_The Cambridge History of English Literature_, Vol. II.
Snell's _The Age of Transition_, 1400-1580.
Morley's _English Literature_, Vols. VI. and VII.
Minto's _Characteristics of English Poets_, pp. 69-130.
Saintsbury's _Short History of English Literature_, pp. 157-218.
_Dictionary of National Biography_, articles on _Malory, Caxton, Henryson, Gawain Douglas, Dunbar, Tyndale, Wyatt_, and _Surrey_.
Veitch's _The Feeling for Nature in Scottish Poetry_.
Percy's _Reliques of Ancient English Poetry_.
Child's _The English and Scotch Popular Ballads_.
Collins's _Greek Influence on English Poetry_.
Tucker's _The Foreign Debt of English Literature_.
SUGGESTED READINGS WITH QUESTIONS AND SUGGESTIONS
Malory.--Craik,[11] _Century_, 19-33; Swiggett's _Selections from Malory_; Wragg's _Selections from Malory_,--all contain good selections. The Globe Edition is an inexpensive single volume containing the complete text. The best edition is a reproduction of the original in three volumes with introductions by Oscar Sommer and Andrew Lang (London: David Nutt). Howard Pyle has retold Malory's best stories in simple form (Scribner).
Compare the death (or passing) of Arthur in Malory with Tennyson's _The Passing of Arthur._ What special dualities do you notice in the manner of Malory's telling a story? Is his work original? Why has it remained so popular? What age specially shows its influence?
More.--The English translation of the _Utopia_ may be found entire in _Everyman's Library_ (35¢). There are good selections in Craik, I., 162-167.
What is the etymological meaning of _Utopia_? What is its modern significance? Did More really give a new word to literature and speech? The _Utopia_ should be read for an indication of the influence of the Renaissance and for comparison with twentieth-century ideas of social improvement.
Tyndale.--Bosworth and Waring's _Gospels_, containing the Anglo-Saxon, Wycliffe, and Tyndale versions. Specimens of Tyndale's prose are given in Chambers, I., 130; Craik, I., 185-187.
Why is Tyndale's translation of the _Bible_ important to the student of literature? What are some special dualities of this translation?
Early Scottish Poetry.--Selections from fifteenth-century Scottish poetry may be found in Bronson, I, 170-197; Ward, I, _passim_; P. & S., 246-277; _Oxford_, 16-33.