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THE HISTORICAL SCOPE OF THE SUBJECT.

Literature and Science--English Literature--General Principle--Celts and Cymry--Roman Conquest--Coming of the Saxons--Danish Invasions--The Norman Conquest--Changes in Language

LITERATURE A TEACHER OF HISTORY. CELTIC REMAINS.

The Uses of Literature--Italy, France, England--Purpose of the Work--Celtic Literary Remains--Druids and Druidism--Roman Writers--Psalter of Cashel--Welsh Triads and Mabinogion--Gildas and St. Colm

ANGLO-SAXON LITERATURE AND HISTORY.

The Lineage of the Anglo-Saxon--Earliest Saxon Poem--Metrical Arrangement--Periphrasis and Alliteration--Beowulf--Caedmon--Other Saxon Fragments--The Appearance of Bede

THE VENERABLE BEDE AND THE SAXON CHRONICLE.

Biography--Ecclesiastical History--The Recorded Miracles--Bede's Latin--Other Writers--The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: its Value--Alfred the Great--Effect of the Danish Invasions

THE NORMAN CONQUEST AND ITS EARLIEST LITERATURE.

Norman Rule--Its Oppression--Its Benefits--William of Malmesbury--Geoffrey of Monmouth--Other Latin Chronicles--Anglo-Norman Poets--Richard Wace--Other Poets

THE MORNING TWILIGHT OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.

Semi-Saxon Literature--Layamon--The Ormulum--Robert of Gloucester--Langland. Piers Plowman--Piers Plowman's Creed--Sir Jean Froissart--Sir John Mandevil

CHAUCER, AND THE EARLY REFORMATION.

A New Era: Chaucer--Italian Influence--Chaucer as a Founder--Earlier Poems--The Canterbury Tales--Characters--Satire--Presentations of Woman--The Plan Proposed

CHAUCER .--REFORMS IN RELIGION AND SOCIETY.

Historical Facts--Reform in Religion--The Clergy, Regular and Secular--The Friar and the Sompnour--The Pardonere--The Poure Persone--John Wiclif--The Translation of the Bible--The Ashes of Wiclif

CHAUCER .--PROGRESS OF SOCIETY, AND OF LANGUAGE.

Social Life--Government--Chaucer's English--His Death--Historical Facts--John Gower--Chaucer and Gower--Gower's Language--Other Writers

THE BARREN PERIOD BETWEEN CHAUCER AND SPENSER.

Greek Literature--Invention of Printing. Caxton--Contemporary History--Skelton--Wyatt--Surrey--Sir Thomas Moore--Utopia, and other Works--Other Writers

SPENSER AND THE ELIZABETHAN AGE.

THE ENGLISH DRAMA.

Origin of the Drama--Miracle Plays--Moralities--First Comedy--Early Tragedies--Christopher Marlowe--Other Dramatists--Playwrights and Morals

WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE.

The Power of Shakspeare--Meagre Early History--Doubts of his Identity--What is known--Marries and goes to London--"Venus" and "Lucrece"--Retirement and Death--Literary Habitudes--Variety of the Plays--Table of Dates and Sources

WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE .

The Grounds of his Fame--Creation of Character--Imagination and Fancy--Power of Expression--His Faults--Influence of Elizabeth--Sonnets--Ireland and Collier--Concordance--Other Writers

BACON, AND THE RISE OF THE NEW PHILOSOPHY.

Birth and Early Life--Treatment of Essex--His Appointments--His Fall--Writes Philosophy--Magna Instauratio--His Defects--His Fame--His Essays

THE ENGLISH BIBLE.

Early Versions--The Septuagint--The Vulgate--Wiclif; Tyndale--Coverdale; Cranmer--Geneva; Bishop's Bible--King James's Bible--Language of the Bible--Revision

JOHN MILTON, AND THE ENGLISH COMMONWEALTH.

THE POETRY OF MILTON.

The Blind Poet--Paradise Lost--Milton and Dante--His Faults--Characteristics of the Age--Paradise Regained--His Scholarship--His Sonnets--His Death and Fame

COWLEY, BUTLER, AND WALTON.

Cowley and Milton--Cowley's Life and Works--His Fame--Butler's Career--Hudibras--His Poverty and Death--Izaak Walton--The Angler; and Lives--Other Writers

DRYDEN, AND THE RESTORED STUARTS.

THE RELIGIOUS LITERATURE OF THE GREAT REBELLION AND OF THE RESTORATION.

The English Divines--Hall--Chillingsworth--Taylor--Fuller--Sir T. Browne--Baxter--Fox--Bunyan--South--Other Writers 221

THE DRAMA OF THE RESTORATION.

The License of the Age--Dryden--Wycherley--Congreve--Vanbrugh-- Farquhar--Etherege--Tragedy--Otway--Rowe--Lee--Southern 233

POPE, AND THE ARTIFICIAL SCHOOL.

Contemporary History--Birth and Early Life--Essay, on Criticism--Rape of the Lock--The Messiah--The Iliad--Value of the Translation--The Odyssey--Essay on Man--The Artificial School--Estimate of Pope--Other Writers 241

ADDISON, AND THE REIGN OF QUEEN ANNE.

STEELE AND SWIFT.

Sir Richard Steele--Periodicals--The Crisis--His Last Days--Jonathan Swift: Poems--The Tale of a Tub--Battle of the Books--Pamphlets--M. B. Drapier--Gulliver's Travels--Stella and Vanessa--His Character and Death 264

THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF MODERN FICTION.

The New Age--Daniel Defoe--Robinson Crusoe--Richardson--Pamela, and Other Novels--Fielding--Joseph Andrews--Tom Jones--Its Moral--Smollett--Roderick Random--Peregrine Pickle 280

STERNE, GOLDSMITH, AND MACKENZIE.

The Subjective School--Sterne: Sermons--Tristram Shandy--Sentimental Journey--Oliver Goldsmith--Poems: The Vicar--Histories, and Other Works--Mackenzie--The Man of Feeling 296

THE HISTORICAL TRIAD IN THE SCEPTICAL AGE.

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