id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 21090 Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Brief History of English and American Literature .txt text/plain 157543 9869 72 the entire history of English and American literature, the following English alliterative verse in romances like _William and the Werewolf_, Chaucer is the bright consummate flower of the English Middle Age. Like many another great poet, he put the final touch to the various It belonged, like the early English poem of _The Fox and the Wolf_, to The great age of English poetry opened with the publication of Of the life of William Shakspere, the greatest dramatic poet of the and by many of the English and New England divines of the 17th century. John Milton, the greatest English poet except Shakspere, was born in The English novel of real life had its origin at this time. Another English poet, Samuel Daniel, the author of the _Civil Wars_, The book which best sums up the life and thought of this old New life--it was, at all events, a genuine New England literature and true ./cache/21090.txt ./txt/21090.txt