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Excerpt from The Popular History of England, Vol. 8: An Illustrated History of Society and Government From the Earliest Period to Our Own Times; From the Peace With the United States, 1815, to the Final Extinction of the Corn-Laws, Feb;, 1849
English Literature in the three latter decades of the reign of George lii. - The Poets Cowper, Crabbe, Burns, Darwin, Wordsworth, Southey, Coleridge, Scott, Byron, Shelley, Keats - Narrative character of Poetry - Campbell, Rogers, Leigh Hunt, Moore Crabbe's latter delineations of manners More Evangelical spirit in the body of the people - Theological Literature - Writers for the Stage - The Novelists Godwin, Holcroft, Dr. Moore, Burney, Scott: the Waverley Novels - The Edin burgh Review - The Quarterly Review - Blackwood's Magazine - Essayists Wilson.
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