Its debts are many, its chief creditors two teachers, Professor
Grierson at Aberdeen University and Sir Walter Raleigh at Oxford, to the
stimulation of whose books and teaching my pleasure in English
literature and any understanding I have of it are due. To them and to
the other writers (chief of them Professor Herford) whose ideas I have
wittingly or unwittingly incorporated in it, as well as to the kindness
and patience of Professor Gilbert Murray, I wish here to express my
indebtedness.
G.H.M.
MANCHESTER,
_August_, 1911.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER
PREFACE
I THE RENAISSANCE
II ELIZABETHAN POETRY AND PROSE
III THE DRAMA
IV THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
V THE AGE OF GOOD SENSE
VI DR. JOHNSON AND HIS TIME
VII THE ROMANTIC REVIVAL
VIII THE VICTORIAN AGE
IX THE NOVEL
X THE PRESENT AGE
BIBLIOGRAPHY
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE
INDEX
ENGLISH LITERATURE: MODERN
CHAPTER I
THE RENAISSANCE
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There are times in every man's experience when some sudden widening of
the boundaries of his knowledge, some vision of hitherto untried and
unrealized possibilities, has come and seemed to bring with it new life
and the inspiration of fresh and splendid endeavour.
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