Andrew Borde. Bale. Anflay. Chertsey. Fabyll's ghost a poem. John Heywood the epigrammatift. His works examined. Antient Sir Thomas More's English poetry. Tournament of Tottenham. The Notbrowne Mayde. Not older than the fixteenth century. Metrical verfions of Scripture. Archbishop Parker's Pfalms in Tye's Acts of the Apostles in rhyme. His merit as a mufician. Reign of queen Mary. Mirrour of Magiftrates. Its inventor, Sackville's Legend of Buckingham in the Mirrour of Magistrates. View of Niccols's edition of the Mirrour of Magiftrates. High SECTION Richard Edwards. Principal poet, player, musician, and buffoon, to the courts of Mary and Elifabeth. Anecdotes of his life. Cotemporary teftimonies of his merit. A contributor to the Pa- radife of daintie Devifes. His book of comic hiftories, fuppofed to have fuggefted Shakespeare's Induction of the Tinker. Oc- Tuffer. Remarkable circumftances of his life. His Husbandrie, William Forreft's poems. His Queen Catharine, an elegant manu- English language begins to be cultivated. Earliest book of Criticism SECTION SECTION XXXVIII. p. 355. Sackville's Gordobuc. Our firft regular tragedy. Its fable, con- SECTION XXXIX. p. 372. Claffical drama revived and ftudied. The Phoeniffe of Euripides SECTION XL. P. 395. Most of the claffic poets tranflated before the end of the fixteenth SECTION Kendal's Martial. Marlowe's verfions of Coluthus and Museus. General character of his Tragedies. Teftimonies of his cotempo- raries. Specimens and estimate of his poetry. His death. First Tranflation of the Iliad by Arthur Hall. Chapman's Homer. His other works. Verfion of Clitophon and Leucippe. Origin of the Greek erotic romance. Palingenius tranflated by Googe. Criticifm on the original. Specimen and merits of the translation. Googe's other works. Incidental firicture on the philofophy of the Tranflation of Italian novels. Of Boccace. General view and character of the poetry of queen Elifabeth's age. |