A Literary History of England

by Albert C. Baugh

Reviews English literary history from the Anglo-Latin writings of Bede to George Bernard Shaw.

964 pages, Hardcover

First published March 31, 1959

About the author

Dr. Albert Croll Baugh, College 1912; Ph.D. English, 1916; and Honorary Doctorate in 1961, Chaired the University of Pennsylvania Department of English, and received many accolades, including the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching.

Dr. Baugh's scholarship is still much in use at the Penn Library—from his 1935 study of the history of the English language to his 1968 bibliography of Chaucer studies.

Reviews

[Don Heiman]

"A Literary History of England 2nd Edition" is edited by Albert Baugh and published in 1967. This book traces English history from 597 to 1965 based on Roman/Irish missionary teachings, Saxon/Frankish tongues, and the two main German dialects of Low German as well as High German including their Gothic derivatives. This book is a superb reference, with 1,600 pages of commentary, and 206 reference pages. I read the text and references over 4 week period and was mesmerized by the writings of the 8 expert authors. This was a profound learning experience.

[Nicola]

Definitely a scholars book - interesting read but a hard one