History of English Literature, Band 1

Edmonston and Douglas, 1873

INTRODUCTION	1

The state and the actions of the inner and invisible	10

Epoch	17

VI	25

Law of formation of a group Examples and indications	30

CHAPTER I	37

Noble instincts in GermanyThe individualThe	49

Noble instincts in EnglandWarrior and chieftain	58

Connection of philosophy and poetryHow general	213

Idea which men had formed of the world since	227

Why the ideal changesImprovement of the state	235

Models The ancients Translation and study	243

POETRY	250

His styleHis masters Petrarch and VirgilHis	256

Pastoral poetryThe great number of poetsSpirit	276

Ideal poetrySpenserHis lifeHis character	289

Pagan poemsKind and force of sentimentsBent	68

Why Latin culture took no hold on the Saxons	82

Contrast of German and Latin racesCharacter	92

Bent of the French geniusTwo principal charac	104

The Normans in EnglandTheir position and their	115

nation and formation of the English constitution	138

EnglandFabliaux of Reynard and ballads	145

CHAPTER III	170

Wherein Chaucer is FrenchSatirical and jovial	193

feeblenessHis prose and scholastic notion	203

The Faerie QueeneImpossible eventsHow they	300

PROSE	321

How poetry passed into proseConnection of science	330

Robert BurtonHis life and characterVastness	336

to the age of the RenaissancePseudodoxia	343

CHAPTER II	359

English mannersExpansion of the energetic	373

Formation of this dramaThe process and charac	397

Male charactersFurious passionsTragical events	404

Titel	History of English Literature, Band 1 History of English Literature, Hippolyte Taine
Autor/in	Hippolyte Taine
Übersetzt von	Henri Van Laun
Verlag	Edmonston and Douglas, 1873
Original von	Harvard University
Digitalisiert	7. Okt. 2008

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