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A History of English Literature

A History of English Literature

George Saintsbury

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Chapter 1 "THE FA RIE QUEENE" AND ITS GROUP

Spenser-His life and the order of his works-The Shepherd's Calendar-The

minor poems-The Fa?rie Queene-Its scheme-The Spenserian stanza-

Spenser's language-His general poetical qualities-Comparison with other

English poets-His peculiar charm-The Sonneteers-Fulke Greville-

Sidney-Watson-Barnes-Giles Fletcher the elder-Lodge-Avisa-

Percy-Zepheria-Constable-Daniel-Drayton-Alcilia-Griffin-

Lynch-Smith-Barnfield-Southwell-The song and madrigal writers-

Campion-Raleigh-Dyer-Oxford, etc.-Gifford-Howell, Grove, and

others-The historians-Warner-The larger poetical works of Daniel

and Drayton-The satirists -Lodge-Donne-The poems of Donne

generally-Hall-Marston-Guilpin-Tourneur 82-156

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