EARLY ENGLISH PERIOD: 1350-1450.
Latin and French Compositions; Walsingham, Fordun, Wyclif; growth of
the English Language and Literature; Chaucer, Sketch of his Life;
Chronology of his Writings.--Gower, Langland, Occleve, Lydgate,
Minot. SCOTTISH POETS: Barbour, James I., Wynton.-PROSE WRITERS:
Maundevile, Chaucer, Wyclif.
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REVIVAL OF LEARNING: 1450-1558.
Decline of Literature; invention of Printing; foundation of Schools and
Universities.-POETRY: Hardyng, Hawes, Skelton, Surrey, Wyat; the
Mirrour for Magistrates; first Poet Laureate.-SCOTTISH POETS: Henry-
son, Dunbar, Gawain Douglas, Lyndsay, Blind Harry.-LEARNING :
Grocyn; Linacre; Colet; the Humanities; state of the Universities.-
PROSE WRITERS: Pecock, Fortescue, Caxton, Leland, More; his Utopia;
Chroniclers (Fabyan, Hall, Grafton); Bale. Theological Writers: Latimer,
More; Roger Ascham
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ELIZABETHAN PERIOD: 1558-1625.
Brilliant Period of our Literature; connected with the social Prosperity of
the Country.-POETS AND DRAMATISTS: Spenser; Shakspeare's Poems;
Southwell, Warner, Daniel, Drayton, Donne, Davies, Chapman, Marston,
Raleigh; rise and progress of the English Drama; Miracle-plays;
Coventry Mysteries; earliest Comedy; Heywood's Interludes; earliest
Tragedy; Dramatic Unities; Greene's pamphlet. Shakspeare; sketch of
his Life; his Comedies; his Tragedies; his Historical Plays. Ben
Jonson; Beaumont and Fletcher; Massinger, Ford, Webster, Marston,
Chapman, Dekker, T. Heywood, Middleton, Rowley, Tourneur, Shirley;
Suppression of the Stage.- PROSE WRITERS: Novels; books of Travel;
Essays; Bacon, Burton; Puttenham; Sir Philip Sidney; earliest news-
paper.-HISTORIANS: Holinshed, Camden, Lord Bacon, Speed, Knolles,
Raleigh, Foxe.—THEOLOGIANS: Jewel, Hooker, Andrewes; Translation
of the Bible.--PHILOSOPHY: Lord Bacon; explanation of his Method;
his Philosophical works. Political Science: Buchanan, Spenser, Raleigh,
Elyot.
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Wotton, Corbet, Carew, Drummond, Cleveland, Herrick, Lovelace,
Denham. Milton: Sketch of his literary Life; Wither, Marvell. Dryden :
Sketch of his literary Life; Roscommon, Butler, Davenant. Heroic
Plays; Dryden, Otway, Lee, Shadwell, Settle, Crowne, Behn. Comedy
of Manners: Congreve, Jeremy Collier.-LEARNING: Usher, Selden,
Gale, &c.-PROSE FICTION: Bunyan.-HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY: Milton,
Ludlow, Clarendon, &c.; Wood's Athenæ, Fuller, Pepys, Evelyn, &c.—
THEOLOGY: Hall, Jeremy Taylor, Bull, Leighton, Pearson, Lightfoot,
Baxter.-PHILOSOPHY: Hobbes, Cudworth, Locke, Harrington.-ESSAY
WRITERS: Hall, Felltham, Browne.-SCIENCE: Newton PAGES 195-258
EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: 1700-1800.
Historical Sketch, general characteristics.-POETRY FROM 1700 TO 1745:
Pope: Sketch of his literary Life; Addison, Gay, Parnell, Swift, Thomson,
Prior, Garth, Blackmore, Defoe, Tickell, Savage, Dyer, A. Philips,
J. Philips, Watts, Ramsay.-THE DRAMA: Addison, Rowe, Thomson,
Young, Southern, Steele; Prose Comedy: Farquhar, Vanbrugh, Cibber,
Centlivre, Gay.-LEARNING, 1700-1745: Bentley, Lardner. - PROSE
FICTION: Swift, Defoe. Pamphleteers: Swift, Arbuthnot. Periodical
Miscellany: Tatler, Spectator, Guardian, &c. Satirical Works: Swift's
Tale of a Tub.-HISTORY, 1700-1745: Burnet, Rapin.-POETRY,
1745-1800: Johnson, Gray, Churchill, Cowper, Burns; minor Poets;
the Rolliad.-THE DRAMA: Home, Johnson, Goldsmith, Sheridan, and
others.-PROSE FICTION, 1745-1800: Richardson, Fielding, Smollett,
Sterne, Goldsmith, Miss Burney, Godwin.-ORATORY: Chatham, Burke,
&c. Pamphleteers: Junius, Burke, Johnson.-HISTORY, 1745-1800:
Hume, Robertson, Gibbon. Biographers: Boswell, &c.-THEOLOGY:
the English Deists; Bentley, Butler's 'Analogy,' Berkeley; Warburton ;
Methodism; Middleton; Challoner.-PHILOSOPHY: Berkeley, Hume,
Reid, Butler, Paley.-Political Science: Hume, Burke, Godwin, Paine.—
Political Ecomy: Adam Smith.-Criticism: Burke, Reynolds, &c.
Reaction against the Ideas of the Eighteenth Century; Theory of the Spon-
taneous in Poetry.-POETRY: Sir Walter Scott; Sketch of his literary
Life Keats, Shelley, Byron, Crabbe, Coleridge, Southey, Campbell,
Wordsworth, Moore, Hood, Hogg, &c.-PROSE WRITERS: summary
account of.
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Definition of Literature: Poetry and Prose Writings: Classification of
Poetical Compositions ;-EPIC POETRY: the Paradise Lost;-DRAMATIC
POETRY: its kinds; Shakspeare, Addison, Ben Jonson, Milton.-HEROIC
POETRY: The Bruce; the Campaign; Mock Heroic Poems: Pope's Rape
of the Lock, Garth's Dispensary.-NARRATIVE POETRY: 1. Romances,
Sir Isumbras; 2. Tales, Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales, Falconer,
Crabbe, Parnell; 3. Allegories; Vision of Piers Plowman, Flower and
the Leaf, Spenser's Faery Queen, Castle of Indolence; Fables: Gay,
Mrs. Thrale, Merrick; 4. Romantic Poems: Scott's Lay and others;
Byron's Oriental Tales; Lalla Rookh; 5. Historical Poems; Rhyming
Chroniclers, Dryden's Annus Mirabilis.-DIDACTIC POETRY: The Hind
and Panther; Essay on Man; Essay on Criticism; Vanity of Human
Wishes.--SATIRICAL POETRY: of three kinds, moral, personal, political;
Satires of Donne, Hall, and Swift; Pope's Satires; Moral Essays, the
Dunciad; Dryden's M'Flecknoe, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers,
Hudibras; Absalom and Achitophel, Churchill, Peter Pindar, Moore's
Satires; the Vicar of Bray.-PASTORAL POETRY: Spenser, Browne, Pope,
Shenstone.-DESCRIPTIVE POETRY: Poly-olbion, Cooper's Hill, the
Seasons.-LYRICAL POETRY: its kinds; devotional, loyal, patriotic, ama-
tory, bacchanalian, martial; specimens of each kind.-ELEGIAC POETRY:
Fidele, the Castaway, Lycidas, Adonais.-MISCELLANEOUS POETRY :
1. Poems founded on the Passions and Affections; 2. Poems of Sen-
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