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WTRODUCTION To zw: LITERATURE OF EUROPE, VOL, NI. Lonpon : 7d by A. Srorriswoonrr, Jew-Street-Square. CONTENTS. CHAP. V. HISTORY OF POETRY From 1600 To 1650. Low Estimation of the Seicentisti - - Not quite so great as formerly - - Praise of them by Rubbi - - - Also by Salfi - - - - - Adone of Marini - - - - Tts Character - - - - - And Popularity - - - - Secchia Rapita of Tassoni - . - Chiabrera - - - - - His Followers - - - - The Styles of Spanish Poetry - - - The Romances - - - . The Brothers Argensola - - - Villegas - - - - “ Quevedo - - - - Defects of Taste in Spanish Verse - - Pedantry and far-fetched Allusions - - Gongora - - . - The Schools formed by ‘him - - Malherbe - - - - - Criticisms upon his Poetry - - - Satires of Regnier - - - - Racan. —Maynard - - “ . Voiture - - - Sarrasin : - - - - Low State of German Literature : : Literary Societies - - - - Opitz . : - : oo. His Followers - - : - Dutch Poetry .c . : - . Spiegel - - - - . Hooft-Cats-Vondel - - - : Danish Poetry - : - - English Poets numerous in this Age - - Phineas Fletcher - - - - Giles Fletcher - - - - aM xvi CONTENTS. Philosophical Poetry - - Lord Brooke - - - Denham's Cooper's Hill - - Poets called Metaphysical - - Donne - - - Crashaw - - - - Cowley - - - - Johnson's Character of him - - Narrative Poets. — Daniel - - Drayton’s Polyolbion - - - Browne’s Britannia’s Pastorals - - Sir John Beaumont - - - Davenant’s Gondibert = - - - Sonnets of Shakspeare - - The Person whom they address - - Sonnets of Drummond and others - Carew - - - . Ben Jonson - : - Wither - - - - - Habington - - - - Earl of Pembroke - - Suckling : : - - Lovelace - - - : Herrick - - - - Milton - - - - His Comus - - - Lycidas : . - Allegro and Penscroso - - Ode on the Nativity - - Hie Sonnets - - - - Anonymvus Poctry - - - Latin Poets of France - - In Germany and Italy - - In Holland. — Heinsius : - Casimir Sarbievius - - - Barleus - - . Balde.—.Greek Poems of Heinsius - Latin Poets of Scotland.—Jonston’s Psalms Owen's Epigrams - - - Alabaster’s Roxana - - May's Supplement to Lucan - - Milton’s Latin Poems - - CONTENTS. xvii CHAP. VI. HISTORY OF DRAMATIC LITERATURE FROM 1600 ro 1650. Page Decline of the Italian Theatre - : . + 527 Filli di Sciro - - - - - - 529 Translations of Spauish Dramas = - - - + 530 Extemporancous Comedy - - - - 531 Spanish Stage - - - - 532 Calderon: Number of his Pieces - ° - 532 His Comedies - - - - ~ 583 La Vidaes Sueno - - - - = 584 A Sccreto agravio seercta venganca. - - - 537 Style of Calderon - - - - - 538 His Merits sometimes over-rated - - - 589 Plays of Hardy - - - - - 5A The Cid - - - - - = 544 Style of Corncille - : - - - 545 Les Horaces - - - - - 547 Cinna - - - - - - 548 Polyeucte - - . - - - 549 Rodogune - - - - - - 550 Pompey = - - - - - + = 55L Heraclius —- - - - + + 551 Nicoméde - - - - - 552 Faults and Beauties of Corneille - - - - 552 Le Menteur - - - - - 558 Other French Tragedies . - - - 558 Wenceslas of Rotrou - - - + 554 Popularity of the Stage under Elizabeth - - 555 Number of Theatres - : - - - 556 Encouraged by James - : . - 556 General Taste for the Stage - - - - 557 Theatres closed by the Parliament - - - 559 Shakspeare’s Twelfth Night - - - - 560 Merry Wives of Windsor - - - - 56L Measure for Measure : - - ~ 564 Lear - - - - - - 566 Timon of Athens - - - - 567 Pericles - : . - - - 569 VOL. II. a Xvi CONTENTS. His Roman Tragedies: Julius Caesar Antony and Cleopatra = - - Coriolanus - - - His Retirement and Death - Greatness of his Genius - His Judgment . . His Obscurity - - - His Popularity - - - Critics on Shakspeare : Ben Jonson - - - The Alchemist - - Volpone, or The Fox - The Silent Woman - : Sad Shepherd - - - Beaumont and Fletcher - Corrupt State of their Text - The Maid’s Tragedy - - Philaster - - - King and No King - - The Elder Brother - - The Spanish Curate - - TierCustom of the Country - The Loyal Subject - - Beggar's Bush - - The Scornful Lady - : Valentinian - - The Two Noble Kinsmen - The Faithful Shepherdess - Rule a Wife, and have a Wife - Some other Plays - - Origin of Fletcher's Plays : Defects of their Plots - Their Sentiments and Style dramatic Their Characters - : Their Tragedies - : Inferior to their Comedies - Their Female Characters - Massinger: Nature of his Dramas His Delineations of Character - His Subjects - - Beauty of his Style - - CONTENTS. Hiferiority of his comic Powers - : Some of his Tragedies particularized - And of his other Plays : - - Ford - - - - Shirley - - : . [Heywood - . - Webster - - - - - His Duchess of Malfy - - - Vittoria Corombona - . - CHAP. VIL UISTORY OF POLITE LITERATURE IN PROSE FROM 1650. Decline of Taste in Italy - - Style of Galileo - - - Bentivoglio - - - - - Boccalini’s News from Parnassus - - His Pictra del Paragone - - - Ferrante Pallavicino - - - Dictionary Della Crusca . : - Grammatical Works. Buonmattei-Bartoli - Tassoni’s Remarks on Petrarch - - Galileo’s Remarks on Tasso - - - Sforza Pallavicino - - - - and other critical Writers - Prolusiones of Strada - - - - Spanish Prose. Gracian - - - Freneli Prose. Du Vair - - - Balzac - - - - . Character of his Writings - - His Letters - - - - Voiture-Hotel Rambouillet - - Establishment of French Academy - - Its Objects and Constitution - - It publishes a Critique on the Cid - - Vaugelas’s Remarks on the French Language La Mothe le Vayer - : - Legal Speeches of Patru ; : - 1600 to xix