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Coppee, Henry

"English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction"

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Coleridge

CHAPTER XXXVIII.
THE REACTION IN POETRY.
Alfred Tennyson--Early Works--The Princess--Idyls of the
King--Elizabeth B. Browning--Aurora Leigh--Her Faults--Robert
Browning--Other Poets

CHAPTER XXXIX.
THE LATER HISTORIANS.
New Materials--George Grote--History of Greece--Lord Macaulay--History
of England--Its Faults--Thomas Carlyle--Life of Frederick II.--Other
Historians

CHAPTER XL.
THE LATER NOVELISTS AS SOCIAL REFORMERS.
Bulwer--Changes in Writers--Dickens's Novels--American Notes--His
Varied Powers--Second Visit to America--Thackeray--Vanity Fair--Henry
Esmond--The Newcomes--The Georges--Estimate of his Powers

CHAPTER XLI.
THE LATER WRITERS.
Charles Lamb--Thomas Hood--Thomas de Quincey--Other Novelists--Writers
on Science and Philosophy

CHAPTER XLII.
ENGLISH JOURNALISM.
Roman News Letters--The Gazette--The Civil War--Later Divisions--The
Reviews--The Monthlies--The Dailies--The London Times--Other Newspapers

Alphabetical Index of Authors


CHAPTER I.


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