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from Jane Austen to George Orwell and the enlightenment to realism, an essential guide to Britain's greatest writers and works
255 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates (some color) : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Explores how English authors altered and transformed the English language and forms of writing. Describes prominent authors' works and how those works were influenced by, and in turn influenced, historical contexts and literary contexts.
Bede's ecclesiastical history of the English people -- Beowulf -- The vistion of Piers Plowman -- Wycliffe's Bible -- Geoffrey Chaucer -- The King Arthur legends -- The King James Bible -- The Book of Common Prayer -- John Donne -- Christopher Marlowe -- Edmund Spenser -- Ben Jonson -- William Shakespeare -- John Milton -- John Locke -- Daniel Defoe -- Jonathan Swift -- Alexander Pope -- Henry Fielding -- Samuel Johnson -- William Wordsworth -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Jane Austen -- Lord Byron -- William Blake -- Horace Walpole, Mary Shelley, and gothic romanticism -- Robert Burns -- Alred, Lord Tennyson -- Charles Dickens -- George Eliot -- The Bronte sisters -- Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- Lewis Carroll -- Robert Louis Stevenson -- Rudyard Kipling -- Oscar Wilde -- Thomas Hardy -- William Butler Yeats -- T.S. Eliot -- D.H. Lawrence -- E.M. Forster -- Virginia Woolf -- James Joyce -- W.H. Auden -- Dylan Thomas -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- George Bernard Shaw -- Joseph Conrad -- William Golding -- J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis -- George Orwell -- Current voices.
Includes bibliographical references and index.