The history of the English language : a source book / David Burnley.
Material type: TextPublisher: Harlow, England ; New York : Longman, 2000Edition: Second editionDescription: xxii, 418 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0582312639
- 9780582312630
- 420.9
- PE1075.5. B87 2000
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 408-414) and index.
List of Plates -- Acknowledgements -- Preface to the First Edition -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Abbreviations -- Symbols -- Chronology -- Old English (700-1100) -- 1. Dialect Texts -- A. The Vespasian Psalter gloss -- B. The Lindisfarne Gospel gloss -- C. A Kentish Charter -- 2. Alfred's Preface to the Pastoral Care -- 3. Caedmon -- 4. A Homily of AElfric -- 5. AElfric's Cosmology -- 6. The Battle of Brunanburh -- 7. The Battle of Maldon -- Early Middle English (1100-1300) -- 8. The Peterborough Chronicle -- A. First Continuation (1127) -- B. Final Continuation (1154) -- 9. The Ormulum -- 10. Vices and Virtues -- 11. The Ancrene Wisse -- 12. A Kentish Sermon: The Marriage at Cana -- 13. A Proclamation of Henry III (1258) -- 14. The South English Legendary -- 15. Kyng Alisaunder -- Later Middle English (1300-1500) -- 16. Robert Mannyng's Chronicle of England -- 17. The Pearl -- 18. Geoffrey Chaucer -- A. 'The Reeve's Tale' -- B. Troilus and Criseyde, Prologue to Book II -- 19. A Letter from the Corporation of London to Henry V (1417) -- 20. The Study of the Vernacular in Medieval England -- A. The Preface to a Wycliffite Biblical Concordance -- B. A Fifteenth-Century Text on Phonetics -- 21. Osbern Bokenham's Mappula Angliae -- 22. A Paston letter -- 23. Malory, 'The Giant of St Michael's Mount' -- A. The Winchester text -- B. Caxton's text -- 24. John Skelton, translation of the Bibliotheca Historica of Diodorus Siculus -- Early Modern English (1500-1800) -- 25. Thomas Wilson, The Arte of Rhetorique -- 26. The Diary of Henry Machyn -- 27. John Lyly, Euphues or The Anatomy of Wit -- 28. Letters of Queen Elizabeth I and King James VI of Scotland -- A. Queen Elizabeth's letter -- B. King James's letter -- 29. George Puttenham, The Arte of English Poesie -- 30. Thomas Nashe -- A. From the Preface to Christs Teares over Jerusalem -- B. From The Unfortunate Traveller -- 31. Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, Act V, scene i -- 32. Thomas Dekker, The Guls Horne-booke -- 33. John Donne -- A. Seventeenth Meditation -- B. 'Song' -- C. 'The good-morrow' -- 34. The Letters of Lady Brilliana Harley -- 35. John Milton, from Paradise Lost, Book II -- 36. Sir Isaac Newton, Opticks -- 37. Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock -- 38. Daniel Defoe, A Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain -- 39. From the Preface to Johnson's Dictionary -- 40. Fanny Burney, a letter from Bath, 8 September 1791 -- Modern English (1800-1920) -- 41. Thomas Carlyle, Signs of the Times -- 42. Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers -- 43. Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights -- 44. Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man -- 45. From the General Explanations to the New English Dictionary -- 46. Henry Bradley, Review of the New English Dictionary -- 47. Henry Sweet, The Practical Study of Languages -- 48. Soldiers' letters home in World War I -- A. Two letters from Captain Talbot -- B. Excerpt from a letter by Private Sweeney -- 49. D. H. Lawrence, 'Fanny and Annie' -- Appendix -- 51. The English Bible -- A. Mark 6: 18-30 -- B. Matthew 7: 13-29 -- 52. The Marriage Service in English -- References and background reading -- Index.
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