From Chaucer to Tennyson

A concise survey of English literature from the medieval age to the Victorian era, tracing its major writers and movements across five centuries.

At a glance A clear, appreciative introduction to the great tradition of English letters. To follow English literature from Chaucer to Tennyson is to watch a language and its… This survey sets out to guide the reader along that long and rewarding road. What it's about From Chaucer to Tennyson offers a compact history of English literature…

From Chaucer to Tennyson offers a compact history of English literature, moving from the age of Chaucer through the Renaissance, the era of Shakespeare and Milton, the eighteenth century, and on to the Romantic and…