In this classic work, first published in 1954, CS Lewis argues that literary ‘periods’ are a mischievous conception but a methodological necessity: his own survey of English literature, which takes in the bad as well as good and questions the concept of a ‘renaissance’, is divided into the Late Medieval, ending c.1553, the Drab Age, and the Golden Age of poetry from Sidney and Spenser to Drayton, and concludes with an epilogue looking forward to ‘new tendencies’.
C. S. Lewis offers a magisterial take on the literature and poetry of one of the most consequential periods in world history, providing deep insight into some of the greatest writers of the age, including Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, William Tyndale, John Knox, Dr. Johnson, Richard Hooker, Hugh Latimer, Christopher Marlowe, John Donne, and Thomas Cranmer.
English Literature in the Sixteenth Century is an invigorating overview of English literature from the Norman Conquest through the mid-seventeenth century from one of the greatest public intellectuals of the modern age. In this wise, distinctive collection, C. S. Lewis expounds on the profound impact prose and poetry had on both British intellectual life and his own critical thinking and writing, demonstrated in his deep reflections and essays.
This incisive work is essential for any serious literature scholar, intellectual Anglophile, or C. S. Lewis fan.
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