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The Making of English Literature (Classic Reprint)

Author : William Henry Crawshaw
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780266207634
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book The Making of English Literature (Classic Reprint) written by William Henry Crawshaw and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Making of English Literature Each chapter marks a chronological advance on the preceding chapter, except in the last book. There, for reasons suggested in the text, the three chapters deal with three separate departments of the literature of a single period - prose, the novel, and poetry. The titles of the various books and chapters are in harmony With the pur pose to make the volume a discussion of literature and literary movements rather than of general English history. Various helps to more extended study are given in an Appendix, where they may be easily referred to in con nection with the treatment of each period, but where they will not interfere with the continuous reading of the text. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Making of English (Classic Reprint)

Author : Henry Bradley
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780265801093
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Making of English (Classic Reprint) written by Henry Bradley and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-27 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Making of English This little work was announced as in preparation some years ago, but illness compelled me to lay it aside when only a few pages had been written, and since then my health has seldom permitted me to attempt any work in addition to my daily task as one of the editors of the Oxford English Dz'ctz'onai. Some of the faults of this volume may be due to the desultory manner in which it has been composed; but, on the other hand, the length of time that has elapsed since it was first planned has given me opportunity for more care ful consideration of difficult points. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

An Outline History of English Literature (Classic Reprint)

Author : William Henry Hudson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780266924067
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book An Outline History of English Literature (Classic Reprint) written by William Henry Hudson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-29 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Outline History of English Literature The purpose and plan of this little book may easily be gathered from the introductory chapter. Only a few words of preface, therefore, are needed. As I conceive it, a history of English literature, however brief, should still be a history of English literature in fact as well as in name and for a history something more is required than a list of authors and their books, and even than a chrono logically - arranged collection of biographical sketches and critical appreciations. It is true that a nation's literature is made up of the works of individual writers, and that for the ordinary purposes of study these writers may be detached from their surroundings and treated separately. But we cannot get a history of such literature unless and until each one has been put into his place in the sequence of things and considered with reference to that great body of literary production of which his work must now be regarded as a part. A history of English literature, then, must be interested primarily in English literature as a whole. Its chief aim should be to give a clear and systematic account, not of the achievements of successive great writers merely, as such, but of national changes and development. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Foundations of English Literature (Classic Reprint)

Author :
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ISBN 13 : 9781331338420
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book The Foundations of English Literature (Classic Reprint) written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Foundations of English Literature The object of this book is to present a careful study of the origins of English literature, and to trace its development up to the time when it assumed its permanent form. The author has attempted to show that the literature of England has been a gradual growth; that it has flowed out of the national life and is inseparably intertwined with the national history; that its development has been constant and consecutive from the very first, and that it commences not with Chaucer but with the primal poetry. The accumulation of a mass of names and dates, of biographical matter and encyclopaedic information, has not been attempted. All writers who were not materially concerned in the evolution of the literature have been omitted. The book is not "a storehouse of facts"; its aim is rather to clear away the confusing mass of details which has grown up about the subject and to expose the main outlines, to trace causes and effects, and to show that no author and no period exist as isolated phenomena, but that they are merely natural results of previous conditions. An attempt has been made to study the growth of the English spirit and to weigh all influences that have prominently affected it in any way. The civil and religious history of England has been kept constantly in view. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

History of English Literature (Classic Reprint)

Author : Reuben Post Halleck
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780267155910
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (559 download)

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Download or read book History of English Literature (Classic Reprint) written by Reuben Post Halleck and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-05-17 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from History of English Literature During a long period of teaching English literature and of superintending the instruction of others in that branch, the author has repeatedly found that pupils who have not had consecutive instruction in the history of English litera ture have the most vague ideas of its development and of the relation of its parts. Various masterpieces seem like unconnected islands in an unexplored ocean. There is no way of making these masterpieces seem otherwise except by teaching the history and development of the literature of which they form a part. Mental association is based primarily on contiguity. Ideas must be grasped by the mind at the same time before they can be known to be related. It is difficult for young minds to knit into one fabric ideas which are presented at considerable intervals and under associations so different as occur in the study of various masterpieces. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Story of English Literature (Classic Reprint)

Author : Emma Salisbury Mellows
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781330533291
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (332 download)

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Download or read book The Story of English Literature (Classic Reprint) written by Emma Salisbury Mellows and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Story of English Literature It has been my endeavour, in writing this volume, to tell the story of the beginning and growth of English literature, in a form simple enough to interest the youngest students in our schools and homes and likely to help them to take pleasure in studying this too often neglected subject. In treating the various periods into which I have divided the history, I have devoted some space to describing the character of the age under consideration. All teachers are conscious of the difficulties which surround young students in their efforts to understand the works of authors who lived in times so distant and so different from our own. I need, therefore, make no apology for thus travelling outside the main province of a history of literature, if by so doing I have helped the reader to enter into the spirit of past ages. As biography is of special interest to the young, the lives of the great writers of each age are given a prominent place. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

A History of English Literature (Classic Reprint)

Author : E. J. Mathew
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780666576279
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (762 download)

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Download or read book A History of English Literature (Classic Reprint) written by E. J. Mathew and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A History of English Literature The Beginnings of English Literature. The Difficulties attend ing them. The Advisability of taking Chaucer as our Starting Point. The Necessity of Knowing the Outlines of Earlier Days before even Chaucer is attempted. English literature may be said to begin with some fragments of poetry that date back as far as the fourth century; and, for the ten centuries following, our literature is extremely difficult to understand, because it is written either in Anglo Saxon, or else in one of the dialects of Middle English. It took a thousand years for English literature to develop properly; and we do not come across any author who can be easily mastered until we arrive at the middle of the fourteenth century. Then we find Geoffrey Chaucer one of the greatest of our poets, who died in the year 1400. We cannot, however, properly appreciate even his work unless we know something of the condition of English between the fourth and the fourteenth centuries; and this knowledge we must try to obtain by learning a little about the principal things that happened to the language before Chaucer's time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

History of English Literature, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint)

Author : Bernhard Ten Brink
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780484124461
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (244 download)

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Download or read book History of English Literature, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint) written by Bernhard Ten Brink and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-05-03 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from History of English Literature, Vol. 1 of 2 Among the last acts of his life were his reading of my ms., and his instructions to his colleague about some alterations or kindly suggestions for the improvement of my text. But almost all the changes my version experienced were practically made by his own hand. In this paternal oversight I have cause for self-congratulation, for not every translator is so fortunate. I also received Professor Ten Brink's authority to make enlargements, extra foot-notes, a new arrangement of the paragraphs, or whatever else I might consider helpful in bring ing the work more closely home to his English and American readers, on whose appreciation he set great value. But I have naturally refrained from making much use of such ﬂattering confidence; any changes or additions are duly noted where they occur. Besides the author's critical revision of my text, many of the proof sheets have been read by experienced students of English Literature, which has frequently resulted in a greater clearness of diction. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Tutorial History of English Literature (Classic Reprint)

Author : A. J. Wyatt
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781331551058
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Tutorial History of English Literature (Classic Reprint) written by A. J. Wyatt and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Tutorial History of English Literature The common complaint against smaller text-books of literature is that they include too much, and fail to pre serve due proportion between the greater and the lesser writers. In this book the lesser writers are mentioned, if at all, only incidentally; and the attempt has been made, in passing from one great writer to another, to give the history, as distinguished from the mere story, of English literature - to lay bare some of the more important aspects of the work of each author selected, while tracing the lines of development from writer to writer - in a word, to make an elementary book scientific, as far as the methods of science are applicable. In this task I have had no model before me to improve upon, and am more painfully aware, than any friendly reader or critic can be, of Shortcomings in its execution. In particular I have felt the difficulty of being consistent in difficulty: of avoiding the Opposite dangers of 'talking over people's heads' and childish simplicity. The former danger may be largely obviated if the student, before perusing each chapter, will read the English Classics recommended on. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Study of English Literature (Classic Reprint)

Author : Vida Dutton Scudder
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780365374756
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book The Study of English Literature (Classic Reprint) written by Vida Dutton Scudder and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2019-02-02 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Study of English Literature Few nations have had a nobler heritage; few a heritage so complex. Some peoples are simple in origin ours is composite. A variety of elements went to. Its making; and on this account English literature seems, at least to us English-speaking folk, the more interesting, expressive, and rich. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

English Literature (Classic Reprint)

Author : John Calvin Metcalf
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780428265564
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (655 download)

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Download or read book English Literature (Classic Reprint) written by John Calvin Metcalf and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-03 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from English Literature The writer of this volume has tried to furnish students and general readers with a clear and concise account of English literature and its makers from the beginnings to the present day. The inﬂuences of social and other movements on literary develop ment have been brought out in the brief introductions to the chapters. The biographies set forth the important facts of the authors' careers without extensive comment. This is in accord with the present writer's conviction that much ready-made inter pretation of conditions and motives, after the setting of an author's work and his characteristics have been made clear, is a hindrance rather than a help to students. Since literature is in a peculiar sense an expression of personality, an attempt has been made to sum up the personal traits of each prominent author in a para. Graph or two. Wherever an author's contribution has proved epoch-making in literary history, that fact is given special promi nence in a final summary. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Development of English Literature

Author : Brother Azarias
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780260354020
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book The Development of English Literature written by Brother Azarias and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-05 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Development of English Literature: The Old English Period 1. A people's literature is a criterion of a peeple's civilization. It embodies what is most enduring in thought, and records what is best worth remembering in deeds. A people may be conquered it may lose its individuality; it may change its religion, its govern ment, its soil but so long as its literature remains, its growth and development, its rise and fall, its character and genius continue objects of interest and teach a les son to all who wish to be instructed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

History of English Literature, Vol. 1

Author : H. A. Taine
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780243901371
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book History of English Literature, Vol. 1 written by H. A. Taine and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-03-12 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from History of English Literature, Vol. 1: Part II V. W poetry - The great number of poets - Spirit and force of the poetry - State of mind which produces it - Love of the country - Reappearanos of the ancient gods - Enthusiasm for beauty Picture of ingenuous and happy love - Shah peare, Jonson, Fletcher, Drayton, Marlowe, Warner, Breton, Lodge, Greene - How the truis formation of the people transforms art 27' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

An Outline of the History of English Literature, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)

Author : Ernesto Cesare Longobardi
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780267820498
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book An Outline of the History of English Literature, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint) written by Ernesto Cesare Longobardi and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Outline of the History of English Literature, Vol. 2 It is hardly necessary to repeat here what was remarked in the preface to the First Part; namely that this work is written with the exclusive purpose of making it a useful school manual. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

History of English Literature, Vol. 1

Author : H. A. Taine
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780483506558
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book History of English Literature, Vol. 1 written by H. A. Taine and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-20 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from History of English Literature, Vol. 1: Part I Hls'rorrv has been transformed, within a hundred years in Germany, within sixty years in France, and that by the study of their literatures. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

History of English Literature, Vol. 1 of 4 (Classic Reprint)

Author : Hippolyte Taine
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780364236710
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book History of English Literature, Vol. 1 of 4 (Classic Reprint) written by Hippolyte Taine and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-09 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from History of English Literature, Vol. 1 of 4 With Taine's work in hand the thoughtful reader may realize to a large extent the significance of Leslie Stephen's memorable dictum: The whole art of criticism consists in learning to know the human being who is partially revealed to us in his written and spoken words. M. Taine's pages continually at test his deep conviction that the style is the man in a very comprehensive sense. In his Introduction to his History of English Literature, we find such statements as these You study the document only to know the man, just as you study the fossil shell only to know the animal behind it Genuine history is brought into existence only when the historian begins to unravel the living man, toiling, impassioned, en trenched in his customs, with his voice and features, his ges tures and dress, distinct and complete as he from whom we have just parted in the street; Twenty select phrases from Plato and Aristophanes will teach you much more than a multitude of dissertations and commentaries The true critic is present at the drama which was enacted 1n the soul of the artist or the writer; the choice of a word, the brevity or length of a sentence, the nature of a metaphor, the accent of a verse, the development of an argument - everything is a symbol to him; in short he works out its [the text's] psychology; there is a cause for ambition, for courage, for truth, as there is for mus cular movement or animal heat. To put M. Taine's great and characteristic merit into a sentence, we may say that he was the first writer on English literature to apply to it the fundamental principle, patent to every person of reﬂection, that we necessarily think in concrete terms, and that, there fore, a treatise must be valuable just in proportion to the concreteness of its presentation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

History of English Literature, Vol. 3

Author : H. A. Taine
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780259062653
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (626 download)

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Download or read book History of English Literature, Vol. 3 written by H. A. Taine and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-03-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from History of English Literature, Vol. 3: Part I Gravity and rationality - Solid studies and exact observation - His knowledge of men and business habits - Nobility of his character and conduct Elevation of his morality and religion - How his life and character have contributed to the pleasant ness and usefulness of his writings. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.