A student's history of English literature
William Edward Simonds (Author), Houghton, Mifflin and Company (Publisher), Riverside Press (Cambridge, Mass) (Printer), H.O. Houghton & Company (Electrotyper, Printer)
Criticism, interpretation, etc
v, 483 pages, 3 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, facsimiles, maps, portraits ; 20 cm
952555
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
Includes index
On spine: History of English literature