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Contents Preface 1 The age of the restoration 2 The new drama and the correct poets 3 The second revolution 4 Pope swift and the Augustan poets 5 The essayists 6 The great novelists and prose fiction 7 Historical and theological writer of the eighteenth century 8 The dawn of romantic poetry 9 Walter Scott At the time it began the prime of Greek and Latin had long since passed Most of the greatest works had been lost or forgotten; and although throughout the continent of Europe and the nearer east many works in Latin and Greek were still produced they either had very little relation to literature or were the merest echoes of a bygone glory Apart from these there was no literature First created in the minds of our Anglo-Saxon forefathers it was brought by them to England to send forth the earliest beams of a new literature The five oldest works which survive show clearly how much earlier was Anglo-Saxon literature than that of any other people in Europe 276 pp.

Contents Preface 1 Introduction 2 John Stuart Mill 3 Shakespeare 4 Daniel Debonda 5 Taines history of English literature 6 Shakespeare and criticism 7 Milton and paradise lost 8 Laurence sterne the Humourist 9 Wordsworth and modern poetry in England 10 Thomas Carlyle 11 Endymion 12 George Eliot 13 The modern Novelists Index In modern times literature has been employed for social purposes particularly for reforming the festering sores malaise and maladies of contemporary society Modern literature is characterized by propaganda and through this medium dramatists have discussed social problems In this connection Albert says More than never before would be reformers pinned their faith on the printed word and on the serious theatre as media for social propaganda and the problem or discussion play and the novel of social purpose may be described as two of the typical products of the period jacket 265 pp.

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