Written for the Home University Library, Mair’s survey favours ideas and tendencies over dates and lists. It runs from the Renaissance and Elizabethan poetry and drama through the seventeenth century, the Augustan age of good sense, Dr. Johnson and his circle, and the Romantic revival, to the Victorian age and the rise of the novel.
A lucid short map of English letters for general readers and anyone filling gaps in their reading. Download the free EPUB.