CONTENTS:

BOOK I – POETRY
1. INTRODUCTORY
The year 1579
George Gascoigne
Googe and Turbervile
The Paradyse of Daynty Devices
2. SIDNEY AND SONNETEERS
Thomas Watson
Sir Philip Sidney
The sonnet-books
Daniel’s Delia
Constable’s Diana
Barnaby Barnes
Lodge’s Phillis
Drayton’s Idea
Spenser’s Amoretti
The Sonnets of Shakespeare
3. SPENSER AND THE PASTORAL
The Faerie Queene
Giles Fletcher
Phineas Fletcher
William Browne
Basse and Dennys
4. THE METRICAL HISTORIANS: DRAYTON AND DANIEL
Michael Drayton
The Polyolbion
Samuel Daniel
William Warner
5. SONG-BOOKS AND LYRISTS
The Lyrical Miscellanies
Robert Greene
Thomas Lodge
Nicholas Breton
Thomas Campion
Richard Barnfield
Shakespeare’s Poems
6. JOHN DONNE
7. DRUMMOND AND WITHER: RELIGIOUS POETRY
William Drummond
Sir John Davies
Robert Southwell
George Wither
8. CHAPMAN: THE VERSE TRANSLATORS
George Chapman
Minor Translations in Verse
9. HALL AND THE VERSE SATIRISTS
Elizabethan Satire
10. HERO AND LEANDER

BOOK II – PROSE
1. INTRODUCTORY
2. CRITICS
Gabriel Harvey and his theories
Puttenham’s English Poesie
William Webbe
Sidney’s Apologie
Sir John Harington
Heywood’s Apologie
Francis Meres
Ben Jonson’s Timber
3. NOVELISTS
John Lyly
Greene’s Novels
Lodge’s Novels
Sidney’s Arcadia
John Barclay
Thomas Nash
4. SATIRISTS, CARICATURISTS, AND OTHERS: ROBERT BURTON
Thomas Dekker
Nicholas Breton
Books of Characters
Sir Thomas Overbury
John Earle
Robert Burton
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Lord Burghley
Owen Felltham
Reginald Scott
King James
Minor Satirists
5. RELIGIOUS CONTROVERSIALISTS AND THEOLOGIANS: RICHARD HOOKER
The Martin Marplelate Controversy
Richard Hooker
Andrewes, Donne, and others
6. BACON
The Essazs
Henrz VII
The New Atlantis and the Instauratio
7. HISTORIANS, TRAVELLERS, GENERAL WRITERS, AND COMPILERS
Baconąs Henry VII
Sir Walter Raleigh
History of the World
Richard Knolles
William Camden
John Stow or Stowe
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton
Sir Thomas Bodley
Minor Antiquaries
Sir Henry Spelman
James Ussher
John Selden
Sir Henry Wotton
Richard Mulcaster
Richard Hakluyt