English Literature

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) Roxana, are but, little better than picaresque stories, with a deal of unn ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) blew hot and cold upon the same question was hardly no- ticed. Indeed, so ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) his knowledge of criminals to further account, and entered the go vernment ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) ever, attracting any wide attention. That Defoe used Selkirk’s story is pr ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) ter treatise on education than anything which Aristotle or the moderns had ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) observer of manners, and his surprisingly accurate descrip- tions often co ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) cially in her bitter grief and humiliation, she is a real woman, in marked ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) LIFE.Judged by his ability alone, Fielding was the great- est of this new ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) tress. There the burlesque ends; the hero takes to the open road, and Fiel ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) and women of his own age, without moralizing over their vices and virtues, ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) tle bronze satyr of antiquity in whose hollow body exquisite odors were st ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) have already spoken^184 If we exceptRobinson Crusoe, as an adventure story ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) glish victories over the French in Canada and the Mississippi Valley, duri ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) forms of verse. Both prose and poetry were too frequently satiric, and sat ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) tions (5 vols.), and Garnett’s English Prose from Elizabeth to Victoria ar ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) his style? What is lacking in his poetry? Compare his sub- jects with thos ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) meant by the scientific method of writing history? Compare Gibbon’s style ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) his sympathy with the French Revolution, and with democ- racy? Read "The C ...

CHAPTER X. THE AGE OF ROMANTICISM (1800-1850) THE SECOND CREATIVE PERIOD OF ENGLISH LITERATURE The first half of the nineteenth ...

CHAPTER X. THE AGE OF ROMANTICISM (1800-1850) ican commonwealth, as well as the establishment of a true democracy in England by ...