An Outline Sketch of English Literature
Author : Henry Augustin Beers
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Page : 304 pages
File Size : 28,27 MB
Release : 1886
Category : English literature
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Author : Henry Augustin Beers
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Page : 304 pages
File Size : 28,27 MB
Release : 1886
Category : English literature
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Author : Henry Augustin Beers
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Page : 294 pages
File Size : 45,84 MB
Release : 1891
Category : English literature
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Author : Henry Augustin 1847-1926 Beers
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Page : 298 pages
File Size : 48,34 MB
Release : 2016-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781371350123
Author : Henry Augustin Beers
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 19,96 MB
Release : 2015-09-02
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ISBN : 9781341160158
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Henry a 1847-1926 Beers
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 46,58 MB
Release : 2016-05-09
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ISBN : 9781356133116
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Henry A. Beers
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 16,82 MB
Release : 2017-10-11
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780265173954
Excerpt from An Outline Sketch of English Literature In dividing the history into periods, I have followed, with some modifications, the divis ions made by Mr. Stopford Brooke in his excellent little Primer of E nglz'slz Literature. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Henry Augustin Beers
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Page : 300 pages
File Size : 21,31 MB
Release : 1887
Category : American literature
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Author : William C. Kitchin
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Page : 102 pages
File Size : 34,64 MB
Release : 1888
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Author : Henry Augustin Beers
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 35,49 MB
Release : 2013-09
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ISBN : 9781230340234
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VI. LITERATURE IN THE CITIES. 1837-1861. Literature as a profession has hardly existed in the United States until very recently. Even now the number of those who support themselves by purely literary work is small, although the growth of the reading public and the establishment of great magazines, such as Harper's, the Century, and the Atlantic, have made a market for intellectual wares which forty years ago would have seemed a godsend to poorly paid Bohemians like Poe or obscure men of genius like Hawthorne. About 1840 two Philadelphia magazines--Godey's Lady's Book and Graham's Monthly--began to pay their contributors twelve dollars a page, a price then thought wildly munificent. But the first magazine of the modern type was Harper's Monthly, founded in 1850. American books have always suffered, and still continue to suffer, from the want of an international copyright, which has flooded the country with cheap reprints and translations of foreign works, with which the domestic product has been unable to contend on such uneven terms. With the first ocean steamers there started up a class of large-paged weeklies in New York and elsewhere, such as Brother Jonathan, the New World, and the Corsair, which furnished their readers with the freshest writings of Dickens and Bulwer and other British celebrities within a fortnight after their appearance in London. This still further restricted the profits of native authors and nearly drove them from the field of periodical literature. By special arrangement the novels of Thackeray and other English writers were printed in Harper's in installments simultaneously with their issue in English periodicals. The Atlantic was the first of our magazines which was founded expressly for the...
Author : Henry MORLEY (Professor of English Literature at University College, London.)
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Page : 934 pages
File Size : 27,24 MB
Release : 1873
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