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The Literary History of England in the End of the Eighteenth and Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, in Three Volumes
The Literary History of England in the End of the Eighteenth and Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, in Three Volumes

The Literary History of England in the End of the Eighteenth and Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, in Three Volumes

$ 125.00
Three volume set. Three-quarter leather with marbled paper boards, gilt titles and decor on spine, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers. VOLUME ONE CONTENTS: Introductory; William Cowper; Robert Burns; Literature in Scotland Before Burns; George Crabbe; The Coteries Before Wordsworth--the Swan of Lichfield; The New Brotherhood; The Lyrical Ballads; Robert Southey--Walter Savage Landor. VOLUME TWO CONTENTS: Charles Lamb--Thomas De Quincey; The Critics; Walter Scott; Thomas Campbell: And the Lesser Lights in Scotland; London: The Lower Circle--"The Cockney School"; The Country. VOLUME THREE CONTENTS: London: The Upper Circle: Rogers--Byron--Moore; Byron--Shelley; Shelley-Byron; John Keats; Moore--Monk Lewis--The Smiths, etc.--Peacock--Theodore Hook--John Galt; Maria Edgeworth--Jane Austin--Susan Ferrier; Literature in Ireland; The Historians and Philosophers: Henry Hallam, Joseph Lingard--Jeremy Bentham, James Mackintosh, James Mill; Theologians; Index.