The Penguin Short History of English Literature

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Penguin Literary Criticism
This is a chronicle of how men and women, for more than a thousand years, have expressed themselves in a literature of extraordinary fertility and a language of matchless resource
In this vivid introduction to the history of English literature Stephen Coote surveys the lines of development that lead from
the Anglo-Saxon poet, or scop, singing his work at his chieftain's liearth, to the modern poetry of Geoffrey Hill and -
Seamus Heaney.
Each chapter provides a generous overview of styles and themes along with vivid, compact accounts of the major figures. Stephen Coote examines Chaucer and his medieval contemporaries; Sidney, Spenser and the sonneteers; Shakespeare and the golden age of drama; and the progress of poetry from Donne through Milton to Dryden. Science, satire and sentinient form an essential element in the background to Swift, Popé and Johnson, just as the great romantics Blake,
Byron, Wordsworth and Shelley are shown to have been... Tovább

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Penguin Literary Criticism
This is a chronicle of how men and women, for more than a thousand years, have expressed themselves in a literature of extraordinary fertility and a language of matchless resource
In this vivid introduction to the history of English literature Stephen Coote surveys the lines of development that lead from
the Anglo-Saxon poet, or scop, singing his work at his chieftain's liearth, to the modern poetry of Geoffrey Hill and -
Seamus Heaney.
Each chapter provides a generous overview of styles and themes along with vivid, compact accounts of the major figures. Stephen Coote examines Chaucer and his medieval contemporaries; Sidney, Spenser and the sonneteers; Shakespeare and the golden age of drama; and the progress of poetry from Donne through Milton to Dryden. Science, satire and sentinient form an essential element in the background to Swift, Popé and Johnson, just as the great romantics Blake,
Byron, Wordsworth and Shelley are shown to have been influenced by the ideals of the French Revolution. Judicious
discussions of 'Victorian values' are followed by a wide-ranging analysis of the leading figures of nineteenth-century fiction: Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot and the Brontés. A
detailed survey of such major twentieth-century writers as Yeats, Lawrence, Joyce and T. S. Eliot completes this lively yet comprehensive one-volume history. Vissza