A critical history of English poetry
Herbert John Clifford Grierson, J. C. Smith (Author)
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
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (514 pages) : illustrations.
9781472509017, 9781472508256, 9781306722988, 1472509013, 1472508254, 1306722985
868923038
Cover; Contents; 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, Stdney, 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 Blake24 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, 1901-1440 Twentieth-century Poetry, 2: The War Years, 1914-18; 41 Twentieth-century Poetry, 3 : Between the Wars, 1919-39; A Select Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
Originally published: London : Chatto & Windus, 1944