His 1897 history of English literature (of which the version reissued here was published a year later by William Heinemann as Volume 3 in the series Short Histories of the Literatures of the World) ...

The common language is disappearing ... and common sense.... In the history of modern English there is no period in which such victory over thought-in-speech has been so widespread. Nor in the past ...

The approaches adopted in examining language change and history are equally varied ... We hosted the Fourth International Conference on Late Modern English in May 2010, on the theme ‘Late Modern ...