, Professor of
Rhetoric
and English Literature in the
University of Edinburgh
William Chamberlayne.
University of Edinburgh
William Chamberlayne.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v07
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THE
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OF
ENGLISH LITERATURE
EDITED BY
1
A. W. WARD, Litt. D. , F. B. A. , Master of Peterhouse
AND
A. R. WALLER, M. A. , Peterhouse
,
VOLUME VII
CAVALIER AND PURITAN
ET
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ALNA
MATER
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CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
CAVALIER LYRISTS
By F. W. MOORMAN, B. A. (Lond. ), Ph. D. (Strassburg), Assistant
Professor of English Language and Literature in the Uni.
versity of Leeds
PAGE
The Caroline lyric. Decline of the sonnet. The classical lyrio. In-
fluence of Jonson. Robert Herrick. Hesperides. Herrick's
epigrams. Noble Numbers. Thomas Carew. Sir John Suckling.
Richard Lovelace
1
CHAPTER II
THE SACRED POETS
G
By the Rev. F. E. HUTCHINSON, M. A. , Trinity College, Oxford,
Chaplain of King's College
3
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.
version. 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
His con-
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CHAPTER III
WRITERS OF THE COUPLET
By A. HAMILTON THOMPSON, M. A. , St John's College
>
PAGE
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
48
CHAPTER IV
LESSER CAROLINE POETS
By GEORGE SAINTSBURY, M. A. , Merton College, Oxford, LLD. ,
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 Flat-
man. Philip Ayres. Robert Baron. Edward Benlowes. Theophila
or Love's Sacrifice. John Cleiveland. Summary
72
CHAPTER 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. ' Para-
dise Regained. Samson Agonistes. Milton's prose works. His
Latin writings. Milton's literary form. His versification and style
Appendix. A conspectus of Milton's prose works, with a note on the
text of the poems
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Contents
vii
CHAPTER VI
CAROLINE DIVINES
By the Rev. W. H. HUTTON, B. D. , St John's College, Oxford
PAGE
Augustin Baker. Sancta Sophia. Thomas Traherne. Centuries of
Meditations.
, 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 Flat-
man. Philip Ayres. Robert Baron. Edward Benlowes. Theophila
or Love's Sacrifice. John Cleiveland. Summary
72
CHAPTER 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. ' Para-
dise Regained. Samson Agonistes. Milton's prose works. His
Latin writings. Milton's literary form. His versification and style
Appendix. A conspectus of Milton's prose works, with a note on the
text of the poems
6
95
139
.
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Contents
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CHAPTER VI
CAROLINE DIVINES
By the Rev. W. H. HUTTON, B. D. , St John's College, Oxford
PAGE
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
142
CHAPTER VII
JOHN BUNYAN
ANDREW MARVELL
By the Rev. JOHN BROWN, D. D.
John Banyan. 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
166
CHAPTER 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 Corre-
spondence. The Verney Letters. Correspondence of the Family
of Hatton, James Howell's Epistolae Ho-Elianae. Howell's
other writings
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CHAPTER IX
HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL WRITINGS
II. HISTORIES AND MEMOIRS
By A. W. WARD, Litt. D. , F. B. A.
PAGE
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.
202
CHAPTER 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
232
.
CHAPTER 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 charac-
terisation and appreciation. The Elizabethan roll-call. Jonson's
literary portraits. The commendatory verses. The framework of
Boccalini.
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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
C. F. CLAY, MANAGER
London: FETTER LANE, E. C.
Edinburgh: 100, PRINCES STREET
Paris : THE GALIGNANI LIBRARY
Berlin: A. ASHER AND CO.
Bombay and Calcutta: MACMILLAN AND CO. , Ltd.
Copyrighted in the United States of America by
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All rights reserved
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THE
CAMBRIDGE HISTORY
OF
ENGLISH LITERATURE
EDITED BY
1
A. W. WARD, Litt. D. , F. B. A. , Master of Peterhouse
AND
A. R. WALLER, M. A. , Peterhouse
,
VOLUME VII
CAVALIER AND PURITAN
ET
LVCEN
APOCVLA *SACRAE
ALNA
MATER
CANTA
BRIOLA
CAMBRIDGE:
at the University Press
1911
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PRINTED BY JOHN CLAY, M. A.
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R620. 9
Clii
V. 7
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
CAVALIER LYRISTS
By F. W. MOORMAN, B. A. (Lond. ), Ph. D. (Strassburg), Assistant
Professor of English Language and Literature in the Uni.
versity of Leeds
PAGE
The Caroline lyric. Decline of the sonnet. The classical lyrio. In-
fluence of Jonson. Robert Herrick. Hesperides. Herrick's
epigrams. Noble Numbers. Thomas Carew. Sir John Suckling.
Richard Lovelace
1
CHAPTER II
THE SACRED POETS
G
By the Rev. F. E. HUTCHINSON, M. A. , Trinity College, Oxford,
Chaplain of King's College
3
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.
version. 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
His con-
NYT
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1008915
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vi
Contents
CHAPTER III
WRITERS OF THE COUPLET
By A. HAMILTON THOMPSON, M. A. , St John's College
>
PAGE
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
48
CHAPTER IV
LESSER CAROLINE POETS
By GEORGE SAINTSBURY, M. A. , Merton College, Oxford, LLD. ,
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 Flat-
man. Philip Ayres. Robert Baron. Edward Benlowes. Theophila
or Love's Sacrifice. John Cleiveland. Summary
72
CHAPTER 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. ' Para-
dise Regained. Samson Agonistes. Milton's prose works. His
Latin writings. Milton's literary form. His versification and style
Appendix. A conspectus of Milton's prose works, with a note on the
text of the poems
6
95
139
.
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Contents
vii
CHAPTER VI
CAROLINE DIVINES
By the Rev. W. H. HUTTON, B. D. , St John's College, Oxford
PAGE
Augustin Baker. Sancta Sophia. Thomas Traherne. Centuries of
Meditations.
, 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 Flat-
man. Philip Ayres. Robert Baron. Edward Benlowes. Theophila
or Love's Sacrifice. John Cleiveland. Summary
72
CHAPTER 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. ' Para-
dise Regained. Samson Agonistes. Milton's prose works. His
Latin writings. Milton's literary form. His versification and style
Appendix. A conspectus of Milton's prose works, with a note on the
text of the poems
6
95
139
.
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Contents
vii
CHAPTER VI
CAROLINE DIVINES
By the Rev. W. H. HUTTON, B. D. , St John's College, Oxford
PAGE
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
142
CHAPTER VII
JOHN BUNYAN
ANDREW MARVELL
By the Rev. JOHN BROWN, D. D.
John Banyan. 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
166
CHAPTER 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 Corre-
spondence. The Verney Letters. Correspondence of the Family
of Hatton, James Howell's Epistolae Ho-Elianae. Howell's
other writings
186
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viii
Contents
CHAPTER IX
HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL WRITINGS
II. HISTORIES AND MEMOIRS
By A. W. WARD, Litt. D. , F. B. A.
PAGE
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.
202
CHAPTER 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
232
.
CHAPTER 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 charac-
terisation and appreciation. The Elizabethan roll-call. Jonson's
literary portraits. The commendatory verses. The framework of
Boccalini.
