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The primary aim of this book is to give as much information about English authors, including American and Colonial writers, as the prescribed limits will admit. At the same time an attempt has been made, where materials exist for it, to enhance the interest by introducing such details as tend to illustrate the characters and circumstances of the respective writers and the manner in which they passed through the world; and in the case of the more important, to ...
Chronologies of all kinds are faster and valuable from utilitarian point of view. For researchers and students they are quick reference guides to timeline of events. Chronological References book Politics is important for the students of the politics as well as literature, when they want to refer to the origins of English language and race, or the politics, and whatever elementary literature then existed. A separate chapter on Anglo-Saxon Literature has been ...
A study of Literature as that for which the present book is designed includes two purposes, contributing to a common end. In the first place: 1. The student must gain some general knowledge of the conditions out of which English Literature has come into being, as a whole and during its successive periods, that is of the external facts of one sort or another without which it cannot be understood. This means mainly (1) tracing in a general way, from period to ...