THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY of ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE

An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes Volume IV: English PROSE AND POETRY SIR THOMAS NORTH TO MICHAEL DRAYTON Edited by A. W. Ward & A. R. Waller
Bibliographic Record


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CONTENTS
Note
Table of Principal Dates

Chapter I.
Translators

By CHARLES WHIBLEY, Jesus College
The Craft of Translation
Translations of the Classics
Painter and Fenton
Machiavelli’s Prince
The Diall of Princes
Sir Thomas North’s Plutarch
Philemon Holland
Florio’s Montaigne
Stanyhurst’s Vergil
Phaer’s Vergil
Golding’s Ovid
Chapman’s Homer
Sylvester, Fairfax, Harington
The Charge of Plagiarism BIBLIOGRAPHY

II.
The “Authorised Version” and its Influence

By ALBERT S. COOK, L.H.D., LL.D., Professor of the English Language and Literature in Yale University
The Authorised Version the first English classic
Character of the Bible, its constitution and qualities
The Nature of the Hebrew language, poetry and prose
Jerome, of the Latin Vulgate
Old English Versions
The Wyclifite versions
Tindale and the Authorised Version
Coverdale’s Version
The position of the Bible in English Literature
The English of the Bible
The Influence of the Authorised Version upon English Literature BIBLIOGRAPHY

III.
Sir Walter Ralegh

By LOUISE CREIGHTON
Cynthia and other poems
Prose Writings
The story of The Revenge
Guiana
The History of the World
Political Writings BIBLIOGRAPHY

IV.
The Literature of the Sea FROM THE ORIGINS TO HAKLUYT

By Commander CHARLES N. ROBINSON, R.N., and JOHN LEYLAND
Early Writers
John Cabot
The Impulse from Abroad
Richard Eden
Sir Hugh Willoughby; Sebastian Cabot
Sir John Hawkins
Sir Humphrey Gilbert
Martin Frobisher
Richard Willes
John Davys
Sir Richard Hawkins
The Spirit of Travel in English Literature
Richard Hakluyt BIBLIOGRAPHY

V.
Seafaring and Travel THE GROWTH OF PROFESSIONAL TEXT-BOOKS AND GEOGRAPHICAL LITERATURE

By Commander CHARLES N. ROBINSON, R.N., and JOHN LEYLAND
Richard Knolles’s Compilations
Coryats Crudities
Samuel Purchas
Captain John Smith
The Spirit of Imperialism
Lancaster’s Expedition
William Adams in Japan
Australia and Madagascar
Sir William Monson
Books for the use of Seamen; Smith’s Accidence
Thomas James and Luke Fox
Theory and Practice BIBLIOGRAPHY

VI.
The Song-Books and Miscellanies

By HAROLD H. CHILD, sometime Scholar of Brasenose College, Oxford
Music and Poetry
William Byrd; Musical Composers
Lyric Poetry in the Drama
The Phoenix Nest; Nicholas Breton; Thomas Lodge
England’s Helicon; “Ignoto”
Anthony Munday
John Wotton; Richard Barnfield
Pastoral Poems
A Poetical Rapsody; Francis Davison; “A.W.”; Sir Edward Dyer BIBLIOGRAPHY

VII.
Robert Southwell. Samuel Daniel

By HAROLD H. CHILD
Robert Southwell
John Davies of Hereford
Abraham Fraunce
Samuel Daniel
Delia; The Complaynt of Rosamond; Musophilus
Warner’s Albion’s England
Daniel’s Civil Wars
His Diction BIBLIOGRAPHY

VIII.
Thomas Campion

By S. PERCIVAL VIVIAN, sometime Scholar of St. John’s College, Oxford
His Life
His Works
His Prosody BIBLIOGRAPHY

IX.
The Successors of Spenser

By HUGH DE SÉLINCOURT, University College, Oxford
Drummond of Hawthornden
George Wither
William Browne
Fulke Greville
Sir John Davies
Sir Henry Wotton
Giles and Phineas Fletcher BIBLIOGRAPHY

X.
Michael Drayton

By HAROLD H. CHILD
Drayton’s Boyhood
The Harmonie of the Church
Idea
The Identity of “Idea”
Legends
Ideas Mirrour
Endimion and Phœbe
Mortimeriados
Englands Heroicall Epistles
His Satires and Odes
Poly-Olbion
Nimphidia
The Muses Elizium
His “divine” poems
His Achievement BIBLIOGRAPHY

XI.
John Donne

By HERBERT J. C. GRIERSON, M.A., Chalmers Professor of English Literature in the University of Aberdeen
Donne’s Relation to Petrarch
His Life
The History of his Poems
His Satires
Songs and Sonets
Elegies
His Love Poetry
His “Wit”
The Progresse of the Soule
Letters and Funerall Elegies
Religious Verses
Paradoxes, Problems and other Prose Writings
Sermons
Letters
His Position and Influence BIBLIOGRAPHY

XII.
The English Pulpit from Fisher to Donne

By the Rev. F. E. HUTCHINSON, M.A., Trinity College, Oxford; Chaplain of King’s College, Cambridge
Revival of Preaching in the Sixteenth Century
The Printing of Sermons in the Vernacular
Fisher’s Sense of Style
Colet and Longland
Latimer’s directness, story-telling and denunciation of social wrongs
The second generation of Reformation Preachers: Lever, Bradford and Gilpin
Literary Preaching: Jewel, Sandys; Hooker
“The Silver-tongued preacher”
Roman Catholic devotional literature
Puritan exaltation of the Sermon
Andrewes and Donne compared BIBLIOGRAPHY

XIII.
Robert Burton, John Barclay and John Owen

By EDWARD BENSLY, M.A., Trinity College; Professor of Latin, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth
Robert Burton
The Anatomy of Melancholy
His Reading and Methods of Quotation
Influence of The Anatomy
John Barclay
Euphormionis Satyricon
Argenis
Medieval and Modern Latin Verse
John Owen’s Epigrams
His Influence BIBLIOGRAPHY

XIV.
The Beginnings of English Philosophy

By W. R. SORLEY, Litt.D., LL.D., F.B.A., Fellow of King’s College, and Knightbridge Professor of Moral Philosophy
The Language of Philosophy
English Contributions to Medieval Philosophy
Johannes Scotus Erigena
The Attitude to Scholasticism of Duns Scotus and of Ockham
Roger Bacon and the Method of Science
Philosophy in English universities; Revival of Aristotelianism in the 16th Century; Everard Digby
William Temple and the Ramists
William Gilbert and Experimental Science
Francis Bacon
The Great Instauration
The Interpretation of Nature and the New Method
The Value of the Method
Herbert of Cherbury BIBLIOGRAPHY

XV.
Early Writings on Politics and Economics

By the Ven. Archdeacon CUNNINGHAM, D.D., F.B.A., Fellow of Trinity College
National Life as Reflected in Literature
Elements in the Rise of Nationalities—Patriotic Sentiment, Democratic Self-Government, National Resources as the means of gratifying National Ambitions
Patriotic Pride in a well-ordered monarchy as reflected in English Literature; suspicion of the pursuit of private interests, as inimical to public welfare
Ecclesiastical Character of the demand for Individual Independence in Scotland, and for Democratic Institutions
English Constitutionalism
Medieval Works on Estates Management
Descriptions of the Realm
Prescriptions for improving its resources
Writings on the administration of particular offices, and on Companies for Commerce and for Colonisation
Treatises on Usury
The Problem of Pauperism
The Mercantile System BIBLIOGRAPHY

XVI.
London and the Development of Popular Literature CHARACTER WRITING. SATIRE. THE ESSAY

By HAROLD V. ROUTH, M.A., Peterhouse; Professor of Latin in Trinity College, Toronto
London in the times of Elizabeth and James
Lodge on Usury
Nashe’s Anatomie of Absurditie
Robert Greene’s Social Pamphlets
Nashe
Rise of Formal Satire
Joseph Hall: Virgidemiarum
Marston’s Satires
“Humours”
Epigrams and Character Sketch
Theophrastus
Hall’s Characters
The Man in the Moone
Sir Thomas Overbury
John Stephens
John Earle
Origins of the Essay
Sir William Cornwallis
Robert Johnson
Bacon’s Essays
Ben Jonson’s Timber
Tobacco-pamphlets
Discoverie of the Knights of the Poste
Thomas Dekker
Grobianism
Samuel Rowlands
Burlesques
Jest Books
Wagering Journeys
Pimlyco
Broadsides and Street Ballads BIBLIOGRAPHY

XVII.
Writers on Country Pursuits and Pastimes GERVASE MARKHAM

By H. G. ALDIS, M.A., Peterhouse; Secretary of the University Library
Gervase Markham
His Predecessors
Leonard Mascall
Barnabe Googe
Sir Hugh Plat
Topsell
Herbals BIBLIOGRAPHY

XVIII.
The Book-Trade, 1557–1625

By H. G. ALDIS
The Incorporation of the Stationers’ Company
Star Chamber Decrees; The Stationers’ Registers
Censors
Trade Discipline
Printing Monopolies
Apprentices
The Beginnings of a Business
Compilers, “Readers” and Translators
Ballad Writers
Patrons
Copyright
John Taylor, the Thames waterman
Pirates; The Shakespeare Stationers
Edward Blount
George Wither’s evidence
Richard Grafton
William Copland
John Day
William Ponsonby; Christopher and Robert Barker
St. Paul’s Churchyard
London Bridge
English Printing
Illustrations
Foreign presses
Book Fairs
Early Catalogues
Bookbindings
Prices
Provincial Stationers
Cambridge University Press
Oxford University Press
The Scottish Press: Chepman and Myllar
Gourlaw’s Inventory
Printing in Ireland BIBLIOGRAPHY

XIX.
The Foundation of Libraries

By J. BASS MULLINGER, M.A., Formerly Librarian of St. John’s College
A retrospect
Monastic libraries
Cathedral libraries
Cambridge College libraries
Oxford College libraries
Thomas Bodley
Cambridge University Library
The Chetham Library, Manchester
Sion College, London
Trinity College, Dublin
Drummond’s books, Edinburgh