TALK XXII. ON CHRISTOPHer Marlowe, THE GREAT PRE-

DECESSOR OF SHAKSPEARE,

.

132

TALK XXIII. ON WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE, HIS LIFE AND

CHARACTER AND WORKS, .

TALK XXIV. EXTRACTS FROM SHAKSPEARE'S PLAYS-RICH-

ARD II, HAMLET, THE TEMPEST,

TALK XXV. ON THE DRAMATIC POETS WHO LIVED IN

SHAKSPEARE'S TIME: BEN JONSON, BEAUMONT AND

FLETCHER

139

147

TALK XXVI. ON GEORGE CHAPMAN, JOHN WEBSTER, JOHN

MARSTON AND OTHER DRAMATISTS,

TALK XXVII. ON THE SINGERS OF THE GOLDEN AGE OF PO-

ETRY: DONNE, WOTTON, WITHER, HERBERT AND

HERRICK,

TALK XXVIII.

157

167

THE SINGERS OF THE GOLDEN AGE OF POET-

RY: CAREW, SUCKLING, LOVELACE, WALLER,

THE CIVIL WAR AND RESTORATION. MILTON TO

DRYDEN-1608 TO 1700,

TALK XXX. MILTON'S COMUS, PARADISE Lost, and SamsoN

AGONISTES,

TALK XXXI. ON MILTON'S CONTEMPORARIES: MARVELL,

COWLEY AND BUTLER,

TALK

TALK XXXII. THE DIARIES OF SAMUEL PEPYS AND JOHN

TALK XXXIII. ON THE PROSE WRITERS OF THE SEVEN-

TEENTH CENTURY: JOHN BUNYAN AND HIS PIL-

GRIM'S PROGRESS,

TALK XXXIV. ON THE DRAMA OF THE RESTORATION, JOHN

DRYDEN AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES,

TALK XXXV. ON ALEXANDER POPE AND HIS SCHOOL OF

TALK XXXVI. ON PRIOR, GAY AND PARNELL,

TALK XXXVII. ON THE AUTHOR OF ROBINSON CRUSOE,

254

260

266

TALK XXXVIII. ON ADDISON AND STEÈLE, EDITORS OF THE

SPECTATOR,

273

TALK XXXIX. ON JOSEPH ADDISON'S Essays,

. 279

TALK XL. ON THE GREAT DEAN SWIFT,

282

TALK XLI. ENGLISH COMEDY WRITERS; CONGREVE, Van-

BRUGH, FARQUHAR,

291

TALK XLII. A GROUP OF EIGHTEENTH CENTURY POETS:

YOUNG, THOMPSON AND SHENSTONE,

295

TALK XLIII. EIGHTEENTH CENTURY POETS: GRAY, COLLINS,

AKENSIDE, BEATTIE,

TALK XLIV. ON THE BIRTH OF THE ENGLISH NOVEL: RICH-

ARDSON AND FIELDING,

TALK XLV. THE NOVELISTS SMOLLETT AND STERNE, .

TALK XLVA ON OLIVER GOLDSMITH AND "THE VICAR OF

. 302

307

313

317

TALK XLIX. THE WORK OF THOMAS PERCY AND JAMES

MACPHERSON, AND THE SAD STORY OF THOMAS CHAT-

TERTON, THE BOY-POET,

TALK L. ON WILLIAM COWPER AND ROBERT BURNS,

414

TALK LIII. THOMAS CAMPBELL AND TOM MOORE,

TALK LIV. ON SIR WALTER SCOTT AND LORD BYRON, .

TALK LV. ON PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY,

TALK LVI. ON JOHN KEATS,

TALK LVII. ON SOME FRIENDS OF THE LAKE POETS,

TALK LVIII.

ON WALTER SCOTT AND THE WAVERLEY Nov-

TALK LIX. ON WALTER SCOTT, THE NOVELIST,

SPECIMENS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE UP TO THE TIME OF

423

431

442

443

LIST OF ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS OF THE BIBLE,

LIST OF ENGLISH POETS LAUREATE,

LIST OF SHAKSPEARE'S PLAYS WHICH APPEARED IN FOLIO OF

English Literatuce.

PART I.

PRIOR TO CHAUCER.

449 TO 1300.