Specimens of the Later English Poets, Vol. 1 of 3: With Preliminary Notices (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from Specimens of the Later English Poets, Vol. 1 of 3: With Preliminary Notices

IV. That similar stories of war and wonders should have delighted nations widely separated from each other, is thus easily explicable but that the same stories should be found in coun tries between which there neither was, nor could be, any communion, requires farther explanation. Que instance out of many may suffice.

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Excerpt from Specimens of the Later English Poets, Vol. 1 of 3: With Preliminary Notices

I. These volumes are intended to accompany Mr. Ellis's well known Specimens of the Early English Poets. That series concludes with the reign of Charles II, this begins with that of James his successor: the two together will exhibit the rise, progress, decline and revival of our Poetry, and the fluctuations of our poetical taste, from the first growth of the English language to the present times. A slight difference has been made in arrangement; instead of sorting the Poets, according to the reigns in which they flourished, I have noticed each under the year of his death, where that could be ascertained, otherwise according to the date of his chief publication.

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