HISTORY OF ENGLISH AND 



AMERICAN LITERATURE 



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By CHARLES F. JOHNSON, L.H.D., Professor of 

 English Literature, Trinity College, Hartford 



A TEXT-BOOK for a year's course in schools and col- 

 leges, in which English hterary history is regarded as 

 composed of periods, each marked by a definite tone 

 of thought and manner of expression. The treatment fol- 

 lows the divisions logically and systematically, without any 

 of the perplexing cross-divisions so frequently made. It is 

 based on the historic method of study, and refers briefly to 

 events in each period bearing on social development, to 

 changes in religious and political theory, and even to advances 

 in the industrial arts. These all receive due consideration, 

 for eacl^ author, if not entirely the product of social con- 

 ditions, is at least molded by them. In addition, the book 

 contains critiques, general surveys, summaries, biographical 

 sketches, bibliographies, and suggestive questions. The ex- 

 amples have been chosen from poems which are generally 

 familiar, and of an illustrative character. 



JOHNSON'S FORMS OF ENGLISH POETRY 



$1.00 



THIS book contains nothing more than every young person should 

 know about the construction of English verse, and its main divisions, 

 both by forms and by subject-matter. The historical development of 

 the main divisions is sketched, and briefly illustrated by representative 

 examples j but the true character of poetry as an art and a social force has 

 always been in the writer's mind. Only the elements of prosody are given. 

 The aim has been not to make the study too technical, but to interest the 

 student in poetry, and to aid him in acquiring a well rooted taste for good 

 literature. 



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