The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)

The Subject Matter. ¡ª The history of English literature is a record of the best thoughts' that have been expressed in the English language. Literature appeals especially to the imagination and the emotions. Literature aims not so much to state a fact after the manner of a text-book on science as to start imaginative activity and to appeal to the emotions. When Macbeth says of the dead King :¡ª¡ö
" After life's fitful fever he sleeps well,"
our feelings are touched and the door is opened for imaginative activity, as we wonder why life is called a fitful fever and try to realize the mystery of that long and restful sleep. True literature calls for such activity.
If wc would broaden ourselves and increase our capacity for appreciating the manifold sides of the life of the spirit, we must become familiar with the thoughts and ideals of those who have given us our inspiring literature. For nearly fifteen hundred years the Anglo-Saxon race has been producing the greatest of all l

Table of Contents

I From 449 ad to the Norman Conquest, 1066 ri; II From TiiE Norman Conquest, 1066, to Chaucer's; Death 1400 47; III From Chaucer's Death 1400, to the Accession of; Elizabeth, 1558 89; IV The Literature of the Age of Elizabeth 103 V The Puritan Age, 1603-1660 184; VI The Age of the Restoration, 1660-1700 -213; VII Thk First Forty Years op the Eighteenth Century, 1700-1740 232; VIII The Second Forty Years of the Eighteenth; Century, 1740-1780 262; IX The Ace of Romanticism, 1780-1837 305; X The Victorian Age, 1837-1901 385; Conclusion 479; Supplementary List ok Minor Authors and their Chief; Works 485; Index 491

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