THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE Volume VII: English CAVALIER AND PURITAN Edited by A. W. Ward & A. R. Waller CONTENTS     Table of Principal Dates    Chapter I. Cavalier Lyrists    By F. W. MOORMAN, B.A. (Lond.), Ph.D. (Strassburg), Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature in the University of Leeds The Caroline lyric Decline of the sonnet The classical lyric Influence of Jonson Robert Herrick Hesperides Herrick’s epigrams Noble Numbers Thomas Carew Sir John Suckling Richard Lovelace BIBLIOGRAPHY    II. The Sacred Poets    By the REV. F. E. HUTCHINSON, M.A., Trinity College, Oxford, Chaplain of King’s College The sacred poets a group with personal links, not a new school of poetry George Herbert’s personality and divided aims reflected in his poems His constructive ability The metaphysical fashion Crashaw’s relation to Herbert His knowledge of Spanish and Italian literature A large proportion of his work translation The secular and the sacred poems compared His defective powers of self-criticism Henry Vaughan’s secular poetry His conversion His debt to Herbert, spiritual and literary His links with Wordsworth The re-discovery of Traherne’s poetry and prose-writings Habington’s Castara Quarles and emblem poetry BIBLIOGRAPHY    III. Writers of the Couplet    By A. HAMILTON THOMPSON, M.A., St. John’s College, Cambridge The revolution in English verse Sir John Beaumont George Sandys Edmund Waller Sir John Denham Cooper’s Hill Abraham Cowley The Mistress Pindarique Odes Davideis Cowley’s influence Sir William D’Avenant; Gondibert BIBLIOGRAPHY    IV. Lesser Caroline Poets    By GEORGE SAINTSBURY, M.A., Merton College, Oxford, LL.D., D.Litt., Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature in the University of Edinburgh William Chamberlayne; Pharonnida “Jo. Chalkhill”; Thealma and Clearchus Shakerley Marmion; Cupid and Psyche Sir Francis Kynaston; Leoline and Sydanis Patrick Hannay; Sheretine and Mariana William Bosworth or Boxworth; The Chaste and Lost Lovers or Arcadius and Sepha Nathaniel Whiting; Albino and Bellama Leonard Lawrence; Arnalte and Lucenda Henry King Thomas Stanley John Hall Sidney Godolphin Sir Edward Sherborne Katherine Philips Patrick Cary; William Hammond; Robert Heath; Thomas Beedome; Richard Flecknoe; Henry Hawkins; Thomas Flatman; Philip Ayres; Robert Baron Edward Benlowes Theophila or Love’s Sacrifice John Cleiveland Summary BIBLIOGRAPHY    V. Milton    By GEORGE SAINTSBURY, M.A. Milton’s life at Cambridge and Horton His continental tour His first marriage; Mary Powell His life during the commonwealth His second marriage; Catherine Woodcock His third marriage; Elizabeth Minshull His later years His temperament The growth of his reputation The early poems On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity L’Allegro; Il Penseroso; Arcades; Comus Lycidas Sonnets Paradise Lost Milton’s “plagiarism” Paradise Regained Samson Agonistes Milton’s prose works His Latin writings Milton’s literary form His versification and style BIBLIOGRAPHY    VI. Caroline Divines    By the REV. W. H. HUTTON, B.D., St. John’s College, Oxford Augustin Baker; Sancta Sophia Thomas Traherne; Centuries of Meditations Puritan literature of the days of Charles I Richard Baxter The Saints’ Everlasting Rest The sermons at Paul’s cross Henry Hammond James Ussher Robert Sanderson Gilbert Sheldon William Chillingworth John Hales The Ferrars and Little Gidding Lettice (Morison), lady Falkland George Herbert A Priest to the Temple William Laud Richard Mountague Joseph Hall William Juxon; William Sancroft Lesser Laudians John Gauden Eikon Basilike Jeremy Taylor BIBLIOGRAPHY    VII. John Bunyan. Andrew Marvell    By the REV. JOHN BROWN, D.D. John Bunyan The influence which moulded him Grace Abounding Bunyan’s language The Pilgrim’s Progress Its influence The Holy War The Life and Death of Mr. Badman Andrew Marvell His poems, satires and prose works BIBLIOGRAPHY    VIII. Historical and Political Writings, I STATE PAPERS AND LETTERS    By A. W. WARD, Litt.D., F.B.A., Master of Peterhouse Rushworth’s Collections Thurloe’s State Papers Letters of Henrietta Maria and of Oliver Cromwell Sir Dudley Digges; The Compleat Ambassador Sir Henry Wotton “Intelligencers”; Private letters The Earl of Strafford’s Letters The Fairfax Correspondence The Verney Letters Correspondence of the Family of Hatton James Howell’s Epistolae Ho-Elianae Howell’s other writings BIBLIOGRAPHY    IX. Historical and Political Writings, II HISTORIES AND MEMOIRS    By A. W. WARD, Litt.D., F.B.A. Bacon’s Henry the Seventh Lord Herbert of Cherbury Edmund Bolton Sir Edward Walker William Lilly Peter Heylyn Scottish records Archbishop Spottiswoode David Calderwood Irish history Spenser’s Veue of the Present State of Ireland Pacata Hibernia Other works Clarendon The History of the Rebellion Clarendon’s skill in character drawing Robert Carey’s Memoirs; Sir Robert Naunton’s Fragmata Regalia; John Manningham’s Diary Sir Kenelm Digby’s Private Memoirs Nehemiah Wallington Sir Simonds d’Ewes’s Autobiography and Correspondence John Rous’s Diary Edmund Ludlow’s Memoirs The Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson The Life of William Cavendish, duke of Newcastle Bulstrode Whitelocke Robert Munro BIBLIOGRAPHY    X. Antiquaries SIR THOMAS BROWNE. THOMAS FULLER. IZAAK WALTON. SIR THOMAS URQUHART    By GEORGE SAINTSBURY, M.A. Sir Thomas Browne Religio Medici Browne’s style and vocabulary Pseudodoxia Epidemica Browne’s “scepticism” Hydriotaphia; The Garden of Cyrus A Letter to a Friend Christian Morals Browne’s letters Thomas Fuller His “wit” and style Izaak Walton The Compleat Angler Sir Thomas Urquhart Summary BIBLIOGRAPHY    XI. Jacobean and Caroline Criticism    By J. E. SPINGARN, Professor of Comparative Literature, Columbia University, New York Bacon Ben Jonson Minor forms of criticism The new theory of translation Reynolds’s Mythomystes Milton The aesthetics of Hobbes D’Avenant and Cowley The growth of literary characterisation and “appreciation” The Elizabethan “roll-call” Jonson’s literary “portraits” The commendatory verses The framework of Boccalini The final stage in Dryden BIBLIOGRAPHY    XII. Hobbes and Contemporary Philosophy    By W. R. SORLEY, Litt.D., LL.D., F.B.A., Fellow of King’s College, Knightbridge Professor of Moral Philosophy Logical writings Religious philosophy Robert Greville, lord Brooke Culverwel The Casuists Selden Thomas Hobbes; His life and character Fundamental conception, system of philosophy and controversies Literary style and method of work Leviathan Theory of human nature and of sovereignty Imaginary commonwealths: More’s Utopia and Harrington’s Oceana Filmer The critics of Hobbes Joseph Glanvill Richard Cumberland BIBLIOGRAPHY    XIII. Scholars and Scholarship, 1600–60    By FOSTER WATSON, M.A., Professor of Education in the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth English scholarship and learning in the seventeenth century Close relations between English and continental scholars Influence of French and Dutch scholars Roman Catholic scholarship Baronius’s Annales Isaac Casaubon The spread of patristic learning in England Latin and Greek scholarship Hebrew scholarship University studies Biblical culture BIBLIOGRAPHY    XIV. English Grammar Schools    By J. BASS MULLINGER, M.A., formerly librarian of St. John’s College The transition from the scholastic to the humanistic theory of education Winchester Eton Henry Savile Sedbergh The Edwardian grammar schools St. Paul’s school Westminster The Merchant Taylor’s school Harrow Rugby Shrewsbury Christ’s Hospital Charterhouse John Harvard Oakham and Uppingham Summary BIBLIOGRAPHY    XV. The Beginnings of English Journalism    By J. B. WILLIAMS Gainsford and the Corantos Samuel Pecke, patriarch of the Press Berkenhead, Dillingham, Audley, Nedham, Smith, Rushworth and Border Walker, the ironmonger, and his literary frauds Martin Parker, Sheppard, Wharton, Hall, Frost, Harris and Mabbott John Crouch, Oliver Williams and Canne Henry Muddiman and The Gazette Muddiman’s newsletters BIBLIOGRAPHY    XVI. The Advent of Modern Thought in Popular Literature THE WITCH CONTROVERSY, PAMPHLETEERS    By HAROLD V. ROUTH, M.A., Peterhouse, Professor of Latin, Trinity College, Toronto Demonology in the Middle Ages Belief in witchcraft George Gifford’s Dialogues of Witches King James’s Daemonologie William Perkin’s Art of Witch craft Witch-hunting Astrological treatises Rosicrucianism The history of the broadside The street ballad and other forms of popular literature Cavalier and Roundhead satires Social pamphlets Coffee-houses Letter writing Romances of chivalry The essay Humanists John Wagstaffe’s Question of Witchcraft BIBLIOGRAPHY