Contemporary English Literature

Contents: Preface. 1. Prose in the golden period. 2. Elizabethan fiction. 3. Verse in the golden period. 4. History of lyrics. 5. Elizabethan Sonnet. 6. Poetry and the modern world. 7. The drama its nature origins and relations. 8. Development of prose. Bibliography. Index.

English literature developed over hundreds of years and is studied and researched by professionals each and every day. The organization of material in this book conforms to that of the other books. An alert consciousness of current scholarship must go along with a direct and Independent reading of the literature itself. To promote and guide such a reading program is the primary purpose of this book.

After a brief consideration of the historical background and time spirit of the different phases of the contemporary period the method of procedure is topical. Within the topical divisions of poetry novel drama and miscellaneous prose the arrangement is generally chronological. (jacket)