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Introduction to the History of English Literature, by Hippolyte Adolphe Taine

Harvard Classics
Harvard Classics
Episode • Apr 21, 2022 • 21m

Through the pages of a book the reader sees the life of past days. Carnivals, processions, battles, coronations, voyages - the whole history of the world and its people is revealed in a stupendous pageant. Taine was a Frenchman who wrote an unsurpassed history of English literature; its introduction reveals the unusual combination of an imaginative and an analytical style. (Volume 39, Harvard Classics)

H. A. Taine born April 21, 1828.

 

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