Handbook of Universal Literature - From the Best and Latest Authorities by Anne C. Lynch Botta
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and Hartmann. Science: Liebig, Du Bois-Raymond, Virchow, Helmholst,
Haeckel.--8. Miscellaneous Writings. ENGLISH LITERATURE. INTRODUCTION.--1. _English Literature_. Its Divisions.--2. _The Language_. PERIOD FIRST.--1. _Celtic Literature_, Irish, Scotch, and Cymric Celts; the Chronicles of Ireland; Ossian's Poems; Traditions of Arthur; the Triads; Tales.--2. _Latin Literature_, Bede; Alcuin; Erigena.--3. _Anglo- Saxon Literature_. Poetry; Prose; Versions of Scripture; the Saxon Chronicle; Alfred. PERIOD SECOND.--The Norman Age and the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries.--1. _Literature in the Latin Tongue_.--2. _Literature in Norman-French_. Poetry; Romances of Chivalry.--3. _Saxon-English_. Metrical Remains.--4. _Literature in the fourteenth Century_.--Prose Writers: Occam, Duns Scotus, Wickliffe, Mandeville, Chaucer. Poetry; Langland, Gower, Chaucer.--5. _Literature in the Fifteenth Century_. Ballads.--6. _Poets of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries in Scotland_. Wyntoun, Harbour, and others. PERIOD THIRD.--1. _Age of the Reformation_ (1509-1558). Classical, Theological, and Miscellaneous Literature: Sir Thomas More and others. Poetry: Skelton, Surrey, and Sackville; the Drama.--2. _The Age of Spenser, Shakespeare, Bacon, and Milton_ (1558-1660). Scholastic and Ecclesiastical Literature. Translations of the Bible: Hooker, Andrews, Donne. Hall, Taylor, Baxter; other Prose Writers: Fuller, Cudworth, Bacon, Hobbes, Raleigh, Milton, Sidney, Selden, Burton, Browne, and Cowley. Dramatic Poetry: Marlowe and Greene, Shakspeare, Beaumont and Fletcher, |
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