A History of English LiteratureHardin Craig Oxford University Press, 1950 - 697 pages |
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... critical writing — amiable , scholarly , gossipy , sometimes even piquant - of men like Henley , Gosse , Lang , Stephen , and Birrell . But it would take too long to distinguish the critical tend- encies of writers who were , in any ...
... critical writing — amiable , scholarly , gossipy , sometimes even piquant - of men like Henley , Gosse , Lang , Stephen , and Birrell . But it would take too long to distinguish the critical tend- encies of writers who were , in any ...
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... Critical Study , 1906. Crotch , William W. , Charles Dickens , Social Reformer , 1913. Fitzgerald , Percy H. , The Life of Charles Dickens as Revealed in his Writings , 2 v . , 1905. Forster , John , The Life of Charles Dickens , 3 v ...
... Critical Study , 1906. Crotch , William W. , Charles Dickens , Social Reformer , 1913. Fitzgerald , Percy H. , The Life of Charles Dickens as Revealed in his Writings , 2 v . , 1905. Forster , John , The Life of Charles Dickens , 3 v ...
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... Critical Survey and Bibliographies , 3rd edn . , rev . and enl . , 1935 . Morton , David , The Renaissance of Irish Poetry , 1880-1930 , 1929 . 232 Author- O'Connor , W. V. , Forms of Modern Fiction , Minneapolis , 1938. ( Essays ...
... Critical Survey and Bibliographies , 3rd edn . , rev . and enl . , 1935 . Morton , David , The Renaissance of Irish Poetry , 1880-1930 , 1929 . 232 Author- O'Connor , W. V. , Forms of Modern Fiction , Minneapolis , 1938. ( Essays ...
Contents
THE LITERATURE OF THE OLD ENGLISH PERIOD 1 The Temper of the Middle Ages | 3 |
The AngloSaxons | 5 |
Some Fundamental Facts Relating to Old English Literature | 8 |
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