A STUDENT'S HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE BY WILLIAM EDWARD SIMONDS. (PH. D., STRASSBURG) PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LITERATURE IN KNOX COLLEGE Cout bien ou rien The Riverside Press BOSTON, NEW YORK, AND CHICAGO HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY The Riverside Press, Cambridge CONTENTS Development of Middle English Literature Geoffrey Chaucer: Poet of the Dawn. III. THE FIFTEENTH AND SIXTEENTH CENTURIES The Fifteenth Century: The Renascence First Half of the Sixteenth Century Representative Prose and Verse in the Elizabethan Age Development of the English Drama William Shakespeare and his Successors The Last of the Elizabethans: Bacon |