LONDON:

CHARLES KNIGHT & CO., LUDGATE STREET.

1844.

LONDON:

Printed by WILLIAM CLOWES and SONS, Stamford Street.

Geoffrey Chaucer

John Gower

John Barbour

Early English Prose :-Mandevil-Trevisa-Wiclif-

Chaucer

CONTENTS.

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BOOK III.

BOOK IV.

Literature and Learning in the Fifteenth Century.—

Universities

Revival of Letters.-Invention of Printing

Printing in England.--Caxton

Books and Libraries

Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester.-Woodville, Earl Rivers

Science in England.-Alchemists

Latin Chroniclers.

French Chroniclers

English Chroniclers

English Poets.-Occleve; Lydgate

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. 171

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101

Scotish Poets.-Wynton; James I.; Henryson; Hol

land; Blind Henry.

185

First Half of the Sixteenth Century.-Colleges Founded 199

Classical Learning.

• 202

Prose Writers.-More; Elyot; Tyndal; Cranmer ;

Latimer

Scotish Prose Writers.

English Poets.-Hawes; Barklay

Skelton

Roy.-John Heywood.

Scotish Poets.-Gawin Douglas; Dunbar; Lyndsay

Surrey.-Wyatt

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