PUBLISHERS' NOTICE TO THE AMERICAN EDITION.
[IN order to enable them to present this valuable work to the public at a reduced price, the American publishers have been obliged to make but one change, and that a change which nowise impairs the usefulness of the book. In place of the long preliminary chapter in the English edition, they have inserted a chapter from Mr. Arnold's "From Chaucer to Wordsworth." In the opening sentence of the preface to the latter work, will be found the sufficient reason for the change. "As the following work," says he, "is designed chiefly for the use of those who know no other language but English, I have abridged much more than is usual that portion of the history which relates to the Saxon and Anglo-Norman times, during which all the important works that appeared in England were written in AngloSaxon, French, or Latin.”]
Latin and French Compositions - Walsingham, Fordun, Wyclif -
Growth of the English Language and Literature Chaucer: Sketch
of his Life; Chronology of his Writings - Gower, Langland, Occleve,
Lydgate, Minot-SCOTTISH POETS: Barbour, James I., Wynton—
PROSE WRITERS: Maundevile, Chaucer, Wyclif
21-44
Decline of Literature - Invention of Printing- Foundation of Schools
and Universities POETRY: Hardyng, Hawes, Skelton, Surrey,
Wyat; the Mirrour for Magistrates;" first Poet Laureate -SCOT-
TISH POETS: Henryson, Dunbar, Gawain Douglas, Lyndsay, Blind
Harry LEARNING: Grocyn; Linacre; Colet; the Humanities; State of the Universities - PROSE WRITERS: Pecock, Fortescue, Caxton, Leland, More (his (his Utopia") — Chroniclers: Fabyan,
Hall, Grafton - Bale - Theological Writers: Latimer, More, Roger
Ascham
45-72
Brilliant Period of our Literature; connected with the Social Prosperity
of the Country POETS AND DRAMATISTS: Spenser, Shakspeare's
Poems, Southwell, Warner, Daniel, Drayton, Donne, Davies, Chap-
man, Marston, Raleigh-Rise and Progress of the English Drama-
Miracle-plays-Coventry Mysteries - Earliest Comedy - Heywood's
Interludes -Earliest Tragedy - Dramatic Unities Greene's Pam-
phlet - Shakspeare: Sketch of his Life; his Comedies; his Tragedies;
his Historical Plays - Ben Jonson-Beaumont and Fletcher - Mas-
singer, Ford, Webster, Marston, Chapman, Dekker, T. Heywood, Mid-
dleton, Rowley, Tourneur, Shirley Suppression of the Stage
PROSE-WRITERS: Novels; Books of Travel; Essays; Bacon, Burton;
Puttenham; Sir Philip Sidney; Earliest Newspaper- HISTORIANS:
Holinshed, Camden, Lord Bacon, Speed, Knolles, Raleigh, Foxe-
THEOLOGIANS: Jewel, Hooker, Andrewes; Translation of the Bible
PHILOSOPHY: Lord Bacon; Explanation of his Method; His Phil-
osophical Works - Political Science: Buchanan, Spenser, Raleigh,
Elyot 73-153
Historical Sketch of the leading Political Events
the Fantastic School; Cowley, Waller, Crashaw -Song-Writers: Her-
bert, Wotton, Corbet, Carew, Drummond, Cleveland, Herrick, Love-
lace, Denham; Milton, Sketch of his Literary Life; Wither, Marvell;
Dryden, Sketch of his Literary Life; Roscommon, Butler, Davenant-
Heroic Plays: Dryden, Otway, Lee, Shadwell, Settle, Crowne, Behn-
Comedy of Manners: Congreve, Jeremy Collier― LEARNING: Usher,
Selden, Gale, &c. - PROSE FICTION: Bunyan - HISTORY AND BIOG-
RAPHY: Milton, Ludlow, Clarendon, &c.; Wood's "Athenæ;" Fuller,
Pepys, Evelyn, &c. - THEOLOGY: Hall, Jeremy Taylor, Bull, Leigh-
ton, Pearson, Lightfoot, Baxter- PHILOSOPHY: Hobbes, Cudworth,
Locke, Harrington — ESSAY-WRITERS: Hall, Feltham, Browne
SCIENCE: Newton
Historical Sketch, General Characteristics - POETRY FROM 1700 TO 1745: Pope, Sketch of his Literary Life; Addison, Gay, Parnell, Swift, Thomson, Prior, Garth, Blackmore, Defoe, Tickell, Savage, Dyer, A. Philips, J. Philips, Watts, Ramsay THE DRAMA: Addison, Rowe, Thomson, Young, Southern, Steele Prose Comedy: Farquhar, Van- brugh, Cibber, Centlivre, Gay - LEARNING, 1700-1745: Bentley, Lard-
- PROSE FICTION: Swift, Defoe - Pamphleteers: Swift, Arbuth- not― Periodical Miscellany: "Tatler," "Spectator," "Guardian," &c. Satirical Works: Swift's "Tale of a Tub" - HISTORY, 1700-1745:
Burnet, Rapin - POETRY, 1745-1800: Johnson, Gray, Churchill, Cow-
per, Burns, Minor Poets, "The Rolliad "— THE DRAMA: Home, John-
son, Goldsmith, Sheridan, and others - PROSE FICTION, 1745–1800:
Richardson, Fielding, Smollett, Sterne, Goldsmith, Miss Burney, God-
win -ORATORY: Chatham, Burke, &c.-Pamphleteers: Junius, Burke,
Johnson - HISTORY, 1745-1800: Hume, Robertson, Gibbon - Biogra-
phers: Boswell, &c. THEOLOGY: the English Deists; Bentley, But-
ler's " Analogy," Berkeley; Warburton; Methodism; Middleton;
Challoner - PHILOSOPHY: Berkeley, Hume, Reid, Butler, Paley
Political Science: Hume, Burke, Godwin, Paine - Political Economy:
Adam Smith Criticism: Burke, Reynolds, &c.
Re-action against the Ideas of the Eighteenth Century - Theory of the
Spontaneous in Poetry. - POETRY: Sir Walter Scott, Sketch of his
Literary Life; Keats, Shelley, Byron, Crabbe, Coleridge, Southey,
Campbell, Wordsworth, Moore, Hood, Hogg, &c. - PROSE WRITERS:
Summary Account of
Definition of Literature-Poetry and Prose Writings - Classification of Poetical Compositions -EPIC POETRY: the "Paradise Lost” MATIČ POETRY: its Kinds; Shakspeare, Addison, Ben Jonson, Milton - HEROIC POETRY: "The Bruce," "The Campaign "-- Mock-Heroic
Poems: Pope's "Rape of the Lock," Garth's "Dispensary ”— NAR-
RATIVE POETRY: 1. Romances: "Sir Isumbras;" 2. Tales: Chaucer
and the Canterbury Tales, Falconer, Crabbe, Parnell; 3. Allegories:
"Vision of Piers Plowman,' ""Flower and the Leaf," Spenser's "Fae-
ry Queen," ""Castle of Indolence;" Fables: Gay, Mrs. Thrale, Mer-
rick; 4. Romantic Poems: Scott's "Lay" and others; Byron's Orien-
tal Tales; “Lalla Rookh;" 5. Historical Poems: Rhyming Chroniclers;
Dryden's "Annus Mirabilis " DIDACTIC POETRY: "The Hind and
Panther;' "Essay on Man; Essay on Criticism; Vanity of
Human Wishes - SATIRICAL POETRY: of three Kinds, Moral, Per-
sonal, Political; Satires of Donne, Hall, and Swift; Pope's Satires,
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