The Outline of Literature

CONTENTS

X. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. 1564-1616. BY HAR-

The limitations of the Elizabethan Theatre-How the plays were
performed Shakespeare's idea of good acting--The use of
the soliloquy-The one-sexed stage-Shakespeare's plays and
the English theatre-Educational value of Shakespeare-How
to read the plays-A Midsummer Night's Dream-Romeo and
Juliet-Structural balance of the plays-Twelfth Night-
Julius Cæsar-Macbeth-Lady Macbeth-Banquo's Murder.

XI. SHAKESPEARE TO MILTON

Christopher Marlowe-Doctor Faustus-A tragic death-Ben

Jonson-Francis Bacon-The great scholar-The blot on

Bacon's name-Baconian philosophy-Robert Herrick-A

worldly
parson-Richard Lovelace Other contemporary

writers-Robert Burton-Anatomy of Melancholy-Sir Thomas

Browne-A difficult writer.

XII. JOHN MILTON. BY JOHN DRINKWATER

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A great poet-Milton's life-The spell of Milton-How to read

Andrew Marvell-The Compleat Angler-Peace and quietude.

XIV. JOHN BUNYAN

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Bunyan's life-His imprisonment-Various writings-The Pil-

grim's Progress.

XV. PEPYS, DRYDEN, AND THE RESTORATION

DRAMATISTS

Pepys-The famous Diary-As a playgoer-Extracts from the

Diary-Evelyn's Diary-Samuel Butler-Hudibras-John

Dryden-A great poet-The Restoration dramatists-Congreve

and Wycherley.

XVI. FRENCH LITERATURE IN THE AGE OF LOUIS

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Pascal-The French Academy-Pierre Corneille-Descartes-

Molière His life-His qualities as a writer-Bourgeois Gentil-

homme-Jean Racine-A supreme French writer-Jean de La

Fontaine and Charles Perrault-Perrault's fairy tales-La

Rochefoucauld's Maximes.

XVII. POPE, ADDISON, STEELE, SWIFT

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Alexander Pope-His character-Rape of the Lock-The
Dunciad-Essay on Man-Addison and Steele-The rise of
the modern essay-The England of Queen Anne-Addison's-
career-The Tatler-The Spectator-Tatler and Spectator
compared-An abbey burial-Jonathan Swift-His life and
character-Relations with Stella-A master of prose-Tale of
a Tub-Gulliver's Travels.

XVIII. THE RISE OF THE NOVEL

Defoe-His life-Robinson Crusoe-Richardson's life-Clarissa

-Henry Fielding A great writer-Tom Jones-Laurence

Sterne-His life-Tristram Shandy-A tragic death-Tobias

Smollett-Roderick Random-Humphry Clinker-Mrs. Rad-

cliffe and Miss Edgeworth-Anne Radcliffe-Maria Edgeworth

-Jane Austen-The perfect realist-Her life-The theme of

her novels.

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XIX. THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY POETS

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Chatterton-Thomas Gray-James Thomson-William Cowper.

XX. DR. JOHNSON AND HIS CIRCLE

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"A vile melancholy"-Johnson's Dictionary-The Rambler-

Rasselas The Lives of the Poets-Johnson's Talk-Oliver

Goldsmith-The Traveller-The Citizen of the World-The

Vicar of Wakefield-Edmund Burke-Great thoughts in great

prose.

XXI. EDWARD GIBBON AND OTHER EIGHTEENTH-

CENTURY PROSE-WRITERS

Gibbon-Early years-The great History-Horace Walpole-

Notable prose-writers-James Boswell-White of Selborne-

The Letters of Junius.

XXII. ROBERT BURNS

A national shrine-Early struggles-The Kilmarnock edition—

The poet in Edinburgh-Tardy appreciation-A nation's poet

-James Hogg "The Ettrick Shepherd."

XXIII. THE LITERATURE THAT MADE THE REVOLU-

Voltaire-A great satirist-Diderot and the encyclopædists-

The Encyclopædia-Beaumarchais-Jean-Jacques Rousseau-

Life and work-The Bible of the Revolution-Rousseau's

Confessions.

XXIV. GOETHE, SCHILLER, AND LESSING

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Goethe-A great man of letters-Influence of Goldsmith-Faust

-Schiller-A close friendship-Lessing.

XXV. WORDSWORTH, COLERIDGE, SOUTHEY, AND

BLAKE

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William Wordsworth-Early years-The story of Annette-
Tintern Abbey-The Happy Warrior-Poems of solitude-
Coleridge-Private Comberback-Drift-Southey-The Life
of Nelson-Hood-Moore-William Blake-Poems of beauty
and simplicity-William Cobbett-Rural sides.

XXVI. BYRON, SHELLEY, KEATS

Byron-Harrow and Cambridge-The grand tour-The narrative

poems-Byron's spell-Exiled-Don Juan-A soldier's grave

-Percy Bysshe Shelley-Prometheus Unbound-Emilia

Viviani-Prose writings-John Keats-Early days-The Eve

of St. Agnes.

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ILLUSTRATIONS

UNCLE TOBY AND THE WIDOW WADMAN