Beginning with the Old English period and moving age by age through Chaucer, the Elizabethans, Milton, Dryden, Pope, the return to nature and the Victorians, this survey gives major authors the most space while covering nearly every writer of the second rank. Passages from the works themselves, such as a theatre scene from Fielding’s Tom Jones, illustrate the discussion.
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