Chambers's Cyclopedia of English Literature V1 (Paperback)

1879. Other volumes in this set include ISBN number(s): 0766184056, 0766184064. Volume 1 of a 3 volume set. A history, critical and biographical, of British and American authors, with specimens of their writings. A chronological series of extracts from our national authors. Partial Contents: Alfred the Great, Alfric, Canute, Wace, Layamon, Thomas of Ercildoun, Robert de Brunne, Lawrence Minot, Richard Roile, William Langland, Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Occleve, Earl of Surrey, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Prose, Scottish poets, Ballad poetry, dramatists, Earl of Essex, Philip Massinger, John Marston, Richard Hooker, William Camden, Robert Burton, John Taylor, John Milton, Thomas Fuller. Volume 2 ISBN 0766184056, Volume 3 ISBN 0766184064.