Compendious History of English Literature and of the English Language, Volume I
George Lillie Craik
52 chapters · 24 h 1 min · English
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The History of English Literature and Language may be recommended to the student as a guide always sure, and as satisfactory as its limits will admit, to the gathered harvest of a thousand years -- from ALFRED the Great to VICTORIA -- now existing in a language radically identical for the whole of that period, the common property of all who are born to its use, a personal endowment not to be limited by local accidents, but the rightful possession of those who "claim SHAKESPEARE's language for their mother tongue." As a writer, the principal characteristics of Mr. CRAIK are good sense and a command of ample information, derived usually from the original sources. He has not aimed a producing a brilliant book. From the number of topics necessary to be glanced at, much of it necessarily assumes the appearance of a brief catalogue; but the critical judgments of the writers, as they come under review, are unpretending and correct. - Summary from The New York Times, April 26, 1864.
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1 Preface 12 min 2 1. Introductory. 1. Literature and Language. The Languages of Modern Europe 12 min 3 1.2. Early Latin Literature in Britain 15 min 4 1.3. The Celtic Languages and Literatures 21 min 5 1.4. Decay of the Earliest English Scholarship 15 min 6 1.5. The English Language 9 min 7 1.6. Original English 28 min 8 2. The Norman Period. 1. The Norman Conquest. Arabic and the New Learning 32 min 9 2.2. Schools and Universities. Rise of the Scholastic Philosophy. John of Salisbury. Peter of Blois 25 min 10 2.3. Classical Learning. Mathematics. Medicine. Law. Books. The Latin Language. The Latin Poets. Mapes, etc 18 min 11 2.4. Latin Chroniclers. Ingulphus. William of Poitiers. Ordericus Vitalis. Gesta Stephani. William of Jumieges. Florence of Worcester. Matthew of Westminster. William of Malmesbury. Eadmer. Turgot and Simeon of Durham. John of Hexham and Richard of Hexham 34 min 12 2.5. Ailred. Geoffrey of Monmouth. Alfred of Beverley. Giraldus Cambrensis. Henry of Huntingdon. Roger de Hoveden. William of Newburgh. Benedictus Abbas. Ralph de Diceto. Gervase of Canterbury. Vinsauf. Richard of Devises. Joscelin de Brakelonda. Monastic Registers. Law Treatises. Domesday Book. Public Rolls and Registers 31 min 13 2.6. The French language in England. The Langue d'Oc and the Langue d'Oyl. Norman trouveurs. Duke Richard I. Thibaut de Vernon. Turold, or Theroulde. Chanson de Roland 26 min 14 2.7. Anglo-Norman Poets. King Henry I. His Queens, Matilda and Alice. Philip de Than. Geoffrey, Abbot of St. Albans. Pilgrimage of Saint Brendan. Charlemagne. Anglo-Norman Chronicles. Gaimar. David. Wace. Benoït. Everard. French Language in Scotland 30 min 15 2.8. Luc de la Barre. Guichard de Beaulieu. Arthurian Romance. The Saint Greal. Luc du Gast. Buron. Mapes. Roman du Roi Horn. Tristan or Tristrem. Guernes de Pont Sainte Maxence. Herman. Hugh of Rutland. Boson. Simon du Fresne. Cardinal Langton. King Richard Coeur-de-Lion 24 min 16 2.9. Vernacular Language and Literature: A.D. 1066-1216 26 min 17 2.10. The Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries. Ascendancy of the Scholastic Philosophy. Mathematical and Other Studies. Roger Bacon. Robert Grosseteste. Alchemists. Universities and Colleges 22 min 18 2.11. Latin Historical Works of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries. Use and Study of the Latin and Greek, the Hebrew and other Oriental Tongues. Last Age of the French Language in England 32 min 19 2.12. Anglo-Norman Poets. French Prose Romances. Froissart. Resurrection of the English Language 24 min 20 3. Second English. 1. St. Godric. The Here Prophecy 13 min 21 3.2. The Brut of Layamon 31 min 22 3.3. The Ormulum. The Ancren Riwle 37 min 23 3.4. Metrical Legends. Land of Cokayne. Guldevord. Wille Gris. Early English Songs. Early English Metrical Romances. Publications of Percy, Warton, Tyrwhitt, Pinkerton, Herbert, Ritson, Ellis, Scott, Weber, Utterson, Laing, Hartshorne, The Boxburghe Club, The Bannatyne, The Maitland, The Abbotsford, The Camden Society 21 min 24 3.5. History of the English Metrical Romance. Metrical Chronicle of Robert of Gloucester. Robert Mannyng, or De Brunne. Rolle, or Hampole. Davie. Lawrence Minot 23 min 25 3.6. Alliterative Verse: Piers Ploughman. Piers Ploughman's Creed 32 min 26 4. Third English (mixed or compound English). 1. Geoffrey Chaucer, Part 1 32 min 27 4.2. Geoffrey Chaucer, Part 2 29 min 28 4.3. Geoffrey Chaucer, Part 3 32 min 29 4.4. Geoffrey Chaucer, Part 4 28 min 30 4.5. Geoffrey Chaucer, Part 5 22 min 31 4.6. John Gower 23 min 32 4.7. Barbour 30 min 33 4.8. Compound English Prose: Mandevil and Trevisa 37 min 34 4.9. Compound English Prose: Wycliffe and Chaucer 32 min 35 4.10. Literature and Learning in the Fifteenth Century Universities. Revival of Letters. Invention of Printing. Printing in England. Caxton. Books and Libraries 39 min 36 4.11. Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester. Woodville, Earl Rivers. Science in England. Alchemists. Latin Chroniclers. French Chroniclers. English Chroniclers. Bishop Pecock. Fortescue. Malory 34 min 37 4.12. English Poets. Occleve, Lydgate. Scottish Poets. Wynton, James I, Henryson, Holland, Blind Henry. First Half of the Sixteenth Century. Colleges Founded 35 min 38 4.13. Classical Learning 42 min 39 4.14. Prose Writers. More, Elyot, Tyndal, Cranmer, Latimer 30 min 40 4.15. Scottish Prose Writers. English Poets: Hawes, Barklay. Skelton. Roy, John Heywood. Scottish Poets: Gawin Douglas, Dunbar, Lyndsay. Surrey, Wyatt 35 min 41 4.16. The Elizabethan Literature. The Mirror for Magistrates. Origin of Regular Drama. Interludes of John Heywood. Udall's Ralph Roister Doister 25 min 42 4.17. Gammer Gurton's Needle. Misogonus. Chronicle Histories. Bale's Kynge Johan, etc. Tragedy of Gorboduc. Blank Verse. Other Early Dramas. Second Stage of the Regular Drama. Peele, Greene 35 min 43 4.18. Marlow. Lyly, Kid, Lodge. Earlier Elizabethan Prose. Lyly, Sidney, Spenser, Nash, etc. English Hexameter Verse 39 min 44 4.19. Edmund Spenser, Part 1 27 min 45 4.20. Edmund Spenser, Part 2 31 min 46 4.21. Edmund Spenser, Part 3 36 min 47 4.22. Other Elizabethan Poetry. Warner 24 min 48 4.23. Daniel. Drayton. Joseph Hall 29 min 49 4.24. Sylvester. Chapman's Homer. Harington; Fairfax; Fanshawe. Drummond. Davies. Donne 36 min 50 4.25. Shakespeare's Minor Poems. Shakespeare's Dramatic Works 19 min 51 4.26. Chapman, Webster, Middleton, Decker, Chettle, Marston, Tailor, Tourneur, Rowley, Thomas Heywood. Beaumont and Fletcher. Jonson. Massinger, Ford 32 min 52 4.27. Later Elizabethan Prose Writers. Translation of the Bible. Theological Writers. James I., Bishop Andrews, Donne, Hall, Hooker. Bacon. Burton. Historical Writers. Classical Learning 37 min
