Treasury Of English Poetry For Repetition Etc Introduction To The Treasury Of English Poetry Etc

Author : Kate Mary Warren
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330413166
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book A Treasury of English Literature written by Kate Mary Warren and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Treasury of English Literature This book is the last of a series of six volumes which form, all together, an anthology of English verse and prose from the earliest time up to Burns. The whole has been already published in one volume under the title of A Treasury of English Literature, but for the convenience of students and classes who may wish to study separately a particular epoch, this edition in six books has been prepared. The selections in each volume of the series represent a period of literature, and, so far, form a whole. For an account of the aims of the complete anthology readers are referred to the Editor's Preface which, together with Mr. Stopford Brooke's Introduction, is printed at the beginning of this book. The present volume includes specimens of prose and verse from Johnson to Burns. It scarcely needs an introduction, for we are now among the "moderns." Johnson, Goldsmith, Fielding, Burke, Gray, Blake and Burns, to mention only a few of the leaders, are in our company to-day. The verse selections have been chosen partly with the view of giving some slight idea of the earlier part of the romantic movement in poetry, of the struggle of the old classical school of Pope against the young, fresh, varied genius of the poets who began to care for nature and romance, and whose work, at the end of the eighteenth century, triumphed so completely. Among the prose writers the most room has been given to Johnson and Burke. The great novelists have less because they cannot really be represented at all in selection. Their work is more like the drama and needs to be read as a whole to be comprehended. This is especially the case with Fielding. 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.