[Our First Poetry.] ["Beowulf."] ["Widsith."] ["Deor's Lament."] ["The Seafarer."] ["The Fight at Finnsburgh."] ["Waldere."] [Anglo-Saxon Life.] [Our First Speech.] [Christian Writers.] [Northumbrian Literature.] [Bede.] [Cædmon.] [Cynewulf.] [Decline of Northumbrian Literature.] [Alfred.] [Summary.] [Bibliography.] [Questions.] [Chronology.]
[CHAPTER III. THE ANGLO-NORMAN PERIOD]
[The Normans]. [The Conquest.] [Literary Ideals of the Normans.] [Geoffrey of Monmouth.] [Work of the French Writers.] [Layamon's "Brut."] [Metrical Romances.] [The Pearl.] [Miscellaneous Literature of the Norman Period.] [Summary.] [Bibliography.] [Questions.] [Chronology.]
[CHAPTER IV. THE AGE OF CHAUCER]
[History of the Period.] [Five Writers of the Age.] [Chaucer.] [Langland.] ["Piers Plowman."] [John Wyclif.] [John Mandeville.] [Summary.] [Bibliography.] [Questions.] [Chronology.]
[CHAPTER V. THE REVIVAL OF LEARNING]
[Political Changes.] [Literature of the Revival.] [Wyatt and Surrey.] [Malory's "Morte d'Arthur."] [Summary.] [Bibliography.] [Questions.] [Chronology.]
[CHAPTER VI. THE AGE OF ELIZABETH]
[Political Summary.] [Characteristics of the Elizabethan Age.] [The Non-Dramatic Poets.] [Edmund Spenser.] [Minor Poets.] [Thomas Sackville.] [Philip Sidney.] [George Chapman.] [Michael Drayton.] [The Origin of the Drama.] [The Religious Period of the Drama.] [Miracle and Mystery Plays.] [The Moral Period of the Drama.] [The Interludes.] [The Artistic Period of the Drama.] [Classical Influence upon the Drama.] [Shakespeare's Predecessors in the Drama.] [Christopher Marlowe.] [Shakespeare.] [Decline of the Drama.] [Shakespeare's Contemporaries and Successors.] [Ben Jonson.] [Beaumont and Fletcher.] [John Webster.] [Thomas Middleton.] [Thomas Heywood.] [Thomas Dekker.] [Massinger, Ford, Shirley.] [Prose Writers.] [Francis Bacon.] [Richard Hooker.] [Sidney and Raleigh.] [John Foxe.] [Camden and Knox.] [Hakluyt and Purchas.] [Thomas North.] [Summary.] [Bibliography.] [Questions.] [Chronology.]