British Literature I: The Anglo-Saxon Era to Neoclassicism

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Editor: M. Melissa Elston, Ph.D.

Publication Date: 2021 (revised 2022).

Cover Image:  Portrait of Elizabeth I, attributed to John Bettes the Younger (1585). Image in Public Domain.