THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE

An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes

Volume IV: English PROSE AND POETRY SIR THOMAS NORTH TO MICHAEL DRAYTON

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

Chapter I.	Translators
	By CHARLES WHIBLEY, Jesus College The Craft of Translation Translations of the Classics Painter and 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 Chapman’s Homer Sylvester, Fairfax, Harington The Charge of Plagiarism BIBLIOGRAPHY

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 BIBLIOGRAPHY

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 BIBLIOGRAPHY

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 BIBLIOGRAPHY

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 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 BIBLIOGRAPHY

VI.	The Song-Books and Miscellanies
	By HAROLD H. CHILD, sometime Scholar of Brasenose College, Oxford Music and Poetry William Byrd; Musical Composers Lyric Poetry in the Drama The Phoenix Nest; Nicholas Breton; Thomas Lodge England’s Helicon; “Ignoto” Anthony Munday John Wotton; Richard Barnfield Pastoral Poems A Poetical Rapsody; Francis Davison; “A.W.”; Sir Edward Dyer BIBLIOGRAPHY

VII.	Robert Southwell. Samuel Daniel
	By HAROLD H. CHILD Robert Southwell John Davies of Hereford Abraham Fraunce Samuel Daniel Delia; The Complaynt of Rosamond; Musophilus Warner’s Albion’s England Daniel’s Civil Wars His Diction BIBLIOGRAPHY

VIII.	Thomas Campion
	By S. PERCIVAL VIVIAN, sometime Scholar of St. John’s College, Oxford His Life His Works His Prosody BIBLIOGRAPHY

IX.	The Successors of Spenser
	By HUGH DE SÉLINCOURT, University College, Oxford Drummond of Hawthornden George Wither William Browne Fulke Greville Sir John Davies Sir Henry Wotton Giles and Phineas Fletcher BIBLIOGRAPHY

X.	Michael Drayton
	By HAROLD H. CHILD Drayton’s Boyhood The Harmonie of the Church Idea The Identity of “Idea” Legends Ideas Mirrour Endimion and Phœbe Mortimeriados Englands Heroicall Epistles His Satires and Odes Poly-Olbion Nimphidia The Muses Elizium His “divine” poems His Achievement BIBLIOGRAPHY

XI.	John Donne
	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 BIBLIOGRAPHY

XII.	The English Pulpit from Fisher to Donne
	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 devotional literature Puritan exaltation of the Sermon Andrewes and Donne compared BIBLIOGRAPHY

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 BIBLIOGRAPHY

XIV.	The Beginnings of English Philosophy
	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 Scholasticism 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 Interpretation of Nature and the New Method The Value of the Method Herbert of Cherbury BIBLIOGRAPHY

XV.	Early Writings on Politics and Economics
	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 Institutions English Constitutionalism Medieval Works on Estates Management Descriptions of the Realm Prescriptions for improving 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 BIBLIOGRAPHY

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 Pamphlets Nashe Rise of Formal Satire Joseph Hall: Virgidemiarum Marston’s Satires “Humours” Epigrams and Character Sketch Theophrastus Hall’s Characters 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 Jonson’s Timber Tobacco-pamphlets Discoverie of the Knights of the Poste Thomas Dekker Grobianism Samuel Rowlands Burlesques Jest Books Wagering Journeys Pimlyco Broadsides and Street Ballads BIBLIOGRAPHY

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 BIBLIOGRAPHY

XVIII.	The Book-Trade, 1557–1625
	By H. G. ALDIS The Incorporation of the Stationers’ Company Star Chamber Decrees; The Stationers’ Registers Censors Trade Discipline Printing Monopolies Apprentices The Beginnings of a Business Compilers, “Readers” and Translators Ballad Writers Patrons 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 BIBLIOGRAPHY

XIX.	The Foundation of Libraries
	By J. BASS MULLINGER, M.A., Formerly Librarian of St. John’s College A retrospect Monastic libraries Cathedral libraries Cambridge College libraries Oxford College libraries Thomas Bodley Cambridge University Library The Chetham Library, Manchester Sion College, London Trinity College, Dublin Drummond’s books, Edinburgh BIBLIOGRAPHY

THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE

An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes

Volume IV: English PROSE AND POETRY SIR THOMAS NORTH TO MICHAEL DRAYTON

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