English, the historical scope of the subject, literature a teacher of history-celtic remains, anglo-saxon literature and history, the venerable bede and the saxon chronicle, the norman conquest and its earliest literature, the morning twilight of english literature, chaucer and the early reformation, chauser (continued)-reforms in religion and society, chauser (continued)-progress of society and of language, the barren period between chauser and spenser, spenser and the elizabethan age, illustrations of the history in the faerie queene, the english drama, william shakspeare, william shakspeare (continued), bacon and the rise of the new philosophy, the english bible, john milton and the english commonwealth, the poetry of milton, cowley, butter and walton, dryden and the restored stuarts, the religious literature of the great rebellion and of the restoration, the drama of the restoration, pope and the artificial school, addison and the regin of queen anne, steele and swift, the rise and progress of modern fiction, sterne, goldsmith and mackenzie, the historical triad in the sceptical age, samuel johnson and his times, the literary forgers in the antiquarian age, poetry of the transition school, the later drama, the new romantic poetry: scott, the new romantic poetry: byron and moore, the new romantic poetry (continued), wordsworth and the lake school, the reaction in poetry, the later historians, the later novelists as social reformers, the later writers, english journalism (Topical Term)