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

Chapter 5: To the Right Reverend William Bacon Stevens, D.D., LL.D., Bishop Of Pennsylvania.

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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.

To the Right Reverend William Bacon Stevens, D.D., LL.D.,
Bishop Of Pennsylvania.

My Dear Bishop:

I desire to connect your name with whatever may be useful and valuable in this work, to show my high appreciation of your fervent piety, varied learning, and elegant literary accomplishments; and, also, far more than this, to record the personal acknowledgment that no man ever had a more constant, judicious, generous and affectionate brother, than you have been to me, for forty years of intimate and unbroken association.

Most affectionately and faithfully yours,

Henry Coppée.