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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