Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from How to Study Literature: A Guide to the Intensive Study of Literary Masterpieces
This book is intended to aid in the study of litera ture. It is generally conceded that the best method is to take up certain literary masterpieces. But how Shall a masterpiece be studied? A play of Shakespeare's is before the class. The text-book is provided with an introduction and notes. The introduction gives the date and the sources of the play; the notes explain difficult words and allusions. It is easy to assign les sons on this basis, and very easy to set examinations on it. Yet a class may know introduction and notes thoroughly, and still be far from appreciating or even understanding the play as a piece of literature. For the introduction deals with facts of literary history; the notes with philology, grammar, and manners and customs of the time. This information is valuable, it is indispensable, but it is, after all, only a means to an end, and that end is the appreciation and enjoyment of a literary masterpiece.
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