The Penguin Short History of English Literature
By (author): "Stephen Coote"
Publish Date:
1993
ISBN0140125310
ISBN139780140125313
AsinThe Penguin Short History of English Literature
Original titleThe Penguin Short History of English Literature (Penguin Literary Criticism)
The book surveys the lines of development that lead from the Anglo-Saxon poet, or scop, singing his work at his chieftain's hearth, to the modern poetry of Geoffrey Hill and Seamus Heaney. Each chapter provides a generous overview of styles and themes along with vivid, compact accounts of the major figures. The author examines Chaucer and his medieval contemporaries, Shakespeare and the golden age of drama, and the progress of poetry from Donne through Milton to Dryden. A survey of 20th-century writers such as Yeats, Lawrence, Joyce and T.S. Eliot completes the book.
