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CHAPTER I.

Early Centuries.

Celtic Literature.

Beginning of English Learning.

Cædmon.

Beda.

King Alfred.

Canute and Godiva.

William the Norman.

Harold the Saxon.

CHAPTER II.

Geoffrey of Monmouth.

King Arthur Legends.

Early Norman Kings.

Richard Cœur de Lion.

Times of King John.

Mixed Language.

Sir John Mandeville.

Early Book-making.

Religious Houses.

Life of a Damoiselle.

CHAPTER III.

Roger Bacon.

William Langlande.

John Wyclif.

Chaucer.

CHAPTER IV.

Of Gower and Froissart.

Two Henrys and Two Poets.

Henry V. and War Times.

Joan of Arc and Richard III.

Caxton and First English Printing.

Old Private Letters.

A Burst of Balladry.

CHAPTER V.

Early Days of Henry VIII.

Cardinal Wolsey and Sir Thomas More.

Cranmer, Latimer, Knox, and Others.

Verse-Writing and Psalmodies.

Wyatt and Surrey.

A Boy-King, a Queen, and Schoolmaster.

CHAPTER VI.

Elizabethan England.

Personality of the Queen.

Burleigh and Others.

A Group of Great Names.

Edmund Spenser.

The Faery Queen.

Philip Sidney.

CHAPTER VII.

John Lyly.

Francis Bacon.

Thomas Hobbes.

George Chapman.

Marlowe.

A Tavern Coterie.

CHAPTER VIII.

George Peele.

Thomas Dekker.

Michael Drayton.

Ben Jonson.

Some Prose Writers.

The Queen’s Progresses.

FOOTNOTES

INDEX.