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English literature in the sixteenth century (excluding drama)
Title
English literature in the sixteenth century (excluding drama) / C.S. Lewis.
ISBN
9780063222175
0063222175
9780063222182
Edition
First HarperOne hardcover edition.
Publication
New York, NY : HarperOne, 2022.
Copyright Notice Date
©2022
Physical Description
viii, 744 pages ; 24 cm.
Notes
Originally published in Oxford in 1954 by Clarendon Press.
"The completion of The Clark lectures, Trinity College, Cambridge, 1944."
Summary
"Beloved author C. S. Lewis's magisterial take on English literature and poetry from the Norman Conquest through the mid-seventeenth century, including Lewis's perspective on writers such as Edmund Spenser, Shakespeare, William Tyndale, John Knox, Dr. Johnson, Richard Hooker, Hugh Latimer, Christopher Marlowe, John Donne, Thomas Cranmer, and many more"-- Provided by publisher.
Other formats
Online version: Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963. English literature in the sixteenth century (excluding drama). First edition New York, NY : HarperOne, 2022
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 15, 2022
Series
Clark lectures, Trinity College, Cambridge ; 1944
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Late medieval: The close of the Middle Ages in Scotland
The close of the Middle Ages in England
'Drab': Religious controversy and translation
Drab age verse
Drab and transitional prose
'Golden': Sidney and Spenser
Prose in the 'golden' period
Verse in the 'golden' period
Epilogue: New tendencies.
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