A history of English literature

Chapter 3: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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A comprehensive practical textbook that traces the development of English literature chronologically from its earliest Old English origins through medieval, Renaissance, neoclassical, Romantic, Victorian, and post‑Victorian periods; it outlines major authors and movements, discusses characteristic features and historical influences, and provides representative extracts. The work privileges clear factual presentation over sustained critical argument, supplements narrative chapters with tabulated summaries and large reference tables, and offers exercises, a concise bibliography, and indexes to assist students and readers seeking both a historical sketch and a handy reference.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Permissions to use copyrighted material have been courteously granted by the following American publishers:

Brentano’s, Inc. for the right to print extracts from the works of Bernard Shaw; E. P. Dutton & Company for Siegfried Sassoon; Duffield & Company for H. G. Wells; Dodd Mead & Company for Rupert Brooke; Harper & Brothers for Thomas Hardy; John W. Luce & Company for J. M. Synge; and Charles Scribner’s Sons for John Galsworthy, and R. L. Stevenson.

We have also obtained from the literary agents of Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad, and J. E. Flecker, permission to use the selections included from these authors. To all the above we wish to express our acknowledgment and thanks.