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English Literature
Table of Contents
- Dedication 9
- Preface 10
- Chapter I 20
- Introduction—the Meaning Of Literature 20
- Chapter Ii 41
- I. Our First Poetry 42
- A Page From The Manuscript Of Beowulf 65
- Ii. Anglo-saxon Life 74
- Iii. Christian Writers Of The Anglo-saxon Period 91
- Ruins At Whitby 99
- Chapter Iii 133
- I. Historical Introduction 134
- Leif Ericson's Vessel 139
- Ii. Literature Of The Norman Period 145
- Canterbury Cathedral As It Was Completed Long After The Conquest 146
- Chapter Iv 187
- The New National Life And Literature 188
- Tabard Inn 208
- Chaucer's Contemporaries 220
- John Wyclif 229
- John Mandeville 231
- Chapter V 242
- I. History Of The Period 243
- Ii. Literature Of The Revival 252
- Chapter Vi 267
- I. History Of The Period 268
- Ii. The Non-dramatic Poets Of The Elizabethan Age 276
- Edmund Spenser 279
- Minor Poets 302
- Iii. The First English Dramatists 309
- Periods In The Development Of The Drama 312
- Iv. Shakespeare 357
- William Shakespeare 360
- Anne Hathaway Cottage 371
- Birthplace Of Shakespeare 378
- V. Shakespeare's Contemporaries And Successors In The Drama 402
- Ben Jonson 409
- Vi. The Prose Writers 427
- Chapter Vii 476
- I. Historical Summary 477
- Ii. Literature Of The Puritan Period 489
- John Milton 521
- Iii. Prose Writers Of The Puritan Period 556
- John Bunyan 558
- Minor Prose Writers 577
- Chapter Viii 599
- The Age Of French Influence 600
- Westminster 631
- Chapter Ix 652
- I. Augustan Or Classic Age 653
- Jonathan Swift 681
- Joseph Addison 701
- Ii. The Revival Of Romantic Poetry 762
- Thomas Gray 773
- Church At Stoke Poges 776
- Oliver Goldsmith 781
- William Cowper 796
- Robert Burns 807
- Birthplace Of Burns 812
- Minor Poets Of The Revival 833
- Iii. The First English Novelists 846
- Daniel Defoe 864
- Smollett And Sterne 884
- Chapterx 922
- The Second Creative Period Of English Literature 923
- I. The Poets Of Romanticism 940
- William Wordsworth 941
- Wordsworth's Home At Rydal Mount 955
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge 971
- Robert Southey 987
- Walter Scott 994
- Abbotsford 999
- Percy Bysshe Shelley 1027
- Charles Lamb 1057
- Thomas De Quincey 1070
- Chapterxi 1121
- The Modern Period Of Progress And Unrest 1122
- I. The Poets Of The Victorian Age 1134
- Minor Poets Of The Vistorian Age 1192
- Ii. The Novelists Of The Victorian Age 1205
- William Makepeace Thackeray 1233
- Minor Novelists Of The Victorian Age 1269
- Iii. Essayists Of The Victorian Age 1287
- Thomas Babington Macaulay 1293
- University Of Edinburgh 1308
- John Ruskin 1335
- Generalbibliography 1411
- Index 1420
- Key To Pronunciation 1421
- The End 1535
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