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CONTENTS.
Introductory—George Chapman—Ben Jonson—His theory of comedy—Earlier comedies—Tragedies—Mature comedies—Last plays—Masques—Sad Shepherd—Achievement—Marston—Dekker—Middleton—Heywood—Webster—His two tragedies—Tourneur—Beaumont and Fletcher—Last phase of Elizabethan drama—Sentimental tragedy and romance—Comedy of incident and manners—Massinger—Ford—Shirley—Lesser dramatists—Conclusion |
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Introductory—George Chapman—The younger Spenserians—Protestant and bourgeois—The Fletchers—Browne and Wither—Quarles, More, Beaumont, &c.—Drummond and Sir John Beaumont—Donne and Jonson—Characteristics and influence—Caroline courtly poetry, religious and secular—Herbert, Vaughan, Crashaw, and Traherne—Carew, Lovelace, Suckling, Herrick—Andrew Marvell—Milton's life and early poems—Poetry of the Commonwealth—Waller and Denham—Davenant and Chamberlayne—Cowley—Milton's later poems—Paradise Lost—Paradise Regained—Samson Agonistes—Conclusion |
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"An immoderate hydroptic thirst of learning." Bacon—Jonson. Divines—Anglo-Catholic: Andrewes—Donne—Jeremy Taylor; Puritan: Adams; Latitudinarian: Hales—Chillingworth. Controversialists: Hall—Taylor—Milton. "Characters": Hall—Overbury—Earle. Burton—Drummond—Browne—Urquhart—Fuller. Philosophy: Hobbes. History: Clarendon. Biography: Walton |
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