An Outline History of English Literature takes a look at English literature as a
whole, from the pre-Chaucerian period (500 1340 A.D.) down to the 1950s. Along
the way, it profiles the great writers who have left their indelible marks on
literature, such as Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, John Milton, John
Dryden, William Wordsworth, Alfred Tennyson, T.S. Eliot and others. Since
literature is always shaped by the age it is born in, the author also places
each genre and writer in the context of their times to show how prevalent
trends, events and circumstances affected the works of that era.
A clear and systematic account not