Our Greatest Writers: And Their Major WorksCarrington 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. |
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Հաճախորդի կարծիքը - Eruntane - LibraryThingThis book took a while to read, as you'd expect from a volume covering the history of British Literature from Langland to Heaney. That said, it is eminently readable, and not too dense or "academic ... Read full review
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How to Use this Book | 11 |
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight | 18 |
Early English Theatre | 26 |
The Age of Shakespeare | 33 |
The Elizabethan and Jacobean Theatre | 43 |
politics and power | 62 |
the later plays | 63 |
the sonnets | 65 |
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 |
Ben Jonson 15721637 | 69 |
The Seventeeth Century | 73 |
John Donne c 1572 1631 | 75 |
the love poetry | 76 |
Donnes religious writing | 78 |
John Webster c 1580 c 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 |
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 |
Restoration Comedy | 101 |
The Augustan Age | 105 |
Daniel Defoe 16601731 | 107 |
Jonathan Swift 16671745 | 109 |
Coffee House Journalism | 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 |
Towards the Turn of the Century | 231 |
Drama at the Turn of the Century | 244 |
Classic Literature for Children | 257 |
H Lawrence 18851930 | 267 |
Poets of the First World War | 270 |
T S Eliot 18881965 | 273 |
J R R Tolkein 18921973 | 276 |
Two Prophetic Novelists | 278 |
P Hartley 18951972 | 280 |
Social Comedy | 281 |
Anthony Powell 19052000 | 282 |
Graham Greene 19041991 | 283 |
John Betjeman 19061984 | 284 |
Samuel Beckett 19061989 | 286 |
W H Auden 19071973 | 288 |
The Human Condition | 290 |
Charles Causley 1917 | 291 |
Distinctive Welsh Voices | 292 |
Dylan Thomas 19141953 | 293 |
Experiment in the Modern Novel | 295 |
John Fowles 1926 | 296 |
Philip Larkin 19221985 | 297 |
Drama from Rattigan to Osborne | 299 |
Harold Pinter 1930 | 302 |
Ted Hughes 19301998 | 304 |
Sylvia Plath 19321963 | 306 |
Alan Bennett 1934 | 307 |
Tom Stoppard 1937 | 309 |
Seamus Heaney 1939 | 310 |
Afterword | 313 |
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| Վերնագիր | Our Greatest Writers: And Their Major Works |
| Հեղինակ | John Carrington |
| Հրատարակիչ | How To Books Ltd, 2003 |
| ISBN | 1857039025, 9781857039023 |
| Length | 331 էջ |
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