The Cambridge History of English Literature, Volume 2Adolphus William Ward |
Contents
Carlyle page | 1 |
The Tennysons | 23 |
Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett | 49 |
Matthew Arnold Arthur Hugh Clough | 85 |
The Rossettis William Morris Swinburne | 110 |
Lesser Poets of the Middle and Later Nine | 147 |
The Prosody of the Nineteenth Century | 225 |
Thackeray | 275 |
Dickens | 303 |
The Political and Social Novel Disraeli | 340 |
The Brontës | 403 |
George Meredith Samuel Butler George | 440 |
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