Compendious History of English Literature and of the English Language, Volume I
George Lillie Craik
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Length 24 h 1 min
Chapters 51
First published 1863
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.
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Preface Read by Grant Hicks 11:51
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1.2. Early Latin Literature in Britain Read by Grant Hicks 15:10
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1.3. The Celtic Languages and Literatures Read by Grant Hicks 20:37
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1.4. Decay of the Earliest English Scholarship Read by Grant Hicks 15:23
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1.5. The English Language Read by Grant Hicks 9:08
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1.6. Original English Read by Jim Locke 27:52
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2. The Norman Period. 1. The Norman Conquest. Arabic and the New Learning Read by Jim Locke 32:17
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2.2. Schools and Universities. Rise of the Scholastic Philosophy. John of Salisbury. Peter of Blois Read by Jim Locke 24:52
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2.3. Classical Learning. Mathematics. Medicine. Law. Books. The Latin Language. The Latin Poets. Mapes, etc Read by Jim Locke 18:09
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2.4. Latin Chroniclers. Ingulphus. William of Poitiers. Ordericus Vitalis. Gesta Stephani. William of Jumieges. Florence of Worcester. Matthew of Westminster. William of Malmesbury. Eadmer. Turgot and Simeon of Durham. John of Hexham and Richard of Hexham Read by Jim Locke 34:19
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2.5. Ailred. Geoffrey of Monmouth. Alfred of Beverley. Giraldus Cambrensis. Henry of Huntingdon. Roger de Hoveden. William of Newburgh. Benedictus Abbas. Ralph de Diceto. Gervase of Canterbury. Vinsauf. Richard of Devises. Joscelin de Brakelonda. Monastic Registers. Law Treatises. Domesday Book. Public Rolls and Registers Read by Jim Locke 31:25
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2.6. The French language in England. The Langue d'Oc and the Langue d'Oyl. Norman trouveurs. Duke Richard I. Thibaut de Vernon. Turold, or Theroulde. Chanson de Roland Read by Jim Locke 25:32
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2.7. Anglo-Norman Poets. King Henry I. His Queens, Matilda and Alice. Philip de Than. Geoffrey, Abbot of St. Albans. Pilgrimage of Saint Brendan. Charlemagne. Anglo-Norman Chronicles. Gaimar. David. Wace. Benoït. Everard. French Language in Scotland Read by Jim Locke 29:37
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2.8. Luc de la Barre. Guichard de Beaulieu. Arthurian Romance. The Saint Greal. Luc du Gast. Buron. Mapes. Roman du Roi Horn. Tristan or Tristrem. Guernes de Pont Sainte Maxence. Herman. Hugh of Rutland. Boson. Simon du Fresne. Cardinal Langton. King Richard Coeur-de-Lion Read by Jim Locke 24:05
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2.9. Vernacular Language and Literature: A.D. 1066-1216 Read by Jim Locke 26:15
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2.10. The Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries. Ascendancy of the Scholastic Philosophy. Mathematical and Other Studies. Roger Bacon. Robert Grosseteste. Alchemists. Universities and Colleges Read by Jim Locke 21:30
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2.11. Latin Historical Works of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries. Use and Study of the Latin and Greek, the Hebrew and other Oriental Tongues. Last Age of the French Language in England Read by Jim Locke 31:51
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2.12. Anglo-Norman Poets. French Prose Romances. Froissart. Resurrection of the English Language Read by Jim Locke 23:42
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3. Second English. 1. St. Godric. The Here Prophecy Read by Jim Locke 13:27
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3.2. The Brut of Layamon Read by Jim Locke 30:38
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3.3. The Ormulum. The Ancren Riwle Read by Jim Locke 36:51
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3.4. Metrical Legends. Land of Cokayne. Guldevord. Wille Gris. Early English Songs. Early English Metrical Romances. Publications of Percy, Warton, Tyrwhitt, Pinkerton, Herbert, Ritson, Ellis, Scott, Weber, Utterson, Laing, Hartshorne, The Boxburghe Club, The Bannatyne, The Maitland, The Abbotsford, The Camden Society Read by Jim Locke 20:40
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3.5. History of the English Metrical Romance. Metrical Chronicle of Robert of Gloucester. Robert Mannyng, or De Brunne. Rolle, or Hampole. Davie. Lawrence Minot Read by Jim Locke 23:04
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3.6. Alliterative Verse: Piers Ploughman. Piers Ploughman's Creed. Read by Jim Locke 31:33
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4. Third English (mixed or compound English). 1. Geoffrey Chaucer, Part 1 Read by Jim Locke 31:43
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4.2. Geoffrey Chaucer, Part 2 Read by Jim Locke 29:23
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4.3. Geoffrey Chaucer, Part 3 Read by Jim Locke 31:32
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4.4. Geoffrey Chaucer, Part 4 Read by Jim Locke 27:37
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4.5. Geoffrey Chaucer, Part 5 Read by Jim Locke 21:38
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4.6. John Gower Read by Jim Locke 22:40
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4.7. Barbour Read by Jim Locke 30:16
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4.8. Compound English Prose: Mandevil and Trevisa Read by Jim Locke 37:24
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4.9. Compound English Prose: Wycliffe and Chaucer Read by Jim Locke 31:59
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4.10. Literature and Learning in the Fifteenth Century Universities. Revival of Letters. Invention of Printing. Printing in England. Caxton. Books and Libraries Read by Jim Locke 38:43
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4.11. Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester. Woodville, Earl Rivers. Science in England. Alchemists. Latin Chroniclers. French Chroniclers. English Chroniclers. Bishop Pecock. Fortescue. Malory Read by Jim Locke 34:19
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4.12. English Poets. Occleve, Lydgate. Scottish Poets. Wynton, James I, Henryson, Holland, Blind Henry. First Half of the Sixteenth Century. Colleges Founded Read by Jim Locke 34:37
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4.13. Classical Learning Read by Jim Locke 41:34
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4.14. Prose Writers. More, Elyot, Tyndal, Cranmer, Latimer Read by Jim Locke 30:23
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4.15. Scottish Prose Writers. English Poets: Hawes, Barklay. Skelton. Roy, John Heywood. Scottish Poets: Gawin Douglas, Dunbar, Lyndsay. Surrey, Wyatt Read by Jim Locke 34:46
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4.16. The Elizabethan Literature. The Mirror for Magistrates. Origin of Regular Drama. Interludes of John Heywood. Udall's Ralph Roister Doister Read by Jim Locke 25:04
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4.17. Gammer Gurton's Needle. Misogonus. Chronicle Histories. Bale's Kynge Johan, etc. Tragedy of Gorboduc. Blank Verse. Other Early Dramas. Second Stage of the Regular Drama. Peele, Greene Read by Jim Locke 35:20
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4.18. Marlow. Lyly, Kid, Lodge. Earlier Elizabethan Prose. Lyly, Sidney, Spenser, Nash, etc. English Hexameter Verse Read by Jim Locke 39:09
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4.19. Edmund Spenser, Part 1 Read by Jim Locke 26:46
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4.20. Edmund Spenser, Part 2 Read by Jim Locke 31:09
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4.21. Edmund Spenser, Part 3 Read by Jim Locke 36:26
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4.22. Other Elizabethan Poetry. Warner Read by Jim Locke 23:31
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4.23. Daniel. Drayton. Joseph Hall Read by Jim Locke 29:12
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4.24. Sylvester. Chapman's Homer. Harington; Fairfax; Fanshawe. Drummond. Davies. Donne Read by Jim Locke 35:39
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4.25. Shakespeare's Minor Poems. Shakespeare's Dramatic Works Read by Jim Locke 18:57
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4.26. Chapman, Webster, Middleton, Decker, Chettle, Marston, Tailor, Tourneur, Rowley, Thomas Heywood. Beaumont and Fletcher. Jonson. Massinger, Ford Read by Jim Locke 31:54
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4.27. Later Elizabethan Prose Writers. Translation of the Bible. Theological Writers. James I., Bishop Andrews, Donne, Hall, Hooker. Bacon. Burton. Historical Writers. Classical Learning Read by Jim Locke 37:05
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