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Contents.
First Afternoon:
A Summer Vacation.-The Sonnet Defined.-Its Modern Origin.—
Early Italian Sonnet-writers.-English Versions of Sonnets by Dante
and Petrarch.—Origin of English Sonnet.-Sir Thomas Wyatt.—The
Earl of Surrey.-Influence of Sonnet on English Literature. Page 6
Second Afternoon:
State of English Poetry between Chaucer and Spenser.-The Pioneers
of English Poetry.-Sir Philip Sidney.-Edmund Spenser.-William
Shakespeare.
Third Afternoon :
39
The Elizabethan Era.-The Sonnet and Shakespeare's Contemporaries
and Successors.-Ben Jonson.-Sir Walter Raleigh.-George Chap-
man.-Samuel Daniel.-Michael Drayton.-Sir John Davies . 75
Fourth Afternoon:
The Era of James the First.-Literary Character of James.-The Ba-
silicon Doron.-John Donne.-Drummond of Hawthornden.—Thom-
as Carew.-Robert Herrick.-George Wither.-William Browne.-
George Herbert.-Transitional Period of English Poetry.-William
Habington.-Edmund Waller
Fifth Afternoon :
113
Don Quixote's Safety-valve.-John Milton.-Poetical School of Addi-
son and Pope.-Alexander Pope.-Dr. Edward Young.-New Era of
Poets.-Thomas Gray.-William Cowper.-Thomas Warton.-Wil-
liam Lisle Bowles. - Extended Sphere of Sonnet. -William Words-
worth
155
Sixth Afternoon :
Wordsworth's Contemporaries.-Robert Southey.-S. T. Coleridge.—
Lord Byron.-Robert Burns.-Samuel Rogers.-James Montgomery.
-Percy B. Shelley. - John Keats.- Henry Kirke White.—Charles
Lamb.-Barry Cornwall. - Charles Lloyd. — Bernard Barton.- Hen-
ry F. Cary. Thomas N. Talfourd. - Charlotte Smith. Mrs. He-
Page 213
mans
Seventh Afternoon :
Character of Love Poems by Women.-Alleged sameness of Modern
Sonnets.-Leigh Hunt.-Washington Allston.-Richard H. Dana.—
Joseph Rodman Drake.-William Motherwell.-Alfred Tennyson.-—
Henry W. Longfellow. - William C. Bryant.-John G. Whittier.-
Tom Hood.-Aubrey De Vere.-James R. Lowell.-Edmund C. Sted-
man.-Matthew Arnold.-Thomas B. Aldrich.-David M. Moir.-Rob-
ert Buchanan.—Henry Alford. Sydney Dobell.-Edgar A. Poe.
Oliver W. Holmes.-Charles T. Turner.-Blanco White 261