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History of English Literature

by Andrew Lang

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2List of Authors
  3. 3Chapter I — Anglo-Saxon Literature
  4. 4Chapter II — Anglo-Saxon Christian Poetry
  5. 5Chapter III — Anglo-Saxon Learning and Prose
  6. 6Chapter IV — After the Norman Conquest
  7. 7Chapter V — Geoffrey of Monmouth
  8. 8Chapter VI — Layamon’s “Brut”
  9. 9Chapter VII — The Romances in Rhyme
  10. 10Chapter VIII — Alliterative Romances and Poems
  11. 11Chapter IX — Chaucer
  12. 12Chapter X — “Piers Plowman.” Gower
  13. 13Chapter XI — The Successors of Chaucer
  14. 14Chapter XII — Late Mediaeval Prose
  15. 15Chapter XIII — Malory
  16. 16Chapter XIV — Early Scottish Literature
  17. 17Chapter XV — Popular Poetry. Ballads
  18. 18Chapter XVI — Rise of the Drama
  19. 19Chapter XVII — Wyatt and Surrey. Gascoigne. Sackville
  20. 20Chapter XVIII — Prose of the Renaissance
  21. 21Chapter XIX — The Elizabethan Stage and Playwrights
  22. 22Chapter XX — Other Dramatists
  23. 23Chapter XXI — Elizabethan and Jacobean Prose Writers
  24. 24Chapter XXII — Late Elizabethan and Jacobean Poets
  25. 25Chapter XXIII — Late Jacobean and Caroline Prose
  26. 26Chapter XXIV — Caroline Poets
  27. 27Chapter XXV — Restoration Theatre
  28. 28Chapter XXVI — Augustan Poetry
  29. 29Chapter XXVII — Augustan Prose
  30. 30I — Chapter XXVIII — Georgian Poetry
  31. 31II — Chapter XXIX — Georgian Poetry
  32. 32Chapter XXX — I. Georgian Prose
  33. 33Chapter XXXI — II. Georgian Prose
  34. 34Chapter XXXII — The Romantic Movement
  35. 35Chapter XXXIII — Later Georgian Novelists
  36. 36Chapter XXXIV — Poets After Wordsworth
  37. 37Chapter XXXV — Late Victorian Poets
  38. 38Chapter XXXVI — Latest Georgian and Victorian Novelists
  39. 39Chapter XXXVII — Historians

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