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گزیده کتاب
Part I: Restoration of Monarchy and The Age of Dryden Chapter 1: The Spirit of Restoration and the Rise of Neo-Classicism Chapter 2: Satire: Its Origin and Development Chapter 3: Minor Poets of the Restoration Period Chapter 4: Minor Poets of the Restoration Period Chapter 5: Restoration Drama: Heroic Plays and Tragedies Chapter 6: Restoration Comedy Chapter 7: Restoration Prose Chapter 8: Restoration Literary Criticism Part II.: The Age of Pope and Swift Chapter 9: The Augustan Literary and Political Temper Chapter 10: Jonathan Swift, the Tory Satirist Chapter 11: Alexander Pope, the Tory Satirist Chapter 12: Periodical Essays: Addison and Steele Part III: The Age of Johnson Chapter 13: Samuel Johnson's Prose and Poetry Chapter 14: Drama to 1800 Chapter 15: Novel Its Rise, Definition, Aspects, Types, and Schools Chapter 16: Eighteenth-Century Novel Chapter 17: Eighteenth-Century Literary Criticism Chapter 18: The Movement Away From Neo-Classicism and the Age of Sensibility Part IV: The Romantic Period Chapter 19: Romanticism: Definition, Points of View, and Poetic Theory Chapter 20: William Blake Chapter 21: William Wordsworth Chapter 22: Samuel Taylor Colridge Chapter 23: George Gordon, Lord Byron Chapter 24: Percy Bysshe Shelley Chapter 25: John Keats Chapter 26: The Tssayists and Other Prose Writers in the Romantic Period Chapter 27: English Novel in the Romantic Period Chapter 28: Literary Chiticism in the Romantic Period Chapter 29: Social, Religious, and Poetic Background to the Victorian Age Part V: The Victorian Age Chapter 30: Alfred, Lord Tennyson Chapter 31: Robert Browning and Dramatic Monologue Chapter 32: Matthew Arnold Chapter 33: Victorian Prose Chapter 34: Victorian Novel Part VI: The Twentieth Century Chapter 35: Background to the Twentieth-Century Literature Chapter 36: The Poetry of Thomas Hardy Chapter 37: Gerard Manley Hopkins Chapter 38: William Butler Yeats Chapter 39: Thomas Stearns Eliot Chapter 40: Literary Criticism Since Matthew Arnold Chapter 41: Twentieth-Century English Novel Chapter 42: Modern English Drama Selected Bibliography Index