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Little indeed is known of the origin of English Literature, though it is reasonable to assume that verse of an extemporary kind was composed long before the period of the earliest written records and that we can be certain that poetry made its appearance long before the first prose was written down. It is important from the outset to remember that
Cl. p. here in the first and broader of the two senses, but with particular attention to the origin and devel. of Classicism. II. PRE-PLATONIC POETICS AND CRITICISM. So far as the Western world is concerned, the very con-cept of poetics, in fact of literary crit. in general, is a Gr. invention. Although it is a commonplace
The earliest known use of the noun preponderance is in the late 1600s. OED's earliest evidence for preponderance is from 1681, in the writing of Nehemiah Grew, botanist and physician. preponderance is formed within English, by derivation.
An alternative to the strategy of preponderance is offshore balancing. In this section I describe a U.S. grand strategy of offshore balancing, delineate the realist premises on which the strategy rests, and demonstrate how the strategy is deduced from these premises.
- LITERATURE
- THE PERIODS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE 4
- INTRODUCTORY NOTE
- SERIES OF ENGLISH CLASSICS ADAPTED TO SCHOOL USE
- THE GEOGRAPHY OF ENGLAND
- Fiction and Drama
- Fiction and Drama
- Historical
Outlines of the History of English Literature with
Outlines of the History of English Literature with
The following outlines are intended for use in reading courses in the historical development of English literature. They may be used with or without the accompaniment of the usual school or collegiate history of English literature, or of biographies of the chief English writers. If used without such accompaniment they may be made the basis for shor...
The Standard English Classics, and The Athenaeum Press series. Ginn & Co., Boston. Riverside Literature series. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston. Everyman's Library. Dutton, New York. Lake English Classics. Scott, Foresman, Chicago. Belles Lettres series. Heath, Boston. English Classics, and Pocket Classics series. Macmillan, New York. English Readi...
The Physical Features of England. Insularity, area, surface, contour, climate, resources, etc. The English landscape. Probable influence on the race character and literature.
Scott, Ivanhoe, The Talisman. Kingsley, Hereward the Wake. Bul- wer-Lytton, Harold, the Last of the Saxon Kings. Marlowe, Edward II. Shakespeare, King John. Tennyson, Harold, a Drama, and Becket, a Drama.
Scott, Kenilworth, The Monastery, The Abbot; Kingsley, YVestivard Ho. Swinburne, Mary Stuart.
McCarthy, History of Our Oion Times, I. Bright, History of England, IV. Rose, Rise and Growth of Democracy in Britain. C. W. C. Oman, England in the Nineteenth Century. J. R. Green, Short History of the English People. S. R. Gardiner, Student's History of England. Traill, Social England, VI.
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The first great age of primarily secular literature—rooted in the Anglo-Norman, French, Irish, and Welsh, as well as the native English literature—was the second half of the 14 th century.
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An introduction to the study of English Literature, including discussions of: how to define "literature", why study literature?, how to approach the great books, and English literary periods.
