Introduction To American Literature: Or, The Origin And Development Of The English Language, With Gems Of Poetry - Softcover

Eliphalet L. Rice

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0371749182 ISBN 13: 9780371749180

Publisher: HardPress, 2021

Synopsis

Introduction To American Literature: Or, The Origin And Development Of The English Language, With Gems Of Poetry by Eliphalet L. Rice presents a historical survey of how English emerged and evolved, and how its literature grew from Saxon roots to modern times. The book opens with a Preface and Proem, arguing that language is the key to civilization and national identity, and then traces the Origin Of The Language, Anglo-Saxon language and poetry, and the Formation Of The English Language. It surveys the Saxon poets and the Beowulf tradition, Caedmon, and the Beowulf poem, and details the fusion of Saxon and Norman influences that formed Middle English. It then surveys English poets and “Gems Of Poetry,” including Geoffrey Chaucer and his successors such as Lydgate, Surrey, Gascoigne, and later Elizabethan writers like Shakespeare. The work also addresses the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, concluding with an appendix on linguistic history. The book is part scholarly treatise, part anthology, and uses poetry to illuminate linguistic and literary history.

Edition details

• Publisher: HardPress
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0371749182
• ISBN 13: 9780371749180
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 435