Early English
A Study of Old and Middle English; Revised Edition
By
JOHN WILLIAMS CLARK,
University of Minnesota.
This is a basic de–
scription of how Old and Middle English were spoken and written. Pro–
fessor Clark dates Old English from befor·e 700 A.D. to
c.
1100, and
Middle English from 1100 to
c.
1450. His analysis covers specimens of the
language through the centuries, the influence of Indo-European languages,
Old English dialects, literature, the effect of the Norman conquest, the
spelling, pronunciation, and dialects of Middle English, and its manu–
scripts.
(Language Library).
$4.40
English Criticism of the
Nov,el
1865-1900
By
KENNETH GRAHAM,
University of Southampton.
Drawing mainly on
periodical articIes and reviews, Dr. Graham describes the climate of critical
opinion within which the novel grew and developed in the latter part of the
nineteenth century. He traces the changes in the moral, intellectual, and
artistic status of the novel.
$3.40
A
Choice of Critics
Selections from «Canadian Literature"
Selected and edited by
GEORGE WOODCOCK,
University of British Columbia.
Canadian Literature
is the only periodical devoted entirely to the discus–
sion of Canadian writers and writing. For this volume Mr. Woodcock has
selected seventeen essays that have permanent critical value and whose
subjects are drawn from Canadian writings of the last forty years. Each
essay demonstrates the recent emergence of the critic as artist; together
they reveal the most characteristic form of Canadian criticism.
(Oxford
in
Canada Paperbacks No.6.)
Cloth,
$5.00.
Paper, $2.50
A
Discourse of the Contests and Dissentions
Between the Nobles
,and
.the Commons in Athens
and
Rome; With the Consequences they had
upon both those States
By
JOHNATHAN SWIFT;
edited by
FRANK H. ELLIS,
Smith College.
This
book, Swift's first satire and first published work, is an allegory of Eng–
lish history at the turn of the eighteenth century, managed wholly in terms
of Greek and Roman analogues. Professor Ellis's text with explanatory
notes enables the modern reader to see how political ev·ents were in–
corporated into a sophisticated and timely satire.
$8.00
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