CONTENTS. PAGE 58 try, 1558-79. 1558-79. Material and Religious Condi- (Spenser's Faerie Queen... 108 Histories, Unpublished Lyly and Marlowe.. 126 187 (Pope's Three Periods..... 208 (Change of Style and Subj. 188 The Minor Poets ...... 211 Transition Poets..... 191 Poetry of Natural Descrip- 225 Study of Classics Revived. 243 226 Interest in the Past.. 244 Continental Influence. 227 Change of Style.... 245 Sterne and Goldsmith. 229 Man the Subject Fielding-Extract ... 229 Scottish Poetry.. Hume and Gibbon..... 233 Blake's Poetry... Biography and Travels. 235 Man and Nature in Cow- Extract from Gibbon.. 236 per's poetry. Philosophical-Hume..... 239 Extracts from. Political—Burke, A. Smith. 239 Burns—The Love-Poet.... 258 326 Holmes and Ext. from.. 327 | Emerson and Ext. from. 332 American Prose. PERIOD I. PERIOD II. Before the Norman Conquest, 670–1066. Chaucers 1400-1558. PERIOD III. PERIOD IV. Elizabeth's Reign, 1558–1603. toration, 1603–1660. to Swift's Death, 1660-1745. PERIOD VII. From Swift's Death to the French Revolution, 1745-1789. PERIOD VIII. From the French Revolution onwards, 1789 |