(The) Concise Cambridge history of English literature
by George Sampson
- 3rd ed.
- Delhi Cambridge University Press 2016
- xiii, 976p. ; 23 cm.
Includes index.
From the beginnings to the cycle of romance -- The end of the middle age -- Renascence and reformation -- Prose and poetry : sir Thomas North to Michael Drayton -- The Drama to 1642 : part I -- The drama to 1642 : part II -- Cavalier and Puritan -- The age of Dryden -- From Steele and Addison to pope and swift -- The age of Johnson -- The period of the French revolution -- The nineteenth century : part I -- The nineteenth century : part II -- Empire and after : from the nineteenth to the twentieth century in Britain and overseas -- The literature of the United States of America from the colonial period to Henry James -- The age of T. S. Eliot : the mid-twentieth-century literature of the English-speaking world