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Title: Romance
Two Lectures

Author: Walter Raleigh

Release Date: September 25, 2006 [eBook #19367]
Language: English
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Transcribed from the 1916 Princeton University Press edition by David
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ROMANCE

TWO LECTURES BY
SIR WALTER RALEIGH
M.A., PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, FELLOW OF
MERTON COLLEGE
LECTURES DELIVERED AT PRINCETON
UNIVERSITY, MAY 4TH AND 6TH, 1915
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
PRINCETON
LONDON: HUMPHREY MILFORD
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
1916
Copyright, 1916, by
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
Published October, 1916


THE ORIGIN OF ROMANCE

The period of English political history which falls between Pitt's
acceptance of office as prime minister, in 1783, and the passing of the
Reform Bill, in 1832, is a period rich in character and event. The same
period of fifty years is one of the most crowded epochs of our national
literature.
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