The College Survey of English Literature ...: The early period. The sixteenth century. The seventeenth century. The eighteenth centuryBartlett Jere Whiting, Fred Benjamin Millett Harcourt, Brace, 1942 |
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... University ODELL SHEPARD Trinity College ARTHUR PALMER HUDSON The University of North Carolina EDWARD WAGENKNECHT University of Washington LOUIS UNTERMEYER HOUTH THE COLLEGE SURVEY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE Volume One THE EARLY.
... University ODELL SHEPARD Trinity College ARTHUR PALMER HUDSON The University of North Carolina EDWARD WAGENKNECHT University of Washington LOUIS UNTERMEYER HOUTH THE COLLEGE SURVEY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE Volume One THE EARLY.
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... literature it is supreme . What is meant by this assertion may not be im- mediately clear . The literatures of China and India have qualities which England cannot approach in their kind . The writing of ancient Greece and Rome , and of ...
... literature it is supreme . What is meant by this assertion may not be im- mediately clear . The literatures of China and India have qualities which England cannot approach in their kind . The writing of ancient Greece and Rome , and of ...
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... literature and life was not , as one might think , primarily esthetic but rather moral in its motivation . Renaissance students of the classics were only remotely con- cerned with the esthetic excellence of the litera- ture of classical ...
... literature and life was not , as one might think , primarily esthetic but rather moral in its motivation . Renaissance students of the classics were only remotely con- cerned with the esthetic excellence of the litera- ture of classical ...
Contents
THE APPROACH TO ENGLISH LITERATURE | 1 |
THE EARLY PERIOD | 7 |
Mother Badger | 16 |
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