Excerpt from Notes on English Literature
Tms book was written for the use of students in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As it consists of merely the notes of a course of lectures on English Liter ature, it omits the names of many well-known authors. However, it includes the best and the representative writ ers of each period, and perhaps all whose books are worth studying.
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