Masters of British Literature, Volume A

by David Damrosch

Other authors: Joseph Addison (Contributor), Aphra Behn (Contributor), James Boswell (Contributor), Thomas Campion (Contributor), Margaret Cavendish (Contributor) — 53 more, Aime Cesaire, Geoffrey Chaucer (Contributor), Daniel Defoe (Contributor), John Donne (Contributor), John Dryden (Contributor), William Dunbar (Contributor), Elizabeth I (Contributor), Desiderius Erasmus (Contributor), Marie de France (Contributor), John Gardner (Contributor), John Gay (Contributor), Oliver Goldsmith (Contributor), Thomas Gray (Contributor), Eliza Haywood (Contributor), Eliza Haywood (Contributor), George Herbert (Contributor), Mary Herbert (Contributor), Robert Herrick (Contributor), Henry Howard (Contributor), Samuel Johnson (Contributor), Ben Jonson (Contributor), Margery Kempe (Contributor), William Langland (Contributor), Emilia Lanier (Contributor), Thomas Malory (Contributor), Christopher Marlowe (Contributor), Andrew Marvell (Contributor), John Milton (Contributor), Mary Wortley Montagu (Contributor), Samuel Pepys (Contributor), Katherine Philips (Contributor), Christine de Pizan (Contributor), Alexander Pope (Contributor), Sir Walter Raleigh (Contributor), Jeffrey Richards (Contributor), Barnabe Riche (Contributor), William Shakespeare (Contributor), Philip Sidney (Contributor), John Skelton (Contributor), Ester Sowernam (Contributor), Rachel Speght (Contributor), Edmund Spenser (Contributor), Richard Steele (Contributor), Joseph Swetnam (Contributor), Jonathan Swift (Contributor), James Thomson (Contributor), J. R. R. Tolkien (Contributor), Margaret Tyler (Contributor), Isabella Whitney (Contributor), John Wilmot (Contributor), Mary Wroth (Contributor), Thomas Wyatt (Contributor), William Wycherley (Contributor)

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Written by an editorial team whose members are all actively engaged in teaching and in current scholarship, Masters of British Literature is a concise, yet comprehensive survey of the key writers whose classic works have shaped British literature. Featuring major works by the most influential authors in the British literary tradition-Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Sidney, Donne, Milton, Behn, Swift, Pope, Johnson-this compact anthology offers comprehensive coverage of the enduring works of the British literary tradition from the Middle Ages through the Restoration and the eighteenth century. Core texts are complemented by contextual materials that help students understand the literary, historical, and cultural environments out which these texts arose, and within which they find their richest meaning.… (more)

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David Damrosch	—	primary author	all editions	calculated
Addison, Joseph	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Behn, Aphra	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Boswell, James	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Campion, Thomas	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Cavendish, Margaret	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Cesaire, Aime	—	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Chaucer, Geoffrey	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Defoe, Daniel	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Donne, John	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Dryden, John	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Dunbar, William	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Elizabeth I	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Erasmus, Desiderius	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
France, Marie de	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Gardner, John	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
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Haywood, Eliza	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
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Johnson, Samuel	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
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Wilmot, John	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
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Written by an editorial team whose members are all actively engaged in teaching and in current scholarship, Masters of British Literature is a concise, yet comprehensive survey of the key writers whose classic works have shaped British literature. Featuring major works by the most influential authors in the British literary tradition-Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Sidney, Donne, Milton, Behn, Swift, Pope, Johnson-this compact anthology offers comprehensive coverage of the enduring works of the British literary tradition from the Middle Ages through the Restoration and the eighteenth century. Core texts are complemented by contextual materials that help students understand the literary, historical, and cultural environments out which these texts arose, and within which they find their richest meaning.

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