TY  - BOOK
AU  - Burnley,J.D.
TI  - The history of the English language: a source book 
SN  - 0582312639
AV  - PE1075.5. B87 2000
U1  - 420.9 
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Harlow, England, New York
PB  - Longman
KW  - English language
KW  - History
KW  - Sources
KW  - Old English, ca. 450-1100
KW  - Texts
KW  - Middle English, 1100-1500
KW  - Early modern, 1500-1700
KW  - Dialects
N1  - 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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