(A) Critical history of English literature [vol - I] : from the beginnings to Milton / by David Daiches

Includes index

Anglo-Saxon Literature The development of middle english prose and verse Middle-English literature Fabliau, lyric, dream, allegory, ballad Chaucer, Gower, piers plowman The end of the middle ages The early tudor scene Spencer and his time Drama from the miracle plays to Marlowe Shakespeare Drama from Jonson to the closing of the theaters Poetry after spenser: the Jonsonian and the metaphysical traditions Prose in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Milton Scottish literature to 1700 The restoration The Augustan age: Defoe, Swift, Pope Poetry from Thomson to Crabbe The novel from Richardson to Jane Austen Eighteenth century philosophical, historical and critical prose, and miscellaneous writing Scottish literature from Allan Ramsay to Walter Scott The romantic poets I: Blake, Wordsworth, and Coleridge The romantic poets II: Shelley, Keats and Byron Familiar, Critical and miscellaneous prose of the early and middle nineteenth century Victorian prose: John Henry Newman to William Morris The Victorian Novel Drama from the beginning of the eighteenth century Twentieth century poetry The Twentieth century novel