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Edited by A. W. Ward and A. R. Waller. |
Volume I. |
From the Beginnings to the Cycles of Romance.
- The Beginnings
- Runes and Manuscripts
- Early National Poetry
- Old English Christian Poetry
- Latin Writings in England to the Time of Alfred
- Alfred and the Old English Prose of his Reign
- From Alfred to the Conquest
- The Norman Conquest
- Latin Chroniclers from the Eleventh to the Thirteenth Centuries
- English Scholars of Paris and Franciscans of Oxford
- Early Transition English
- The Arthurian Legend
- Metrical Romances, 1200–1500: I
- Metrical Romances, 1200–1500: II
- “Pearl,” “Cleanness,” “Patience” and “Sir Gawayne”
- Later Transition English: Legendaries and Chroniclers
- Later Transition English: Secular Lyrics; Tales; Social Satire
- The Prosody of Old and Middle English
- Changes in the Language to the Days of Chaucer
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II. |
The End of the Middle Ages.
- “Piers the Plowman” and its Sequence
- Religious Movements in the Fourteenth Century
- The Beginnings of English Prose
- The Scottish Language: Early and Middle Scots
- The Earliest Scottish Literature
- John Gower
- Chaucer
- The English Chaucerians
- Stephen Hawes
- The Scottish Chaucerians
- The Middle Scots Anthologies: Anonymous Verse and Early Prose
- English Prose in the Fifteenth Century, I: Pecock, Fortescue, The Paston Letters
- The Introduction of Printing into England and the Early Work of the Press
- English Prose in the Fifteenth Century, II: Caxton, Malory, Berners
- English and Scottish Education. Universities and Public Schools to the Time of Colet
- Transition English Song Collections
- Ballads
- Political and Religious Verse to the Close of the Fifteenth Century—Final Words
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III. |
Renascence and Reformation.
- Englishmen and the Classical Renascence
- Reformation Literature in England
- The Dissolution of the Religious Houses
- Barclay and Skelton: Early German Influences on English Literature
- The Progress of Social Literature in Tudor Times
- Sir David Lyndsay (and the Later Scottish “Makaris”)
- Reformation and Renascence in Scotland
- The New English Poetry
- George Gascoigne
- The Poetry of Spenser
- The Elizabethan Sonnet
- Prosody from Chaucer to Spenser
- Elizabethan Criticism
- Chroniclers and Antiquaries
- Elizabethan Prose Fiction
- The Marprelate Controversy
- “Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity”
- English Universities, Schools and Scholarship in the Sixteenth Century
- The Language from Chaucer to Shakespeare
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IV. |
Prose and Poetry from Sir Thomas North to Michael Drayton.
- Translators
- The “Authorised Version” and its Influence
- Sir Walter Ralegh
- The Literature of the Sea: From the Origins to Hakluyt
- Seafaring and Travel: The Growth of Professional Text-Books and Geographical Literature
- The Song-Books and Miscellanies
- Robert Southwell. Samuel Daniel
- Thomas Campion
- The Successors of Spenser
- Michael Drayton
- John Donne
- The English Pulpit from Fisher to Donne
- Robert Burton, John Barclay and John Owen
- The Beginnings of English Philosophy
- Early Writings on Politics and Economics
- London and the Development of Popular Literature: Character Writing, Satire, The Essay
- Writers on Country Pursuits and Pastimes
- The Book-Trade, 1557–1625
- The Foundation of Libraries
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V. |
The Drama to 1642. Part I.
- Introductory: The Origins of English Drama
- Secular Influences on the Early English Drama: Minstrels, Village Festivals, Folk-Plays
- The Early Religious Drama: Miracle-Plays and Moralities
- Early English Tragedy
- Early English Comedy
- The Plays of the University Wits
- Marlowe and Kyd
- Shakespeare: Life and Plays
- Shakespeare: Poems
- Plays of Uncertain Authorship Attributed to Shakespeare
- The Text of Shakespeare
- Shakespeare on the Continent, 1660–1700
- Lesser Elizabethan Dramatists
- Some Political and Social Aspects of the Later Elizabethan and Earlier Stewart Period
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VI. |
The Drama to 1642. Part II.
- Ben Jonson
- Chapman, Marston, Dekker
- Middleton and Rowley
- Thomas Heywood
- Beaumont and Fletcher
- Philip Massinger
- Tourneur and Webster
- Ford and Shirley
- Lesser Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists
- The Elizabethan Theatre
- The Children of the Chapel Royal and their Masters
- University Plays
- Masque and Pastoral
- The Puritan Attack upon the Stage
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VII. |
Cavalier and Puritan.
- Cavalier Lyrists
- The Sacred Poets
- Writers of the Couplet
- Lesser Caroline Poets
- Milton
- Caroline Divines
- John Bunyan. Andrew Marvell
- Historical and Political Writings, I: State Papers and Letters
- Historical and Political Writings, II: Histories and Memoirs
- Antiquaries: Sir Thomas Browne, Thomas Fuller, Izaak Walton, Sir Thomas Urquhart
- Jacobean and Caroline Criticism
- Hobbes and Contemporary Philosophy
- Scholars and Scholarship, 1600–60
- English Grammar Schools
- The Beginnings of English Journalism
- The Advent of Modern Thought in Popular Literature: The Witch Controversy, Pamphleteers
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VIII. |
The Age of Dryden.
- Dryden
- Samuel Butler
- Political and Ecclesiastical Satire
- The Early Quakers
- The Restoration Drama, I
- The Restoration Drama, II: Congreve, Vanbrugh, Farquhar, etc.
- The Restoration Drama, III: Tragic Poets
- The Court Poets
- The Prosody of the Seventeenth Century
- Memoir and Letter Writers
- Platonists and Latitudinarians
- Divines of the Church of England, 1660–1700
- Legal Literature
- John Locke
- The Progress of Science
- The Essay and the Beginning of Modern English Prose
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IX. |
From Steele and Addison to Pope and Swift.
- Defoe—The Newspaper and the Novel
- Steele and Addison
- Pope
- Swift
- Arbuthnot and Lesser Prose Writers
- Lesser Verse Writers
- Historical and Political Writers, I: Burnet
- Historical and Political Writers, II: Bolingbroke
- Memoir-Writers, 1715–60
- Writers of Burlesque and Translators
- Berkeley and Contemporary Philosophy
- William Law and the Mystics
- Scholars and Antiquaries
- Scottish Popular Poetry before Burns
- Education
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X. |
The Rise of the Novel: Johnson and his Circle.
- Richardson
- Fielding and Smollett
- Sterne, and the Novel of His Times
- The Drama and the Stage
- Thomson and Natural Description in Poetry
- Gray
- Young, Collins and Lesser Poets of the Age of Johnson
- Johnson and Boswell
- Oliver Goldsmith
- The Literary Influence of the Middle Ages: Macpherson’s Ossian, Chatterton, Percy and the Wartons
- Letter-Writers
- Historians, I: Hume and Modern Historians
- Historians, II: Gibbon
- Philosophers: Hume, Smith and Others
- Divines
- The Literature of Dissent, 1660–1760
- Political Literature, 1755–75
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XI. |
The Earlier Georgian Age.
- Edmund Burke
- Political Writers and Speakers
- Bentham and the Early Utilitarians
- William Cowper
- William Wordsworth
- Coleridge
- George Crabbe
- Southey; Lesser Poets of the Eighteenth Century
- Blake
- Burns; Lesser Scottish Verse
- The Prosody of the Eighteenth Century
- The Georgian Drama
- The Growth of the Later Novel
- Book Production and Distribution, 1625–1800
- The Bluestockings
- Children’s Books
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XII. |
The Romantic Revival.
- Sir Walter Scott
- Byron
- Shelley
- Keats
- Lesser Poets, 1790–1837: Rogers, Campbell, Moore and Others
- Reviews and Magazines in the Early Years of the Nineteenth Century
- Hazlitt
- Lamb
- The Landors, Leigh Hunt, De Quincey
- Jane Austen
- Lesser Novelists
- The Oxford Movement
- The Growth of Liberal Theology
- Historians: Writers on Ancient and Early Ecclesiastical History
- Scholars, Antiquaries and Bibliographers
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XIII. |
The Victorian Age. Part I.
- Carlyle
- The Tennysons
- Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Matthew Arnold, Arthur Hugh Clough, James Thomson
- The Rossettis, William Morris, Swinburne and Others
- Lesser Poets of the Middle and Later Nineteenth Century
- The Prosody of the Nineteenth Century
- Nineteenth-Century Drama
- Thackerey
- Dickens
- The Political and Social Novel: Disraeli, Charles Kingsley, Mrs. Gaskell, “George Eliot”
- The Brontës
- Lesser Novelists
- George Meredith, Samuel Butler, George Gissing
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XIV. |
The Victorian Age. Part II.
- Philosophers
- Historians, Biographers and Political Orators
- Critical and Miscellaneous Prose: John Ruskin and Others
- The Growth of Journalism
- University Journalism
- Caricature and the Literature of Sport; “Punch”
- The Literature of Travel, 1700–1900
- The Literature of Science
- Anglo-Irish Literature
- Anglo-Indian Literature
- English-Canadian Literature
- The Literature of Australia and New Zealand
- South African Poetry
- Education
- Changes in the Language since Shakespeare’s Time
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AMERICAN |
Edited by W. P. Trent, J. Erskine, S. P. Sherman, and C. Van Doren. |
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Colonial and Revolutionary Literature.
- Travellers and Explorers, 1583–1763
- The Historians, 1607–1783
- The Puritan Divines, 1620–1720
- Edwards
- Philosophers and Divines, 1720–1789
- Franklin
- Colonial Newspapers and Magazines, 1704–1775
- American Political Writing, 1760–1789
- The Beginnings of Verse, 1610–1808
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Early National Literature. Part I.
- Travellers and Observers, 1763–1846
- The Early Drama, 1756–1860
- Early Essayists
- Irving
- Bryant and the Minor Poets
- Fiction I: Brown, Cooper
- Fiction II: Contemporaries of Cooper
- Transcendentalism
- Emerson
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XVI. |
Early National Literature. Part II.
- Thoreau
- Hawthorne
- Longfellow
- Whittier
- Poe
- Publicists and Orators, 1800–1850
- Webster
- Writers on American History, 1783–1850
- Prescott and Motley
- Early Humorists
- Magazines, Annuals and Gift-books, 1783–1850
- Newspapers, 1775–1860
- Divines and Moralists, 1783–1860
- Writers of Familiar Verse
- Lowell
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XVII. |
Later National Literature. Part II.
- Mark Twain
- Minor Humorists
- Later Poets
- The Later Novel: Howells
- Henry James
- Later Essayists
- Travellers and Explorers, 1846–1900
- Later Historians
- Later Theology
- Later Philosophy
- The Drama, 1860–1918
- Later Magazines
- Newspapers Since 1860
- Political Writing Since 1850
- Lincoln
- Education
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XVIII. |
Later National Literature. Part III.
- Economists
- Scholars
- Patriotic Songs and Hymns
- Oral Literature
- Popular Bibles
- Book Publishers and Publishing
- The English Language in America
- Non-English Writings, I: German, French, Yiddish
- Non-English Writings, II: Aboriginal
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