A history of English poetry,

I. The middle ages; Influence of the Roman empire; The encyclopædic education of the church; The feudal system.--II. The renaissance and the reformation; Influence of the court and the universities.--III. The intellectual conflict of the seventeenth century; Decadent influence of the feudal monarchy; Growth of the national genius.--IV. Development and decline of the poetic drama; Influence of the court and the people.--V. The constitutional compromise of the eighteenth century; Effects of the classical renaissance, its zenith and decline; The early romantic renaissance.--VI. The romantic movement in English poetry; Effects of the French revolution.Mode of access: Internet