A Survey of English Literature (I) – سیری در تاریخ ادبیات انگلیس (1)

When I was encouraged to write a literary survey according to its coursedescription, I found it a difficult job to attempt because the officialdescription of the course includes drama, prose, literary criticism, andperhaps novel, while it excludes many authors and works.Any writer of a literary survey has to face the problem of giving unityto some discursive subject. Besides, he has to attempt an ordered andanalytical treatment of the subject within the limits imposed.

فهرست این کتاب بصورت زیر است:
Chapter 1. Historical and Linguistic Background of the Old English Period
Chapter 2. The Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture
Chapter 3. Old English Heroic Poetry
Chapter 4. Old English Elegiac Poetry and Love Poems
Chapter 5. Old English Religious Poetry
Chapter 6. Old English Prose
PART II: THE MIDDLE ENGLISH PERIOD
Chapter 7. The Norman Conquest
Chapter 8. Medieval Thought
Chapter 9. Some Characteristics of the Middle English Literature
Chapter 10. The Period of Religious Records (1066-1350)
Chapter 11. The Period of Great Individual Writers (Alliterative Revival)
Chapter 12. The Middle English Romance
Chapter 13. Geoffrey Chaucer
Chapter 14. Fifteenth-Century Chaucerians
Chapter 15. Middle English Prose
Chapter 16. Medieval Drama
Chapter 17. The Renaissance in England
Chapter 18. The Reformation in England
Chapter 19. Renaissance Sonneteers
Chapter 20. Renaissance Pastoral Poetry
Chapter 21. Elizabethan Heroic Poetry
Chapter 22. Ovidian-mythological Poetry
Chapter 23. Renaissance Literary Criticism and Its Classical Heritage
Chapter 24. English Prose in the Renaissance Period
Chapter 25. Elizabethan Theater
Chapter 26. The Pre-Shakespearean Drama and Dramatists
Chapter 27. William Shakespeare
Chapter 28. Shakespeare’s Contemporaries and Post-Shakespearean
Dramatists
PART IV: SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY POETRY
Chapter 29. John Donne and His School
Chapter 30. Ben Jonson and His School
Chapter 31. John Milton
Selected Bibliography
Index