Short History Of English Literature Vol 2

One of the pioneering works in literary historiography, the book A Short History of English Literature combines in a remarkable manner the historical and the critical principles that ought to govern any literary history. On Saintbury's own testimony the book is not meant to be "birds's-eye views". It is, in fact, a fine critical survey of the entire history of English literature from its beginning to the end of the Victorian period.
About Author :
George Edwar Bateman Saintsbury (1845-1933), a man of enormous reading, profound scholarship, fine critical insight and literary sensibility, was Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature in the University of Edinburgh from 1895 to 191. The bulk and scope of his writings is simply stupefying. A reprint of his work would easily make 100 large volumes.
Contents :
Foreword Preface Volume I Book-I The Preliminaries of English Literature Book-II The Making of English Literature Book-III Chaucer and His Contemporaries Book-IV The Fifteenth Century Book- V Elizabethan Literature to the Death of Spenser Book-VI Later Elizabethan and Jacobean Literature Volume 2 Book-VII Caroline Literature Book-VIII The Augustan Ages Book-IX Middle and Later Eighteenth-Century Literature Book-X The Triumph of Romance Book-XI Victorian Literature Conclusion Index