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A Short History of English Literature by Benjamin Ifor Evans
On Saintbury S Own Testimony The Book Is Not Meant To Be Bird S Eye Views. Ultimately, it's just an old white man rambling about other old white men. The volume is in excellent condition, unmarked, tight, square and clean. The lnodem reader caD make out the generat mtuing of a page of Chaucer without dimculty, but ifhe l ks at our earliet literatue he 6nds that it reads like a foreign tongue. Walter Scott — a romantic historical novelist, Ivanhoe.
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Got to page 350ish and had to stop. He is fair to all and gushes over none. Saintsbury S Copious Scholarship, Fine Clarity Of Thought And Literary Sensibility Have Made The Approach To Each Text Both Microscopic And Telescopic So That While A Text Is Kept Under A Sharp Critical Focus, All The Relevant Contextual Aspects Are Touched Upon To Further Illuminate It. Thanks, glad you enjoyed the post! Of course, focusing on short poems carries its disadvantages too — we cannot take into account The Canterbury Tales or Paradise Lost, two of the most important works of English poetry — but what follows should provide a sense of how poetry has changed over time. Fron all accountr they were rerpectable gentle. . Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading.
Allegory — A form of extended metaphor in which objects, persons and actions in a narrative are equated with the meanings that lie outside the narrative itself. Ballad — The most important department of English folk literature: a story told in song. I would also like to know what you think of this. This wotrld give England six centuries oflitera. Rhyme Scheme of Shakespearean Sonnet — abab cdcd efef gg. . While Any Student Of English Literature Will Find The Book Immensely Useful, Anybody Interested In English Literature Will Find It Eminently Readable And Interesting.
This justice of approach is coupled with a mastery of phrase, which makes the writing lively without being exhibitionistic. Such neoclassicism chimes with the movements in architecture at the time as well as a general emphasis on orderliness: this was also the great age of landscape gardening, when man showed his control over nature through neatly trimmed lawns and hedges. The book flows freely with the author talking about various literary giants in English Literary History. So there we have it! Literature:- Langland; English Ballad; Romance; Chaucer. It Is, In Fact, A Fine Critical Survey Of The Entire History Of English Literature From Its Beginning To The End Of The Victorian Period.
A Short History of English Literature by Sir Ifor Evans
Clean and unmarked wraps, light wear all around edges. About this Item: Penguin Books, 1960. G Wells and Arnold Bennett; with in the strong swing of leftism. The interesting thing about Evans is that he had been around for long enough to see poets that were highly thought of in their lifetime, then spend years in obscurity, then in the 50s and 60s have a popularity revival Tennyson and is able to discuss them. Literature:- Renaissance; Humanism; Thomas More; Edmund Spencer; Francis Bacon; Drama. This is the leason for the neglect olour erly lituature, though today lluch of it can be obrained in translation. I also thought this book was quite sexist - Christina Rossetti only gets a brief passing mention and Jane Austen gets about two pages.
Nature is not only the major source of poetic imagery, but also provides the dominant subject matter: Romantics also tend to be nationalistic. I enjoyed this article very much and hope that you continue to give us many such enlightening knowledge of English Literature. Very minimal writing or notations in margins not affecting the text. Actually tlere were more than six centuries of Utdature before Chaucer w6 born. Classicism — All forms of literature should be modeled after the classical works of the ancient Greek and Roman writers, controlled by some fixed laws and rules; artistic ideals should be order; logic, restrained emotion and accuracy; Addison, Steele and Pope as representative. . In the 1930s, novelists began to turn their attention to the urgent social problems; In the mid- 1950s and early 1960s there appeared The Angry Youngman, launching a bitter protest against the out moved social and political values in their society, Kingsley Amis is the most important.
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His plays are inspired by social criticism, John Galsworthy carried on this tradition of social criticism; The Irish Movement. We all have our choices and it is great to express them. I do agree with the reviewer who said it was all a bit of a boy's club. You also won't find many books that give even a passing mention to George Gissing - Evans places Gissing as a writer who followed his art into difficult places rather than Kipling who adapted himself to the public taste. About this Item: Penguin Books.
A Short History of English Literature by Benjamin Ifor Evans
I can rarely make heads or tails of what they are trying to express. Thank you for your brief and brave history of English poetry. This book is not for newbies who are interested to jump into English Literature. Pre-Romanticism:- the later half of the 18th century: a strong protest against the bondage of Classicism, a recognition of the claims of passion and emotion; William Blake and Robert Burns as representatives. Image top : , Wikimedia Commons. As a judge, he is tolerant and undogmatic, but never slack in his standards. They traversed the same path in politics and in poetry first inspired by French Revolution, later changed into conservative.
