III. Anglo-Saxon Learning and Prose: Latin among the Anglo-Saxons--Bede--Alcuin--Alfred--The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle--The Monks and Learning--Ælfric IV. After the Norman Conquest: Latin Literature--Walter Map--Changes Since the Conquest V. Geoffrey of Monmouth: The Stories of Arthur VI. Layamon's "Brut": Ormulum--Ancren Riwle--The Owl and the Nightingale--Lyrics--Political Songs--Robert of Gloucester--Cursor Mundi--Devotional Books--Minot VII. The Romances in Rhyme: Tristram--Havelok--King Horn--Beues of Hamtoun--Guy of Warwick--Arthur and Merlin--The Tale of Troy--The Story of Troy from Homer to Shakespeare--King Alisaundre VIII. Alliterative Romances and Poems: Gawain and the Green Knight--Pearl--Huchowne 72 IX. Chaucer: Early Poems--The Dethe of the Duchesse--Other Early Poems--Troilus and Criseyde--The Canterbury Tales 78 X. "Piers Plowman," Gower XI. The Successors of Chaucer: Lydgate--Occleve--Hawes XII. Late Mediaeval Prose: Wyclif--Chaucer's Prose Style--Trevisa--Mandeville--Pecock: "The Repressor"--Capgrave--Lord Berners XIII. Malory XIV. Early Scottish Literature: Barbour--Wyntoun--The Kingis Quhair--Henryson--Dunbar--Blind Harry--The Buke of the Howlat--Gawain Douglas--Sir David Lyndsay XV. Popular Poetry. Ballads Professional Poetry: Skelton--Barclay XVI. Rise of the Drama: Heywood--Ralph Roister Doister--Gammer Gurton's Needle--"Gorboduc" XVII. Wyatt and Surrey. Gascoigne. Sackville: The Earl of Surrey--Tottel's Miscellany--Gascoigne--Sackville XVIII. Prose of the Renaissance: Elyot--Ascham--Lyly's Euphues--Sidney--Sidney's "Defence of Poesie" Spenser XIX. The Elizabethan Stage and Playwrights: John Lyly --Peele--Greene--Lodge--Nash--Marlowe--Kyd--Shakespeare --The Sonnets--Later Plays--Jonson--Jonson's Prose XX. Other Dramatists: Beaumont and Fletcher--Chapman--John Marston--Dekker--Middleton--Heywood--Webster--Massinger --Ford--Shirley XXI. Elizabethan and Jacobean Prose Writers: Hooker--"Martin Marprelate"--Bacon--Raleigh--Overbury--Translators--Pulpit Eloquence XXII. Late Elizabethan and Jacobean Poets: Minor Lyrists-- Drayton --Daniel--Davies--Giles and Phineas Fletcher--Corbet--Sir John Beaumont XXIII. Late Jacobean and Caroline Prose: Burton--Herbert of Cherbury--Browne. Caroline Prose: Milton--Jeremy Taylor--Thomas Fuller--Hobbes--Izaak Walton--John Bunyan--Clarendon XXIV. Caroline Poets: Crashaw--Herbert--Vaughan--Herrick--Carew--Lovelace --Suckling--Habington--Cartwright--Davenant--Cowley --Denham--Sherburne--Stanley--Browne--Cotton --Waller--Marvell--Milton--Samuel Butler XXV. Restoration Theatre: Congreve--Vanbrugh--George Farquhar --Otway--Nat Lee--Dryden XXVI. Augustan Poetry: Alexander Pope--Prior--Gay--Ambrose Philips--Tickell XXVII. Augustan Prose: Steele--Addison--Swift--De Foe XXVIII. Georgian Poetry I.: Edward Young--James Thomson--William Collins--Thomas Gray--The Wartons--John Dyer--William Shenstone