English Literature for Boys and Girls
1905
by Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
Chapter I: In The Listening Time
Chapter II: The Story Of The Cattle Raid Of Cooley
Chapter III: One Of The Sorrows Of Story-Telling
Chapter IV: The Story Of A Literary Lie
Chapter V: The Story Of Fingal
Chapter VI: About Some Old Welsh Stories And Story-Tellers
Chapter VII: How The Story Of Arthur Was Written In English
Chapter VIII: The Beginning Of The Reading Time
Chapter IX: "The Passing Of Arthur"
Chapter X: The Adventures Of An Old English Book
Chapter XI: The Story Of Beowulf
Chapter XII: The Father Of English Song
Chapter XIII: How Caedmon Sang, And How He Fell Once More On Silence
Chapter XIV: The Father Of English History
Chapter XV: How Alfred The Great Fought With His Pen
Chapter XVI: When English Slept
Chapter XVII: The Story Of Havelok The Dane
Chapter XVIII: About Some Song Stories
Chapter XIX: "Piers The Ploughman"
Chapter XX: "Piers The Ploughman" -- Continued
Chapter XXI: How The Bible Came To The People
Chapter XXII: Chaucer--Bread And Milk For Children
Chapter XXIII: Chaucer--"The Canterbury Tales"
Chapter XXIV: Chaucer--At The Tabard Inn
Chapter XXV: The First English Guide-Book
Chapter XXVI: Barbour--"The Bruce," The Beginnings Of A Struggle
Chapter XXVII: Barbour--"The Bruce," The End Of The Struggle
Chapter XXVIII: A Poet King
Chapter XXIX: The Death Of The Poet King
Chapter XXX: Dunbar--The Wedding Of The Thistle And The Rose
Chapter XXXI: At The Sign Of The Red Pale
Chapter XXXII: About The Beginning Of The Theater
Chapter XXXIII: How The Shepherds Watched Their Flocks
Chapter XXXIV: The Story Of Everyman
Chapter XXXV: How A Poet Comforted A Girl
Chapter XXXVI: The Renaissance
Chapter XXXVII: The Land Of Nowhere
Chapter XXXVIII: The Death Of Sir Thomas More
Chapter XXXIX: How The Sonnet Came To England
Chapter XL: The Beginning Of Blank Verse
Chapter XLI: Spenser--The "Shepherd's Calendar"
Chapter XLII: Spenser--The "Faery Queen"
Chapter XLIII: Spenser--His Last Days
Chapter XLIV: About The First Theaters
Chapter XLV: Shakespeare--The Boy
Chapter XLVI: Shakespeare--The Man
Chapter LXVII: Shakespeare--"The Merchant Of Venice"
Chapter XLVIII: Jonson--"Every Man In His Humour"
Chapter XLIX: Jonson--"The Sad Shepherd"
Chapter L: Raleigh--"The Revenge"
Chapter LI: Raleigh--"The History Of The World"
Chapter LII: Bacon--New Ways Of Wisdom
Chapter LIII: Bacon--The Happy Island
Chapter LIV: About Some Lyric Poets
Chapter LV: Herbert--The Parson Poet
Chapter LVI: Herrick And Marvell--Of Blossoms And Bowers
Chapter LVII: Milton--Sight And Growth
Chapter LVIII: Milton--Darkness And Death
Chapter LIX: Bunyan--"The Pilgrim's Progress"
Chapter LX: Dryden--The New Poetry
Chapter LXI: Defoe--The First Newspapers
Chapter LXII: Defoe--"Robinson Crusoe"
Chapter LXIII: Swift--The "Journal To Stella"
Chapter LXIV: Swift--"Gulliver's Travels"
Chapter LXV: Addison--The "Spectator"
Chapter LXVI: Steele--The Soldier Author
Chapter LXVII: Pope--The "Rape Of The Lock"
Chapter LXVIII: Johnson--Days Of Struggle
Chapter LXIX: Johnson--The End Of The Journey
Chapter LXX: Goldsmith--The Vagabond
Chapter LXXI: Goldsmith--"The Vicar Of Wakefield"
Chapter LXXII: Burns--The Plowman Poet
Chapter LXXIII: Cowper--"The Task"
Chapter LXXIV: Wordsworth--The Poet Of Nature
Chapter LXXV: Wordsworth And Coleridge--The Lake Poets
Chapter LXXVI: Coleridge And Southey--Sunshine And Shadow
Chapter LXXVII: Scott--The Awakening Of Romance
Chapter LXXVIII: Scott--"The Wizard Of The North"
Chapter LXXIX: Byron--"Childe Harold's Pilgrimage"
Chapter LXXX: Shelley--The Poet Of Love
Chapter LXXXI: Keats--The Poet Of Beauty
Chapter LXXXII: Carlyle--The Sage Of Chelsea
Chapter LXXXIII: Thackeray--The Cynic?
Chapter LXXXIV: Dickens--Smiles And Tears
Chapter LXXXV: Tennyson--The Poet Of Friendship
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