A History of English Literature

A History of English Literature Michael Alexander Third Edition ...

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List of Illustrations xi List of Timelines xiii Acknowledgements xiv Preface to the First Edition xvii Preface to Second Edition ...

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CONTENTS vii ...

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The Twentieth Century and Beyond CONTENTS ix ...

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xi Illustrations ...

xii LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ...

Shakespeare and the Drama The Twentieth Century and xiii Timelines Introduction Abbreviations xx Why literary history? Literary ...

Acknowledgements Having decided the scope of this history, and that it would be narrative but also crit- ical, the task of selec ...

Gordon Dickerson on behalf of Tony Harrison for extracts on p. 398 from ‘Timer’ and ‘A Kumquat for John Keats’ from Selected and ...

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Preface to the First Edition This Historyis written for two audiences: those who know a few landmark texts of English literature ...

Preface to the Second Edition The first edition was published in 2000. Each year a reprint has allowed minor corrections and add ...

Preface to the Third Edition The second edition of this Historyappeared in 2007. In preparing this third edition I scrapped the ...