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- HISTORY OF
- ENGLISH LITERATURE
- HIPPOLYTE ADOLPHE TAINE
- TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY HENRY VAN LAUN
- WITH A SPECIAL INTRODUCTION BY
- J. SCOTT CLARK, A. M.
- #THE WORLD'S# GREAT CLASSICS
- LIBRARY COMMITTE 1
- TIMOTHY DWIGHT, D.D. LLD. RICHARD HENRY STODDARD ARTHUR RICHMOND MARSH. A.B. PAVL VAN DYKE, D.D. ALBERT ELLERY BERGH
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- DEDICATION
- SPECIAL INTRODUCTION
- HIPPOLYTE ADOLPHE TAINE
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- BOOK I.—THE SOURCE
- CHAPTER FIRST The Saxons
- CHAPTER SECOND The Normans
- CHAPTER THIRD The New Tongue
- BOOK II.—THE RENAISSANCE
- CHAPTER FIRST The Pagan Renaissance
- CHAPTER SECOND The Theatre
- CHAPTER THIRD Ben Jonson
- CHAPTER FOURTH Shakespeare
- INDEX
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE
- INTRODUCTION
- I. Historical documents serve only as a clue to reconstruct the visible individual
- II. The outer man is only a clue to study the inner invisible man
- III. The state and the actions of the inner and invisible man have their causes in certain general ways of thought and feeling
- IV. Chief causes of thought and feeling. Their historical effects
- V. The three primordial forces.—Race
- VI. History is a mechanical and psychological problem. Within certain limits man can foretell
- VII. Law of formation of a group. Examples and indications
- VIII. General problem and future of history. Psychological method. Value of literature. Purpose in writing this book
- BOOK I.—THE SOURCE
- CHAPTER FIRST
- The Saxons
- SECTION I.—The Coast of the North Sea
- SECTION II.—The Northern Barbarians
- SECTION III.—Saxon Ideas
- SECTION IV.—Saxon Heroes
- SECTION V.—Pagan Poems
- SECTION VI.—Christian Poems
- SECTION VII.—Primitive Saxon Authors
- SECTION VIII.—Virility of the Saxon Race
- CHAPTER SECOND
- The Normans
- SECTION I.—The Feudal Man
- SECTION II.—Normans and Saxons Contrasted
- SECTION III.—French Forms of Thought
- SECTION IV.—The Normans in England
- SECTION V.—The English Tongue—Early English Literary Impulses
- SECTION VI.—Feudal Civilization
- SECTION VII.—Persistence of Saxon Ideas
- SECTION VIII.—The English Constitution
- SECTION IX.—Piers Plowman and Wyclif
- CHAPTER THIRD
- The New Tongue
- SECTION I.—The First Great Poet
- SECTION II.—The Decline of the Middle Ages
- SECTION III.—The Poetry of Chaucer
- SECTION IV.—Characteristics of the Canterbury Tales
- SECTION V.—The Art of Chaucer
- SECTION VI.—Scholastic Philosophy
- BOOK II.—THE RENAISSANCE
- CHAPTER FIRST
- The Pagan Renaissance
- PART I.—Manners of the Time
- SECTION I.—Ideas of the Middle Ages
- SECTION II.—Growth of New Ideas
- SECTION III.—Popular Festivals
- SECTION IV.—Influence of Classic Literature
- PART II.—Poetry
- SECTION I.—Renaissance of Saxon Genius
- SECTION II.—The Earl of Surrey
- SECTION III.—Surrey's Style
- SECTION IV.—Development of Artistic Ideas
- SECTION V.—Wherein Lies the Strength of the Poetry of this Period
- SECTION VI.—Edmund Spenser
- SECTION VII.—Spenser in his Relation to the Renaissance
- PART III.—Prose
- SECTION I.—The Decay of Poetry
- SECTION II.—The Intellectual Level of the Renaissance
- SECTION III.—Robert Burton
- SECTION IV.—Sir Thomas Browne
- SECTION V.—Francis Bacon
- CHAPTER SECOND
- The Theatre
- SECTION I.—The Public and the Stage
- SECTION II.—Manners of the Sixteenth Century
- SECTION III.—Some Aspects of the English Mind
- SECTION IV.—The Poets of the Period
- SECTION V.—Formation of the Drama
- SECTION VI.—Furious Passions—Exaggerated Characters
- SECTION VII.—Female Characters
- CHAPTER THIRD
- Ben Jonson
- SECTION I.—The Man—His Life
- SECTION II.—His Freedom and Precision of Style
- SECTION III.—The Dramas Catiline and Sejanus
- SECTION IV.—Comedies
- SECTION V.—Limits of Jonson's Talent—His Smaller Poems—His Masques
- SECTION VI.—General Idea of Shakespeare
- CHAPTER FOURTH
- Shakespeare
- SECTION I.—Life and Character of Shakespeare
- SECTION II.—Shakespeare's Style—Copiousness—Excesses
- SECTION III.—Shakespeare's Language And Manners
- SECTION IV.—Dramatis Personæ
- SECTION V.—Men of Wit
- SECTION VI.—Shakespeare's Women
- SECTION VII.—Types of Villains
- SECTION VIII.—Principal Characters
- SECTION IX.—Characteristics of Shakespeare's Genius
- INDEX
- HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE
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