Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature

Name: Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature
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ISBN: 9780192854377

ISBN-10: 0192854372

ISBN-13: 9780192854377

Edition: 2001

Authors: Pat Rogers

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Britain possesses a literary heritage which is almost unrivalled in the Western world. In this lavishly illustrated volume, the richness, diversity, and continuity of that tradition are explored by a group of Britain's foremost literary scholars. Chapter by chapter the authors trace the history of English literature, from the earliest Anglo-Saxon poetry to the present day. At its heart towers Shakespeare, who is accorded a special chapter to himself. Other major figures such as Chaucer, Milton, Donne, Wordsworth, Dickens, Eliot, and Auden are treated in depth, and the story is brought right up to date with discussion of living authors such as Seamus Heaney and Harold Pinter. The…

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List price: $41.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/28/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 544
Size: 7.44" wide x 9.69" long x 1.26" tall
Weight: 2.882
Language: English



Introduction




Old and Middle English




Tudor Literature




William Shakespeare




The Seventeenth Century




Restoration and Eighteenth Century




The Romantic Period




High Victorian Literature




Late to Modernist




Mid-Twentieth-Century Literature