Chapter I. |
Dryden |
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By A. W. WARD, Litt.D., P.B.A., Master of Peterhouse
- Dryden and his Age
- His Parentage and Education
- Heroick Stanzas on Cromwell
- Astraea Redux and other Panegyrics
- Annus Mirabilis
- Dryden’s Productivity as a Dramatist
- Influence of French Tragicomedy and Romance
- The Wild Gallant and other Comedies: The Spanish Fryar
- The Heroic Couplet in Drama
- Dryden and the Heroic Play: The Conquest of Granada
- The Satire of The Rehearsal
- Essay Of Heroick Plays
- Aureng-Zebe
- Dryden’s Adaptation of Shakespearean Plays and Themes
- The Grounds of Criticism in Tragedy
- His Later Plays: Don Sebastian and Cleomenes
- Dryden’s Work as a Dramatist
- Prologues and Epilogues
- Dryden Poet Laureate
- The “Rose-alley ambuscade”
- Political Satire: Absalom and Achitophel, Part I
- The Medal
- Mac Flecknoe
- Absalom and Achitophel, Part II
- Didactic Poetry: Religio Laici
- Death of Charles II and Accession of James II: Threnodia Augustalis and Britannia Rediviva
- Conversion to the Church of Rome
- The Hind and the Panther
- Various Later Work in Verse and Prose: Miscellanies
- Translations: Fables Ancient and Modern
- Preface to the Fables
- Odes, Songs and Hymns
- Dryden’s Enemies and Younger Literary Friends
- His Great Qualities as a Writer of Verse and Prose
- His Excellence in Various Literary Species
- His Originality that of Treatment
- The Eminence of his Genius
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Samuel Butler |
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By WILLIAM FRANCIS SMITH, M.A., Fellow of St. John’s College
- Ancient and Modern Satire
- Influence of Le Roman de la Rose, The Ship of Fools, Erasmus and Rabelais
- Butler’s Life before and after the Restoration
- Butler in the Employ of Sir Samuel Luke and the Earl of Carbery
- Penury of his Later Days
- His Learning in Letters and Law
- Imitations of his Prose and Verse: The Posthumous Works
- Contents of The Genuine Remains: Characters
- Hudibras and its Models
- Course of Part I
- Course of Part II
- Difference of Treatment in Part III
- The Methods in the Composition of the Work
- Metre of Hudibras
- Main Purpose of the Satire
- Butler’s Gifts and Powers
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Political and Ecclesiastical Satire |
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By C. W. PREVITÉ-ORTON, M.A., Fellow of St. John’s College
- Causes of the New Development of Satirical Literature on Political Subjects in the Period following the Restoration
- Denham and Marvell
- The Popish Plot Panic: Oldham
- His Satyrs Upon the Jesuits
- His Powers and Influence as a Satirist
- Lesser Satires of this and the Following Period: Poems on Affairs of State
- Advices to a Painter
- The Ghost and Last Will Motives
- Dialogues
- Ballads
- Litanies
- D’Urfey
- Lilliburlero
- Prose Satires: The Rehearsal Transpros’d
- Satirical Narratives and Dialogues
- Low Literary Quality of these Satires as a Whole
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The Early Quakers |
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By EDWARD GRUBB, M.A.
- George Fox and the Rise of the Quaker Movement in England
- The Purpose of Early Quaker Writings not Literary
- George Fox’s Journal
- Thomas Ellwood’s History of his Life
- Other Quaker Journals and Memoirs
- William Penn, and his No Cross No Crown
- Isaac and Mary Penington
- James Nayler
- Early Attacks upon the Quakers, and their Replies
- Samuel Fisher
- Barclay’s Apology
- More purely Literary Efforts: Penn’s Some Fruits of Solitude
- Ellwood’s Collection of Poems on Various Subjects
- Mary Mollineux’s Fruits of Retirement
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The Restoration Drama, I |
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By Professor FELIX E. SCHELLING, University of Pennsylvania
- Players and Plays after the Closing of the Theatres
- Drolls
- Relaxation of the Laws against Dramatic Entertainments towards the Close of Oliver Cromwell’s Protectorate; Sir William D’Avenant’s Entertainments: The Siege of Rhodes
- Dramatic Companies Formed immediately before the Restoration
- The King’s and the Duke of York’s Companies “Created” after it
- Thomas Killigrew’s and Sir William D’Avenant’s Later Plays
- Old Masterpieces Revived
- Comedies reflecting the Political Reaction: The Rump and Cutter of Coleman Street
- Tatham
- John Wilson
- Stapylton
- The Duke of Newcastle
- Early Spanish Influences in English Drama
- Spanish Personages in English Plays
- The Indebtedness of Beaumont and Fletcher, and of other Dramatists, before and after the Restoration, to Spanish Novels, and to Spanish Plays, Examined and Summarised
- Influence of French Literature on the Restoration Drama
- Molière and Restoration Comedy
- Influence of French Opera
- Etherege and his Place in the History of Restoration Drama
- Sir Charles Sedley
- Lacy
- Aphra Behn
- Wycherley
- The Plain Dealer
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The Restoration Drama, II.
CONGREVE, VANBRUGH, FARQUHAR, ETC. |
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By CHARLES WHIBLEY, Jesus College
- Congreve
- The Old Bachelor
- The Double-Dealer
- Love for Love
- The Mourning Bride
- The Way of the World
- Congreve and the Comedy of Manners
- His Comic Art
- His Diction
- His Friends and Way of Life
- Vanbrugh’s Life and Character
- The Relapse
- The Provok’d Wife
- The Confederacy
- Vanbrugh and Perrault
- Earlier Attacks in this Period on the Stage: Rymer’s Short View of Tragedy
- Jeremy Collier’s Short View
- Its Invective and its Fallacies
- Replies to Collier by Vanbrugh, Farquhar, Dryden, D’Urfey and Dennis
- Farquhar as a Comic Dramatist
- Love and a Bottle; The Constant Couple; The Recruiting Officer; the Beaux’ Stratagem
- Shadwell
- D’Urfey
- Colley Cibber’s Earlier Plays
- His Apology for his Life
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The Restoration Drama, III.
TRAGIC POETS |
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By A. T. BARTHOLOMEW, M. A., Peterhouse, and of the University Library
- Characteristics of Lesser Restoration Tragedy
- Public Interest in Acting
- The Operatic Element
- The Heroic Play
- French Influence on Restoration Tragedy
- Translations of Corneille
- Influence of Racine
- Revived Influence of Earlier English Work
- Otway and his Career as a Dramatist
- The Orphan and Venice Preserv’d
- Their Enduring Popularity
- Nathaniel Lee
- Characteristics of his Plays
- The Rival Queens
- Crowne
- Sir Courtly Nice
- His Tragedies
- Southerne
- The Fatal Marriage and Oroonoko
- Settle
- Dennis
- Banks
- Hughes
- Lansdowne
- Ravenscroft
- Nicholas Rowe as a Link between the Later Restoration Drama and that of the Augustan Age
- The Fair Penitent
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The Court Poets |
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By CHARLES WHIBLEY
- The Lives and Writings of the Court Poets as a Protest against the Puritan Domination
- The Circle of Whitehall
- The Pranks of the Wits
- The Court Poets as Men of Action: Rochester, Buckhurst and Mulgrave
- The Mark of the Amateur on their Writings
- Dryden’s Flattery of them
- Rochester’s Life and Character
- His Quarrel with Mulgrave and Dryden
- Rochester as a Satirist: The Satire against Mankind
- Sir Charles Sedley
- His Songs
- Buckhurst: To all you Ladies now at Land
- Mulgrave’s Essay upon Poetry
- Roscommon’s Essay on Translated Verse
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The Prosody of the Seventeenth Century |
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By GEORGE SAINTSBURY, M.A., F.B.A., LL.D., D.Litt., Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature in the University of Edinburgh
- The Spenserian Era of English Versification
- Loss of Elasticity and Diversity
- Variations of the Iambic Line
- Insufficient Understanding as to Equivalence in Feet
- Decline of Blank Verse; the Redundant Syllable and other Means of Varying the Measure
- “The Battle of the Couplets”: Waller and Cowley
- Miscellaneous Metric: Jonson and Others
- Milton’s Metrical Development
- The Anapaest as the Chief Base-foot of Metre
- The Octosyllabic Couplet
- The “Pindaric” of Cowley and his Followers
- Dryden and the Heroic Couplet
- Perceptive Prosody: Jonson and Dryden
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Memoir and Letter Writers |
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By HENRY B. WHEATLEY, F.S.A.
- EVELYN AND PEPYS
- Diaries of Evelyn and Pepys Published as Written
- Narcissus Luttrell’s Brief Historical Relation of State Affairs
- Evelyn’s and Pepys’s Diaries Compared
- Evelyn’s Father, Younger Days, Travels and Marriage
- His Later Life and Activities
- Evelyn and the Royal Society
- His Love of Planting: Sylva
- His Public Services
- His Life of Mrs. Godolphin
- Pepys’s Early Life and Marriage
- Pepys on the Naseby
- His Service in the Navy Office
- His Blindness and the Closing of the Diary
- Pepys and the Popish Plot
- His Later Years
- Character and Charm of the Diary
- OTHER WRITERS OF MEMOIRS AND LETTERS
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- Anthony Hamilton’s Mémoires de la Vie du Comte de Gramont
- Question of the trustworthiness of these Memoirs
- The writer and his work
- Memoirs of Sir John Reresby
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By A. W. WARD, Litt.D.
- Letters and Memoirs of Sir Richard Bulstrode
- Diary of Henry Sidney (Earl of Romney)
- Diary of Lady Warwick
- Her Occasional Meditations
- Memoirs of Lady Fanshawe
- Letters of Rachel Lady Russell
- Memoirs of Queen Mary II
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Platonists and Latitudinarians |
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By J. BASS MULLINGER, M.A., formerly librarian of St. John’s College
- Distinction between the Cambridge Platonists and the Latitudinarians
- Benjamin Whichcote
- His Position as Defined by Himself
- His Aphorisms and Sermons
- Whichcote not a Platonist
- Henry More
- His Life and Habits
- Cudworth and his Treatise concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality
- More’s Song of the Soul
- Joseph Beaumont’s Psyche
- More’s Immortality of the Soul, Grand Mystery of Godliness and Mystery of Iniquity
- His Divine Dialogues
- Cudworth’s True Intellectual Systems of the Universe; More and Cudworth Compared
- John Smith’s Select Discourses
- John Smith and Henry More Contrasted
- Culverwel’s Light of Nature
- George Rust (Bishop of Dromore)
- Glanvill’s Lux Orientalis
- His Controversy with Henry Stubbs
- Richard Cumberland (Bishop of Peterborough) and other Contributors to the Latitudinarian Movement
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Divines of the Church of England
1660–1700 |
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By the Ven. W. H. HUTTON, B.D., Archdeacon of Northampton, Canon of Peterborough and Fellow of St. John’s College, Oxford
- Old and New Influences on the Style of the English Pulpit in the Period Following the Restoration
- Gradual Transition
- Herbert Thorndike, John Cosin and George Morley
- Isaac Barrow: his Sermons and his Treatise On the Pope’s Supremacy
- Pearson’s Exposition of the Creed
- John Wilkins as a Link with the Later Generation
- Robert Leighton and his Preaching
- Burnet as a Theologian
- His Exposition of the Thirty-Nine Articles and Pastoral Care
- Stillingfleet and Patrick
- Fashionable Preachers of the Age
- Extempore Preaching begins to be Popular
- Tillotson
- South and the Controversial Style
- Sherlock
- Samuel Parker’s Discourse of Ecclesiastical Polity
- Henry Compton’s Episcopalia
- George Bull
- Sancroft’s Fur Praedestinatus
- Henry Wharton
- Non-jurors: Ken, Kettlewell, Dodwell and Hickes
- Robert Nelson’s Companion for the Festivals and Fasts
- Influence of Foreign, and especially of French, Culture upon English Divines
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Legal Literature |
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By F. J. C. HEARNSHAW, M.A., LL.D., formerly scholar of Peterhouse, Professor of Modern History in Armstrong College, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, University of Durham
- The Beginnings of English Legal Literature
- The Laws of Ethelbert of Kent and other Early Kings
- The Era of the Capitularies
- Complications Introduced by the Norman Conquest
- English Common Law in the Twelfth Century
- New Type of Legal Writings: Tractatus de Legibus et Consuetudinibus R. Angliae, called by the Name of Ranulf de Glanvil
- Bracton’s Treatise Bearing the Same Title
- Fleta and Britton
- The Year Books and their Value
- Fortescue’s De Laudibus Legum Angliae and Littleton’s Tenures
- Early Printed Law Books
- Law Reports
- Equity and Common Law: Bacon and Cowell; Coke
- Selden and his Legal Works
- English as the Language of the Law
- Sir Matthew Hale
- Revival of the Common Law, and of the Use of Latin and French
- Sir William Dugdale and William Prynne
- Hobbes and the Advent of a New Era
- SELDEN’S Table-Talk
By A. W. WARD, Litt.D.
- Predecessors of Selden’s Table-Talk
- Authenticity of the Book
- Scanty References to Personal Experiences
- Chief Political and Religious Topics
- Selden’s Wit and Wisdom
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John Locke |
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By W. R. SORLEY, Litt.D., F.B.A., Fellow of King’s College, Knightbridge Professor of Moral Philosophy
- Locke the Most Important Figure in English Philosophy
- His Personal and Literary Life
- Controversy with Stillingfleet
- The “New Way of Ideas” Opened by Locke
- Plan of An Essay concerning Human Understanding
- Locke’s Doctrine of Knowledge
- Its Nature and Extent
- “The Twilight of Probability.” Two Treatises of Government
- Economic Writings
- Economists Contemporary with Locke: Sir William Petty
- Letters concerning Toleration
- Earlier Pleas
- Locke’s Views on Church and State
- Thoughts concerning Education; Locke’s Theory
- His Critics and Followers
- Richard Burthogge
- John Norris and his Ideal World
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The Progress of Science |
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By A. E. SHIPLEY, Sc.D., F.R.S., Master of Christ’s College
- Lateness of the Scientific Reawakening
- Outburst of Scientific Enquiry in the Seventeenth Century and its Causes
- The Heritage of Bacon
- Milton and Scientific Enquiry
- Lord Herbert of Cherbury
- His Knowledge of Medicine and Allied Subjects
- Evelyn and Pepys
- Witches, Astrologers and Alchemists
- Intelligence of the Stewarts in Matters Scientific: Charles II and Prince Rupert
- The Marquis of Worcester
- Sir Kenelm Digby
- Mathematics: John Wallis and Seth Ward; Newton
- Harvey and the Circulation of the Blood
- Other Great Physiologists and Physicians: Sir Theodore de Mayerne; John Mayow; Thomas Sydenham; Francis Glisson
- Robert Boyle
- Origin and Beginnings of the Royal Society
- Contemporary Poets and Scientific Research: Cowley, Donne, Butler
- Political Economists of the Seventeenth Century: Sir William Petty and Locke
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The Essay and the Beginning of Modern English Prose |
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By A. A. TILLEY, M.A., Fellow of King’s College
- The New Prose and its Causes
- Interest in Science and Demand for Clearness of Style
- Growing Plainness and Simplicity of Pulpit Oratory
- The Style of Dryden and its Conversational Character
- Early Beginnings of French Influence on English Literature; its Increase under Charles I; English Exiles in France: D’Avenant, Cowley and Others
- French Influence through Translations; Heroic Romances
- Urquhart’s Rabelais; Pascal; Descartes; Corneille, Racine and Molière
- Boileau
- Influence of French Criticism: Chapelain, Le Bossu and Dacier
- Evidence of Dryden, Rapin and Rymer
- Saint-Evremond and the Renewal of the Popularity of Montaigne in England
- Francis Osborne
- Cowley’s Essays
- Sir William Temple, Dorothy Osborne and Lady Giffard
- Temple’s Letters and Memoirs
- His Miscellaneous Works: Essays
- Influence of Montaigne
- Halifax’s Miscellanies: The Character of a Trimmer; A Letter to a Dissenter
- Clarendon’s Essays
- Dryden’s Influence on English Style; the Preface to the Fables
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