Even literature was compounded there as we have shown; Vieillard was a classic of 1830, Morny created Choufleury, Louis Bonaparte was a candidate for the Academy.

The recovery of these two pieces should be of considerable interest to all students of dramatic literature.

Of the many irreparable losses sustained by classical literature few are more to be deplored than the loss of the closing chapters of Tacitus' Annals.

In his three noble sonnets, "The Emperor's Progress," Mr. Swinburne shows that he has pondered the subject deeply: if ever he should give us a Tragedy of Nero, we may be sure that one more deathless contribution would be added to our dramatic literature.

Lessing, who, with his sharp, sound criticism, and his clear perception of the beautiful, led the way to a higher state of things in literature, appears also to have been the first to discover the deep meaning buried in the popular farces of Faustus.

No more appropriate hero could have been found for the young "Kraft-Genies" of the "Sturm und Drang Periode" (Storm and Stress period) of German literature.

To Goethe the legendary literature of his nation had been familiar from his boyhood.

In tracing the development of the literature of this period, we have noted (1) the metrical romances; (2) Geoffrey of Monmouth's (Latin)

LITERARY Cambridge History of English Literature, Vols.

Schofield's English Literature from the Conquest to Chaucer.

While this war did not greatly disturb the common people, it occupied the attention of those who might have been patrons of literature.

An event that had far-reaching consequences on literature and life was the act of Henry VIII.

Another cause was the influence of Greek literature newly discovered in the fifteenth century by the western world.

Because of the remoteness of this capital, English literature had not been greatly influenced by Greece.

William Tyndale, 1490?-1536.The Reformation was another mighty influence, working side by side with all the other forces to effect a lasting change in English history and literature.

The study of Greek literature, the discovery of the new world, the decline of feudalism, the overthrow of the armed knight, the extension of the use of gunpowder, the invention of printing, the increased love of learning, the demand for scientific investigation, the decline of monastic influence, shown in the new interest in this finite world and life,all figured as causes or effects of the new influence.

Saintsbury's Short History of English Literature, pp.

Tucker's The Foreign Debt of English Literature. SUGGESTED READINGS WITH QUESTIONS AND SUGGESTIONS Malory.

What influence impossible for other forms of literature, was exerted by the ballad?

In brief, Elizabeth's reign was remarkable for the rise of the middle classes, for the growth of manufactures, for the appearance of English ships in almost all parts of the world, for the extension of commerce, for greater freedom of thought and action, for what the world now calls Elizabethan literature, and for the ascendancy of a great mental and moral movement to which we must next call attention.

The neglect of this rule is a fundamental trait in the philosophical writing, and, in fact, in all the reflective literature, of my country, more especially since Fichte.

The consequence of this state of things is that the word cause has of late almost disappeared from the language of literature, and people talk only of condition.

When associated with affectation, it is in literature what assumption of dignity, grand airs and primeness are in society; and equally intolerable.

Life now-a-days goes at a gallop; and the way in which this affects literature is to make it extremely superficial and slovenly.

In corroboration of this, we find that the history of literature generally shows all those who made knowledge and insight their goal to have remained unrecognized and neglected, whilst those who paraded with the vain show of it received the admiration of their contemporaries, together with the emoluments.