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Literature and Science--English Literature--General Principle--Celts
and Cymry--Roman Conquest--Coming of the Saxons--Danish Invasions--The
Norman Conquest--Changes in Language

CHAPTER II.
LITERATURE A TEACHER OF HISTORY. CELTIC REMAINS.
The Uses of Literature--Italy, France, England--Purpose of the
Work--Celtic Literary Remains--Druids and Druidism--Roman
Writers--Psalter of Cashel--Welsh Triads and Mabinogion--Gildas and St.
Colm

CHAPTER III.
ANGLO-SAXON LITERATURE AND HISTORY.
The Lineage of the Anglo-Saxon--Earliest Saxon Poem--Metrical
Arrangement--Periphrasis and Alliteration--Beowulf--Caedmon--Other
Saxon Fragments--The Appearance of Bede

CHAPTER IV.
THE VENERABLE BEDE AND THE SAXON CHRONICLE.
Biography--Ecclesiastical History--The Recorded Miracles--Bede's
Latin--Other Writers--The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: its Value--Alfred the
Great--Effect of the Danish Invasions

CHAPTER V.
THE NORMAN CONQUEST AND ITS EARLIEST LITERATURE.


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