1000 Years of English Literature

by Fletcher, Chris

• ISBN13: 9780712348140
• ISBN10: 071234814X
• Edition: Illus.
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-10-15
• Publisher: Gardners Books

Summary

"From the 10th-Century manuscript of Beowulf to the work of such 20th century authors as Sylvia Plath, this beautifully illustrated book presents a panorama of more than 1000 years of literature in English through original manuscripts from the British Library's unparalleled collection. Organized chronologically the book reproduces manuscripts by 80 of the greatest British and Irish writers of the last millennium, from Malory and Shakespeare to Swift and Pope, from Coleridge and Wordsworth to T. S. Eliot and Dylan Thomas including such masterpieces of literature as Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, and Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 6
Early and Medieval	p. 12
'Beowulf'	p. 16
Wulfstan	p. 18
The 'Harley Lyrics'	p. 20
'Sir Orfeo'	p. 22
William Langland	p. 24
The 'Gawain Poet'	p. 26
John Gower	p. 28
Geoffrey Chaucer	p. 30
The 'Sloane Lyrics'	p. 34
Margery Kempe	p. 36
Charles d'Orleans	p. 38
Sir Thomas Malory	p. 40
Robert Henryson	p. 42
Renaissance and Restoration	p. 44
Sir Thomas Wyatt	p. 46
Launcelot Andrewes	p. 48
Sir John Harington	p. 50
George Peele	p. 52
William Shakespeare	p. 54
Sir Walter Ralegh	p. 58
Ben Jonson	p. 60
Sir Fulke Greville	p. 62
Robert Herrick	p. 64
Philip Massinger	p. 66
John Milton	p. 68
Sir Thomas Browne	p. 70
John Dryden	p. 72
Katherine Philips	p. 74
Thomas Traherne	p. 76
Samuel Butler	p. 78
The Eighteenth Century	p. 80
Jonathan Swift	p. 82
Alexander Pope	p. 84
Allan Ramsay	p. 86
Daniel Defoe	p. 88
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu	p. 90
Samuel Richardson	p. 92
Laurence Sterne	p. 94
Thomas Gray	p. 96
Samuel Johnson	p. 98
Robert Burns	p. 100
William Cowper	p. 102
William Blake	p. 104
The Nineteenth Century	p. 106
Samuel Taylor Coleridge	p. 108
William Wordsworth	p. 112
Jane Austen	p. 114
John Keats	p. 116
Percy Bysshe Shelley	p. 118
John Clare	p. 120
Sir Walter Scott	p. 122
Mary Shelley	p. 124
George Gordon, Lord Byron	p. 126
Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning	p. 128
Emily Bronte	p. 132
Charlotte Bronte	p. 134
Anne Bronte	p. 136
Charles Dickens	p. 138
Alfred Lord Tennyson	p. 142
Lewis Carroll	p. 144
Edward Lear	p. 146
George Eliot	p. 148
Christina Rossetti	p. 150
Thomas Hardy	p. 152
Oscar Wilde	p. 154
The Twentieth Century	p. 156
Joseph Conrad	p. 158
E. M. Forster	p. 160
Wilfred Owen	p. 162
Katherine Mansfield	p. 164
T. S. Eliot	p. 166
Virginia Woolf	p. 168
George Bernard Shaw	p. 170
Dylan Thomas	p. 172
Philip Larkin	p. 174
Lawrence Durrell	p. 176
Stevie Smith	p. 178
Sylvia Plath	p. 180
W. H. Auden	p. 182
Harold Pinter	p. 184
Ted Hughes	p. 186
Further Reading	p. 188
Acknowledgements	p. 188
Picture Credits	p. 188
Index	p. 189
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