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Compendious History of English Literature and of the English Language, Volume I by George Lillie Craik
The History of English Literature and Language may be recommended to the student as a guide always sure, and as satisfactory as its limits will admit, to the gathered harvest of a thousand years -- from ALFRED the Great to VICTORIA -- now existing in a language radically identical for the whole of that period, the common property of all who are born to its use, a personal endowment not to be limited by local accidents, but the rightful possession of those who "claim SHAKESPEARE's language for their mother tongue." As a writer, the principal characteristics of Mr. CRAIK are good sense and a com...
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Preface 02.01.2026 11:51
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1. Introductory. 1. Literature and Language. The Languages of Modern Europe 01.01.2026 12:30
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1.2. Early Latin Literature in Britain 31.12.2025 15:10
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1.3. The Celtic Languages and Literatures 30.12.2025 20:37
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1.4. Decay of the Earliest English Scholarship 29.12.2025 15:23
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1.5. The English Language 28.12.2025 9:08
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1.6. Original English 27.12.2025 27:52
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2. The Norman Period. 1. The Norman Conquest. Arabic and the New Learning 26.12.2025 32:17
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2.2. Schools and Universities. Rise of the Scholastic Philosophy. John of Salisbury. Peter of Blois 25.12.2025 24:52
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2.3. Classical Learning. Mathematics. Medicine. Law. Books. The Latin Language. The Latin Poets. Mapes, etc 24.12.2025 18:09
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2.4. Latin Chroniclers. Ingulphus. William of Poitiers. Ordericus Vitalis. Gesta Stephani. William of Jumieges. Florence of Worcester. Matthew of Westminster. William of Malmesbury. Eadmer. Turgot and Simeon of Durham. John of Hexham and Richard of Hexham 23.12.2025 34:19
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2.5. Ailred. Geoffrey of Monmouth. Alfred of Beverley. Giraldus Cambrensis. Henry of Huntingdon. Roger de Hoveden. William of Newburgh. Benedictus Abbas. Ralph de Diceto. Gervase of Canterbury. Vinsauf. Richard of Devises. Joscelin de Brakelonda. Monastic 22.12.2025 31:25
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2.6. The French language in England. The Langue d'Oc and the Langue d'Oyl. Norman trouveurs. Duke Richard I. Thibaut de Vernon. Turold, or Theroulde. Chanson de Roland 21.12.2025 25:32
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2.7. Anglo-Norman Poets. King Henry I. His Queens, Matilda and Alice. Philip de Than. Geoffrey, Abbot of St. Albans. Pilgrimage of Saint Brendan. Charlemagne. Anglo-Norman Chronicles. Gaimar. David. Wace. Benoït. Everard. French Language in Scotland 20.12.2025 29:37
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2.8. Luc de la Barre. Guichard de Beaulieu. Arthurian Romance. The Saint Greal. Luc du Gast. Buron. Mapes. Roman du Roi Horn. Tristan or Tristrem. Guernes de Pont Sainte Maxence. Herman. Hugh of Rutland. Boson. Simon du Fresne. Cardinal Langton. King Rich 19.12.2025 24:05
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2.9. Vernacular Language and Literature: A.D. 1066-1216 18.12.2025 26:15
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2.10. The Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries. Ascendancy of the Scholastic Philosophy. Mathematical and Other Studies. Roger Bacon. Robert Grosseteste. Alchemists. Universities and Colleges 17.12.2025 21:30
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2.11. Latin Historical Works of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries. Use and Study of the Latin and Greek, the Hebrew and other Oriental Tongues. Last Age of the French Language in England 16.12.2025 31:51
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2.12. Anglo-Norman Poets. French Prose Romances. Froissart. Resurrection of the English Language 15.12.2025 23:42
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3. Second English. 1. St. Godric. The Here Prophecy 14.12.2025 13:27
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3.2. The Brut of Layamon 13.12.2025 30:38
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3.3. The Ormulum. The Ancren Riwle 12.12.2025 36:51
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3.4. Metrical Legends. Land of Cokayne. Guldevord. Wille Gris. Early English Songs. Early English Metrical Romances. Publications of Percy, Warton, Tyrwhitt, Pinkerton, Herbert, Ritson, Ellis, Scott, Weber, Utterson, Laing, Hartshorne, The Boxburghe Club, 11.12.2025 20:40
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3.5. History of the English Metrical Romance. Metrical Chronicle of Robert of Gloucester. Robert Mannyng, or De Brunne. Rolle, or Hampole. Davie. Lawrence Minot 10.12.2025 23:04
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3.6. Alliterative Verse: Piers Ploughman. Piers Ploughman's Creed. 09.12.2025 31:33
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