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Republic.--3. The Latin
Writers: Erasmus; Grotius; Arminius; Lipsius; the Scaligers, and others;
Salmasius; Spinoza; Boerhaave; Johannes Secundus.--4. Dutch Writers
of the Sixteenth Century: Anna Byns; Coornhert; Marnix de St.
Aldegonde; Bor, Visscher, and Spieghel.--5. Writers of the Seventeenth
Century: Hooft; Vondel; Cats; Antonides; Brandt, and others; Decline
in Dutch Literature.--6. The Eighteenth Century: Poot; Langendijk;
Hoogvliet; De Marre; Feitama; Huydecoper; the Van Harens; Smits;
Ten Kate; Van Winter; Van Merken; De Lannoy; Van Alphen; Bellamy;
Nieuwland, Styl, and others.--7. The Nineteenth Century: Feith;
Helmers; Bilderdyk; Van der Palm; Loosjes; Loots, Tollens, Van
Kampen, De s'Gravenweert, Hoevill, and others.
SCANDINAVIAN LITERATURE.
1. Introduction. The Ancient Scandinavians; their Influence on the
English Race.--2. The Mythology.--3. The Scandinavian Languages.--4.
Icelandic, or Old Norse Literature: the Poetic Edda, the Prose Edda, the
Scalds, the Sagas, the "Heimskringla." The Folks-Sagas and Ballads of
the Middle Ages.--5. Danish Literature: Saxo Grammaticus and
Theodoric; Arreboe, Kingo, Tycho Brahe, Holberg, Evald, Baggesen,
Oehlenschläger, Grundtvig, Blicher, Ingemann, Heiberg, Gyllenbourg,
Winther, Hertz, Müller, Hans Andersen, Plong, Goldschmidt, Hastrup,
and others; Malte Brun, Rask, Rafn, Magnusen, the brothers
Oersted.--6. Swedish Literature: Messenius, Stjernhjelm, Lucidor, and
others. The Gallic period: Dalin, Nordenflycht, Crutz and Gyllenborg,
Gustavus III., Kellgren, Leopold, Oxenstjerna. The New Era: Bellman,

Hallman, Kexel, Wallenberg, Lidner, Thorild, Lengren, Franzen,
Wallin. The Phosphorists: Atterbom, Hammarsköld, and Palmblad. The
Gothic School: Geijer, Tegnér, Stagnelius, Almquist, Vitalis, Runeberg,
and others. The Romance Writers: Cederborg, Bremer, Carlén,
Knorring. Science: Swedenborg, Linnaeus, and others.
GERMAN LITERATURE.
INTRODUCTION.--1. German Literature and its Divisions.--2. The
Mythology. --3. The Language.
PERIOD FIRST--1. Early Literature; Translation of the Bible by
Ulphilas; the Hildebrand Lied.--2. The Age of Charlemagne; his
Successors; the Ludwig's Lied; Roswitha; the Lombard Cycle.--3. The
Suabian Age; the Crusades; the Minnesingers; the Romances of
Chivalry; the Heldenbuch; the Nibelungen Lied.--4. The Fourteenth
and Fifteenth Centuries; the Mastersingers; Satires and Fables;
Mysteries and Dramatic Representations; the Mystics; the Universities;
the Invention of Printing.
PERIOD SECOND.--From 1517 to 1700.--1. The Lutheran Period:
Luther, Melanchthon.--2. Manuel, Zwingle, Fischart, Franck, Arnd,
Boehm.--3. Poetry, Satire, and Demonology; Paracelsus and Agrippa;
the Thirty Years' War.--4. The Seventeenth Century: Opitz, Leibnitz,
Puffendorf, Kepler, Wolf, Thomasius, Gerhard; Silesian Schools;
Hoffmannswaldau, Lohenstein.
PERIOD THIRD.--1. The Swiss and Saxon Schools; Gottsched,
Bodmer, Rabener, Gellert, Kästner, and others.--2. Klopstock, Lessing,
Wieland, and Herder. --3. Goethe and Schiller.--4. The Göttingen
School: Voss, Stolberg, Claudius, Bürger, and others.--5. The Romantic
School: the Schlegels, Novalis; Tieck, Körner, Arndt, Uhland, Heine,
and others.--6. The Drama: Goethe and Schiller; the _Power Men_;
Müllner, Werner, Howald, and Grillparzer.--7. Philosophy: Kant,
Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, Schopenhauer, and Hartmann. Science: Liebig,
Du Bois-Raymond, Virchow, Helmholst, Haeckel.--8. Miscellaneous
Writings.
ENGLISH LITERATURE.
INTRODUCTION.--1. English Literature. Its Divisions.--2. The
Language.
PERIOD FIRST.--1. Celtic Literature, Irish, Scotch, and Cymric Celts;
the Chronicles of Ireland; Ossian's Poems; Traditions of Arthur; the

Triads; Tales.--2. Latin Literature, Bede; Alcuin; Erigena.--3. _Anglo-
Saxon Literature_. Poetry; Prose; Versions of Scripture; the Saxon
Chronicle; Alfred.
PERIOD SECOND.--The Norman Age and the Fourteenth and
Fifteenth Centuries.--1. Literature in the Latin Tongue.--2. _Literature
in Norman-French_. Poetry; Romances of Chivalry.--3.
_Saxon-English_. Metrical Remains.--4. Literature in the fourteenth
Century.--Prose Writers: Occam, Duns Scotus, Wickliffe, Mandeville,
Chaucer. Poetry; Langland, Gower, Chaucer.--5. Literature in the
Fifteenth Century. Ballads.--6. Poets of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Centuries in Scotland. Wyntoun, Harbour, and others.
PERIOD THIRD.--1. Age of the Reformation (1509-1558). Classical,
Theological, and Miscellaneous Literature: Sir Thomas More and
others. Poetry: Skelton, Surrey, and Sackville; the Drama.--2. _The
Age of Spenser, Shakespeare, Bacon, and Milton_ (1558-1660).
Scholastic and Ecclesiastical Literature. Translations of the Bible:
Hooker, Andrews, Donne. Hall, Taylor, Baxter; other Prose Writers:
Fuller, Cudworth, Bacon, Hobbes, Raleigh, Milton, Sidney, Selden,
Burton, Browne, and Cowley. Dramatic Poetry: Marlowe and Greene,
Shakspeare, Beaumont and Fletcher, Ben Jonson, and others;
Massinger, Ford, and Shirley; Decline of the Drama. Non-dramatic
Poetry: Spenser and the Minor Poets. Lyrical Poets: Donne, Cowley,
Denham, Waller, Milton.--3. The Age of the Restoration and
Revolution (1660-1702). Prose: Leighton, Tillotson, Barrow, Bunyan,
Locke, and others. The Drama: Dryden, Otway. Comedy: Didactic
Poetry: Roscommon, Marvell, Butler, Pryor, Dryden.--4. The
Eighteenth Century. The First Generation (1702-1727): Pope, Swift,
and others; the Periodical Essayists: Addison, Steele. The Second
Generation (1727- 1760); Theology: Warburton, Butler, Watts,
Doddridge. Philosophy: Hume. Miscellaneous Prose: Johnson; the
Novelists: Richardson, Fielding, Smollett, and Sterne. The Drama;
Non-dramatic Poetry: Young, Blair, Akenside, Thomson, Gray, and
Collins. The Third Generation (1760-1800); the Historians: Hume,
Robertson, and Gibbon. Miscellaneous Prose: Johnson, Goldsmith,
"Junius," Pitt, Fox, Sheridan, and Burke, Criticism: Burke, Reynolds,
Campbell, Kames. Political Economy: Adam Smith. Ethics: Paley,
Smith, Tucker. Metaphysics: Reid. Theological and Religious Writers:

Campbell, Paley, Watson, Newton, Hannah More, and Wilberforce.
Poetry: Comedies of Goldsmith and Sheridan; Minor Poets; Later
Poems; Beattie's Minstrel; Cowper and Burns. 5. The Nineteenth
Century. The Poets: Campbell, Southey, Scott, Byron; Coleridge and
Wordsworth; Wilson, Shelley, Keats; Crabbe, Moore, and others;
Tennyson, Browning, Procter, and others. Fiction: the Waverley