I. ON THE ORIGIN OF ROMANTIC FICTION IN EUROPE. BIBL VOL. II. By THOMAS WARTON, B. D. FELLOW of TRINITY COLLEGE, OXFORD, and of the SOCIETY of ANTIQUARIES, and LONDON: Printed for, and fold by, J. DODSLEY, Pall-Mall; J. WALTER, Charing-Crofs; J. ROBSON, OF THE SECTIONS in the SECOND VOLUME. SECTION I. p. 1. HN GOWER. His character and poems. His tomb. His Confeffio Amantis. Its fubject and plan. An unfuccessful imitation of the Roman de la Rofe. Ariftotle's Secretum Secretorum. Chronicles of the middle ages. Colonna. Romance of Lancelot. The Gefta Romanorum. Shakespeare's cafkets. Authors quoted by Gower. Chronology of fome of Gower's and Chaucer's poems. The Confeffio Amantis preceded 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 coronation-feast of Henry the fifth. A minstrel-piece on the Battayle of Agynkourte. Occleve. His poems. Egidius de Regimine 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. |