English Lands Letters and Kings: From Celt to Tudor

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Author

Mitchell, Donald Grant, 1822-1908

Title

English Lands, Letters and Kings, vol. 1: From Celt to Tudor

Credits

E-text prepared by MWS and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive ( archive.org)

Language

English

LoC Class

PR: Language and Literatures: English literature

Subject

Great Britain -- Intellectual life

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 54168

Release Date

February 15, 2017

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.PREFACE.
3. 3.CONTENTS. — ENGLISH LANDS, LETTERS, & KINGS.
4. 4.CHAPTER I. — Early Centuries. — Celtic Literature. — Beginning of English Learning. — Cædmon. — Beda. — King Alfred. — Canute and Godiva. — William the Norman. — Harold the Saxon.
5. 5.CHAPTER II. — Geoffrey of Monmouth. — King Arthur Legends. — Early Norman Kings. — Richard Cœur de Lion. — Times of King John. — Mixed Language. — Sir John Mandeville. — Early Book-making. — Religious Houses. — Life of a Damoiselle.
6. 6.CHAPTER III. — Roger Bacon. — William Langlande. — John Wyclif. — Chaucer.
7. 7.CHAPTER IV. — Of Gower and Froissart. — Two Henrys and Two Poets. — Henry V. and War Times. — Joan of Arc and Richard III. — Caxton and First English Printing. — Old Private Letters. — A Burst of Balladry.
8. 8.CHAPTER V. — Early Days of Henry VIII. — Cardinal Wolsey and Sir Thomas More. — Cranmer, Latimer, Knox, and Others. — Verse-Writing and Psalmodies. — Wyatt and Surrey. — A Boy-King, a Queen, and Schoolmaster.
9. 9.CHAPTER VI. — Elizabethan England. — Personality of the Queen. — Burleigh and Others. — A Group of Great Names. — Edmund Spenser. — The Faery Queen. — Philip Sidney.
10. 10.CHAPTER VII. — John Lyly. — Francis Bacon. — Thomas Hobbes. — George Chapman. — Marlowe. — A Tavern Coterie.
11. 11.CHAPTER VIII. — George Peele. — Thomas Dekker. — Michael Drayton. — Ben Jonson. — Some Prose Writers. — The Queen’s Progresses.
12. 12.FOOTNOTES
13. 13.INDEX.

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