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