A History of English LiteratureHardin Craig Oxford University Press, 1950 - 697 pages |
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... novel indicates some sort of transition that would doubtless have become clearer had Fielding lived longer . But his health failed , and he vainly sought to regain it by a voyage to Portugal , where he died in 1754. His Journal of a ...
... novel indicates some sort of transition that would doubtless have become clearer had Fielding lived longer . But his health failed , and he vainly sought to regain it by a voyage to Portugal , where he died in 1754. His Journal of a ...
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... novel , or novel of terror . The first great success of this kind was The Castle of Otranto ( 1765 ) , à plaything of the idle hours of Horace Walpole . His dilettante interest in medieval remains showed itself in his strange house at ...
... novel , or novel of terror . The first great success of this kind was The Castle of Otranto ( 1765 ) , à plaything of the idle hours of Horace Walpole . His dilettante interest in medieval remains showed itself in his strange house at ...
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... Novel in Transition , 1885-1940 , Norman , 1942 . Hoare , Dorothy M. , Some Studies in the Modern Novel , 1938 . Hughes , Glenn , Imagism and the Imagists , Stanford Univ . , 1931 . Jackson , Holbrook , The Eighteen - Nineties ; a ...
... Novel in Transition , 1885-1940 , Norman , 1942 . Hoare , Dorothy M. , Some Studies in the Modern Novel , 1938 . Hughes , Glenn , Imagism and the Imagists , Stanford Univ . , 1931 . Jackson , Holbrook , The Eighteen - Nineties ; a ...
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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