Landmarks of English literature /

"The plan adopted in this book has been to deal solely with the very greatest names in the several departments of English literature".--Introd.

Includes bibliographical references and index of authors.

Introduction.--The dawn of English literature.--The Elizabethan era. The Elizabethan dramatists.--The successors of the Elizabethans.--The restoration.--The wits of Queen Anne's time.--Our first great novelists.--Dr. Johnson and his contemporaries.--The new era in poetry.--Sir Walter Scott and the prose literature of the early part of the nineteenth century. The Waverley novels.--Our own times.--Periodicals, reviews and encyclopædias.

Mode of access: Internet.