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Dickens
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ISBN: 1139083767 1108034500 Year: 1882 Publisher: Place of publication not identified : Cambridge : publisher not identified, Cambridge University Press

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Published in the first series of English Men of Letters in 1882, this biography of Charles Dickens (1812-70) provides a short introduction to the life and works of the most popular author of the Victorian era. Sir Adolphus William Ward (1837-1924), a prominent scholar who taught at the newly founded the University of Manchester and became President of the British Academy, wrote on English literature from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, and translated Curtius' History of Greece. His work complements earlier biographies of the writer who styled himself as 'The Inimitable' and whose influence as a novelist, social commentator and social reformer cannot be overstated. The life is treated chronologically, and a final chapter discusses 'the future of Dickens' fame', concluding that although he has faults as a novelist, his place in the canon of English literature is secure.


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Chaucer
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ISBN: 1139083902 1108034640 Year: 1879 Publisher: Place of publication not identified : Cambridge : publisher not identified, Cambridge University Press

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This biography of Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340-1400) was published in the first series of English Men of Letters in 1879. Its author, Sir Adolphus William Ward (1837-1924), a prominent scholar who became President of the British Academy, wrote on English literature from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, translated Curtius' History of Greece, and was a historian of both Britain and Germany. He approached the task of writing Chaucer's life as a historian rather than as a literary critic, emphasising the archival sources from which information on Chaucer the man, the civil servant and the courtier could be drawn, and placing the life very much in the context of the times. An epilogue discusses the legacy of the 'father of English poetry' to the poets and dramatists of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and the renewal of interest in Chaucer's works in the nineteenth century.


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A history of English dramatic literature to the death of Queen Anne
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Year: 1875 Publisher: London : Macmillan,

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Chaucer
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Year: 1908 Publisher: London : MacMillan,

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The Electress Sophia and the Hanoverian succession,
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Year: 1903 Publisher: London : Goupil & co.,

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Old English drama : select plays : Marlowe, Tragical history of Dr. Faustus ; Greene, Honourable history of Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay
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Year: 1887 Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press,

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Great Britain & Hanover : Some aspects of the personal union
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Year: 1899 Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press,

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Cambridge history of British foreign policy, 1783-1919
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Year: 1922 Publisher: Macmillan Co.

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Year: 1881 Publisher: London Macmillan

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