Survey of English Literature (In Four Parts) by Louis Townsend is a historical review of English literature offers three advantages:
• Organizes literature into four historical periods – Medieval (450 –1300), Renaissance (1300 – 1660), Neoclassical (1660 – 1785) and Enlightenment (1785 – 1901);
• Contextualizes literature from multiple frames of reference, including with regard to each age’s political, intellectual, educational, legal and medical stages of development;
• Summarizes and analyzes literature in relation to a variety of different genres, modes, styles, themes and literary devices.
Louis Townsend, B.A. (Hons.) (2010), J.D. (2013), Admitted to Ontario Bar (2014) – Louis Townsend has an honor’s degree with a double major in English Language and Literature and Philosophy. This is his second book and follows The Art of Fiction; An Introduction to 20 Classic Novels (2019). While that book examines Modern Literature, this one is meant to acquaint the reader with Medieval to Victorian Literature.
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