Значение слова TURNER в Литературной энциклопедии

TURNER

SHARON (1768-1847).-Historian, _b._ in London, was a solicitor, and becoming interested in the study of Icelandic and Anglo-Saxon literature, _pub._ the results of his researches in his _History of the Anglo-Saxons_ (1799-1805). Thereafter he continued the narrative in _History of England_ (1814-29), carrying it on to the end of the reign of Elizabeth. These histories, especially the former, though somewhat marred by an attempt to emulate the grandiose style of Gibbon, were works of real research, and opened up, and to a considerable extent developed, a new field of inquiry. T. also wrote a _Sacred History of the World_, and a poem on Richard III.

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