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Part of the Handbooks of English Literature series, this comprehensive overview, first published in 1899, provides stimulating discussions of essayists and critics (Samuel Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith), authors of memoirs and letters (Lord Chesterfield, Horace Walpole), political writers (Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine), economists (David Hume), novelists (Richardson, Fielding, Sterne), dramatists, poets, and more.

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Thomas Seccombe (1866-1923) was an English writer, educated at Felsted and Balliol College, Oxford. He wrote more than 700 entries for the Dictionary of National Biography as assistant editor. His books include Twelve Bad Men (1894), The Bookman History of English Literature (1905-6), and In Praise of Oxford (1910).

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