An Outline of English Literature

📗 An Outline of English Literature provides a complete survey of the English prose, poetry and drama of Great Britain and Ireland from earliest times to the 1980s. It discusses the work of major writers in their historical context, with quotations, examples and illustrations. American literature is covered in the companion volume An Outline of American Literature (1985). Key features of this book are: a critical survey of English literature from Old English to the present day chapters on the 20th century completely revised and brought up to date for this new edition, with extended quotations from major authors a new glossary of literary terms a table of historical and literary events 2000 word vocabulary