English Literature

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) "Winter" and "Ye banks and braes o’ bonie Doon," regard na- ture in the sa ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) such a combination of the grewsome and the ridiculous as is packed up in " ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) but that which he heard in his own mystic soul. Though the most extraordin ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) Strangely enough, he made no attempt to found a new re- ligious cult, but ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) zle is to find the method in his madness. The most amaz- ing thing about h ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) that age fit, on all accounts, to rank with the old great mas- ters.^174 T ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) We have chosen the five preceding poets, Gray, Goldsmith, Cowper, Burns, a ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) for it introduced a new world, of witches, pygmies, fairies, and mediæval ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) an unusual figure, who catered to the new romantic inter- est in the old e ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) the hero, and the darkness of battle gathers on the hill.^175 The publicat ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) histories, centering around two characters,–Thomas Rowley, priest and poet ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) probably influenced him in this. First, the different versions of the same ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) The chief literary phenomena of the complex eighteenth century are the rei ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) instinct or innate love for a story we are indebted for all our literature ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) Where the novel begins it is likewise impossible to say; but again we have ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) ing field than any other type of literature. PRECURSORS OF THE NOVEL. Befo ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) old romance tends inevitably towards realism, especially in England, where ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) instead of a knight, and followed him through a long career of scandals an ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) nitely cross the border land that lies outside of romance, and enter the r ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) life which were later proclaimed in the American and in the French Revolut ...