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Title: The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory
(Periods of European Literature, vol. II)

Author: George Saintsbury

Release Date: May 24, 2007 [EBook #21600]

Language: English

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converted to periods. The Anglo-Saxon yogh symbol is here represented
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Periods of European Literature

EDITED BY

PROFESSOR SAINTSBURY

II.

THE TWELFTH AND THIRTEENTH CENTURIES

PERIODS OF EUROPEAN LITERATURE.

EDITED BY PROFESSOR SAINTSBURY.

"_The criticism which alone can much help us for the future
is a criticism which regards Europe as being, for
intellectual and spiritual purposes, one great
confederation, bound to a joint action and working to a
common result._"

--MATTHEW ARNOLD.

In 12 Crown 8vo Volumes. Price 5s. net each.

The DARK AGES Professor W.P. KER.
The FLOURISHING OF ROMANCE
AND THE RISE OF ALLEGORY THE EDITOR.
The FOURTEENTH CENTURY F.J. SNELL.
The TRANSITION PERIOD
The EARLIER RENAISSANCE
The LATER RENAISSANCE DAVID HANNAY.
The FIRST HALF OF 17TH CENTURY
The AUGUSTAN AGES OLIVER ELTON.
The MID-EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
The ROMANTIC REVOLT EDMUND GOSSE.
The ROMANTIC TRIUMPH WALTER H. POLLOCK.
The LATER NINETEENTH CENTURY THE EDITOR.

WILLIAM BLACKWOOD & SONS, EDINBURGH AND LONDON.

THE

FLOURISHING OF ROMANCE

AND THE

RISE OF ALLEGORY

BY

GEORGE SAINTSBURY, M.A.

PROFESSOR OF RHETORIC AND ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF
EDINBURGH

WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS
EDINBURGH AND LONDON
MDCCCXCVII

PREFACE.

As this volume, although not th