English Literature
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...elsewhere, see American literature ; Australian...the most important force in English literary...of people. These forces produced during...Purchas , and Sir Walter Raleigh were eagerly...number of graceful biographies of prominent writers...in the person of Charles II, literary tastes...Vanbrugh . John Dryden began as a playwright...Boswell , whose biography of Johnson is a...Monk" Lewis , Charles Maturin , and others...sublimity of the natural world, artists and intellectuals...Patmore . Algernon Charles Swinburne began...comic operettas of W. S. Gilbert and...sensibility. World War I shook England...