A Compendious History of English Literature, and of the English Language, from the Norman Conquest

A

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 ENGLISH LITERATURE IN QUEEN'S COLLEGE, BELFAST

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CONTENTS

VOL. II.

33

AUG 1 3 30

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U OF M BINDERY

MIDDLE AND LATTER PART OF THE SEVENTEENTH

PAGE

CENTURY

11

Shirley, and the End of the Old Drama .

12

Giles Fletcher. Phineas Fletcher

17

Other Religious Poets. — Quarles. Herbert. Herrick. Crashaw . 18

Cartwright. Randolph. Corbet .

20

Poets of the French School. — Carew. Lovelace. Suckling

Browne (William)

55

Prose Writers. Charles I

Feltham's Resolves. Microcosmography

Retrospect.of the Commonwealth. Literature

Prose Writers. — Clarendon

Other Prose Writers. - Cudworth. More. Burrow. Bunyan; etc. 132

.

PAGH

.

MIDDLE AND LATTER PART OF THE SEVENTEENTH

CENTURY. (Continued.)

Progress of Science in England before the Seventeenth Century 136

English Science in the Seventeenth Century. — Bacon. Napier .

. 143

Other English Mathematicians of the Earlier Part of the Seventeenth

Century

145

Harvey. — The Circulation of the Blood; Anatomy, etc.

Other Discoveries and Improvements in Natural and Experimental

James Gregory, and other Contemporaries of Newton

. 178

Establishment of the Royal Observatory.

181

Medical Science and Natural History

183

.

THE CENTURY BETWEEN THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION
AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

185

First Effects of the Revolution of 1688

185

Surviving Writers of the preceding Period

Other Theological Writers. Tillotson. South

195

Locke.

201

Writers on Political Economy

204

Boyle and Bentley Controversy

Gay. Arbuthnot. Atterbury .

Collins. Shenstone. Gray

284

Young. Thomson

. 285

Armstrong. Akenside. Wilkie. Glover

287

Scottish Poetry

288

The Novelists — Richardson, Fielding, Smollett

.

THE CENTURY 'BETWEEN THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION

AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. (Continued.)

Falconer. Beattie. Anstey. J. H. Stevenson. Mason

The Wartons. Percy. Chatterton. Macpherson

Dramatic Writers

Female Writers .

Periodical Essayists

Political Writing. – Wilkes. Junius

Johnson

Burke

Metaphysical and Ethical Writers

Historical Writers. - Hume. Robertson. Gibbon

Political Economy. Theology. Criticism and Belles Lettres

Progress of Science

.

THE LATTER PART OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 369

Anna Seward. Lady Miller. The Della Cruscans

399

The Shakspeare Papers

407

The Pursuits of Literature

408

Other Satirical Poetry. — Mason. The Rolliad. Probationary Odes.

Peter Pindar

409

Other Poetical Writers of the latter part of the Eighteenth Century

414

Burns.

417

Remaining Literature of the Eighteenth Century

446

THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

453

THE LAST AGE OF THE GEORGES.

Crabbe. Campbell. Moore

Other Poetical Writers of the earlier part of the Nineteenth Century . 537

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