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COPYRIGHT 1906, 1907, BY DODD, MEAD & COMPANY
Published, October, 1907
L. Schucman 10-27-42 46597
31.
CONTENTS
BOOK I
THE KING'S ENGLISH `
CHAPTER I-CAXTON
From xylography to typography-Gutenberg-Pre-Cax-
ton English-William Caxton-His life and achieve-
ment-The Dictes and Sayinges of the Philosophers
-Caxton's influence on the language-Early print-
ing and manuscripts
CHAPTER II-GOEFFREY CHAUCER
PAGE
1
Outline of Chaucer's life-His personal appearance
and portraits-Three chronological periods of his
work-Troilus and Criseyde-The Legend of Good
Women-Chaucer's debt to French and Italian
sources The Canterbury Tales-The scheme of the
poem-The qualities of Chaucer's poetry-History of
the Chaucerian MSS. and text-Attempts to mod-
ernise the text
CHAPTER III-MORAL GOWER-THE "MORTE
D'ARTHUR "
Warton's criticism of Gower-Confessio Amantis-Sir
Thomas Malory-Morte d'Arthur-Its influence in
English literature
CHAPTER IV-THE SCOTS POETS
The Chaucerian tradition in Scotland-Robert Henry-
son-Robene and Makyne-William Dunbar-The
Golden Targe-Comparisons of Dunbar with Chau-
cer and Burns-Gavin Douglas-Sir David Lynd-
say-His religious satires
13
32
39
CHAPTER V-EARLY TUDOR POETRY
Stephen Hawes-Alexander Barclay-John Skelton-—
His pictures of low life-Skeltonic verse Sir
Thomas Wyatt-His metrical innovations-Earl of
Surrey-His use of decasyllabic blank verse
49
CHAPTER VI-EARLY TUDOR PROSE
Lord Berners' Froissart-Fabyan's New Chronicles-
Richard Grafton-John Leland-Andrew Boorde
George Cavendish-Grocyn and Linacre-John Colet
-Sir John Cheke Roger Ascham-The Scholemas-
ter-Latimer-Sir Thomas Elyot-Sir
More-Utopia-Its influence in literature
Thomas
58
BOOK II
DRAMA AND LYRIO
CHAPTER I-FROM TRANSITION TO TRANS-
FORMATION.—I
An important period of development-Italian in-
fluence Classical translations-Arthur Golding-
Sir Thomas North-Sir Thomas Hoby-Sir Geoffry
Fenton-Painter's Palace of Pleasure-George Chap-
man-Edward Fairfax-Joshua Sylvester-John
Florio Thomas Shelton-Sir Thomas Urquhart
78
CHAPTER
II-FROM TRANSITION TO TRANS-
FORMATION.—II
Thomas Sackville, Earl of Dorset-The Mirror for
Magistrates-George Gascoigne The Steele Glass-
Thomas Churchyard-George Whetstone-George
Turberville-Tottel's Miscellany-The Paradise of
Dainty Devices-Some later Miscellanies
97
CHAPTER III-RELIGION AND LETTERS FROM
THE AGE OF CHAUCER DOWN TO 1611
John Wyclif-Piers Plowman-William Langland-
William Tyndale-John Foxe The English Prayer
Book-The Metrical Psalms-The Authorised Ver-
sion of the Bible
109
CHAPTER IV-THE RISE OF THE DRAMA
Religion and the drama-Church festivals and morali-
ties-The church, the market-place, the banquet-
hall-Heywood's interludes-Gorboduc-Senecan
plays
131
CHAPTER V-PRE-SHAKESPEAREAN DRAMA
Actors and theatres-Lyly-Greene-Peele-Kyd—
Marlowe Tamburlaine-Faustus-Edward II.-Ar-
den of Feversham
144
CHAPTER VI-SPENSER AND HIS SCHOOL
Rhyme or clssical metres-Gabriel Harvey-Edward
Dyer-Two great metrical innovations-Edmund
Spenser The Shepheards Calendar-The Faerie
Queene Giles and Phineas Fletcher-Daniel-
Drayton .
CHAPTER VII-SONNETEERS,
AND MINOR VERSIFIERS
SONG-WRITERS,
Sir Philip Sidney-The fashion of sonneteering-Eliza-
bethan lyrics and music-Lyly, Nash, Greene, Lodge,
and Breton-Campion-Barnfield-Browne-Wotton
CHAPTER VIII-WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Life at Stratford-The player-Early poems-First-
fruits-The flowering period-Shakespeare and
Scott-Hamlet and the great tragedies-Later years
-Bibliographical summaries .
171
198
211
CHAPTER IX-THE LATER CONTEMPORARIES
AND SUCCESSORS OF SHAKESPEARE
Beaumont and Fletcher-Ben Jonson-Volpone-The
Alchemist-Jonson's later comedies-Chapman-
Marston-Dekker-Middleton-Heywood-Webster-
Tourneur-Ford-Massinger-Shirley.
X-ELIZABETHAN AND JACOBEAN
PROSE.-I
John Lyly-Sidney's Arcadia-Greene-Dekker-Nash
-Nicholas
I.-Bacon
Breton-Hall-Overbury-Earle-James
257
CHAPTER XI-ELIZABETHAN
PROSE.-II
AND JACOBEAN
Raleigh-Stow-Holinshed-Speed-Camden-Knolles
-Memoirs and Diaries-Manningham-Sir Symonds
D'Ewes-Naunton-Moryson-Hakluyt-Elizabethan
criticism-Gosson-Sidney's Defense and Jonson's
Timber
BOOK III
THE COUNTER-RENAISSANCE
CHAPTER I-FOUR GREAT PROSE WRITERS
297
322
Robert Burton-Thomas Fuller-Sir Thomas Browne
-Jeremy Taylor
342
CHAPTER II-JACOBEAN AND CAROLINE POETS
Donne and Drummond-The Caroline Lyrists: Carew,
Lovelace, Herrick, Sir John Suckling
357
CHAPTER III-RELIGIOUS POETRY
Herbert, Crashaw, and Vaughan-Wither and Quarles
-Habington, Pordage, and Traherne
377