An English Anthology of Prose and Poetry, Vol. 2
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Excerpt from An English Anthology of Prose and Poetry, Vol. 2: 14th Century 19th Century; Part II. Notes and Indices The purpose of this English Anthology is "to show the progress of the English language and literature as the gradual gathering of many tributaries into one stream, or of many characters and influences into one great national concourse." It places every writer therefore, not by the date of his birth - the moment of birth is not the moment of his effective entry into the world of thought - but by the date at which he may be judged to have arrived in the concourse as a conspicuous or influential member of it. The reader is invited to open the book wherever he will and imagine himself to be the contemporary of the author there exemplified: he will be able to get some idea from the preceding pages of what might then have formed the literary content of his mind, and in the succeeding pages he can look forward to that which was still in the future. This is a convenient way of applying the Historic Method: but in suggesting it I am anxious not to give a mistaken view of the relation of History and Literature. A work of art - a piece of literature - is not the subject of History in any but a very limited way: it is not the product of an Organism or a Process, in the biological sense, but the unique, timeless expression of a spirit in a world of spirits. This timelessness of Art cannot be too clearly stated or too constantly remembered. The worlds of Chaucer, Shakespeare, Keats, Byron, Browning - and even of much lesser and less fertile poets - are all unique, separate, self-existent worlds, each created for the first time and by the act of a single person. But they are created by a transmuting power, out of experiences afforded by the world of every day. The components of these experiences have a history, which may be known and stated, in terms of Time or succession, and even of Causation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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