Radcliffe School); *Scott's _Waverley, Antiquary,
Ivanhoe, Old Mortality, Bride of Lammermoor_. It seems hardly necessary
to give a selection of later novels.
Chapter X.--W.B. Yeats' Poems; Wilde, _Importance of Being Earnest_;
*Synge, Dramatic Works.
And every new work of the best contemporary authors.
G.H.M.
LIST OF THE CHIEF WORKS AND AUTHORS MENTIONED
The dates attached to the authors are those of birth and death; those
with the books, of publication.
CHAPTER I
Sir Thomas More, 1480-1535.
_Utopia_. 1516 (in Latin).
William Tindall, 1484-1536.
_Translation of the New Testament_, 1526.
Sir John Cheke, 1514-1557.
Roger Ascham, 1515-1568.
_Toxophilus_, 1545.
_Schoolmaster_, 1570.
Richard Hakluyt, 1553-1616.
His _Voyages_, 1598.
CHAPTER II
Sir Thomas Wyatt, 1503-1542.
The Earl of Surrey, 1517-1547.
_Tottel's Miscellany_ (containing their poems), 1557.
Sir Philip Sidney. 1554-1586.
_Arcadia_, 1590.
_Astrophel and Stella_, 1591.
Edmund Spenser, 1552-1599.
_Shepherd's Calendar_, 1579.
_Fairy Queen_, 1589, 1596.
John Lyly, 1554-1606.
_Euphues_, 1579.
_Euphues and his England_, 1580.
Richard Hooker, 1553-1600.
_Ecclesiastical Polity_, 1594.
CHAPTER III
Christopher Marlowe, 1564-1593.
_Tamburlaine_, 1587 (date of performance).
_Dr. Faustus_, 1588 (date of performance).
_Edward II._, 1593.
Thomas Kyd, 1557(?)-1595(?).
_The Spanish Tragedy_, 1594 (published).
John Webster, 1580(?)-1625(?).
_The White Devil_, 1608 (date of performance).
_Duchess of Malfi_, 1616 (date of performance).
Ben Jonson, 1573-1637.
_Every Man in his Humour_, 1598.
_Volpone_, 1605.
_Poems_, 1616.
CHAPTER IV
John Donne, 1573-1631.
_Poems_, 1633 (first published, but known, like those of all
Elizabethan poets, in manuscript long before).
William Browne, 1591-1643.
George Herbert, 1593-1633.
Robert Herrick, 1593-1674.
Richard Crashaw, 1613-1649.
Francis Bacon, 1561-1626.
_Advancement of Learning_, 1605.
_Essays_, 1625.
The Bible, _Authorised Version_, 1611.
Robert Burton, 1577-1640.
_Anatomy of Melancholy_, 1621.
Sir Thomas Browne, 1605-1682.
_Religio Medici_, 1642.
John Bunyan, 1628-1688.
_Pilgrim's Progress_, 1678.
John Milton, 1608-1674.
_Paradise Lost_, 1667.
_Paradise Regained_ and _Samson Agonistes_, 1671.
CHAPTER V
John Dryden, 1631-1700.
_Absalom and Achitophel_ and _Religio Laici_, 1682.
_The Hind and t
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