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CONTENTS.

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View of the Revival of Learning in England, continued. Reformation of

Religion. Its effects on Literature in England. Application of this di-

gression to the main subject

SECTION XXXVII.

Petrarch's sonnets. Lord Surrey. His education, travels, mistress, life,

and poetry. He is the first writer of blank-verse. Italian blank-verse.

Surrey the first English classic poet

SECTION XXXVIII.

Sir Thomas Wyat. Inferior to Surrey as a writer of Sonnets. His Life.

His Genius characterised. Excels in Moral Poetry.........

The Second Writer of Blank-verse in English. Specimens of early Blank-

The first printed Miscellany of English Poetry. Its Contributors. Sir

Francis Bryan, Lord Rochford, and Lord Vaulx. The First True Pas-

toral in English. Sonnet-writing cultivated by the Nobility. Sonnets

by King Henry the Eighth. Literary character of that king. ........ 51

John Heywood the Epigrammatist. His Works examined. Ancient un-

published burlesque Poem of Sir Penny

Andrew Borde. Bale. Ansley. Chertsey. Fabyll's Ghost, a poem.

The Merry Devil of Edmonton. Other minor Poets of the Reign of

Henry the Eighth

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Sir Thomas More's English Poetry. Tournament of Tottenham. Its age

Laurence Minot. Alliteration. Digression illustrating

comparatively the language of the fifteenth century, by a specimen of

the Metrical Armoric Romance of Ywayn and Gawayn

The Notbrowne Mayde. Not older than the sixteenth century. Artful

contrivance of the story. Misrepresented by Prior. Metrical Romances,

Guy, syr Bevys, and Kynge Apolyn, printed in the reign of Henry.

The Scole howse, a Satire. Christmas Carols. Religious Libels in

rhyme. Merlin's Prophecies. Laurence Minot. Occasional disqui-

sition on the late continuance of the use of waxen tablets. Pageantries

of Henry's Court. Dawn of Taste.........

Effects of the Reformation on our poetry. Clement Marot's Psalms. Why

adopted by Calvin. Version of the Psalms by Sternhold and Hopkins.

Defects of this version, which is patronised by the Puritans in opposition

to the Choral Service

Metrical versions of Scripture. Archbishop Parker's Psalms in metre.

Robert Crowley's puritanical poetry

Tye's Acts of the Apostles in rhyme. His merit as a Musician. Early

piety of king Edward the Sixth. Controversial Ballads and Plays.

Translation of the Bible. Its effects on our Language. Arthur Kel-

ton's Chronicle of the Brutes. First Drinking-song. Gammer Gurton's

SECTION XLVIII.

Reign of queen Mary. Mirrour for Magistrates. Its inventor, Sackville

lord Buckhurst. His life. Mirrour for Magistrates continued by Bald-

wyn and Ferrers. Its plan and stories

Sackville's Induction to the Mirrour for Magistrates. Examined. A pre-
lude to the Fairy Queen. Comparative View of Dante's Inferno

View of Niccols's edition of the Mirrour for Magistrates. High estima-

tion of this Collection. Historical Plays, whence.......

SECTION L.

Sackville's Legend of Buckingham in the Mirrour for Magistrates. Ad-

ditions by Higgins. Account of him. View of the early editions of

this Collection. Specimen of Higgins's Legend of Cordelia, which is

copied by Spenser......

Richard Edwards. Principal poet, player, musician, and buffoon, to the

courts of Mary and Elizabeth. Anecdotes of his life. Cotemporary

testimonies of his merit. A contributor to the Paradise of Daintie De-

vises. His book of comic histories, supposed to have suggested Shak-

speare's Induction of the Tinker. Occasional anecdotes of Antony

Munday and Henry Chettle. Edwards's songs.....

Tusser. Remarkable circumstances of his life. His Husbandrie, one of

our earliest didactic poems, examined

.....

William Forrest's poems. His Queen Catharine, an elegant manuscript,

contains anecdotes of Henry's divorce. He collects and preserves an-

cient music. Puritans oppose the study of the classics. Lucas Shep-

herd. John Pullayne. Numerous metrical versions of Solomon's Song.

Censured by Hall the satirist. Religious rhymers. Edward More.

Boy-bishop, and miracle-plays, revived by queen Mary. Minute par-

ticulars of an ancient miracle-play

English Language begins to be cultivated. Earliest book of Criticism in

English. Examined. Soon followed by others. Early critical systems

of the French and Italians. New and superb editions of Gower and

Lydgate. haucer's monument erected in Westminster Abbey. Chaucer

esteemed by the Reformers..

Sackville's Gorboduc. Our first regular tragedy. Its fable, conduct, cha-

racters, and style. Its defects. Dumb-show. Sackville not assisted

by Norton.......

Classical drama revived and studied. The Phoenissæ of Euripides trans-

lated by Gascoigne. Seneca's Tragedies translated. Account of the

translators, and of their respective versions. Queen Elizabeth translates

a part of the Hercules Oetæus

Most of the classic poets translated before the end of the sixteenth century.

Phaier's Eneid. Completed by Twyne. Their other works. Phaier's

Ballad of Gad's-hill. Stanihurst's Eneid in English hexameters. His

other works. Fleming's Virgil's Bucolics and Georgics. His other

works. Webbe and Fraunce translate some of the Bucolics. Fraunce's

other works. Spenser's Culex. The original not genuine. The Ceiris

proved to be genuine. Nicholas Whyte's story of Jason, supposed to be

a version of Valerius Flaccus. Golding's Ovid's Metamorphoses. His

other works. Ascham's censure of rhyme. A translation of the Fasti

revives and circulates the story of Lucrece. Euryalus and Lucretia.

Detached fables of the Metamorphoses translated. Moralisations in

fashion. Underdowne's Ovid's Ibis. Ovid's Elegies translated by Mar-

lowe. Remedy of Love, by F. L. Epistles by Turberville. Lord Es-

sex a translator of Ovid. His literary character. Churchyard's Ovid's

Tristia. Other detached versions from Ovid. Ancient meaning and

use of the word Ballad. Drant's Horace. Incidental criticism on

Tully's Oration pro Archia

Kendal's Martial. Marlowe's versions of Coluthus and Museus. Gene-

ral character of his Tragedies. Testimonies of his cotemporaries. Spe-

cimens and estimate of his poetry. His death. First Translation of

the Iliad by Arthur Hall. Chapman's Homer. His other works. Ver-

sion of Clitophon and Leucippe. Origin of the Greek erotic romance.

Palingenius translated by Googe. Criticism on the original. Speci-

men and merits of the translation. Googe's other works. Incidental

stricture on the philosophy of the Greeks

Translation of Italian Novels. Of Boccace. Paynter's Palace of Plea-

sure. Other versions of the same sort. Early metrical versions of Boc-

cace's Theodore and Honoria, and Cymon and Iphigenia. Romeus and

Juliet. Bandello translated. Romances from Bretagne. Plot of Shak-

speare's Tempest. Miscellaneous Collections of translated novels before

the year 1600. Pantheon. Novels arbitrarily licensed or suppressed.

Reformation of the English press

Hall's Satires continued

Reign of Elizabeth. Satire.
poems of a Norfolk gentleman.

General view and character of the poetry of queen Elizabeth's age......... 395

Bishop Hall. His Virgidemiarum. MS.

Examination of Hall's Satires

Marston's Satires. Hall and Marston compared

Hall's Satires continued. His Mundus alter et idem. His Epistles. As-

cham's Letters. Howell's Letters

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Epigrams and Satires. Skialetheia. A Scourge of Truth. Scourge of

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