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The outline of literature

Print Book, English, [2005?]
Kessinger Publishing, [Whitefish, Mont.?], [2005?]
Criticism, interpretation, etc
3 volumes : illustrations ; 24 cm
9781419146169, 9781419180903, 9781419180996, 1419146165, 1419180908, 1419180991
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v. 1. The first books in the world
Homer
The story of the Bible / by E.W. Barnes
The English Bible as literature
The sacred books of the East
Greek myth and the poets
Greece and Rome
The Middle Ages
The Renaissance. v. 2. William Shakespeare, 1564-1616 / by Harley Granville-Barker
Shakespeare to Milton
John Milton / by John Drinkwater
Marvell and Walton
John Bunyan
Pepys, Dryden, and the restoration dramatists
French literature in the age of Louis XIV
Pope, Addison, Steele, Swift
The rise of the novel
The eighteenth-century poets
Dr. Johnson and his circle
Edward Gibbon and other eighteenth-century prose-writers
Robert Burns
The literature that made the revolution
Goethe, Schiller, and Lessing
Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey, and Blake
Byron, Shelley, Keats. v. 3. Scott, Dumas, and Hugo
Early nineteenth-century essayists
Victorian poets
Dickens and Thackeray / by G.K. Chesterton
The Victorian novelists
The New England writers
The nineteenth-century French writers
The great Victorians
Modern writers, American and European
Some later Victorians
Dramatic literature
English poetry since Swinburne / by Gilbert Thomas
Later day writers
Facsimile reprint. Originally published: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1923-1924
"With about 500 illustrations of which many are in colour."
"In three volumes."
Published in parts with The outline of art edited by Sir William Orpen as: The outline of literature and art / edited by John Drinkwater and Sir William Orpen