William Cleaver Wilkinson was an American Baptist clergyman and educator who wrote extensively on literature. Classic French Course in English is a survey and appreciation of French literature designed for anglophone readers, covering major authors and works from the medieval period through the nineteenth century with extended critical commentary and generous quotation in translation.
Such guided introductions to French literature served an important educational function in the late nineteenth century and remain useful as period documents in literary criticism. Download this public-domain text as a free EPUB.