English Literature For Boys And Girls

English Literature For Boys And Girls

Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall, British author, particularly well known for her works of popular national history for children (1867-1941)


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Table of Contents

- About This Book

- Year 7

- Chapter I. In The Listening Time

- Chapter Ii. The Story Of The Cattle Raid Of Cooley

- Chapter Iii. One Of The Sorrows Of Story-telling

- Chapter Iv. The Story Of A Literary Lie

- Chapter V. The Story Of Fingal

- Chapter Vi. About Some Old Welsh Stories And Story-tellers

- Chapter Vii. How The Story Of Arthur Was Written In English

- Chapter Viii. The Beginning Of The Reading Time

- Chapter Ix. The Passing Of Arthur

- Chapter X. The Adventures Of An Old English Book

- Chapter Xi. The Story Of Beowulf

- Chapter Xii. The Father Of English Song

- Chapter Xiii. How Caedmon Sang, And How He Fell Once More On Silence

- Chapter Xiv. The Father Of English History

- Chapter Xv. How Alfred The Great Fought With His Pen

- Chapter Xvi. When English Slept

- Chapter Xvii. The Story Of Havelok The Dane

- Chapter Xviii. About Some Song Stories

- Chapter Xix. Piers The Ploughman

- Chapter Xx. Piers The Ploughman - Continued

- Chapter Xxi. How The Bible Came To The People

- Chapter Xxii. Chaucer-bread And Milk For Children

- Chapter Xxiii. Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales

- Chapter Xxiv. Chaucer - At The Tabard Inn

- Chapter Xxv. The First English Guide-book

- Chapter Xxvi. Barbour- The Bruce, The Beginnings Of A Struggle

- Chapter Xxvii. Barbour- The Bruce, The End Of The Struggle

- Chapter Xxviii. A Poet King

- Chapter Xxix. The Death Of The Poet King

- Chapter Xxx. Dunbar- The Wedding Of The Thistle And The Rose

- Chapter Xxxi. T The Sign Of The Red Pale

- Chapter Xxxii. About The Beginning Of The Theater

- Chapter Xxxiii. How The Shepherds Watched Their Flocks

- Chapter Xxxiv. The Story Of Everyman

- Chapter Xxxv. How A Poet Comforted A Girl

- Chapter Xxxvi. The Renaissance

- Chapter Xxxvii. The Land Of Nowhere

- Chapter Xxxviii. The Death Of Sir Thomas More

- Chapter Xxxix. How The Sonnet Came To England

- Chapter Xl. The Beginning Of Blank Verse

- Chapter Xli. Spenser- The Shepherd's Calendar

- Chapter Xlii. Spenser- The Faery Queen

- Chapter Xliii. Spenser- His Last Days

- Chapter Xliv. About The First Theaters

- Chapter Xlv. Shakespeare- The Boy

- Chapter Xlvi. Shakespeare- The Man

- Chapter Lxvii. Shakespeare- The Merchant Of Venice

- Chapter Xlviii. Jonson- Every Man In His Humour

- Chapter Xlix. Jonson- The Sad Shepherd

- Chapter L. Raleigh- The Revenge

- Chapter Li. Raleigh- The History Of The World

- Chapter Lii. Bacon- New Ways Of Wisdom

- Chapter Liii. Bacon- The Happy Island

- Chapter Liv. About Some Lyric Poets

- Chapter Lv. Herbert- The Parson Poet

- Chapter Lvi. Herrick And Marvell- Of Blossoms And Bowers

- Chapter Lvii. Milton- Sight And Growth

- Chapter Lviii. Milton- Darkness And Death

- Chapter Lix. Bunyan- The Pilgrim's Progress

- Chapter Lx. Dryden- The New Poetry

- Chapter Lxi. Defoe- The First Newspapers

- Chapter Lxii. Defoe- Robinson Crusoe

- Chapter Lxiii. Swift- The Journal To Stella

- Chapter Lxiv. Swift- Gulliver's Travels

- Chapter Lxv. Addison- The Spectator

- Chapter Lxvi. Steele- The Soldier Author

- Chapter Lxvii. Pope- The Rape Of The Lock

- Chapter Lxviii. Johnson- Days Of Struggle

- Chapter Lxix. Johnson- The End Of The Journey

- Chapter Lxx. Goldsmith- The Vagabond

- Chapter Lxxi. Goldsmith- The Vicar Of Wakefield

- Chapter Lxxii. Burns- The Plowman Poet

- Chapter Lxxiii. Cowper- The Task

- Chapter Lxxiv. Wordsworth- The Poet Of Nature

- Chapter Lxxv. Wordsworth And Coleridge- The Lake Poets

- Chapter Lxxvi. Coleridge And Southey- Sunshine And Shadow

- Chapter Lxxvii. Scott- The Awakening Of Romance

- Chapter Lxxviii. Scott- The Wizard Of The North

- Chapter Lxxix. Byron- Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

- Chapter Lxxx. Shelley- The Poet Of Love

- Chapter Lxxxi. Keats- The Poet Of Beauty

- Chapter Lxxxii. Carlyle- The Sage Of Chelsea

- Chapter Lxxxiii. Thackeray- The Cynic

- Chapter Lxxxiv. Dickens- Smiles And Tears

- Chapter Lxxxv. Tennyson- The Poet Of Friendship