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THE

HISTORY

O F

ENGLISH POETRY,

FROM THE

CLOSE of the ELEVENTH

TO THE

COMMENCEMENT of the EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.

TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED

TWO DISSERTATIONS.

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

VOL. III.

TO THIS VOLUME IS PREFIXED A THIRD DISSERTATION

ON THE GESTA ROMANORU M.

By THOMAS WARTO N, B. D.
FELLOW of 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-Crofs; J. ROBSON,
New Bond-Street; G. ROBINSON, and J. BEw, Pater-nofter-Row; and

Meffrs. FLETCHER, at Oxford.

M. DCC. LXXXI.

CONTENTS

OF THE

SECTIONS in the THIRD VOLUME.

PETRARCH's fonnets. Lord Surrey. His education, tra-
vels, mistress, life, and poetry. He is the first writer of blank-
verfe. Italian blank-verfe. Surrey the first English claffic poet.

Sir Thomas Wyat. Inferior to Surrey as a writer of fonnets. His
life. His genius characterifed. Excels in moral poetry.

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The first printed Miscellany of English poetry. Its contributors.
Sir Francis Bryan, Lord Rochford, and Lord Vaulx. The first
true paftoral in English. Sonnet-writing cultivated by the nobi-
lity. Sonnets by king Henry the eighth. Literary character of
that king.

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