National Life And Character In The Mirror Of Early English Literature
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Published: July 25, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780548037058
Subjects: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literature - Classics / Criticism
First sentence: THE purpose of this study is to examine and set forth the ever-developing character of the Englishman in the successive ages of his early career, until modern life begins, together with the corresponding development of political and social life which determines and, at the same time, is determined by it; "to hold, as 't were, the mirror up to nature," as the centuries pass by; "to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure."