Our Greatest Writers: And Their Major WorksHow To Books Ltd, 2003 - 331 páginas Carrington takes the reader on an exploration of English literary heritage by reading small, digestible sections which form an ordered programme. Meet all the major English writers - who they were, what they wrote, their finest work and its significance. |
Contenido
How to Use this Book | 11 |
Christopher Marlowe 15641593 | 45 |
politics and power | 62 |
the later plays | 63 |
the sonnets | 65 |
87 | 68 |
Ben Jonson 15721637 | 69 |
The Seventeeth Century | 73 |
John Gay 16851732 | 113 |
Alexander Pope 16881744 | 115 |
Samuel Richardson 16891761 | 119 |
Henry Fielding 17071754 | 121 |
Samuel Johnson 17091784 | 123 |
Laurence Sterne 17131768 | 126 |
The Late Eighteenth Century | 129 |
The Romantic Period | 145 |
John Donne c 1572 1631 | 75 |
the love poetry | 76 |
8 | 78 |
John Webster c 1580c 1634 | 79 |
Robert Herrick 15911674 | 81 |
George Herbert 15931633 | 83 |
John Milton 16081674 | 85 |
Paradise Lost | 86 |
Areopagitica | 88 |
other poems | 89 |
Andrew Marvell 16211678 | 90 |
9 | 91 |
Three Devotional Poets | 92 |
Henry Vaughan 16221695 | 93 |
John Bunyan 16281688 | 94 |
The Bible in English | 96 |
John Dryden 16321700 | 97 |
Samuel Pepys 16331703 | 99 |
10 | 101 |
The Augustan Age | 105 |
Daniel Defoe 16601731 | 107 |
Jonathan Swift 16671745 | 109 |
11 | 112 |
Walter Scott 17711832 | 160 |
Thomas Love Peacock 17851866 | 174 |
Percy Bysshe Shelley 17921822 | 180 |
The Victorians | 191 |
Edward Fitzgerald 18091883 | 197 |
William Makepeace Thackeray 18111863 | 204 |
Anthony Trollope 18151822 | 215 |
George Eliot 18191880 | 223 |
Towards the Turn of the Century | 231 |
74 | 237 |
Drama at the Turn of the Century | 244 |
79 | 251 |
82 | 257 |
88 | 270 |
90 | 276 |
94 | 283 |
98 | 290 |
101 | 297 |
Ted Hughes 19301998 | 304 |
108 | 310 |
| 321 | |
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