English Literature: Modern
by G. H. Mair
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English Literature: Modern by G. H. (George Herbert) Mair There are times in every man's experience when some sudden widening of the boundaries of his knowledge, some vision of hitherto untried and unrealized possibilities, has come and seemed to bring with it new life and the inspiration of fresh and splendid endeavour. It may be some great book read for the first time not as a book, but as a revelation; it may be the first realization of the extent and moment of what physical science has to teach us; it may be, like Carlyle's "Everlasting Yea," an ethical illumination, or spiritual like Augu...
Chapters (60)
- HOME UNIVERSITY LIBRARY OF MODERN KNOWLEDGE ENGLISH LITERATURE: MODERN
- First Printed, October, 1911 Revised & Printed February, 1914
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- ENGLISH LITERATURE: MODERN
- CHAPTER I
- THE RENAISSANCE
- (1)
- (2)
- (3)
- Footnotes
- CHAPTER II
- ELIZABETHAN POETRY AND PROSE
- (1)
- (2)
- (3)
- CHAPTER III
- THE DRAMA
- (1)
- (2)
- (3)
- (4)
- CHAPTER IV
- THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
- (1)
- (2)
- (3)
- (4)
- Footnotes
- CHAPTER V
- THE AGE OF GOOD SENSE
- (2)
- (3)
- CHAPTER VI
- DR. JOHNSON AND HIS TIME
- (2)
- (3)
- Footnotes
- CHAPTER VII
- THE ROMANTIC REVIVAL
- (1)
- (2)
- (3)
- CHAPTER VIII
- THE VICTORIAN AGE
- (1)
- (2)
- (3)
- Footnotes
- CHAPTER IX
- THE NOVEL
- (1)
- (2)
- (3)
- (4)
- CHAPTER X
- THE PRESENT AGE
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- LIST OF THE CHIEF WORKS AND AUTHORS MENTIONED
- INDEX
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