CONTENTS

OF VOL. I.

СНАР. І.

INTRODUCTORY Remarks on Language.-On

the Poetry of the Anglo-Saxons.-Specimen of

Saxon Poetry.

page 1

CHAP. II.

The same subject continued.-Account of Norman

Poets in England.-Specimen of Wace's Brut. 35

CHAP. III.

State of our Language and Poetry in the REIGN OF

HENRY II. and RICHARD I. exemplified by an

Extract from Layamon's Translation of Wace.-

Conjectures concerning the period at which the

Anglo-Norman, or English Language, began to

be formed.-Early Specimen of English Poetry,

from Hickes's Thesaurus.

60

CHAP. IV.

Robert of Gloucester.-Various small Poems appa

rently written during the latter part of the thirteenth Century. Robert de Brunne.

CHAP. V.

REIGN OF EDWARD II.

97

Change in the Language produced by frequent Trans lations from the French.- Minstrels.-Sources of Romance.-Adam Davie-Specimens of his

Laurence Minot.-The Hermit of Hampole-Pierce Ploughman's Vision-Specimens of the Vision.Pierce the Ploughman's Creed-Specimen. 146

CHAP. VII.

REIGN OF EDWARD III. CONTINUED.

John Gower Specimen of his Poetry.

169