CHAPTER IX.

CHAUCER (CONTINUED).--PROGRESS OF SOCIETY, AND OF LANGUAGE.

Social Life--Government--Chaucer's English--His Death--Historical
Facts--John Gower--Chaucer and Gower--Gower's Language--Other Writers


CHAPTER X.

THE BARREN PERIOD BETWEEN CHAUCER AND SPENSER.

Greek Literature--Invention of Printing. Caxton--Contemporary
History--Skelton--Wyatt--Surrey--Sir Thomas Moore--Utopia, and other
Works--Other Writers


CHAPTER XI.

SPENSER AND THE ELIZABETHAN AGE.

The Great Change--Edward VI. and Mary--Sidney--The Arcadia--Defence of
Poesy--Astrophel and Stella--Gabriel Harvey--Edmund Spenser: Shepherd's
Calendar--His Great Work


CHAPTER XII.

ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE HISTORY IN THE FAERIE QUEENE.