A History of English Literature

Abbreviations ? uncertain ASC Anglo-Saxon Chronicle AV Authorized Version of the Bible Anon. anonymous b. born BCP Book of Commo ...

The chief glory of every people arises from its authours: whether I shall add any thing by my own writings to the reputation of ...

Why literary history? Literary history can be useful and the need for it becomes greater. English teachers teach single works, s ...

the reading public eventually has the last word. Good writing, of whatever date, remains contemporary. ‘The pen is mightier than ...

Scope: English, British, English A book which means to do something definite defines its scope. The subject- matter of this book ...

Clarence Mangan, would be shouldered out by English worthies, not to mention the native literature of Saunders Lewis, Sorley Mac ...

reason for being discussed, it is a reason which would apply to William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, Patrick Whit ...

breathe and eyes can see, / So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.’ The belief that literature outlives the circumstan ...

Reformation, and the new nation-state, English drew ahead of Latin for most purposes, and literature became nationalist. The Eng ...

The priorities of a history may be deduced from its allocation of space. Yet space has also to be given to the historically symp ...

The Cambridge Companions to Literature (1986– ). Uneven, but most can be recommended. Each Companionhas specially written essays ...

Medieval PART I ...

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Overview The Angles and Saxons conquered what is now called England in the 5th and 6th centuries. In the 7th century, Christian ...

And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England’s mountains green? And was the holy Lamb of God On England’s pleasant pastu ...

Augustine of Canterbury that he needed a written law-code; it was written with the Roman alphabet. The peoples to be called the ...

from Austria to Iceland, has a common form, technique and formulaic repertoire. Oral poetry was an art which had evolved over ge ...

was sent from Gregory’s own monastery in Rome. His most influential successor, Theodore (Archbishop from 664), was a Syrian Gree ...

18 1 · OLD ENGLISH LITERATURE: TO 1100 Dates of early writings and chief events Date Author and title Event AD 43 Conquest of Br ...

ORIENTATIONS 19 Dates of early writings and chief events continued Date Author and title Event 698 Eadfrith: Lindisfarne Gospels ...