The Project Gutenberg eBook, English Lands Letters and Kings: From Elizabeth to Anne, by Donald Grant Mitchell

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[IV: The Later Georges to Victoria]: see http://www.gutenberg.org/files/54143/54143-h/54143-h.htm

ENGLISH LANDS LETTERS
AND KINGS

From Elizabeth to Anne

ENGLISH LANDS LETTERS AND KINGS

By Donald G. Mitchell

I.	From Celt to Tudor
II.	From Elizabeth to Anne
III.	Queen Anne and the Georges

Each one volume, 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.50

ENGLISH LANDS LETTERS
AND KINGS

From Elizabeth to Anne

BY
Donald G. Mitchell

NEW YORK
Charles Scribner’s Sons
MDCCCXCVI

TROW’S
PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING COMPANY,
NEW YORK.

PREFATORY LETTER.

[To Mrs. J. C. G. Piatt, of Utica School, N. Y.]

My Dear Julia,—We have both known, in the past, a certain delightsome country home; you—in earliest childhood, and I—in latest youth-time: and I think we both relish those reminders—perhaps a Kodak view, or an autumn gentian plucked by the road-side, or actual glimpse of its woods, or brook, on some summer’s drive—which have brought back the old homestead, with its great stretch of undulating meadow—its elms—its shady lanes—its singing birds—its leisurely going big-eyed oxen—its long, tranquil days, when the large heart of June was pulsing in all the leaves and all the air:

Well, even so, and by these light tracings of Lands and Kings, and little whiffs of metric music, I seek to bring back to you, and to your pupils and associates (who have so kindly received previous and kindred reminders) the rich memories of that great current of English letters setting steadily forward amongst these British lands, and these sovereigns, from Elizabeth to Anne. But slight as these glimpses are, and as this synopsis may be, they will together serve, I hope, to fasten attention where I wish to fasten it, and to quicken appetite for those fuller and larger studies of English Literature and History, which shall make even these sketchy outlines valued—as one values little flowerets plucked from old fields—for bringing again to mind the summers of youth-time, and a world of summer days, with their birds and abounding bloom.

Affectionately yours,
D. G. M.

EDGEWOOD; MARCH, 1890.

CONTENTS.

	PAGE
[CHAPTER I.]
Preliminary,	[1]
The Stuart Line,	[4]
James I.,	[6]
Walter Raleigh,	[11]
Nigel and Harrison,	[19]
A London Bride,	[23]
Ben Jonson Again,	[26]
An Italian Reporter,	[29]
Shakespeare and the Globe,	[32]
[CHAPTER II.]
Gosson and Other Puritans,	[42]
King James’ Bible,	[44]
Shakespeare,	[56]
Shakespeare’s Youth,	[61]
Family Relations,	[67]
Shakespeare in London,	[73]
Work and Reputation,	[77]
His Thrift and Closing Years,	[81]
[CHAPTER III.]
Webster, Ford, and Others,	[88]
Massinger, Beaumont, and Fletcher,	[93]
King James and Family,	[99]
A New King and some Literary Survivors,	[105]
Wotton and Walton,	[109]
George Herbert,	[115]
Robert Herrick,	[120]
Revolutionary Times,	[126]
[CHAPTER IV.]
King Charles and his Friends,	[132]
Jeremy Taylor,	[135]
A Royalist and a Puritan,	[140]
Cowley and Waller,	[144]
John Milton,	[150]
Milton’s Marriage,	[157]
The Royal Tragedy,	[161]
Change of Kings,	[167]
Last Days,	[174]
[CHAPTER V.]
Charles II. and his Friends,	[182]
Andrew Marvell,	[189]
Author of Hudibras,	[193]
Samuel Pepys,	[198]
A Scientist,	[207]
John Bunyan,	[209]
[CHAPTER VI.]
Three Good Prosers,	[221]
John Dryden,	[227]
The London of Dryden,	[234]
Later Poems and Purpose,	[240]
John Locke,	[248]
End of the King and Others,	[255]
[CHAPTER VII.]
Kings Charles, James, and William,	[261]
Some Literary Fellows,	[268]
A Pamphleteer,	[272]
Of Queen Anne,	[277]
An Irish Dragoon,	[280]
Steele’s Literary Qualities,	[285]
Joseph Addison,	[288]
Sir Roger De Coverley,	[291]
[CHAPTER VIII.]
Royal Griefs and Friends,	[301]
Builders and Streets,	[306]
John Gay,	[308]
Jonathan Swift,	[312]
Swift’s Politics,	[324]
His London Journal,	[328]
In Ireland Again,	[333]

ENGLISH LANDS, LETTERS, & KINGS.