Summary of the Book Professor David Daiches’ book provides us with the critical history of the all the famous English literature. Madhurima Rudra rated it liked it Nov 24, I have conquered the first volume of this dryness, critical literary history, and more dryness. Would you like enhlish tell us about a lower price? Common terms and phrases achieve admiration Arnold ballad beauty blank verse Byron century character combination comedy comic contemporary couplets criticism deliberately developed dialogue Dickens drama Dryden eighteenth eighteenth-century emotional England English English poetry epic essays feeling fiction French Revolution George Eliot give hero heroic heroic couplet Houyhnhnms human humor ideal imagery imagination interest irony Jacobite Jane Austen Johnson Keats kind language literary literature living meaning mind mock-heroic modern moral movement narrative nature neoclassic never novel novelist passion pattern philosophical plays plot poem poet poetic poetry political Pope Pope’s popular Pre-Raphaelite produced prose reader Redgauntlet religion represented Restoration Restoration comedy rhetorical romantic satire scene Scotland Scots Literarure Scottish Scottish literature sense sentimental shows social society sometimes song stanza story style Swift symbolic T. One can only question that while the publishers are presenting it as a trade not a text book, and while Daiches has meant it bu be read and “”not looked up””, there are probably few readers equal to the assignment. I ended up using the then Pelican, now Penguin Guide instead. Ronald Press Company, – English literature – pages. A Critical History of English Literature, Volume 1. A Critical History of English Literature: From the beginnings to the sixteenth century, Volume 1. 1 on *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. A Critical History of English Literature: From the Beginnings to Milton v.