THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE

An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes

Volume III: English RENASCENCE AND REFORMATION

Edited by A. W. Ward & A. R. Waller

Chapter I.	Englishmen and the Classical Renascence
	By the Rev. T. M. LINDSAY, D.D., Principal of the Glasgow College of the United Free Church of Scotland The birth of the classical renascence Erasmus His first visit to England Thomas Linacre William Grocyn English students at Paris John Colet William Lily John Fisher Sir Thomas More The spread of the classical renascence Sir Thomas Elyot Thomas Wilson BIBLIOGRAPHY

II.	Reformation Literature in England
	By the Rev. J. P. WHITNEY, B.D., King’s College, Cambridge; Professor of Ecclesiastical History, King’s College, London Simon Fish Erasmus and Cambridge Aspects of the reformation The Book of Common Prayer Evolution of the prayer-book Thomas Cranmer His influence The Homilies Hugh Latimer His sermons William Tindale The Bible in English Miles Coverdale The Great Bible The Scots New Testament Hymns Sternhold and Hopkins Results of the reformation period BIBLIOGRAPHY

III.	The Dissolution of the Religious Houses
	By the Rev. R. H. BENSON, M.A., Trinity College Destruction of books and of opportunities for study Decrease of scholarship New methods of thought New channels of intercourse Antiquarian study BIBLIOGRAPHY

IV.	Barclay and Skelton EARLY GERMAN IINFLUENCES ON ENGLISH LITERATURE
	By ARTHUR KOELBING, Ph.D., Freiburg im Breisgau Alexander Barclay Sebastian Brant’s Narrenschiff Barclay’s additions to Brant The influence of The Ship of Fools Barclay’s Eclogues John Skelton Phyllyp Sparowe The Bowge of Courte Colyn Clout Speke, Parrot Why come ye nat to courte? Magnyfycence Characteristics of Skelton German influence on English literature English protestant dialogues Grobianus BIBLIOGRAPHY

V.	The Progress of Social Literature in Tudor Times
	By HAROLD V. ROUTH, M.A., Peterhouse, Professor of Latin in Trinity College, Toronto Cocke Lorell’s bote Mock testaments Fraternities, orders and dances of death The boke of Mayd Emlyn Widow Edith Satires and disquisitions on women The Schole-house of women The Proude Wyves Paternoster Jest-books Transition of society The Complaynt of Roderyck Mors Robert Crowley The Hye Way to the Spyttel Hous Awdeley’s Fraternitye of vacabones Harman’s Caveat Cosmopolitanism Andrew Boorde William Bullein A Dialogue against the Fever Pestilence Superstition in the sixteenth century Scot’s Discoverie of Witchcraft BIBLIOGRAPHY

VI.	Sir David Lyndsay (and the Later Scottish “Makaris”)
	By T. F. HENDERSON The Dreme The Testament and Complaynt of our Soverane Lordis Papyngo Ane Pleasant Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis Minor poets Sir Richard Maitland Alexander Scott Alexander Montgomerie BIBLIOGRAPHY

VII.	Reformation and Renascence in Scotland
	By P. HUME BROWN, M.A., LL.D., Scottish Historiographer Royal; Professor of Ancient (Scottish) History and Palaeography in the University of Edinburgh The reformation in Scotland Patrick Hamilton Alexander Alane Plays The Gude and Godlie Ballatis John Knox Historie of the reformation in Scotland Robert Lindesay of Pitscottie The Diary of Mr. James Melville Historians Political ballads John Major The Complaynt of Scotland Ninian Winzet John Leslie Hector Boece George Buchanan BIBLIOGRAPHY

VIII.	The New English Poetry
	By HAROLD H. CHILD, sometime Scholar of Brasenose College, Oxford Tottel’s Miscellany Sir Thomas Wyatt Wyatt’s sonnets Wyatt’s treatment of love Wyatt’s epigrams, satires and devotional pieces Henry Howard, earl of Surrey “Poulter’s measure” Surrey’s translations from Vergil and blank verse Thomas lord Vaux Nicholas Grimald “Uncertain” authors in Tottel’s Miscellany Thomas Churchyard Thomas Tusser Barnabe Googe George Tubervile Thomas Howell Humfrey Gifford Miscellanies: The Paradyse of Daynty Devises A Gorgious Gallery of Gallant Inventions A Handefull of pleasant delites BIBLIOGRAPHY

IX.	“A Mirror for Magistrates”
	By JOHN W. CUNLIFFE, D.Lit. (London), Professor of English in the University of Wisconsin, U. S. A. The original design Contents of the parts Its popularity and influence Sackville

X.	George Gascoigne
	By JOHN W. CUNLIFFE His life The Posies His later works His achievements BIBLIOGRAPHY

XI.	The Poetry of Spenser
	By W. J. COURTHOPE, C.B., D.Litt., LL.D., New College, Oxford Spenser’s family Gabriel Harvey Platonism in Spenser’s love poems Spenser and Ficino Spenser and Harvey The Shepheards Calender Spenser’s literary obligations to Mantuan, Vergil and Marot Vocabulary of The Shepheards Calender The Faerie Queene Its design Orlando Furioso Allegory in The Faerie Queene The knight in the social organism Spenser as a word-painter and as a metrical musician His Complaints Colin Clout’s Come Home Again The later Hymnes Summary view of Spenser’s genius BIBLIOGRAPHY

XII.	The Elizabethan Sonnet
	By SIDNEY LEE, D.Litt., Oxford The model of construction French influences: Marot, Ronsard, Du Bellay Spenser and his French masters The influence of Petrarch Thomas Watson Sir Philip Sidney’s Astorphel and Stella Spenser’s Amoretti The sonneteering conceit of immorality Constable’s Diana Daniel Lodge Drayton Richard Barnfield Barnabe Barnes Giles Fletcher Sir William Alexander; Drummond of Hawthornden Elizabethan critics of the sonnet The sonnet of compliment BIBLIOGRAPHY

XIII.	Prosody from Chaucer to Spenser
	By GEORGE SAINTSBURY, M.A., Merton College, Oxford, Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature in the University of Edinburgh The prosody of the fourteenth century Piers Plowman The staple of English poetry Chaucer and his successors “Doggerel” The influence of music Wyatt and Surrey Sackville The drama The Shepheards Calender Spenser’s mission BIBLIOGRAPHY

XIV.	Elizabethan Criticism
	By GEORGE SAINTSBURY Caxton’s prefaces Ascham The Spenser and Harvey letters Stanyhurst Gascoigne’s Notes of Instruction Sir Philip Sidney’s Apologie for Poetrie William Webbe’s Discourse of English Poetrie The Arte of English Poesie Sir John Harington The Harvey Nashe controversy Campion Daniel Summary BIBLIOGRAPHY

XV.	Chroniclers and Antiquaries
	By CHARLES WHIBLEY, Jesus College Edward Hall Raphael Holinshed Harrison’s Description of England John Stow John Speed William Camden John Leland Sir Thomas Smith John Foxe The history of King Richard the thirde George Cavendish Sir John Hayward BIBLIOGRAPHY

XVI.	Elizabethan Prose Fiction
	By J. W. H. ATKINS, M.A., Fellow of St. John’s College, Professor of English Language and Literature, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth Earlier native types The influence of translators John Lyly Euphues Euphuism Lyly’s influence Robert Greene Sir Philip Sidney Arcadia Its style and influence Greene’s romances Thomas Lodge Rosalynde Emanuel Ford Nicholas Breton Anthony Munday Greene’s autobiographical and realistic work Thomas Nashe The Unfortunate Traveller Its literary qualities Characteristics of Nashe’s prose Thomas Deloney Thomas of Reading Jack of Newbury The Gentle Craft Delaney’s literary characteristics General summary BIBLIOGRAPHY

XVII.	The Marprelate Controversy
	By J. DOVER WILSON, M.A., Gonville and Caius College, Lector in English in the University of Helsingsfors, Finland The origin of the controversy Penry’s Aequity and Udall’s Diotrephes The story of the press The style and character of the tracts The Epistle and The Epitome The Minerall Conclusions Hay any worke for Cooper? Martin Junior Martin Senior The Protestation The authorship of the tracts The theological reply to Martin The dramatic and literary replies The pamphlets of the Harveys The Harvey Nashe Greene controversy Martin’s literary influence BIBLIOGRAPHY

XVIII.	“Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity”
	By the Rev. F. J. FOAKES-JACKSON, D.D., Fellow and Assistant Tutor of Jesus College The Elizabethan settlement Calvin The Admonition to Parliament The puritan position Richard Hooker The preface to the Polity Varieties of law Hooker’s literary power His place in the reformation The position of his book in literature BIBLIOGRAPHY

XIX.	English Universities, Schools and Scholarship in the Sixteenth Century
	By W. H. WOODWARD, Christ Church, Oxford, sometime Professor of Education in the University of Liverpool Universities under Edward VI and Mary The accession of Elizabeth Civil law at the universities English learning in the sixteenth century Edinburgh University, Trinity College, Dublin, and Gresham College English schools under Elizabeth The school curriculum John Cheke Thomas Wilson The Arte of Rhetorique Roger Ascham Richard Mulcaster Il Cortegiano of Castiglione BIBLIOGRAPHY

XX.	The Language from Chaucer to Shakespeare
	By J. W. H. ATKINS Fifteenth century changes in vocabulary Elizabethan English Growing importance of the vernacular Conservation and reform Classical influence Influence of Romance languages Literary influence on the vocabulary Results of loss of inflections Influences on Elizabethan idiom Elizabethan pronunciation Elizabethan English as a literary medium Its musical resources Elizabethan and modern English BIBLIOGRAPHY

THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE

An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes

Volume III: English RENASCENCE AND REFORMATION

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