Studies in Early English Literature (Classic Reprint)Excerpt from Studies in Early English Literature This is especially true of the old English literature. It is a folio of many leaves, yet one book from the dap pled dawn of Saxon Alfred to the sunrise of Chaucer it is one long day, deepening into the full noon of' Shakespeare. Each period is a phase of the great strug gles of English national life: the shaping of a rough folk into a Christian people; the stormy time of the Norman Conquest ending in stronger unity; the awakening of the Reformation; the ripening of the whole past in the reign of Elizabeth. Each English writer, from Caedmon, who first sung the Creation, to Milton, from Aelfric to Jeremy Taylor, from Alfred to Burke, is a living historian of the English mind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. |
