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The Student’s Course in Literature

Literature is not bought and sold by the pound, but is of the spirit and in spirit must it be judged. Let him, then, who would teach others himself first go and learn the greatness of literature and feel its power.

—How to Study Literature.

Gerhard Richard
Lomer

The Student’s Course in Literature

Edited by Gerhard Richard Lomer

The reading lists, genre guides and lectures—which feature chronological tables and bibliographies—contain some 4,300 hyperlinks to the main body of The Library, making it a fully integrated guide to this massive anthology.

NEW YORK: WARNER LIBRARY Co., 1917
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2015

Content

Introduction: How to Study Literature

A Graded List of Readings

I. Elementary and Grammar School

II. High School

A College Curriculum in Literature

Oriental Literature

Greek Literature

Latin Literature

Mediæval Literature

French Literature

Italian Literature

Spanish and Portuguese Literature

Germanic Literature

Belgian and Dutch Literature

Scandinavian Literature

Russian Literature

English Literature

Literature of the British Colonies

American Literature

General Literature

Lectures on the World’s Best Literature

Oriental Literature

Greek Literature

Latin Literature

Mediæval French Literature

French Literature from the Renaissance

Mediæval Italian Literature

Italian Literature

Spanish Literature

Mediæval German Literature

German Literature (1638–1870)

Scandinavian Literature

Russian Literature

English Literature

I. Early English Literature

II. The Norman Conquest to Shakespeare (1066–1564)

III. The Elizabethan Age (1564–1616)

IV. The Age of Milton (1616–1660)

V. Dryden and the Restoration (1660–1700)

VI. The Augustan Age (1700–1790)

VII. The Romantic Movement (1790–1832)

VIII. The Victorian Era (1832–1900)

American Literature

Early American Literature

The Early New Yorkers

The New England Group

The South and West: I. Southern Literature

The South and West: II. Western Literature (1850–1900)

Annotated Reading List in American Literature

Early Twentieth-Century Fiction

Early Twentieth-Century Essays

Early Twentieth-Century Poetry

Early Twentieth-Century Drama