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Least, may be said : that each has a claim founded on some Of the selectionsįinally decided on, after much deliberation, this much, at If the choice of authors was difficult, that of pieces to

The romanticism of the sixteenth century with the scien. We complete that great cycle of evolution which connects Mighty shades of Milton, Dryden, Pope, Johnson, Burke,īurns, Scott, Macaulay, and their earlier and later peers, It is a significant conjuncture for in passingįrom the former to the latter, and saluting, as we go, the The first name is that of Shakespeare the last that

Renely, each in his chair, on the topmost peaks of Olym. They all belong to the dii majores, and sit se. Guidance of this rule forty masters have been here brought Tinctive contributions to literary method. Represent epochs of literature, marked phases of style, dis. Was laid down : that the authors chosen should not onlyīe of the first rank, but that as far as possible they should In the embarrassment of riches, this principle of selection ' They are all fires, and every one doth shine.' Splendid galaxy of our English and American literature Lections in this volume has been no easy task, for in the The choice of authors to be represented by typical se. Of their invention,' and feeding his soul on the divine Ters themselves - ascending with them into the ' heaven The literature of our language : so that he will no longerīe reading merely about the masters, but reading the mas. Mighty minds whose ' volumes paramount ' constitute The pupil into close and friendly contact with those For surely such studies asĪre called for in the present work cannot fail to bring Sis is a new feature (at least I am unacquainted with anyĬlass-book of selections in which the kind of work hereĭeveloped is given) and it is one from which most valu-Īble results are anticipated. To this study I have given the name ' Literary Analysis,'Īs a conveniently elastic designation under which may beīrought a great variety of exercises, grammatical and Literary art to the analysis of the texts here presented. Ther and more important, it applies the canons of the Thus teaching the pupil to ' name his tools '' and, fur.

Supplies a working outfit of definitions and principles, On the side gf literature it is intended as the ac-Ĭompaniment of any class-book on that subject, furnishingĪ body of texts to be carefully read in connection with theīiographical and critical study of particular authors, as To restore the twain to their natural and fruitful relation. Place at the meeting-point of literature and rhetoric. This volume of masterpieces is designed to occupy a Spontaneous embodiment in the great creations of the

Orician's rules,' unless these are seen and felt as they find Yet assuredly it is a barren knowledge, that of the ' rhet. Valued for there is only a half-truth in Butler's famous This is an acquisition certainly not to be under. The study of rhetoric is, for the most part,Ĭonfined to the learning of abstract definitions and princi. To a cram on the personal biography of authors at theīest, it is a reading about literature rather than a reading Study of English literature is, for the most part, confined Perhaps, no subjects are less satisfactorily taught. Lish literature and rhetoric find an important place. IN the prescribed curricula of most high-schools, Eng. In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, *' HARPER'S LANGUAGE SERIES' AND GOLD MEDALLISTĮntered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1880, by TYPICAL SELECTIONS OF BRITISH AND AMERICANĭEFINITIONS, NOTES, ANALYSES, AND GLOSSARY

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