NORTHWESTERN
UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY
EVANSTON, ILLINOIS
SYLLABUS
sulish Literature and History.
BY
A. J. GEORGE, A.M.,
NSTRUCTOR IN ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE NEWTON HlGH SCHOOL.
Northwestern University
sctocw ormqry,
Robert McLean Cumnock,
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BOSTON, U.S.A.:
PUBLISHED BY D. C. HEATH & CO.
1893.
Copyright, 1892,
By A. J. GEORGE.
Typography by J. S. Cushing & Co., Boston.
Presswork by Berwick & Smith, Boston.
Having found this Syllabus of advantage in my own classes,
it is published with the hope that it may further that spirit
of literary and historical study which aims to appreciate the
dominant impulses in the life of the past, and which, by encour¬
aging the study of standard works, will end the divorce of liter¬
ature and history.
" We are too apt to treat of history in parcels, and to attempt to draw
lessons from detached chapters in the biography of the human race. To
observe the connection between the several stages of a progressive move¬
ment of the human spirit, and to recognize that the forces at work are still
active, is the true philosophy of history." —J. A. Symonds.
"The scattered members of the English folk, parted in place, parted in
politics, but not parted in heart or speech, should, in all times and in all
places, remember that the English folk is one." — E. A. Freeman.
" By history I do not mean mere stories of fighting, or the names and
dates of kings and queens, but the history which tells of the life of man;
the progress he has made in religion, in thought, in literature, or the writing
of wise and good books; in art, or in beautiful building, painting, sculpti^e,
and music; and in wise and just government, in law and freedom." — M.
Guest.
" It is in the constitutional, intellectual, and social advance that we read
the history of the nation itself. Thus I have devoted more space to Chaucer
than to Cressy, to Caxton than to the party strife of Yorkist and Lancastrian.
1 have restored to their place among the achievements of Englishmen the
' Faerie Queene ' and the 'Novum Organum.' *1 have set Shakespeare among
the heroes of the Elizabethan age." — J. R. Green.
"The truly great poets in every age have felt the nobility of their call¬
ing, have perceived that their true function was not to amuse or merely to
give delight, but to be witnesses for the ideal and spiritual side of things, to
come to the help of the generous, the noble, and the true, against the
mighty." — Professor Shairp.
" Culture is the pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to
know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been
thought and said in the world. In literature we have present and waiting,
ready to form us, the best which has been thought and said in the world." —
Matthew Arnold.
"Every one who can write a good book or a good song may say to him¬
self, ' I belong to a noble company, which has been teaching and delighting
the world for more than a thousand years.'" — Stopford Brooke.
" Of all our study the last end and aim should be to ascertain how a
great writer or artist has served the life of man; to ascertain this, to bring
home to ourselves as large a portion as may be of the gain wherewith he has
enriched human life, and to render access to that store of wisdom, passion,
and power, easier and surer for others. If our study does not directly or
indirectly enrich the life of man, it is but drawing of vanity with cart-ropes, a
weariness to the flesh, or at least a busy idleness." — Edward Dowden.
Welsh
Ann oric an
Brittany
Irish
Scotch
Manx
Gothic
Anglo-Saxon
Frisian
Dutch
Norwegian
Swedic
Icelandic
Danish
Italian
French
Spanish
Portuguese
Wallachian
Gri^ous
Doric
Aeolic
Attic
Ionic
Russian
Polish
Zend
Persian
SYLLABUS.
LITERATURE.
The Indo-Europeans.
First Period. — Growth of
the Language (Formative).
Celtic. \ Gael.
( Cymri.
Teutonic.
Scandinavian.
The Ed das.
Anglo-Saxon.
Beowulf.
The Sc6p.
Runes.
Verse.
War Poetry.
Caedmon.
Poems on the Creation.
Bede.
Ecclesiastical History.
Alcuin.
Commentaries, etc.
Vercelli and Exeter Books.
Cynewulf.
Scotus Erigena.
HISTORY.
The Indo-Europeans.
The Celts in Britain.
The Roman Conquest (55 b.c.).
The Teutons.
Fatherland of the English
Folk.
Introduction of Christian¬
ity, 597.
Monasteries.
St. Patrick.
St. Columba.
St. Kentigern.
St. Cuthbert.
Council of Whitby.
Egbert, King of the English,
828.
Danish Invasions.
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king alfred.
The English Chronicle.
Nennius.
Asser.
Aelfric.
First Culmination of English
Prose. — Full Inflection. —
Classic. 900-1000.
William of Malmesbury.
Geoffrey of Monmouth.
Henry of Huntingdon.
Hilarius. Plays.
Walter Map.
Arthurian Romance.
( Chanson de Roland.
■i Nibelungen-Lied.
I The Cid.
Layamon.
Fusion of Saxon and Norman
Languages.
The Brut.
Orm.
Or milium.
The An ere n Riwle.
Songs and Ballads.
Canute's Song.
Robin Hood.
Golden Age of Welsh Litera¬
ture.
The Bards.
The Mabinogion.
alfred the great, 871.
The Danes.
danish kings, 1014.
edward the confessor, 1042.
william the conqueror, 1066.
The Nobles.
william rufus, 1087.
The Barons.
henry i, 1x00.
The Church.
stephen, 1135.
Civil War.
henry ii (Plantagenet), 1154.
Articles of Clarendon.
richard i, 1189.
The Crusades.
john, 1199.
Magna Charter, 1215.
hf.nry iii, 1216.
House of Commons, 1265.
English Metrical Romance.
King Horn.
Guy of Warwick.
Songs of the Scots.
Thomas of Erceldoune.
Sir Tristrem.
The Friars.
Robert Grosseteste.
Roger Bacon.
Chronicles. Stories.
Robert of Gloucester.
Robert of Brunne.
The Italian Revival in Eng¬
land.
Miracle Plays.
The Guilds.
Towneley, 1
Chester, > Plays.
Coventry, )
Sir John Mandeville.
Travels.
John Barbour.
The Bruce.
John Wyclif.
Translation of the Bible.
John Gower.
Speculum Meditantis.
Vox Clamantis.
Confessio Amantis.
William Langlande.
Vision of Piers the Plow-
man.
Edward I, 1272.
Wales and Scotland.
Edward II, 1307.
Scotland.
Edward III, 1327.
The Hundred Years' War.
Richard II, 1377.
Peasants' Revolt.
Henry IV, 1399.
Shrewsbury.
Henry V, 1413.
Agincourt.
Henry VI, 1422.
Siege of Orleans.
Wars of the Roses.
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Geoffrey Chaucer.
Lydgate and Occleve.
James I of Scotland.
Second Culmination of English
Prose. — Sliding Inflections. —
National. 1400-1500.
Reginald Pecock.
Sir John Fortescue.
William Caxton.
The Printing Press.
William Dunbar.
Gawain Douglass.
The Paston Letters.
Colet, Moore, Erasmus.
William Tyndale.
Sir Thomas More.
Sir David Lyndesay.
Roger Ascham.
John Foxe.
John Heywood.
Nicholas Udall.
Edward IV, 1461 (York).
End of the Barons.
Edward V, 1483.
Protectorate.
Richard III, 1483.
Bosworth Field.
Henry VII, 1485 (Tudor).
Revolts.
Discoveries.
The Renaissance.
Henry VIII, 1502.
Flodden.
The Monasteries.
Edward VI, 1547.
The Reformation.
Second Period. — Italian
Influence (Romantic).
Wyatt and Surrey.
Edmund Spenser.
John Lyly.
Sir Philip Sydney.
Raleigh.
Hooker.
Mary, 1553.
The Return to Rome.
Elizabeth, 1558.
Protestantism.
Mary Queen of Scots.
The Armada.
Adventure.
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Bacon.
Warner, Daniel Drayton.
Chapman.
The Drama.
Peele, Greene, Marlowe,
Lodge, Kyd.
Shakespeare.
Ben Jonson.
Dekkar and Marston, Beau¬
mont and Fletcher, Mas-
singer and Ford, Webster
and Middleton.
Drummond " of Hawthorn-
den."
Hobbs.
Milton.
Butler.
Taylor.
Baxter.
Bunyan.
Herbert.
Third Period.—Latin and
French Influence (Clas¬
sical).
Waller and Denham.
Davenant and Cowley.
Dryden (Criticism).
Locke.
L'Estrange, Defoe. (Jour¬
nalism.)
Swift, Addison, and Steele.
(The Essay.)
The Restoration Drama.
The England of Shakespeare.
Read "The England," by Ed¬
win Goudby, or William
Winter's " Shakespeare's
England," in connection
with Green or Guest.
James I, 1603 (Stuart).
Religion.
Divine Right of Kings.
Ireland.
Charles I, 1620.
French Influence.
Civil War.
The Commonwealth, 1649.
Council of State.
Charles II, 1660.
The Restoration.
Test Act.
James II, 1685.
Sedgemoor.
Revolution, 1688.
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Pope.
Richardson, Fielding, Smol-
let, Sterne. (The Novel.)
Berkeley.
Hume.
Samuel Johnson.
Fourth Period. — Popular
Influence {Naturalism).
Thomson.
Ramsay.
Young.
Gray.
Collins.
Goldsmith.
Adam Smith.
Burke.
Cowper.
Gibbon.
Beattie.
Crabbe.
Burns.
Wordsworth.
Scott.
Coleridge.
Southey.
Lamb.
Landor.
Campbell.
Hallam.
Moore.
De Quincey.
William and Mary, 1689.
Battle of Boyne.
Queen Anne, 1702.
Spanish Succession.
Union of England and Scot¬
land.
George I, 1714 (Hanover).
Jacobite Rebellion.
George II, 1727.
Culloden.
Seven Years' War.
George III, 1760.
American War.
England and India.
French Revolution.
Waterloo.
George IV, 1820.
Discontent.
Byron.
Shelley.
Keats.
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(O.u sjry
Third Culmination of English
Prose.—Lost Inflections.—Pop¬
ular. 1700-1800.
Carlyle.
Macaulay.
Bulwer (Lord Lytton).
John Stuart Mill.
John Henry, Cardinal New¬
man.
Tennyson.
Mrs. Browning.
Thackeray.
Dickens.
Browning.
Rossetti.
Clough.
Ruskin.
George Eliot.
Matthew Arnold.
William IV, 1830.
Reform Bill.
Victoria, 1837.
The Chartists.
The Corn Laws.
Free Trade.
The Crimea.
The Sepoy Rebellion.
Civil War in America.
Disraeli.
Gladstone Ministry, 1868.
First Irish Land Act.
Fall of Liberal Party.
Land League.
Second Irish Land Act.
Fall of Liberal Party.
Salisbury Ministry.
Home Rule.
Fall of Salisbury Ministry.
Return of Gladstone Minis¬
try, 1892.
Home Rule.
AMERICAN LITERATURE.
Colonial Period.
Descriptive and Historical.
Captain John Smith.
William Bradford.
Edward Winslow.
John Winthrop.
Thomas Morton.
William Stith.
Theological.
Thomas Hooker.
John Cotton.
Roger Williams.
John Eliot.
Nathaniel Ward.
Anne Bradstreet.
Nathaniel Morton.
Samuel Sewell.
Thomas Prince.
Increase Mather.
Cotton Mather.
Samuel Willard.
James Blair.
Jonathan Edwards.
Benjamin Franklin, Scientist, Philosopher, and
Statesman.
Political.
James Otis. John Adams.
Patrick Henry.
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II. Constitutional Period.
Political.
Alexander Hamilton.
Fisher Ames.
Thomas Jefferson.
George Washington.
John Adams.
John Randolph.
Henry Clay.
Daniel Webster.
Henry Ward
John C. Calhoun.
Edward Everett.
William H. Seward.
William Lloyd Garrison.
Wendell Phillips.
Abraham Lincoln.
Charles Sumner.
Horace Greeley.
Reecher.
Washington Irving, Essayist, Historian, and States¬
man.
Philosophy.
W. E. Channing.
Archibald Alexander.
Horace Bushnell.
R. W. Emerson.
John Fiske.
Essayists.
R. W. Emerson.
O. W. Holmes.
R. H. Dana.
J. G. Holland.
Critics.
H. W. Longfellow.
J. R. Lowell.
George Ripley.
Margaret Fuller.
E. P. Whipple.
Theodore Parker.
Elisha Mulford.
Mark Hopkins.
Samuel Harris.
H. D. Thoreau.
C. D. Warner.
George W. Curtis.
Bayard Taylor.
H. N. Hudson.
E. C. Stedman.
Richard Grant White.
H. H. Furness.
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Novelists.
J. F. Cooper.
Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Mrs. H. B. Stowe.
F. Marion Crawford.
W. D. Howells.
G. W. Cable.
Poets.
W. C. Bryant.
H. W. Longfellow.
E. A. Poe.
J. G. Whittier.
O. W. Holmes.
R. W. Emerson.
J. R. Lowell.
Bayard Taylor.
Walt Whitman.
Historians.
Jared Sparks.
George Bancroft.
Richard Hildreth.
Francis Parkman.
John Fiske.
W. H. Prescott.
J. L. Motley.
Eugene Schuyler.
George Ticknor.
Philip Schaff.
Scientists.
Benjamin Silliman. Louis Agassiz.
J. J. Audubon. A. H. Guyot.
J. D. Dana. Asa Gray.
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REFERENCES.
A Short History of the English People.
The Makers of England.
The English People in jts Three Homes.
Chief Periods of European History.
Old English History.
Norman Conquest.
Universal History.
Lectures on the History of England.
Introduction to the Middle Ages.
Constitutional History of England. '
Celtic Scotland.
History of England.
Celtic Britain.
History of England.
History of Civilization.
Village Communities.
Myths and Myth-Makers.
The Revival of Learning.
Makers of Florence (Dante).
On Heroes (Dante and Shakespeare).
English Writers.
Development of English Literature and Language.
Early English Literature.
Reliques of Ancient English Poetry.
History of the English Language.
Green :
Freeman:
Fisher :
Guest :
Emerton :
Stubbs:
Skene:
Collier :
Rhys:
Knight :
Guizot :
Maine:
Fiske :
Symonds :
Oliphant:
Carlyle:
Morley, II.:
Welsh :
Ten Brink :
Percy:
Lounsbury:
Meiklejohn: The English Language.
Craik: English Language and Literature.
Oliphant: Old and Middle English.
Taine: History of English Literature.
Hallam : Literature of Europe.
Ward : The English Poets.
English Men of Letters Series. (Morley.)
Arnold : Johnson's Lives of the Poets.
" Celtic Literature.
" Essays in Criticism. Series I and II.
Minto : Characteristics of English Poets.
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Collier:
Hazlitt :
schi.egel:
Coleridge:
Hudson :
Dowden :
Gervinus :
Gosse :
Myers :
Stedman :
Taylor:
Hutton :
Corson :
Blaikie :
Scott:
Shairp :
Oliphant :
Veitch :
Stephen :
Brooke:
DeVere :
Bagehot:
Bascom :
Stedman:
Richardson :
Whipple :
Tyler:
Grisvvold :
Earle:
Saintsbury:
Muller, Max
Specimens of English Literature.
Age of Elizabeth.
Literature and Life.
English Literature.
Literature of the Age of Elizabeth.
Dramatic Literature.
Shakespeare, Notes and Lectures.
" Life, Art, and Characters.
" His Mind and Art.
Transcripts and Studies.
Studies in Literature.
" Commentaries.
From Shakespeare to Pope.
Eighteenth Century Literature.
Seventeenth Century Studies.
Essays, Modern.
Victorian Poets.
Critical Essays.
Essays.
Spiritual Ebb and Flow of Poetry.
Literature of the Scottish Border.
Border Minstrelsy.
Aspects of Poetry.
Studies in Poetry and Philosophy.
Sketches in History and Poetry.
Literary History of England, XVIIIth-XIXth Century.
Feeling for Nature in Scottish Poetry.
Hours in a Library.
Theology in the English Poets.
Essays on Poetry.
Literary Studies.
Philosophy of Literature.
American Poets.
American Literature.
American Literature.
Essays and Reviews.
History of American Literature.
Poets and Poetry of America.
Prose Writers of America.
English Prose.
Elizabethan English.
Natural Religion.
Study of Language.
Physical Religion.