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Outlines of English and American Literature Outlines of English and American Literature William J. Long Outlines of English and American Literature Table of Contents Outlines of English and American Literature........................................................................................................1 William J. Long..............................................................................................................................................2 PREFACE......................................................................................................................................................4 OUTLINES OF ENGLISH LITERATURE...............................................................................................................6 CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION: AN ESSAY OF LITERATURE..............................................................7 CHAPTER II. BEGINNINGS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE...................................................................10 CHAPTER III. THE AGE OF CHAUCER AND THE REVIVAL OF LEARNING (1350−1550)...........26 CHAPTER IV. THE ELIZABETHAN AGE (1550−1620).........................................................................42 CHAPTER V. THE PURITAN AGE AND THE RESTORATION (1625−1700).....................................70 CHAPTER VI. EIGHTEENTH−CENTURY LITERATURE....................................................................88 CHAPTER VII. THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY.....................................................................115 CHAPTER VIII. THE VICTORIAN AGE (1837−1901)..........................................................................145 OUTLINES OF AMERICAN LITERATURE.......................................................................................................187 CHAPTER I. THE PIONEERS AND NATION−BUILDERS.................................................................188 CHAPTER II. LITERATURE OF THE NEW NATION (1800−1840)....................................................199 CHAPTER III. THE PERIOD OF CONFLICT (1840−1876)...................................................................222 CHAPTER IV. THE ALL−AMERICA PERIOD......................................................................................268 i Outlines of English and American Literature Outlines of English and American Literature 1 Outlines of English and American Literature William J. Long This page copyright © 2003 Blackmask Online. http://www.blackmask.com • PREFACE • OUTLINES OF ENGLISH LITERATURE • CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION: AN ESSAY OF LITERATURE • CHAPTER II. BEGINNINGS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE • CHAPTER III. THE AGE OF CHAUCER AND THE REVIVAL OF LEARNING (1350−1550) • CHAPTER IV. THE ELIZABETHAN AGE (1550−1620) • CHAPTER V. THE PURITAN AGE AND THE RESTORATION (1625−1700) • CHAPTER VI. EIGHTEENTH−CENTURY LITERATURE • CHAPTER VII. THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY • CHAPTER VIII. THE VICTORIAN AGE (1837−1901) • OUTLINES OF AMERICAN LITERATURE • CHAPTER I. THE PIONEERS AND NATION−BUILDERS • CHAPTER II. LITERATURE OF THE NEW NATION (1800−1840) • CHAPTER III. THE PERIOD OF CONFLICT (1840−1876) • CHAPTER IV. THE ALL−AMERICA PERIOD Outlines of English and American Literature An Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived Produced by Charles Franks, Bill Keir and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team This is the wey to al good aventure.—CHAUCER TO MY SISTER “MILLIE” IN GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE OF A LIFELONG SYMPATHY [Illustration: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE After the Chandos Portrait in the National Portrait Gallery, London, which is attributed to Richard Burbage or John Taylor. In the catalogue of the National Portrait Gallery the following description is given: “The Chandos Shakespeare was the property of John Taylor, the player, by whom or by Richard Burbage it was painted. The picture was left by the former in his will to Sir William Davenant. After his death it was bought by Betterton, the actor, upon whose decease Mr. Keck of the Temple purchased it for 40 guineas, from whom it was inherited by Mr. Nicoll of Michenden House, Southgate, Middlesex, whose only daughter married James, Marquess of William J. Long 2 Outlines of English and American Literature Caernarvon, afterwards Duke of Chandos, father to Ann Eliza, Duchess of Buckingham.” The above is written on paper attached to the back of the canvas. Its authenticity, however, has been doubted in some quarters. Purchased at the Stowe Sale, September 1848, by the Earl of Ellesmere, and presented by him to the nation, March 1856. Dimensions: 22 in. by 16−3/4 in. This reproduction of the portrait was made from a miniature copy on ivory by Caroline King Phillips.] William J. Long 3 Outlines of English and American Literature PREFACE The last thing we find in making a book is to know what to put first.—Pascal When an author has finished his history, after months or years of happy work, there comes a dismal hour when he must explain its purpose and apologize for its shortcomings. The explanation in this case is very simple and goes back to a personal experience. When the author first studied the history of our literature there was put into his hands as a textbook a most dreary catalogue of dead authors, dead masterpieces, dead criticisms, dead ages; and a boy who knew chiefly that he was alive was supposed to become interested in this literary sepulchre or else have it said that there was something hopeless about him. Later he learned that the great writers of England and America were concerned with life alone, as the most familiar, the most mysterious, the most fascinating thing in the world, and that the only valuable or interesting feature of any work of literature is its vitality. To introduce these writers not as dead worthies but as companionable men and women, and to present their living subject as a living thing, winsome as a smile on a human face,—such was the author's purpose in writing this book. The apology is harder to frame, as anyone knows who has attempted to gather the writers of a thousand years into a single volume that shall have the three virtues of brevity, readableness and accuracy. That this record is brief in view of the immensity of the subject is plainly apparent. That it may prove pleasantly readable is a hope inspired chiefly by the fact that it was a pleasure to write it, and that pleasure is contagious. As for accuracy, every historian who fears God or regards man strives hard enough for that virtue; but after all his striving, remembering the difficulty of criticism and the perversity of names and dates that tend to error as the sparks fly upward, he must still trust heaven and send forth his work with something of Chaucer's feeling when he wrote: O littel booke, thou art so unconning, How darst thou put thy−self in prees for drede? Which may mean, to one who appreciates Chaucer's wisdom and humor, that having written a little book in what seemed to him an unskilled or “unconning” way, he hesitated to give it to the world for dread of the “prees” or crowd of critics who, even in that early day, were wont to look upon each new book as a camel that must be put through the needle's eye of their tender mercies. In the selection and arrangement of his material the author has aimed to make a usable book that may appeal to pupils and teachers alike. Because history and literature are closely related (one being the record of man's deed, the other of his thought and feeling) there is a brief historical introduction to every literary period. There is also a review of the general literary tendencies of each age, of the fashions, humors and ideals that influenced writers in forming their style or selecting their subject. Then there is a biography of every important author, written not to offer another subject for hero−worship but to present the man exactly as he was; a review of his chief works, which is intended chiefly as a guide to the best reading; and a critical estimate or appreciation of his writings based partly upon first−hand impressions, partly upon the assumption that an author must deal honestly with life as he finds it and that the business of criticism is, as Emerson said, “not to legislate but to raise the dead.” This detailed study of the greater writers of a period is followed by an examination of some of the minor writers and their memorable works. Finally, each chapter concludes with a concise summary of the period under consideration, a list of selections for reading and a bibliography of works that will be found most useful in acquiring a larger knowledge of the subject. In its general plan this little volume is modeled on the author's more advanced English Literature and American Literature; but the material, the viewpoint, the presentation of individual writers,—all the details of the work are entirely new. Such a book is like a second journey through ample and beautiful regions filled with historic associations, a journey that one undertakes with new companions, with renewed pleasure and, it is to be hoped, with increased wisdom. It is hardly necessary to add that our subject has still its unvoiced charms, that it cannot be exhausted or even adequately presented in any number of histories. For literature deals with life; and life, with its endlessly surprising variety in unity, has happily some suggestion of infinity. WILLIAM J. LONG PREFACE 4 Outlines of English and American Literature STAMFORD, CONNECTICUT PREFACE 5 Outlines of English and American Literature OUTLINES OF ENGLISH LITERATURE OUTLINES OF ENGLISH LITERATURE 6 Outlines of English
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