Heartman 15 May, 1931 (rafe 1-3)

OF THE

SECTIONS in the SECOND VOLUME.

SECTION I. p. 1.

OHN GOWER. His character and poems. His tomb.
His Confeffio Amantis. Its fubject and plan. An unfuc-
cessful imitation of the Roman de la Rose. Ariftotle's Secre-
tum Secretorum. Chronicles of the middle ages. Colonna.
Romance of Lancelot. The Gefta Romanorum. Shakespeare's
cafkets. Authors quoted by Gower. Chronology of Some of
Gower's and Chaucer's poems. The Confeffio Amantis pre-
ceded the Canterbury Tales. Eftimate of Gower's genius.

SECTION II. p. 32.

Boethius. Why, and how much, esteemed in the middle ages.

Tranflated by Johannes Capellanus, the only poet of the reign

of king Henry the fourth. Number of Harpers at the corona-

tion-feast of Henry the fifth. A minstrel-piece on the Battayle

of Agynkourte. Occleve. His poems. Egidius de Regi-

mine Principum, and Jacobus of Cafali De Ludo Scaccorum.

Chaucer's picture. Humphrey duke of Gloucefter. Sketch of his

character as a patron of literature. Apology for the gallicifms

of Chaucer, Gower, and Occleve.

SECTION III. p. 51.

Reign of Henry the fixth. Lydgate. His life and character. His
Dance of Death. Macaber a German poet. Lydgate's poem
in honour of Saint Edmund. Prefented to Henry the fixth, at
Bury-abbey, in a most splendid manuscript, now remaining. His
Lyf of our Lady. Elegance and harmony of his file and
verfification,

SECTION IV. p. 61.

Lydgate continued. His Fall of Princes, from Laurence Pre-
mierfait's French paraphrafe of Boccace on the fame fubiect.
Nature, plan, and fpecimens of that poem. Its fublime alle-
gorical figure of Fortune. Authors cited in the fame. Boc-
cace's opportunities of collecting many ftories of Greek original,
now not extant in any Greek writer. Lydgate's Storie of
. Thebes. An additional Canterbury Tale. Its plan, and
originals. Martianus Capella. Happily imitated by Lydgate.
Feudal manners applied to Greece. Specimen of Lydgate's force
in defcription.

SECTION V. p. 81.

Lydgate's Troy-Boke. A paraphrafe of Colonna's Hiftoria
Trojana. Homer, when, and bow, first known in Europe.
Lydgate's powers in rural painting. Dares and Dičtys.
Feudal manners, and Arabian imagery, ingrafted on the Trojan
ftory. Anecdotes of antient Gothic architecture difplayed in the
Atructure of Troy. An ideal theatre at Troy fo defcribed, as to
prove that no regular flage now existed. Game of chefs invented
at the hege of Troy. Lydgate's gallantry. His anachronisms.
Hector's forine and chantry. Specimens of another Troy-Boke,
anonymous, and written in the reign of Henry the fixth.

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SECTION VI. p. 101.

Reign of Henry the fixth continued. Hugh Campeden translates the
French romance of Sidrac. Thomas Cheftre's Sir Launfale.
Metrical romance of the Erle of Tholoufe. Analysis of its
Fable. Minstrels paid better than the clergy. Reign of Edward
the fourth. Translation of the claffics and other books into
French. How it operated on English literature. Caxton.
Anecdotes of English typography.

SECTION VII. p. 125.

Harding's Chronicle. First mention of the king's Poet Laureate
occurs in the reign of Edward the fourth. Hiftory of that office.
Scogan. Didactic poems on chemistry by Norton and Ripley.

SECTION VIII. p. 139.

Poems under the name of Thomas Rowlie. Supposed to be Spurious.

SECTION IX. p. 165.

The reigns of Richard the third, and Henry the feventh, abound in
obfcure verfifiers. Bertram Walton. Benedict Burgh tranflates
Cato's Latin Diftichs. Hiftory of that work. Julian Barnes.
Abbeffes fond of bunting and hawking. A religious poem by Wil-
liam of Naffyngton. His Prologue explained. Minstrels and
Gestours to be distinguished. Gest of the Three Kings of Co-
logne fung in the arched chamber of the Prior at Winchester.
The Geft of the Seven Sleepers. Originally a Greek Legend.
Bradshaw's Life of Saint Werburgh. Metrical chronicles of
the kings of England fashionable in this century. Ralph Higden
proved to be the author of the Chefter-plays. Specimen of
Bradshaw's poem, from his description of the hiftorical tapestry in
the ball of Ely monaftery when the princess Werburgh was ad-
mitted to the veil. Legends and legend-makers. Fabyan. Wat-

Jon.

fon. Caxton a poet.

Kalendar of Shepherds. Pageaunts.

Tranfition to the drama. Hiftrionic profeffion. Mysteries.
Nicodemus's Gofpel. Ufe of Mysteries.

SECTION X. p. 210.

Reign of Henry the feventh. Hawes. His poems. Painting on
the walls of chambers. Vifions. Hawes's Paftyme of Plea-
fure. The fable analyfed. Walter. Medwall. Wade.

SECTION XI. p. 240.

Barklay's Ship of Fools.

Its origin. Specimens.

Barklay's

Eclogues, and other pieces. Alcock bishop of Ely. Modern

Bucolics.

SECTION XII. p. 257.

Digreffion to the Scotch poets. William Dunbar. His Thiftle
and Rofe, and Golden Terge. Specimens. Dunbar's comic
pieces. Eftimate of his genius. Moralities fashionable among
the Scotch in the fifteenth century.

SECTION XIII. p. 280.

Scotch poets continued. Gawen Douglass. His tranflation of the
His genius for defcriptive poetry.

Eneid.

Honour, and other pieces.

SECTION XIV. p. 295.

His Palice of

Scotch poets continued. Sir David Lyndefay. His chief perfor-

mances the Dreme, and Monarchie. His talents for description

and imagery. His other poems examined. An anonymous Scotch

poem, never printed, called Duncane Laider. Its humour and

fatire. Feudal robbers. Blind Harry reconfidered. A History

of the Scotch poetry recommended.

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