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C. H. (Charles Harold) Herford
Charles Harold Herford (1853–1931) was a British literary scholar and critic known for his work on English literature, particularly the works of Shakespeare and the Elizabethan period. He is best remembered for his "Eversley Series" edition of Shakespeare's complete works, which included critical essays and annotations. Herford also wrote "The Age of Wordsworth," a study of the Romantic poet and his era, highlighting the influence of nature and emotion in literature. As a professor of English Literature at the University of Manchester, Herford made significant contributions to literary studies and was regarded as an influential educator in his field.
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CHAPTER I. EARLY LIFE. PARACELSUS. The Boy sprang up ... and ran,Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.— A Death in the Desert. Dass ich erkenne, was die WeltIm Innersten zusammenhält.— Faust. Judged by his cosmopolitan sympathies and his encyclopædic knowledge, by the scenery and the persons among whom his poetry habitually moves, Browning was one of the least insular of English...
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INTRODUCTION* Koerlighedens Komedie was published at Christiania in 1862. The polite world—so far as such a thing existed at the time in the Northern capital—received it with an outburst of indignation now entirely easy to understand. It has indeed faults enough. The character-drawing is often crude, the action, though full of effective by-play, extremely slight, and the sensational climax has...
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