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Moody, William Vaughan, and Lovett, Robert Morrs. First view of English literature. [*]$1. Scribner.
“This adaptation of the author’s more advanced ‘History of English literature,’ based on the suggestions of many high school and academy teachers, is a class-room manual of practical value. Features that especially commend the volume are the historical introductions to each epoch, dwelling on political and social conditions, important for their effect on literature, and the full review outlines given in the form of simple and illuminating questions.”—Outlook.
“The book is a highly finished work, and we commend it.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 396. Je. 17, ‘05. 420w. |
“The book is lucid and concise, noticeably so in its discussion of the Renaissance and of Romanticism.”
| + + | Outlook. 80: 591. Jl. 1, ‘05. 120w. |
“There is much valuable geographical, descriptive, and annotative matter.”
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