Chapter II.--Surrey's and Wyatt's Poems (Aldine Edition. G. Bells & Sons); *Spenser's Works, Sidney's Poems. A good idea of the atmosphere in which poetry was written is to be obtained from Scott's _Kenilworth_. It is full of inaccuracy in detail. Chapter III.--*The dramatists in the Mermaid Series (T. Fisher Unwin); *_Everyman and other Plays_; ed. by A.W. Pollard (Everyman's Library). Chapter IV.--*Bacon's Essays; Sir Thomas Browne's Works; *Milton's Works; *Poems of John Donne (Muses Library, Routledge); Poems of Robert Herrick. Chapter V.--*Poems of Dryden; *Poems of Pope; Poems of Thomson; *_The Spectator_ (Routledge's Universal Library or Everyman's); *Swift's _Gulliver's Travels_; Defoe's Novels. Chapter VI.--*Boswell's _Life of Johnson_; *Burke (in selections); Goldsmith's _Citizen of the World_ (Temple Classics); *Burns' Poetical Works; *Poems of Blake (Clarendon Press). Chapter VII.--*Wordsworth (Golden Treasury Series); *Wordsworth's Prelude (Temple Classics); Coleridge's Poems; *Keats's Poems; *Shelley's Poems; *Byron (Golden Treasury Series); *Lamb, _Essays of Elia_; Hazlitt (volumes of Essays in World's Classics Series). Chapter VIII.--*Tennyson's Works; *Browning's Works; Rossetti's Works; *Carlyle's _Sartor Resartus, Past and Present_, and _French Revolution_; Ruskin's _Unto this Last, Seven Lamps of Architecture_; Arnold's Poems; Swinburne (Selections). Chapter IX.--*Fielding's _Tom Jones_; Smollett, _Roderick Random_; *Jane Austen's _Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice,_ and _Northanger Abbey_ (as a parody of the Radcliffe School); *Scott's _Waverley, Antiquary, Ivanhoe, Old Mortality, Bride of Lammermoor_. It seems hardly necessary to give a selection of later novels. Chapter X.--W.B. Yeats' Poems; Wilde, _Importance of Being Earnest_; *Synge, Dramatic Works. And every new work of the best contemporary authors. G.H.M. LIST OF THE CHIEF WORKS AND AUTHORS MENTIONED The dates attached to the authors are those of birth and death; those with the books, of publication. CHAPTER I Sir Thomas More, 1480-1535. _Utopia_. 1516 (in Latin). William Tindall, 1484-1536. _Translation of the New Testament_, 1526. Sir John Cheke, 1514-1557. Roger Ascham, 1515-1568. _Toxophilus_, 1545. _Schoolmaster_, 1570. Richard Hakluyt, 1553-1616. His _Voyages_, 1598. CHAPTER II Sir Thomas Wyatt, 1503-1542. The Earl of Surrey, 1517-1547. _Tottel's Miscellany_ (containing their poems), 1557. Sir Philip Sidney. 1554-1586. _Arcadia_, 1590. _Astrophel and Stella_, 1591. Edmund Spenser, 1552-1599. _Shepherd's Calendar_, 1579. _Fairy Queen_, 1589, 1596. John Lyly, 1554-1606. _Euphues_, 1579. _Euphues and his England_, 1580. Richard Hooker, 1553-1600. _Ecclesiastical Polity_, 1594. CHAPTER III