A Critical History of English Literature, Volume 2Secker & Warburg, 1960 From Anglo-Saxon times to the present, the poetry, prose, and dramatic achievements of each period in English literature. |
Contents
DRAMA FROM JONSON TO THE CLOSING OF THE THEATERS | 309 |
THE JONSONIAN AND the Meta | 346 |
MILTON | 390 |
Copyright | |
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