History of English Literature Volume 3 (of 3)

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Author

Taine, Hippolyte, 1828-1893

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Produced by Laura Natal Rodrigues at Free Literature (Images generously made available by The Internet Archive.)

Language

English

LoC Class

PR: Language and Literatures: English literature

Subject

English literature -- History and criticism

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Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 61510

Release Date

February 25, 2020

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Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.#THE WORLD'S# GREAT CLASSICS — LIBRARY COMMITTEE — TIMOTHY DWIGHT, D.D. LLD. RICHARD HENRY STODDARD ARTHUR RICHMOND MARSH. A.B. PAUL VAN DYKE, D.D. ALBERT ELLERY BERGH — •ILLUSTRATED•WITH•NEARLY•TWO• •HUNDRED•PHOTOGRAVURES•ETCHINGS• •COLORED•PLATES•AND•FULL• •PAGE•PORTRAITS•OF•GREAT•AUTHORS•
2. 2.ENGLISH LITERATURE — HIPPOLYTE ADOLPHE TAINE — TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY HENRY VAN LAUN — WITH A SPECIAL INTRODUCTION BY — J. SCOTT CLARK, A. M.
3. 3.CONTENTS — BOOK III.—THE CLASSIC AGE ( Continued ) — CHAPTER SEVENTH The Poets — BOOK IV.—MODERN LIFE — CHAPTER FIRST Ideas and Productions — CHAPTER SECOND Lord Byron — CHAPTER THIRD The Past and Present — Part I.—The Past — Part II.—The Present — BOOK V.—MODERN AUTHORS — CHAPTER FIRST — Part I.—The Author — Part II.—The Public — Part III.—The Characters — CHAPTER SECOND The Novel (Continued)—Thackeray — Part I.—The Satirist — Part II.—The Artist — CHAPTER THIRD Criticism and History—Macaulay — CHAPTER FOURTH Philosophy and History—Carlyle — Part I.—Style and Mind — Part II.—Vocation — Part III.—Philosophy, Morality, and Criticism — Part IV.—Conception of History — CHAPTER FIFTH Philosophy—Stuart Mill — Part I.—Experience — Part II.—Abstraction — CHAPTER SIXTH Poetry—Tennyson
4. 4.ILLUSTRATIONS — BOOK III.—THE CLASSIC AGE — ( Continued ) — HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE — CHAPTER SEVENTH — The Poets — Section I—The Domination of the Classical Spirit — Section II.—Alexander Pope.—His Education and Mode of Life — Section III.—Eloisa to Abelard.—The Rape of the Lock.—The Dunciad — Section IV.—Pope's Descriptive Talent.—His Didactic Poems — Section V.—The Poets Prior, Gay and Thomson — Section VI.—The Beginnings of the Modern Age — BOOK IV—MODERN LIFE — CHAPTER FIRST — Ideas and Productions — Section I—Rise of Democracy — Section II.—Robert Burns — Section III.—Conservative Rule in England.—Cowper's Poetry — Section IV.—The Romantic School — Section V.—Philosophy Enters into Literature.—Wordsworth.—Shelley — CHAPTER SECOND — Lord Byron — Section I.—His Life and Character — Section II.—The Style of Byron's Poetry — Section III.—Byron's Short Poems — Section IV.—Manfred — Section V.—What Byron's Contemporaries Thought of Him.—His Morals — Section VI.—The Malady of the Age — CHAPTER THIRD — The Past and Present — Part I.—The Past — Section I.—The Saxon Invasion.—The Norman Conquest — Section II.—Formative Periods — Section III.—The Broadening of Ideas — Part II.—The Present — Section I.—Effects of the Saxon Invasion and the Norman Conquest — Section II.—English Commerce and Industry — Section III.—Agriculture — Section IV.—English Society.—Philosophy.—Religion — Section V.—What Forces Have Produced the Present Civilization — BOOK V—MODERN AUTHORS — Introductory Note — CHAPTER FIRST — The Novel.—Dickens — Part I.—The Author — Section I.—Importance of the Imaginative Faculty — Section II.—Boldness of Dickens' Imagination — Section III.—His Trivialities.—His Minuteness — Section IV.—His Emotions.—His Pathos.—His Humor — Part II.—The Public — Section I.—The Morality of English Novels — Part III.—The Characters — Section I.—Dickens's Love for Natural Characters — Section II.—The Hypocrite.—The Positive Man.—The Proud Man — Section III.—Children — Section IV.—The Ideal Man — CHAPTER SECOND — The Novel (Continued)—Thackeray — Comparison Between Dickens and Thackeray — Part I.—The Satirist — Section I.—The English Satirist — Section II.—The English Temperament — Section III.—Superiority of Thackeray as a Satirist.—Literary Snobs — Section IV.—Resemblance of Thackeray to Swift — Section V.—Thackeray's Misanthropy — Section VI.—His Characters — Part II.—The Artist — Section I—The Art of Thackeray — Section II.—Portrait of Henry Esmond.—Historical Talent — Section III.—Literature the Definition of Man — CHAPTER THIRD — Criticism and History—Macaulay — Section I.—His Position in England — Section II.—Essays — Section III.—His Critical Method — Section IV—His Love of Political Liberty — Section V.—Characteristics of Macaulay's Style — Section VI.—His Rudeness and Humor — Section VII.—Estimate of Macaulay's Work — Section VIII.—Comparison of Macaulay with French Historians — CHAPTER FOURTH — Philosophy and History—Carlyle — Part I.—Style and Mind — Section I.—Carlyle's Obscurity and Crudeness — Section II.—The Humor of Carlyle — Section III.—Perception of the Real and the Sublime — Section IV.—His Passion for Actuality — Section V.—His Mode of Thought — Part II—Vocation — Section I.—The Appearance and Development of Original Minds — Section II.—Characteristics of the German Form of Mind — Section III.—German Aptitude for General Ideas — Section IV.—Faults of the German Form of Thought — Section V.—How Ideas are Reshaped — Section VI.—Growth of German Ideas in England — Part III.—Philosophy, Morality, and Criticism — Section I.—Carlyle's Metaphysics — Section II.—His Transposition of German Metaphysics into English Puritanism — Section III.—Conception of God and Duty — Section IV.—Conception of Christianity — Section V.—Carlyle's Criticism — Section VI.—The Future of Criticism — Part IV.—Conception of History — Section I.—Great Men — Section II.—Wherein Carlyle is Original — Section III.—In What Genuine History Consists — Section IV.—Carlyle's History of Cromwell — Section V.—His History of the French Revolution — Section VI.—His Opinion of Modern England — Section VII.—The Dangers of Enthusiasm.—Comparison of Carlyle and Macaulay — CHAPTER FIFTH — PHILOSOPHY—STUART MILL — Section I.—Lack of General Ideas — Section II.—Why Metaphysics are Lacking — Section III.—Mill's Philosophical Method — Part I.—Experience — Section I.—The Object of Logic — Section II.—Discussion of Ideas — Section III.—The Two Corner-Stones of Logic — Section IV.—Theory of Definitions — Section V.—Theory of Proof — Section VI.—Theory of Axioms — Section VII.—Theory of Induction — Section VIII.—Applications of the Theory of Induction — Section IX.—The Province and Method of Deduction — Section X.—Comparison of the Methods of Induction and Deduction — Section XI.—Limits of Our Knowledge — Part II.—Abstraction — Section I.—Agreement of this Philosophy with the English Mind — Section II.—The Nature of Abstraction — Section III.—Definitions Explain the Abstract Generating Elements of Things — Section IV.—The Basis of Proof in Syllogism is an Abstract Law — Section V.—Axioms are Relations between Abstract Truths — Section VI.—The Methods of Induction — Section VII.—Experience and Abstraction — Section VIII.—Idea and Limits of Metaphysics — Section IX.—A Morning in Oxford — CHAPTER SIXTH — POETRY—TENNYSON — Section I.—His Talent and Work — Section II.—Portraits of Women — Section III.—Wherein Tennyson is at One with Nature — Section IV.—In Memoriam.—The Princess — Section V.—The Idylls of the King — Section VI.—Comparison of English and French Society — INDEX

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