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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... Experience ( 1794 ) are the most striking . There is something weird and unearthly about all of Blake's work . He saw visions of angels and demons . He thought he talked with God and the prophets . Both his engravings and his verses ...
... Experience ( 1794 ) are the most striking . There is something weird and unearthly about all of Blake's work . He saw visions of angels and demons . He thought he talked with God and the prophets . Both his engravings and his verses ...
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... experience , even if only between the covers of a book ? Stevenson has bequeathed to all of us something of his adventurous spirit . We shudder at the imminent dangers of Kidnapped ( 1886 ) but they are delicious shudders . Our hair ...
... experience , even if only between the covers of a book ? Stevenson has bequeathed to all of us something of his adventurous spirit . We shudder at the imminent dangers of Kidnapped ( 1886 ) but they are delicious shudders . Our hair ...
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... experience . " As the reader might infer , there was much overlap and sharedness , followed by a loss of mutuality and later exclusion . Far easier for a reviewer to write about the poets themselves and leave their schools for future ...
... experience . " As the reader might infer , there was much overlap and sharedness , followed by a loss of mutuality and later exclusion . Far easier for a reviewer to write about the poets themselves and leave their schools for future ...
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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