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THE MAKING OF ENGLISH LITERATURE BOOK I PAGANISM AND CHRISTIANITY (449-1066) INTRODUCTORY Literature is one of the fine arts-it is language used for those ends of emotion, imagination, and beauty which are sought by the painter, by the sculptor, and by the musician. More important still, literature- Literature like all other art - is an outcome and an ex- a^1^ pression of human life - of human experience in the past, of human activity in the present, and of human aspiration for the future. In any historical study of literature, it is this intimate relation between literature and life that calls for especial emphasis. The greater part of literature is directly or indirectly the product of individual men and women. Therefore the most immediate living fact to be regarded is the fact of personality. B.ehind the bookJs_lhe man ; and by knowledge ofTihe man and his experiences, we may account for the character of the book. Behind all individual life, however, is the life of a whole peop
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CONTENTS; BOOK I; PAGANISM AND CHRISTIANITY (449-1066) CHAPTER I; PAGB; Anglo-Saxon Pagan Poetry (449-670)3; CHAPTER II; Anglo-Saxon Christian Poetry (670-871) 14; CHAPTER III; The Anglo-Saxon Prose Period (871-^66), 25; BOOK II; RELIGION AND ROMANCE (1066-1300) CHAPTER IV; The Anglo-Norman Period (1066-1360) 35; CHAPTER V; The Age of Chaucer (1360-1400) « ? SS; CHAPTER VI; The Fifteenth Century (1400-1500) • 75; v; CONTENTS; BOOK III; RENAISSANCE AND REFORM A TION (1500-1666) CHAPTER VII; PAGE; Beginnings of Renaissance and Reformation in England; (1500-1579) 87; CHAPTER VIII ' The Age of Shakespeare (1579-1625)99; CHAPTER IX; The Age of Milton (1625-1660)153; BOOK IV; CLASSICISM (1660-1780) CHAPTER X; The Age of Drvden (1660-1700)179 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (1660-1700)179 end_of_the_skype_highlighting; CHAPTER XI; The Age of Pope (1700-1740) 196; CHAPTER XII; The Age of Johnson (17
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THE MAKING OF ENGLISH LITERATURE BOOK I PAGANISM AND CHRISTIANITY (449-1066) INTRODUCTORY Literature is one of the fine arts-it is language used for those ends of emotion, imagination, and beauty which are sought by the painter, by the sculptor, and by the musician. More important still, literature- Literature like all other art - is an outcome and an ex- a^1^ pression of human life - of human experience in the past, of human activity in the present, and of human aspiration for the future. In any historical study of literature, it is this intimate relation between literature and life that calls for especial emphasis. The greater part of literature is directly or indirectly the product of individual men and women. Therefore the most immediate living fact to be regarded is the fact of personality. B.ehind the bookJs_lhe man ; and by knowledge ofTihe man and his experiences, we may account for the character of the book. Behind all individual life, however, is the life of a whole peop
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CONTENTS; BOOK I; PAGANISM AND CHRISTIANITY (449-1066) CHAPTER I; PAGB; Anglo-Saxon Pagan Poetry (449-670)3; CHAPTER II; Anglo-Saxon Christian Poetry (670-871) 14; CHAPTER III; The Anglo-Saxon Prose Period (871-^66), 25; BOOK II; RELIGION AND ROMANCE (1066-1300) CHAPTER IV; The Anglo-Norman Period (1066-1360) 35; CHAPTER V; The Age of Chaucer (1360-1400) « ? SS; CHAPTER VI; The Fifteenth Century (1400-1500) • 75; v; CONTENTS; BOOK III; RENAISSANCE AND REFORM A TION (1500-1666) CHAPTER VII; PAGE; Beginnings of Renaissance and Reformation in England; (1500-1579) 87; CHAPTER VIII ' The Age of Shakespeare (1579-1625)99; CHAPTER IX; The Age of Milton (1625-1660)153; BOOK IV; CLASSICISM (1660-1780) CHAPTER X; The Age of Drvden (1660-1700)179 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (1660-1700)179 end_of_the_skype_highlighting; CHAPTER XI; The Age of Pope (1700-1740) 196; CHAPTER XII; The Age of Johnson (17
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