A History Of English Literature

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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 for the literature of each age 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 than 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; thevolume is illustrated by a wealth of quotations ranging from Chaucer to Chesterton. The work is no (more) 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 for the literature of each age 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 than as an academic by product.