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Taine’s History of English Literature.
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Taine’s History of English Literature.
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“‘Taine’s History of English Literature’ shows a sounder appreciation of the spirit of our literature, and is a better exponent of its growth from stage to stage, and of the minute characteristics of each stage, than any of the numerous summaries and outline histories that have been produced by Englishmen.... Of the general method pursued by M. Taine in this work we cannot speak too highly.... We are bound to bear testimony at once to the very great ability with which M. Van Laun has translated the work.”—The Examiner.
“Taine’s short chapter on Chaucer is thoroughly well worth reading.... His chapter on our dramatic literature is particularly noteworthy.... A better exposition of the nature and ramifications of Shakspeare’s genius could hardly be looked for within the limits of a moderately short chapter.”—The Examiner.
“M. van Laun has done a difficult task admirably well, by translating into the English of a scholar one of the most brilliant books that France has produced for years.... The analysis of a consummate critic and a brilliant rhetorician ... with as true a sympathy as if all his life he had breathed the intellectual air of England.”—The Spectator.