Our Greatest Writers: And Their Major Works

John Carrington

How To Books Ltd, 2003 - English literature - 331 pages

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.

Contents

• How to Use this Book: 11
• Christopher Marlowe 15641593: 44
• politics and power: 62
• the later plays: 63
• the sonnets: 65
• 87: 68
• Ben Jonson 15721637: 69
• The Seventeeth Century: 73
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 265: 321

Bibliographic information

• Title: Our Greatest Writers: And Their Major Works
• Author: John Carrington
• Publisher: How To Books Ltd, 2003
• ISBN: 1857039025, 9781857039023
• Length: 331 pages