A HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE FROM CHAUCER TO PRESENT DAY(T. SINGH)

Even a cursory glance at the contents of this book will give a better idea of its nature and purpose than I can hope to set down in the prefatory note. My task has been to discuss under a hundred heads the entire history of English literature from Chaucer to the present day. As clarity of thinking and expressing was what I valued most, I selected one hundred important questions from M.A. (English) papers and endeavoured to provide model answers to them. My object in writing this book will be fulfilled, if the student learns the correct technique of expression. Woolliness and redundance have been scrupulously eschewed. I have made every one of the hundred topics a self-contained one, demanding no reference to any other. In doing so, however, some slight repetition here and there could not be avoided.

In the discussion of these topics my personal appraisal has been fairly allied with representative opinions. I have tried as far as possible to tone down the asperity of some of my highly individual views though I have not always fallen in with the critical consensus. Pains have been taken to study old writers in the light of modern critical approaches and newly discovered factual data.

December 1966

TAJINDAR SINGH

Preface to the Twentieth Edition

The present edition incorporates several additional new topics pertaining to the latest critical theory-such as Structuralism, Poststructuralism, Deconstruction, Feminism, Reader-response, New Historicism etc. The whole book, from title to title, has been painstakingly revised and freed from misprints and, here and there, from what appeared to me as verbal infelicities.

I have also used this opportunity to add questions from the latest University Question-Papers to make the book all the more useful.

I must thank the management of M/s. Student Store, Bareilly, for their suggestions to improve and update the book in the way I have actually done now.

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