@#ttgligi) #epritttg. Text. Milton Areopagitica . e 1644 Latimer The Ploughers . • I 549 GOSSon The School of Abuse I 579 Sidney An Apology for Poetry . ? 158o Travels • • • E. Webbe • I 590 Selden Table Talk • • • • . 1634-54 Ascham Toxophilus • • - • I 544 Addison Criticism on Paradise Lost . I7II-I2 | Lyly EU PHUES • • . I579-80 IO. Williers The Rehearsal . - • 1671 Gascoigne The Steel Glass, etc. - • • 1576 I2. Earle Micro-cosmographie • • • I628 I3. Latimer 7 Sermons before Epiva Rp VI. 1549 I4. More Utopia . • • • . I 516-57 I5. Puttenham The Art of English Poesy I589 I6. HOWell Instructions for Foreign Travel • I642 I7. TJdall Rotster Dogsfer • . I553-66 I8. Mk. Of Eves. II86-I4Io The Revelation, etc. - I9. James I. A Counterblast to Tobacco, etc. 1604 2O. Naunton Fragmenta Regalia . I653 2I. Watson Aoems . • - • . I 582-93 Habington CASTARA e • o 1640 23. Ascham The Schoolmaster • • I570 24. Tottel's Miscellany [Songs and Sonnets] • I 557 25. Lever Sermons . • • • • I550 26. W. Webbe A Discourse of English Poetry • 1586 27. Lord Bacon A Harmony of the Essays 1597-1626 28. Roy, etc. Read me, and be not wroth / 1528 29. Raleigh, etc. Last Fight of the “Revenge’ I59 I 3O. Googe Eglogues, Epitaphs, and Sonnets 1563 4 1 6 - (For full titles, etc., see pp. 11-2O.) IO English Reprints. I. 2. 3. JOH HUGH STEPHEN MILTON. LAT IM ER. GOS SON Ex-Bishop of Worcester. Stud. Oxon. Areopagitica, The The School 1644. Ploughers. Of Abuse. I549. I579. (a) AREOPAGITICA: A notable Sermon (a) The Schoole of A Speech of Mr. JoHN of ye reuerende father Abuse. Conteining MILTON For the Master HUGHE a pleasaunt inuective Liberty of Vnlicenc'd LATIMER, whiche he against Poets, Pipers, Printing, To the Par £reached in ye Shrouds Platers, /esters, and liament of England. at paules churche in such like Caterpillers (5) A Decree of Starre Jondon on the xviii. of a Common wealth; #Chamber, concerning Print * £ the eleuenth of daye of Januarye. Setting zip the Flagge uly last past, 1637. (c) An Order # the Lords of Defiance to their and Commons assembled in SIR. R. MoRIsoN. Did there mischieuous exercise, Parliament for the Regulat ever any one (I say not in and ouerthrowing ing of Printing, &c. 1643. England only, but among other RD Macaulay. He at nations) flourish since the their Bulwarkes, tacked the licensing time of the Apostles; by in that system who sublime treatise which preached the gospel more sin Prophane Writers, every statesman should wear cerely, purely, and honestly, AVaturall reason and as a sign upon his hand, and than HUGH LATIMER, Bishop as frontlets between his eyes. of Worcester. - Aponaxis common experience. - Edinburgh Review, p. 344, Calumniarum . ouibus A # 1825. JoANNES Coclavs &“c., f. I579. HALLAM. Many pas 78. Ed. 1537. sages in this famous tract are (b) An Apologie admirably eloquent: an in of tense the Schoole of Abuse, love of liberty and truth It was in this Sermon, that flows through it: the majestic LATIMER against Poets, Pipers, soul of (himself an ex Milton breathes such Bishop) astonished his gener Players, and their high thoughts as had not been ation, by saying that the Devil uttered before.—Introduction was Excusers. [Dec.] to the most diligent Prelate the Literature of Europe, and Preacher in all England. I579. iii. 660. Ed. 1839. “Ye shal neuer fynde him W. H. PREScott. The ‘. This attack is thought idle I warraunte you.” to most splendid argument, per have occasioned Sir Philip haps, the world had then SIDNEY's writing of the follow witnessed on behalf of in ing Apologie for Poesie. tellectual liberty.—History of Gosson was, in succession, FERDINANDandisABELLA, Poet, Actor, Dramatist, Satir iii. 391. Ed. 1845. ist, and a Puritan Clergyman. English Reprints. II 4. 5. 6. Sir PHILIP EDWARD JOHN SIDNEY. WEBBE. SELDEN. A Chief Master Gunner. An Apology TravelS. Table Talk. for Poetry. I590. [1634-1654.] [? 1580.] An Apologie for The rare and most Table Talk : being Poetrie. Written by vvonderful thinges the Discourses of JoHN the right noble, vertu zohich EDWARD SELDEN, Esq., or his ous, and learned Sir WEBBE an English Sence of various Mat PHILIP SIDNEY, man borne, hath seene ters of weight and high A night. 1595. and passed in his consequence, relating troublesome trauailes, especially to Religion H. W. LoNGFellow. The defence of Poetry is a work in the Citties of Jer and State. 1689. of rare merit. It is a golden tasalem, Damasko, Be littlevolume,which the scholar S.T. ColeRIDGE. There is may lay beneath his pillow, as thelem and Galely : more weighty bullion sense in book than I ever found in Chrysostom did the works and in all the landes this of AristoPHANES. - North the same number of pages of American Review, p. 57. any uninspired writer. Ol of Jewrie, Egipt, been with SELDEN January 1832. to have Grecia, Russia, and over his glass of wine, making in the Land of every accident an outlet and a The Work thus divides itself: vehicle of wisdom.–Literary The Etymology of Poetry. Prester John. Remains, iii. 361-2. Ed. 1836. The Anatomy of the Effects is setfoorth very of Poetry. Wherein H. HALLAM. This The Anatomy of the Parts his extreame slauerie short and small volume gives, of Poetry. perhaps, a more exalted notion Objections to Poetry an sustained many yeres of SelDEN's natural talents swered. togither, in the Gallies than any of his learned writ Criticism of the existing ings. - Introduction to the English Poetry. and wars of the great Literature of Europe, iii. 347. Turk against the Ed. 1836. Landes of Persia, Tar taria, Spaine, and Rortugall, with the Above all things, Liberty? manner of his release ment and coming to England. [1590.] I 2 English Reprints. 7. 8. 9. ROGER JOSEPH JOHN LYLY, A/ovelist, Wit, Poet, ASCHAM. ADDISON. and Dramatist. Toxophilus. Criticism. On Eup hues. Paradise Lost. I544. 1579-1580. 1711-1712. From the Spectator, being Toxophilus, the its Saturday issues between EUPHVES, the An Schole of Shootinge, 1 December, 1711, and 3 atomy of Wit. Very ay 1712. In these papers, conteyned in two which constitute a Primer Pleasant for all Gentle bookes. to Paradise Lost, ADDISON men to reade, and most first made known and inter To all Gentlemen preted, to the general English necessary to remember. public, the great Epic poem, VWherein are con and yomen of Eng which had then been published lande, pleasaunte for nearly half-a-century. teined the delights that theyr pastime to rede, Wit followeth in his and profitable for theyr youth, by the pleasant use to follow both in After a general discussion nesse of loue, and the of the Fable, the Characters, awar and peace. the Sentiments, the Lan happinesse he reapeth guage, and the Defects of MILTON's Great Poem; the in age by the perfect In a dialogue between Critic devotes a Paper to the nesse of Wisedome. To YOPHILUs and PHIEO consideration of the Beauties Eocus, ASCHAM not only of each of its Twelve Books. I579. gives us one of the very best EUPHUES and his books on Archery in our language; but as he tells England. Contain King Henry VIII, in his ing his voyage and ad Dedication, “this litle treatise was purposed, begon, and wentures, myxed with ended of me, onelie for this intent, that Labour, Honest sundry pretie dis pastime, and Vertu might courses of honest Loue, recouer againe that place and right, that Idlenesse, Un the description of the thriftie Gaming, and Vice countrey, the Court, hath put them fro.” and the manners of that Isle. 158o. Of great importance in our Literary History. - English Reprints. I3 IO. II. 12. GEORGE GEORGE JOHN VILLIERS, GASCOIG NE, E A R L E, Soldier and Poet. Second Duke of BUCK. After wards Bishop of JNGHAM. SALISBURP. The The Steel Microcosmo. ReheaPSal. Glass, &c. graphie. 1671. 1576. 1628. The Rehearsal, as it (a) A Remembraunce Micro-cosmographie, was Acted at the of the wel imployed or a Peece of the Theatre Royal. life, and godly end, of World discovered, in GEORGE GASKoIGNE, Essays and Many of the passages of Esquire, who deceassed Characters. anterior plays that were paro died in this famous Dramatic at Stalmford in Lin Satire on DRYDEN in the char coln shire, the 7 of This celebrated book of acter of BA YES, are placed Characters is graphically de on opposite pages to the text. October, 1577. The scriptive of the English social BRIAN FAIRfax's remarkable reporte of GEOR. life of the time, as it pre life of this Duke of BUCKING sented itself to a young Fellow HAM is also prefixed to the WHETSTONs, Gent. of Merton College, Oxford; play. [1577.] including A She precise Hypo There is only one copy of crite, A Sceptic in Religion, The Heroic Plays, first intro this metrical Life. It is in A good old man, &c. duced by Sir W. D'AvenANT, the Bodleian Library. and afterwards greatly de This Work is a notable veloped by DRYDEN, are the (b) Certayne notes specimen of a considerable object of this laughable attack. of instruction concern s of books in our Litera LACY, who acted the part of ture, full of interest; and AA YES, imitated the dress ing the making of verse which help Posterity much and gesticulation of DRYDEN. or ryme in Eng better to understand the The Poetrepaid this compli Times in which they were ment to the Duke of BuckinG lish. 1575. written. HAM, in 1681, by introduc This is our First printed ing him in the character of piece of Poetical Criticism.