A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century
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Romance was in no further need of vindication, when allScott's library of prose and verse stood back of her, and "High-piled books in charactery Held, like rich garners, the full-ripened grain. " As to Scott's best invention, the historical romance, I shall not pursueits fortunes to the end. The formula once constituted, its applicationwas easy, whether the period chosen was the Middle Ages or any old periodB. C. Or A. D. Here and there an individual stands forth from the class, either for its ...excellent conformity with the Waverley type or for itsoriginality in deviation. Of the former kind is Charles Reade's "TheCloister and the Hearth" (1861); and of the latter Mr. Maurice Hewlett's"The Forest Lovers" (1898). The title page of Reade's novel describesthe book as "a matter-of-fact romance. " It is as well documented as anyof Scott's, and reposes especially upon the "Colloquies" of Erasmus, thebetrothal of whose parents, with their subsequent separation by themonastic vow of celibacy, is the subject of the story.
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