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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

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

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......

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.......

THE SHAKSPEARIAN DRAMATISTS.

Ben Jonson-The Humours-His Roman Plays Comedies Plots

Beaumont and Fletcher Massinger-Chapman - Dekker

Webster Middleton-Marston-Ford- Shirley......

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.......

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........

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.......................

Clarendon's Life

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......

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......

SWIFT AND THE ESSAYISTS.

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

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

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

THE TRANSITION SCHOOL.

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

SCOTT AND SOUTHEY.

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

Prose Works and Miscellanies.. 315

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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...........

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.

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.......

THE STAGE, ORATORY, POLITICS, THEOLOGY, METAPHYSICS,

AND JOURNALISM.

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

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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