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English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History / Designed as a Manual of Instruction

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By Henry Coppée
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A concise instructional study that treats English literature as an interpreter of national history, arguing that literary works mirror social, political, linguistic, and religious change. The author surveys periods from early Celtic and Anglo‑Saxon remains through medieval, Renaissance, and later eras, placing major writers in relation to events and movements and tracing language development and religious controversy. Emphasizing a principle-based reading rather than exhaustive bibliography, the volume uses representative masters to illustrate how texts reveal historical ideas and offers a guided syllabus for students and teachers to pursue fuller study.

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Title: English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History

Author: Henry Coppée

Release date: February 26, 2005 [eBook #15176]
Most recently updated: December 14, 2020

Language: English

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English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History.

Designed as a Manual of Instruction.

By

Henry Coppée, LL.D.,
President of the Lehigh University.

The Roman Epic abounds in moral and poetical defects; nevertheless it remains the most complete picture of the national mind at its highest elevation, the most precious document of national history, if the history of an age is revealed in its ideas, no less than in its events and incidents.—Rev. C. Merivale.

History of the Romans under the Empire, c. xli.

Second Edition.
Philadelphia:
Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger.
1873.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1872, by
Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger,
in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

Stereotyped by J. Fagan & Son, Philadelphia.