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INTRODUCTION

I. Historical documents serve only as a clue to reconstruct the visible individual

II. The outer man is only a clue to study the inner invisible man

III. The state and the actions of the inner and invisible man have their causes in certain general ways of thought and feeling

IV. Chief causes of thought and feeling. Their historical effects

V. The three primordial forces.—Race

VI. History is a mechanical and psychological problem. Within certain limits man can foretell

VII. Law of formation of a group. Examples and indications

VIII. General problem and future of history. Psychological method. Value of literature. Purpose in writing this book

BOOK I.—THE SOURCE CHAPTER FIRST - The Saxons

SECTION I.—The Coast of the North Sea

SECTION II.—The Northern Barbarians

SECTION III.—Saxon Ideas

SECTION IV.—Saxon Heroes

SECTION V.—Pagan Poems

SECTION VI.—Christian Poems

SECTION VII.—Primitive Saxon Authors

SECTION VIII.—Virility of the Saxon Race

CHAPTER SECOND - The Normans

SECTION I.—The Feudal Man

SECTION II.—Normans and Saxons Contrasted

SECTION III.—French Forms of Thought

SECTION IV.—The Normans in England

SECTION V.—The English Tongue—Early English Literary Impulses

SECTION VI.—Feudal Civilization

SECTION VII.—Persistence of Saxon Ideas

SECTION VIII.—The English Constitution

SECTION IX.—Piers Plowman and Wyclif

CHAPTER THIRD - The New Tongue

SECTION I.—The First Great Poet

SECTION II.—The Decline of the Middle Ages

SECTION III.—The Poetry of Chaucer

SECTION IV.—Characteristics of the Canterbury Tales

SECTION V.—The Art of Chaucer

SECTION VI.—Scholastic Philosophy

BOOK II.—THE RENAISSANCE

CHAPTER FIRST - The Pagan Renaissance

Part I.—Manners of the Time

SECTION I.—Ideas of the Middle Ages

SECTION II.—Growth of New Ideas

SECTION III.—Popular Festivals

SECTION IV.—Influence of Classic Literature

Part II.—Poetry

SECTION I.—Renaissance of Saxon Genius

SECTION II.—The Earl of Surrey

SECTION III.—Surrey's Style

SECTION IV.—Development of Artistic Ideas

SECTION V.—Wherein Lies the Strength of the Poetry of this Period

SECTION VI.—Edmund Spenser

SECTION VII.—Spenser in his Relation to the Renaissance

Part III.—Prose

SECTION I.—The Decay of Poetry

SECTION II.—The Intellectual Level of the Renaissance

SECTION III.—Robert Burton

SECTION IV.—Sir Thomas Browne

SECTION V.—Francis Bacon

CHAPTER SECOND - The Theatre

SECTION I.—The Public and the Stage

SECTION II.—Manners of the Sixteenth Century

SECTION III.—Some Aspects of the English Mind

SECTION IV.—The Poets of the Period

SECTION V.—Formation of the Drama

SECTION VI.—Furious Passions—Exaggerated Characters

SECTION VII.—Female Characters

CHAPTER THIRD - Ben Jonson

SECTION I.—The Man—His Life

SECTION II.—His Freedom and Precision of Style

SECTION III.—The Dramas Catiline and Sejanus

SECTION IV.—Comedies

SECTION V.—Limits of Jonson's Talent—His Smaller Poems—His Masques

SECTION VI.—General Idea of Shakespeare

CHAPTER FOURTH - Shakespeare

SECTION I.—Life and Character of Shakespeare

SECTION II.—Shakespeare's Style—Copiousness—Excesses

SECTION III.—Shakespeare's Language And Manners

SECTION IV.—Dramatis Personæ

SECTION V.—Men of Wit

SECTION VI.—Shakespeare's Women

SECTION VII.—Types of Villains

SECTION VIII.—Principal Characters

SECTION IX.—Characteristics of Shakespeare's Genius

INDEX