“The” Concise Cambridge History of English Literature

George Sampson

Cambridge University Press, Jun 1, 1970 - Literary Criticism - 976 pages

Sampson's Concise History was first published in 1941. Basically it was then 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. The present edition, prepared by Mr Churchill, provides a revision of the first thirteen chapters. Three very substantial new chapters are now added which have the effect of making this the only complete and up-to-date survey of world literature in English. The literature of the U.S.A. is now 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 new 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 teh English language.

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User Review  - Jim - Goodreads

I have the 1949 edition.

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User Review  - Conrad - Goodreads

While I didnt finish the whole thing, I got three quarters done. Sampson has a wonderfully erudite style and his prose is peppered with literary allusions and delightful commentary.

Contents

• CHAPTER: 1
• Scott p 514 H Byron p 518 Quincey p 47 x Jane Austen p 5: 5
• The Beginnings p i n Runes and English p 24 xn The Arthurian: 39
• clers from the Eleventh to the xvra Prosody of Old and Middle: 49
• Piers Plowman and its Sequence Fifteenth Century i p 78 xra: 88
• English Chaucerians p 69 ix Hawes xvn Ballads p 90 xvra Political: 95
• CHAPTER IV: 145
• Translators p 145 n The Author x Michael Drayton p 165 xi Donne: 182
• vn Robert Southwell John Davies xvn Writers on Country Pursuits: 191
• 214 ix Shakespeare Poems p 226: 226
• Introductory p 193 n Secular In x Plays of Uncertain Authorship: 232
• xn Shakespeare in Europe: 244
• Ben Jonson p 248 n Chapman Dramatists p 272 x The Elizabethan: 285
• Cavalier Lyrists p 288 n The Thomas Fuller Izaak Walton: 323
• Poets p 295 v Milton p 299 xn Hobbes and Contemporary Philo: 330
• The Court Poets p 358 ix The Modern English Prose p: 375
• The Newspaper and the and Others p 400 ix Memoir: 405
• Writers p 392 Vi Lesser Verse xn William Law and the Mystics: 416
• Richardson p 418 n Fielding and phersons Ossian Chatterton Percy: 459
• Lesser Scottish Verse p 494: 494
• and Speakers p 466 in Bentham and xi The Prosody of the Eighteenth: 511
• ra Shelley p 523 rv Keats p 528 xi Lesser Novelists p 552 xn: 559
• CHAPTER XIII: 572
• Carlyle p 572 n The Tennysons p 606 vra NineteenthCentury: 618
• rv 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: 716
• CHAPTER III: 778
• The Colonial Period p 778 n p 800 v Whitman Melville and: 828
• CHAPTER XVI: 841
• Looking Before and Joyce p 866 rv The Old Drama: 929

Bibliographic information

• Title: “The” Concise Cambridge History of English Literature; Volume 581 of Literature Cam
• Author: George Sampson
• Editor: Reginald Charles Churchill
• Contributor: Reginald Charles Churchill
• Edition: 3, reprint, revised
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1970
• ISBN: 0521095816, 9780521095815
• Length: 976 pages
• Subjects: Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh