NOTICE.

ALTHOUGH the present edition of the Manual appears with not inconsiderable additions (the greater part of which are printed in smaller type), the work remains substantially the same as when it last issued from the

press.

OXFORD: May 1873.

T. A.

CONTENTS.

HISTORICAL SECTION.

PRELIMINARY CHAPTER.

SECTION 1. ANGLO-SAXON PERIOD: A.D. 449-1066.

Character of Anglo-Saxon Literature.-Works in Latin: Bede, Alcuin.-

Poetry: Gleeman's Song, Beowulf, Caedmon's Paraphrase, Andreas

and Elene, Judith, Brunanburg War-Song.-Prose: Alfred, Saxon

Chronicle
PAGES 1-24

SECTION II. NORMAN PERIOD: 1066-1350.

Decline of the Saxon tongue.-Later portion of the Saxon Chronicle.-
Impulse given to Learning by the Moors.-SCHOLASTIC PHILOSOPHY: St.
Anselm; Abelard; St. Bernard; Peter Lombard; Alexander Hales;
Duns Scotus; William of Occam.-HISTORIANS AND CHRONICLERS: William
of Malmesbury; Geoffrey of Monmouth; Simeon of Durham; Florence of
Worcester; Henry of Huntingdon; Giraldus de Barri; Geoffrey de
Vinesauf; Roger de Hoveden; Roger de Wendover; Matthew Paris;
Ranulf Higden. -LAW AND MEDICINE: Glanvile; Salerno; John of
Salisbury; Walter Map.-SCIENCE: Roger Bacon.-Means of Education;
Universities; Monasteries; invention of Paper.-POETRY: Leonine
Verses; Latin Satires and Epics; Troubadours; Trouvères; French
Romances; Fabliaux; Satires; Historical Poems; English Poets;
Havelok; Rhyming Chroniclers; Layamon; Robert of Gloucester;
Robert Mannyng; Religious Poems; Occasional Poems

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CHAPTER I.

EARLY ENGLISH PERIOD: 1350-1450.

Latin and French Compositions; Walsingham, Fordun, Wyclif; growth of

the English Language and Literature; Chaucer, Sketch of his Life;

Chronology of his Writings.--Gower, Langland, Occleve, Lydgate,

Minot. SCOTTISH POETS: Barbour, James I., Wynton.-PROSE Writers:

Maundevile, Chaucer, Wyclif.

PAGES 71-93

CHAPTER II.

REVIVAL OF LEARNING: 1450-1558.

Decline of Literature; invention of Printing; foundation of Schools and

Universities.-POETRY: Hardyng, Hawes, Skelton, Surrey, Wyat; the

Mirrour for Magistrates; first Poet Laureate.-SCOTTISH POETS: Henry-

son, Dunbar, Gawain Douglas, Lyndsay, Blind Harry.-LEARNING :

Grocyn; Linacre; Colet; the Humanities; state of the Universities.-

PROSE WRITERS: Pecock, Fortescue, Caxton, Leland, More; his Utopia;

Chroniclers (Fabyan, Hall, Grafton); Bale. Theological Writers: Latimer,

More; Roger Ascham
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CHAPTER III.

ELIZABETHAN PERIOD: 1558-1625.

Brilliant Period of our Literature; connected with the social Prosperity of

the Country.-POETS AND DRAMATISTS: Spenser; Shakspeare's Poems;

Southwell, Warner, Daniel, Drayton, Donne, Davies, Chapman, Marston,

Raleigh; rise and progress of the English Drama; Miracle-plays;

Coventry Mysteries; earliest Comedy; Heywood's Interludes; earliest

Tragedy; Dramatic Unities; Greene's pamphlet. Shakspeare; sketch of

his Life; his Comedies; his Tragedies; his Historical Plays. Ben

Jonson; Beaumont and Fletcher; Massinger, Ford, Webster, Marston,

Chapman, Dekker, T. Heywood, Middleton, Rowley, Tourneur, Shirley;

Suppression of the Stage.- PROSE WRITERS: Novels; books of Travel;

Essays; Bacon, Burton; Puttenham; Sir Philip Sidney; earliest news-

paper.-HISTORIANS: Holinshed, Camden, Lord Bacon, Speed, Knolles,

Raleigh, Foxe.-THEOLOGIANS: Jewel, Hooker, Andrewes; Translation

of the Bible.--PHILOSOPHY: Lord Bacon; explanation of his Method;

his Philosophical works. Political Science: Buchanan, Spenser, Raleigh,

Elyot.
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