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CHAPTER III.
SIDNEY AND SPENSER.
Elizabethan Era-Ages of Pericles, Augustus, the Medici, Louis
XIV. Chivalry- Sidney - His Arcadia His Style-Spenser
Shepherd's Calendar - Pastoral-Spenser at Court- Burleigh and
Leicester-Spenser's Settlement in Ireland - The Faery Queen
His Death Criticism on the Faery Queen Style, Language, and
Versification
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CHAPTER IV.
BACON.
His Career
-State
His Birth and Education-View of the State of Europe
-Impeached for Corruption- His Death- His Character
of Philosophy in the Sixteenth Century-Its Corruptions and De-
fects-Bacon's System - Not a Discoverer The New Philosophy
- Analysis of the Instauratio: I. De Augmentis; II. Novum Orga-
num; III. Sylva Sylvarum; IV. Scala Intellectûs; V. Prodromi;
VI. Philosophia Secunda- The Baconian Logic - His Style-His
Minor Works
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CHAPTER V.
ORIGIN OF THE ENGLISH DRAMA.
Comparison between the Greek and Medieval Dramas - Similarity of
their Origin - Illusion in the Drama - Mysteries or Miracle Plays
Their Subject and Construction Moralities The Vice-In-
terludes The Four P.'s- First Regular Dramas Comedies-
Tragedies - Early English Theatres Scenery Costume- State
of the Dramatic Profession......
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CHAPTER VI.
MARLOW AND SHAKSPEARE.
Marlow His Career and Works His Faustus - His Death - Con-
temporary Judgments on his Genius Shakspeare His Birth,
Education, and early Life-Traditions respecting him — His Mar-
riage Early Studies Goes to London- His Career-Death and
Monument - Order of his Works Roman Plays - His. Diction
Characters.......
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CHAPTER VII.
THE SHAKSPEARIAN DRAMATISTS.
Ben Jonson-The Humours-His Roman Plays Comedies Plots
Beaumont and Fletcher Massinger-Chapman - Dekker
Webster Middleton-Marston-Ford- Shirley......
CHAPTER VIII.
THE GREAT DIVINES.
Theological Eloquence of England and France - The Civil War-
Persecution of the Clergy-Richard Hooker His Life and Cha-
racter Treatise on Ecclesiastical Polity-Jeremy Taylor-Com-
pared with Hooker. His Life Liberty of Prophesying - His
other Works - The Restoration Taylor's Sermons Hallam's
Criticism Taylor's digressive Style Isaac Barrow - His im-
mense Acquirements Compared to Pascal The English Uni-
versities.......
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CHAPTER IX.
JOHN MILTON.
His Poetical Character-Religious and Political Opinions - Repub-
licanism His Learning Travels in Italy - Prose Works
Areopagitica Prose Style-Treatises on Divorce - His Literary
Meditations - Tractate on Education - Passion for Music-Para-
dise Lost Dante and Milton compared Study of Romance
Campbell's Criticism - Paradise Regained - Minor Poems - Sam-
son Agonistes........
CHAPTER X.
BUTLER AND DRYDEN.
The Commonwealth, and the Restoration -- Milton and Butler -- Sub
ject and Nature of Hudibras - Hudibras and Don Quixote Stats
of Society at the Restoration - Butler's Life - John Dryden
French Taste of the Court-Comedies and rhymed Tragedies —
Life and Works of Dryden - Dramas Annus Mirabilis - Absalom
and Achitophel-Religio Laici Hind and Panther-Dryden's
later Works Translation of Virgil — Odes — Fables · Prefaces
and Dedications - Juvenal-Mac Flecknoe.......................
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Clarendon's Life
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CHAPTER XI.
CLARENDON, BUNYAN, AND LOCKE.
History of the Rebellion Characters John
Bunyan The Pilgrim's Progress Allegory Style - Life of
Bunyan - Locke The New Philosophy Practical Character of
Locke's Works - Life Letters on Toleration Essay on the
Human Understanding- Theory of Ideas-Treatises on Govern-
ment-Essay on Education......
CHAPTER XII.
THE WITS OF QUEEN ANNE'S REIGN.
Artificial School-Pope's early Studies-Pope compared to Dryden
Essay on Criticism-Rape of the Lock
Mock-heroic Poetry
Temple of Fame, &c. Translation of Homer-Essay on Man
Miscellanies The Dunciad Satires and Epistles Edward
Young English' Melancholy The Universal Passion Thoughts-Young's Style-His Wit......
CHAPTER XIII.
SWIFT AND THE ESSAYISTS.
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Night
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Coarseness of Manners in the 17th and 18th Centuries-Jonathan
Swift - Battle of the Books - Tale of a Tub-Pamphlets - Stella
and Vanessa Drapier's Letters-Voyages of Gulliver Minor
Works-Poems-Steele and Addison Cato Tatler Spectator
Samuel Johnson Prose Style Satires-London, and The
Vanity of Human Wishes-Rasselas - Journey to the Hebrides-
Lives of the Poets-Edition of Shakspeare- Dictionary-Rambler
and Idler
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History of Prose Fiction - Spain, Italy, and France The Romance
and the Novel - Defoe Robinson Crusoe Source of its Charm
Defoe's Air of Reality- Minor Works - Richardson -- Pamela
Clarissa Harlowe - Female Characters Sir Charles Grandison-
Fielding-Joseph Andrews-Jonathan Wild-Tom Jones- Ame
lia -- Smollett Smollett-Roderick Random Sea Characters - Peregrine
Pickle-Count Fathom-Humphry Clinker Sterne Tristram
Shandy, and the Sentimental Journey-Goldsmith Chinese Let-
ters Traveller and Deserted Village - Vicar of Wakefield
Comedies- Histories
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CHAPTER XV.
THE GREAT HISTORIANS.
David Hume As Historian As Moralist and Metaphysician
Attacks on Revealed Religion William Robertson Defects of
the "Classicist" Historians Edward Gibbon The Decline and
Fall His Prejudices against Christianity - Guizot's Judgment
on Gibbon
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CHAPTER XVI.
THE TRANSITION SCHOOL.
The Seasons
Landscape and Familiar Poetry James Thomson
Episodes Castle of Indolence Minor Works Lyric Poetry-
Thomas Gray - The Bard, and the Elegy - Collins and Shenstone
The Schoolmistress Ossian Chatterton and the Rowley
William Cowper - George Crabbe The Lowland Scots
Dialect and Literature Robert Burns
Poems
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CHAPTER XVII.
SCOTT AND SOUTHEY.
Walter Scott
the Lake
Antiquary
The Lay of the Last Minstrel
Marmion Lady of
Lord of the Isles Waverley Guy Mannering
Tales of my Landlord Ivanhoe Monastery and
Abbot Kenilworth Pirate Fortunes of Nigel - Peveril ·
Quentin Durward St. Ronan's Well. Redgauntlet Tales of
the Crusaders - Woodstock - Chronicles of the Canongate-Anne
of Geierstein Robert Southey - Thalaba and Kehama ·
Legendary Tales - Roderick
Madoc
Prose Works and Miscellanies.. 315
Epicurean Biographies.
Bards Romantic Poems
Juan Death of Byron.
Byron: Hours of Idleness, and English
The Dramas Childe Harold - Don
Shelley: Poems and Philosophy
Queen Mab, Prometheus Unbound, Alastor, &c. The Cenci -
Minor Poems and Lyrics...........
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CHAPTER XIX.
Prose Fiction
THE MODERN NOVELISTS.
The Romance: Walpole, Mrs. Radcliffe, Lewis,
Maturin, and Mrs. Shelley James, Ainsworth, and Bulwer
The Novel: Miss Burney. Godwin
Novels: Galt, Wilson, Banim, &c.
Lister, &c.
Miss Austen Hook
Miss Edgeworth Local
Fashionable Novels: Ward,
Mrs. Trollope Miss Mit-
ford. Warren Dickens Novels of Foreign Life: Beckford,
Hope, and Morier Naval and Military Novels: Marryat and
Robert Scott.......
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CHAPTER XX.
THE STAGE, ORATORY, POLITICS, THEOLOGY, METAPHYSICS,
AND JOURNALISM.
Sheridan The
Letters
· Blackstone
Periodi-
The Quar-
Comedy in England Congreve, Farquhar, &c.
Modern Romantic Drama - Oratory in England: Burke
of Junius Modern Theologians: Paley and Butler
Adam Smith Metaphysics: Stewart Bentham
cals: the Newspaper, the Magazine, and the Review
terly, and Blackwood - The Edinburgh, and the New Monthly—
The Westminster Cheap Periodical Literature
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CHAPTER XXI.
WORDSWORTH, COLERIDGE, AND THE NEW POETRY.
Wordsworth and the Lake School - Philosophical and Poetical Theo-
ries The Lyrical Ballads The Excursion Sonnets Cole-
riage Poems and Criticisms Conversational Eloquence
Charies Lamb The Essays of Elia - Leigh Hunt Keats
Hood The Living Poets Conclusion......
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