. Lives of great English writers from Chaucer to Browning. GEOFFREY CHAUCER LIVES OFGREAT ENGLISH WRITEES FROM CHAUCER TO BROWNING BT WALTER S. HINCHMAN Master in English at Groton SchoolAND FRANCIS B. GUMMERE Professor of English in Haverford College,author of The Popular Ballad, ^^Mtside-Etes^ BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY (^hi iRiterjSiDe pre??, CambriDge 1908 LIBSARY of OOPoSKIiSSIf wo Copies KectJivyJ 3 V^Q8 OOHY S. ^ 0 ,^ COPYRIGHT 1908 BY WALTER S. HINCHMAN ANDFRANCIS B. GUMMERE ALL RIGHTS RESERVED >T INTRODUCTION Not long ago, Mr. Walter S. Hinchman, who ha
. Lives of great English writers from Chaucer to Browning. GEOFFREY CHAUCER LIVES OFGREAT ENGLISH WRITEES FROM CHAUCER TO BROWNING BT WALTER S. HINCHMAN Master in English at Groton SchoolAND FRANCIS B. GUMMERE Professor of English in Haverford College,author of The Popular Ballad, ^^Mtside-Etes^ BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY (^hi iRiterjSiDe pre??, CambriDge 1908 LIBSARY of OOPoSKIiSSIf wo Copies KectJivyJ 3 V^Q8 OOHY S. ^ 0 ,^ COPYRIGHT 1908 BY WALTER S. HINCHMAN ANDFRANCIS B. GUMMERE ALL RIGHTS RESERVED >T INTRODUCTION Not long ago, Mr. Walter S. Hinchman, who hadbeen teaching EngKsh at Groton School for five years,called my attention to the need of a book which shouldgive in succinct but comprehensive form the lives of thegreat English authors. Both for the student, who isrequired to show his real knowledge of these authors inexamination, and for the general reader, who wishes tocome at the heart of their work with as little hamper-ing as possible from books about books, the main objectshould be first-hand acquaintance with good this first-hand acquaintance is too often delayed,clouded, endangered, by the preliminary courses in liter-ary history, with their third-hand comments on aestheti-cal and critical questions, and
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