HANDBOOKS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE
Edited by Professor Hales
"The admirable series of handbooks edited by Professor Hales is rapidly taking shape as one of the best histories of our literature that are at the disposal of the student.... [When complete] there is little doubt that we shall have a history of English literature which, holding a middle course between the rapid general survey and the minute examination of particular periods, will long remain a standard work."—Manchester Guardian.
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THE AGE OF ALFRED (664-1154). By F. J. Snell, M.A.
THE AGE OF CHAUCER (1346-1400). By F. J. Snell, M.A., with an Introduction by Professor Hales. 3rd edition.
THE AGE OF TRANSITION (1400-1580). By F. J. Snell, M.A. In 2 vols. Vol. I.: The Poets. Vol. II.: The Dramatists and Prose Writers. With an Introduction by Professor Hales. 3rd edition.
THE AGE OF SHAKESPEARE (1579-1631). By Thomas Seccombe and J. W. Allen. In 2 vols. Vol. I.: Poetry and Prose, with an Introduction by Professor Hales. Vol. II: Drama. 7th edition.
THE AGE OF MILTON (1632-1660). By the Rev. J. H. B. Masterman, M.A., with an Introduction, etc., by J. Bass Mullinger, M.A. 8th edition.
THE AGE OF DRYDEN (1660-1700). By Richard Garnett, C.B., LL.D. 8th edition.
THE AGE OF POPE (1700-1744). By John Dennis. 11th edition.
THE AGE OF JOHNSON (1744-1798). By Thomas Seccombe. 7th edition.
THE AGE OF WORDSWORTH (1798-1832). By Professor C. H. Herford, Litt.D. 12th edition.
THE AGE OF TENNYSON (1830-1870). By Professor Hugh Walker, M.A. 9th edition.
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS
THE AGE OF CHAUCER
"This little monograph may lay fair claim to be regarded as complete, acute, stimulating, and scholarly."—School World.
"The book is thoroughly up-to-date, an important consideration in dealing with Middle English literature, and does not lose itself in too minute a consideration of those works which are only of philological and not of literary value. The accounts of the W. Midland alliterative poetry, of the development of prose, and the work of the poet Gower, are specially good. The treatment of Chaucer is thorough and scholarly."—University Correspondent.
"An admirable handbook, dealing in a lucid style and in a highly critical spirit with one of the most important periods in the history of English literature."—Westminster Review.
THE AGE OF DRYDEN
"This scholarly little volume from the learned pen of Dr. Garnett.... Within the limits of his space Dr. Garnett surveys the several departments of literature in this period with singular comprehensiveness, broad sympathy, and fine critical sagacity."—Times.
"The series which Professor Hales is editing aims at being that very difficult and important something between the text-book for schools and the gracefully allusive literary essay. Dr. Garnett has done his part of the work admirably. Most readable is his book, written with a fine sense of proportion, and containing many independent judgements, yet even, so far as minor names and dates and facts are concerned, complete enough for all save a searcher after minutiae."—Bookman.
"Though planned on the scale of the manual, this book is actually the first attempt worth naming to grasp in one separate review the literature of the last forty years of the seventeenth century, a time which, as Dr. Garnett well says, 'with all its defects, had a faculty for producing masterpieces.' Dr. Garnett's name is a warrant for his acquaintance not only with the masterpieces but with much besides, and with more than all that need be named in the kind of survey he undertakes."—Manchester Guardian.