A Critical History of English Literature: The Restoration to the Present Day v. 2

This  is a splendid work on English literature written with imagination and rare insight.This edition of the now classic work has won critical acclaim. To havebrought within the scope of one fresh and enquiring mind, as learned as it is imaginative, the whole compass of English literature from Caedmon to D. H. Lawrence is a tremendous and heart-warming feat.
With Zest and love and with a constant sense of exited discovery the writer storms his way through an enormous and complex tradition,, balancing historical background and "pure" criticism to a hair's breadth of good judgment.

Table of Contents

VOLUME 2
15. The Restoration
16. The Augustan Age: Defoe, Swift, Pope
17. Poetry From Thomson To Crabbe
18. The Novel From Richardson To Jane Austin
19. Eighteenth Century Philosophical, Historical And Critical Prose, And
Miscellaneous Writings
20. Scottish Literature From Allan Ramsay To Walter Scott
21. The Romantic Poets 1: Blake, Wordsworth, And Coleridge
22. The Romantic Poets 2: Shelley, Keats, And Byron
23. Familiar, Critical, And Miscellaneous Prose Of The Early And Middle
Nineteenth Century
24. Victorian Prose: John Henry Newman To William Morris
25. The Victorian Poets
26. The Victorian Novel
27. Drama From The Beginning Of The Eighteenth Century