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A Short History of Modern English Literature (Classic Reprint)
A Short History of Modern English Literature - Classic Reprint Author:Edmund Gosse A SHORT HISTORY OF MODERN ENGLISH LITERATURE i THE AGE OF CHAUCER 1350-1400 It is now a recognised fact that the continuity of English literature is unbroken from Beowulf 'and Caedmon down to the present day. But although this is not to be denied, it is convenient for practical purposes that we should begin the study of modern English poetry and... more » prose at the point where the language in which these are written becomes reasonably and easily intelligible to us. The old classic writers looked upon Chaucer as " the father of English literature"; we look upon him as a figure midway between the fathers and us, their latest sons, and we are aware that for six or seven centuries before the composition of the Vision of Piers Plowman and the Canterbury Tales, Englishmen were writing what was stimulating, and national, and worthy of our closest attention. There came a great change in the fourteenth century, but we have been rash in supposing that a completely new thing began at the close of
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CONTENTS; CHAPTER PAGE; i the age op chaucer (1350-I4OO) i; ii the close of the middle ages (i4oo-1560) 33; iii the age of elizabeth (1560-1620) 73; iv the decline (162O-1660) 129; v the age of drvden (1660-1700) l6l; vi the age of anne (17oo-i740) 197; vii the age of johnson (174o-1780) 232; viii the age of wordsworth (1780-1815) 267 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (1780-1815) 267 end_of_the_skype_highlighting ix the age of byron (1815-1840) 303; x the early victorian age (184o-1870) 334; xi the age of tennyson 360; Epilogue 386; Biographical List 393; Bibliographical Note 403; Index ,,,,,, 409
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