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... periods , each of which is entrusted to a writer who has made that period his particular study . The Volume on the Earliest Period of English Literature has been under- taken by Mr. STOPFORD BROOKE , the Volume dealing with the ...
... periods , each of which is entrusted to a writer who has made that period his particular study . The Volume on the Earliest Period of English Literature has been under- taken by Mr. STOPFORD BROOKE , the Volume dealing with the ...
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... period of the greatest literature of the world is that I have been diligently reading the productions , small and great , of this period for some five - and - twenty years with ever - increasing admiration , and that I find the increase ...
... period of the greatest literature of the world is that I have been diligently reading the productions , small and great , of this period for some five - and - twenty years with ever - increasing admiration , and that I find the increase ...
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... PERIOD Divisions of Elizabethan Drama - Its general character - Origins - Ralp Roister Doister -- Gammer Gurton's Needle Gorboduc- The Senecan Drama -- Other early plays - The " university wits " —Their lives and char- acters - Lyly ...
... PERIOD Divisions of Elizabethan Drama - Its general character - Origins - Ralp Roister Doister -- Gammer Gurton's Needle Gorboduc- The Senecan Drama -- Other early plays - The " university wits " —Their lives and char- acters - Lyly ...
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... PERIOD - SHAKESPERE Difficulty of writing about Shakespere — His life — His reputation in England and its history - Divisions of his work - The Poems - The Sonnets - The Plays - Characteristics of Shakespere - Never unnatural - His ...
... PERIOD - SHAKESPERE Difficulty of writing about Shakespere — His life — His reputation in England and its history - Divisions of his work - The Poems - The Sonnets - The Plays - Characteristics of Shakespere - Never unnatural - His ...
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... periods of literary production -First Period , the minor poems - The special excellences of Comus- Lycidas - Second Period , the pamphlets -- Their merits and defects— Milton's prose style - Third Period , the larger poems - Milton's ...
... periods of literary production -First Period , the minor poems - The special excellences of Comus- Lycidas - Second Period , the pamphlets -- Their merits and defects— Milton's prose style - Third Period , the larger poems - Milton's ...
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