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English Literature for Boys and Girls

by H. E. Marshall

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  1. 1Year 7
  2. 2Chapter II — The Story of the Cattle Raid of Cooley
  3. 3Chapter III — One of the Sorrows of Story-Telling
  4. 4Chapter IV — The Story of a Literary Lie
  5. 5Chapter V — The Story of Fingal
  6. 6Chapter VI — About Some Old Welsh Stories and Story-Tellers
  7. 7Chapter VII — How the Story of Arthur Was Written in English
  8. 8Chapter VIII — The Beginning of the Reading Time
  9. 9Chapter IX — “The Passing of Arthur”
  10. 10Chapter X — The Adventures of an Old English Book
  11. 11Chapter XI — The Story of Beowulf
  12. 12Chapter XII — The Father of English Song
  13. 13Chapter XIII — How Caedmon Sang, and How He Fell Once More on Silence
  14. 14Chapter XIV — The Father of English History
  15. 15Chapter XV — How Alfred the Great Fought With His Pen
  16. 16Chapter XVI — When English Slept
  17. 17Chapter XVII — The Story of Havelok the Dane
  18. 18Chapter XVIII — About Some Song Stories
  19. 19Chapter XIX — “Piers the Ploughman”
  20. 20Chapter XX — “Piers the Ploughman” — Continued
  21. 21Chapter XXI — How the Bible Came to the People
  22. 22Chapter XXII — Chaucer — Bread and Milk for Children
  23. 23Chapter XXIII — Chaucer — “The Canterbury Tales”
  24. 24Chapter XXIV — Chaucer — At the Tabard Inn
  25. 25Chapter XXV — The First English Guide-Book
  26. 26Chapter XXVI — Barbour — “The Bruce,” the Beginnings of a Struggle
  27. 27Chapter XXVII — Barbour — “The Bruce,” the End of the Struggle
  28. 28Chapter XXVIII — A Poet King
  29. 29Chapter XXIX — The Death of the Poet King
  30. 30Chapter XXX — Dunbar — The Wedding of the Thistle and the Rose
  31. 31Chapter XXXI — At the Sign of the Red Pale
  32. 32Year 8
  33. 33Chapter XXXIII — How the Shepherds Watched Their Flocks
  34. 34Chapter XXXIV — The Story of Everyman
  35. 35Chapter XXXV — How a Poet Comforted a Girl
  36. 36Chapter XXXVI — The Renaissance
  37. 37Chapter XXXVII — The Land of Nowhere
  38. 38Chapter XXXVIII — The Death of Sir Thomas More
  39. 39Chapter XXXIX — How the Sonnet Came to England
  40. 40Chapter XL — The Beginning of Blank Verse
  41. 41Chapter XLI — Spenser — The “Shepherd’s Calendar”
  42. 42Chapter XLII — Spenser — The “Faery Queen”
  43. 43Chapter XLIII — Spenser — His Last Days
  44. 44Chapter XLIV — About the First Theaters
  45. 45Chapter XLV — Shakespeare — The Boy
  46. 46Chapter XLVI — Shakespeare — The Man
  47. 47Chapter XLVII — Shakespeare — “The Merchant of Venice”
  48. 48Chapter XLVIII — Jonson — “Every Man in His Humour”
  49. 49Chapter XLIX — Jonson — “The Sad Shepherd”
  50. 50Chapter L — Raleigh — “The Revenge”
  51. 51Chapter LI — Raleigh — “The History of the World”
  52. 52Chapter LII — Bacon — New Ways of Wisdom
  53. 53Chapter LIII — Bacon — The Happy Island
  54. 54Chapter LIV — About Some Lyric Poets
  55. 55Chapter LV — Herbert — The Parson Poet
  56. 56Chapter LVI — Herrick and Marvell — Of Blossoms and Bowers
  57. 57Chapter LVII — Milton — Sight and Growth
  58. 58Chapter LVIII — Milton — Darkness and Death
  59. 59Chapter LIX — Bunyan — “The Pilgrim’s Progress”
  60. 60Year 9
  61. 61Chapter LXI — Defoe — The First Newspapers
  62. 62Chapter LXII — Defoe — “Robinson Crusoe”
  63. 63Chapter LXIII — Swift — The “Journal to Stella”
  64. 64Chapter LXIV — Swift — “Gulliver’s Travels”
  65. 65Chapter LXV — Addison — The “Spectator”
  66. 66Chapter LXVI — Steele — The Soldier Author
  67. 67Chapter LXVII — Pope — The “Rape of the Lock”
  68. 68Chapter LXVIII — Johnson — Days of Struggle
  69. 69Chapter LXIX — Johnson — The End of the Journey
  70. 70Chapter LXX — Goldsmith — The Vagabond
  71. 71Chapter LXXI — Goldsmith — “The Vicar of Wakefield”
  72. 72Chapter LXXII — Burns — The Plowman Poet
  73. 73Chapter LXXIII — Cowper — “The Task”
  74. 74Chapter LXXIV — Wordsworth — The Poet of Nature
  75. 75Chapter LXXV — Wordsworth and Coleridge — The Lake Poets
  76. 76Chapter LXXVI — Coleridge and Southey — Sunshine and Shadow
  77. 77Year 10
  78. 78Chapter LXXVIII — Scott — “The Wizard of the North”
  79. 79Chapter LXXIX — Byron — “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage”
  80. 80Chapter LXXX — Shelley — The Poet of Love
  81. 81Chapter LXXXI — Keats — The Poet of Beauty
  82. 82Chapter LXXXII — Carlyle — The Sage of Chelsea
  83. 83Chapter LXXXIII — Thackeray — The Cynic?
  84. 84Chapter LXXXIV — Dickens — Smiles and Tears
  85. 85Chapter LXXXV — Tennyson — The Poet of Friendship

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