Category: British Literature
I have undertaken in this book a series of very familiar and informal talks with my readers about English literary people, and the ways in which they worked; and also about the times in which they lived and the places where they grew up. We shall have, therefore, a good deal o...
I have undertaken in this book a series of very familiar and informal talks with my readers about English literary people, and the ways in which they worked; and also about the...
10. CHAPTER II.I recur a moment to what was said in our opening talk--as a boy will wisely go back a little way for a better jump forward. I spoke--the reader will remember--of ringing, Celtic...
11. CHAPTER III.In our last chapter I spoke of that Geoffrey of Monmouth who about the middle of the twelfth century wrote a history--mostly apocryphal--in which was imbedded a germ of the King...
12. CHAPTER IV.In our last chapter we went back to the latter edge of the thirteenth century and to the City of Oxford, that we might find in that time and place a Franciscan Friar--known as R...
13. CHAPTER V.When we turned the leaf upon the Balladry of England, we were upon fifteenth century ground, which, you will remember, we found very barren of great writers. Gower and Froissart...
14. CHAPTER VI.In our last talk we entered upon that brilliant sixteenth century, within whose first quarter three great kings held three great thrones:--Charles V. of Spain, Francis I. of Fra...
15. CHAPTER VII.As we open our budget to-day, we are still under kingship of the great Queen Bess, in whose presence we saw the portentous Lord Burleigh, whose nod has passed into history; we s...
16. CHAPTER VIII.In opening the preceding chapter I spoke of that dainty John Lyly, who first set a fashion in letters, and whose daintiness hid much of the strength and cleverness that were in...