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Synopsis
Literary study of some of the greatest period in English Literature, inlcuding portraits of some of the great men and women authors. "In so brief a history of so rich a literature, the problem is how to get room enough to give, not an adequate impression-that is impossible-but any impression at all of the subject. To do this I have crowded out every thing but belles lettres. Books in philosophy, history, science, etc., however important in the history of English thought, receive the merest incidental mention, or even no mention at all. Again, I have omitted the literature of the Anglo-Saxon period, which is written in a language nearly as hard for a modern Englishman to read as German is, or Dutch. Cędmon and Cynewulf are no more a part of English literature than Vergil and Horace are of Italian. I have also left out the vernacular literature of the Scotch before the time of Burns. Up to the date of the union Scotland was a separate kingdom, and its literature had a development independent of the English, though parallel with it."
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- PublisherDodo Pr
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 1406537314
- ISBN 13 9781406537314
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages320
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