THE THIRD DRAMATIC PERIOD

Characteristics--Beaumont and Fletcher--Middleton--Webster--Heywood--
Tourneur--Day 253-288

CHAPTER VIII

THE SCHOOL OF SPENSER AND THE TRIBE OF BEN

Sylvester--Davies of Hereford--Sir John Davies--Giles and Phineas
Fletcher--William Browne--Wither--Drummond--Stirling--Minor Jacobean
poets--Songs from the dramatists 289-314

CHAPTER IX

MILTON, TAYLOR, CLARENDON, BROWNE, HOBBES

The quintet--Milton's life--His character--His periods of literary
production--First Period, the minor poems--The special excellences of
_Comus_--_Lycidas_--Second Period, the pamphlets--Their merits and
defects--Milton's prose style--Third Period, the larger poems--
Milton's blank verse--His origins--His comparative position--Jeremy
Taylor's life--His principal works--His style--Characteristics of his
thought and manner--Sir Thomas Browne--His life, works, and editions
--His literary manner--Characteristics of his style and vocabulary--
His Latinising--Remarkable adjustment of his thought and expression--
Clarendon--His life--Great merits of his _History_--Faults of his
style--Hobbes--His life and works--Extraordinary strength and
clearness of his style 315-353

CHAPTER X

CAROLINE POETRY

Herrick--Carew--Crashaw--Divisions of Minor Caroline poetry--Miscellanies
--George Herbert--Sandys--Vaughan--Lovelace and Suckling--Montrose--
Quarles--More--Beaumont--Habington--Chalkhill--Marmion--Kynaston--
Chamberlayne--Benlowes--Stanley--John Hall--Patrick Carey--Cleveland
--Corbet--Cartwright, Sherburne, and Brome--Cotton--The general
characteristics of Caroline poetry--A defence of the Caroline poets
354-393

CHAPTER XI

THE FOURTH DRAMATIC PERIOD

Weakening of dramatic strength--Massinger--Ford--Shirley--Randolph--Brome
--Cokain--Glapthorne--Davenant--Suckling--Minor and anonymous plays
of the Fourth and other Periods--The Shakesperian Apocrypha 394-427

CHAPTER XII

MINOR CAROLINE PROSE

Burton--Fuller--Lord Herbert of Cherbury--Izaak Walton--Howell--Earle--
Felltham--The rest 428-444

CONCLUSION