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A Short biographical dictionary of english literature John W Cousin
A SHORT BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY
OF ENGLISH LITERATURE
JOHN. W. COUSIN
LONDON: PUBLISHED
by J.M. DENT & SONS. LTD
AND IN NEW YORK
BY E.P. DUTTON & CO
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A Short biographical dictionary of english literature John W Cousin
INTRODUCTION
The primary aim of this book is to give as much information about
English authors, including under this designation American and
Colonial writers, as the prescribed limits will admit of. At the same time
an attempt has been made, where materials exist for it, to enhance the
interest by introducing such details as tend to illustrate the characters
and circumstances of the respective writers and the manner in which
they passed through the world; and in the case of the more important, to
give some indication of the relative place which they hold and the
leading features of their work.
Including the Appendix of Living Writers, the work contains upwards
of 1600 names; but large as this number is, the number of those who
have contributed something of interest and value to the vast store of
English Literature is larger still, and any attempt to make a book of this
kind absolutely exhaustive would be futile.
The word "literature" is here used in a very wide sense, and this gives
rise to considerable difficulty in drawing the line of exclusion. There are
very many writers whose claim to admission may reasonably be
considered as good as that of some who have been included; but even
had it been possible to discover all these, their inclusion would have
swelled the work beyond its limits. A line had to be drawn somewhere,
and the writer has used his best judgment in making that line as
consistent as possible. It may probably, however, be safely claimed that
every department of the subject of any importance is well represented.
Wherever practicable (and this includes all but a very few articles),
various authorities have been collated, and pains have been taken to
secure accuracy; but where so large a collection of facts and dates is
involved, it would be too sanguine to expect that success has invariably
been attained.
J.W.C.
January, 1910.
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The following list gives some of the best known works of
Biography:—
Allibone, Critical Dictionary of English Literature and English and
American Authors, 1859-71, Supplement, by J.F. Kirke, 1891; W.
Hazlitt, Collections and Notes of Early English Literature, 1876-93;
R. Chambers, Cyclopædia of English Literature, 1876, 1901; Halkett
and Laign, Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous
Literature, 1882-88; Dictionary of National Biography, ed. by Leslie
Stephen and Sidney Lee, 1885, etc., re-issue, 1908, etc.; Appleton's
Cyclopædia of American Biography, ed. by J. Grant Wilson and
John Fiske, 1887, etc.; J. Thomas, Universal Dictionary of Biography
and Mythology, 1887-89; Men and Women of the Time, 15th edit.,
ed. by Victor G. Plarr, 1889.
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LIST OF CONTRACTIONS USED THROUGHOUT THE WORK
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