The study class : a guide for the student of English literature . ough we may have written no Bibles nor songsto stand with theirs, we know their Bibles andsongs as they never knew them. Our sight isall-embracing, while theirs was but partial; andthe words Life, Creation, God, are transfiguredinto a new meaning by the light of our new andlarger comprehension, our ability to solve boththe past and present by the universal. XIV. OUTLINES OF THE STUDY OF THEENGLISH ESSAY. expressed in the essay, is to be regretted ; butthis deficiency has been met. whenever possible,by selecting as representative
The study class : a guide for the student of English literature . ough we may have written no Bibles nor songsto stand with theirs, we know their Bibles andsongs as they never knew them. Our sight isall-embracing, while theirs was but partial; andthe words Life, Creation, God, are transfiguredinto a new meaning by the light of our new andlarger comprehension, our ability to solve boththe past and present by the universal. XIV. OUTLINES OF THE STUDY OF THEENGLISH ESSAY. expressed in the essay, is to be regretted ; butthis deficiency has been met. whenever possible,by selecting as representative of each writer suchof his writings as may have been issued in aninexpensive or easily accessible form. In suchcases the edition is indicated in the small typereferences following the topic. In respect to comment and analysis a similarlack prevails. Nearly all the manuals of Englishliterature bestow far more attention on the poetsthan on the prose writers. The rising impor-tance of the essay seems scarcely to be sus-pected; the succession of critical literature. gigHE absence of any single volume of|^if selections adapted to this course, and™H fitted to represent the rise and de-===^ velopment of literary criticism as OUTLINE-STUDY OF ENGLISH ESSAY. 233 concerning poetry, from the times of Elizabethuntil the present, is matched by no similarattention to English prose. The following books may be named as prob-ably the most useful in their several ways : forthe direct study, Garnetts English Prose fromElizabeth to Victoria; for analysis of styleand expression, Mintos Manual of EnglishProse Literature ; for the historical and biblio-graphical surveys, Arnolds Manual of EnglishLiterature;99 for critical and scholarly com-ment, Saintsburys Elizabethan Literature;and Gosses Literature of the EighteenthCentury. 234 THE STUDY CLASS. TOPICS. I. Sir Philip Sidney. II. Sir Philip Sidney. III. Francis Bacon. IV. Francis Francis Bacon. VI. Francis Bacon. VII. Forerunners of the M
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