CONTENTS

PART I.

FROM JOHN BARBOUR, A.D. 1316, TO SIR JOHN DENHAM,

A.D. 1668.

John Sarbour, a.d. 1316-1395-

[Life, in Irving's Lives of the Scottish Poets: see also his poem

of The Brus, published by the Spalding Club.]

THE BATTLE OF BANNOCKBURN,

Geoffrey Chaucer, A.D. 1328-1400.

[For Life, see Tod, Godwin, Sir Harris Nicolas, Singer, Craik's

English Literature, Morley's English Writers.]

THE GOOD PARSON,

James E., of Scotland, A.D. 1374—1437.

[For Life, see J. Hill Burton's History of Scotland.]

A GARDEN,

William Dunbar, A.D. 1465-1530.

[Life, by Laing: see also Alexander Smith's Dreamthorpe ;

Warton's History of Poetry.]

GOOD GIVING AND ILL GIVING,

Sir Thomas Wyatt, A.D. 1503-1542.

[Life, by Dr. Nott and Robert Bell.]

Pleasure bleNDS WITH EVERY Pain,

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, A.D. 1517-1546-47.

[Life, in Froude's History of England.]

THE HAPPY SEASON OF LIFE,

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Gdmund Spenser, A.D. 1553—1599.

[Life, by Dr. Todd, Rev. J. Mitford, and J. P. Collier.]

Sir Philip Sidney, A.D. 1554-1586.

[Life, by Lord Zouch, H. Fox Bourne, and Julius Lloyd.]

SLEEP,..

John Eplye, A.D. 1563-64-1601.

[See Craik's English Literature, and Morley's English Lite-

SONGS OF BIRDS,

rature.]

Christopher Marlowe, A.D. 1563-64-1593.

[Life, by Rev. Alexander Dyce; Lamb's English Dramatists.]

THE MIND'S PROGRESS,

Thomas Aash, A.D. 1564-1601.

[Life, in J. P. Collier's Pierce Penniless, and I. D'Israeli's Cala-

mities of Authors.]

SPRING,

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Sir Walter Raleigh, A.D. 1552-1618.

[Life, by Oldys, P. Tytler, M. Napier, J. A. St. John, and

Edward Edwards.]

William Shakspeare, A.D. 1564-1616.

[Life, by Rowe, Drake, Malone, Guizot, J. P. Collier, Charles
Knight, J. O. Halliwell, Philaret Chasles, Rev. A. Dyce,
and Howard Staunton. Criticism: Philaret Chasles, Dr.
Johnson, Dr. Gervinus, Dr. Ulrici, Goethe, R. W. Emerson,
Thomas Carlyle, Hallam, Mrs. Jameson, Hazlitt, Thomas
De Quincey, and S. T. Coleridge.]

Under the GREENWOOD Tree,

A WINTER SONG,

John Fletcher, A.D. 1579-1625.

[Life, by Rev. A. Dyce: see C. Lamb's English Dramatists,

and Leigh Hunt's Beaumont and Fletcher.]

THE DAWN,

SELF-RELIANCE,

Sir Henry Cotton, A.D. 1568-1639.

[Life, by Izaak Walton.]

A HAPPY LIFE,

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[See Hallam's History of Literature, and Chalmers' British Poets.]

WOMAN'S TRUE BEAUTY,

John Webster, A.D. 1585-1654.

[Life, see Rev. A. Dyce's edition of his Plays; Hazlitt's Lec-

tures on the Elizabethan Dramatists.]

A LAND DIRge,

Sir William Davenant, A.D. 1605-1668.

[Life, in Anderson's British Poets.]

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Robert Herrick, A.D. 1591—1674.

[Life, in Anderson's British Poets, and Dr. Drake's Literary Hours.]

John Shirley, A.D. 1596-1666.

[Life, by Rev. A. Dyce, in Gifford's edition of his Works.]

[Life, and Criticism, by Lord Macaulay, Dr. Channing, Sir

Egerton Brydges, Rev. W. Stebbing, James Montgomery,

Thomas Keightley, and Professor Masson.]

L'ALLEGRO,

ON SHAKSPEARE,

ON MAY MORNING,

FAME, ..

SATAN'S ADDRESS TO THE SUN,

THE GARDEN of Eden,

Sir John Denham, A.D. 1615-1668.

[Life, in Johnson's, Chalmers', and Anderson's British Poets.]

THE THAMES,

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PART II.

FROM ABRAHAM COWLEY, A.D. 1618, TO DR. EDWARD

YOUNG, A.D. 1765.

Andrew Marvell, A.D. 1620-1678.

[Life, by Captain Thompson, and Hartley Coleridge.]

THE SONG OF THE EMIGRANTS IN BERMUDA,

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Richard Crashaw, A.D. 1625-1650.

[Life, by P. Phillips, and in Dr. Anderson's British Poets.]

John Dryden, A.D. 1631-1701.

[Life, by Dr. Johnson, Malone, and Sir W. Scott: see Hazlitt's

Lectures on English Poetry.]