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Norman Rule--Its Oppression--Its Benefits--William of
Malmesbury--Geoffrey of Monmouth--Other Latin Chronicles--Anglo-Norman
Poets--Richard Wace--Other Poets

CHAPTER VI.
THE MORNING TWILIGHT OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.
Semi-Saxon Literature--Layamon--The Ormulum--Robert of
Gloucester--Langland. Piers Plowman--Piers Plowman's Creed--Sir Jean
Froissart--Sir John Mandevil

CHAPTER VII.
CHAUCER, AND THE EARLY REFORMATION.
A New Era: Chaucer--Italian Influence--Chaucer as a Founder--Earlier
Poems--The Canterbury Tales--Characters--Satire--Presentations of
Woman--The Plan Proposed

CHAPTER VIII.
CHAUCER (CONTINUED).--REFORMS IN RELIGION AND SOCIETY.
Historical Facts--Reform in Religion--The Clergy, Regular and
Secular--The Friar and the Sompnour--The Pardonere--The Poure
Persone--John Wiclif--The Translation of the Bible--The Ashes of Wiclif

CHAPTER IX.
CHAUCER (CONTINUED).--PROGRESS OF SOCIETY, AND OF LANGUAGE.
Social Life--Government--Chaucer's English--His Death--Historical
Facts--John Gower--Chaucer and Gower--Gower's Language--Other Writers

CHAPTER X.


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