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Outlines of English and American Literature: An Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They LivedLong, William J. (William Joseph)

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Outlines of English and American Literature: An Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived

Name: Outlines of English and American Literature: An Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived
Author: Long, William J. (William Joseph)

Long, William J. (William Joseph)

American literature -- History and criticism; English literature -- History and criticism

BIBLIOGRAPHY. For texts and manuals dealing with the whole field of
    English history and literature see the General Bibliography. The
    following works deal chiefly with the Puritan and Restoration
    periods.

    _HISTORY_. Wakeling, King and Parliament (Oxford Manuals of
    English History); Gardiner, The First Two Stuarts and the Puritan
    Revolution (Great Epochs Series); Tulloch, English Puritanism;
    Harrison, Oliver Cromwell; Hale, The Fall of the Stuarts; Airy, The
    English Restoration and Louis XIV.

    _LITERATURE_. Masterman, The Age of Milton; Dowden, Puritan
    and Anglican; Wendell, Temper of the Seventeenth Century in
    Literature; Gosse, Seventeenth-Century Studies; Schilling,
    Seventeenth-Century Lyrics (Athenæum Press Series); Isaac Walton,
    Lives of Donne, Wotton, Hooker, Herbert and Sanderson.

    _Milton_. Life, by Garnett (Great Writers Series); by Pattison
    (English Men of Letters). Corson, Introduction to Milton; Raleigh,
    Milton; Stopford Brooke, Milton. Essays, by Macaulay; by Lowell, in
    Among My Books; by M. Arnold, in Essays in Criticism.

    _Bunyan_. Life, by Venables (Great Writers); by Froude (E. M.
    of L.). Brown, John Bunyan; Woodberry's essay, in Makers of
    Literature.

    _Dryden_. Life by Saintsbury (E. M. of L.). Gosse, From
    Shakespeare to Pope.

    _Thomas Browne_. Life, by Gosse (E. M. of L.). Essays, by L.
    Stephen, in Hours in a Library; by Pater, in Appreciations.

    _FICTION AND POETRY_. Shorthouse, John Inglesant; Scott, Old
    Mortality, Peveril of the Peak, Woodstock; Blackmore, Lorna Doone.
    Milton, Sonnet on Cromwell; Scott, Rokeby; Bates and Coman, English
    History Told by English Poets.




CHAPTER VI

EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE


  In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold:
  Alike fantastic if too new or old.
  Be not the first by whom the new are tried,
  Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

                  Pope, "An Essay on Criticism"


    HISTORY OF THE PERIOD. The most striking political feature of the
    times was the rise of constitutional and party government. The
    Revolution of 1688, which banished the Stuarts, had settled the
    king question by making Parliament supreme in England, but not all
    Englishmen were content with the settlement. No sooner were the
    people in control of the government than they divided into hostile
    parties: the liberal Whigs, who were determined to safeguard
    popular liberty, and the conservative Tories, with tender memories
    of kingcraft, who would leave as much authority as possible in the
    royal hands. On the extreme of Toryism was a third party of
    zealots, called the Jacobites, who aimed to bring the Stuarts back
    to the throne, and who for fifty years filled Britain with plots
    and rebellion. The literature of the age was at times dominated by
    the interests of these contending factions.

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Outlines of English and American Literature: An Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived

Long, William J. (William Joseph)

American literature -- History and criticism; English literature -- History and criticism

BIBLIOGRAPHY. For texts and manuals dealing with the whole field of
    English history and literature see the General Bibliography. The
    following works deal chiefly with the Puritan and Restoration
    periods.

    _HISTORY_. Wakeling, King and Parliament (Oxford Manuals of
    English History); Gardiner, The First Two Stuarts and the Puritan
    Revolution (Great Epochs Series); Tulloch, English Puritanism;
    Harrison, Oliver Cromwell; Hale, The Fall of the Stuarts; Airy, The
    English Restoration and Louis XIV.

    _LITERATURE_. Masterman, The Age of Milton; Dowden, Puritan
    and Anglican; Wendell, Temper of the Seventeenth Century in
    Literature; Gosse, Seventeenth-Century Studies; Schilling,
    Seventeenth-Century Lyrics (Athenæum Press Series); Isaac Walton,
    Lives of Donne, Wotton, Hooker, Herbert and Sanderson.

    _Milton_. Life, by Garnett (Great Writers Series); by Pattison
    (English Men of Letters). Corson, Introduction to Milton; Raleigh,
    Milton; Stopford Brooke, Milton. Essays, by Macaulay; by Lowell, in
    Among My Books; by M. Arnold, in Essays in Criticism.

    _Bunyan_. Life, by Venables (Great Writers); by Froude (E. M.
    of L.). Brown, John Bunyan; Woodberry's essay, in Makers of
    Literature.

    _Dryden_. Life by Saintsbury (E. M. of L.). Gosse, From
    Shakespeare to Pope.

    _Thomas Browne_. Life, by Gosse (E. M. of L.). Essays, by L.
    Stephen, in Hours in a Library; by Pater, in Appreciations.

    _FICTION AND POETRY_. Shorthouse, John Inglesant; Scott, Old
    Mortality, Peveril of the Peak, Woodstock; Blackmore, Lorna Doone.
    Milton, Sonnet on Cromwell; Scott, Rokeby; Bates and Coman, English
    History Told by English Poets.




CHAPTER VI

EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE


  In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold:
  Alike fantastic if too new or old.
  Be not the first by whom the new are tried,
  Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

                  Pope, "An Essay on Criticism"


    HISTORY OF THE PERIOD. The most striking political feature of the
    times was the rise of constitutional and party government. The
    Revolution of 1688, which banished the Stuarts, had settled the
    king question by making Parliament supreme in England, but not all
    Englishmen were content with the settlement. No sooner were the
    people in control of the government than they divided into hostile
    parties: the liberal Whigs, who were determined to safeguard
    popular liberty, and the conservative Tories, with tender memories
    of kingcraft, who would leave as much authority as possible in the
    royal hands. On the extreme of Toryism was a third party of
    zealots, called the Jacobites, who aimed to bring the Stuarts back
    to the throne, and who for fifty years filled Britain with plots
    and rebellion. The literature of the age was at times dominated by
    the interests of these contending factions.

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

Outlines of English and American Literature: An Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived

Outlines of English and American Literature: An Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived

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