The History of the English Language by Burnley, David -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents 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. Cædmon 4. A Homily of Ælfric 5. Ælfric’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 Brontë, 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

50. Advertisements

A Caxton’s Advertisement B Two Early Newspaper Advertisements C Eno’s Fruit Salts (1889) D Two Wartime Advertisements

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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