A history of English poetry
William John Courthope (Author)
Literary criticism
6 volumes : frontispieces (folded tables) ; 23 cm
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v. I. The Middle Ages, Influence of the Roman Empire, the encyclopædic education of the church, the feudal system
v. II. The Renaissance and the Reformation, influence of the court and the universities
v. III. The intellectual conflict of the seventeenth century, decadent influence of the feudal monarchy growth of the national genius
v. IV. Development and decline of the poetic drama, influence of the court and the people
v. V. The constitutional compromise of the eighteenth century, effects of the classical renaissance, its zenith and decline, the early romantic renaissance
v. VI. The romantic movement in English poetry, effects of the French Revolution. v. 1. Table of contemporary poets in England, France, and Italy
The scope and nature of the subject
The character and sources of Medieaval poetry
The poetry of the Anglo-Saxons
Anglo-Norman poetry and its influence on English verse
The early Renaissance: its effects on literature in Italy, France, and England
Langland
Chaucer
The Epical School of Chaucer: Gower, Lydgate, Occleve
The progress of allegory in English poetry
The rise of drama in England
The decay of English minstrelsy
A retrospect. v. 2. Table of contemporary European poets from 1450-1600
The intellectual conflict in Europe in the sixteenth century, the papacy, the empire, and the nation, Catholicism and chivalry, the Renaissance and the Reformation
Sir Thomas Wyatt, originality of thought, imitation of foreign models of expression
The Earl of Surrey, decay of chivalry, reform of poetical diction and versification
Development of the idea of state in poetry, Sir David Lyndsay, The Mirror for Magistrates, Thomas Sackville
Translation of the classics, Virgil, Seneca, Ovid
The progress of the school of Surrey, Lord Vaux, Grimald, Googe, Turbervile, Churchyard, Gascoigne
Court dialect, John Lyly
Court romance, Sir Philip Sidney
Court allegory, Edmund Spenser
The growth of criticism and its effect on poetry, the poetical euphuists
The evolution of the English poetical drama, The transition from pageant to theatre, from interlude to tragedy, comedy and history
The infancy of the romantic drama, Green, Peele, Marlowe, Kyd. v. 3. English poetry after the Spanish Armada
Spenser's succesors. Samuel Daniel ; Michael Drayton, William Browne ; Sir John Davies, Joseph Hall, John Marston
The translators under Elizabeth and James I
Nature and origin of poetical wit
Schools of poetical wit under Elizabeth and James I. School of theological wit ; School of metaphysical wit ; School of court wit
Schools of poetical wit in the reign of Charles I
Cavalier and Roundhead
The last days of poetical wit
John Milton
The versification, vocabulary, and syntax of Milton
The Restoration. The poets of the court ; John Dryden and the satirists of the country party. v. 4. The epic and lyric elements in the early romantic drama
The lyrical elements of Shakespeare's plays
Shakespeare's early tragedies, influence of Marlowe
Shakespeare's early comedies, influence of Lyly
Shakespeare's later histories, romantic comedies, and tragi-comedies
Shakespeare's later tragedies
A survey of Shakespeare's dramatic development
The dramatic taste of the city. Romance and morality, Munday, Heywood, Dekker, Middleton ; Romance and melodrama, Arden of Feversham, Chapman, Marston, Tourneur, and Webster
Ben Johnson and the anti-romantic reaction
The dramatic taste of the court, Beaumont and Fletcher, influence of the Spanish romance on the English poetic drama
The last days of poetic drama, Massinger and Ford
The closing of the theatres
Dryden and the romantic drama after the restoration
On the authenticity of some of the early plays assigned to Shakespeare, and their relationship to the development of his dramatic genius. v. 5. Effects of the classical Renaissance on modern European poetry
The Whig victory, panegyrical poetry
Whig and Tory, heroic, mock-heroic, didactic verse
Reconstruction of the social standard of taste
Development of the familiar style in English poetry
Alexander Pope
Development of the ethical school of Pope
Decline of social and political satire
Translations of the classics in the eighteenth century
Philosophical English poetry in the eighteenth century, influence of Deism, nature-worship, liberty and the arts
Religious lyrical poetry in the eighteenth century, influence of the Methodist movement
The early romantic movement in English poetry
The poetical drama in the eighteenth century
A survey of English poetry in the eighteenth century. v. 6. The Holy Roman Empire, the Renaissance, the French Revolution
Reciprocity of imaginative intercouse between England and teh continent during the eighteenth century
Exhaustion of the classical influence in English poetry
Democracy and lyric poetry, Scottish and English
The New Whigs and their influence on poetry and criticism
Anti-Jacobinism in English poetry
The Lake School of English poetry and the French Revolution
Romanticism in English Poetry. Byron ; Shelley ; Keats
Anti-romanticism in English poetry, Crabbe
The romance of history, modern minstrelsy, Scott
The romance of history, the Waverley novels