“ History of English Literature”

The subject matter of literature is man himself. The writer’s task is to preserve man’s tragedies and triumphs, his fears and foibles, his insights and insufficiences. The writer seeeks to discover and portray the essentials of human existence. The creator is a man of exceptional insight. He is able to see more clearly than other men. To him has been given the power to make enduring statements about the human condition. Whenever he puts his statement into the form of a novel, an essay, a short story, or a poem is secondary to the significance and clarity of the statement itself. Each literature is unique, so is English. This text of lectures on History of English literature is intended for the students of university higher educational philology faculty. It introduces the students with the main phenomena of the history of English Literature beginnings from its origin and coming to end with today’s literature. Formation and development of battles in different historical epoch are observed. Special attention is paid to the problem of national specificity of English Literature.