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CONTENTS

CHAPTERI

CAVALIER LYRISTS

By F. W. MOORMAN, B.A. (Lond.), Ph.D. (Strassburg), Assistant

Professor of English Language and Literature in the Uni-
versity of Leeds

PAGR

The Caroline lyric. Decline of the sonnet. The classical lyric. In-

fluence of Jonson. Robert Herrick. Hesperides. Herrick's

epigrams. Noble Numbers. Thomas Carew. Sir John Suckling.

Richard Lovelace

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CHAPTER II

THE SACRED POETS

By the Rev. F. E. HUTCHINSON, M.A., Trinity College, Oxford,

Chaplain of King's College

The sacred poets a group with personal links, not a new school of

poetry. George Herbert's personality and divided aims reflected

in his poems. His constructive ability. The metaphysical fashion.

Crashaw's relation to Herbert. His knowledge of Spanish and

Italian literature. A large proportion of his work translation.

The secular and the sacred poems compared. His defective powers

of self-criticism. Henry Vaughan's secular poetry. His con-

version. His debt to Herbert, spiritual and literary. His links

with Wordsworth. The re-discovery of Traherne's poetry and

prose-writings. Habington's Castara. Quarles and emblem

poetry

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CHAPTER III

WRITERS OF THE COUPLET

By A. HAMILTON THOMPSON, M.A., St John's College

PAQZ

The revolution in English verse. Sir John Beaumont. George Sandys.

Edmund Waller. Sir John Denham. Cooper's Hill. Abraham

Cowley. The Mistress. Pindarique Odes. Davideis. Cowley's

influence. Sir William D'Avenant. Gondibert

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CHAPTER IV

LESSER CAROLINE POETS

By GEORGE SAINTSBURY, M.A., Merton College, Oxford, LLD.,

D.Litt., Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature in the

University of Edinburgh

William Chamberlayne. Pharonnida. “Jo. Chalkhill.' Thealma

and Clearchus. Shakerley Marmion. Cupid and Psyche. Sir

Francis Kynaston. Leoline and Sydanis. Patrick Hannay.

Sheretine and Mariana. William Bosworth or Boxworth. The

Chaste and Lost Lovers or Arcadius and Sepha. Nathaniel

Whiting. Albino and Bellama. Leonard Lawrence. Arnalte

and Lucenda. Henry King. Thomas Stanley. John Hall.

Sidney Godolphin. Sir Edward Sherborne. Katherine Philips.

Patrick Cary. William Hammond. Robert Heath. Thomas

Beedome. Richard Flecknoe. Henry Hawkins. Thomas Flat-

man. Philip Ayres. Robert Baron. Edward Benlowes. Theophila

or Love's Sacrifice. John Cleiveland. Summary

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CHAPTER V

MILTON

By GEORGE SAINTSBURY, M.A.

Milton's life at Cambridge and Horton. His continental tour. His

first marriage. Mary Powell. His life during the commonwealth.

His second marriage. Catherine Woodcock. His third marriage.

Elizabeth Minshull. His later years. His temperament. The

growth of his reputation. The early poems. On the Morning of

Christ's Nativity. L'Allegro. Il Penseroso. Arcades. Comus.

Lycidas. Sonnets. Paradise Lost. Milton's 'plagiarism.' Para-

dise Regained. Samson Agonistes. Milton's prose works. His

Latin writings. Milton's literary form. His versification and style

Appendix. A conspectus of Milton's prose works, with a note on the

text of the poems

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CHAPTER VI

CAROLINE DIVINES

By the Rev. W. H. HUTTON, B.D., St John's College, Oxford

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Augustin Baker. Sancta Sophia. Thomas Traherne. Centuries of

Meditations. Puritan literature of the days of Charles I. Richard
Baxter. The Saints' Everlasting Rest. The sermons at Paul's

Henry Hammond. James Ussher. Robert Sanderson.
Gilbert Sheldon. William Chillingworth. John Hales. The
Ferrars and Little Gidding. Lettice (Morison), lady Falkland.
George Herbert. A Priest to the Temple. William Laud. Richard
Mountague. Joseph Hall. William Juxon. William Sancroft.
Lesser Laudians. John Gauden. Eikon Basilike. Jeremy Taylor 142

John Bunyan. The influence which moulded him. Grace Abounding.

Bunyan's language. The Pilgrim's Progress. Its influence. The

Holy War. The Life and Death of Mr Badman. Andrew

Marvell. His poems, satires and prose works

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CHAPTER VIII

HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL WRITINGS

I. STATE PAPERS AND LETTERS

By A. W. WARD, Litt.D., F.B.A., Master of Peterhouse

Rushworth's Collections. Thurloe's State Papers. Letters of Henrietta

Maria and of Oliver Cromwell. Sir Dudley Digges. The Compleat

Ambassador. Sir Henry Wotton. 'Intelligencers.'

Intelligencers.' Private

letters. The Earl of Strafford's Letters. The Fairfax Corre-

spondence. The Verney Letters. Correspondence of the Family

of Hatton. James Howell's Epistolae Ho-Elianae. Howell's

other writings

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CHAPTER IX

HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL WRITINGS

II. HISTORIES AND MEMOIRS

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By A. W. WARD, Litt.D., F.B.A.

Bacon's Henry the Seventh. Lord Herbert of Cherbury. Edmund

Bolton. Sir Edward Walker. William Lilly. Peter Heylyn.

Scottish records. Archbishop Spottiswoode. David Calderwood.

Irish history. Spenser's Veue of the Present State of Ireland.

Pacata Hibernia. Other works. Clarendon. The History of the

Rebellion. Clarendon's skill in character drawing. Robert Carey's

Memoirs. Sir Robert Naunton's Fragmata Regalia. John

Manningham's Diary. Sir Kenelm Digby's Private Memoirs.

Nehemiah Wallington. Sir Simonds d'Ewes's Autobiography

and Correspondence. John Rous's Diary. Edmund Ludlow's

Memoirs. The Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson.

The Life of William Cavendish, duke of Newcastle. Bulstrode

Whitelocke. Robert Munro.

CHAPTER X

ANTIQUARIES

SIR THOMAS BROWNE THOMAS FULLER Izaak WALTON

SIR THOMAS URQUHART

By GEORGE SAINTSBURY, M.A.

Sir Thomas Browne. Religio Medici. Browne's style and vocabulary.

Pseudodoxia Epidemica. Browne's 'scepticism.' Hydriotaphia.

The Garden of Cyrus. A Letter to a Friend. Christian Morals.

Browne's letters. Thomas Fuller. His wit' and style. Izaak

Walton. The Compleat Angler. Sir Thomas Urquhart.

Summary

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CHAPTER XI

JACOBEAN AND CAROLINE CRITICISM

By J. E. SPINGARN, Professor of Comparative Literature,

Columbia University, New York
Bacon. Ben Jonson. Minor forms of criticism. The new theory of

translation. Reynolds's Mythomystes. Milton. The aesthetics of
Hobbes. D'Avenant and Cowley. The growth of literary charac-
terisation and appreciation. The Elizabethan 'roll-call.' Jonson's
literary ‘portraits. The commendatory verses. The framework of
Boccalini. The final stage in Dryden .

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