Sketch of English Literature with the Lives and Works of the Chief Authors |
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... later a sequel on Stephen's reign up to 1142 , the year of the chronicler's death . Henry of Huntingdon wrote a history of the English about 1154. Geoffrey of Monmouth , a Welsh priest , wrote , about 1147 , a history of the Britons ...
... later a sequel on Stephen's reign up to 1142 , the year of the chronicler's death . Henry of Huntingdon wrote a history of the English about 1154. Geoffrey of Monmouth , a Welsh priest , wrote , about 1147 , a history of the Britons ...
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... later Elizabethan ( as it is sometimes called ) or the Stuart period , to the period of the Restoration , with Dryden as its chief figure . These are Waller , Denham , and Cowley - men who are free from the chief defects of the ...
... later Elizabethan ( as it is sometimes called ) or the Stuart period , to the period of the Restoration , with Dryden as its chief figure . These are Waller , Denham , and Cowley - men who are free from the chief defects of the ...
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... Later Augustan poets - The Literary Club - Johnson , Goldsmith , and contemporaries - Romantic fiction Historians - Precursors of the naturalistic school ( Cowper , Burns ) -Chatterton and Macpherson . Later Augustans . THE poets of the ...
... Later Augustan poets - The Literary Club - Johnson , Goldsmith , and contemporaries - Romantic fiction Historians - Precursors of the naturalistic school ( Cowper , Burns ) -Chatterton and Macpherson . Later Augustans . THE poets of the ...
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