English Literature: Modern eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 231 pages of information about English Literature.

English Literature: Modern eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 231 pages of information about English Literature.

Chapter VIII.—­Tennyson’s Works; Browning’s Works; Rossetti’s Works; Carlyle’s _Sartor Resartus, Past and Present_, and _French Revolution_; Ruskin’s _Unto this Last, Seven Lamps of Architecture_; Arnold’s Poems; Swinburne (Selections).

Chapter IX.—­Fielding’s _Tom Jones_; Smollett, _Roderick Random_; Jane Austen’s Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice, and Northanger Abbey (as a parody of the Radcliffe School); Scott’s _Waverley, Antiquary, Ivanhoe, Old Mortality, Bride of Lammermoor_.  It seems hardly necessary to give a selection of later novels.

Chapter X.—­W.B.  Yeats’ Poems; Wilde, Importance of Being Earnest; Synge, Dramatic Works.

And every new work of the best contemporary authors.

G.H.M.

LIST OF THE CHIEF WORKS AND AUTHORS MENTIONED

The dates attached to the authors are those of birth and death; those with the books, of publication.

CHAPTER I

Sir Thomas More, 1480-1535.
  Utopia. 1516 (in Latin). 
William Tindall, 1484-1536.
  Translation of the New Testament, 1526. 
Sir John Cheke, 1514-1557. 
Roger Ascham, 1515-1568.
  Toxophilus, 1545.
  Schoolmaster, 1570. 
Richard Hakluyt, 1553-1616. 
  His Voyages, 1598.

CHAPTER II

Sir Thomas Wyatt, 1503-1542. 
The Earl of Surrey, 1517-1547.
  Tottel’s Miscellany (containing their poems), 1557. 
Sir Philip Sidney. 1554-1586.
  Arcadia, 1590.
  Astrophel and Stella, 1591. 
Edmund Spenser, 1552-1599.
  Shepherd’s Calendar, 1579.
  Fairy Queen, 1589, 1596. 
John Lyly, 1554-1606.
  Euphues, 1579.
  Euphues and his England, 1580. 
Richard Hooker, 1553-1600.
  Ecclesiastical Polity, 1594.

CHAPTER III

Christopher Marlowe, 1564-1593.
  Tamburlaine, 1587 (date of performance).
  Dr. Faustus, 1588 (date of performance).
  Edward II., 1593. 
Thomas Kyd, 1557(?)-1595(?).
  The Spanish Tragedy, 1594 (published). 
John Webster, 1580(?)-1625(?).
  The White Devil, 1608 (date of performance).
  Duchess of Malfi, 1616 (date of performance). 
Ben Jonson, 1573-1637.
  Every Man in his Humour, 1598.
  Volpone, 1605.
  Poems, 1616.

CHAPTER IV

John Donne, 1573-1631.
  Poems, 1633 (first published, but known, like those of all
Elizabethan poets, in manuscript long before). 
William Browne, 1591-1643. 
George Herbert, 1593-1633. 
Robert Herrick, 1593-1674. 
Richard Crashaw, 1613-1649. 

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