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Apr 21: INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH LITERATURE Books as Windows to the Past
Through the pages of a book the reader sees the life of past days. Carnivals, processions, battles, coronations, voyages—the whole history of the world and its people is revealed in a stupendous pageant. Taine was a Frenchman who wrote an unsurpassed history of English literature; its introduction reveals the unusual combination of an imaginative and an analytical style. Read from INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH LITERATURE .... Vol. 39, pp. 410-418 |