Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries (Complete)【電子書籍】[ Henry Hallam ]

＜p＞The advantages of such a synoptical view of literature as displays its various departments in their simultaneous condition through an extensive period, and in their mutual dependency, seem too manifest to be disputed. And, as we possess little of this kind in our own language, I have been induced to undertake that to which I am in some respects, at least, very unequal, but which no more capable person, as far as I could judge, was likely to perform. In offering to the public this introduction to the literary history of three centuriesーfor I cannot venture to give it a title of more pretensionーit is convenient to state my general secondary sources of information, exclusive of the acquaintance I possess with original writers; and, at the same time, by showing what has already been done, and what is left undone, to furnish a justification of my own undertaking. The history of literature belongs to modern, and chiefly to almost recent times. The nearest approach to it that the ancients ．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る