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The story of English literature
- Title
- The story of English literature / Edmund Kemper Broadus.
- Author
- Broadus, Edmund Kemper, 1876-1936
- Publication
- New York : The Macmillan Company, 1931.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | PR85 .B69 1931 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xiii, 624 pages : color frontispiece, illustrations (including portraits) color plates, maps; 25 cm
- Summary
- The function of an introduction to English literature is to interest students in the content and spirit of great books and their relation to their times and to one another.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Contents
- The beginnings of literature in England -- Chaucer and his times -- English drama from the Miracle Plays to the closing of the theaters -- Elizabethan prose -- Poetry in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries -- Francis Bacon -- John Milton and the Puritans -- John Bunyan's world, and John Dryden's -- Men of the world -- Romantic poets -- Poets of the early nineteenth century -- The heydey of the novel -- Essayists, critics, sages -- Tennyson, Browning, and some recent poets.
- LCCN
- 31025813
- OCLC
- ocm00905250
- 905250
- SCSB-587185
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library