THE

시

LITERATURE

OF

THE AGE OF ELIZABETH.

BY

EDWIN P. WHIPPLE.

BOSTON:
FIELDS, OSGOOD, & CO.,

SUCCESSORS TO TICKNOR AND FIELDS.

1869.
H.

LELAND STANFORD

JUNIOR

LIBRARY

UNIVERSITY. *

A. 17299.

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.