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The educational manual is recommended for the audience of humanitarian specialties of higher educational institutions as well as the specialties in which the history of English language is studied.

The purpose of manual is to outline the development of the literature from period to period due to national life and give some acquaintance with the lives, works of the most important and well-known authors. It also supplies a systematic statement of important facts, so that the greater part of the students’ time may be left free in class for the direct study of literature itself and may use some materials as an independent work.

This manual should also aim first at an understanding of the literature as an expression of the authors’ views of life and of their personalities and especially as a portrayal and interpretation of the life of their periods and of all life as they have seen it; it should aim further at an appreciation of each literary work as a product of art, appealing with peculiar power both to our minds and to our emotions, not least to the sense of beauty and the whole higher nature.

The book is based on the specification of educational programme on the history of the English language and developed as educational manual in the world of British literature. It is intended for students, undergraduates and also teachers of Philology faculties, and all those who are interested in acquainting any period of literature and writing essays about the English language, asking different kinds of Midterm and Examination questions.

Much attention is given to the history of thousand-year-long periods according to the dialects spoken at various times, namely Old English period (from the invasion of Britain by Germanic tribes till the Norman conquest of 1066) – Middle English period (from the early 12^th century to the end of the 15^th century) and the – Early Modern English period (from the early 16 th century roughly to the middle of the 17^th – this is the language of William Shakespeare [1564-1616], John Donne [1572-1631] or John Milton [1608-1674]).

Every lecture is supplied with various themes, definitions and references.