I. ON THE ORIGIN OF ROMANTIC FICTION IN EUROPE.
II. ON THE INTRODUCTION OF LEARNING INTO ENGLAND.

VOL.

II.

By THOMAS WARTON, B. D.

Fellow o£ TRINITY COLLEGE, OXFORD, and of the Society of ANTIQUARIEs, and

late PROFESSOR of POETRY in the UNIVERSITY of OXFORD.

LONDON:

Printed for, and fold by, J. Dodsley, Pall-Mall; J. Walter, Charing-Cross; J. ROBSON,

New Bond-Street; G. ROBINSON, and J. Bew, Pater-nofter-Row; and

Messrs. FLETCHER, at OXFORD. M.DCC.LXXVIII,

OF THE

SECTIONS in the Second VOLUME.

SECTION I. p. 1.

HN GOWER. His character and poems. His tomb.

His Confessio Amantis. Its subject and plan. An unfuc-

cessful imitation of the Roman de la Rose. Aristotle's Secre-

tum Secretorum. Chronicles of the middle ages. Colonna.

Romance of Lancelot. The Gęsta Romanorum. Shakespeare's

caskets. Authors quoted by Gower. Chronology of some of

Gower's and Chaucer's poems. The Confessio Amantis prea

ceded the Canterbury Tales. Estimate of Gower's genius.

(roke 1-3)

SECTION II. p. 32.

Boetbius. Wby, and how much, esteemed in the middle ages.

Translated 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 Casali De Ludo Scaccorum.

Chaucer's picture. Humphrey duke of Gloucester. Sketch of bis

character as a patron of literature. Apology for the gallicifms

of Cbaucer, Gower, and Occleve.