Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Wells of English
It is also to be considered that there are whole libraries of books that have been written upon Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Milton. Many of the less-known subjects require to be studied at first hand that is, in their writings themselves. The general reader only here and there comes across some faint allusion to them or to their work. The clew thus found will lead direct to our best libraries, and a little searching will prove how small a proportion of the literature of more than two hundred and fifty years ago is to be found there. The disappointment will be all the easier to be borne when it is considered that this condition of things illustrates well the doctrine of the survival of the fit test. It could not be otherwise than that much that was good in the past, if not some even of the best, should be eclipsed by the constantly improving quality of an advancing literature.
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