A History of English Literature

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This book aims to provide a general manual of English Literature for students in colleges and universities and others beyond the high-school age. The first purpos-es of every such book must be to outline the development of the literature with due regard to national life, and to give appreciative interpretation of the work of the most important authors. The author has written the present volume because he has found no other that, to his mind, combines satisfactory accomplishment of these ends with a selection of authors sufficiently limited for clearness and with ade-quate accuracy and fullness of details, biographical and other. A manual, according to the author, should supply a systematic statement of the important facts, so that the greater part of the student’s time, in class and without, may be left free for the study of the literature itself.