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Andrew Lang. History of English Literature from "Beowulf" to Swinburne
History of English Literature from “Beowulf” to Swinburne
Table of Contents
PREFACE
LIST OF AUTHORS
CHAPTER I. ANGLO-SAXON LITERATURE
The Anglo-Saxon Way of Living
Minstrels, Story-tellers, and Stories
Beowulf
The Wanderer
The Plaint of Deor
The Seafarer
Waldhere
The Fight at Finnsburg
CHAPTER II. ANGLO-SAXON CHRISTIAN POETRY
Cædmon
Cynewulf
Andreas
Dream of the Rood
Elene
Riddles
Phœnix
CHAPTER III. ANGLO-SAXON LEARNING AND PROSE
Latin Among the Anglo-Saxons
Bede
Alcuin
Alfred
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
The Monks and Learning
Ælfric
CHAPTER IV. AFTER THE NORMAN CONQUEST
Latin Literature
Walter Map
Changes Since the Conquest
CHAPTER V. GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH
The Stories of Arthur
CHAPTER VI. LAYAMON'S "BRUT"
Ormulum
Ancren Riwle
The Owl and the Nightingale
Lyrics
Political Songs
Robert of Gloucester
Cursor Mundi
Devotional Books
Minot
CHAPTER VII. THE ROMANCES IN RHYME
Tristram
Havelok
King Horn
Beues of Hamtoun
Guy of Warwick
Arthur and Merlin
The Tale of Troy
The Story of Troy from Homer to Shakespeare
King Alisaundre
CHAPTER VIII. ALLITERATIVE ROMANCES AND POEMS
Gawain and the Green Knight
Pearl
Huchown
CHAPTER IX. CHAUCER
Early Poems
The Dethe of the Duchesse
Other Early Poems
Troilus and Criseyde
The Canterbury Tales
CHAPTER X "PIERS PLOWMAN." GOWER
Gower
CHAPTER XI. THE SUCCESSORS OF CHAUCER
Occleve
Hawes
CHAPTER XII. LATE MEDIAEVAL PROSE
Wyclif
Chaucer's Prose Style
Trevisa
Mandeville
Pecock. "The Repressor."
Capgrave
Lord Berners
CHAPTER XIII. MALORY
CHAPTER XIV. EARLY SCOTTISH LITERATURE
Barbour
Wyntoun
The Kingis Quhair
Henryson
Dunbar
Blind Harry
The Buke of the Howlat
Gawain Douglas
Sir David Lyndsay
CHAPTER XV. POPULAR POETRY. BALLADS
PROFESSIONAL POETRY. Skelton. Barclay
Barclay
CHAPTER XVI. RISE OF THE DRAMA
Heywood
Ralph Roister Doister
Gammer Gurton's Needle
"Gorboduc."
CHAPTER XVII. WYATT AND SURREY. GASCOIGNE. SACKVILLE
The Earl of Surrey
Tottel's Miscellany
Gascoigne
Sackville
CHAPTER XVIII. PROSE OF THE RENAISSANCE
Elyot
Ascham
Lyly's Euphues
Sidney
Spenser
CHAPTER XIX. THE ELIZABETHAN STAGE AND PLAYWRIGHTS
John Lyly
Peele
Greene
Lodge
Nash
Marlowe
Kyd
Shakespeare
The Sonnets
Later Plays
Jonson
Jonson's Prose
CHAPTER XX. OTHER DRAMATISTS
Beaumont and Fletcher
Chapman
John Marston
Dekker
Middleton
Heywood
Webster
Massinger
Ford
Shirley
CHAPTER XXI. ELIZABETHAN AND JACOBEAN PROSE WRITERS
Hooker
"Martin Marprelate."
Bacon
Raleigh
Overbury
Translators
The Authorized Version of the Bible
Pulpit Eloquence
CHAPTER XXII. LATE ELIZABETHAN AND JACOBEAN POETS
Minor Lyrists
Drayton
Daniel
Davies
Giles and Phineas Fletcher
Corbet
Sir John Beaumont
CHAPTER XXIII. LATE JACOBEAN AND CAROLINE PROSE
Burton
Herbert of Cherbury
Browne
CAROLINE PROSE. Milton
Jeremy Taylor
Thomas Fuller
Hobbes
Izaak Walton
John Bunyan
Clarendon
CHAPTER XXIV. CAROLINE POETS
Crashaw
Herbert
Vaughan
Herrick
Carew
Lovelace
Suckling
Habington
Cartwright
Davenant
Cowley
Denham
Sherburne, Stanley, Browne, Cotton
Waller
Marvell
Milton
Samuel Butler
CHAPTER XXV. RESTORATION THEATRE
Congreve
Vanbrugh
George Farquhar
Otway
Nat Lee
Dryden
CHAPTER XXVI. AUGUSTAN POETRY
Alexander Pope
Prior
Gay
Ambrose Philips
Tickell
CHAPTER XXVII. AUGUSTAN PROSE
Steele
Addison
Swift
De Foe
CHAPTER XXVIII. GEORGIAN POETRY. I
Edward Young
James Thomson
William Collins
Thomas Gray
The Wartons
John Dyer
William Shenstone
CHAPTER XXIX. GEORGIAN POETRY. II
Thomas Chatterton
William Cowper
Literature in Scotland (1550-1790)
Robert Burns
Charles Churchill
George Crabbe
CHAPTER XXX. GEORGIAN PROSE. I
The Great Novelists
Henry Fielding
Tobias Smollett
CHAPTER XXXI. GEORGIAN PROSE. II
Samuel Johnson
Oliver Goldsmith
Edmund Burke
The Revival of the Ballad
Horace Walpole
Laurence Sterne
David Hume
Robertson
Edward Gibbon
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Junius
CHAPTER XXXII. THE ROMANTIC MOVEMENT
Coleridge
Walter Scott
William Wordsworth
Robert Southey
Shelley
Byron
Keats
Walter Savage Landor
CHAPTER XXXIII. LATER GEORGIAN NOVELISTS
Frances Burney
Mrs. Radcliffe
Maria Edgeworth
Charles Brockden Brown
Jane Austen
Walter Scott
James Fenimore Cooper
Washington Irving
Magazines and Essayists
Charles Lamb
Leigh Hunt
William Hazlitt
Thomas de Quincey
CHAPTER XXXIV. POETS AFTER WORDSWORTH
Philip Freneau
William Cullen Bryant
John Greenleaf Whittier
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Alfred Tennyson
Robert Browning
Edgar Allan Poe
Ralph Waldo Emerson
James Russell Lowell
Matthew Arnold
GENERAL WRITERS
CHAPTER XXXV. LATE VICTORIAN POETS
Edward FitzGerald
George Meredith
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Christina Rossetti
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
William Morris
Swinburne
Poetic Underwoods
CHAPTER XXXVI. LATEST GEORGIAN AND VICTORIAN NOVELISTS
Dickens
Thackeray
The Brontë Sisters
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Charles Kingsley
George Meredith
Anthony Trollope
George Eliot
Robert Louis Stevenson
Minor Novelists
CHAPTER XXXVII. HISTORIANS
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Thomas Carlyle
James Anthony Froude
Edward Augustus Freeman
William Hickling Prescott
John Lothrop Motley
Other Historians
Newman
W. E. H. Lecky
