A History of Elizabethan Literature

· 1933

The starting-point--Tottel's _Miscellany_--Its method and authorship--The characteristics of its poetry--Wyatt--Surrey--Grimald--Their metres --The stuff of their poems--_The Mirror for Magistrates_--Sackville --His contributions and their characteristics--Remarks on the formal criticism of poetry--Gascoigne--Churchyard--Tusser--Turberville-- Googe--The translators--Classical metres--Stanyhurst--Other miscellanies Pages 1-27 Outlines of Early Elizabethan Prose--Its origins--Cheke and his contemporaries--Ascham--His style--Miscellaneous writers--Critics-- Webbe--Puttenham--Lyly--_Euphues_ and Euphuism--Sidney--His style and critical principles--Hooker--Greville--Knolles--Mulcaster 28-49…

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