HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE
ELIZABETHAN LITERATURE
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Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: A History of Elizabethan Literature by Saintsbury
- 2: LONDON 1920 COPYRIGHT First Edition 1887
- 3: As an Elizabethan himself might have said
- 4: A History of Elizabethan Literature by Saintsbury
- 5: By poets Scottish rather than English
- 6: That the editor was Nicholas Grimald
- 7: Son of Sir Henry Wyatt of Allington
- 8: Combined Alexandrine and fourteener
- 9: It is the Alexandrine which Mr
- 10: Either in couplets or in various combined forms
- 11: Thomas Sackville was born at Buckhurst in Sussex
- 12: The followers of Chaucer from Occleve to Hawes
- 13: It is the merit of Sackville that
- 14: With lullaby they still the child
- 15: With lullaby your looks beguile
- 16: Googe has more sustained power than Turberville
- 17: In vernacular metres and with rhyme
- 18: Haue not theese men made a fayre speake
- 19: By no less than three miscellanies in 1600
- 20: Then taking Ascham who stands
- 21: His Toxophilus was written and printed as early as 1545
- 22: Into very good sound Latin prose
- 23: And are of the tribe of Ascham
- 24: And his inward conceits be the metal of his mind
- 25: Lyly himself exhibits both styles in Euphues
- 26: Euphues properly divided into two parts
- 27: And died of his wounds at the battle of Zutphen
- 28: Which are indeed not a little out of place in prose
- 29: Those of the Arcadia were so engaging in themselves
- 30: And if the Ecclesiastical Polity has done so
- 31: Compare with it any of the celebrated passages of Hooker
- 32: Who protest against the assumption of premisses
- 33: The Mystery and Morality passed into the Interlude
- 34: Chatto's useful reprints of Jonson
- 35: Whether in full splendour as in Shakespere
- 36: Of a much lower order of comedy than Ralph Roister Doister
- 37: That Gammer Gurton's Needle and Gorboduc
- 38: At the time of the appearance of Gorboduc
- 39: The doggerel being only occasional
- 40: Which lead from Sackville to Shakespere
- 41: Lyly stands a good deal apart from them personally
- 42: His other dramatic works are Campaspe
- 43: But Cynthia being in her fulness decayeth
- 44: Side by side with this mania for bombast is another mania
- 45: He is supposed to have left Oxford for London about 1581
- 46: Milton evidently knew Peele well
- 47: But probably earlier called Jeronimo
- 48: Except citation of whole scenes and acts
- 49: Shakespere himself has not surpassed
- 50: With fewer flights we have fewer absurdities
- 51: The life of Spenser is very little known
- 52: Little or nothing is heard of him between 1580 and 1590
- 53: To any political tract in English
- 54: The Amoretti written in this metre
- 55: And by the constant presence of a not too obtrusive allegory
- 56: Or the stanzas ending with a couplet
- 57: Only two English poets can challenge Spenser for the primacy
- 58: With interwoven rhymes and an Alexandrine to finish with
- 59: The equal of The Faerie Queene
- 60: In 1594 followed Constable's Diana
- 61: The so called sonnet collection of Coelica a medley
- 62: Putting Spenser and Shakespere aside
- 63: Dug their sonnets out of books
- 64: Whose milk doth passions nourish
- 65: Or golden sands whereon Pactolus plays
- 66: With his Parthenophil and Parthenophe
- 67: And dies for Licia throughout his poems
- 68: The characteristic of Zepheria is unchastened vigour
- 69: And which is Shakespere all over
- 70: Aside was again fruitful with Griffin's Fidessa
- 71: Genius than in his dramatic and sonnet work
- 72: Southwell belonged to a distinguished family
- 73: In Campion especially the lyrical quality is extraordinary
- 74: His youth 'gainst time and age hath ever spurned
- 75: The friend of Raleigh and Sidney
- 76: What cradle wert thou rocked in
- 77: Good hap will come ere it be long
- 78: No one would dream of speaking thus of Drayton or of Daniel
- 79: And like its other exponents employs the fourteener
- 80: Now Richard heard that Richmond was assisted and ashore
- 81: Another Senecan tragedy in verse
- 82: A fact which drew from Goldsmith
- 83: Not to be confounded with the narrative Battle of Agincourt
- 84: Even if Drayton had been Spenser
- 85: Which preceded Hall's Virgidemiarum by twenty years
- 86: Should all have hit on the couplet as their form
- 87: And an extract from the Anatomy
- 88: Allow All claim'd fees and duties
- 89: If not quite the foulest writer of any English classic
- 90: That he never change his trencher twice
- 91: But the exaggeration and insincerity
- 92: His father was John Shakespere
- 93: As for Shakespere Bacon theories
- 94: Long before any German had spoken of Shakespere
- 95: In language not hyperbolical at all
- 96: Shakespere is unequal as life is
- 97: After vice has been duly baffled or punished
- 98: It is because Shakespere dares
- 99: Shakespere is your only commentator on Shakespere
- 100: Infinitely as he falls short of the Shakesperian range
- 101: Visible even in Fletcher and Massinger
- 102: Directed in the first place towards Shakespere
- 103: Or the crown and flower of all epitaphs
- 104: But in spite of these drawbacks
- 105: Go far to justify the creation of Volpone
- 106: The screeching owl And buzzing hornet
- 107: So near akin as Ben Jonson and George Chapman
- 108: Not a certain work of Chapman is void of interest
- 109: Here out Herods Herod and out Tourneurs Tourneur
- 110: Which never can give the rise and fall of the hexameter
- 111: The characteristics of Chapman
- 112: And may supply me With any fit forewarning
- 113: He is even below Tourneur in this respect
- 114: There is real pathos in Antonio and Mellida
- 115: Which is the curse of the minor Elizabethan drama
- 116: Since attention was directed to Dekker in any way
- 117: In Patient Grissil the two exquisite songs
- 118: And vice to morrow virtue will adore
- 119: Matheo's ill treatment of Bellafront
- 120: Have held that Bacon wrote the plays of Shakespere
- 121: And though not exactly erudite
- 122: Jeremy Taylor as a sacred orator
- 123: Raleigh was homo utriusque linguae
- 124: Wherein our days are sad and overcast
- 125: Versions also of no small literary merit to help them
- 126: Here is found the prose character of Shakespere which
- 127: These were Richard Hakluyt and Samuel Purchas
- 128: Et Catilinam quocunque in populo videas
- 129: A certain tree which raineth continually
- 130: Is an obvious copy of Euphues
- 131: Greene's Metamorphosis is Euphuist once more
- 132: Roberto wondering to hear such good words
- 133: ' said Roberto 'then I pray you
- 134: Rest thee content therefore Montanus
- 135: Was in mere writing no match for Nash
- 136: Probably some allusions in this refer to Harvey
- 137: Is memorable among the prose work of the time
- 138: Not the verse of which Dekker had real mastery
- 139: Dost thou play the capital Vice thyself
- 140: The voluminous work in pamphlet kind of Nicholas Breton
- 141: Like the purely prose pamphlets
- 142: The Martin Marprelate controversy
- 143: Which in a manner ushered in the Marprelate controversy
- 144: And the execution of Penry and Barrow in 1593
- 145: Penry has been the general favourite
- 146: Who abuseth the high commission
- 147: Said that Master Madox his name did shew what he was
- 148: Namely Martin Makebate of England
- 149: The seven exceptional persons are Beaumont and Fletcher
- 150: And speak of Beaumont and Fletcher
- 151: Beaumont and Fletcher constantly delight
- 152: Such as the Megra of Philaster
- 153: Grant a continuance of it I forgive thee
- 154: I am at peace Hadst thou been thus
- 155: Our authors have no superior in half farcical
- 156: Being full of touches not wholly unworthy of Shakespere
- 157: Which chiefly proves that it is wise to let Shakespere alone
- 158: That he collaborated in other plays
- 159: All the dramatists from Shakespere downwards do that
- 160: And inferior only to Iago in their class
- 161: The Witch is hardly interesting
- 162: Inferior only to The Changeling in parts
- 163: And others in The Duchess of Malfi
- 164: Vittoria is perfect throughout
- 165: The skull and earth are vanished
- 166: And the remarkable character of Bosola
- 167: That it is impossible not to rank Heywood very high
- 168: And their clumsy dramatisation of Ovid's Metamorphoses
- 169: The Atheist's Tragedy and The Revenger's Tragedy
- 170: Sorrow is even such birdlime at my heart
- 171: Du Bartas is one of the grandest
- 172: Who must have been born at about the same time as Sylvester
- 173: Since thou resemblest every way Astraea
- 174: This is still far below the Spenserian stanza
- 175: Directly and as handing on the tradition of Spenser
- 176: Lest his many cherries should distaste
- 177: Browne has been compared to Keats
- 178: And in 1622 Philarete itself
- 179: We may as well give the Alresford Pool above noted
- 180: His father was Sir John Drummond
- 181: Drummond intersperses his quatorzains with madrigals
- 182: What heavens would have thee to
- 183: As far as Shakespere is concerned
- 184: Except Hobbes who belonged by birth
- 185: Long treated with excessive rigour
- 186: L'Allegro and Il Penseroso date not before
- 187: Although Milton is always Milton
- 188: Shakespere himself might hardly have been greater
- 189: Others have been as scurrilous
- 190: And that is that Milton's prose is essentially inimitable
- 191: Punctuating and dividing by cadence
- 192: Try the verse paragraph system
- 193: And the funeral sermon on Lady Carbery
- 194: Though a corruptor of the greatest genius
- 195: The Prayers of Anger and of Lust
- 196: And seems to have had no complaint to make of his stepfather
- 197: Browne had written the Religio Medici
- 198: Consisting of the Religio Medici
- 199: Wherein for the most part all appeareth white
- 200: Browne Latinises somewhat more than Jeremy Taylor
- 201: Clarendon is a very striking example of the hackneyed remark
- 202: Clarendon is at his best an incomparable narrator
- 203: Clarendon may seem tame and jejune
- 204: No one has linked clause on clause
- 205: Hobbes never pays himself with words
- 206: Together with their hopes
- 207: In whose Timber there are resemblances to Hobbes
- 208: And at the head of them all stands Robert Herrick
- 209: The secular vigour of the Hesperides
- 210: I do not think that any one who judges poetry as poetry
- 211: Carew lacks the dewy freshness
- 212: Then curse thine own inconstancy
- 213: Crashaw is religious everywhere
- 214: Crashaw was educated at Charterhouse
- 215: Crashaw is never quite so great as there
- 216: It certainly is not in Crashaw
- 217: If we except Lovelace and Suckling
- 218: And than Vaughan by more than forty years
- 219: Lovelace and Suckling are inextricably connected together
- 220: A mere list of his work the Enchiridion is in prose
- 221: Deserves to be mentioned William Habington
- 222: It may be represented here by the work of Chalkhill
- 223: The Theophila of Edward Benlowes 1603
- 224: Will think lightly of Cartwright
- 225: Of Godolphin's lyrics are of great beauty
- 226: Doth make the earth to fructify
- 227: And of course wilfully audacious expression of the style
- 228: And Il Penseroso charming poetry
- 229: They are said to be decadence
- 230: 61 61 Since this book first appeared
- 231: Being the son of Arthur Massinger
- 232: The debate between father and son may be given Malef
- 233: To thee they should appear triumphal robes
- 234: After allowing so many faults in Massinger
- 235: And he is frequently found collaborating with Dekker
- 236: Shakespere had no need of the haut gout of incest
- 237: Pierces the vein with his dagger
- 238: And whose brains would assuredly have been knocked out
- 239: Penthea and Calantha are wholly artificial
- 240: Shirley has a right to his place
- 241: Shirley indeed was much acted after the Restoration
- 242: Was a much younger man than Shirley
- 243: Than the pretty pastoral of Amyntas
- 244: The Obstinate Lady is an echo of Fletcher and Massinger
- 245: Henry Glapthorne as a writer is certainly not great
- 246: In the case of all but Marston
- 247: The tragedy of Brennoralt has some pathos
- 248: Who issued the works of Thomas Nabbes and of Davenport
- 249: Has nothing specially Shakesperian about it
- 250: Of which the Shakespere passages are only the chief
- 251: And the rectory of Segrave in Leicestershire
- 252: It is not scholastically divided
- 253: The zest of his own quaint habit of adding
- 254: Honour thee more that thou art a writer
- 255: Though more copious than that of the author of The Anatomy
- 256: A man of genius who adored Fuller
- 257: As to decern in so dark a place bemoan her condition
- 258: For all its coxcombry and its insistence on petty details
- 259: Another writer contemporary with Walton
- 260: Felltham wrote early in the seventeenth century
- 261: Because they have had forerunners whom
- 262: An inexhaustible supply of models
- 263: Except Marot and Rabelais neither of whom was neglected
- 264: Not to mention the classical tongues
- 265: And translations into the vernacular were
- 266: Helped to popularise the pamphlet
- 267: The romantic drame of Fletcher
- 268: Only the two dramatists already mentioned
- 269: The extraordinary influence of Plato
- 270: Of flashes of beauty in prose and verse
- 271: Lyrics from Elizabethan Song books
- 272: Also in Chalmers's British Poets
- 273: In Grosart's Occasional Issues
- 274: In Grosart's Occasional Issues
- 275: Printed for private circulation
- 276: Authorised and Revised versions
- 277: A Discussion of the Merits and Defects of
- 278: A History of Elizabethan Literature by Saintsbury
- 279: Its Authorship and Composition
- 280: Weakness of the Early Elizabethans in