Survey of English Literature: In Four Parts

This historical review of English literature offers three advantages: • Organizes literature into four historical periods - Medieval (450 1300), Renaissance (1300 - 1660), Neoclassical (1660 - 1785) and Enlightenment (1785 - 1901); • Contextualizes literature from multiple frames of reference, including with regard to each age's political, intellectual, educational, legal and medical stages of development; • Summarizes and analyzes literature in relation to a variety of different genres, modes, styles, themes and literary devices. Louis Townsend, B.A. (Hons.) (2010), J.D. (2013), Admitted to Ontario Bar (2014) - Louis Townsend has an honor's degree with a double major in English Language and Literature and Philosophy. This is his second book and follows The Art of Fiction; An Introduction to 20 Classic Novels (2019). While that book examines Modern Literature, this one is meant to acquaint the reader with Medieval to Victorian Literature.