Opis: The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint) - Mills Abraham

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More than twenty years ago the author of this work was invited to deliver, professionally, a Course of Lectures on English Literature. The lectures then prepared, with such additions and correction as successive years of investigation and study naturally suggested, have since been annually repeated. In preparing them for the press the author has availed himself of every assistance that other publications on kindred subjects afford. In investigating the literature of the Saxons he has derived much assistance from Wright's Anglo-Saxon Period of British Literature, and Thorp's Edition of Cdmon; and in the period that immediately follows the Saxon, Elli's Metrical Romances, and Wright's Lyric Poetry and Political Songs of the Reign of Edward I. have been of equal service. To Godwin's Life of Chaucer he also acknowledge himself particularly indebted.

After the age of Chaucer the exposition of English Literature is so full, and the expositors are so numerous, that in the selection of authorities, both judgment and discretion were required. The works to which the author is here most indebted, are Wartion's History of English Poetry, Percy's Reliques of English Poetry, Hazlitt's Lectures on the Age of Elizabeth, the Lectures of Dr. Drake, Bale's Account of the Lives of Eminent Writers of Great Britain, Burnett's Specimens of English Prose Writers, Hallam's Literature of the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth Centuries, and Chamber's Cyclopdia of English Literature.

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Autor: Mills Abraham
Wydawnictwo: FB &c Ltd
Kod paskowy: 9781332522798
Języki: angielski
Ilość stron: 588
Format: 15.2x22.9cm
Oprawa: Miękka

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