THE

LITERATURE

OF

THE AGE OF ELIZABETH.

BY

EDWIN P. WHIPPLE.

BOSTON:
FIELDS, OSGOOD, & CO.,

SUCCESSORS TO TICKNOR AND FIELDS.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1869, by

FIELDS, OSGOOD, & co., in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

UNIVERSITY Press: Welch, Bigelow, & Co.,

CAMBRIDGE.

THESE essays on “The Literature of the Age of Elizabeth ” were originally delivered as lectures before the Lowell Institute, in the spring of 1859, and were first printed in The Atlantic Monthly during the years 1867 and 1868.