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Lucas's A Wanderer in London.
Shelley's _Literary By-Paths in Old England_.
Baildon's Homes and Haunts of Famous Authors.
Bates's _From Gretna Green to Land's End_.
Masson's In the Footsteps of the Poets.
Wolfe's A Literary Pilgrimage among the Haunts of Famous British
Authors.
Salmon's Literary Rambles in the West of England.
Hutton's A Book of the Wye.
Headlam's _Oxford (Medieval Towns Series)_.
Winter's _Shakespeare's England_.
Murray's Handbook of Warwickshire.
Lee's _Stratford-on-Avon, from the Earliest Times to the Death of
Shakespeare_.
Tompkins's _Stratford-on-Avon_ (Dent's _Temple Topographies_).
Brassington's _Shakespeare's Homeland_.
Winter's Grey Days and Gold (Shakespeare).
Collingwood's The Lake Counties (Dent's County Guides).

Wordsworth's The Prelude (Books I.-V.).
Rawnsley's Literary Associations of the English Lakes.
Knight's Through the Wordsworth Country.
Bradley's Highways and Byways in the English Lakes.
Jerrold's Surrey (Dent's County Guides).
Dewar's Hampshire with Isle of Wight (Dent's County Guides).
Ward's The Canterbury Pilgrimage.
Harper's The Hardy Country.
Snell's The Blackmore Country.
Melville's The Thackeray Country.
Kitton's The Dickens Country.
Sloan's The Carlyle Country.
Dougall's The Burns Country.
Crockett's The Scott Country.
Hill's _Jane Austen: Her Homes and Her Friends_.
Cook's Homes and Haunts of John Ruskin.
William Sharp's Literary Geography and Travel Sketches (Vol. IV. of
_Works_) contains chapters on _The Country of Stevenson, The
Country of George Meredith, The Country of Carlyle, The Country of
George.
Eliot, The Brontë Country, Thackeray Land_, The Thames from
Oxford to the Nore_.
Hutton's Literary Landmarks of Edinburgh.
Stevenson's Picturesque Notes on Edinburgh.
Loftie's Brief Account of Westminster Abbey.
Parker's Introduction to the Study of Gothic Architecture.
Stanley's Memorials of Westminster Abbey.
Kimball's An English Cathedral Journey.
Singleton's How to Visit the English Cathedrals.
Bond's The English Cathedrals (200 illustrations).
Cram's The Ruined Abbeys of Great Britain (6 illustrations).
Home's What to See in England.
Boynton's London in English Literature.
GENERAL REFERENCE LIST FOR THE STUDY OF ENGLISH
LITERATURE[1]:
Cambridge History of English Literature, 14 vols.

Garnett and Gosse's English Literature, 4 vols.
Morley's English Writers, 11 vols.
Jusserand's Literary History of the English People.
Taine's English Literature.
Courthope's History of English Poetry, 6 vols.
Stephens and Lee's Dictionary of National Biography (dead authors).
New International Cyclopedia (living and dead authors).
English Men of Letters Series (abbreviated reference, E.M.L.)
_Great Writers' Series_ (abbreviated reference. G.W.).
Poole's Index (and continuation volumes for reference to critical
articles in periodicals).
The United States Catalogue and Cumulative Book Index.
SELECTIONS FROM ENGLISH LITERATURE[2]:
*Pancoast and Spaeth's Early English Poems. (P. & S.)[3]
*Warren's _Treasury of English Literature,
Part I_. (Origins to
Eleventh Century: London, One Shilling.) (Warren.)
*Ward's English Poets, 4 vols. (Ward.)
*Bronson's English Poems, 4 vols. (Bronson.)
Oxford Treasury of English Literature, Vol. I., _Beowulf to Jacobean_;
*Vol. II., _Growth of the Drama_; Vol. III., Jacobean to Victorian.
(Oxford Treasury.)

*Oxford Book of English Verse. (Oxford.)
*Craik's English Prose, 5 vols. (Craik.)
*Page's British Poets of the Nineteenth Century. (Page.)
Chambers's Cyclopedia of English Literature. (Chambers.)
Manly's English Poetry (from 1170). (Manly I.)
Manly's English Prose (from 1137). (Manly II.)
Century Readings for a Course in English Literature. (Century.)

CHAPTER I
: FROM 449 A.D. TO THE NORMAN CONQUEST, 1066
Subject Matter and Aim.--The history of English literature traces the
development of the best poetry and prose written in English by the
inhabitants of the British Isles. For more than twelve hundred years the
Anglo-Saxon race has been producing this great literature, which
includes among its achievements the incomparable work of
Shakespeare.
This literature is so great in amount that the student who approaches the
study without a guide is usually bewildered. He needs a history of
English literature for the same reason that a traveler in England requires
a guidebook. Such a history should do more than indicate where the
choicest treasures of literature may be found; it should also show the
interesting stages of development; it should emphasize some of the
ideals that have made the Anglo-Saxons one of the most famous races
in the world; and it should inspire a love for the reading of good
literature.
No satisfactory definition of "literature" has ever been framed. Milton's
conception of it was "something so written to after times, as they
should not willingly let it die." Shakespeare's working definition of
literature was something addressed not to after times but to an eternal

present, and invested with such a touch of nature as to make the whole
world kin. When he says of Duncan:--
"After life's fitful fever he sleeps well,"
he touches the feelings of mortals of all times and opens the door for
imaginative activity, causing us to wonder why life should be a fitful
fever, followed by an incommunicable sleep. Much of what we call
literature would not survive the test of Shakespeare's definition; but
true literature must appeal to imagination and feeling as well as to
intellect. No mere definition can take