A history of English literature: from earliest times on 1916
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TextPublication details: New Delhi UBS Publishers 2006Description: 703pISBN: 9788185944630Subject(s): English literature-HistoryDDC classification: 820.9 Summary: An attempt to estimate in human values the development of literary life and thought from Saxon times down to the end of 1916. A chronicle of the literature of each page is preceded by a pen picture of its social and political environment, and thus English literature is presented throughout as an organic expression of national life rather as an academic by-product.
Special features are the rise and growth of American Literature, and the work of distinguished modern poets and prose writers; the volume is illustrated by a wealth od quotations ranging from Chaucer to Chesterton. The work is not only a commentary on the past, but is also a critical exposition of the chief factors in the life and thought of modern times.
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An attempt to estimate in human values the development of literary life and thought from Saxon times down to the end of 1916. A chronicle of the literature of each page is preceded by a pen picture of its social and political environment, and thus English literature is presented throughout as an organic expression of national life rather as an academic by-product.
Special features are the rise and growth of American Literature, and the work of distinguished modern poets and prose writers; the volume is illustrated by a wealth od quotations ranging from Chaucer to Chesterton. The work is not only a commentary on the past, but is also a critical exposition of the chief factors in the life and thought of modern times.
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