Main Currents of English Literature: A Brief Literary History of the English PeopleF.S. Crofts, 1934 - 526 pages |
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... romantic movement really does have a definite bearing upon our subject . The romantic ideal , in contradistinction to what has just been said , expresses whatever is most fleeting and elusive and vagrant in human experience . It ...
... romantic movement really does have a definite bearing upon our subject . The romantic ideal , in contradistinction to what has just been said , expresses whatever is most fleeting and elusive and vagrant in human experience . It ...
Page 284
... romantic gloom nor of revolutionary fervor in the work of Scott , but rather a wholesome love of nature and a vital ... romantic subjects chosen from border history . The Lay of the Last Minstrel ( 1805 ) , a tale of border chivalry ...
... romantic gloom nor of revolutionary fervor in the work of Scott , but rather a wholesome love of nature and a vital ... romantic subjects chosen from border history . The Lay of the Last Minstrel ( 1805 ) , a tale of border chivalry ...
Page 469
... Romantic Generation , 1919 . Brinton , Crane . The Political Ideas of the English Romantics , 1926 . Gingerich , S. F. Essays in the Romantic Poets , 1924 . Hazlitt , William . The Spirit of the Age , 1825 . Brooke , S. A. Theology in ...
... Romantic Generation , 1919 . Brinton , Crane . The Political Ideas of the English Romantics , 1926 . Gingerich , S. F. Essays in the Romantic Poets , 1924 . Hazlitt , William . The Spirit of the Age , 1825 . Brooke , S. A. Theology in ...
Contents
CHAPTER | 3 |
THE MIDDLE ENGLISH PERIOD | 23 |
OLD AND NEW IN Conflict | 224 |
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