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English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History

English Literature
Henry Coppée

by Henry Coppée

PREFACE.
CHAPTER I. THE HISTORICAL SCOPE OF THE SUBJECT.
CHAPTER II. LITERATURE A TEACHER OF HISTORY. CELTIC REMAINS.
CHAPTER III. ANGLO-SAXON LITERATURE AND HISTORY.
CHAPTER IV. THE VENERABLE BEDE AND THE SAXON CHRONICLE.
CHAPTER V. THE NORMAN CONQUEST AND ITS EARLIEST LITERATURE.
CHAPTER VI. THE MORNING TWILIGHT OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.
CHAPTER VII. CHAUCER, AND THE EARLY REFORMATION.
CHAPTER VIII. CHAUCER, (CONTINUED.)—REFORMS IN RELIGION AND SOCIETY.
CHAPTER IX. CHAUCER (CONTINUED.)—PROGRESS OF SOCIETY, AND OF LANGUAGES.
CHAPTER X. THE BARREN PERIOD BETWEEN CHAUCER AND SPENSER.
CHAPTER XI. SPENSER AND THE ELIZABETHAN AGE.
CHAPTER XII. ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE HISTORY IN THE FAERIE QUEENE.
CHAPTER XIII. THE ENGLISH DRAMA.
CHAPTER XIV. WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE.
CHAPTER XV. WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE, (CONTINUED.)
CHAPTER XVI. BACON, AND THE RISE OF THE NEW PHILOSOPHY.
CHAPTER XVII. THE ENGLISH BIBLE.
CHAPTER XVIII. JOHN MILTON, AND THE ENGLISH COMMONWEALTH.
CHAPTER XIX. THE POETRY OF MILTON.
CHAPTER XX. COWLEY, BUTLER, AND WALTON.
CHAPTER XXI. DRYDEN, AND THE RESTORED STUARTS.
CHAPTER XXII. THE RELIGIOUS LITERATURE OF THE GREAT REBELLION AND OF THE RESTORATION.
CHAPTER XXIII. THE DRAMA OF THE RESTORATION.
CHAPTER XXIV. POPE, AND THE ARTIFICIAL SCHOOL.
CHAPTER XXV. ADDISON, AND THE REIGN OF QUEEN ANNE.
CHAPTER XXVI. STEELE AND SWIFT.
CHAPTER XXVII. THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF MODERN FICTION.
CHAPTER XXVIII. STERNE, GOLDSMITH, AND MACKENZIE.
CHAPTER XXIX. THE HISTORICAL TRIAD IN THE SCEPTICAL AGE.
CHAPTER XXX. SAMUEL JOHNSON AND HIS TIMES.
CHAPTER XXXI. THE LITERARY FORGERS IN THE ANTIQUARIAN AGE.
CHAPTER XXXII. POETRY OF THE TRANSITION SCHOOL.
CHAPTER XXXIII. THE LATER DRAMA.
CHAPTER XXXIV. THE NEW ROMANTIC POETRY: SCOTT.
CHAPTER XXXV. THE NEW ROMANTIC POETRY: BYRON AND MOORE.
CHAPTER XXXVI. THE NEW ROMANTIC POETRY (CONTINUED).
CHAPTER XXXVII. WORDSWORTH, AND THE LAKE SCHOOL.
CHAPTER XXXVIII. THE REACTION IN POETRY.
CHAPTER XXXIX. THE LATER HISTORIANS.
CHAPTER XL. THE LATER NOVELISTS AS SOCIAL REFORMERS.
CHAPTER XLI. THE LATER WRITERS.
CHAPTER XLII. ENGLISH JOURNALISM.

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