The Literature of the Restoration and the Eighteenth Century III.

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"Our intention was to produce a history of the extensive corpus of English literature that would be factually sound and suitable for scholarly reference, whilL retaining the vital interest of this great subject. We had in mind students, teachers, and all readers who would like to know what English literature actually is and to understand and appreciate its greatness." — Hardin Craig
The Literature of the Restoration and the Eighteenth Century by Louis I. Bredvold is Volume III of A History of English Literature, written under the distinguished editorship of Hardin Craig. This volume, which may be read independently of the other volumes in the series, constitutes an introduction to English prose and poetry dating from the emergence of Dryden and the early satirists of the Stuart restoration to the rise of the leading forerunners of romanticism — Cowper, Burns, and Blake — in the late eighteenth century. Dr. Bredvold takes up each of the major literary... Tovább

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LITERATURE
"Our intention was to produce a history of the extensive corpus of English literature that would be factually sound and suitable for scholarly reference, whilL retaining the vital interest of this great subject. We had in mind students, teachers, and all readers who would like to know what English literature actually is and to understand and appreciate its greatness." — Hardin Craig
The Literature of the Restoration and the Eighteenth Century by Louis I. Bredvold is Volume III of A History of English Literature, written under the distinguished editorship of Hardin Craig. This volume, which may be read independently of the other volumes in the series, constitutes an introduction to English prose and poetry dating from the emergence of Dryden and the early satirists of the Stuart restoration to the rise of the leading forerunners of romanticism — Cowper, Burns, and Blake — in the late eighteenth century. Dr. Bredvold takes up each of the major literary personalities that dominated English writing from 1660 to 1798 and discusses them as both individual artists and as creative forces who gave permanent expression to the temper and texture of their age. Discussing the radical changes in thought and feeling that resulted from the swiftly moving eco- g nomic, political, and social currents of the time. Dr. ^ Bredvold demonstrates how a literature dominated Z by "classical" poetics evolved into a literature of | romanticism that exalted imagination and sentiment. |
Louis I. Bredvold, professor of English literature at g the University of Michigan, is also the author of The | Intellectual Milieu of John Dryden, Eighteenth Cen- ^ tury Prose, and The Natural History of Sensibility. Vissza