Development of English Literature and Language, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Welsh, Alfred H.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1332610595 ISBN 13 : 9781332610594

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Understand the story of English literature as a living, changing tradition. This scholarly guide traces the growth of English language and writing from its formative roots through major eras, poets, and prose voices. It’s a clear, accessible overview that helps readers see how culture, society, and ideas shape what gets written and read.

The book surveys the long arc of English letters, presenting the people, the language, and the literature that shaped a nation. It draws connections between historical events, linguistic changes, and literary achievement, making complex ideas approachable for both students and general readers.

• Formal structure: organized chapters cover formation, language, and literature in distinct periods.


• Representative authors: discussion of figures like Beowulf, Chaucer, Caxton, Milton, and Shakespeare.


• Critical context: explains how culture, learning, and religion influenced writing across centuries.

Ideal for students studying English literature, history buffs exploring language, and readers who enjoy thoughtful literary history presented with clarity and care.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Dear Sib: Not the least of our national glories are the literary remains of the best of our public men. At a period when the general literature of the country was the contempt of Europe, our statesmen wrote in the English of Addison and Junius. Classic eloquence adorned the Revolutionary council, and the splendid succession of intellect in action mounted to its grandest development in the triumvirate of Calhoun, Clay, and Webster. Nor latterly has that noble lineage failed. Seward and Sumner have illustrated elegant scholarship in the trustees of power. Within a few years, historians and poets have represented us in foreign courts, while others notably the lamented Garfield have carried the world of ideas into that of catch-words and party habits. In this there is cause to rejoice. It signifies that we are gravitating in the ideal direction; that art, sentiment, and imagination are dividing favor with trade and government. It means the gradual uplift of the Republic towards the high-water mark of cultivated mind catholicity of thought, sensibility, and practice. By culture we become citizens of the universe. The work of the scholar, less liable to be partisan, is more apt to be in the interest of civilization, based not upon class-feeling, but on broad grounds of general justice. Nations are not tnily great solely because of their numbers, their freedom, their activity. It is in the conjunction of fine culture with sagacity, of high reason with principle, that the ideal of national greatness is to be placed. Only thus can America stand, as she is privileged to do, for the aspirations and future of mankind. The paths proper to the statesman and the artist can rarely coincide, but they may often touch: and because I have pleasure in this tangency of pursuits which promises to organize literature into institutions, tending thus to their refinement and expansion
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1332610595
• ISBN 13: 9781332610594
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 530
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