English literature for boys and girls
by H E. b. 1876 Marshall Author
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Additional Details
- Resource Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 978-1176596122
- Print Status
- In Print
- Chapters
- 85
- Pages
- 750
- Suggested Grades
- 9th
- Publisher
- Nabu Press
- Copyright
- 2010
Chapters
- 1 In the Listening Time
- 2 The Story of the Cattle Raid of Cooley
- 3 One of the Sorrows of Storytelling
- 4 The Story of a Literary Lie
- 5 The Story of Fingal
- 6 About Some Old Welsh Stories and Storytellers
- 7 How the Story of Arthur was Written in English
- 8 The Beginning of the Reading Time
- 9 "The Passing of Arthur"
- 10 The Adventures of an Old English Book
- 11 The Story of Beowulf
- 12 The Father of English Song
- 13 How Caedmon Sang, and How He Fell Once More on Silence
- 14 The Father of English History
- 15 How Alfred the Great Fought with His Pen
- 16 When English Slept
- 17 The Story of Havelok the Dane
- 18 About Some Song Stories
- 19 "Piers the Ploughman"
- 20 "Piers the Ploughman" - continued
- 21 How the Bible Came to the People
- 22 Chaucer- Bread and Milk for Children
- 23 Chaucer- "The Canterbury Tales"
- 24 Chaucer- At the Tabard Inn
- 25 The First English Guide-Book
- 26 Barbour- "The Bruce," The Beginnings of a Struggle
- 27 Barbour- "The Bruce," The End of the Struggle
- 28 A Poet King
- 29 The Death of the Poet King
- 30 Dunbar- The Wedding of the Thistle and the Rose
- 31 At the Sign of the Red Pale
- 32 About the Beginning of the Theater
- 33 How the Shepherds Watched Their Flocks
- 34 The Story of Everyman
- 35 How a Poet Comforted a Girl
- 36 The Renaissance
- 37 The Land of Nowhere
- 38 The Death of Sir Thomas More
- 39 How the Sonnet Came to England
- 40 The Beginning of Blank Verse
- 41 Spenser- The "Shepherd's Calendar"
- 42 Spenser- The "Faery Queen"
- 43 Spenser- His Last Days
- 44 About The First Theaters
- 45 Shakespeare- The Boy
- 46 Shakespeare- The Man
- 47 Shakespeare- "The Merchant of Venice"
- 48 Jonson- "Every Man in His Humour"
- 49 Jonson- "The Sad Shepherd"
- 50 Raleigh- "The Revenge"
- 51 Raleigh- "The History of the World"
- 52 Bacon- New Ways of Wisdom
- 53 Bacon- The Happy Island
- 54 About Some Lyric Poets
- 55 Herbert- The Parson Poet
- 56 Herrick and Marvell- Of Blossoms and Bowers
- 57 Milton- Sight and Growth
- 58 Milton- Darkness and Death
- 59 Bunyan- "The Pilgrim's Progress"
- 60 Dryden- The New Poetry
- 61 Defoe- The First Newspapers
- 62 Defoe- "Robinson Crusoe"
- 63 Swift- The "Journal to Stella"
- 64 Swift- "Gulliver's Travels"
- 65 Addison- The "Spectator"
- 66 Steele- The Soldier Author
- 67 Pope- The "Rape of the Lock"
- 68 Johnson- Days of Struggle
- 69 Johnson- The End of the Journey
- 70 Goldsmith- The Vagabond
- 71 Goldsmith- "The Vicar of Wakefield"
- 72 Burns- The Plowman Poet
- 73 Cowper- "The Task"
- 74 Wordsworth- The Poet of Nature
- 75 Wordsworth and Coleridge- The Lake Poets
- 76 Coleridge and Southey- Sunshine and Shadow
- 77 Scott- The Awakening of Romance
- 78 Scott- "The Wizard of the North"
- 79 Byron- "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage"
- 80 Shelley- The Poet of Love
- 81 Keats- The Poet of Beauty
- 82 Carlyle- The Sage of Chelsea
- 83 Thackeray- The Cynic?
- 84 Dickens- Smiles and Tears
- 85 Tennyson- The Poet of Friendship
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