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ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND

LITERATURE

BEERS' A CENTURY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE. 17761876. Selections from writers not living in 1876. 16m0. 435 pp. BOSWELL'S LIFE OF DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON. Abridged. 12mo. 689 pp.

BRIGHT'S ANGLO-SAXON READER. Edited with notes and glossary, a chapter on Versification and an outline of Anglo-Saxon Grammar. 12mo. lxxix+385 pp.

TEN BRINK'S HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.
Vol. I. To Wiclif. Large 12mo. 409 pp.

Vol. II. Wiclif, Chaucer, Earliest Drama,
Large 12m0. 339 PP.

Renaissance.

CLARK'S PRACTICAL RHETORIC. For instruction in English Composition and Revision in Colleges and Intermediate Schools.

12mo.

395 pp.

BRIEFER PRACTICAL RHETORIC. 12mo. 318 pp. THE ART OF READING ALOUD. 16mo. 159 pp. CORSON'S HANDBOOK OF ANGLO-SAXON AND EARLY ENGLISH. Large 12mo.

600 pp.

JOHNSON'S CHIEF LIVES OF THE POETS.

Edited by

MATTHEW ARNOLD, to which are appended Macaulay's and Carlyle's Essays on Boswell's "Life of Johnson." 12mo. 493 pp. Macaulay's and Carlyle's Essays separate. 12mo. Boards, 100 pp.

LOUNSBURY'S HISTORY OF THE
Revised and enlarged edition. 16mo.
PANCOAST'S REPRESENTATIVE
TURE. From Chaucer to Tennyson.
with Historical Connections and a Map.

ENGLISH LANGUAGE. 505 pp.

LITERA

ENGLISH
Selected and supplemented
Large 12mo. 514 pp.

AN INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH LITERATURE. 16mo. 473 PP.

TAINE'S HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.

1081 pp.

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The same. Abridged and edited by JOHN FISKE. Large 12mo.

HENRY HOLT & CO., NEW YORK.

502 pp.

AN INTRODUCTION

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ENGLISH LITERATURE

BY

HENRY S. PANCOAST

Instructor in English Literature in the De Lancey School
Philadelphia

NEW YORK

HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY

COPYRIGHT, 1894,

BY

HENRY HOLT & CO.

THE MERSHON COMPANY PRESS,

RAHWAY, N. J.

Eev. S. Morris 10-25-34

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PREFACE

THIS book is based upon a previous one, Representative English Literature, which I have enlarged in some directions and curtailed in others, in order to adapt it to somewhat different requirements. In the former book a series of English masterpieces was given in a general setting of critical and historical comment; the development of the literature being thus shown with the aid of representative extracts illustrative of the successive literary epochs. Subsequent experience has strengthened my confidence in the soundness of the principle on which that book was prepared, and for those who have not easy access to books, or who cannot conveniently obtain a number of separate works for class use, the insertion of the suggested selections is clearly an advantage. On the other hand, some teachers may wish to use the historical and critical portions of such a book, without being restricted to prescribed selections. It is in the hope of meeting the needs of teachers of the latter class, and of more advanced students, that the present manual has been prepared. To this end I have added some two hundred pages of entirely new matter, omitting all the selections and notes included in the former work. The text has thus been nearly doubled in length and the book, as a whole, brought wit

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