A History of Elizabethan Literature

A literary history by George Saintsbury, first published in 1887, covering English literature from roughly 1560 to 1665, including Elizabethan poetry, prose, and drama through the Jacobean and Caroline periods, with critical discussion of major authors such as Shakespeare, Spenser, Milton, and Bacon.

Public domain in the US. From Project Gutenberg.

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Other Non-Fiction›Essays and criticism›Literary history by country and period›Britain and Ireland

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Bibliophiles›Other Non-Fiction›Essays and criticism›Literary history by country and period›Britain and Ireland