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Chapter LXXIII: Cowper - "The Task"

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Chapter LXXIV: Wordsworth - The Poet of Nature

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Chapter LXXV: Wordsworth and Coleridge - the Lake Poets

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Chapter LXXVI: Coleridge and Southey - Sunshine and Shadow

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Chapter LXXVII: Scott - The Awakening of Romance

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Chapter LXXVIII: Scott - "The Wizard of the North"

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Chapter LXXIX: Byron - "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage"

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Chapter LXXX: Shelley - The Poet of Love

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Chapter LXXXI: Keats - The Poet of Beauty

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Chapter LXXXII: Carlyle - The Sage of Chelsea

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Chapter LXXXIII: Thackeray - The Cynic?

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Chapter LXXXIV: Dickens - Smiles and Tears

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Chapter LXXXV: Tennyson - The Poet of Friendship

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Chapter XLV: Shakespeare - The Boy

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Chapter XLVI: Shakespeare - The Man

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Chapter LXVII: Shakespeare - "The Merchant of Venice"

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Chapter XLVIII: Jonson - "Every Man in His Humour"

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Chapter XLIX: Jonson - "The Sad Shepherd"

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Chapter L: Raleigh - "The Revenge"

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Chapter LI: Raleigh - "The History of the World"

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Chapter LII: Bacon - New Ways of Wisdom

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Chapter LIII: Bacon - The Happy Island

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Chapter LIV: About Some Lyric Poets

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Chapter LV: Herbert - The Parson Poet

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Chapter LVI: Herrick and Marvell - Of Blossoms and Bowers

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Chapter LVII: Milton - Sight and Growth

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Chapter LVIII: Milton - Darkness and Death

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Chapter LIX: Bunyan - "The Pilgrim's Progress"

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Chapter LX: Dryden - The New Poetry

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Chapter LXI: Defoe - The First Newspaers

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Chapter LXII: Defoe - "Robinson Crusoe"

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Chapter LXIII: Swift - The "Journal to Stella"

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Chapter LXIV: Swift - "Gulliver's Travels"

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Chapter LXV: Addison - The "Spectator"

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Chapter LXVI: "Steele - The Soldier Author

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Chapter LXVII: Pope - "The Rape of the Lock"

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Chapter LXVIII: Johnson - Days of Struggle

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Chapter LXIX: Johnson - The End of the Journey

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Chapter LXX: Goldsmith - The Vagabond

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Chapter LXXI: Goldsmith - "The Vicar of Wakefield"

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Chapter LXXXII: Burns - The Plowman Poet

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Chapter XXII: Chaucer - Bread and Milk for Children

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Chapter XXIII: Chaucer - "The Canterbury Tales"

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Chapter XXIV: Chaucer - At the Tabard Inn

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Chapter XXV: The First English Guide-Book

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Chapter XXVI: Barbour - "The Bruce," The Beginnings of a Struggle

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Chapter XXVII: Barbour - "The End of the Struggle"

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Chapter XXVIII: A Poet King

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Chapter XXIX: The Death of the Poet King

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Chapter XXX: Dunbar - The Wedding of the Thistle and the Rose

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Chapter XXXI: At the Sign of the Red Pale

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Chapter XXXII: About the Beginning of the Theater

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Chapter XXXIII: How the Shepherds Watched Their Flocks

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Chapter XXXIV: The Story of Everyman

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Chapter XXXV: How a Poet Comforted a Girl

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Chapter XXXVI: The Renaissance

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Chapter XXXVII: The Land of Nowhere

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Chapter XXXVIII: The Death of Sir Thomas More

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Chapter XXXIX: How the Sonnet Came to England

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Chapter XL: The Beginning of Blank Verse

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Chapter XLI: Spenser - The "Shepherd's Calendar"

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Chapter XLII: Spenser - The "Faery Queen"

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Chapter XLIII: Spenser - His Last Days

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Chapter XLIV: About the First Theaters

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Chapter I: In the Listening Time

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Chapter II: The Story of the Cattle Raid of Cooley

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Chapter III: One of the Sorrows of Story-telling

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Chapter IV: The Story of a Literary Lie

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Chapter V: The Story of Fingal

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Chapter VI: About Some Old Welsh Stories

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Chapter VII: How the Story of Arthur was Written in English

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Chapter VIII: The Beginning of the Reading Time

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Chapter IX: "The Passing of Arthur"

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Chapter X: The Adventures of An Old English Book

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Chapter XI: The Story of Beowulf

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Chapter XII: The Father of English Song

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Chapter XIII: How Caedmon Sang, and How He Fell Once More on Silence

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Chapter XIV: The Father of English History

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Chapter XV: How Alfred the Great Fought With His Pen

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Chapter XVI: When English Slept

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Chapter XVII: The Story of Havelok the Dane

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Chapter XVIII: About Some Song Stories

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Chapter XIX: "Piers the Ploughman"

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Chapter XX: "Piers the Ploughman" - continued

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Chapter XXI: How the Bible Came to the People