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Description edit
The Short Oxford History of English Literature is the most comprehensive and scholarly history of English Literature on the market. It offers an introductory guide to the literature of the British Isles from the Anglo-Saxon period to the present day in eleven chapters covering all the major... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Milton: Add a description of this character.
- Donne
- Dryden
- George Eliot
- James
- Chaucer
- Richardson
- Lawrence
- Byron
- Charles
- Jonson
- Thackeray
- Johnson
- Marlowe
- Blake
- Scott
- Cromwell
- Adam
- Spenser
- Tennyson
- Shakespeare
- Larkin
- Shaw
- Joyce
- Sidney
- Beckett
- Gower
- Dickens
- Mary
- Henry Viii
- Wordsworth
- William
- Marvell
- Burke
- Auden
- Lear
- Greene
- Gawain
- Criseyde
- Virgil
- Norman
- Lang
- Ralegh
- Lovelace
- Waugh
- Isherwood
- Pope
- Swift
Setting & Locations edit
- England
- London
- Great Britain
- Ireland
- France
- Scotland
- Europe
- Paris
- Rome
- Dublin
- India
- Wales
- Italy
- Canterbury
- Cambridge
- Germany
- Jerusalem
- Oxford
- Spain
- United States
- Arcadia
- Africa
- Edinburgh
- Birmingham
- Berlin
- Russia
- United Kingdom
- Manchester, England
- Glasgow
- Venice
- Iceland
- Worcester
- York
- Midlands
First Sentence edit
THE term 'Old English' was invented as a patriotic and philological convenience.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Andrew Sanders (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1994
ISBN: 0198112025
Page Count: 688
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1994
ISBN: 0198112025
Page Count: 688
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 820.9
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