The Tennyson Epoch (Classic Reprint)

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The series of which this volume is the ninth may be said to have three objects: First, to teach the history of our literature in a rational and orderly manner second, to illuminate the history of England by exhibiting the thoughts of its men of letters in their own words; and, third, to display, as if in a gallery, some specimens of the inheritance into which every English-reading boy and girl has entered. It has been too long the practice to teach English literature in handbooks which give only the briefest examples, if any, of the works they profess to describe; and our many excellent school anthologies, from their want of a definite historical arrange ment, and the absence of prose, fail almost entirely to give a connected View of the development of our language. Now, the history of our literature, falling, as it undoubtedly does, into a series of well-marked periods of excellence, appears to lend itself peculiarly to the historical treatment suggested by the word 'epoch.> In this volume, for reasons given in the Introduction, I have been compelled to include a period which really contains two epochs.

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