A Compendious History of English Literature and of the English Language, Volume…
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George Lillie Craik
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The History of English Literature and Language may be recommended to the student as a guide always sure, and as satisfactory as its limits will admit, to the gathered harvest of a thousand years -- from ALFRED the Great to VICTORIA -- now existing in a language radically identical for the whole of that period, the common property of all who are born to its use, a personal endowment not to be limited by local accidents, but the rightful possession of those who "claim SHAKESPEARE's language for their mother tongue." As a writer, the principal characteristics of Mr. CRAIK are good sense and a command of ample information, derived usually from the original sources. He has not aimed a producing a brilliant book. From the number of topics necessary to be glanced at, much of it necessarily assumes the appearance of a brief catalogue; but the critical judgments of the writers, as they come under review, are unpretending and correct. - Summary from The New York Times, April 26, 1864. (24 hr 1 min)
Chapters
1. Introductory. 1. Literature and Language. The Languages of Modern Europe
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2.2. Schools and Universities. Rise of the Scholastic Philosophy. John of Salis…
24:52
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2.3. Classical Learning. Mathematics. Medicine. Law. Books. The Latin Language.…
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2.4. Latin Chroniclers. Ingulphus. William of Poitiers. Ordericus Vitalis. Gest…
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2.5. Ailred. Geoffrey of Monmouth. Alfred of Beverley. Giraldus Cambrensis. Hen…
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2.6. The French language in England. The Langue d'Oc and the Langue d'Oyl. Norm…
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2.7. Anglo-Norman Poets. King Henry I. His Queens, Matilda and Alice. Philip d…
29:37
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2.8. Luc de la Barre. Guichard de Beaulieu. Arthurian Romance. The Saint Greal.…
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2.10. The Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries. Ascendancy of the Scholastic Phi…
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2.11. Latin Historical Works of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries. Use an…
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2.12. Anglo-Norman Poets. French Prose Romances. Froissart. Resurrection of the…
23:42
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3.4. Metrical Legends. Land of Cokayne. Guldevord. Wille Gris. Early English So…
20:40
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3.5. History of the English Metrical Romance. Metrical Chronicle of Robert of G…
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4.10. Literature and Learning in the Fifteenth Century Universities. Revival of…
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4.11. Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester. Woodville, Earl Rivers. Science in England. A…
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4.12. English Poets. Occleve, Lydgate. Scottish Poets. Wynton, James I, Henryso…
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4.15. Scottish Prose Writers. English Poets: Hawes, Barklay. Skelton. Roy, John…
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4.16. The Elizabethan Literature. The Mirror for Magistrates. Origin of Regular…
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4.17. Gammer Gurton's Needle. Misogonus. Chronicle Histories. Bale's Kynge Joha…
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4.18. Marlow. Lyly, Kid, Lodge. Earlier Elizabethan Prose. Lyly, Sidney, Spense…
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4.24. Sylvester. Chapman's Homer. Harington; Fairfax; Fanshawe. Drummond. Davie…
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4.26. Chapman, Webster, Middleton, Decker, Chettle, Marston, Tailor, Tourneur, …
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4.27. Later Elizabethan Prose Writers. Translation of the Bible. Theological Wr…
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