A MANUAL

OF

ENGLISH LITERATURE,

AND OF THE HISTORY OF

THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE,

FROM

THE NORMAN CONQUEST;

WITH NUMEROUS SPECIMENS.

BY

GEORGE L. CRAIK, LL.D.

PROFESSOR OF HISTORY AND OF ENGLISH LITERATURE IN QUEEN'S
COLLEGE, BELFAST.

COPYRIGHT EDITION.

IN TWO VOLUMES.-VOL. II.

LEIPZIG

BERNHARD TAUCHNITZ

1874.

BIBLIOTHE
REGIA

MONACENSIS

CONTENTS

OF VOLUME II.

Page

MIDDLE AND LATTER PART OF THE SEVENTEENTH

CENTURY

Shirley, and end of the Old Drama.

Giles Fletcher; Phineas Fletcher

Other Religious Poets:-Quarles; Herbert; Herrick;"Crashaw

Cartwright; Randolph; Corbet

Poets of the French School:-Carew; Lovelace; Suckling

Denham

Cleveland

9

ΙΟ

12

13

15

17

20

21

Henry Nevile

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Other Prose Writers: Cudworth; More; Barrow; Bunyan; &c.

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