English Literature For Boys and Girls

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Title: English Literature For Boys And Girls
Author: H.E. Marshall
Release Date: May, 2004 [EBook #5725] [Yes, we are more than one year ahead of schedule] [This file was first posted on August 17, 2002]
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H.E. Marshall
English Literature


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
AT 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

YEAR 7



Chapter I
IN THE LISTENING TIME
HAS there ever been a time when no stories were told? Has there ever been a people who did not care to listen? I think not.
When we were little, before we could read for ourselves, did we not gather eagerly round father or mother, friend or nurse, at the promise of a story? When we grew older, what happy hours did we not spend with our books. How the printed words made us forget the world in which we live, and carried us away to a wonderland,
"Where waters gushed and fruit trees grew And flowers put forth a fairer hue, And everything was strange and new; The sparrows were brighter than peacocks here, And their dogs outran our fallow deer, And honey bees had lost their stings, And horses were born with eagles' wings."*
*Robert Browning.
And as it is with us, so it is with a nation, with a people.
In the dim, far-off times when our forefathers were wild, naked savages, they had no books. Like ourselves, when we were tiny, they could neither read nor write. But do you think that they had no stories? Oh, yes! We may be sure that when the day's work was done, when the fight or the chase was over, they gathered round the