melange

Halleck's New English Literature

Reuben Post Halleck

About 14 h112 chaptersRead 1,506 times at Gutenberg this month

Start reading

Not in Spanish yet.
about 3 h · free for now

Text from Project Gutenberg eBook #10631, in the public domain.

Chapters

  1. 1.Prefaceoriginal only · 2 min
  2. 2.Supplementary List of Authors and Their Chief Worksoriginal only · 15 min
  3. 3.Chapter I: From 449 A.d. To the Norman Conquest, 1066original only · 21 min
  4. 4.Beowulforiginal only · 2 min
  5. 5.Translationoriginal only · 8 min
  6. 6.The Caedmonian Cycleoriginal only · 2 min
  7. 7.Translationoriginal only · 3 min
  8. 8.The Cynewulf Cycleoriginal only · 4 min
  9. 9.General Characteristics of Anglo-Saxon Poetryoriginal only · 7 min
  10. 10.Anglo-Saxon Proseoriginal only · 8 min
  11. 11.Summaryoriginal only · 2 min
  12. 12.Historicaloriginal only · 1 min
  13. 13.Literaryoriginal only · 1 min
  14. 14.Suggested Readings with Questions and Suggestionsoriginal only · 4 min
  15. 15.Footnotes to Chapter I:original only · 1 min
  16. 16.Chapter II: From the Norman Conquest, 1066, to Chaucer's Death, 1400original only · 5 min
  17. 17.The Emergence of Modern Englishoriginal only · 6 min
  18. 18.Saxon Frenchoriginal only · 3 min
  19. 19.Literature of the Period 1066-1400original only · 21 min
  20. 20.Geoffrey Chaucer, 1340?-1400original only · 16 min
  21. 21.Summaryoriginal only · 2 min
  22. 22.Historicaloriginal only · 1 min
  23. 23.Literaryoriginal only · 1 min
  24. 24.Suggested Readings with Questions and Suggestionsoriginal only · 5 min
  25. 25.Footnotes to Chapter II:original only · 1 min
  26. 26.Chapter III: From Chaucer's Death, 1400, to the Accession of Elizabeth, 1558original only · 25 min
  27. 27.Chapter IV: The Age of Elizabeth, 1558-1603original only · 5 min
  28. 28.Elizabethan Prose Literatureoriginal only · 6 min
  29. 29.Francis Bacon, 1561-1626original only · 8 min
  30. 30.The Non-Dramatic Poetry—Lyrical Verseoriginal only · 6 min
  31. 31.Edmund Spenser, 1552-1599original only · 10 min
  32. 32.The English Dramaoriginal only · 15 min
  33. 33.The Presentation of Elizabethan Playsoriginal only · 10 min
  34. 34.Pre-Shakespearean Dramatistsoriginal only · 3 min
  35. 35.Christopher Marlowe, 1564-1593original only · 6 min
  36. 36.William Shakespeare, 1564-1616original only · 17 min
  37. 37.Table of Shakespeare's Plays[23original only · 1 min
  38. 38.I. —Plays of First (Riming) Periodoriginal only · 1 min
  39. 39.II. —Histories and Comedies of Second Periodoriginal only · 1 min
  40. 40.III. —Tragedies and Comedy of Third Periodoriginal only · 1 min
  41. 41.IV. —Plays of Fourth Periodoriginal only · 1 min
  42. 42.V. —Doubtful Playsoriginal only · 1 min
  43. 43.VI. —Plays in Which Shakespeare Was Not Sole Authororiginal only · 1 min
  44. 44.General Characteristicsoriginal only · 11 min
  45. 45.Ben Jonson, 1573?-1637original only · 8 min
  46. 46.Minor Dramatistsoriginal only · 6 min
  47. 47.Summaryoriginal only · 3 min
  48. 48.Historicaloriginal only · 1 min
  49. 49.Literaryoriginal only · 2 min
  50. 50.Suggested Readings with Questions and Suggestionsoriginal only · 3 min
  51. 51.The Dramaoriginal only · 6 min
  52. 52.Footnotes to Chapter IV:original only · 3 min
  53. 53.Chapter V: The Puritan Age, 1603-1660original only · 45 min
  54. 54.Chapter VI: From the Restoration, 1660, to the Publication of Pamela, 1740original only · 12 min
  55. 55.John Dryden, 1631-1700original only · 8 min
  56. 56.Daniel Defoe, 1659?-1731original only · 6 min
  57. 57.Jonathan Swift, 1667-1745original only · 11 min
  58. 58.Joseph Addison, 1672-1719original only · 10 min
  59. 59.Alexander Pope, 1688-1744original only · 8 min
  60. 60.Summaryoriginal only · 2 min
  61. 61.Historicaloriginal only · 1 min
  62. 62.Literaryoriginal only · 1 min
  63. 63.Suggested Readings with Questions and Suggestionsoriginal only · 3 min
  64. 64.Footnotes to Chapter VI:original only · 1 min
  65. 65.Chapter VII: The Second Forty Years of the Eighteenth Century, 1740-1780original only · 58 min
  66. 66.Chapter VIII: The Age of Romanticism, 1780-1837original only · 17 min
  67. 67.William Cowper, 1731-1800original only · 4 min
  68. 68.Robert Burns, 1759-1796original only · 9 min
  69. 69.Walter Scott, 1771-1832original only · 10 min
  70. 70.Jane Austen, 1775-1817original only · 5 min
  71. 71.William Wordsworth, 1770-1850original only · 13 min
  72. 72.Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1722-1834original only · 10 min
  73. 73.George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron, 1788-1824original only · 11 min
  74. 74.Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1792-1822original only · 10 min
  75. 75.John Keats, 1795-1821original only · 11 min
  76. 76.Thomas De Quincey, 1785-1859original only · 6 min
  77. 77.Summaryoriginal only · 2 min
  78. 78.Historicaloriginal only · 1 min
  79. 79.Literaryoriginal only · 2 min
  80. 80.Suggested Readings with Questions and Suggestionsoriginal only · 9 min
  81. 81.Footnotes to Chapter VIII:original only · 1 min
  82. 82.Chapter IX: The Victorian Age, 1837-1900original only · 23 min
  83. 83.Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1800-1859original only · 9 min
  84. 84.John Henry, Cardinal Newman, 1801-1890original only · 5 min
  85. 85.Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881original only · 26 min
  86. 86.Charles Dickens, 1812-1870original only · 10 min
  87. 87.William Makepeace Thackeray, 1811-1863original only · 8 min
  88. 88.George Eliot, 1819-1880original only · 8 min
  89. 89.Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850-1894original only · 8 min
  90. 90.George Meredith, 1828-1909original only · 9 min
  91. 91.Thomas Hardy, 1840original only · 5 min
  92. 92.Matthew Arnold, 1822-1888original only · 8 min
  93. 93.Robert Browning, 1812-1889original only · 17 min
  94. 94.Alfred Tennyson, 1809-1892original only · 13 min
  95. 95.Algernon Charles Swinburne, 1837-1909original only · 6 min
  96. 96.Rudyard Kipling, 1865original only · 10 min
  97. 97.Summaryoriginal only · 2 min
  98. 98.Historicaloriginal only · 1 min
  99. 99.Literaryoriginal only · 3 min
  100. 100.Suggested Readings with Questions and Suggestionsoriginal only · 12 min
  101. 101.Footnotes to Chapter IX:original only · 1 min
  102. 102.Chapter X: Twentieth-Century Literatureoriginal only · 3 min
  103. 103.The Noveloriginal only · 11 min
  104. 104.Poetryoriginal only · 12 min
  105. 105.The Modern Dramaoriginal only · 11 min
  106. 106.Celtic Dramatistsoriginal only · 9 min
  107. 107.Summaryoriginal only · 1 min
  108. 108.Conclusionoriginal only · 1 min
  109. 109.Reference for Further Studyoriginal only · 1 min
  110. 110.Suggested Readings with Questions and Suggestionsoriginal only · 3 min
  111. 111.Footnotes to Chapter X:original only · 1 min
  112. 112.Supplementary List of Authors and Their Chief Works:original only · 9 min