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CONTENTS.
VOL. III.
SECTION XXVII.
THE reigns of Richard the Third and Henry the Seventh abound
in obscure versifiers. Bertram Walton. Benedict Burgh
translates Cato's Latin Distichs. History of that work. Julian
Barnes. Abbesses fond of hunting and hawking. A religious
poem by William of Nassyngton. His Prologue explained.
Minstrels and Gestours to be distinguished. Gest of the Three
Kings of Cologne sung in the arched chamber of the Prior at
Winchester. The Gest of the Seven Sleepers. Originally a
Greek Legend. Bradshaw's Life of Saint Werburgh. Metri-
cal chronicles of the kings of England fashionable in this cen-
tury. Ralph Higden proved to be the author of the Chester-
plays. Specimen of Bradshaw's poem, from his description of
the historical tapestry in the hall of Ely monastery when the
princess Werburgh was admitted to the veil. Legends and
legend-makers. Fabyan. Watson. Caxton a poet. Kalendar
of Shepherds. Pageaunts. Transition to the drama. Histrionic
profession. Mysteries. Nicodemus's Gospel. Use of Mys-
teries
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SECTION XXVIII.
Reign of Henry the Seventh. Hawes. His poems. Painting
on the walls of chambers. Visions. Hawes's Pastyle of Plea-
sure. The fable analysed. Walter. Medwall. Wade....
SECTION XXIX.
Barklay's Ship of Fools. Its origin. Specimens. Barklay's
Eclogues, and other pieces. Alcock bishop of Ely. Modern
Bucolics
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SECTION XXX.
William Dunbar. His Thistle
Specimens. Dunbar's comic
Digression to the Scotch poets.
and Rose, and Golden Terge.
pieces. Estimate of his genius. Moralities fashionable among
the Scotch in the fifteenth century.
SECTION XXXI.
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Scotch poets continued. Gawen Douglass. His translation of
the Eneid. His genius for descriptive poetry. His Palice of
Honour, and other pieces
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SECTION XXXII.
Scotch poets continued. Sir David Lyndesay. His chief per-
formances the Dreme, and Monarchie. His talents for descrip-
tion and imagery. His other poems examined. An anonymous
Scotch poem, never printed, called Duncane Laider. Its hu-
mour and satire. Feudal robbers. Blind Harry reconsidered.
A History of the Scotch poetry recommended
SECTION XXXIII.
Skelton. His life. Patronized by Henry fifth earl of Northum-
berland. His character, and peculiarity of style. Critical
examination of his poems. Macaronic poetry. Skelton's Mo-
rality called the Nigramansir. Moralities at their height about
the close of the Seventh Henry's reign . .
SECTION XXXIV.
A digression on the origin of Mysteries. Various origins assigned.
Religious dramas at Constantinople. Plays first acted in the
monasteries. This ecclesiastical origin of the drama gives rise
to the practice of performing plays in universities, colleges,
and schools. Influence of this practice on the vernacular drama.
On the same principle, plays acted by singing-boys in choirs.
Boy-bishop. Fete de Foux. On the same principle, plays
acted by the company of Parish clerks. By the Law-societies
in London. Temple-Masques
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SECTION XXXV.
Causes of the increase of vernacular composition in the fifteenth
century. View of the revival of classical learning. In Italy.
In France. In Germany. In Spain. In England....
SECTION XXXVI.
The same subject continued. Reformation of Religion. Its effects
on literature in England. Application of this digression to the
main subject
SECTION XXXVII.
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Petrarch's sonnets. Lord Surrey. His education, travels, mis-
He is the first writer of blank-verse.
Italian blank-verse. Surrey the first English classic poet.... 287
tress, life, and poetry.
SECTION XXXVIII.
Sir Thomas Wyat. Inferior to Surrey as a writer of sonnets. His
life. His genius characterised. Excels in moral poetry.... 313
SECTION XXXIX.
The first printed Miscellany of English poetry. Its contributors.
Sir Francis Bryan, Lord Rochford, and Lord Vaulx. The first
true pastoral in English. Sonnet-writing cultivated by the
nobility. Sonnets by king Henry the Eighth. Literary cha-
racter of that king
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SECTION XL.
The second writer of blank-verse in English. Specimens of early
blank-verse..
SECTION XLI.
Andrew Borde. Bale. Ansley. Chertsey. Fabyll's Ghost, a
poem. The Merry Devil of Edmonton. Other minor poets
of the reign of Henry the Eighth
SECTION XLII.
unpublished burlesque poem of Sir Penny...
John Heywood the epigrammatist. His works examined. Antient
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SECTION XLIII.
Sir Thomas More's English poetry. Tournament of Tottenham.
Its age and scope. Laurence Minot. Alliteration. Digression
illustrating comparatively the language of the fifteenth century,
by a specimen of the metrical Armoric romance of Ywayn and
Gawayn ..
SECTION XLIV.
The Notbrowne Mayde. Not older than the sixteenth century.
Artful contrivance of the story. Misrepresented by Prior.
Metrical romances, Guy, syr Bevys, and Kynge Apolyn,
printed in the reign of Henry. The Scole howse, a satire.
Christmas carols. Religious libels in rhyme. Merlin's pro-
phesies. Laurence Minot. Occasional disquisition on the late
continuance of the use of waxen tablets. Pageantries of
Henry's court. Dawn of Taste..
SECTION XLV.
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Effects of the Reformation on our poetry. Clement Marot's
Psalms. Why adopted by Calvin. Version of the Psalms
by Sternhold and Hopkins. Defects of this version, which is
patronised by the Puritans in opposition to the Choral Service. 444
Additional Notes
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