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ENGLISH LITERARY CRITICISM
C. E. VAUGHAN
Edited by C H. HERFORD, Litt. D
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY C. E. VAUGHAN
PREFACE.
In the following pages my aim has been to sketch the development of
criticism, and particularly of critical method, in England; and to
illustrate each phase of its growth by one or two samples taken from
the most typical writers. I have in no way attempted to make a full
collection of what might be thought the most striking pieces of