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Eliot

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Eliot · 39 chapters

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• INTRODUCTORY NOTESample
• TITLE AND PROLOGUE TO BOOK I
• EPILOGUE TO BOOK III
• DICTES AND SAYINGS OF THE PHILOSOPHERS
• CHAUCER'S CANTERBURY TALES
• BY WILLIAM CAXTON
• Preface
• GENERAL SYLLABUS
• TO POPE PAUL III
• THE BETTER UNDERSTANDING IS HEREUNTO ANNEXED
• PREFACE TO THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD
• Preface
• TO THE INSTAURATIO MAGNA
• TO THE INSTAURATIO MAGNA
• THE PLAN OF THE INSTAURATIO MAGNA
• Preface
• TO THE NOVUM ORGANUM
• TO THE GREAT VARIETY OF READERS
• ANCIENT AND MODERN
• Preface
• THE COMIC EPIC IN PROSE
• PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH DICTIONARY
• Preface
• Chapter
• PREFACE TO SHAKESPEARE
• INTRODUCTION TO THE PROPYLÄEN [A]
• Preface
• ADVERTISEMENT TO LYRICAL BALLADS
• PREFACE TO LYRICAL BALLADS
• APPENDIX TO LYRICAL BALLADS
• PREFACE TO POEMS
• ESSAY SUPPLEMENTARY TO PREFACE
• Preface
• Act IV) The Tritons, the Satyrs, the Cyclops are grotesque, Polyphemus
• Preface
• PREFACE TO LEAVES OF GRASS
• Preface
• INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE
• VI