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The temper of the seventeenth century in English literature ; Clark lectures given at Trinity college,Cambridge, in the year 1902-1903 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wendell, Barrett, 1855-1921
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : C. Scribner's sons, 1904.
Subjects:
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Table of Contents:
  • Elizabethan literature
  • The disintegration of the drama
  • The decline of the drama
  • The divergent masters of the lyric poetry
  • The disintegration of lyric poetry
  • The development of prose
  • The Bible and Bacon
  • The development of prose
  • Raleigh, Burton and Browne
  • The earlier Puritanism
  • The later Puritanism
  • Milton before the civil wars
  • The maturity of Milton
  • The age of Dryden.