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From Chaucer to Tennyson / With Twenty-Nine Portraits and Selections from Thirty Authors — Henry A. Beers

From Chaucer to Tennyson / With Twenty-Nine Portraits and Selections from Thirty Authors

Henry A. Beers

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 308 pages

From Chaucer to Tennyson is a brief survey of English literature, with twenty-nine portraits and selections from thirty authors. Henry A. Beers focuses on belles-lettres, moving from Chaucer through Shakespeare, Milton and later writers to Tennyson. It offers an accessible introduction to major English authors and their work.

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Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.

Contents

  1. Juliet Sutherland, Sjaani and PG Distributed Proofreaders
  2. PREFACE.
  3. CONTENTS.
  4. LIST OF PORTRAITS.
  5. CHAPTER I.
  6. CHAPTER II.
  7. CHAPTER III.
  8. CHAPTER IV.
  9. CHAPTER V.
  10. CHAPTER VI.
  11. CHAPTER VII.
  12. CHAPTER VIII.
  13. APPENDIX.
  14. EDMUND SPENSER.
  15. WILLIAM SHAKSPERE.
  16. FRANCIS BACON.
  17. BEN JONSON.
  18. JOHN FLETCHER AND FRANCIS BEAUMONT.
  19. JOHN MILTON.
  20. SIR THOMAS BROWNE.
  21. JOHN DRYDEN.
  22. JONATHAN SWIFT.
  23. ALEXANDER POPE.
  24. JOSEPH ADDISON.
  25. SAMUEL JOHNSON.
  26. OLIVER GOLDSMITH.
  27. EDMUND BURKE.
  28. THOMAS GRAY.
  29. WILLIAM COWPER.
  30. ROBERT BURNS.

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