English Literature

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) natural wealth and beauty which, for nearly a century, had been hardly not ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) Of wrong and outrage with which earth is filled. There is no flesh in man’ ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) There are various other characteristics of Romanticism, but these six–the ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) is noticeable in all his poems. At the famous Eton school and again at Cam ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) may trace the progress of Gray’s emancipation from the clas- sic rules whi ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) ing attention to the unused wealth of literary material that was hidden in ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) too much influenced by his friend Johnson and the classicists; but in his ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) own on the way.^170 He borrowed fifty pounds more, and started for London ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) physician, but his fine clothes did not bring patients, as he expected; an ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) Goldsmith’s fame chiefly rests Briefly,The Vicar of Wakefieldis the story ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) and classic ideals. In his first volume of poems, Cowper is more hampered ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) son; and whatever happiness he experienced in his poor life was the result ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) He comes, the herald of a noisy world, With spatter’d boots, strapp’d wais ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) in 1803, we reach the end of his important works, and the student who enjo ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) suggest the sunrise. The first is the plowman Burns, who speaks straight f ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) Burns was born in a clay cottage at Alloway, Scotland, in the bleak winter ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) Betty Davidson reciting, from her great store, some heroic ballad that fir ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) shillings for the new book. Instead of going to Jamaica, the young poet hu ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) made the name of Burns known wherever the English lan- guage is spoken, an ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) Who shall say that Fortune grieves him While the star of hope she leaves h ...