CHAPTER I. FROM THE CONQUEST TO CHAUCER, 1066-1400

Chapter II. 
From Chaucer to Spenser, 1400-1599

Chapter III. 
The age of Shakspere, 1564-1616

Chapter IV. 
The age of Milton, 1608-1674

Chapter V.
From the restoration to the death of pope, 1660-1744

Chapter VI. 
From the death of pope to the French revolution, 1744-1789

Chapter VII. 
From the French revolution to the death of Scott, 1789-1832

Chapter VIII. 
From the death of Scott to the present time, 1832-1893

APPENDIX

LIST OF PORTRAITS.

WILLIAM SHAKSPERE

Geoffrey Chaucer, Edmund Spenser, Francis Bacon,
John Milton

John Dryden, Joseph Addison, Alexander pope, Jonathan
swift

Samuel Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith, William Cowper,
Robert Burns

William Wordsworth, George Gordon Byron, Percy
Bysshe Shelley, John Keats

Robert Southey, sir Walter Scott, Samuel Taylor
Coleridge, Thomas Babington Macaulay

Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin, William Makepeace
Thackeray, Charles Dickens

George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), James Anthony
froude, Robert Browning, Alfred Tennyson

The required books of the C.L.S.C. are recommended by a Council of six.  It must, however, be understood that recommendation does not involve an approval by the Council, or by any member of it, of every principle or doctrine contained in the book recommended.

CHAPTER I.

From the conquest to Chaucer.

1066-1400.