History of English Literature

Addison allegory ancient Anglo-Saxon Anglo-Saxon literature Arthur ballads beauty became Ben Jonson Beowulf blank verse Bost Britain British Browning Byron Cædmon called Carlyle Castle century characters charm Chaucer chief church classical comedy death Dickens drama dramatist dream Dryden Dublin England English literature essays Europe fancy France French George George Eliot hero heroic heroic couplets human humor imagination Ireland Irish James John Johnson Julius Cæsar King King Arthur Kipling Lady land later Latin literary history London Milton moral plays N. Y. Dutton N. Y. Macmillan N. Y. Scribner's narrative National Portrait Gallery nature novelist novels Piers Plowman plays playwright poem poet poet's poetic poetry popular portrait prose fiction published Queen readers religious Robert romance satire scenes Scott Shakespeare short story songs sonnets stanza style Tennyson Thomas thou thought tion tragedy Widsith William words Wordsworth writers written wrote young