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§ 1. INTRODUCTORY

BOOK I.-POETRY.

The year 1579-George Gascoigne-Googe and Turber-

vile--The Paradyse of Daynty Devices.

§ 2. SIDNEY AND THE SONNETEERS

Thomas Watson-Sir Philip Sidney-The sonnet-books—

Daniel's Delia-Constable's Diana-Barnaby Barnes-

Lodge's Phillis—Drayton's Idea-Spenser's Amoretti—

The Sonnets of Shakespeare.

§ 3. SPENSER AND THE PASTORAL

The Faerie Queene-Giles Fletcher-Phineas Fletcher-

William Browne-Basse and Dennys.

§ 4. THE METRICAL HISTORIANS: DRAYTON AND DANIEL

Michael Drayton-The Polyolbion-Samuel Daniel—

William Warner.

§ 5. SONG-BOOKS AND LYRISTS

The Lyrical Miscellanies - Robert Greene - Thomas

Lodge-Nicholas Breton - Thomas Campion-Richard

Barnfield-Shakespeare's Poems.

§ 6. JOHN DONNE .

§ 7. DRUMMOND AND WITHER: RELIGIOUS POETRY.

William Drummond-Sir John Davies-Robert South-

well-George Wither.

§ S. CHAPMAN: THE VERSE TRANSLATORS.

George Chapman-Minor Translations in Verse.

§ 9. HALL AND THE VERSE SATIRISTS.

Elizabethan Satire.

§ 10. HERO AND LEANDER

§ 1. INTRODUCTORY

§ 2. CRITICS

BOOK II.-PROSE.

Gabriel Harvey and his theories-Puttenham's English

Poesie-William Webbe-Sidney's Apologie-Sir John

Harington-Heywood's Apologie-Francis Meres-Ben

Jonson's Timber.

§ 3. NOVELISTS

John Lyly-Greene's Novels-Lodge's Novels-Sidney's

Arcadia-John Barclay-Thomas Nash.

§ 4. SATIRISTS, CARICATURISTS, AND OTHERS: ROBERT

BURTON

Thomas Dekker-Nicholas Breton-Books of Characters
-Sir Thomas Overbury-John Earle-Robert Burton-
The Anatomy of Melancholy-Lord Burghley—Owen
Felltham-Reginald Scot-King James-Minor Satirists.

§ 5. RELIGIOUS CONTROVERSIALISTS AND THEOLOGIANS:

RICHARD HOOKER

The Martin Marprelate Controversy-Richard Hooker-
Andrewes, Donne, and others.

§ 6. BACON

The Essays-Henry VII.-The New Atlantis and the

Instauratio.

§ 7. HISTORIANS, TRAVELLERS, GENERAL WRITERS, AND

COMPILERS

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