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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.
- LITERATURE
- THE PERIODS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE 4
- INTRODUCTORY NOTE
- SERIES OF ENGLISH CLASSICS ADAPTED TO SCHOOL USE
- THE GEOGRAPHY OF ENGLAND
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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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This page provides a comprehensive chronology of English Literature. It is designed to work in tandem with this site’s Anthology of English literature (which provides a large number of editable PDF text and audio files).
traces the history of English Literature. The early English literature, the Chaucerian Age, Elizabethan Age, Restoration, Romantic period, Victorian Age are among the periods covered.
Feb 3, 2022 · A preponderance of power : national security, the Truman administration, and the Cold War. by. Leffler, Melvyn P., 1945-. Publication date. 1992. Topics. National security -- United States, Cold War, United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1953. Publisher. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press.
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.
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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
