English writers: an attempt towards a history of English literature / by Henry Morley ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morley, Henry, 1822-1894.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Griffin, William Hall.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

British Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--History and criticism.

English literature.

Great Britain--Intellectual life.

Great Britain.

Intellectual life.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

11 volumes ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; Paris ; New York ; Melbourne : Cassell & Co., 1887-95.

Contents:

I. Introduction. Origins. Old Celtic literature. Beowulf. 2d ed. 1887.

II. From Cædmon to the conquest. 1888.

III. From the conquest to Chaucer. 2d ed. ed. 1889.

IV-V. The fourteenth century. 1889-90.

VI. From Chaucer to Caxton. 1890.

VII. From Caxton to Coverdale. 1891.

VIII. From Surrey to Spenser. 1892.

IX. Spenser and his time. 1892.

X. Shakespeare and his time: under Elizabeth. 1893.

XI. Shakespeare and his time: under James. 1895.

Vol I. Introduction

The forming of the people

Old literature of the Gael

Old literature of the Cymry

Old literature of the Teutons

Scandinavia

Beowulf

The fight at Finnesburg

Vol II. Widsith

The scop

First teachers of Christianity

Caedmon

To the death of Bede

Alcuin

The mother tongue- "Judith"

The Vercelli and Exeter books-other remains of first-english verse

Cynewulf

To the end of the eighth century

Dicuil-John Scotus Erigena

King Alfred

The tenth century: Monasticism

To the end of the tenth century

Close of the first-english period

The Northmen

Vol III. Light from the south-close of the eleventh century

Ordericus vitalis and William of Malmesbury-Gesta Stephani

Geoffrey of Monmouth

Church Militant-Thomas Becket-Giraldus Cambrensis

Retrospect-Chronicles-Henry of Huntingdon-Miracle plays of Hilarious

Layamon

The ormulum and the Ancren Riwle

English songs and ballads-the bard in Wales

English Metrical romance

Foundation of the Dominicans and Franciscans-Grosseteste-Roger Bacon

Songs-Satires-Fables

Chronicles-Sermons-Proverbs

Robert of Brunne-Gesta Roman-Orum-Allegory and romance

The Italian revival

Vol IV. "The Romaunt of the rose

Petrarch and Boccaccio

Richard of Bury and some learned men

Miracle plays

"Cursor Mundi"-Northern homilies and southern legends-"The pearl"

John Gower

Gower's "Vox Clamantis"

Gower's "Confessio Amantis"

Writers of Chronicles

War and religion

Mayndeville's travels

William Langland and his "Vision of Piers Plowman"

Vol V. Church Reform

Wyclif's earlier years

Wyclif the reformer

Wyclif as teacher

Wyclif's later years

Chaucer's earlier years

Chaucer's earlier poems

Chaucer's "Troilus and Cressida"

The "House of Fame"

"The legend of good women"

Minor works ascribed to chaucer

The "Centerbury Tales"

The spirit of Chaucer

Vol VII. John Barbour

John of Fordoun-Andrew of Wyntoun

Romances

Richard the redeless-plowman's crede and tale

Lydgate and occleve

The church controversy-chronicles

Some minor poets-James the first and the King's Quair

Reginald pecock

Sir John Fortescue

Dictionaries and translations-legends and fables -minstrelsy-songs and ballads of the people

Huchowne-blind Harry-Robert Henryson

The paston letters

The invention of printing

William Caxton

Vol VII. Princely training

Surrey and Wyatt

Courtly makers in the reign of Henry VIII

Masques and interludes-rise of the modern drama-the first english comedy

From Henry and the eighth's reign onward-John Leland and John Bale-northern reformers-Sir David Lindsay and John Knox

Of troubles abroad and the english reformers and scholars, with other writers, being the end of the narrative from the year 1540 to the accession of Queen Elizabeth

Accession of Elizabeth: John Knox, Matthew Parker, and other church reformers

First years of Elizabeth's reign: Poems, plays and tales

Ascham's "Schoolmaster" and Lylys's "Euphues"

Church Militant

The last years of John Knox-George Buchanan

Chronicles and plays

In the young days of Sidney and Raleigh.

Notes:

Vol. 11 was completed after Morley's death by W. Hall Griffin.

Includes bibliographical references (volume 11, pages 335-460).

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy imperfect: v.3-4 only; v.1-2, v.5-11 wanting.

Athenaeum copy: Livezey Fund bookplate (vol IV, vol V, vol VI,vol VII)

Other Format:

Online version: Morley, Henry, 1822-1894. English writers.

OCLC:

408017