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PART II.
PERIOD OF TRANSITIONAL ENGLISH:
1066-1350.
CHAPTER I.
WRITINGS OF ENGLISHMEN IN LATIN AND IN FRENCH.
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1. The English Language before and after the Norman Conquest.
-2. Writings in Latin and in French.-3. Chronicles.
4. William of Malmesbury.-5. Geoffrey of Monmouth.-6.
Wace.-7. A Group of Minor Chroniclers. 8. Ralph Higden.
-9. Romances; Walter Map. 10. Other Romance-Writers.
-11. Sawulf. — 12. Hilarius. · 13. Miracle-Plays and Mys-
teries.-14. Writers on Science; Athelard of Bath. — 15.
Alexander Neckham.-16. Roger Bacon.-17. Writers on
Law; Ralph Glanville; Henry of Bracton.-18. Religious
Discussion; English Debate concerning Authority. - 19. Nigel
Wireker.-20. Robert Grosseteste.-21. Richard de Bury
CHAPTER II.
WRITINGS IN THE ENGLISH OF THE TRANSITIONAL PERIOD.
1. State of English Literature in this Period. — 2. Layamon. — 3.
Orm.-4. Nicholas of Guildford; Devotional and Moral Writ-
ings; Romances; Ancren Riwle.-5. Robert of Gloucester and
his Contemporaries. — 6. Robert of Brunne.—7. Laurence
Minot.-8. Richard Rolle.-9. Dan Michel.-10. Ralph Hig-
den and English Miracle-Plays.-11. The Chester Plays. — 12.
The Shepherds' Play. -13. The Modern Drama
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1. Chaucer's English.-2. Chaucer's Parentage and Birth-Year.
3. His Education. -4. His Training for Poetry.-5. His
Translations of "Le Roman de la Rose" and Boëthius. 6.
"The Court of Love."-7. Chaucer's Stanza.-8. "The As-
sembly of Foules."-9. "Complaint of the Black Knight."
10. Chaucer's Military Career. - 11. His "Dream."— 12.
"Book of the Duchess."-13. His Political Life. - 14. Sec-
ond Period of his Literary Life; "Troilus and Cressida.".
15. "House of Fame."—16. “ Legend of Good Women."
17. His Further Political Life.-18. "The Flower and the
Leaf."-19. "The Cuckoo and the Nightingale."-20. His
Political Life continued; "The Astrolabe."-21. His Last
Years.-22. "Canterbury Tales."-23. His so-called Spuri-
ous Writings
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SECOND HALF OF THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY: CHAUCER'S LITE-
RARY CONTEMPORARIES.
1. John Gower; his Balades; “ Speculum Meditantis;" "Vox Cla-
mantis;" "Confessio Amantis;" his Later Years; "Tripar-
tite Chronicle."-2. William Langland; "The Vision of
Piers Ploughman;" Imitations of it.-3. John Barbour;
"Bruce."-4. Sir John Mandeville; "Travels." -5. John
Wiclif.-6. John Trevisa; "Translation of Higden's Poly-
chronicon."-7. Ralph Strode
CHAPTER III.
THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY: POETS.
1. Intellectual Character of the Fifteenth Century. - 2. Develop-
ment of the English Language and of English Style; Reserved
Energies. 3. John Lydgate.
4. Thomas Occleve.
James I. of Scotland.-6. Minor Poets. —7. Ballads
CHAPTER IV.
THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY: PROSE-WRITERS.
5.
1. Literary Use of Latin.-2. Reginald Pecock.-3. Sir John
Fortescue. 4. William Caxton. - 5. Sir Thomas Malory. -
6. John Tiptoft; Anthony Woodville
CHAPTER V.
FIRST HALF OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY:
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1. Characters of the English Monarchs. -2. The New Learning
and its Chief Promoters.-3. Sir Thomas More. -4. Henry
VIII. as an Author.-3. Hugh Latimer.-6. William Tyn-
dal.-7. Other English Translators of the Bible. - S. Chroni-
clers in Latin.-9. Chroniclers in English; John Bellenden;
Robert Fabyan; Edward Hall; Lord Berners's Froissart.
John Leland.-11. Sir Thomas Elyot
CHAPTER VI.
10.
FIRST HALF OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY: POETRY AND THE
DRAMA.
1. John Skelton.-2. William Dunbar.-3. Gavin Douglas. — 4.
Sir David Lindsay of the Mount. -5. Sir Thomas Wyatt.
6. Earl of Surrey.-7. Alexander Barclay. - S. Stephen
Hawes.-9. William Roy.-10. Scottish Hymns.-11. The
Drama; the Morality-Play. - 12. Skelton's Magnificence."
-13. Lindsay's Satire on the Three Estates.-14. Rise of the
Modern Drama. - 15. The First Comedy; Nicholas Udall. ·
16. Masques.-17. Interludes; John Heywood
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1. Approach of the Elizabethan Era in Literature. - 2. Classical
Study. 3. Writers of Books in Latin; Sir John Cheke and
Sir Thomas Smith.-4. Other Writers in Latin.-5. George
Buchanan.-6. The Translators from Greek, Latin, Italian,
and French; Phaer; Twyne; Golding; Turberville; Brooke;
Paynter; North; Stanihurst; Hall; Googe; Florio; Haring-
ton; Carew; Fairfax; Savile; Sylvester.-7. Religious Writ-
ings; Whittingham; the Geneva Bible; the Bishops' Bible.
8. John Knox.-9. John Fox.-10. Stephen Gosson. — 11.
Philip Stubbes.-12. Richard Hooker
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SECOND HALF OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY: ASCHAM, LYLY,
SIDNEY, AND OTHER WRITERS OF SECULAR PROSE.
1. Roger Ascham. -2. John Lyly.-3. Sir Philip Sidney. — 4.
Literary History and Criticism; John Bale; William Webbe;
George Puttenham.-5. Literary Anthologies; John Boden-
ham; Francis Meres.-6. History and Biography; George
Cavendish; Richard Grafton; John Stow; Ralph Holinshed.
-7. Books of Travel; Sir Humphrey Gilbert; Thomas Hariot;
Richard Hakluyt.
208
SECOND HALF OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY: POETRY AND THE
14.
1. Poetical Miscellanies. -2. Devotional Poetry; Parker; Stern-
hold and Hopkins.-3. Thomas Tusser. -4. Thomas Sack-
ville. —5. “A Mirror for Magistrates.”—6. Nicholas Grimald.
-7. Thomas Churchyard. 8. George Turbervile.-9.
George Gascoigne. —10. Gabriel Harvey. — 11. Edmund Spen-
ser. 12. Fulke Greville. - 13. George Whetstone.
Thomas Watson. - 15. William Warner. - 16. Henry Con-
stable and Robert Southwell.-17. Sir John Davies. — 18.
First English Tragedy.-19. Translations of Latin Tragedies.
-20. Development of the Drama in England; Richard Ed-
wards; Actors and Theatres.-21. Thomas Lodge.-22. An-
thony Munday.-23. The Writers of Plays. - 24. George
Peele.-25. John Lyly.-26. Robert Greene.-27. Henry
Chettle.-28. Thomas Kyd. -29. Thomas Nash.-30. Chris-
topher Marlowe
.
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FIRST HALF OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY: DRAMATIC LITERA-
TURE: SHAKESPEARE, HIS CONTEMPORARIES, AND IMMEDIATE
Shakespeare.
SUCCESSORS.
1. English Writers in the Early Years of the Century. 2. William
-3. Ben Jonson. -4. Beaumont and Fletcher.
-5. George Chapman; Thomas Heywood.-6. Thomas Mid-
dleton.-7. Thomas Dekker. -8. John Marston.-9. William
Alexander. - 10. Cyril Tourneur.—11. William Rowley.-12.
Nathaniel Field. — 13. Philip Massinger; John Webster.-14.
John Ford; James Shirley.-15. Thomas May. 16. Jasper
Mayne.-17. Thomas Randolph.-18. Sir William Dave-
FIRST HALF OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY: POETRY CHIEFLY
NON-DRAMATIC.
1. Samuel Daniel. -2. Michael Drayton. 3. William Browne.
4. Giles Fletcher; Phineas Fletcher.-5. George Wither. -6.
William Drummond.-7. Later Euphuism in Poetry.—8.
John Donne.-9. Thomas Coryat; John Taylor.-10. Fran-
cis Quarles. 11. George Herbert.-12. Richard Crashaw.
13. Character Poetry; Overbury; Habington; Earle. — 14. The
Translators; George Chapman; George Sandys; Barten Holy-
day.-15. Wits, Satirists, and Song-Writers; Joseph Hall. —
16. Sir John Harington.-17. Richard Corbet.-18. John
Cleveland.-19. Thomas Carew.-20. Sir John Denham. -
21. Sir John Suckling.-22. William Cartwright. -23. Rich-
ard Lovelace.-24. Robert Herrick.-25. The Position of John
Milton in Literature; His Earlier Poetry
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FIRST HALF OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY: SCHOLARS, HISTORI-
ANS, AND MEN OF SCIENCE.
1. Learned Men; James I.-2. Cotton and Bodley.-3. Robert
Burton.-4. Lancelot Andrewes. —5. James Usher.-6. John
Selden.-7. Sir Henry Wotton; John Hales.-8. John Light-
foot.-9. Sir Henry Spelman. - 10. John Hayward. - 11. Wil-
liam Camden. - 12. Historians; John Speed. — 13. Samuel
Purchas.-14. Sir Walter Raleigh. 15. Richard Knolles;
Alexander Ross.-16. Lord Herbert of Cherbury.-17. Spottis-
woode; Calderwood. - 18. Thomas Fuller.-19. Men of Sci-
ence; Francis Bacon.-20. John Napier; William Harvey. -
21. John Wilkins. 22. Samuel Hartlib.-23. John Wallis . 337
CHAPTER VII.
FIRST HALF OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY: RELIGIOUS, PHILO-
SOPHICAL, AND POLITICAL WRITERS.
1. Owen Feltham.-2. Henry More.-3. Richard Sibbes. -4. Jere-
my Taylor.-5. William Prynne.-6. Peter Heylin.-7. Wil-
liam Chillingworth. 8. Philip Hunton; Sir Robert Filmer. -
9. John Gauden.-10. John Milton.