HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE,

AND OF

THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.

VOL. II.

WORKS BY PROFESSOR CRAIK.

THE

PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE UNDER DIFFICULTIES.

New Edition, with Portraits. 2 vols. post 8vo, 98. cloth.

II.

BACON: HIS WRITINGS AND HIS PHILOSOPHY.

New Edition, revised, with Notes. Small 8vo, 38. 63. cloth.

III.

SPENSER, AND HIS POETRY.
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COMPENDIOUS, HISTORY

OF

ENGLISH LITERATURE,

AND OF

THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE,

FROM

The Norman Conquest.

WITH NUMEROUS SPECIMENS.

BY

GEORGE L. CRAIK, LL.D.,

PROFESSOR OF HISTORY AND OF ENGLISTI LITERATURE IN QUEEN'S COLLEGE, BELFAST.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. 11.

62071 B.

LONDON :
GRIFFIN, BOHN, AND COMPANY,

STATIONERS' HALL COURT,

1861.

LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS.

CONTENTS.

VOL. II.

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MIDDLE AND LATTER PART OF THE SEVENTEENTH

CENTURY ·

Drama

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Shirley, and the end of the Old Drama

Giles Fletcher; Phineas Fletcher . .

Other Religious Poets :-Quarles ; Herbert; Herrick; Crashaw

Cartwright; Randolph; Corbet. .

Poets of the French School :--Carew ; Lovelace; Suckling.

Denham . . . . . . . . . .

Cleveland . .

Wither .

Browne (William)

Prose Writers :-Charles I. .

Milton's Prose Works . .

Hales; Chillingworth . .

Jeremy Taylor . . .

Fuller . . . .

Feltham's Resolves :-Microcosmography

Sir Thomas Browne .

Sir James Harrington . .

Newspapers . .

Classical Learning ..

Retrospect of the Commonwealth Literature

Poetry of Milton . .

Cowley

Butler

Waller . . . . . . . .

Marvel . . . .

Other Minor Poets i

Dryden · · · · ·

Dramatists . . . . . . . . . .

Prose Writers :- Clarendon