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By Professor W.H.  \u003Cbr>SCHOFIELD,Ph.D.  \u003Cbr>[In preparationz.  \u003Cbr>ELIZABETHAN LITERATURE(I56o-1665).By  \u003Cbr>GBORGE SAINTSBURY.8s.6d.  \u003Cbr>EIGHTEENTH CENTURY LITERATURE(I660--  \u003Cbr>I780).By EDMUND GoSse,M.A.8s.6d.  \u003Cbr>NINETEENTH CENTURY LITERATURE(I78o-  \u003Cbr>zgo).By GEORGE SAINTSBURY.8s.6d.  \u003Cbr>By GEORGE SAINTSBURY.  \u003Cbr>A SHORT HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERA-  \u003Cbr>TURE.Crown 8vo,ros.Also in five Parts.2s.6d.each.  \u003Cbr>A HISTORY OF ENGLISH PROSODY FROM  \u003Cbr>THE TWELFTH CENTURY TO THE PRESENTDAY.  \u003Cbr>3vols.8vo.Vol.I.From the Origins to Spenser.r28.6d.net.  \u003Cbr>Vol.II.From Shakespeare to Crabbe.I8s.net.Vol.II.  \u003Cbr>From Blake to Mr.Swinburne.18s.net.  \u003Cbr>HISTORICALMANUALOF ENGLISH PROSODY.  \u003Cbr>Crown 8vo.6s.6d.net.  \u003Cbr>A HISTORY OF THE FRENCH NOVEL,8vo.  \u003Cbr>Vol.I.From the Beginning to 1880.18s.net.Vol.II.From  \u003Cbr>r8oo to r9oo.x8s.net.  \u003Cbr>A EIISTORY OF ENGLISH PROSE RHYTHM.  \u003Cbr>8vo.r8s,net.  \u003Cbr>LIFE OF_DRYDEN.Library Edition,Crown 8vo,  \u003Cbr>38.net;Pocket Edition,Fcap.8vo,2s.net.  \u003Cbr>[EnglisMcn0 LLZcs.  \u003Cbr>A FIRST BOOK OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.  \u003Cbr>Globe 8vo.Sewed,2s.Stiff Boards,zs.3d.  \u003Cbr>NOTES ON A CELLAR-BOOK.Small 4to.7s.6d.  \u003Cbr>net.  \u003Cbr>MACMILLAN AND CO.,LTD.,LONDON.   |\n| --- |\n\n# A HISTORY\n\nOF  \nELIZABETHAN LITERATURE  \nBY  \nGEORGE SAINTSBURY  \nMACMILLAN AND CO.,LIMITEDST.MARTIN’S STREET,LONDON  \n19202019PR  \n# REF.&配E\n\n6天子  \nCOPYRIGHT  \nFirst Edition 1887.Second Edition I8goReprinted r893,I894,I896,π898,r9OI,x903,I907,I9IO,I9I3,I9I8  \n# PREFACE TO NINTH EDITION\n\nAs was explained in the Note to the Preface of theprevious editions and impressions of this book,afterthe first,hardly one of them appeared without carefulrevision,and the insertion of a more or less considerablenumber of additions and corrections.  I found,indeed,few errors of a kind that need have seemed serious exceptto Momus or Zoilus.But in the enormous number ofstatements of fact which literary history of the moreexact kind requires,minor blunders,be they more or fewer,are sure to creep in.No writer,again,who endeavoursconstantly to keep up and extend his knowledge of sucha subject as Elizabethan literature,can fail to have some-thing new to say from time to time.And though noone who is competent originally for his task ought toexperience any violent changes of view,any one's viewsmay undergo modification.In particular,he may findthat readers have misunderstood him,and that alterationsof expression are desirable.For all these reasons andothers I have not spared trouble in the various revisionsreferred to;I think the book has been kept by them  \nfairly abreast of its author's knowledge,and I hope it isnot too far behind that of others.  \nIt will,however,almost inevitably happen that a longseries of piecemeal corrections and codicils somewhatdisfigures the character of the composition as a whole.And after nearly the full score of years,and not muchless than half a score of rc-appearances,it has seemed tome desirable to make a somewhat more thorough,minute,and above all connected revision than I have ever madebefore.And so,my publishers falling in with this view,the present edition represents the result.I do not thinkit necessary to reprint the original preface.When Iwrote it I had already had some,and since I wrote itI have had much more,experience in writing literaryhistory.I have never seen reason to alter the opinionthat,to make such history of any value at all,the criticaljudgments and descriptions must represent direct,original,and first-hand reading and thought;and that in thesecritical judgments and descriptions the value of it consists.Even summaries and analyses of the matter of ","cbCaiqXVirHYAFe6","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiqXVirHYAFe6","pdf",34744866,493,"English","# Preface to Ninth Edition\n## Purpose of revising later editions\n## Importance of first-hand critical judgment","[{\"question\":\"Why does the author revise this book across multiple editions?\",\"answer\":\"Because after earlier impressions, the author repeatedly incorporated additions and corrections, and updated expression in light of new reading and experience while also addressing misunderstandings by readers.\"},{\"question\":\"What kinds of errors does the author acknowledge in literary history?\",\"answer\":\"Minor blunders in the large number of factual statements are expected to creep in, even when the author constantly seeks to extend knowledge.\"},{\"question\":\"What is the author’s view on how literary history should be written?\",\"answer\":\"Critical judgments and descriptions must reflect direct, original, first-hand reading and thought; summaries and analyses are secondary except where necessary for criticism.\"}]","A History of Elizabethan Literature - Preface to Ninth Edition | PDF",1789939168,759]