THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH POETRY, FROM THE CLOSE OF THE ELEVENTH TO THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED, THREE DISSERTATIONS: 1. OF THE ORIGIN OF ROMANTIC FICTION IN EUROPE. 2. ON THE INTRODUCTION OF LEARNING INTO ENGLAND. BY THOMAS WARTON, B.D. FELLOW OF Trinity college, oxford, and of the SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES, AND LATE A NEW EDITION CAREFULLY REVISED, WITH NUMEROUS ADDITIONAL NOTES BY THE LATE MR. RITSON, MR. PARK, AND OTHER EMINENT ANTIQUARIES, AND BY THE EDITOR. IN FOUR VOLUMES. VOL. II. LONDON: PRINTED FOR THOMAS TEGG, 73, CHEAPSIDE. 1824. SECTION V. SPECIMENS of other popular metrical romances which ap- peared about the end of the thirteenth century. Sir Guy. The Squier of Low Degree: Sir Degore. King Robert of Sicily. Adam Davie flourished in the beginning of the fourteenth century. Specimens of his poetry. His Life of Alexander. Robert Page. John Barbour's History of Robert Bruce, and Blind Harry's Sir William Wallace. Historical romances of recent events com- mence about the close of the fourteenth century. Chiefly composed by heralds. Character and business of antient heralds. Narratives written by them. Froissart's History His life and character. Retrospective views of manners .... 154 |