Excerpt from Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical of British Authors, From the Earliest to the Present Times Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical of British Authors, from the Earliest to the Present Times was written by Robert Chambers in 1844. This is a 735 page book, containing 827738 words and 122 pictures. Search Inside is enabled for this title. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.