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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

_Johnson_. Life, by Boswell (for personal details); by L.
    Stephen (E. M. of L.). Hill, Dr. Johnson: his Friends and his
    Critics. Essays by Macaulay, by Thackeray, by L. Stephen.

    _Burke_. Life, by Morley (E. M. of L.), by Prior. Macknight,
    Life and Times of Burke.

    _Gibbon_. Life, by Morrison (E. M. of L.). Essays, by Birrell,
    in Collected Essays; by L. Stephen, in Studies of a Biographer; by
    Harrison, in Ruskin and Other Literary Estimates; by Sainte-Beuve,
    in English Portraits.

    _Gray_. Life, by Gosse. Essays by Lowell, M. Arnold, L.
    Stephen, Dobson.

    _Goldsmith_. Life, by Washington Irving, by Dobson (Great
    Writers Series), by Black (E. M. of L.), by Forster. Essays, by
    Macaulay; by Thackeray, in English Humorists; by Dobson, in
    Miscellanies.

    _Burns_. Life, by Shairp (E. M. of L.), by Blackie (Great
    Writers). Carlyle's Essay on Burns, in Standard English Classics
    and other school editions. Essays, by Stevenson, in Familiar
    Studies of Men and Books; by Hazlitt, in Lectures on the English
    Poets; by Henley, in Introduction to the Cambridge Edition of
    Burns.

    _The Novel. Raleigh, The English Novel; Cross, Development of the
    English Novel; Perry, A Study of Prose Fiction; Symonds,
    Introduction to the Study of English Fiction; Dawson, Makers of
    English Fiction.

    _Defoe_. Life, by Minto (E. M. of L.), by William Lee. Essay
    by L. Stephen, in Hours in a Library.

    _Richardson_. Life, by Thomson, by Dobson. Essays, by L.
    Stephen, in Hours in a Library; by Dobson, in Eighteenth Century
    Vignettes.

    _Fielding_. Life, by Dobson (E. M. of L.). Lawrence, Life and
    Times of Fielding. Essays by Lowell, L. Stephen, Dobson; Thackeray,
    in English Humorists; G. B. Smith, in Poets and Novelists.

    _FICTION_. Thackeray, Henry Esmond, and The Virginians; Scott,
    Guy Mannering, Rob Roy, Heart of Midlothian, Redgauntlet; Reade,
    Peg Woffington.




CHAPTER VII

THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY


  Two voices are there; one is of the sea,
  One of the mountains; each a mighty voice:
  In both from age to age thou didst rejoice,
  They were thy chosen music, Liberty!

             Wordsworth, "Sonnet to Switzerland"


The many changes recorded in the political and literary history of
nineteenth-century England may be grouped under two heads: the progress of
democracy in government, and the triumph of romanticism in literature. By
democracy we mean the assumption by common men of the responsibilities of
government, with a consequent enlargement of human liberty. Romanticism, as
we use the term here, means simply that literature, like politics, has
become liberalized; that it is concerned with the common life of men, and
that the delights of literature, like the powers of government, are no
longer the possession of the few but of the many.

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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

_Johnson_. Life, by Boswell (for personal details); by L.
    Stephen (E. M. of L.). Hill, Dr. Johnson: his Friends and his
    Critics. Essays by Macaulay, by Thackeray, by L. Stephen.

    _Burke_. Life, by Morley (E. M. of L.), by Prior. Macknight,
    Life and Times of Burke.

    _Gibbon_. Life, by Morrison (E. M. of L.). Essays, by Birrell,
    in Collected Essays; by L. Stephen, in Studies of a Biographer; by
    Harrison, in Ruskin and Other Literary Estimates; by Sainte-Beuve,
    in English Portraits.

    _Gray_. Life, by Gosse. Essays by Lowell, M. Arnold, L.
    Stephen, Dobson.

    _Goldsmith_. Life, by Washington Irving, by Dobson (Great
    Writers Series), by Black (E. M. of L.), by Forster. Essays, by
    Macaulay; by Thackeray, in English Humorists; by Dobson, in
    Miscellanies.

    _Burns_. Life, by Shairp (E. M. of L.), by Blackie (Great
    Writers). Carlyle's Essay on Burns, in Standard English Classics
    and other school editions. Essays, by Stevenson, in Familiar
    Studies of Men and Books; by Hazlitt, in Lectures on the English
    Poets; by Henley, in Introduction to the Cambridge Edition of
    Burns.

    _The Novel. Raleigh, The English Novel; Cross, Development of the
    English Novel; Perry, A Study of Prose Fiction; Symonds,
    Introduction to the Study of English Fiction; Dawson, Makers of
    English Fiction.

    _Defoe_. Life, by Minto (E. M. of L.), by William Lee. Essay
    by L. Stephen, in Hours in a Library.

    _Richardson_. Life, by Thomson, by Dobson. Essays, by L.
    Stephen, in Hours in a Library; by Dobson, in Eighteenth Century
    Vignettes.

    _Fielding_. Life, by Dobson (E. M. of L.). Lawrence, Life and
    Times of Fielding. Essays by Lowell, L. Stephen, Dobson; Thackeray,
    in English Humorists; G. B. Smith, in Poets and Novelists.

    _FICTION_. Thackeray, Henry Esmond, and The Virginians; Scott,
    Guy Mannering, Rob Roy, Heart of Midlothian, Redgauntlet; Reade,
    Peg Woffington.




CHAPTER VII

THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY


  Two voices are there; one is of the sea,
  One of the mountains; each a mighty voice:
  In both from age to age thou didst rejoice,
  They were thy chosen music, Liberty!

             Wordsworth, "Sonnet to Switzerland"


The many changes recorded in the political and literary history of
nineteenth-century England may be grouped under two heads: the progress of
democracy in government, and the triumph of romanticism in literature. By
democracy we mean the assumption by common men of the responsibilities of
government, with a consequent enlargement of human liberty. Romanticism, as
we use the term here, means simply that literature, like politics, has
become liberalized; that it is concerned with the common life of men, and
that the delights of literature, like the powers of government, are no
longer the possession of the few but of the many.

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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