-1660) covering the Elizabethan, Jacobean and Restoration periods. It includes the writings of Green, Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, Shakespeare, Bason, Wilton and Milton. |
Contents
List of Abbreviations | viii |
THE RISE OF CLASSICISM | 697 |
The Spirit of the Restoration | 699 |
Literary Criticism of the Restoration | 710 |
The Poetry of Dryden | 722 |
Minor Poets of the Restoration | 733 |
I Heroic Plays and Tragedies | 748 |
II Comedy | 762 |
Traditions in Early EighteenthCentury Poetry | 898 |
Pope and His Group | 915 |
New Voices in Poetry | 933 |
The MidCentury Novel | 950 |
THE DISINTEGRATION OF CLASSICISM | 965 |
Accentuated Tendencies | 967 |
Opinions of Critics | 977 |
Dr Johnson | 989 |
Patterns in Historical Writing | 780 |
Types of Prose Fiction | 793 |
The Essay and Allied Forms | 806 |
CLASSICISM AND JOURNALISM | 821 |
EighteenthCentury Quality | 823 |
The Critical Temper and Doctrine 17001750 | 833 |
Defoe and Journalism | 847 |
Jonathan Swift | 857 |
Addison Steele and the Periodical Essay | 870 |
The Drama 17001740 | 883 |
MidCentury Poets | 1005 |
The Novel After 1760 | 1021 |
The Drama 17401785 | 1035 |
The Periodicals and Oliver Goldsmith | 1050 |
Biography and LetterWriting | 1063 |
Intellectual Prose | 1081 |
Cowper and Burns | 1095 |
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