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| [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] |