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HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE,

AND OF

THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.

VOL. II.

WORKS BY PROFESSOR CRAIK.

THE

PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE UNDER DIFFICULTIES. New Edition, with Portraits. 2 vols. post 8vo, 98. cloth.

II.

BACON: HIS WRITINGS AND HIS PHILOSOPHY. New Edition, revised, with Notes. Small 8vo, 3s. 6d. cloth.

III.

SPENSER, AND HIS POETRY.

New Edition, revised. Small 8vo, 38. 6d. cloth.

A

COMPENDIOUS HISTORY

OF

1090

ENGLISH LITERATURE,

AND OF

THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE,

FROM

The Norman Conquest.

WITH NUMEROUS SPECIMENS.

BY

GEORGE L. CRAIK, LL.D.,

PROFESSOR OF HISTORY AND OF ENGLISH LITERATURE IN QUEEN'S COLLEGE, BELFAST.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

GRIFFIN, BOHN, AND COMPANY,

STATIONERS' HALL COURT.

1861.