English Literature for Boys and Girls

1. Chapter I: In the Listening Time

   9:01

2. Chapter II: The Story of the Cattle Raid of Cooley

   13:35

3. Chapter III: One of the Sorrows of Story-telling

   6:38

4. Chapter IV: The Story of a Literary Lie

   6:14

5. Chapter V: The Story of Fingal

   8:40

6. Chapter VI: About Some Old Welsh Stories

   12:01

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

   15:12

8. Chapter VIII: The Beginning of the Reading Time

   13:29

9. Chapter IX: "The Passing of Arthur"

   9:46

10. Chapter X: The Adventures of An Old English Book

    9:56

11. Chapter XI: The Story of Beowulf

    10:44

12. Chapter XII: The Father of English Song

    14:32

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

    11:04

14. Chapter XIV: The Father of English History

    16:32

15. Chapter XV: How Alfred the Great Fought With His Pen

    8:04

16. Chapter XVI: When English Slept

    9:11

17. Chapter XVII: The Story of Havelok the Dane

    12:39

18. Chapter XVIII: About Some Song Stories

    13:13

19. Chapter XIX: "Piers the Ploughman"

    10:41

20. Chapter XX: "Piers the Ploughman" - continued

    13:54

21. Chapter XXI: How the Bible Came to the People

    12:00

22. Chapter XXII: Chaucer - Bread and Milk for Children

    7:39

23. Chapter XXIII: Chaucer - "The Canterbury Tales"

    11:37

24. Chapter XXIV: Chaucer - At the Tabard Inn

    17:23

25. Chapter XXV: The First English Guide-Book

    13:43

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

    14:39

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

    11:21

28. Chapter XXVIII: A Poet King

    17:51

29. Chapter XXIX: The Death of the Poet King

    17:25

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

    17:21

31. Chapter XXXI: At the Sign of the Red Pale

    18:34

32. Chapter XXXII: About the Beginning of the Theater

    13:20

33. Chapter XXXIII: How the Shepherds Watched Their Flocks

    12:31

34. Chapter XXXIV: The Story of Everyman

    7:26

35. Chapter XXXV: How a Poet Comforted a Girl

    18:20

36. Chapter XXXVI: The Renaissance

    10:55

37. Chapter XXXVII: The Land of Nowhere

    21:25

38. Chapter XXXVIII: The Death of Sir Thomas More

    10:28

39. Chapter XXXIX: How the Sonnet Came to England

    14:01

40. Chapter XL: The Beginning of Blank Verse

    9:31

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

    18:49

42. Chapter XLII: Spenser - The "Faery Queen"

    15:22

43. Chapter XLIII: Spenser - His Last Days

    12:42

44. Chapter XLIV: About the First Theaters

    18:44

45. Chapter XLV: Shakespeare - The Boy

    13:44

46. Chapter XLVI: Shakespeare - The Man

    15:47

47. Chapter LXVII: Shakespeare - "The Merchant of Venice"

    31:21

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

    23:01

49. Chapter XLIX: Jonson - "The Sad Shepherd"

    12:09

50. Chapter L: Raleigh - "The Revenge"

    25:48

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

    15:57

52. Chapter LII: Bacon - New Ways of Wisdom

    20:53

53. Chapter LIII: Bacon - The Happy Island

    13:03

54. Chapter LIV: About Some Lyric Poets

    14:38

55. Chapter LV: Herbert - The Parson Poet

    17:51

56. Chapter LVI: Herrick and Marvell - Of Blossoms and Bowers

    24:46

57. Chapter LVII: Milton - Sight and Growth

    22:45

58. Chapter LVIII: Milton - Darkness and Death

    21:14

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

    27:39

60. Chapter LX: Dryden - The New Poetry

    25:40

61. Chapter LXI: Defoe - The First Newspaers

    16:22

62. Chapter LXII: Defoe - "Robinson Crusoe"

    14:39

63. Chapter LXIII: Swift - The "Journal to Stella"

    15:51

64. Chapter LXIV: Swift - "Gulliver's Travels"

    15:33

65. Chapter LXV: Addison - The "Spectator"

    28:40

66. Chapter LXVI: "Steele - The Soldier Author

    19:32

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

    29:49

68. Chapter LXVIII: Johnson - Days of Struggle

    18:23

69. Chapter LXIX: Johnson - The End of the Journey

    22:36

70. Chapter LXX: Goldsmith - The Vagabond

    15:13

71. Chapter LXXI: Goldsmith - "The Vicar of Wakefield"

    15:49

72. Chapter LXXXII: Burns - The Plowman Poet

    25:38

73. Chapter LXXIII: Cowper - "The Task"

    11:47

74. Chapter LXXIV: Wordsworth - The Poet of Nature

    12:11

75. Chapter LXXV: Wordsworth and Coleridge - the Lake Poets

    19:52

76. Chapter LXXVI: Coleridge and Southey - Sunshine and Shadow

    14:01

77. Chapter LXXVII: Scott - The Awakening of Romance

    16:50

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

    13:28

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

    22:59

80. Chapter LXXX: Shelley - The Poet of Love

    30:24

81. Chapter LXXXI: Keats - The Poet of Beauty

    18:40

82. Chapter LXXXII: Carlyle - The Sage of Chelsea

    27:14

83. Chapter LXXXIII: Thackeray - The Cynic?

    23:56

84. Chapter LXXXIV: Dickens - Smiles and Tears

    30:00

85. Chapter LXXXV: Tennyson - The Poet of Friendship

    15:55

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