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... ENGLISH LITERA- TURE , " " INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH LITERATURE , " " ELEMENTARY GUIDE TO LITERARY CRITICISM , " " POETS OF THE SOUTH , " " POETS OF VIRGINIA , " ETC. LATEST REVISED EDITION SIBLEY & COMPANY BOSTON 92 CHICAGO COPYRIGHT ...
... ENGLISH LITERA- TURE , " " INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH LITERATURE , " " ELEMENTARY GUIDE TO LITERARY CRITICISM , " " POETS OF THE SOUTH , " " POETS OF VIRGINIA , " ETC. LATEST REVISED EDITION SIBLEY & COMPANY BOSTON 92 CHICAGO COPYRIGHT ...
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... English letters , our country produced but few works that deserve a place in classic literature . It could hardly have been otherwise . Our people were devoting their energies chiefly to the great task of subduing a wild continent ...
... English letters , our country produced but few works that deserve a place in classic literature . It could hardly have been otherwise . Our people were devoting their energies chiefly to the great task of subduing a wild continent ...
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... English Literature . -- American literature is an offshoot of English literature , and shares the life of the parent stock . It uses the same language ; and its earliest writers were colonists who had received their education in England ...
... English Literature . -- American literature is an offshoot of English literature , and shares the life of the parent stock . It uses the same language ; and its earliest writers were colonists who had received their education in England ...
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... English , culture , and are con- cerned chiefly with a description of the New World , with the story of its colonization , or with a discussion of the theological questions that grew out of the great Protestant Reformation in Europe ...
... English , culture , and are con- cerned chiefly with a description of the New World , with the story of its colonization , or with a discussion of the theological questions that grew out of the great Protestant Reformation in Europe ...
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... WALLER ( 1605-1687 ) ; ABRAHAM COWLEY ( 1618-1667 ) ; FRANCIS QUARLES ( 1592-1644 ) ; JOHN BUNYAN ( 1628-1688 ) ; Samuel Butler ( 1612–1680 ) . I FIRST COLONIAL PERIOD ( 1607-1689 ) The English were IO AMERICAN LITERATURE.
... WALLER ( 1605-1687 ) ; ABRAHAM COWLEY ( 1618-1667 ) ; FRANCIS QUARLES ( 1592-1644 ) ; JOHN BUNYAN ( 1628-1688 ) ; Samuel Butler ( 1612–1680 ) . I FIRST COLONIAL PERIOD ( 1607-1689 ) The English were IO AMERICAN LITERATURE.
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