1000 years of English literature
Fletcher, Chris2012
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This book describes the life and work of over 100 of the best-loved British writers, and reproduces manuscripts in their own hand
Main title:
1000 years of English literature / by Chris Fletcher with Roger Evans, Sally Brown and Jamie Andrews
Imprint:
London British Library 2012
Collation:
221 p. illustrations
Contents:
Early and Medieval: 'Beowulf' -- Wulfstan -- The 'Harley Lyrics' -- 'Sir Orfeo' -- William Langland -- The 'Gawain Poet' -- John Gower -- Geoffrey Chaucer -- The 'Sloane Lyrics' -- Margery Kempe -- Charles d'Orleans -- Sir Thomas Malory -- Robert Henryson -- Renaissance and Restoration: Sir Thomas Wyatt -- Launcelot Andrewes -- Sir John Harington -- George Peele -- William Shakespeare -- Sir Walter Ralegh -- Ben Jonson -- Sir Fulke Greville -- Robert Herrick -- Philip Massinger -- John Milton -- Sir Thomas Browne -- John Dryden -- Katherine Traherne -- Samuel Butler -- The Eighteenth Century: Jonathan Swift -- Alexander Pope -- Allan Ramsay -- Daniel Defoe -- Lady Mary Wortley Montague -- Samuel Richardson -- Laurence Sterne -- Thomas Gray -- Samuel Johnson -- Robert Burns -- William Cowper -- William Blake -- The Nineteenth Century: Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- William Wordsworth -- Jane Austen -- John Keats -- Percy Bysshe Shelley -- John Clare -- Sir Waletr Scott -- Mary Shelley -- George Gordon, Lord Byron -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning -- Emily Bronte -- Charlotte Bronte -- Anne Bronte -- Charles Dickens -- Alfred Lord Tennyson -- Lewis Carroll -- Edward Lear -- George Eliot -- Christina Rossetti -- Thomas Hardy -- Oscar Wilde -- The Twentieth Century: Arthur Conan Doyle -- Joseph Conrad -- E. M. Forster -- Kenneth Grahame -- Wilfred Owen -- Katherine Mansfield -- T. S. Eliot -- James Joyce -- Virginia Woolf -- George Bernard Shaw -- Stella Gibbons -- Dylan Thomas -- John Betjeman -- Philip Larkin -- Terence Rattigan -- Mervyn Peake -- Lawrence Durrell -- John Osborne -- Stevie Smith -- Laurie Lee -- Sylvia Plath -- W. H. Auden -- Harold Pinter -- B. S. Johnson -- Jean Rhys -- Angela Carter -- Ted Hughes -- J. G. Ballard -- Dame Beryl Bainbridge -- Sir Tom Stoppard -- Graham Swift -- Wendy Cope
ISBN:
9780712358736 (pbk)
Dewey class:
820.8 ONE
Local class:
820.8
Language:
English
BRN:
51128
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penrith | Nonfiction | 820.8 ONE | Available |