A Concise Cambridge History of English Literature
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: December 31, 1970
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780521078863
Subjects: General; Literary Criticism; Literary Criticism & Collections / General
First sentence: The history of a national literature, however much destined to be international, is part at first of the national story; but it is a separable part, for man is older than his songs, and passed through many stages of development before he found his way into the kind of self-expression that we call literature.