A People's History of English and American LiteratureWith special emphasis on literary merit, this book chronicles the literature of the great nations of Britain and America from their earliest origins to the twenty-first century. |
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Page 43
... early pioneers who set out in their frail ships to establish colonies in America should immediately produce a literature of the first rank . Neither the little band who in 1607 established the first permanent settlement at Jamestown ...
... early pioneers who set out in their frail ships to establish colonies in America should immediately produce a literature of the first rank . Neither the little band who in 1607 established the first permanent settlement at Jamestown ...
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... early regarded as the leader of the Lake School whose other " members " included Wordsworth and Coleridge . It has been said that " few people have written so much and so well as Robert Southey , and have been so little read . " It is ...
... early regarded as the leader of the Lake School whose other " members " included Wordsworth and Coleridge . It has been said that " few people have written so much and so well as Robert Southey , and have been so little read . " It is ...
Page 54
... early pioneers in the feminist cause . Most of them oozed sentiment from every pore and drifted to renown on oceans of tears . Chief among them was Radcliffe , who established the early vogue of Gothic romance . The group of romances ...
... early pioneers in the feminist cause . Most of them oozed sentiment from every pore and drifted to renown on oceans of tears . Chief among them was Radcliffe , who established the early vogue of Gothic romance . The group of romances ...
Contents
The AngloSaxon or Old English Period 4501066 | 1 |
The Revival of Learning and the Renaissance 14851660 | 11 |
The Puritan Interlude 16401660 | 23 |
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