History of English Literature Volume 1 (of 3)

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Author

Taine, Hippolyte, 1828-1893

Credits

Produced by Laura Natal Rodrigues at Free Literature in memoriam of Marc D'Hooghe (Images generously made available by The Internet Archive.)

Language

English

LoC Class

PR: Language and Literatures: English literature

Subject

English literature -- History and criticism

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 61308

Release Date

February 2, 2020

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.ENGLISH LITERATURE — HIPPOLYTE ADOLPHE TAINE — TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY HENRY VAN LAUN — WITH A SPECIAL INTRODUCTION BY — J. SCOTT CLARK, A. M. — #THE WORLD'S# GREAT CLASSICS — LIBRARY COMMITTE 1 — TIMOTHY DWIGHT, D.D. LLD. RICHARD HENRY STODDARD ARTHUR RICHMOND MARSH. A.B. PAVL VAN DYKE, D.D. ALBERT ELLERY BERGH — •ILLUSTRATED•WITH•NEARLY•TWO• •HUNDRED•PHOTOGRAVURES•ETCHINGS• •COLORED•PLATES•AND•FULL• •PAGE•PORTRAITS•OF•GREAT•AUTHORS• — DEDICATION — SPECIAL INTRODUCTION
3. 3.CONTENTS — INTRODUCTION — BOOK I.—THE SOURCE — CHAPTER FIRST The Saxons — CHAPTER SECOND The Normans — CHAPTER THIRD The New Tongue — BOOK II.—THE RENAISSANCE — CHAPTER FIRST The Pagan Renaissance — CHAPTER SECOND The Theatre — CHAPTER THIRD Ben Jonson — CHAPTER FOURTH Shakespeare — INDEX
4. 4.ILLUSTRATIONS — HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE — INTRODUCTION — I. Historical documents serve only as a clue to reconstruct the visible individual — II. The outer man is only a clue to study the inner invisible man — III. The state and the actions of the inner and invisible man have their causes in certain general ways of thought and feeling — IV. Chief causes of thought and feeling. Their historical effects — V. The three primordial forces.—Race — VI. History is a mechanical and psychological problem. Within certain limits man can foretell — VII. Law of formation of a group. Examples and indications — VIII. General problem and future of history. Psychological method. Value of literature. Purpose in writing this book — BOOK I.—THE SOURCE — CHAPTER FIRST — The Saxons — SECTION I.—The Coast of the North Sea — SECTION II.—The Northern Barbarians — SECTION III.—Saxon Ideas — SECTION IV.—Saxon Heroes — SECTION V.—Pagan Poems — SECTION VI.—Christian Poems — SECTION VII.—Primitive Saxon Authors — SECTION VIII.—Virility of the Saxon Race — CHAPTER SECOND — The Normans — SECTION I.—The Feudal Man — SECTION II.—Normans and Saxons Contrasted — SECTION III.—French Forms of Thought — SECTION IV.—The Normans in England — SECTION V.—The English Tongue—Early English Literary Impulses — SECTION VI.—Feudal Civilization — SECTION VII.—Persistence of Saxon Ideas — SECTION VIII.—The English Constitution — SECTION IX.—Piers Plowman and Wyclif — CHAPTER THIRD — The New Tongue — SECTION I.—The First Great Poet — SECTION II.—The Decline of the Middle Ages — SECTION III.—The Poetry of Chaucer — SECTION IV.—Characteristics of the Canterbury Tales — SECTION V.—The Art of Chaucer — SECTION VI.—Scholastic Philosophy — BOOK II.—THE RENAISSANCE — CHAPTER FIRST — The Pagan Renaissance — PART I.—Manners of the Time — SECTION I.—Ideas of the Middle Ages — SECTION II.—Growth of New Ideas — SECTION III.—Popular Festivals — SECTION IV.—Influence of Classic Literature — PART II.—Poetry — SECTION I.—Renaissance of Saxon Genius — SECTION II.—The Earl of Surrey — SECTION III.—Surrey's Style — SECTION IV.—Development of Artistic Ideas — SECTION V.—Wherein Lies the Strength of the Poetry of this Period — SECTION VI.—Edmund Spenser — SECTION VII.—Spenser in his Relation to the Renaissance — PART III.—Prose — SECTION I.—The Decay of Poetry — SECTION II.—The Intellectual Level of the Renaissance — SECTION III.—Robert Burton — SECTION IV.—Sir Thomas Browne — SECTION V.—Francis Bacon — CHAPTER SECOND — The Theatre — SECTION I.—The Public and the Stage — SECTION II.—Manners of the Sixteenth Century — SECTION III.—Some Aspects of the English Mind — SECTION IV.—The Poets of the Period — SECTION V.—Formation of the Drama — SECTION VI.—Furious Passions—Exaggerated Characters — SECTION VII.—Female Characters — CHAPTER THIRD — Ben Jonson — SECTION I.—The Man—His Life — SECTION II.—His Freedom and Precision of Style — SECTION III.—The Dramas Catiline and Sejanus — SECTION IV.—Comedies — SECTION V.—Limits of Jonson's Talent—His Smaller Poems—His Masques — SECTION VI.—General Idea of Shakespeare — CHAPTER FOURTH — Shakespeare — SECTION I.—Life and Character of Shakespeare — SECTION II.—Shakespeare's Style—Copiousness—Excesses — SECTION III.—Shakespeare's Language And Manners — SECTION IV.—Dramatis Personæ — SECTION V.—Men of Wit — SECTION VI.—Shakespeare's Women — SECTION VII.—Types of Villains — SECTION VIII.—Principal Characters — SECTION IX.—Characteristics of Shakespeare's Genius — INDEX

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