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"Come ye heavy states of night, Do my father's spirit right; Soundings baleful let me borrow, Burthening my song with sorrow: Come sorrow, come! Her eyes that sings By thee, are turnèd into springs.
"Come you Virgins of the night That in dirges sad delight, Quire my anthems; I do borrow Gold nor pearl, but sounds of sorrow. Come sorrow, come! Her eyes that sings By thee, are turnèd into springs." |
It does not matter who wrote that—the point is its occurrence in an ordinary collection of songs to music neither better nor worse than many others. When we read such verses as this, or as the still more charming Address to Love given on page 122, there is evident at once the non so che which distinguishes this period. There is a famous story of a good-natured conversation between Scott and Moore in the latter days of Sir Walter, in which the two poets agreed that verse which would have made a fortune in their young days appeared constantly in magazines without being much regarded in their age. No sensible person will mistake the meaning of the apparent praise. It meant that thirty years of remarkable original production and of much study of models had made possible and common a standard of formal merit which was very rare at an earlier time. Now this standard of formal merit undoubtedly did not generally exist in the days of Elizabeth. But what did generally exist was the "wind blowing where it listeth," the presence and the influence of which are least likely to be mistaken or denied by those who are most strenuous in insisting on the importance and the necessity of formal excellence itself. I once undertook for several years the criticism of minor poetry for a literary journal, which gave more room than most to such things, and during the time I think I must have read through or looked over probably not much less than a thousand, certainly not less than five or six hundred volumes. I am speaking with seriousness when I say that nothing like the note of the merely casual pieces quoted or referred to above was to be detected in more than at the outside two or three of these volumes, and that where it seemed to sound faintly some second volume of the same author's almost always came to smother it soon after. There was plenty of quite respectable poetic learning: next to nothing of the poetic spirit. Now in the period dealt with in this volume that spirit is everywhere, and so are its sisters, the spirits of drama and of prose. They may appear in full concentration and lustre, as in Hamlet or The Faërie Queene; or in fitful and intermittent flashes, as in scores and hundreds of sonneteers, pamphleteers, playwrights, madrigalists, preachers. But they are always not far off. In reading other literatures a man may lose little by obeying the advice of those who tell him only to read the best things: in reading Elizabethan literature by obeying he can only disobey that advice, for the best things are everywhere.[69]
[69] In the twenty years which have passed since this book was first published, monographs on most of the points indicated on p. 459 have appeared, both in England and America.
INDEX
I.—BIBLIOGRAPHICAL
Single plays, poems, etc., not mentioned in this Index will be found in the collections referred to under the headings Arber, Bullen, Farmer, Grosart, Hazlitt, Park, Simpson.
Alexander, Sir William. See Stirling.
Arber, E., English Garner, vols. i.-viii., Birmingham and London, 1877-96.
Also new editions in redistributed volumes by Lee, Collins, and others.
Ascham, Roger, Toxophilus. Ed. Arber, London, 1868.
The Schoolmaster. Ed. Arber, London, 1870.
Works. Ed. Giles, 4 vols., London, 1865.
Bacon, Francis, Works of. 3 vols. folio, London, 1753.
Barnabee's Journal. By R. Braithwaite. Ed. Haslewood and Hazlitt, London, 1876.
Barnes, Barnabe, Parthenophil and Parthenophe. In Grosart's Occasional Issues, vol. i.
The Devil's Charter. Ed. M'Kerrow, Louvain.
Barnfield, Richard, Poems. Ed. Arber, Birmingham, 1882.
Basse, William, Poems of. Ed. Bond, London, 1893.
Beaumont, Francis, Poems of. In Chalmers's British Poets, vol. vi.
Beaumont, Sir John, Poems of. In Chalmers's British Poets, vol. vi.
Beaumont, Joseph, Poems of. Ed. Grosart, 2 vols. Privately printed, 1880.
Beaumont and Fletcher, Dramatic Works of. 10 vols., London, 1750.
2 vols., Ed. Darley, London, 1859.
11 vols., Ed. Dyce, London, 1843.
Two new editions in progress now (1907)—one Ed. Bullen, London,
the other Ed. Waller, Cambridge.
Benlowes, Edward, Theophila. In Minor Caroline Poets, vol. i., Oxford, 1905.
Bible. The Holy Bible, Authorised Version, Oxford, 1851.
Revised Version, Oxford, 1885.
Breton, Nicholas, Works of. Ed. Grosart, 2 vols. Privately printed, 1879.
Brome, Alexander, Poems of. In Chalmers's Poets, vol. vi.
Brome, Richard, Plays of. 3 vols., London, 1873.
Brooke, Fulke Greville, Lord, Works of. Ed. Grosart, 4 vols. Privately printed, 1870.
Browne, Sir Thomas, Works of. Ed. Wilkin, 3 vols., London, 1880.
Religio Medici. Ed. Greenhill, London, 1881.
Browne, William, Poems of. In Chalmers's British Poets, vol. vi.
Also 2 vols. Ed. Hazlitt, London, 1868.
Also Ed. Goodwin, 2 vols., London, 1894.
Bullen, A. H., Old Plays, 4 vols., London, 1882-85.
Ditto, New Series, Vols, i. ii. iii., London, 1887-90.
Lyrics from Elizabethan Song-books, 2 vols., 1887-88. Ditto, Romances, 1890. Ditto, Dramatists, 1890.
Speculum Amantis, 1891.
Davison's Poetical Rhapsody, 2 vols., 1891.
England's Helicon. London, 1887.
Arden of Feversham. London, 1887.
Burton, Robert, The Anatomy of Melancholy. 2 vols., London, 1821.
Carey, Patrick. In Minor Caroline Poets, vol. ii., Oxford, 1906.
Carew, Thomas, Poems of. Edinburgh, 1824.
Also in Chalmers's Poets, vol. v.
Also Ed. Hazlitt, London, 1868.
Cartwright, William, Poems of. In Chalmers's Poets, vol. vi.
Chalkhill, John, Thealma and Clearchus. In Minor Caroline Poets, vol. ii.
Chalmers, A., British Poets, 21 vols., London, 1810.
Chamberlayne, William, Pharonnida. In Minor Caroline Poets, vol. i.
Chapman, George, Works of. 3 vols., London, 1875.
Churchyard, T. No complete edition. Some things reprinted by Collier and in Heliconia.
Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of. Works, 1 vol., Oxford, 1843.
Cleveland, John. Contemporary edd. numerous but puzzling and untrustworthy.
A recent one by J. M. Berdan, New York, n.d.
Cokain, Sir Aston, Plays of. Edinburgh, 1874.
Constable, Henry, Diana. In Arber's English Garner, vol. ii.
Corbet, Bishop, Poems of. In Chalmers's Poets, vol. v.
Cotton, Charles, Poems of. In Chalmers's Poets, vol. vi.
Crashaw, Richard, Poems of. Ed. Grosart, 2 vols. Privately printed, 1872.
Also in Chalmers's British Poets, vol. vi.
Also Ed. Waller, Cambridge, 1904.
Daniel, Samuel, Delia. In Arber's English Garner, vol. iii.
Also Works of. In Chalmers's British Poets, vol. iii.
Also Works of. Ed. Grosart, 5 vols. Privately printed, 1885-96.
Davenant, Sir William, Dramatic Works of. 5 vols., Edinburgh, 1872-73.
Poems of. Chalmers's British Poets, vol. iv.
Davies, Sir John, Poems of. In Chalmers's British Poets, vol. v.
Davies, John, of Hereford, Works. Ed. Grosart, 2 vols. Privately printed, 1878.
Day, John, Works of. Ed. Bullen. Privately printed, 1881.
Dekker, Thomas, Dramatic Works of. 4 vols., London, 1873.
Prose Works of. 5 vols. Ed. Grosart. Privately printed, 1884-86.
Donne, John, Poems of. Ed. Grosart, 2 vols. Privately printed, 1872.
Also Ed. Chambers, 2 vols., London, 1896.
Drayton, Michael, Idea. In Arber's English Garner, vol. vi.
Works of. In Chalmers's British Poets, vol. iv.
Drummond, William, Poems of. In Chalmers's British Poets, vol. v.
Also Published for the Maitland Club. Edinburgh, 1832.
Dyer, Sir Edward, Poems of. In Hannah's Courtly Poets.
Early English Dramatists. Ed. Farmer, vols. i.-ix., London, 1905-6.
Eden, Richard, The First Three English Books on America. Ed. Arber, Birmingham, 1885.
Elizabethan Critical Essays. Ed. G. Smith, 2 vols., Oxford, 1904.
Elizabethan Sonnets. Ed. Lee, 2 vols., London, 1904.
Felltham, Owen, Resolves. London, 1820 (but see p. 443).
Fletcher, Giles, Licia. In Grosart's Occasional Issues, vol, ii.
Fletcher, Giles, the younger, Poems of. In Chalmers's British Poets, vol. vi.
Fletcher, Phineas, Poems of. In Chalmers's British Poets, vol. vi.
Ford, John, Works of. Ed. Hartley Coleridge, London, 1859.
Fuller, Thomas, Worthies of England. Ed. Nichols, 2 vols. 4to, London, 1811.
Thoughts in Good Times. London, 1885.
Holy and Profane State. London, 1642.
Church History. London, 1655.
Gascoigne, George, Works of. Ed. Hazlitt, London, 1868.
Also in Chalmers's British Poets, vol. ii.
Gifford, Humphrey, A Posy of Gillyflowers. In Grosart's Occasional Issues, vol. i.
Glapthorne, Henry, Works of. 2 vols., London, 1874.
Godolphin, Sidney, Poems of. In Minor Caroline Poets, vol. ii.
Goff, Thomas, Plays. London, 1656.
Googe, Barnabe, Eclogues, Epitaphs, and Sonnets. Ed. Arber, London, 1871.
Greene, Robert, Dramatic Works of. Ed. Dyce, London, 1883.
Also Ed. Collins, 2 vols., Oxford, 1905.
Also Complete Works of. Ed. Grosart, 13 vols. Privately printed, 1881-86.
Griffin, Bartholomew, Fidessa. In Grosart's Occasional Issues, vol. ii.
Grosart, A. B., Fuller Worthies Library. Chertsey Worthies Library.
Occasional Issues. Privately printed, v.d.
Guilpin, Edward, Skialetheia. In Grosart's Occasional Issues, vol. vi.
Habington, William, Castara. Ed. Arber, London, 1870.
Also in Chalmers's Poets, vol. vi.
Hakluyt, Richard, The Voyages, etc., of the English Nation: Edinburgh.
Also a later edition, Glasgow.
Hales, John, Works of. 3 vols., Glasgow, 1765.
Hall, John, Poems of. In Minor Caroline Poets, vol. ii.
Hall, Joseph, Virgidemiarum, etc. In Grosart's Occasional Issues, vol. ix.
Also in Chalmers's Poets, vol. v.
Hannah, Dr., Poems of Raleigh, Wotton, and other Courtly Poets. Aldine Series, London, 1885.
Harvey, Gabriel, Works. Ed. Grosart, 3 vols. Privately printed, 1884-85.
Hazlitt, W. C., Dodsley's Old Plays, 15 vols., London, 1874-76.
Shakespere's Library. 6 vols., London, 1875.
Herbert, Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Autobiography. Ed. Lee, London, 1886.
Herbert, George, Poems of. Ed. Grosart, London, 1876.
Herrick, Robert, Poems of. Ed. Grosart, 3 vols., London, 1876.
Also Ed. Pollard, 2 vols., London, 1891; and Ed. Saintsbury, 2 vols., London, 1893.
Heywood, Thomas, Dramatic Works of. 6 vols., London, 1874.
Pleasant Dialogues, etc. Ed. Bang, Louvain, 1903.
Hobbes, Thomas, Works. Ed. Molesworth, 16 vols., London, 1839-45.
Hooker, Richard, Ecclesiastical Polity. 3 vols., Oxford, 1820.
Howell, James, Familiar Letters. The Eleventh Edition, London, 1754.
Howell, Thomas, The Arbour of Amity. In Grosart's Occasional Issues, vol. viii.
J. C., Alcilia. In Grosart's Occasional Issues, vol. viii.
Also in Arber's English Garner, vol. iv.
Jonson, Ben, Works of. Ed. Cunningham, 3 vols., London, n.d.
Knolles, Richard, History of the Turks. Third Edition, London, 1621.
Kyd, Thomas, Cornelia. In Hazlitt's Dodsley, vol. v.
Jeronimo, (?) in do. vol. iv.
The Spanish Tragedy, in do. vol. v.
Works. Ed. Boas, Oxford, 1900.
Kynaston, Sir Francis, Poems of. In Minor Caroline Poets, vol, ii.
Lodge, Thomas, Euphues' Golden Legacy in Shakespere's Library, vol. ii., London, 1875.
Lovelace, Richard, Poems of. Ed. Hazlitt, London, 1864.
Lyly, John, Euphues. Ed. Arber, London, 1868.
Dramatic Works. Ed. Fairholt, 2 vols., London, 1858.
Complete Works. Ed. Bond, 3 vols., Oxford, 1902.
Lynch, Diella. In Grosart's Occasional Issues, vol. iv.
Marlowe, Christopher, Works of. Ed. Dyce, London, 1859.
Also Ed. Bullen, 3 vols., London, 1887.
Marmion, Shakerley, Plays of. Edinburgh, 1874.
Cupid and Psyche. In Minor Caroline Poets, vol. ii.
Marprelate, Martin, Tracts by and against. See text.
The Epistle. Ed. Petheram.
Also Ed. Arber, The English Scholars' Library.
Diotrephes, by N. Udall. Ed. Arber.
Demonstration of Discipline, by N. Udall. Ed. Arber.
An Admonition to the People of England, by T. C. Ed. Petheram.
Also Ed. Arber.
Hay any Work for Cooper. Ed. Petheram.
Pap with a Hatchet. Ed. Petheram.
An Almond for a Parrot. Ed. Petheram.
A Counter-Cuff to Martin Junior, etc., in Works of Nash. Ed. Grosart.
Plain Percival, the Peacemaker of England. Ed. Petheram.
Marston, John, Works of. Ed. Halliwell, 3 vols., London, 1856.
Also Ed. Bullen, 3 vols., London, 1885.
Poems of. In Grosart's Occasional Issues, vol. xi.
Massinger, Philip. Ed. Hartley Coleridge, London, 1859.
Middleton, Thomas, Dramatic Works of. Ed. Bullen, 8 vols., London, 1886.
Milton, John, Poems of. In Chalmers's British Poets, vol. vii.
Prose Works of. 2 vols., Philadelphia, 1847.
Ed. Masson, 3 vols., London, 1890.
Minor Caroline Poets, vols. i. and ii., Oxford, 1905-6.
Mirror for Magistrates, The. Ed. Hazlewood, 3 vols., London, 1815.
Miscellanies, Seven Poetical. Ed. Collier, London, 1867.
Some in Heliconia.
More, Henry, Poems of. Ed. Grosart. Privately printed, 1878.
Mulcaster, Richard, Positions. Ed. Quick, London, 1888.
Nabbes, Thomas, Works of. In Bullen's Old Plays, New Series, vols. i. and ii.
Nash, Thomas, Works of. Ed. Grosart, 6 vols. Privately printed, 1883-85.
Ed. M'Kerrow, 4 vols., London, 1904.
Park, T., Heliconia. 3 vols., London, 1814.
Peele, George, Works of. Ed. Dyce, London, 1883.
Percy, W., Cœlia, In Grosart's Occasional Issues, vol. iv.
Puttenham, George, The Art of English Poesy. Ed. Arber, London, 1869.
Also in G. Smith, Elizabethan Critical Essays.
Quarles, Francis. Ed. Grosart, 3 vols. Privately printed, 1880-81.
Raleigh, Sir Walter, History of the World. 6 vols., London, 1820.
Poems of. In Hannah's Courtly Poets.
Randolph, Thomas, Works of. Ed. Hazlitt. 2 vols., London, 1875.
Return from Parnassus, The. Edited by W. Macray, Oxford, 1886.
Rowlands, Samuel, Works of. Ed. Gosse, 3 vols., Glasgow, 1880 (Hunterian Club).
Sackville, Thomas, Lord Buckhurst, Works of. Ed. Sackville-West, London, 1859.
Sandys, George, [Sacred] Poetical Works of. Ed. Hooper, 2 vols., London, 1872.
Shakespere, William, Works of. Globe edition, London, 1866.
Doubtful plays. Ed. Warnke and Proescholdt, Halle.
Also Ed. Hazlitt, London, n.d.
Sherburne, Sir Edward, Poems of. In Chalmers's Poets, vol. vi.
Shirley, James, Plays of. Ed. Gifford and Dyce, 6 vols., London, 1833.
Sidney, Philip, Poetical Works. Ed. Grosart, 2 vols., London, 1873.
An Apology for Poetry. Ed. Arber, London, 1868.
Arcadia. Ed. Sommer, London, 1891.
Simpson. R., The School of Shakespere, 2 vols., London, 1878.
Smith, T., Chloris. In Grosart's Occasional Issues, vol. iv.
Southwell, Robert, Poems. Ed. Grosart. Printed for private circulation.
Spenser, Edmund. Ed. Todd, London, 1853.
Also Ed. Morris and Hales, London, 1873.
Also Ed. Grosart, vols. i.-ix. Privately printed, 1882-87.
Stanley, T., Poems. Partly reprinted, London, 1814.
Stanyhurst, Richard, The First Four Books of the Æneid. Ed. Arber, London, 1880.
Still, John, Gammer Gurton's Needle. In Hazlitt's Dodsley, vol. iii.
Stirling, William Alexander, Earl of, Poems of. In Chalmers's British Poets, vol. v.
Suckling, Sir John, Works of. Ed. Hazlitt, 2 vols., London, 1874.
Surrey, Earl of. See Tottel's Miscellany.
Also in Chalmers's British Poets, vol. ii.
Sylvester, Joshua, Works of. Ed. Grosart, 2 vols. Privately printed, 1880.
Taylor, Jeremy, Works of. 3 vols., London, 1844.
Tottel's Miscellany. Ed. Arber, London, 1870.
Tourneur, Cyril, Works of. Ed. Collins, 2 vols., London, 1878.
Traherne, Thomas, Poems. Ed. Dobell, London, 1903.
Turberville, George, Poems of. In Chalmers's British Poets, vol. ii.
Tusser, Thomas. Ed. Mavor, London, 1812.
Also by English Dialect Society, 1878.
Udall, N., Ralph Roister Doister. In Hazlitt's Dodsley, vol. iii.
Vaughan, Henry. Ed. Grosart. Privately printed. 4 vols., 1868-71.
Also Silex Scintillans. Facsimile of 1st edition. Ed. Clare, London, 1885.
Also 2 vols., Ed. Chambers, London, 1896.
Walton, Izaak, The Complete Angler. London, 1825.
Lives. London, 1842.
Warner, William, Albion's England. In Chalmers's British Poets, vol. iv.
Watson, Thomas, Poems. Ed. Arber, London, 1870.
Webbe, William, A Discourse of English Poetry. Ed. Arber, London, 1870.
Also in G. Smith, Elizabethan Critical Essays.
Webster, John, Works of. Ed. Dyce, London, 1859.
Wither, George, Hymns and Songs of the Church. Ed. Farr, London, 1856.
Hallelujah. Ed. Farr, London, 1857.
Philarete, in Arber's English Garner, vol. iv.
Fidelia, in Arber's English Garner, vol. vi.
Poems generally in Spenser Society's issues.
Wotton, Sir Henry, Poems of. In Hannah's Courtly Poets.
Wyatt, Sir Thomas. See Tottel's Miscellany.
II.—GENERAL
Albumazar, 427.
Alexander, Sir William. See Stirling.
Andrewes, Bishop Lancelot (1555-1626), 444.
Arden of Feversham, 425.
Ascham, Roger (1515-1568), 30-33.
Bacon, Francis, Lord (1561-1626), 207-212.
Barnabee's Journal, 444.
Barnes, Barnabe (1569?-1609), 108, 109.
Barnfield, Richard (1584-1627), his Poems, 117, 118.
Basse, William (d. 1653?), 301.
Baxter, Richard (1615-1691), 440.
Beaumont, Francis (1584-1616), his Poems, 312.
See also Beaumont and Fletcher.
Beaumont, Sir John (1583-1627), his Poems, 312.
Beaumont, Joseph (1616-1699), 378.
Beaumont and Fletcher, 255-266.
Benlowes, Edward (1603?-1676), 381.
Bible, The English, Authorised and Revised versions, 215-218.
Breton, Nicholas (1545?-1626?), his verse, 128;
his prose pamphlets, 238-240.
Brome, Richard ( ?-1652?), 415, 416.
Brooke, Fulke Greville, Lord (1554-1628), 98-100.
Browne, Sir Thomas (1605-1682), 336-343;
his Life, 336, 337;
his Works and Style, 338-343.
Browne, William (1591-1643?), his Life and Poems, 299-302.
Bruno, Giordano, his influence, 102, 459.
Burton, Robert (1577-1640), 428-433.
Cambyses, 62, 249, note.
Campion, Thomas ( ?-1619), 34, 120 sq., 156, note.
Carew, Thomas (1598?-1639), 359-364.
Carey, Patrick ( ?- ?), 384.
Caroline Poetry, A Discussion of the Merits and Defects of, 386-393.
Cartwright, William (1611-1643), his Poems, 383;
his Plays, 427.
Chalkhill, John ( ?- ?), 380.
Chamberlayne, William (1619-1689), 381.
Chapman, George (1559?-1634), his Life, Poems, and Translations, 184-195.
Chillingworth, William (1602-1644), 440.
Churchyard, Thomas (1520?-1604), 17-18, 27, note.
Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of (1609-1674), his Life, Works, and Style, 343-348.
Cleveland, John (1613-1658), 385.
Cokain, Sir Aston (1608-1684), 416, 417.
Constable, Henry (1562-1613), 113.
Corbet, Bishop (1582-1635), his Poems, 382-384.
Coryat, Thomas (1577?-1617), 444.
Cosin, Bishop (1594-1672), 444.
Cotton, Charles (1630-1687), his Poems, 383, 384.
Cowley's Prose, 440.
Crashaw, Richard (1613?-1649), his Life and Poems, 364-370.
Critics, Elizabethan, 33-35.
Daniel, Samuel (1562-1619), his Sonnets, 113, 114;
his other Poems, 135-139;
his Prose, 220-222.
Davenant, Sir William (1606-1668), 419, 420.
Davenport, Robert ( ?-1655?), 422.
Davies, John, of Hereford (1565?-1618), 291-293.
Davies, Sir John (1569-1626), his Life and Poems, 293-295.
Day, John ( ?- ?), his Plays, 286-288.
"Decadence," 391, 394, 455-457.
Dekker, Thomas (1570?-1641?), his Plays and Songs, 201-206;
his Pamphlets, 235-238.
Distracted Emperor, The, 425.
Donne, John (1573-1631), his Satires and other Poems, 144-150.
Drama, Elizabethan, general characteristics, 50-53.
Dramatic Periods, Division of, 50, 51.
Drayton, Michael (1563-1631), his Sonnets, 114, 115;
his other Poems, 139-144.
Drummond, William, of Hawthornden (1585-1649), 306-308.
Earle, Bishop (1601?-1665), 442.
Ecclesiastical Polity, the, 46 sq.
Eden, Richard (1521?-1576), his geographical work, 33.
Edward III., 424.
Edwards, Richard (1523?-1566), dramatist and miscellanist, 25, 26, 62.
Eikon Basilike, 442.
Euphues and Euphuism, 37-40.
Fair Em, 73, 424.
Felltham, Owen (1602?-1668?), 442, 443.
Field, Nathaniel (1587-1633), his Plays, 426.
Fitz-Geoffrey, Charles (1575-1638), his Poem on Drake, 131.
Fletcher, Giles, the elder (1549-1611), 109.
Fletcher, Giles and Phineas, Poems of, 295-298.
Fletcher, John (1579-1625). See Beaumont and Fletcher.
Ford, John (1586?- ?), his Plays, 401-409.
Fuller, Thomas (1608-1661), 433-438.
Gammer Gurton's Needle, 55-57.
Gascoigne, George (1525?-1577), 16-18.
Gifford, Humphrey ( ?- ?), his Posy of Gillyflowers, 129.
Gilpin or Guilpin, Edward ( ?- ?), his Skialetheia, 155.
Glapthorne, Henry ( ?- ?), 417, 418.
Godolphin, Sidney (1610-1643), 384.
Goff, Thomas (1591-1629), 427, note.
Googe, Barnabe (1540?-1594), 18-20.
Gosson, Stephen (1554-1624), 34.
Greene, Robert (1560-1592), Life and Plays, 72-74;
Prose, 224-228.
Griffin, Bartholomew ( ?-1602?), his Fidessa, 116.
Grimald or Grimoald, Nicholas (1519?-1562?), 3-8.
Grove, Matthew ( ?- ?), his Poems, 130.
Habington, William (1605-1654), his Castara, 378-380;
his Queen of Aragon, 425.
Hakluyt, Richard (1552?-1616), his Voyages, 220-222.
Hales, John (1584-1656), 444.
Hall, John (1627-1656), 384.
Hall, Joseph (1574?-1650), his Satires, 151-153.
Herbert, George (1593-1633), 371-373.
Herbert, Lord, of Cherbury (1583-1648), 438-440.
Heroic Poem, the, 380.
Herrick, Robert (1591-1674), his Life and Poems, 354-359.
Heywood, Thomas ( ?-1650?), his Life and Works, 270-284.
Historical Poems, 131.
Hobbes, Thomas (1588-1679), his Life, Works, and Style, 348-353.
Hooker. Richard (1554?-1600), 44-49;
his Life, 44;
his Prose Style, 46-48.
Howell, James (1594?-1666), 441, 442.
Howell, Thomas ( ?- ?), his Poems, 130.
J. C., his Alcilia, 115.
Jeronimo, and The Spanish Tragedy, 74, 75.
Jonson, Ben (1573-1637), his Life, Poems, and Plays, 174-184;
his Prose, 216.
Kyd, Thomas (1557?-1595?), 74, 75, 81, note.
Kynaston, Sir Francis (1587-1642), 380, 381.
Lodge, Thomas (1558?-1625), his Plays, 70;
his Poems, 109-111;
his Satires, 145;
his Prose Pamphlets, 228-230.
Lovelace, Richard (1618-1658), his Poems, 374-376.
Lyly, John (1554?-1606?), 36-40, 65-68;
his Life, 36;
Euphues and Euphuism, 37-40;
his Plays, 65-68.
Lynch, Richard ( ?- ?), his Diella, 116.
Manuscript, habit of keeping Poems in, 2.
Markham, Gervase (1568?-1637), his Poem on The Revenge, 131.
Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593), his Life and Plays, 76-79.
Marmion, Shakerley (1603-1639), his Poems and Plays, 380, 423.
Marston, John (1575?-1634), his Life and Satires, 153-155;
his Plays, 195-199.
Martin Marprelate, sketch of the Controversy and account of the principal tracts, 241-252.
Massinger, Philip (1583-1640), his Plays, 395-401.
Merry Devil of Edmonton, The, 426.
Metre, Classical, the fancy for, and its reasons, 22, 25.
Metre, English, must be scanned by Classical Rules, 14.
Middleton, Thomas (1570?-1627), his Life and Works, 266-273.
Milton, John (1608-1674), 316-330;
his Life and Character, 316, 317;
Divisions of his Work, 318;
his early Poems, 318-322;
his Prose, 322-326;
his later Poems, 326-329.
Mirror for Magistrates, The, 11-15.
Miscellany, Tottel's, 1-10;
a starting-point, 2;
its Authorship and Composition, 3;
Wyatt's and Surrey's Contributions to it, 4-8;
Grimald and minor authors, 8-9;
Metrical and Material Characteristics, 9, 10.
Miscellanies, the early Elizabethan, subsequent to Tottel's, 25-27.
Miscellanies, Caroline and later, 370.
Miseries of Enforced Marriage, The, 423.
More, Henry (1614-1687), his Song of the Soul, 377, 378.
Nabbes, Thomas ( ?- ?), his Plays, 422.
Nash, Thomas (1567-1601), his Plays, 70;
his Prose Works, 232-235.
Nero, 425.
North's Plutarch, 33.
Oxford, Edward, Earl of (1550-1604), his Poems, 127-128.
Pearson, Bishop (1613-1686), 440.
Peele, George (1558?-1597), his Life and Plays, 70-72.
Percy, William (1575-1648), his Cœlia, 111.
Pharonnida, 381.
Plays, early nondescript, 62.
Poetry, 95-96.
Prose, the Beginnings of Modern English, 28-30.
Prosody, Weakness of the Early Elizabethans in, 9.
Pseudo-Shakesperian Plays, 424, 425.
Puttenham, George (1532?-1590), 34.
Quarles, Francis (1592-1644), 376, 377.
Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552?-1618), his Verse, 125-127;
his Prose, 212-215.
Ralph Roister Doister, 54, 55.
Randolph, Thomas (1605-1635), his Poems, 382;
his Plays, 413-415.
Return from Parnassus, The, 81, 426.
Rowlands, Samuel (1570?-1630?), 238, 240.
Rowley, Samuel ( ?- ?), 423.
Rowley, William (1585?-1642?), his Plays, 422.
Sackville, Thomas, Lord Buckhurst (1536-1608), his Life and Works, 11-15;
the Induction and Complaint of Buckingham, 12-15;
Gorboduc, 57-60.
Sanderson, Bishop (1587-1663), 440.
Sandys, George (1578-1644), 373.
Satirists, the Elizabethan, 144-156.
Second Maiden's Tragedy, The, 425.
Senecan Drama, the, 58-61.
Shakespere, William (1564-1616), 157-173;
his Life, 158;
his Works and their Reputation, 159, 160;
their divisions, 160, 161 (1573-1636);
the Early Poems, 161;
the Sonnets, 161-164;
the Plays, 164-173;
the "Doubtful" Plays, 424-425.
Sherburne, Sir Edward (1618-1702), his Poems, 383.
Shirley, Henry ( ?-1627), 409, note.
Shirley, James (1596-1666), his Plays, 449-413.
Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586), his Prose, 40-43;
his Prose style, 42;
his Verse, 100-105.
Smith, William (1546?-1618?), his Chloris, 116.
Songs, Miscellaneous, from the Dramatists and Madrigal Writers, 121-125, 312-314.
Sonneteers, the Elizabethan, 97.
Southwell, Robert (1561 ?-1595), his Poems, 119.
Spenser, Edmund (1552?-1599), 82-96;
his Life, 83-85;
The Shepherd's Calendar, 86;
the Minor Poems, 87;
The Faërie Queene, 88-93;
the Spenserian Stanza, 90;
Spenser's Language, 91;
his Comparative Rank in English Poetry, 93-96.
Stanley, Thomas (1625-1678), 383, 384.
Stanyhurst, Richard (1547-1618), 23-25.
Still, John (1543-1608), his Gammer Gurton's Needle, 55-57.
Stirling, Sir William Alexander, Earl of (1567?-1640), 308-311.
Suckling, Sir John (1609-1642), his Poems, 374-376;
his Plays, 420-422.
Surrey, Lord Henry Howard, Earl of (1517?-1547), 6-8.
Sylvester, Joshua (1563-1618), his Du Bartas, etc., 289-291.
Taylor, Jeremy (1613-1667), 330-336;
his Life, 330, 331;
his Works and Style, 331-336.
Theophila, 381.
Tottel's Miscellany. See Miscellany.
Tourneur, Cyril (1575?-1626?), his Poems, 155-156;
his Plays, 284, 285.
Traherne, Thomas (1636?-1674), 381, note.
Translators, the Early Elizabethan, 21, 33.
Turberville, George (1540?-1610), 18-19.
Two Angry Women, The, 426.
Two Noble Kinsmen, The, 424.
Udall, Nicholas (1505-1556), his Ralph Roister Doister, 54, 55.
University Wits, the, 60-81.
Urquhart, Sir Thomas (1611-1660), 444.
Vaughan, Henry (1622-1695), 374-375, 393, note.
Version, the Authorised, 215-218.
Walton, Izaak (1593-1683), 441.
Warner, William (1558-1649), 122-134.
Watson, Thomas (1557?-1592), 105-107.
Webbe, William ( ? - ?), 34.
Webster, John (1580?-1625?), his Life and Works, 273-279.
Willoughby's Avisa, 110, 111.
Wither, George (1588-1667), Life and Poems, 302-306.
Wit's Recreations, 370.
Wyatt, Sir Thomas (1503?-1542), 4-6.
Yorkshire Tragedy, The, 424.
Zepheria, 112.