Criticism Books

English Past and Present

Richard Chenevix Trench

A series of four lectures which I delivered last spring to the pupils of the King’s College School, London, supplied the foundation to this present volume. These lectures, which I was obliged to prepa..

Brief History of English and American Literature

Henry A. Beers

Henry Augustin Beers, native of Buffalo, NY and professor of English at Yale, with the help of John Fletcher Hurst (1834-1903), Methodist bishop and first Chancellor of American University, has writte..

The Women of the French Salons

Amelia Gere Mason

The Women of the French Salons is a criticism by Amelia Gere Mason. who developed Women of the French Salons by creating an archive of oral histories of women who participated in the salons.It ha..

A Brief Commentary on the Apocalypse

Sylvester Bliss

The Apocalypse should be regarded as a peculiarly interesting portion of scripture: a blessing being promised those who read, hear, and keep the things which are written therein. It has been subjected..

A History of English Literature

Robert Huntington Fletcher

This book aims to provide a general manual of English Literature for students in colleges and universities and others beyond the high-school age. The first purposes of every such book must be to outli..

Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1 contains the Great Britain's history written by Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, FRS FRSE PC was a British historian and Whig politician. H..

Lives of the Poets, Volume 1

Samuel Johnson

Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 is a multi volume biography about popular poets written by Samuel Johnson, an English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, playwrigh..

Familiar Quotations

John Bartlett

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, often simply called Bartlett's, is an American reference work that is the longest-lived and most widely distributed collection of quotations. The book was first issued ..