English Literature in Fact & Story: Being a Brief Account of Its Writers & Their Backgrounds, Matters Very Necessary to be Known by the Gentle Reader of Polite Letters. To which are Added for His Greater Edification Many Amusing & Famous Anecdotes and Much Other Illustrative Material with Maps, Charts, & PicturesCentury Company, 1929 - 505 pagina's |
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Pagina 215
... writers , both novelists and poets . Gray's interest in this period , shown in The Bard , should not be overlooked ... writing , but , starving , committed suicide when he was only eighteen and when his work was , ap- parently , about ...
... writers , both novelists and poets . Gray's interest in this period , shown in The Bard , should not be overlooked ... writing , but , starving , committed suicide when he was only eighteen and when his work was , ap- parently , about ...
Pagina 254
... writing , novel- writing , play - writing , and the like , by thousands of per- sons . Scott is , perhaps , the first conspicuous example of an author made wealthy by his books . A great factor in making writers financially independent ...
... writing , novel- writing , play - writing , and the like , by thousands of per- sons . Scott is , perhaps , the first conspicuous example of an author made wealthy by his books . A great factor in making writers financially independent ...
Pagina 282
... writing The Lay of the Last Minstrel , Mar- mion , and The Lady of the Lake . His next poems were not so successful , and Byron for a time supplanted him in popular favor . Meanwhile he had become connected with a printing and ...
... writing The Lay of the Last Minstrel , Mar- mion , and The Lady of the Lake . His next poems were not so successful , and Byron for a time supplanted him in popular favor . Meanwhile he had become connected with a printing and ...
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THE BACKGROUNDS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE | 3 |
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
Age of Prose In the South | 25 |
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