Malmesbury--Geoffrey of Monmouth--Other Latin Chronicles--Anglo-Norman
Poets--Richard Wace--Other Poets


CHAPTER VI.

THE MORNING TWILIGHT OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.

Semi-Saxon Literature--Layamon--The Ormulum--Robert of
Gloucester--Langland. Piers Plowman--Piers Plowman's Creed--Sir Jean
Froissart--Sir John Mandevil


CHAPTER VII.

CHAUCER, AND THE EARLY REFORMATION.

A New Era: Chaucer--Italian Influence--Chaucer as a Founder--Earlier
Poems--The Canterbury Tales--Characters--Satire--Presentations of
Woman--The Plan Proposed


CHAPTER VIII.

CHAUCER (CONTINUED).--REFORMS IN RELIGION AND SOCIETY.

Historical Facts--Reform in Religion--The Clergy, Regular and
Secular--The Friar and the Sompnour--The Pardonere--The Poure
Persone--John Wiclif--The Translation of the Bible--The Ashes of Wiclif