Edmund Gosse
Published: 2015-07-14
Total Pages: 256
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Excerpt from From Shakespeare to Pope: An Inquiry Into the Causes and Phenomena of the Rise of Classical Poetry in England The following chapters were written in the form of lectures, and were first delivered to member of the University of Cambridge, in the Hall of Trinity College, during Michaelmas Term last Year. They formed my inaugural course as Clark Lecture. In the month of December I read them at the Lowell Institute in Boston, and during the same written in whole, or in part, before other academic audiences in America, before the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, in New York, before Yale College, Connecticut, and elsewhere. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.