Books in the History of English Literature series

History of English Literature is a comprehensive, eight-volume survey of English literature from the Middle Ages to the early twenty-first century. Volume 2 offers a general assessment of all of Shakespeare's works, including his youthful poems and sonnets, and an analysis of each play in his oeuvre.

History of English Literature is a comprehensive, eight-volume survey of English literature from the Middle Ages to the early twenty-first century. Volume 3 includes an exploration of Milton's great biblical epic and traces the rise of the novel under Defoe, Swift, Fielding and Sterne. It ends with the Romantic poets.