ENGLISH WRITERS

By HENRY MORLEY.

I.-FROM THE BEGINNING TO BEOWulf.
II. FROM CADMON TO THE CONQUEST.
FROM The Conquest TO CHAUCER.

III.

IV.

THE LITERATURE OF THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY (Part I.).
V. THE LITERATURE OF THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY (Part II.)
VI. FROM CHAUCER TO CAXTON.
VII.-FROM CAXTON TO COVERDALE.
VIII. FROM SURREY TO SPENSER.

IX.-SPENSER AND HIS TIME.

X.-SHAKESPEARE AND HIS TIME: UNDER ELIZABeth.

XI. SHAKESPEARE AND HIS TIME: UNDER JAMES I.

A First Sketch of English Literature.

From

the Earliest Period to the Present Time. By HENRY Morley. Twenty-eighth Thousand.

Library of English Literature.

Edited by HENRY

MORLEY. Complete in 5 Volumes. With 630 Illustrations from

old MSS., Books, Pictures, and Sculptures.

Vol. I.-SHORTER ENGLISH POEMS.

II.-ILLUSTRATIONS OF ENGLISH RELIGION.
III.-ENGLISH PLAYS.

IV.-SHORTER WORKS IN ENGLISH PROSE.

V.-SKETCHES OF LONGER WORKS IN ENGLISH VERSE AND PROSE

CASSELL & COMPANY, LIMITED, Ludgate Hill, London.

AN ATTEMPT TOWARDS

A HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE

BY

HENRY MORLEY LL.D.

LATE PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE AT
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON

AND

W. HALL GRIFFIN B.A.

PROFESSOR OF English liteRATURE AT Queen's college London