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Pecock, Fortescue.-22 The 'Paston Letters.'-23. The
Introduction of Printing.-24. Hawes, Barklay, Skelton.-
25. The Scotch Poets.-26. Translations of the Bible.-
27. Berners, More.-28. Elyot, Latimer, Cheke.-29.
Wyatt, Surrey.-30. Early Dramatic Writers.-31. Ballad
Poetry
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CHAPTER IV.
The Age of Spenser, Shakespeare, and Bacon.
1550-1625.
32. Summary of the Period.-33. The Poets: Gascoigne,
Sackville.-34. Sidney.-35. SPENSER.-36. The Minor
Poets.-37. The Growth of the English Drama.-38. Early
English Plays.-39. The Precursors of Shakespeare: Mar-
lowe, &c.-40. SHAKESPEARE.-41. The Contemporaries of
Shakespeare: Jonson, Webster, Beaumont and Fletcher,
Massinger, &c.-42. The Prose Writers: Ascham.-43.
Lyly.-44. Hooker, Raleigh.-45. Bacon.-46. Burton,
Selden, Lord Herbert.-47. The Minor Prose Writers.-48.
The Authorised Version of the Bible.
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CHAPTER V.
The Age of Milton and Dryden.
1625-1700.
19. Summary of the Period.-50. The 'Metaphysical School'
of Poets.-51. Cowley.-52. Herbert, Crashaw. —53.
Quarles, Wither.-54. Herrick, Habington.-55. The
Cavalier Poets.-56. Waller.-57. MILTON.-58. Butler.-
59. Marvell.-60. The Minor Poets.-61. The Prose
Writers.-62. Hobbes, Clarendon.-63. Fuller, Browne.—
64. Walton.-65. The Diarists.-66. Bunyan.-67. Locke,
Temple.-68. The Theologians.-69. The Scientific Writers.
-70. The Minor Prose Writers.-71. The Newspaper Press.
-72. The Survivors of the Shakespearean Stage.-73. The
Stage of the Restoration.-74. DRYDEN.-75. Shadwell,
Lee.-76. Otway, Southerne.-77. The Comic Dramatists 76
CHAPTER VI.
The Age of Pope, Swift, the Novelists, and Johnson.
1700-1785.
78. Summary of the Period.-79. The Poets: POPE.-80.
Prior, Gay.-81. Young, Thomson.-82. Gray, Collins.-
83. Churchill.-84. Chatterton, Macpherson.-85. The
Minor Poets.-86. The Wartons, Percy.-87. The Prose
Writers: Defoe. -88. SWIFT.-89. Berkeley, Arbuthnot.—
90. Shaftesbury, Bolingbroke, Mandeville.-91. The Es-
sayists Addison, Steele, &c. 92. The Novelists:
Richardson, Fielding, Smollett, Sterne, &c.-93. Goldsmith.
-94. JOHNSON.-95. Burke.-96. The Historians.-97.
Wilkes, 'Junius.'-98. Adam Smith, Blackstone.-99. The
Theologians.-100. The Dramatic Writers
CHAPTER VII.
The Age of Wordsworth, Byron, and Scott.
1785-1835.
101. Summary of the Period.-102. The Poets: Cowper.-
103. Crabbe.-104. Darwin.-105. The Della-Cruscans.-
106. Burns.-107. Rogers, Bowles.-108. WORDSWORTH.
109. Southey.-110. Coleridge.-111. Lamb.-112. Camp-
bell.-113. Hogg, Bloomfield.-114. Moore.-115. BYRON.
-116. Shelley.--117. Keats.-118. Leigh Hunt, Landor.
-119. Other Poets.-120. The Novelists: Mrs. Radcliffe.
-121. Lewis, Godwin.-122. Miss Edgeworth, Miss Austen.
-123. SCOTT.-124. Other Novelists.-125. The Philo-
sophers.-126. The Historians.-127. The Theologians.-
128. Hazlitt, Cobbett.-129. The Quarterlies.-130. The
Dramatic Writers
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CHAPTER VIII.
The Modern Age (Deceased Authors).
1835-1875.
131. Summary of the Period.-132. The Poets: Hood.-133.
Mrs. Browning.-134. Other Poets: Miss Procter, Aytoun,
Smith, Clough.-135. The Novelists: Lytton, Dickens,
Thackeray, Lever, Mrs. Nicholls, Mrs. Gaskell, &c.—136.
-The Historians: Macaulay, G. C. Lewis, Grote, Alison,
Milman, Buckle.-137. The Philosophers: Hamilton, J. S.
Mill.-138. The Theologians.-139. The Scientific Writers.
-140. Other Prose Writers: De Quincey.-141. The
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CHAPTER IX.
The Modern Age (cont.) (Deceased Authors).
1875-1896.
142. Summary of the Period.-143. Tennyson and Browning.
-144. Other Poets: Matthew Arnold, Dante Gabriel and
Christina Rossetti, Sir Henry Taylor, William Morris, &c.
-145. The Novelists: Disraeli, George Eliot, R. L. Steven-
son, Kingsley, Trollope, Charles Reade, &c.—146. The
Historians: Carlyle, Froude, Green, Freeman, &c.-147.
The Philosophers and Theologians: Carlyle, Newman,
Pusey, Colenso, Lightfoot, &c.-148. The Scientific Writers:
Darwin, Lyell, Huxley, Tyndall, &c.-149. Other Prose
Writers: John Forster, James Spedding, Sir A. Helps, &c.
-150. The Dramatic Writers
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1340 (?)
VIII. King Arthur and the Round Table, by
Robert of Brunne
273
1346
IX. The Battle of Neville's Cross, by Laurence
Minot.
274
X. The Lady of the Land, by Sir John Mande- ville
A.D.
1356
1377
XI.
1380
XII.
1387
XIII.
The Description of Sloth, by William
Langland
The Parable of the Tares in the Wheat, by
John Wiclif
The Substitution of English for French, by
John of Trevisa
1377-83 (?) XIV. The Vision of Philosophy, by Geoffrey
Chaucer
276
277
XV. The Portrait of the Schipman, by Geoffrey
The Scheme of the Repressor,' by Reginald
Pecock
XVII. Sir Ector's Lament for Sir Lancelot, by
Sir Thomas Malory
XVIII. The Parable of the Tares in the Wheat, by
William Tyndale.
XIX.
XX.
A Letter from Prison, by Sir Thomas More 282
The Bishop and Robin Hood, by Hugh
1535
1549
XXIII. The First Adventure of the Faery Queene,
by Edmund Spenser
284
1590
1595
XXIV. Description of the Red Cross Knight and
Una, Edmund Spenser
XXV. The Elizabethan Stage, by Sir Philip Sidney 286
XXI. The Parable of the Tares in the Wheat,
APPENDIX B.
The 'Canterbury Tales.'
A list of the Tales, in the order adopted by the 'Chaucer Society,' showing the sources (so far as they have been traced) from which Chaucer derived them.
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APPENDIX C.
The Plays of Shakespeare.
A list of the Plays, in the order of the Folio of 1623, showing
the sources (so far as they have been traced) from which
Shakespeare derived the plots, and the probable or approxi-
mate date of production
APPENDIX D.
'Paradise Lost' and 'Paradise Regained.'
A brief account and summary of the twelve books of Paradise
Lost and the four books of Paradise Regained
APPENDIX E.
Dictionary of Minor Authors.
A brief Dictionary of Deceased Minor Authors, &c., giving
the dates of their births and deaths, the reigns in which
they wrote, and the titles of some of their chief works
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