WORKS WRITTEN OR EDITED BY HENRY S. PANCOAST AN INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH LITERATURE Revised and Enlarged. 12mo. Printed from new plates. With maps. Nation: It treats the history of English literature as closely connected with general history. The style is interesting, the conception broad and clear, th biographical details nicely subordinated to matters more important... not even the dullest pupil can study it without feeling the historical and logical continuity of English literature." STUDY LISTS AND CHRONOLOGICAL TABLES TO ACCOMPANY "AN INTRODUCTION OF ENGLISH Literature." 12mo. Contains Study Lists of representative works for Collateral reading, maps, and chronological tables. REPRESENTATIVE ENGLISH LITERATURE 514 pp. Large 12mo. $1.60 net Includes with a briefer and earlier form of the historical and critical matter of the Introduction the following selections (each complete): Chaucer: The Nonne Prestes Tale; Good Counseil. Spenser: Prothalamion. Shakespeare: Merchant of Venice (entire). Bacon: Of Great Place; Five Elizabethan Songs. Milton: L'Allegro; Il Penseroso. Dryden: Song for St. Cecilia's Day. Addison: Ned Softly the Poet; Sir Roger at Church; The Fine Lady's Journal. Pope: The Rape of the Lock. Burns: Poems. Wordsworth: Poems. Coleridge: Ancient Mariner. Scott: Poems. Lamb: Christ's Hospital Five-and-Thirty Years Ago. Byron: Poems. Keats Poems. Carlyle: On Robert Burns. Macaulay: On Samuel Johnson. Browning: Poems. Tennyson: Poems, etc. STANDARD ENGLISH POEMS 749 pp. 16mo. $1.50 net. 577 pages of poetry (100 of them devoted to Victorian verse), containing some 250 complete poems besides selections from such longer ones as "The Faerie Queene," "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage," etc. 163 pp. of notes (mainly biographical) and an index. STANDARD ENGLISH PROSE 550 pp. Large 12mo. About one hundred selections (most of them complete in themselves) from Bacon, Walton, Sir Thomas Browne, Fuller, Milton, Jeremy Taylor, Crowley, Bunyan, Dryden, Defoe, Swift, Addison, Steele, Johnson, Goldsmith, Burke, Coleridge, Southey, Lamb, Landor, Hazlitt, De Quincey, Carlyle, Macaulay, Newman, Froude, Ruskin, Thackeray, Matthew Arnold, Pater, and Stevenson, with introduction and notes. AN INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN LITERATURE With study lists of works to be read, references, chronological tables, and portraits. 393 pp. 16mo. $1.00 net. This book follows the main lines of the author's "Introduction to English Literature." The special influence of our history upon our literature is shown, and the attention is chiefly concentrated on a limited number of typical authors and works, treated at some length. HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY NEW YORK CHICAGO ΤΟ ENGLISH LITERATURE BY HENRY S. PANCOAST THIRD EDITION, ENLARGED Οὐ πολλὰ NEW YORK HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION. Fifteen years ago, Mr. Henry Holt asked me to arrange a series of representative selections from English literature in chronological order, and to connect them with such biographical and historical matter as might be found necessary for an understanding of them, and of their relation to national and literary history. The result of this request was a book, Representative English Literature, which appeared in 1892. In this book, owing to the large proportion of space taken up by selections, the historical sketch was necessarily very brief, and a few years later, at Mr. Holt's suggestion, I prepared a second book, An Introduction to English Literature, based on the first, in which the selections were omitted and the historical outline revised and considerably expanded. Two years later this second book was enlarged by the addition of further biographical and other matter. In the present book the subject is treated with still greater fulness but upon the same general plan. The first half of the book has been practically re-written, and the chapters dealing with the Early and Middle English periods have been considerably enlarged. Greater space has also been given to the literature of the Queen Anne and Victorian periods, and separate lives of Bunyan, Dryden, Steele, Cowper, and others have been added. No one who attempts to act as guide in this long journey from Beowulf to Kipling believes himself secure from error, unless he is very foolish or preternaturally learned. I can only say, for my own part, that I have tried faithfully to avoid mistakes, that I have, so far as possible, shunned controversy, and that in matters of opinion I have honestly set down the truth as it appeared to me. I am painfully conscious that, in spite of all the labours of others, it is a difficult, perhaps an impossible, thing to see the whole origin, growth, and development of English literature in a just proportion; to see the relation of cach book, each man, each event, to the whole story, to interpret every great writer with equal sympathy and fairness, and to get at the heart of every great book. One's only comfort is, that the very vastness, the very impossibility of the undertaking can be urged in mitigation of one's inevitable shortcomings. Well may the author of even a short and unpretentious history of English literature say with Chaucer "I have, God woot, a large feeld to ere, I have had more friendly help in the preparation of this book than I can suitably or specifically acknowledge. Dr. Arthur Adams, of Trinity College, read a great part of the manuscript and furnished me with much of the material for the bibliography. Mr. Keith Willoughby has given many hours of conscientious labour to the prep |