Tillyard, Eustace Mandeville Wetenhall

1899 – 1962

• The English epic and its background
• Poetry, direct and oblique
• Essays, literary & educational
• Milton
• Some mythical elements in English literature
• The Elizabethan world picture
• The English epic tradition
• The English Renaissance
• The epic strain in the English novel
• The metaphysicals and Milton
• The nature of comedy and Shakespeare