Introduction of the Study of English Literature (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ...Library. Browne's Religio Medici is in the Camelot Series. Craik's English Prose Selections, II, gives extracts from the prose writers here treated. Masson's Life of Milton, I, Ch. VI, describes admirably the state of literature in 1630. Masterman's The Age of Milton covers the period. Traill, Social England, Vol. IV. SUGGESTIONS FOR CLASS-WORK The authors treated in this chapter are among the most interesting minor figures in English letters. But until the student knows something of the great men, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Spenser, Milton, he would better take these on trust. A few hours may, however, well be spent in pure, unanalyzed enjoyment of Herrick and Herbert, and little appreciations of these poets may be prepared as compositions. Walton and Browne should be introduced, so that the few who are born thenfriends may enter as soon as may be into the rich privilege of their friendship. The rhythm and fervor of the Authorized Version of the Scriptures should be studied in carefully chosen extracts. TALKS FROM THE TEACHER The Historical Background of the Times; Bacon's "New Atlantis" compared with More's "Utopia "; Literary Influence of the English Bible. "Astrophel," 1595. "Amoretti" (sonnets), 1595. "Epithalamium," 1595. "Four Hymns," 1596. "Prothalamium," 1596. "A View of the Present, tate of Ireland," 1633., ir Philip, idney, 1554-1586. "Apology for Poetry," 1581, pr. 1595. "The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia," 1590. "Astrophel and, tella" (sonnet series), 1591. Thomas Lodge, 1558(?)-1625. "Rosalind," 1590. Other plays, poems, translations, and a "Defence of, tage Plays." Tenry Constable, 1562-1613.,"piritual, onnets," 1...