A short history of English literature. / Harry Blamires.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blamires, Harry.

Contributor:

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--History and criticism.

English literature.

Great Britain--Intellectual life.

Great Britain.

Intellectual life.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages, 536 pages ; 19 cm

Manufacture:

Bungay, Suffolk : Printed by Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd.)

Place of Publication:

[London] : Methuen & Co. Ltd.; [New York]: [Distributed by Harper & Row Publishers Inc., Barnes & Noble Import Division], [1974]

Contents:

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 poetry

The twentieth-century novel.

Notes:

"This work of introduction is designed to escort the reader through some six centuries of English literature. It begins in the fourteenth century at the point at which the language written in our country is recognizably our own, and ends in the 1950s."--Preface.

"Cover illustration: John Constable, 'Dedham Vale with ploughmen' ..."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 480-493) and index.

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok 1976".

ISBN:

0416241107

9780416241105

0416241204

9780416241204

041672230X

9780416722307

OCLC:

1094191