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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... line . Literary fashion of the age prescribed that drama , especially tragedy , should be written chiefly in poetry . Not ... lines of an inn courtyard , they were open to the skies , and performances were given only in the daytime since ...
... line . Literary fashion of the age prescribed that drama , especially tragedy , should be written chiefly in poetry . Not ... lines of an inn courtyard , they were open to the skies , and performances were given only in the daytime since ...
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... lines that sound as though they had been written by some fashionable lady of London instead of a hardworking housewife in the backwoods of America . Despite such adversity , with Bradstreet there was always reassurance as seen in these ...
... lines that sound as though they had been written by some fashionable lady of London instead of a hardworking housewife in the backwoods of America . Despite such adversity , with Bradstreet there was always reassurance as seen in these ...
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... lines that had only a primitive cadence to save them from being prose . He was a tremendous egotist : he celebrated himself . If the good New Englanders could not understand that through himself he was celebrating mankind , and in ...
... lines that had only a primitive cadence to save them from being prose . He was a tremendous egotist : he celebrated himself . If the good New Englanders could not understand that through himself he was celebrating mankind , and in ...
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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