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Camden and Selden-Latin Prose and Verse.-TRANSLATIONS OF THE HOLY BIBLE.
2. The Geneva Bible--Whittingham-The Bishops' Bible-Parker.-3. King James's
Bible-Its History-The Translators-Its Universal Reception.-ORIGINAL THEOLO-
GICAL WRITINGS. 4. The Elizabethan Period-Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity-
Reign of James-Sermons of Bishop Andrewes-Sermons of Donne.-5. Reign of
Charles-Hall and Taylor compared.-6. Bishop Hall-His Sermons-His other
Works.-7. Jeremy Taylor-His Treatises-His Sermons-Character of his Elo-
quence.-8. The Commonwealth and Protectorate-Controversial Writings-The
Puritans-Richard Baxter-His Life and Works.... Page 214
CHAPTER V.
THE AGE OF SPENSER, SHAKSPEARE, BACON, AND MILTON.
A. D. 1558-A. D. 1660.
SECTION THIRD: THE MISCELLANEOUS PROSE LITERATURE.
SEMI-THEOLOGICAL WRITERS. 1. Fuller's Works-Cudworth-Henry More.-PHILO-
SOPHICAL WRITERS. 2. Lord Bacon-The Design of his Philosophy-His Two
Problems-His Chief Works.-3. Hobbes-His Political and Social Theories-His
Ethics-His Psychology-His Style.-HISTORICAL WRITERS. 4. Social and Political
Theories Antiquaries-Historians-Raleigh-Milton's History of England-His
Historical and Polemical Tracts-His Style.-MISCELLANEOUS WRITERS. 5. Writers
of Voyages and Travels-Literary Critics-Sir Philip Sidney's Defence of Poesy-
Romances and Novels-Sidney's Arcadia-Short Novels-Greene-Lyly--Pam-
phlets-Controversy on the Stage-Martin Mar-Prelate-Smectymnuus.-6. Essays
describing Characters-Didactic Essays--Bacon--Selden--Burton-Browne-Cow-
ley.......
Page 238
CHAPTER VI.
SECTION FOURTH: THE DRAMATIC POETRY.
INTRODUCTION. 1. The Drama a Species of Poetry-Recitation of Narrative Poems and
Plays-Effects of Recitation on the Character of the Works-Relations of Prose and
Verse to Poetry.-2. The Regular and Irregular Schools of Dramatic Art-The
French Rules-The Unities of Time and Place-Their Principle--Their Effects.-3.
The Unity of Action-Its Principle-Its Relations to the Other Unities-The Union
of Tragedy and Comedy.-SHAKSPEARE AND THE OLD ENGLISH DRAMA. 4. Its
Four Stages.--5. The First Stage-Shakspeare's Predecessors and Earliest Works-
Marlowe Greene.-6. Shakspeare's Earliest Histories and Comedies-Character of
the Early Comedies.-7. The Second Stage-Shakspeare's Later Histories-His best
Comedies.-8. The Third Stage-Shakspeare's Great Tragedies-His Latest Works
9. Estimate of Shakspeare's Genius.-MINOR DRAMATIC POETS. 10. Shakspeare's
Contemporaries-Their Genius-Their Morality.--11. Beaumont and Fletcher.-12.
Ben Jonson.-18. Minor Dramatists-Middleton-Webster-Heywood-Dekker.
14. The Fourth Stage of the Drama-Massinger-Ford-Shirley-Moral_Declen-
sion......
CHAPTER VII.
Page 251
SECTION FIFTH: THE NON-DRAMATIC POETRY.
SPENSER'S POETRY. 1. His Genius-His Minor Poems.--2. Spenser's Faerie Queene-
Its Design.-3. Allegories of the Faerie Queene-Its Poetical Character.-4. The Sto-
ries of the Six Books of the Faerie Queene.-MINOR POETS. 5. The Great Variety in
the Kinds of Poetry-Classification of them.-6. Metrical Translations-Marlowe-
Chapman Fairfax-Sandys.-7. Historical Narrative Poems-Shakspeare--Daniel
-Drayton-Giles and Phineas Fletcher.-8. Pastorals-Pastoral Dramas of Fletcher
and Jonson-Warner-Drayton-Wither-Browne.-9. Descriptive Poems-Dray-
ton's Poly-Olbion-Didactic Poems-Lord Brooke and Davies-Herbert and Quarles
-Poetical Satires-Hall-Marston-Donne.-10. Earlier Lyrical Poems-Shakspeare,
Fletcher and Jonson-Ballads-Sonnets of Drummond and Daniel.-11. Lyrical Po-
ems of the Metaphysical School-Donne and Cowley-Lyrics and other Poems of a
Modern Cast-Denham and Waller.-MILTON'S POETRY. 12. His Life and Works.-
18. His Minor Poems-L'Allegro and II Penseroso-Comus-Lycidas-Ode on the
Nativity-Later Poems-Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes.-14. The Para-
dise Lost...
CHAPTER VIII.
Page 270
THE AGE OF THE RESTORATION AND THE REVOLUTION.
A. D. 1668-A. D. 1702.
1. Social and Literary Character of the Period.-PROSE. 2. Theology-Leighton-Ser-
mons of South, Tillotson, and Barrow-Nonconformist Divines-Bunyan's Pilgrim's
Progress-The Philosophy of Locke-Bentley and Classical Learning.-3. Antiqua-
ries and Historians-Lord Clarendon's History-Bishop Burnet's Histories.-4. Mis-
cellaneous Prose-Walton-Evelyn-L'Estrange-Butler and Marvell-John Dry-
den's Prose Writings-His Style-His Critical Opinions-Temple's Essays.-POETRY.
5. Dramas-Their Character-French Influences-Dryden's Plays--Tragedies of
Lee, Otway, and Southerne-The Prose Comedies-Their Moral Foulness.-6. Poe-
try not Dramatic-Its Didactic and Satiric Character-Inferences.-7. Minor Poets
-Roscommon-Marvell-Butler's Hudibras-Prior.--8. John Dryden's Life and
Works.-9. Dryden's Poetical Character.. Page 289
CHAPTER IX.
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
A. D. 1702-A. D. 1800.
SECTION FIRST: THE LITERARY CHARACTER AND CHANGES
OF THE PERIOD.
1. Character of the Period as a Whole-Its Relations to Our Own Time.-2. Literary
Character of its First Generation-The Age of Queen Anne and George I.-3. Lite-
rary Character of its Second and Third Generations-From the Accession of George
II. 4. The Prose Style of the First Generation-Addison-Swift.-5. The Prose
Style of the Second and Third Generations-Johnson Page 897
CHAPTER X.
A. D. 1702-A. D. 1727.
SECTION SECOND: THE LITERATURE OF THE FIRST GENERATION.
POETRY. 1. The Drama-Non-Dramatic Poetry-Its Artificial Character-Minor Poets.
-2. Alexander Pope-Characteristics of his Genius and Poetry.-3. Pope's Works-
His Early Poems--Poems of Middle Age-His Later Poems.-PROSE. 4. Theolo-
gians-Philosophers- Clarke's Natural Theology --. Bishop Berkeley's Idealism-
Shaftesbury-Bolingbroke.--5. Miscellaneous Prose-Occasional Writings-Defoe
and Robinson Crusoe-Swift's Works and Literary Character--Other Prose Satires--
6. The Periodical Essayists-Addison and Steele-The Spectator-Its Character-Its
Design..... Page 814
CHAPTER XI.
A. D. 1727-A. D. 1760.
SECTION THIRD: THE LITERATURE OF THE SECOND GENERATION.
PROSE. 1. Theology-Warburton-Bishop Butler's Analogy-Watts and Doddridge-
Philosophy-Butler's Ethical System-The Metaphysics of David Hume--Jonathan
Edwards-Franklin.-2. Miscellaneous Prose-Minor Writers--New Series of Peri-
odical Essays-Magazines and Reviews.-8. Samuel Johnson-His Life-His Lite-
rary Character-4. Johnson's Works.-5. The Novelists-Their Moral Faultiness.
-POETRY. 6. The Drama-Non-Dramatic Poetry-Rise in Poetical Tone --
Didactic Poems-Johnson-Young-Akenside-Narrative and Descriptive Poems
---Thomson's Seasons.-7. Poetical Taste of the Public-Lyrical Poems of Gray and
Collins.... Page 330
SECTION FOURTH: THE LITERATURE OF THE THIRD GENERATION.
PROSE. 1. The Historians-Their Literary Character and Views of Art-Hume's His-
tory.-2. Robertson and Gibbon-The Character of each-Minor Historical Writers.
-8. Miscellaneous Prose--Johnson's Talk and Boswell's Report of it--Goldsmith's
Novels Literature in Scotland-The First Edinburgh Review-Mackenzie's Novels
-Other Novelists.-4. Criticism-Percy's Reliques-Warton's History-Parliamen-
tary Eloquence-Edmund Burke-Letters.-5. Philosophy--(1.) Theory of Litera-
ture-Burke-Reynolds--Campbell-Home-Blair-Smith-(2.) Political Economy
-Adam Smith.-6. Philosophy continued-(3.) Ethics-Adam Smith-Tucker-
Paley-(4.) Metaphysics and Psychology-Thomas Reid.-7. Theology-(1.) Scien-
tific-Campbell-Paley-Watson-Lowth-(2.) Practical -- Porteous-Blair-New-
ton and others.-POETRY. 8. The Drama--Home's Douglas-Comedies of Gold-
smith and Sheridan-Goldsmith's Descriptive Poems.-9. Minor Poets-Their Va-
rious Tendencies-Later Poems-Beattie's Minstrel.-10. The Genius and Writings
of Cowper and Burns....
.....
Page 345
CHAPTER XIII.
THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.
A. D. 1800-A. D. 1852.
SECTION FIRST: THE CHARACTER OF THE PERIOD.
1. General Character of the Last Fifty Years-Two Ages embraced in the Period.-2.
The First Age-Its Poetry-Its Poetical Eminence and Characteristics.--8. The First
Age-Its Prose-Novels-The Reviews and other Periodicals--Variety of its Pro-
ductions.-4. Foreign Impulses affecting the whole Period.-5. The Second Age-Its
Mixed Character-Its Social Aspects...
CHAPTER XIV.
A. D. 1800-A. D. 1830.
SECTION SECOND: THE POETRY OF THE FIRST AGE.
Page 36'
1. First Group of Leading Poets-Campbell.-2. Southey.-8. Second Group-Scott
and Byron.-4. Scott's Characteristics and Works.-5 Byron's Characteristics, Eth-
ical and Poetical.-6. Third Group-Coleridge and Wordsworth-Coleridge's Genius
and Works.-7. Wordsworth-Features of his Poetical Character-8. Wordsworth
-His Poetical Theory-Its Effect on his Works.-9. Fourth Group-Wilson-Shel-
ley-Keats.-10. Crabbe and Moore--Dramatic Poems-Miscellaneous Names-Sa-
cred Poetry... Page 368
CHAPTER XV.
SECTION THIRD: THE PROSE OF THE FIRST AGE.
1. Novels and Romances-The Waverley Novels-Minor Novelists.-2. Periodical
Writing-The Edinburgh Review-The Quarterly Review-Blackwood's Magazine.
-8. Criticism-The Essays of Francis Jeffrey.-4. Criticism and Miscellanies -
Coleridge-Hazlitt-Lamb-Christopher North.-5. Social Science-Jeremy Ben-
tham-Political Economy-History-Minor Historical Writers--Hallam's Historical
Works.-6. Theology-Church History-Classical Learning-Scientific Theology-
Practical Theology-John Foster-Robert Hall-Thomas Chalmers.-7. Speculative
Philosophy-(1.) Metaphysics and Psychology--Dugald Stewart and Thomas Brown.
-(2.) Ethical Science-Mackintosh-Jeremy Bentham-(3.) The Theory of the
Knight- Brown-Symptoms of Further
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Beautiful-Alison-Jeffrey---Stewart
Change...
CHAPTER XVI.
THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
A. D. 1830-A. D. 1852.
SECTION FOURTH: THE LITERATURE OF THE SECOND AGE.
1. Poetry-Minor Poets.-2. The Genius and Works of Tennyson.-3. Novels-Bulwer
-Minor Novelists-Thackeray-Dickens.-4. Essays and Histories-Hallam's Lite-
rature of Europe-De Quincey's Criticisms-Macaulay's Essays and History-Ali-
son's History-Carlyle's Works.-5. Religious Works-Newspapers-Reviews and
Magazines Instruction for the People-Encyclopædias.-6. Philology, Anglo-Sax-
on, English, and Classical-History, Classical and Modern-Travels.-7. Physical
Scienco Political Economy-Logic-Whewell-John Mill-Metaphysics and Psy-
chology-Sir William Hamilton-CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN LITERATURE.