CHAPTER ONE (Chaucer and the Fifteenth Century). 1
2. The Age of Chaucer 3
3. Chaucer as a Representative and Chronicler of his Age 9
3. Chaucer as a Realist ,• > .\. . • 16
4. Chaucer and the Common People 22
5. Chaucer’s Contribution to English Language and Literature 27
6. Fifteenth-Century English Poetry 35
7. The English Ballad ^ 43
CHAPTER TWO ^ (The Sixteenth Century)
8. The Influence of the Renaissance on English Literature 51
9. The English Drama before Marlowe 57
10. The University Wits 63
11. Shakespeare’s Greatness 71
12. Shakespearean Comedy 77
13. Shakespearean Tragedy…… 83
14. Shakespeare’s History^ys 88
\/f57 Elizabethan Sonnet 94
16. Elizabethan Lyric 100
17. Spenser-the Poets’Poet … .-’ 106
18. The Influence of the Renaissance, the Reformation,
and the Middle Ages on Spenser 112
19. Elizabethan Prose . 120
CHAPTER THREE (The Seventeenth Century upto the Restoration 1601-1660)
20. Jacobean Drama 129
21. Ben Jonson’s Contribution to English Comedy… 135
22. Ben Jonson’s Comedy of Humours… 140
23. Bacon’s Contribution to English Prose … ,145
24. Bacon and the Renaissance 1W
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30. The Influence of the Reformation and the Renaissance
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31. The Autobiographical Element in Milton’s Poetry… 192 ;
CHAPTER FOUR (The Seventeenth Century after the Restoration (1660-1700)
32. The Restoration Comedy of Manners… 201
33. Heroic Tragedy 209
34. Restoration Prose 215
35. Restoration Satire…… 220
36. Dryden as a Neo-Classicist 226
37. Dryden as a Satirist 232
38. Dryden-the Father of English Criticism 238
CHAPTER FIVE
(The Eighteenth Century)
39. The Eighteenth Century-an Age of Prose and Reason 247
40. The Neo-classical School of Poetry.., 252
41. The Heroic Couplet… 258
42. Poetic Diction… 264
43. English Verse Satire in the Eighteenth Century… 269
44. Eighteenth-Century Prose 276
45. Reasons for the Popularity of the Periodical Essay in the Eighteenth Century 282
46. The Periodical Essay in the Eighteenth Century… 288
47. Comparison of Swift and Addison as Satirists… 294
48. Reasons for the Rise of the Novel in the Eighteenth | Century… 299 I
49. The Rise of the Novel in the Eighteenth Ccnrury… 305 ’
50. Fielding’s Work and Contribution 311
51. Dr. Johnson as a Critic 317
52. The Precursors of the Romantic Revival or the Transitional Poets 324
53. The Novel of Terror 331
CHAPTER SIX (The Romantic Age (1798-1832)
54. The Romantic Movement as a Revolt… 341
55. The Romantic Movement as the
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The Influence of the French Revolution on English
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of English Romantic Poetry.
The Historical Novel
Jane Austen’s Achievement
The Essay from Bacon to Lamb
Lamb as an Essayist
Hazlitt as an Essayist
Critics of the Romantic Age
CHAPTER SEVEN (The Victorian Age (1832-1901)
The Social Background of Victorian Literature …
The Influence of Science on Victorian Literature…
Tennyson as a Representative of His Age…
Matthew Arnold as a Critic of His Age…
Pessimism in Victorian Poetry…
Pre-Raphaelite Poetry…
D.G. Rossetti as a Pre-Raphaelite Poet…
The Art of Charles Dickens
The Women Novelists of the Victorian Era …• The Work and Literary Merits of Carlyle…
John Ruskin
The Oxford Movement
The Naughty Nineties
The Essay from Lamb to Stevenson…
CHAPTER EIGHT (The Twentieth Century)
The Major Trends in Twentieth-Century Poetry… English Poetry between the Two Wars…
Modern Novel
Lawrence’s Work and Achievement as a Novelist …
Modern Poetic Drama
Twentieth-Century English Literary Criticism…
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(Important Literary Works (up to 1700) ^
87 ”Utopia”, ”Euphues”, and ”Arcadia’’…
88 -Gorboduc”, ”The Spanish Traged/, and ^
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90. «The Duchess of Malf.”, ”The Alchemist, and ^
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”Samson Agonistes”
94. ”All for Love”, ”Essay on DramaUcToesy Mac Flecknoe” and ”The Hind and the Panther …
. 95. ^D.-ThePUgrim’sP^css’Sand-Absalom ^
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