Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth And Seventeenth Centuries
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: January 31, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 472
ISBN-13: 9781417933426
Subjects: Literature: History & Criticism; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Europe; European - General
First sentence: 1. ALTHOUGH the subject of these volumes does not comprehend the literary history of Europe anterior to the commencement of the fifteenth century, a period as nearly coinciding as can be expected in any arbitrary division of time with what is usually denominated the revival of letters, it appears necessary to prefix such a general retrospect of the state of knowledge for some preceding ages as will illustrate its subsequent progress.