CONTENTS PAGE CHAPTER I. FROM THE BEGINNING TO THE NORMAN I. English Literature from the Beginning to King Alfred II. From King Alfred to the Norman Conquest. CHAPTER II. THE RULE OF THE NORMANS CHAPTER III. THE AGE OF CHAUCER England in the Fourteenth Century CHAPTER II. THE PRELUDE TO THE AGE OF ELIZABETH 109 CHAPTER III. THE CULMINATION OF THE RENAISSANCE 119 The English Drama before Shakespeare. Summary of Renaissance Literature in England CHAPTER IV. THE DECLINE OF THE RENAISSANCE Later Elizabethan Literature, the Drama ILLUSTRATIONS 74 GRASMERE, IN THE ENGLISH LAKE COUNTRY Frontispiece PAGE ST. MARTIN'S CHURCH, CANTERBURY, CALLED “THE MOTHER CHURCH OF ENGLAND' 9 RUINS OF WHITBY ABBEY 19 DURHAM CATHEDRAL. BURIAL PLACE OF BEDE 25 RUINS OF HYDE ABBEY, WINCHESTER, WHERE ALFRED IS SUPPOSED TO BE BURIED . 32 WILLIAM SAILING TO ENGLAND (BAYEUX TAPESTRY) 39 OLD LONDON BRIDGE 56 GEOFFREY CHAUCER facing 68 THE “TABARD" INN, SOUTHWARK REPRODUCTION OF A CAXTON ADVERTISEMENT 99 EDMUND SPENSER 128 REPRESENTATION OF A MIRACLE PLAY . 138 ELIZABETHAN TAVERN, FOUR SWANS 148 INTERIOR OF FORTUNE THEATER 149 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE facing 152 MARY ARDEN'S COTTAGE 153 HOLY TRINITY CHURCH AND RIVER, STRATFORD 164 JOHN MILTON 194 In Milton's House, CHALFONTE ST. GILES 206 VILLAGE OF ELSTON, WHERE BUNYAN WAS BORN 213 John DRYDEN 226 ALEXANDER POPE 238 JOSEPH ADDISON 256 MAGDALEN TOWER AND QUADRANGLE 259 ADDISON'S WALK AT MAGDALEN. 261 JONATHAN SWIFT 266 SAMUEL JOHNSON facing 286 COFFEE-ROOM IN CHESHIRE CHEESE INN 289 STOKE Pogis CHURCHYARD, THE SCENE OF GRAY'S “ELEGY” 299 . |