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LECTURES
ON
ENGLISH LITERATURE,
From Chaucer to Tennyson.
By IIENRY REED.
FIFTH EDITION, REVISED AND CORRECTED.
PHILADELPHIA:
J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO.
1860.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1855, by
WILLIAM B. REED,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
COLLINS, PRINTER.
TO
My Widowed Sister,
WHO, FOR THE SAKE OF THE LIVING, HAS NOBLY BORNE HER SORROW FOR THE DEAD,
CONTENTS.
INTRODUCTORY NOTICE....
LECTURE I.-INTRODUCTORY.
PRINCIPLES OF LITERATURE.
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Object, to assist and guide students-Necessity of systematic study
-Judicious criticism-True aims and principles of literature-
Choice of books-Its difficulties-Aim of this course of lectures
to remove them-All books not literature-Accurate definition
of literature-Its universality-Izaak Walton-Addison
Charles Lamb-Lord Bacon-Clarendon-Arnold-Spenser and
Shakspeare-Southey and Wordsworth-Belles-lettres not li-
terature-Literature not an easy, patrician pleasure-Its danger
as to practical life-Its influence on character-De Quincey's
definition-Knowledge and power-Influence on female charac-
ter-True position of woman-Tennyson's Princess-Novel-
reading-Taste, an incorrect term-Henry Taylor-Cowper-
Miss Wordsworth-Coleridge's philosophy.......
LECTURE II.
APPLICATION OF LITERARY PRINCIPLES.
Narrow and exclusive lines of reading to be avoided-Catholicity
of taste-Charles Lamb's idea of books-Ruskin-Habits of
reading comprehensive-Ancient Literature- Foreign Lan.
guages-Different eras of letters-English essay-writing-
Macaulay-Southey-Scott and Washington Irving-Archdea-
con Hare-Lord Bacon's Essays-Poetic taste-Influence of
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