Outlines of English and American Literature. William J. Long

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      CHAPTER II. BEGINNINGS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE

      Tributaries of Early Literature. The Anglo-Saxon or Old-English Period.

       Specimens of the Language. The Epic of Beowulf. Anglo-Saxon Songs. Types of

       Earliest Poetry. Christian Literature of the Anglo-Saxon Period. The

       Northumbrian School. Bede. Cædmon. Cynewulf. The West-Saxon School. Alfred

       the Great. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.

      The Anglo-Norman or Early Middle-English Period. Specimens of the Language.

       The Norman Conquest. Typical Norman Literature. Geoffrey of Monmouth. First

       Appearance of the Legends of Arthur. Types of Middle-English Literature.

       Metrical Romances. Some Old Songs. Summary of the Period. Selections for

       Reading. Bibliography.

      CHAPTER III. THE AGE OF CHAUCER AND THE REVIVAL OF LEARNING

      Specimens of the Language. History of the Period. Geoffrey Chaucer.

       Contemporaries and Successors of Chaucer. Langland and his Piers Plowman. Malory and his Morte d' Arthur. Caxton and the First Printing Press. The King's English as the Language of England. Popular Ballads. Summary of the Period. Selections for Reading. Bibliography.

      CHAPTER IV. THE ELIZABETHAN AGE

      Historical Background. Literary Characteristics of the Period. Foreign

       Influence. Outburst of Lyric Poetry. Lyrics of Love. Music and Poetry.

       Edmund Spenser. The Rise of the Drama. The Religious Drama. Miracle Plays,

       Moralities and Interludes. The Secular Drama. Pageants and Masques. Popular

       Comedies. Classical and English Drama. Predecessors of Shakespeare.

       Marlowe. Shakespeare. Elizabethan Dramatists after Shakespeare. Ben Jonson.

       The Prose Writers. The Fashion of Euphuism. The Authorized Version of the

       Scriptures. Francis Bacon. Summary of the Period. Selections for Reading.

       Bibliography.

      CHAPTER V. THE PURITAN AGE AND THE RESTORATION

      Historical Outline. Three Typical Writers. Milton. Bunyan. Dryden. Puritan

       and Cavalier Poets. George Herbert. Butler's Hudibras. The Prose Writers. Thomas Browne. Isaac Walton. Summary of the Period. Selections for Reading. Bibliography.

      CHAPTER VI. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE

      History of the Period. Eighteenth-Century Classicism. The Meaning of

       Classicism in Literature. Alexander Pope. Swift. Addison. Steele. Johnson.

       Boswell. Burke. Historical Writing in the Eighteenth Century. Gibbon.

      The Revival of Romantic Poetry. Collins and Gray. Goldsmith. Burns. Minor

       Poets of Romanticism. Cowper. Macpherson and the Ossian Poems. Chatterton.

       Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry. William Blake.

      The Early English Novel. The Old Romance and the New Novel. Defoe.

       Richardson. Fielding. Influence of the Early Novelists. Summary of the

       Period. Selections for Reading. Bibliography.

      CHAPTER VII. THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY

      Historical Outline. The French Revolution and English Literature.

       Wordsworth. Coleridge. Southey. The Revolutionary Poets. Byron and Shelley.

       Keats. The Minor Poets. Campbell, Moore, Keble, Hood, Felicia Hemans, Leigh

       Hunt and Thomas Beddoes. The Fiction Writers. Walter Scott. Jane Austen.

       The Critics and Essayists. Charles Lamb. De Quincey. Summary of the Period.

       Selections for Reading. Bibliography.

      CHAPTER VIII. THE VICTORIAN AGE

      Historical Outline. The Victorian Poets. Tennyson. Browning. Elizabeth

       Barrett Browning. Matthew Arnold. The Pre-Raphaelites. Rossetti. Morris.

       Swinburne. Minor Poets and Songs in Many Keys.

      The Greater Victorian Novelists. Dickens. Thackeray. George Eliot. Other

       Writers of Notable Novels. The Brontë Sisters. Mrs. Gaskell. Charles Reade.

       Anthony Trollope. Blackmore. Kingsley. Later Victorian Novelists. Meredith.

       Hardy. Stevenson.

      Victorian Essayists and Historians. Typical Writers. Macaulay. Carlyle. Ruskin. Variety of Victorian Literature. Summary of the Period. Selections for Reading. Bibliography.

      GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY

      AMERICAN LITERATURE

       Table of Contents

      CHAPTER I. THE PIONEERS AND NATION-BUILDERS

      Unique Quality of Early American Literature. Two Views of the Pioneers. The

       Colonial Period. Annalists and Historians. Bradford and Byrd. Puritan and

       Cavalier Influences. Colonial Poetry. Wiggles-worth. Anne Bradstreet.

       Godfrey. Nature and Human Nature in Colonial Records. The Indian in

       Literature. Religious Writers. Cotton Mather and Edwards.

      The Revolutionary Period. Party Literature. Benjamin Franklin.

       Revolutionary Poetry. The Hartford Wits. Trumbull's M'Fingal. Freneau. Orators and Statesmen of the Revolution. Citizen Literature. James Otis and Patrick Henry. Hamilton and Jefferson. Miscellaneous Writers. Thomas Paine. Crèvecoeur. Woolman. Beginning of American Fiction. Charles Brockden Brown. Summary of the Period. Selections for Reading. Bibliography.

      CHAPTER II. LITERATURE OF THE NEW NATION

      Historical Background. Literary Environment. The National Spirit in Prose

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