1824. The present Bid Ed. in 3orts. Wind 1540 dres OF ENGLISH POETRY, FROM THE CLOSE OF THE ELEVENTH CENTURY TO THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED, THREE DISSERTATIONS: 1. OF THE ORIGIN OF ROMANTIC FICTION IN EUROPE. 2. ON THE INTRODUCTION OF LEARNING INTO ENGLAND. BY THOMAS WARTON, B.D. FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, OXFORD, AND OF THE SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES, AND FROM THE EDITION OF 1824 SUPERINTENDED BY THE LATE RICHARD PRICE, Esq. INCLUDING THE NOTES OF MR. RITSON, DR. ASHBY, MR. DOUCE, AND MR. PARK. NOW FURTHER IMPROVED BY THE CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS OF SEVERAL EMINENT ANTIQUARIES. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. III. LONDON: PRINTED FOR THOMAS TEGG, 73 CHEAPSIDE. CONTENTS. VOL. III. SECTION XXXVI. Page View of the Revival of Learning in England, continued. Reformation of Religion. Its effects on Literature in England. Application of this digression to the main subject SECTION XXXVII. Petrarch's sonnets. Lord Surrey. His education, travels, mistress, life, and poetry. He is the first writer of blank-verse. Italian blank-verse. Surrey the first English classic poet SECTION XXXVIII. Sir Thomas Wyat. Inferior to Surrey as a writer of Sonnets. His Life. SECTION XXXIX. The first printed Miscellany of English Poetry. Its Contributors. Sir Francis Bryan, Lord Rochford, and Lord Vaulx. The First True Pastoral in English. Sonnet-writing cultivated by the Nobility. Sonnets by King Henry the Eighth. Literary character of that king SECTION XL. The Second Writer of Blank-verse in English. Specimens of early Blank 21 41 1 51 verse 65 SECTION XLI. ... Andrew Borde. Bale. Ansley. Chertsey. Fabyll's Ghost, a poem. 72 SECTION XLII. John Heywood the Epigrammatist. His Works examined. Ancient unpublished burlesque Poem of Sir Penny 84 |