A critical history of English literature from the beginning to Milton - Daiches, David (London Mandarin, 1994)
Table of Contents: 1. Anglo-Saxon Literature -- 2. The Development of Middle English Prose and Verse -- 3. Middle-English Literature: Fabliau, Lyric, Dream Allegory, Ballad -- 4. Chaucer, Gower, Piers Plowman -- 5. The End of The Middle Ages -- 6. The Early Tudor Scene -- 7. Spenser and His Time -- 8. Drama from the Miracle Plays to Marlowe -- 9. Shakespeare -- 10. Drama from Jonson to the Closing of the Theaters -- 11. Poetry after Spenser: The Jonsonian and the Meta-physical Traditions -- 13. Prose n the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries -- 12. Milton -- 14. Scottish Literature to 1700 -- 15. The Restoration -- 16. The Augustan Age: Defoe, Swift, Pope -- 17. Poetry from Thomson to Crabbe -- 18. The Novel from Richardson to Jane Austen -- 19. Eighteenth-Century Philosophical, Historical and Critical Prose, and Miscellaneous Writing -- 20. Scottish Literature from Allan Ramsay to Walter Scott -- 21. The Romantic Poets I: Blake, Wordsworth, and Coleridge -- 22. The Romantic Poets II: Shelley, Keats, and Byron -- 23. Familiar, Critical, and Miscellaneous Prose of the Early and Middle Nineteenth Century -- 24. Victorian Prose: John Henry Newman to William Morris -- 25. The Victorian Poets -- 26. The Victorian Novel -- 27. Drama from the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century -- 28. Twentieth-Century Poetry -- 29. The Twentieth-Century Novel -- Index.
Keywords: English literature -- History and criticism