The Introduction to English Literature (jan 2, 445 – dec 1, 445)

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"English literature" is a broad term used in many educational settings. It refers to the body of work written or spoken in the English language. It includes prose, poetry, and oral traditions.
The first división would include all thar literature which is generally comprised under the terms lyric and essay.
The second all that which may be called in the broadest sense fiction, the epic, the ballad, the romance, the allegory, the novel, the play and the short story.
The object in such a study is not to frame definitions of lyric, drama, but rather to group together for convenience those pieces of literature which are most akin to each other in form and spirit.
The method of study would be to start with the writings themselves, to try to find out what the author was trying to say, to discover the source of the continued appeal in the work, and to seek to induce, if possible, from the experience of the centuries some criteria of good literature.

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