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Brief History of English and American Literature

Brief History of English and American Literature

Beers, Henry Augustin

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Literary Criticism

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ISBN13: 9798182714938
Publisher: Kamira Books
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.49 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

is a historical account written in the late 19th century. This work aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the development of literature in Eng land and America, spanning significant authors, works, and literary move ments. Beers emphasizes the impact of various historical and cultural forces on literary expression, exploring how the literature reflects the changing so ciety. The opening of the book provides an introduction by John Fletcher Hurst, who outlines the importance of studying literature, especially for ministers and students of religious history. It emphasizes that the pursuit of literary knowledge is essential for an understanding of human thought and cultural aspirations. Hursthighlightsamethodicalapproachtostudyinglit erature, suggesting theneedtocategorizewritersbytheirperiods, styles, and influences. While Beers' overview will ultimately touch upon various forms and periods inliterature, the introduction focuses on establishing a ground work for understanding the organizational structure of the literary history to follow 1 The writings of our colonial era have a much greater importance as history than as literature. It would be unfair to judge of the intellectual vigor of the English colonists in America by the books that theywrote; thosesternmen withempires in their brainshadmorepressingworktodothanthemaking of books. The first settlers, indeed, were brought face to face with strange and exciting conditions-the sea, the wilderness, the Indians, the flora and fauna of a new world-things which seem stimulating to the imagination, and incidents and experiences which might have lent themselves easily to poetry or romance. Of all these they wrote back to England reports which were faithful and sometimes vivid, but which, upon the whole, hardly rise into the region of literature. New England, said Hawthorne, was then in a {322} state incomparably more picturesque than at present. But to a contemporary that old New England of the seventeenth century doubtless seemed any thing but picturesque, filled with grim, hard, worky-day real ities.

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