{"id":3717,"date":"2019-07-05T17:23:13","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T17:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.yesterdaysclassics.com\/books\/?page_id=3717"},"modified":"2025-03-24T12:30:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T12:30:11","slug":"english-literature-for-boys-and-girls-by-h-e-marshall","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/old.yesterdaysclassics.com\/books\/english-literature-for-boys-and-girls-by-h-e-marshall\/","title":{"rendered":"English Literature for Boys and Girls"},"content":{"rendered":"

English Literature for Boys and Girls<\/strong><\/h3>\n

by H. E. Marshall<\/p>\n

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Description:  <\/span>Delightful introduction to the writers of English literature whose works hold the greatest appeal for the youthful reader. The life and personality of each author is given in outline, with enough material quoted from his works to give an idea of what he wrote. For most authors suggestions for further reading are included. The outline of historical background enables the young reader to grasp the connection between the literature and the life of the time. Excellent as a companion to a chronological study of English literature.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Ages:  <\/strong>12-15<\/em>Length: <\/strong><\/span> <\/span>664 pages<\/span><\/em>Format:<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>  <\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Paperback, Ebook<\/span><\/span><\/em>Illustrations:<\/strong><\/span> <\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> Black and white (paperback),<\/span><\/em>                     Color (ebook)<\/span><\/em>Year published:<\/strong> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>2009<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em>ISBN:<\/strong>  <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em>978-1-59915-089-5<\/em>Genres:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>  <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em>British Literature<\/em> <\/p>\n

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Table of Contents<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

1. In the Listening Time 2. The Story of the Cattle Raid of Cooley 3. One of the Sorrows of Story-Telling 4. The Story of a Literary Lie 5. The Story of Fingal 6. About Some Old Welsh Stories and Story-Tellers 7. How the Story of Arthur Was Written in English 8. The Beginning of the Reading Time 9. “The Passing of Arthur” 10. The Adventures of an Old English Book 11. The Story of Beowulf 12. The Father of English Song 13. How Caedmon Sang 14. The Father of English History 15. How Alfred the Great Fought with His Pen 16. When English Slept 17. The Story of Havelok the Dane 18. About Some Song Stories 19. “Piers the Ploughman” 20. “Piers the Ploughman”\u2014continued 21. How the Bible Came to the People 22. Chaucer\u2014Bread and Milk for Children 23. Chaucer\u2014”The Canterbury Tales” 24. Chaucer\u2014At the Tabard Inn 25. The First English Guide-book 26. Barbour\u2014”The Bruce,” Beginning of a Struggle 27. Barbour\u2014”The Bruce,” The End of the Struggle 28. A Poet King 29. The Death of the Poet King 30. Dunbar\u2014The Wedding of Thistle and Rose 31. At the Sign of the Red Pale 32. About the Beginning of the Theater 33. How the Shepherds Watched Their Flocks 34. The Story of Everyman 35. How a Poet Comforted a Girl 36. The Renaissance 37. The Land of Nowhere 38. The Death of Sir Thomas More 39. How the Sonnet Came to England 40. The Beginning of Blank Verse 41. Spenser\u2014”The Shepherd’s Calendar” 42. Spenser\u2014”The Faery Queen” 43. Spenser\u2014His Last Days <\/em><\/p>\n

44. About the First Theaters 45. Shakespeare\u2014The Boy 46. Shakespeare\u2014The Man 47. Shakespeare\u2014”The Merchant of Venice” 48. Jonson\u2014”Every Man in His Humor” 49. Jonson\u2014”The Sad Shepherd” 50. Raleigh\u2014”The Revenge” 51. Raleigh\u2014”The History of the World” 52. Bacon\u2014New Ways of Wisdom 53. Bacon\u2014The Happy Island 54. About Some Lyric Poets 55. Herbert\u2014The Parson Poet 56. Herrick and Marvell\u2014Of Blossoms and Bowers 57. Milton\u2014Sight and Growth 58. Milton\u2014Darkness and Death 59. Bunyan\u2014”The Pilgrim’s Progress” 60. Dryden\u2014The New Poetry 61. Defoe\u2014The First Newspapers 62. Defoe\u2014”Robinson Crusoe” 63. Swift\u2014”The Journal to Stella” 64. Swift\u2014”Gullivers Travels” 65. Addison\u2014”The Spectator” 66. Steele\u2014The Soldier Author 67. Pope\u2014”The Rape of the Lock” 68. Johnson\u2014Days of Struggle 69. Johnson\u2014The End of the Journey 70. Goldsmith\u2014The Vagabond 71. Goldsmith\u2014”The Vicar of Wakefield” 72. Burns\u2014The Ploughman Poet 73. Cowper\u2014”The Task” 74. Wordsworth\u2014The Poet of Nature 75. Wordsworth and Coleridge\u2014The Lake Poets76. Coleridge and Southey\u2014Sunshine and Shadow 77. Scott\u2014The Awakening of Romance 78. Scott\u2014”The Wizard of the North” 79. Byron\u2014”Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage” 80. Shelley\u2014The Poet of Love 81. Keats\u2014The Poet of Beauty 82. Carlyle\u2014The Sage of Chelsea 83. Thackeray\u2014The Cynic? 84. Dickens\u2014Smiles and Tears 85. Tennyson\u2014The Poet of Friendship<\/em><\/p>\n

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