A Prologue to English Literature

A.E. Housman admired allegory Anglo-Saxon appears artist Ballads best known Blake Byron C.S. Lewis called character Chaucer Christian classic Coleridge comedy contemporary critics D.H. Lawrence death Donne drama dramatist Dryden E.M. Forster early eighteenth century Eliot Elizabethan England English literature English poetry essay F.R. Leavis Faerie Queen famous feeling fiction French genre George George Eliot Henry human humour imagination interest Jane Austen John Johnson Joyce Keats kind King language later literary live Lord lyric Macaulay master masterpiece metre Milton modern moral never night novel novelist passion perhaps period plays poems poet poetic political Pope popular prose readers religious remembered romance satire scene seems sense Shakespeare Shelley social songs sonnet Spenser story style Swift T.S. Eliot Tennyson theme things Thomas thou thought to-day tradition tragedy twentieth century verse Victorian W.H. Auden William William Empson Wordsworth writer written wrote Yeats