A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895)
Saintsbury
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Nevertheless the beginning of the ninth decade of the century did actually correspond with a real change, a real line of demarcation.
Cowper would have been a great poet of the second class at any time, and in some times might have attained the first.
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- PREFACESample
- THE DEVELOPMENT OF PERIODICALS.
- THE SECOND POETICAL PERIOD
- PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY
- THE END OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
- FOOTNOTES:
- THE NEW POETRY
- FOOTNOTES:
- THE NEW FICTION
- THE DEVELOPMENT OF PERIODICALS
- THE HISTORIANS OF THE CENTURY
- THE SECOND POETICAL PERIOD
- THE NOVEL SINCE 1850
- PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY
- FOOTNOTES:
- LATER JOURNALISM AND CRITICISM IN ART AND LETTERS
- SCHOLARSHIP AND SCIENCE
- DRAMA
- CONCLUSION
- INDEX