Brief History of English and American Literature: Brief History of English and American Literature: Tracing the Footsteps of Literary GiantsPrabhat Prakashan, 25. 7. 2017 - Počet stran: 216 Brief History of English and American Literature by Henry A. Beers: First published in 1893, this book provides a comprehensive overview of English and American literature up to the end of the 19th century. The book is a valuable resource for students and scholars of literature, offering insights into the major literary movements, genres, and writers of the period. Key Aspects of the book "Brief History of English and American Literature": Henry A. Beers was an American author, educator, and literary scholar who is best known for his work on English and American literature. Brief History of English and American Literature is one of his most significant works, and remains an important resource for scholars and students of literature today. |
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... death. Peterborough had received a new Norman abbot, Turold, “a very stern man,” and the entry in the chronicle for 1170 tells how Hereward and his gang, with his Danish backers, thereupon plundered the abbey of its treasures, which ...
... Death of Arthur. This new material for fiction was eagerly seized upon by the Norman romancers. The story of Arthur drew to itself other stories which were afloat. Walter Map, a gentleman of the Court of Henry II., in two French prose ...
... death. Now and then a single poem rises above the tedious and hideous barbarism of the general level of this monkish literature, either from a more intensely personal feeling in the poet, or from an occasional grace or beauty in his ...
... Death, pressed upon the poor and wasted the land. The Church was corrupt; the mendicant orders had grown enormously wealthy, and the country was eaten up by a swarm of begging friars, pardoners, and apparitors. The social discontent was ...
... death, by decree of the Council of Constance, his bones were dug up from the soil of Lutterworth chancel and burned, and the ashes cast into the Swift. “The brook,” says Thomas Fuller, in his Church History, “did convey his ashes into ...