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1 A History of English Literature MICHAEL ALEXANDER

2 Contents Acknowledgements Preface Abbreviations X xi xii The harvest of literacy Introduction Literary history What's included? Tradition or canon? Priorities What is literature? Language change Other literatures in English Is drama literature? Qualities and quantities ^Texts v Primary texts Secondary texts! PART 1 Medieval Old English Literature: to 1100 Orientations Britain, England, English Oral origins and conversion Aldhelm, Bede, Csedmon Northumbria and The Dream of the Rood Heroic poetry Christian literature Alfred Beowulf Elegies Battle poetry ! Middle English Literature: The new writing Handwriting and printing The impact of French Scribal practice Dialect and language change Literary consciousness New fashions: French and Latin Epic and romance Courtly literature Medieval institutions Authority Lyrics English prose The fourteenth century Spiritual writing Julian of Norwich Secular prose Ricardian poetry Piers Plowman Sir Gawain and the Green Knight John Gower Geoffrey Chaucer The Parlement of Fowls Troilus and Criseyde The Canterbury Tales The fifteenth century Mystery plays Morality plays Religious lyric Deaths of Arthur The arrival of printing Scottish poetry

3 vi CONTENTS Robert Henryson William Dunbar Gavin Douglas PART 2 Tudor and Stuart 3 Tudor Literature: Renaissance and Reformation The Renaissance Expectations Investigations England's place in the world The Reformation Sir Thomas More The Courtier Sir Thomas Wyatt The Earl of Surrey Religious prose Bible translation Instructive prose Elizabethan literature Verse Sir Philip Sidney Edmund Spenser Sir Walter Ralegh The 'Jacobethans' Christopher Marlowe Song Thomas Campion Prose John Lyly Thomas Nashe Richard Hooker 4 Shakespeare and the William Shakespeare Shakespeare's life The plays preserved Luck and fame The drama The commercial theatre Predecessors Christopher Marlowe The order of the plays Histories Richard II Henry IV Henry V Comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream Twelfth Night The poems Tragedy Hamlet KingLear Romances The Tempest Conclusion Shakespeare's achievement His supposed point of view Ben Jonson TheAlchemist Volpone 1 Stuart Literature: to 100 The Stuart century to 1642 Comedy Tragedy John Donne Prose to 1642 Sir Francis Bacon Lancelot Andrewes Robert Burton Sir Thomas Browne to Milton Ben Jonson Metaphysical poets Devotional poets Cavalier poets John Milton Paradise Lost The Restoration The Earl of Rochester John Bunyan Samuel Peovs

4 CONTENTS VII The theatres Restoration comedy John Dryden Satire Prose John Locke Women writers William Congreve." V.""PART~3. "" Augustan and Romantic 6 Augustan Literature: to 190 The eighteenth century The Enlightenment Sense and Sensibility Alexander Pope and 18th-century civilization Joseph Addison Jonathan Swift Alexander Pope Translation as tradition The Rape of the Lock Mature verse John Gay Lady Mary Wortley Montagu The novel Daniel Defoe Cross-currents Samuel Richardson Henry Fielding Tobias Smollett Laurence Sterne The emergence of Sensibility Thomas Gray Pre-Romantic sensibility: Ossian Gothic fiction The Age of Johnson Dr Samuel Johnson The Dictionary Literary criticism James Boswell ' _...; i g Non-fiction Edward Gibbon Edmund Burke Oliver Goldsmith Fanny Burney Richard Brinsley Sheridan Christopher Smart William Cowper Robert Burns The Romantics: The Romantic poets Early Romantics William Blake Subjectivity Romanticism and Revolution William Wordsworth Samuel Taylor Coleridge Sir Walter Scott Younger Romantics Lord Byron Percy Bysshe Shelley John Keats Romantic prose Belles lettres Charles Lamb William Hazlitt Thomas De Quincey Fiction Thomas Love Peacock Mary Shelley Maria Edgeworth Sir Walter Scott Jane Austen Towards Victoria ~ FART' ' 218 Victorian Literature to 1880 The Age and its Sages The Victorian age

5 viil CONTENTS Moral history Abundance Why sages? Thomas Carlyle John Stuart Mill John Ruskin John Henry Newman Charles Darwin Matthew Arnold i Victorian Romantic poetry 261 Minor verse 261 John Clare 261 Alfred Tennyson 262 Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning 265 Matthew Arnold 266 Arthur Hugh Clough 268 Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Christina Rossetti 268 Algernon Charles Swinburne 269 Gerard Hopkins Fiction The triumph of the novel Two Bronte novels Jane Eyre Wu thering Heigh ts Elizabeth Gaskell Charles Dickens The Pickwick Papers David Copperfield Bleak House Our Mutual Friend Great Expectations 'The Inimitable' William Makepeace Thackeray Vanity Fair Anthony Trollope George Eliot Adam Bede The Mill on the Floss Silas Marner Middlemarch Daniel Deronda Nonsense prose and verse Lewis Carroll Edward Lear 11 Late Victorian Literature: Differentiation Thomas Hardy and Henry James Aestheticism Walter Pater A revival of drama Oscar Wilde George Bernard Shaw Fiction Thomas Hardy Tess of the d'urbervilles Minor fiction Samuel Butler Robert Louis Stevenson Wilkie Collins George Moore Aestheticism A. E. Housman Rudyard Kipling PART 5 The Twentieth Century Ends and Beginnings: The new century 311 Fiction 313 Edwardian realists 313 Rudyard Kipling 313 John Galsworthy 313 Arnold Bennett 313 H.G. Wells 313

6 CONTENTS IX Joseph Conrad Heart ofdarkness Nostromo E. M. Forster Ford Madox Ford Pre-war verse Thomas Hardy War poetry and war poets * Fairy tales C. S. Lewis J. R. R. Tolkien The Second World War Dylan Thomas Sean O'Casey From Post-War to Post-War: 'Modernism': D. H. Lawrence The Rainbow James Joyce Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Ulysses Ezra Pound: the London years T. S. Eliot The Love Song of]. Alfred Prufrock The Waste Land Four Quartets Eliot's criticism W. B. Yeats Hugh MacDiarmid and David Jones Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse Katherine Mansfield Non-modernism: the Twenties and Thirties Modernism fails to catch on The poetry of the Thirties Political camps W. H. Auden The novel Evelyn Waugh Grahame Greene Anthony Powell George Orwell Elizabeth Bowen New Beginnings: Index Samuel Beckett John Osborne Harold Pinter Established protest Novels galore William Golding Muriel Spark Iris Murdoch Other writers Philip Larkin Ted Hughes Geoffrey Hill Tony Harrison Seamus Heaney Postscript on the Current Internationalization Postmodernism Novels Contemporary poetry

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