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Volume I. From the Beginnings to the Cycles of Romance.
[edit]- 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.
[edit]- “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. Renaissance and Reformation.
[edit]- Englishmen and the Classical Renaissance
- 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.
[edit]- 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.
[edit]- 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.
[edit]- 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.
[edit]- 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.
[edit]- 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.
[edit]- 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.
[edit]- 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.
[edit]- 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.
[edit]- 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.
[edit]- 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.
[edit]- 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