CiNii Books - A critical history of English poetry

This famous work was the result of the wartime collaboration of two Scottish scholars. Their tracing of the course of English poetry has been described by The Times Literary Supplement as a 'volume of masterly compression'. They deliberately spend most time on the greatest poets, believing that, significant as traditions and influences are, the great poet himself affects the spirit of his age and moulds the tradition he has inherited. At the same time, enough attention is paid to minor poets to make the book historically complete, and to fill in the most important links in the chain of poetic development. Thus Gower is here, as well as Chaucer; Patmore, as well as Browning. Both in scope and in detail A Critical History of English Poetry is a distinguished and valuable work.

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Prefatory Note 1 Anglo-Saxon Poetry 2 Early Middle English Poetry 3 Chaucer, Gower and Langland 4 English Poetry from Chaucer to Skelton 5 Early Scottish Poetry 6 The Tudor Renaissance 7 Spenser, Sidney, and their Circle 8 Elizabethan Poetry 9 The Jacobeans 10 Shakespeare's Predecessors 11 Shakespeare 12 Shakespeare's Contemporaries and Successors in Drama 13 The Carolines 14 Milton 15 Cowley to Dryden 16 The Age of Pope and other Augustans 17 Thomson to Cowper 18 Cowper 19 Crabbe 20 The Revival of Scottish Poetry 21 Burns 22 The Revolutionary Age 23 Blake 24 Wordsworth and Coleridge: Early Poems and Lyrical Ballads 25 Wordsworth and Coleridge: Early Poems and Lyrical Ballads 25 Wordsworth and Coleridge: Later Poems 26 Scott 27 Byron 28 Shelley 29 Keats 30 Landor to Tennyson 31 The Early Victorians, 1: Tennyson 32 The Early Victorians, 2: Robert Browning 33 The Early Victorians, 3: Mrs Browning and Others 34 Mid-Victorian Poetry, 1: Arnold, Clough, and Kingsley 35 Mid-Victorian Poetry, 2: The Pre-Raphaelite Group 36 Mid-Victorian Poetry, 3: Patmore, Thomson, and Other Minors 37 Mid-Victorian Poetry, 4: Meredith and Hardy 38 The Nineties 39 Twentieth-century Poetry, 1: The Pre-War Years, 1901-14 40 Twentieth-century Poetry, 2: The War Years, 1914-18 41 Twentieth-century Poetry, 2: Between the Wars, 1919-39 A Select Bibliography Index

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