The temper of the seventeenth century in English literature; Clark lectures given at Trinity College, Cambridge, in the year 1902-1903
1904
The temper of the seventeenth century in English literature; Clark lectures given at Trinity College, Cambridge, in the year 1902-1903
1904
Elizabethan literature.--The disintegration of the drama.--The decline of the drama.--The divergent masters of the lyric poetry.--The disintegration of lyric poetry.--The development of prose.--The Bible and Bacon.--The development of prose.--Raleigh, Burton and Browne.--The earlier Puritanism.--The later Puritanism.--Milton before the civil wars.--The maturity of Milton.--The age of Dryden