English writers: an attempt towards a history of English literature

Online version:

I. Introduction. Origins. Old Celtic literature. Beowulf. 2d ed. 1887

II. From Cædmon to the conquest. 1888

III. From the conquest to Chaucer. 2d ed. ed. 1889

IV-V. The fourteenth century. 1889-90

VI. From Chaucer to Caxton. 1890

VII. From Caxton to Coverdale. 1891

VIII. From Surrey to Spenser. 1892

IX. Spenser and his time. 1892

X. Shakespeare and his time: under Elizabeth. 1893

XI. Shakespeare and his time: under James. 1895