British Writers: William Langland to the English Bible, Volumes 1-8This collection of critical essays covers hundreds of writers who have made significant contributions to British, Irish, and Commonwealth literature from the 14th century to the present day. The contributors analyze many individual works and engage the reader withtheir distinctive themes and stylistic. Introductory essays and chronological tables open each volume and provide historical background. |
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... period of a literature , like that in Rome under the Emperor Augustus ; it normally in- dicates the period 1680-1750 in English literature . ment , which in our own times , and with our own standards of practice , should cause us an ...
... period of a literature , like that in Rome under the Emperor Augustus ; it normally in- dicates the period 1680-1750 in English literature . ment , which in our own times , and with our own standards of practice , should cause us an ...
Page 126
... period of years , of the drain upon his income and his various finan- cial anxieties , of her unreasonableness and dis- honesty and his repeated efforts not to forget that he was a son , " though she forgot that she was a mother , " is ...
... period of years , of the drain upon his income and his various finan- cial anxieties , of her unreasonableness and dis- honesty and his repeated efforts not to forget that he was a son , " though she forgot that she was a mother , " is ...
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... period & value to Six Thousand Years , For in this Period the Poet's Work is Done ; and all the Great Events of Time start forth & are conceiv'd in such a Period , Within a Moment , a Pulsation of the Artery . ( 516 ) The poem , though ...
... period & value to Six Thousand Years , For in this Period the Poet's Work is Done ; and all the Great Events of Time start forth & are conceiv'd in such a Period , Within a Moment , a Pulsation of the Artery . ( 516 ) The poem , though ...
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