HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE

"And as I lay and lined and looked on the waters slombred into a sleeping, it swayed so murye"- From The vision on Pier’s Plowman by William Langland

The wit remains too: in his last poem, written when he was dying, he bargains with God about forgiving his sins, punning in the last lines on his name:
"And, having done that, Thou hast done:/I fear no more. – JOHN Donne

"the proper study of mankind is man", -Alexander Pope

Dryden did for English poetry what Augustus had done for the city of Rome—"he found it brick and left it marble." – Dr Johnson

"the contemporary l.iterature of France was characterised by lucidity, vivacity, and—by reason of theclose attention given to form—correctness, elegance, and finish...It was moreover a literature inwhich intellect was in the ascendant and the critical faculty always in control." – by W.H. Hudson in “An Outline History of English literature”

"It is almost exclusively a "town"poetry, made out of the interests of 'society' in the great centres of culture. The humbler aspects of life are neglected in it, and it shows no real love of nature, landscape, ortountry things and people." – W.H.Hudson wrote about Neo classical poetry

Romanticism described by Pater, “the addition of strangeness to beauty” By Watt Dunton, “therenaissance of wonder” By Goethe, “Romanticism is disease, Classicism is health.”

“Human sorrow becomes an elemental passion,profound, eternal and burning like a flame.” By W.B. Yeats in the poem “Crazy Jane”