A critical history of English poetry / by Herbert J.C. Grierson & J.C. Smith
1956, Reprint. Chatto & Windus. Very good cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Foxing to dust-wrapper. Price-clipped. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #466561
Physical description; viii, 539 pages, 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 522-533) and index. Contents; Anglo-Saxon poetry -- Early Middle English poetry -- Chaucer, Gower, and Langland -- English poetry from Chaucer to Skelton -- Early Scottish poetry -- The Tudor renaissance -- Spenser, Sidney, and their circle -- Elizabethan poetry -- The Jacobeans -- Shakespeare's predecessors -- Shakespeare -- Shakespeare's contemporaries and successors in drama -- The Carolines -- Milton -- Cowley to Dryden -- The age of Pope and other Augustans -- Thomson to Cowper -- Cowper -- Crabbe -- The revival of Scottish poetry -- Burns -- The revolutionary age -- Blake -- Wordsworth and Coleridge: early poems and lyrical ballads -- Wordsworth and Coleridge: later poems -- Scott -- Byron -- Shelley -- Keats -- Landor to Tennyson -- The early Victorians: Tennyson -- The early Victorians: Robert Browning -- The early Victorians: Mrs. Browning and others -- Mid-Victorian poetry: Arnold, Clough, and Kingsley -- Mid-Victorian poetry: the pre-Raphaelite group -- Mid-Victorian poetry: Patmore, Thomson, and other minors -- Mid-Victorian poetry: Meredith and Hardy -- The nineties -- Twentieth-century poetry: the pre-war years, 1901-1914 -- Twentieth-century poetry: the war years, 1914-1918 -- Twentieth-century poetry: between the wars, 1919-1939. Subjects; English poetry History and criticism. English poetry. Stanzas In English poetry.
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