The high school course in English

by Willard Grosvenor Bleyer

Cook, A. S. and Tinker, C. Translations of Old English Poetry. Ginn. ($1.00). Translations of parts of Beowulf and of all the important Anglo-Saxon poems.

Schofield, W. H. English Literature from the Norman Conquest to Chaucer. Macmillan. ($1.50).

Saintsbury, G. History of Elizabethan Literature. (1557–1660). Macmillan. ($1.50).

Gosse, E. Eighteenth Century Literature. (1660–1780). Macmillan. ($1.50).

Saintsbury, G. History of Nineteenth Century Literature. (1780–1895). Macmillan. ($1.50).

Ward, H. English Poets, 4 vols. Macmillan. (Students’ edition $4.00). Brief biographies, good criticisms, and representative selections of all the English poets from Chaucer to Tennyson.

Bronson, W. C. History of American Literature. Heath. ($.90). A good handbook for American literature.

Wendell, B. and Greenough, C. N. History of Literature in America. Scribner. ($1.40.) A good short history of American literature.

Pollard, A. W. Chaucer Primer. Macmillan. ($.35). A convenient little handbook on Chaucer’s life and work.

Sweet, H. Second Middle English Primer. Oxford Univ. Press. ($.50). A very good handbook for the pronunciation of Chaucer with a phonetic transcription of the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.