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 LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. 1897 All rights reserved 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. |