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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 The Anglo-French Law Language
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
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 “A Mirror for Magistrates” 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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XV.	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
	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
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
	Later National Literature. Part I. Whitman Poets of the Civil War, I: The North Poets of the Civil War, II: The South The New South: Lanier Dialect Writers The Short Story Books for Children
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
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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