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ENGLISH LITERATURE

HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL

WITH AN APPENDIX ON ENGLISH METRES

BY

THOMAS ARNOLD, M.A.

OF UNIV. COLL., OXFORD

FELLOW OF THE ROYAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, AND PROFESSOR OF
ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE IN THE UNIVERSITY
COLLEGE, STEPHEN'S GREEN, Dublin

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LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
LONDON, NEW YORK, AND BOMBAY

1897

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Printed by BALLANTYNE, HANSON & CO At the Ballantyne Press

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In the section on the "Anglo-Saxon Period” in the present edition, several paragraphs are new. In Chapter I. the survey of Chaucer's works will be found to take account, more fully than before, of that more accurate knowledge which the labours of Skeat, Ten-Brink, and Furnivall have made available. The chapter on the "Elizabethan Period" has been to a great extent rewritten; this rewriting involved what seemed to be a better arrangement of Shakspere's plays, and a closer estimate of his dramatic genius. In other respects-except that the short notices in Chapters VI. and VII. (some of which, as stated in the Preface to the fifth edition, were written by my daughters, Mrs. Leonard Huxley and Ethel Margaret Arnold), have been reduced into something like chronological order-the work remains nearly as it stood in the last two editions. Notices contributed by my son, William T. Arnold, are acknowledged in foot-notes.

THOMAS ARNOLD.

DUBLIN, December 1896.

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