A short history of English literature / by George Saintsbury.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Saintsbury, George, 1845-1933.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--History and criticism.

English literature.

British literature--History and criticism.

British literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (493 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1984.

Summary:

`It is good to see a reprint and complete updating of this well-known historical tour de force, with its evidence of vast reading and literally thousands of useful facts.' - Times Educational Supplement

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Preface to the edition of 1984; The fourteenth century; Fifteenth-century poetry and prose; The early sixteenth century; Elizabethan drama; Jacobean drama; Elizabethan poetry; Metaphysical and Cavalier poetry; Elizabethan and seventeenth-century prose; Milton to Dryden; Restoration drama; Origins of the novel; The age of Swift and Pope; The age of Johnson; The eighteenth-century novel; The close of the eighteenth century; Wordsworth and the Romantics; Scott and contemporary novelists; Victorian poetry; The Victorian novel; Twentieth-century drama

Twentieth-century poetryThe twentieth-century novel; Chronological table of writers; Bibliography; Index;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliography and index.

ISBN:

9786610326945

9781134942091

1134942095

9781280326943

1280326948

9780203137277

0203137272

OCLC:

60504590