_1._ POETRY.--(_a_) _The Lyrists_: Prior. Gay. (_b_) _Critical and Satirical Verse_: Pope. Swift. Prior. Garth. Parnell. Winchilsea. Savage. Young. (_c_) _Pastoral_: Pope. Gay. Ambrose Philips. (_d_) _The Ode_: Pope. Winchilsea. (_e_) _Narrative_: Pope’s Homer. Addison. Blackmore. (_f_) _The Scottish Revival_: The long blight and the kirk. Survival of popular songs. Allan Ramsay. Robt. Fergusson. _2._ THE DRAMA.--The effect of the new staging and general decline. Addison. Ambrose Philips. Steele. Gay. Ramsay. The musical play. _3._ THE NOVEL.--Defoe. Swift. _4._ ESSAYISTS AND CRITICS.--Defoe. Addison. Steele. Swift. Rymer. Gildon. Dennis. Cibber. Rise of the newspaper. _5._ MEMOIRS, ETC.--Lady M. W. Montagu. Lady Cowper. Lady Suffolk, etc. _6._ SATIRE.--(Chiefly political). Defoe. Swift. Arbuthnot. Addison. Bolingbroke. Mandeville. _7._ STUDY AND RESEARCH.--(_a_) _Economists_: Bolingbroke. (_b_) _Scholars and Antiquaries_: Bentley. Middleton and the classics. (_c_) _History and Travel_: Burnet. Strype. Collier. Neal, etc. (_d_) _Burlesques and Translations_: Cotton. John Philips. L’Estrange. _8._ BEGINNINGS OF AMERICAN LITERATURE.--The colonial period, _1607-1764_. (_a_) _Poetry_: Bradstreet. Wigglesworth. “The Bay Psalm Book.” (_a_) _Prose_ (_i_) John Smith Bradford. Winthrop and the early annalists. (_ii_) The Mather family and other New England divines. TEST PAPER (_1630-1745_). _1._ In what ways did the struggle between Parliament and the Crown affect literature in the period _1630-1660_? _2._ Who were the Caroline lyrists; compare their work with that of the Elizabethan lyrists. _3._ Compare Milton with Dryden, _or_ Defoe with Bunyan, or Evelyn with Pepys. _4._ Outline the qualities of Restoration drama. Name the chief writers in each form of play. _5._ Trace the development of English prose style from Bacon to Addison. _6._ What effects had political life on literature in the age of Pope? _7._ Name three philosophers, three scientific writers and three religious authors of the period _1660-1748_. Comment on the work of any one of them. _8._ Name the author and approximate date of any four of the following: “Night Thoughts,” “The Gentle Shepherd,” “Moll Flanders,” “Tale of a Tub,” “Venice Preserved,” “All for love,” “Grace Abounding.” _9._ Compare Pope and Swift as satirists, or Addison and Steele as essayists. _10._ Name the source of five of the following:-- “Words are wise men’s counters.” “Stone walls do not a prison make.” “Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out.” “A little learning is a dangerous thing.” “Still amorous and fond and billing Like Philip and Mary on a shilling.” “The proper study of mankind is man.” “Tis not in mortals to command success, But well do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.” “Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave.” _Lesson 4 (1745-1832)._