Legouis, Emile

(A) short history of English literature by Emile Legouis - New Delhi Oxford University Press 1934 - xvi, 404p. 18 cm.

Includes index

Anglo-Saxon literature From the Norman conquest to Chaucer The fourteenth century 1350-1400 Geoffrey Chaucer 1340 ? - 1400 The fifteenth century, from the death of Chaucer to the renaissance (1400-1516) Preparation for the renaissance (1516 - 78) The reformation and religious controversies from 1525 to 1578 Poetry: Wyatt and Surrey,Ssackville, Gascoigne The theatre from 1520 to 1578 Flowering of the renaissance 1578 - 1625 The leaders: Lyly, Sidney, Spencer Poetry from 1590 to 1625 Prose from 1578 to 1625 Drama of the renaissance (1580 - 1642) Shakespeare's contemporaries and his immediate successors Shakespeare's successors the theatre under Charles I The end of the Renaissance Poetry from 1625 to 1660 Milton 1608 - 74 Restoration literature (1660 - 1700) The eighteenth century (1700 - 40) The eighteenth century (1740 - 70) The eighteenth century (1770 - 98) Eighteenth century drama Romanticism (1798 - 1830) The Victorian era (1830 - 80) From 1880 to the present day

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