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The Pocket Library of English Literature

Edited by GEORGE SAINTSBURY.

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Vol. III.—Defoe's Minor Novels.
Vol. IV.—Political Pamphlets.
Vol. V.—Seventeenth Century Lyrics. Second Edition.
Vol. VI.—Elizabethan and Jacobean Pamphlets

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Essays in English Literature
1780 to 1860.
By GEORGE SAINTSBURY.

Contents.—The kinds of Criticism—Crabbe—Hogg (Ettrick Shepherd)—Sydney Smith—Jeffrey—Hazlitt—Moore—Leigh Hunt—Peacock—Wilson (Christopher North)—De Quincey—Lockhart—Praed—Borrow.


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