CONTENTS

CHAPTER I

TRANSLATORS

By CHARLES WHIBLEY, Jesus College

The Craft of Translation. Translations of the Classics.

Painter.

Fenton. Machiavelli's Prince. The Diall of Princes. Sir Thomas

North's Plutarch. Philemon Holland. Florio's Montaigne.

Stanyhurst's Vergil. Phaer's Vergil. Golding's Ovid. Chap-

man's Homer. Sylvester, Fairfax, Harington. The Charge of

Plagiarism

CHAPTER II

THE "AUTHORISED VERSION" AND ITS INFLUENCE

By ALBERT S. COOK, L.H.D., LL.D., Professor of the English

Language and Literature in Yale University

The Authorised Version the first English classic. Character of the

Bible, its constitution and qualities. The Nature of the Hebrew

language, poetry and prose. Jerome, of the Latin Vulgate. Old

English Versions. The Wyclifite versions. Tindale and the

Authorised Version. Coverdale's Version. The position of the

Bible in English Literature. The English of the Bible. The

Influence of the Authorised Version upon English Literature

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CHAPTER III

SIR WALTER RALEGH

BY LOUISE CREIGHTON

Cynthia and other poems. Prose Writings. The story of The Revenge.

Guiana. The History of the World. Political Writings

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CHAPTER IV

THE LITERATURE OF THE SEA

FROM THE ORIGINS TO HAKLUYT

By Commander CHARLES N. ROBINSON, R.N.,

and JOHN LEYLAND

Early Writers. John Cabot. The Impulse from Abroad. Richard

Eden. Sir Hugh Willoughby. Sebastian Cabot. Sir John

Hawkins. Sir Humphrey Gilbert. Martin Frobisher. Richard

Willes. John Davys. Sir Richard Hawkins. The Spirit of

Travel in English Literature. Richard Hakluyt

CHAPTER V

SEAFARING AND TRAVEL

THE GROWTH OF PROFESSIONAL TEXT-BOOKS AND GEOGRAPHICAL

LITERATURE

By Commander CHARLES N. ROBINSON, R.N.,

and JOHN LEYLAND

Richard Knolles's Compilations. George Sandys. Coryats Crudities.

Samuel Purchas. Captain John Smith. The Spirit of Imperialism.

Lancaster's Expedition. William Adams in Japan. Australia and

Madagascar. Sir William Monson. Books for the use of Seamen.

Smith's Accidence. Thomas James and Luke Fox. Theory and

Practice

CHAPTER VI

THE SONG-BOOKS AND MISCELLANIES

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By HAROLD H. CHILD, Sometime Scholar of Brasenose College,

Oxford

Musical Composers. Lyric Poetry

Nest. Nicholas Breton. Thomas

Music and Poetry. William Byrd.

in the Drama. The Phoenix

Lodge. England's Helicon. "Ignoto." Anthony Munday. John

Wotton. Richard Barnfield. Pastoral Poems. A Poetical Rap-

sody. Francis Davison. "A.W." Sir Edward Dyer

CHAPTER VII

ROBERT SOUTHWELL. SAMUEL DANIEL

By HAROLD H. CHILD

Robert Southwell. John Davies of Hereford. Abraham Fraunce.

Samuel Daniel. Delia. The Complaynt of Rosamond. Muso-

philus. Warner's Albion's England. Daniel's Civil Wars. His

Diction

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CHAPTER VIII

THOMAS CAMPION

By S. PERCIVAL VIVIAN, Sometime Scholar of St. John's College,

By HUGH DE SÉLINCOURT, University College, Oxford

Drummond of Hawthornden. George Wither. William Browne.

Fulke Greville. Sir John Davies. Sir Henry Wotton. Giles

Fletcher. Phineas Fletcher

CHAPTER X

MICHAEL DRAYTON

By HAROLD H. CHILD

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Drayton's Boyhood. The Harmonie of the Church. Idea. The

Identity of "Idea." Legends. Ideas Mirrour. Endimion and

Phabe. Mortimeriados. Englands Heroicall Epistles. His Satires

and Odes. Poly-Olbion. Nimphidia. The Muses Elizium.

"divine" poems. His Achievement.

CHAPTER XI

JOHN DONNE

His

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By HERBERT J. C. GRIERSON, M.A., Chalmers Professor of
English Literature in the University of Aberdeen

Donne's Relation to Petrarch. His Life. The History of his Poems.

His Satires. Songs and Sonets. Elegies. His Love Poetry.

His "Wit.' The Progresse of the Soule. Letters and Funerall

Elegies. Religious Verses. Paradoxes, Problems and other Prose

Writings. Sermons. Letters. His Position and Influence

CHAPTER XII

THE ENGLISH PULPIT FROM FISHER TO DONNE

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By the Rev. F. E. HUTCHINSON, M.A., Trinity College, Oxford;

Chaplain of King's College, Cambridge

Revival of Preaching in the Sixteenth Century. The Printing of
Sermons in the Vernacular. Fisher's Sense of Style. Colet and

Longland. Latimer's directness, story-telling and denunciation of

social wrongs.
The second generation of Reformation Preachers:

Lever, Bradford and Gilpin. Literary Preaching: Jewel, Sandys,

Hooker. "The Silver-tongued preacher.' Roman Catholic de-

votional literature. Puritan exaltation of the Sermon. Andrewes

and Donne compared

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CHAPTER XIII

ROBERT BURTON, JOHN BARCLAY AND JOHN OWEN

By EDWARD BENSLY, M.A., Trinity College; Professor of Latin,

University College of Wales, Aberystwyth

Robert Burton. The Anatomy of Melancholy. His Reading and

Methods of Quotation. Influence of The Anatomy. John Barclay.

Euphormionis Satyricon. Argenis. Medieval and Modern Latin

Verse. John Owen's Epigrams. His Influence.

CHAPTER XIV

THE BEGINNINGS OF ENGLISH PHILOSOPHY

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By W. R. SORLEY, Litt.D., LL.D., F.B.A., Fellow of King's

College, and Knightbridge Professor of Moral Philosophy

The Language of Philosophy. English Contributions to Medieval

Philosophy. Johannes Scotus Erigena. The Attitude to Scholas-

ticism of Duns Scotus and of Ockham. Roger Bacon and the

Method of Science. Philosophy in English universities. Revival

of Aristotelianism in the 16th Century. Everard Digby. William

Temple and the Ramists. William Gilbert and Experimental

Science. Francis Bacon. The Great Instauration. The Inter-

pretation of Nature and the New Method. The Value of the

Method. Herbert of Cherbury

CHAPTER XV

EARLY WRITINGS ON POLITICS AND ECONOMICS

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By the Ven. Archdeacon CUNNINGHAM, D.D., F.B.A., Fellow

of Trinity College

National Life as Reflected in Literature. Elements in the Rise of

Nationalities-Patriotic Sentiment, Democratic Self-Government,

National Resources as the means of gratifying National Ambitions.

Patriotic Pride in a well-ordered monarchy as reflected in English

Literature; suspicion of the pursuit of private interests, as inimical

to public welfare. Ecclesiastical Character of the demand for

Individual Independence in Scotland, and for Democratic Institu-

tions. English Constitutionalism. Medieval Works on Estates

Management. Descriptions of the Realm. Prescriptions for im-

proving its resources. Writings on the administration of particular

offices, and on Companies for Commerce and for Colonisation.

Treatises on Usury. The Problem of Pauperism. The Mercantile

System

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CHAPTER XVI

LONDON AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF POPULAR LITERATURE

CHARACTER WRITING. SATIRE. THE ESSAY

By HAROLD V. ROUTH, M.A., Peterhouse; Professor of Latin
in Trinity College, Toronto

London in the times of Elizabeth and James. Lodge on Usury.

Nashe's Anatomie of Absurditie. Robert Greene's Social Pam-

phlets. The Seven Deadly Sins. Nashe. Rise of Formal Satire.

Joseph Hall. Virgidemiarum. Marston's Satires. "Humours."

Epigrams. The Character Sketch. Theophrastus. Hall's Char-

acters. The Man in the Moone. Sir Thomas Overbury. John

Stephens. John Earle. Origins of the Essay. Sir William

Cornwallis. Robert Johnson. Bacon's Essays. Ben forson's

Timber. Tobacco-pamphlets. Discoverie of the Knights of the

Poste. Thomas Dekker. Grobianism. Samuel Rowlands. Bur-

lesques. Jest Books. Wagering Journeys. Pimlyco. Broad-

sides and Street Ballads.

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CHAPTER XVII

WRITERS ON COUNTRY PURSUITS AND PASTIMES

GERVASE MARKHAM

By H. G. ALDIS, M.A., Peterhouse; Secretary of the University

Library

Gervase Markham. His Predecessors. Leonard Mascall. Barnabe

Googe. Sir Hugh Plat. Topsell. Herbals

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CHAPTER XVIII

THE BOOK-TRADE, 1557-1625

By H. G. ALDIS

The Incorporation of the Stationers' Company. Star Chamber De-

crees. The Stationers' Registers. Censors. Trade Discipline.

Printing Monopolies. Apprentices. The Beginnings of a Business.

Compilers, "Readers" and Translators. Ballad Writers. Pa-

trons. Copyright. John Taylor, the Thames waterman. Pirates.

The Shakespeare Stationers. Edward Blount. George Wither's

evidence. Richard Grafton. William Copland. John Day.

William Ponsonby. Christopher and Robert Barker. St. Paul's

Churchyard. London Bridge. English Printing. Illustrations.

Foreign presses. Book Fairs. Early Catalogues. Bookbindings.

Prices. Provincial Stationers. Cambridge University Press.

Oxford University Press. The Scottish Press. Chepman and

Myllar. Gourlaw's Inventory. Printing in Ireland

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