The Age of the Reformation

by Preserved Smith

Portuguese: Camoens.

As it is not my purpose to give even a sketch of literary history, but merely to illustrate the temper of the times from the contemporary belles lettres, only a few suggestive works of criticism can be mentioned here.

H. Hallam: Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the 15th, 16th and 17th Centuries. 1838-9. (Old, but still useful).

J. A. Symonds: Italian Literature. 1888.

G. Lanson: Histoire de la littérature française.[9] 1906.

C. H. C. Wright: A History of French Literature. 1912.

C. Thomas: A History of German Literature. 1909.

E. Wolff: Faust und Luther. 1912.

The Cambridge History of English Literature, vol. iii, Renaissance and Reformation. 1908.

J. J. Jusserand: Histoire Littéraire du Peuple Anglais. Tome ii, De la Renaissance à la Guerre Civile. 1904. (Also English translation: a beautiful work).