9781410212511 | Univ Pr of the Pacific, March 30, 2004, cover price $17.99 |
About this edition: CONTENTS The Druidical Institution - Britain and the Britons - The Name of England and of the English - The Anglo-Saxons - CFdmon and Milton - Beowulf: The Hero-Life - The Anglo-Normans - The Page, the Baron, and the Minstrel - Gothic Romances - Origin of the Vernacular Languages of Europe - Origin of the English Language - Vicissitudes of the English Language - Dialects - Mandeville, Our First Traveller - Chaucer - Gower - Piers Ploughman - Occleve, the Scholar of Chaucer - Lydgate, the Monk of Bury - The Invention of Printing - The First English Printer - Early Libraries - Henry the Seventh - First Sources of Modern History - Arnolde's Chronicle - The First Printed Chronicle - Henry the Eight: His Literary Career - Books of the People - The Difficulties Experienced by a Primitive Author - Skelton - The Ship of Fools - The Psychological Character of Sir Thomas More - The Earl of Surrey and Sir Thomas Wyatt - The Spoliation of the Monasteries - A Crisis and a Re-action.
9781410212528 | Univ Pr of the Pacific, March 30, 2004, cover price $17.99 |
About this edition: CONTENTS Public Opinion - Orthography and Orthoepy - The Ancient Metres in Modern Verse - Origin of Rhyme - Rhyming Dictionaries - The Arte Of English Poesie - The Discoverie of Witchcraft - The First Jesuits in England - Hooker - Sir Philip Sydney - Spenser - The Faery Queen - Allegory - The First Tragedy and the First Comedy - The Predecessors and Contemporaries of Shakespeare - Shakespeare - The "Humours" of Jonson - Drayton - The Psychological History of Rawleigh - The Occult Philosopher, Dr.