ENGLISH WRITERS (1945) - T. P. Cross & R. Smith & E. C. Stauffer & E. Collette

Hard cover. Cloth-bound.
Very good condition.
Richly illustrated. (both color and b&w)
Book detailing the history of English literature, full of short stories, prose, essays and biographies.
ENGLISH WRITERS
REVISED EDITION
Writers:
TOM PEETE CROSS (Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Chicago)
REED SMITH (Professor of English,University of South Carolina)
ELMER C. STAUFFER (Teacher of English, Herzl Junior College, Chicago)
ELIZABETH COLLETTE (Teacher of English, Peabody High School, Pittsburgh)
Publisher: GINN AND COMPANY
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Year: 1945
Pages: 788
Dimensions: 24 x 17 cm
CONTENTS:
THE BEGINNINGS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE (55 B.C. - 1400 A.D.)
- EPIC POETRY
- NARRATIVE LITERATURE
- LYRIC POETRY
- BALLADS
THE ELIZABETHAN PERIOD (1400 - 1616)
- DRAMA
- LYRIC POETRY
- SHAKESPEARE'S LYRICS
- ELIZABETHAN SONNETS
- THE BIBLE
- AN ALLEGORICAL ROMANCE
- ESSAYS
THE PURITAN PERIOD (1603 - 1660)
- PASTORAL POETRY
- LYRIC POETRY
- PROSE
THE AGE OF CLASSICISM (1660 - 1744)
- DIDACTIC VERSE
- LYRIC POETRY
- A DIARY
- PROSE CRITICISM
- A DICTIONARY
- BIOGRAPHY
- LETTERS
- ESSAYS
- THE NOVEL
- A SATIRICAL ROMANCE
THE TRANSITION FROM CLASSICISM TO ROMANTICISM (1744 - 1798)
- LYRIC POETRY
- NARRATIVE POETRY
THE ROMANTIC PERIOD (1798 - 1832)
- LYRIC POETRY
- SONNETS
- ESSAYS
- NARRATIVE POETRY
THE VICTORIAN PERIOD (1832 - 1892)
- THE NOVEL
- LYRIC POETRY
- DRAMATIC MONOLOGUES
- ESSAYS
- NARRATIVE POETRY
- SCIENTIFIC PROSE
- THE SHORT STORY
RECENT AND CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE (1892 - )
- LYRIC POETRY
- ESSAYS
- NARRATIVE POETRY
- THE SHORT STORY
- THE DRAMA
BIOGRAPHIES
DICTIONARY OF NAMES AND PHRASES
INDEX