C. V. Wedgwood

Preface to the Second Edition This short introduction to English literature in the seventeenth century was written more than twenty years ago. Valuable criticism has been published since then and significant research has added to our knowledge. I am therefore grateful to the publisher for this...

FOREWORD It is eleven years since this book was first published. It was written in London under the advancing shadow of the Second World War, and it may be that the apprehensions of those years can be felt vibrating from time to time in its pages. The historian, concerned as he is with the most...