George Saintsbury’s History of Elizabethan Literature remains one of the standard accounts of English writing during the reign of Elizabeth I, covering drama, lyric poetry, prose fiction, essay, and translation in the period roughly spanning 1560 to 1610. Saintsbury was one of the most prolific and authoritative literary historians of the nineteenth century, and his assessments of individual writers and works shaped scholarship for generations.
From Spenser and Sidney to Marlowe and Shakespeare, the volume places the major figures in their literary and cultural context. Download the free EPUB for an essential work of British literary history from one of its most influential critics.