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The outline of literature, edited by John Drinkwater, with about 500 illustrations of which many are in colour

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The outline of literature

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edited by John Drinkwater, with about 500 illustrations of which many are in colour

v. 1. I. The first books in the world -- II. Homer -- III. The story of the bible / E.W. Barnes -- IV. The English bible as literature -- V. The sacred books of the East -- VI. Greek myth and the poets -- VII. Greece and Rome -- VIII. The Middle Ages -- IX. The Renaissance -- v. 2. X. William Shakespeare, 1546-1616 / Harley Granville-Barker -- XI. Shakespeare to Milton -- XII. John Milton / John Drinkwater -- XIII. Marvell and Walton -- XIV. John Bunyan -- XV. Pepys, Dryden, and the restoration dramatists -- XVI. French literature in the age of Louis XIV -- XVII. Pope, Addison, Steele, Swift -- XVIII. The rise of the novel -- XIX. The eighteenth-century poets -- XX. Dr. Johnson and his circle -- XXI. Edward Gibbon and other eighteenth-century prose-writers -- XXII. Robert Burns -- XXIII. The literature that made the revolution -- XXIV. Goethe, Schiller, and Lessing -- XXV. Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey, and Blake -- XXVI. Byron, Shelley, Keats -- v. 3. XXVII. Scott, Dumas, and Hugo -- XXVIII. Early nineteenth-century essayists -- XXIX. Victorian poets -- XXX. Dickens and Thackeray / G.K. Chesterton -- XXXI. The Victorian novelists -- XXXII. The New England writers -- XXXIII. The nineteenth-century French writers -- XXXIV. The great Victorians -- XXXV. Modern writers, American and European -- XXXVI. Some later Victorians -- XXXVII. Dramatic literature -- XXXVIII. English poetry since Swinburne / Gilbert Thomas -- XXXIX. Later day writers