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CONTENTS.

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PAGD

The Languages of Modern Europe

Early Latin Literature in Britain

The Celtic Languages and Literatures

Decay of the Earliest English Scholarship.

The English Language

Original English (commonly called Saxon, or Anglo-Saxon) 20

The Norman Conquest

Arabic and other New Learning

Schools and Universities

Rise of the Scholastic Philosophy

Classical Learning ; Mathematics ; Medicine ; Law; Books

The Latin Language

Latin Chroniclers

The French Language in England

The Langue D'Oc and the Langue D'Oyl

Vernacular Language and Literature: -A.D. 1066–1216

The Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries :-Ascendancy of the

Scholastic Philosophy

Mathematical and other Studies

Universities and Colleges .

Cultivation and Employment of the Learned Tongues in the

Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries

Last Age of the French Language in England

Re-emergence of the English as a Literary Tongue

Second English (commonly called Semi-Saxon).

The Brut of Layamon

The Ancren Riwle

Early English Metrical Romances

Metrical Chronicle of Robert of Gloucester

Robert Mannyng, or De Brunne

Alliterative Verse :-Piers Ploughman

Piers Ploughman's Creed .

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THIRD ENGLISH (Mixed or Compound English)

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Geoffrey Chaucer

Compound English Prose: Sir John Mandevil; Trevisa;

Wiclif; Chaucer

Printing in England :-Caxton

English Chroniclers

Bishop Pecock; Fortescue ; Malory

English Poets Occleve; Eydgate

Scottish Poets :--Wynton ; James I.; Lenryson; Holland;

Prose Writers:–More ; Eljot; Tyndal; Cranner; Latimer

Scottish Prose Writers

English Poets :-Hawes ; Parklay

Roy; John Heywood

Scottish Poets : -Gawin Douglas ; Dunbar ; Lyndsay

The Elizabethan Literature

The Mirror for Magistrates

Origin of the Regular Drama

Interludes of John Heywood

Udall's Ralph Roister Doister

Gammer Gurton's Needle.

Chronicle Histories :-Dale's Kynge Johan, etc.

Tragedy of Gorboduc:-Blank Verse

Other Early Dramas .

Second Stage of the Regular Dráma :-Peeie; Greene

Lyly; Kyd; Lodge

Earlier Elizabethan Prose : -Lyly; Sidney ; Srenser; Nash; etc. 219

Other Elizabethan Poetry :

Michael Drayton

Joshua Sylvester

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Chapman's Homer

Harington ; Fairfax ; Fanshawe

William Drummond

Sir John Davies

Shakespeare's Minor Poems

Shakespeare's Dramatic Works .

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THIRD ENGLISH-continued.

Dramatists contemporary with Shakespeare

Beaumont and Fletcher

Massinger; Ford

Later Élizabethan Prose Writers

Translation of the Bible

Theological Writers :-Dishop Andrews; Donne; Hall; Hooker 274

Historical Writers

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MIDDLE AND LATTER PART OF THE SEVENTEENTH

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Shirley, and end of the Old Drama

Giles Fletcher; Phineas Fletcher

Other Religious Poets :-Quarles; Herbert; Herrick; Crashaw

Cartwright; Randolph; Corbet

Poets of the French School:-Carew; Lovelace ; Suckling

Prose Writers:-Charles I..

Milton's Prose Works.

Hales; Chillingworth

Sir Thomas Browne

Sir James Harrington .

Retrospect of the Cominonwealth Literature

Poetry of Milton.

Other Minor Poets

Prose Writers :-Clarendon

Other Prose Writers: -Cudworth; More; Barrow; Bunyan ; &c.

THE CENTURY BETWEEN THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION

AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

First Effects of the Revolution on our Literature.

Surviving Writers of the preceding Period

Other Theological Writers :- Tillotson; South

Addison and Steele

Shaftesbury; Mandeville

Gay; Arbuthnot; Atterbury

Garth ; Blackmore

Dramatic Writers

Collins; Shenstone; Gray

Armstrong; Akenside; Wilkie; Glover

Scottish Poetry

The Novelists Richardson; Fielding; Smollett

Falconer; Beattie ; Mason

The Wartons ; Percy ; Chatterton; Macpherson

Dramatic Writers

Periodical Essayists

Political Writing :—Wilkes; Junius

Metaphysical and Ethical Writers

Historical Writers :--Hume; Robertson ; Gibbon

Political Economy; Theology; Criticism and Belles Lettres :

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