Cross Currents in English Literature of the i 7 th Century THE BACKGROUND OF ENGLISH LITERATURE ESSAYS AND AXIRESSES A CRITICAI. HISTORY OF ENGLISH POETRY PREFACE A WORD of apology and explanation may be allowed for this book, not for its errors and shortcomings, which must accept the censure they merit, but for my choice of a subject which, it may well be said, lies somewhat outside my proper sphere, ne sutof supra crepidam. I am not a philo sopher or theologian. The explanation is to be sought in the title of the foundation on which these lectures were delivered at Cornell University. The words On the Evolution of Civilization are, I have learned, taken by the authorities of that University in the widest sense possible, and I might have chosen a more strictly literary theme. To me it seemed, when I received the kind invitation to deliver them, that I ought, if I could, to select for consideration some aspect of the contact between literature and the life and thought of the time, to...

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