An Outline of English LiteratureA survey of the English prose, poetry and drama of Great Britain and Ireland from earliest times to the 1980s. |
Contents
Old English literature | 7 |
Middle English literature | 15 |
Elizabethen poetry and prose | 23 |
Copyright | |
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