The Concise Cambridge History of English LiteratureSampson's Concise History (first published in 1941) was a summary in readable form of the great Cambridge History with some personal touches by Sampson. The second edition had a substantial new chapter by R. C. Churchill on twentieth-century literature and appeared in 1961. This is a digital reprint of the 1970 edition, prepared by Mr Churchill, which provides a revision of the first thirteen chapters. Three very substantial chapters were added that had the effect of making this the only complete and up-to-date survey as of 1970 of world literature in English. The literature of the USA is surveyed in extenso and in its own right. The literatures in English of Ireland, India, Pakistan, Ceylon, Malaysia, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the West Indies, South Africa and the predominately English-speaking African states are also treated. Students and general readers will find this a comprehensive and lively-minded survey, guide and reference book to the world's literature in the English language. |
Contents
CHAPTER | 1 |
Manuscripts p 2 m Early National Legend p 28 xm The Metrical | 39 |
clers from the Eleventh to the XVIII Prosody of Old and Middle | 49 |
Piers Plowman and its Sequence Fifteenth Century i p 78 xi | 88 |
English Chaucerians p 69 IX Hawes xvII Ballads p 90 xvm Political | 95 |
ture p 105 v Social Literature in p 127 XIV Elizabethan Criticism | 139 |
CHAPTER IV | 145 |
Translators p 145 II The Author x Michael Drayton p 165 XI Donne | 182 |
The Newspaper and the and Others p 400 IX Memoir | 405 |
Writers p 392 VI Lesser Verse XII William Law and the Mystics | 416 |
Richardson p 418 п Fielding and phersons Ossian Chatterton Percy | 459 |
Lesser Scottish Verse p 494 | 494 |
PART I | 514 |
Scott p 514 II Byron p 518 Quincey p 547 x Jane Austen p 550 | 550 |
ш Shelley p 523 IV Keats p 528 XI Lesser Novelists p 552 xп | 559 |
CHAPTER XIII | 572 |
Robert Southwell John Davies xvII Writers on Country Pursuits | 191 |
214 IX Shakespeare Poems p 226 | 226 |
Introductory p 193 п Secular In x Plays of Uncertain Authorship | 232 |
XII Shakespeare in Europe | 244 |
Marston Dekker p 253 m Middle Theatre p 276 XI The Children | 272 |
CHAPTER VII | 288 |
Cavalier Lyrists p 288 п The Thomas Fuller Izaak Walton | 323 |
Poets p 295 v Milton p 299 XII Hobbes and Contemporary Philo | 330 |
Dryden p 335 п Samuel Butler Prosody of the Seventeenth Century | 375 |
Carlyle p 572 п The Tennysons p 606 vш NineteenthCentury | 618 |
Matthew Arnold Arthur Hugh x Dickens p 622 xI The Political | 650 |
CHAPTER XIV | 658 |
Philosophy from Mill to Russell the Irish Literary Revival in the Age | 772 |
Revolution and Romance p 782 Civil War p 809 vi Mark Twain | 828 |
CHAPTER XVI | 841 |
Looking Before and Joyce p 866 IV The Old Drama | 929 |
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