First Portion of Sixteenth Century: Poets: Marot, Saint-Gelais; Prose Writers: Rabelais, Comines. Second Portion of Sixteenth Century: Poets: "The Pleiade"; Prose Writers: Amyot, Montaigne. First Portion of Seventeenth Century: Intellectual and Brilliant Poets: Malherbe, Corneille; Great Prose Writers: Balzac, Descartes. Second Portion of Seventeenth Century: Poets: Racine, Molière, Boileau, La Fontaine; Prose Writers: Bossuet, Pascal, La Bruyère, Fénelon, etc. CHAPTER XI THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES: ENGLAND Dramatists: Marlowe, Shakespeare. Prose Writers: Sidney, Francis Bacon, etc. Epic Poet: Milton. Comic Poets. CHAPTER XII THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES: GERMANY Luther, Zwingli, Albert Dürer, Leibnitz, Gottsched. CHAPTER XIII THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES: ITALY Poets: Ariosto, Tasso, Guarini, Folengo, Marini, etc. Prose Writers: Machiavelli, Guicciardini, Davila. CHAPTER XIV THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES: SPAIN AND PORTUGAL Poets: Quevedo, Gongora, Lope de Vega, Ercilla, Calderon, Rojas, etc. Prose Writers: Montemayor, Cervantes, etc. Portugal: De Camoèns, etc. The Stage. CHAPTER XV THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURIES: FRANCE Of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Fontenelle, Bayle. Of the Eighteenth: Poets: La Motte, Jean Baptiste Rousseau, Voltaire, etc.; Prose Writers: Montesquieu, Voltaire, Buffon, Jean Jacques Rousseau, etc. Of the Nineteenth Century: Poets: Lamartine, Victor Hugo, Musset, Vigny, etc.; Prose Writers: Chateaubriand, Michelet, George Sand, Mérimée, Renan, etc. CHAPTER XVI THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURIES: ENGLAND Poets of the Eighteenth Century: Pope, Young, MacPherson, etc. Prose Writers of the Eighteenth Century: Daniel Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Swift, Sterne, David Hume. Poets of the Nineteenth Century: Byron, Shelley, the Lake Poets. Prose Writers of the Nineteenth Century: Walter Scott, Macaulay, Dickens, Carlyle. CHAPTER XVII THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURIES: GERMANY Poets of the Eighteenth Century: Klopstock, Lessing, Wieland. Prose Writers of the Eighteenth Century: Herder, Kant. Poets of the Nineteenth Century: Goethe, Schiller, Körner. CHAPTER XVIII THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURIES: ITALY Poets: Metastasio, Goldoni, Alfieri, Monti, Leopardi. Prose Writers: Silvio Pellico, Fogazzaro, etc. CHAPTER XIX THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURIES: SPAIN The Drama still Brilliant: Moratin. Historians and Philosophers, Novelists, Orators. CHAPTER XX RUSSIAN LITERATURE Middle Ages. Some Epic Narratives. Renaissance in the Seventeenth Century. Literature Imitative of the West in the Eighteenth Century. Original Literature in the Nineteenth Century. CHAPTER XXI POLISH LITERATURE At an Early Date Western Influence Sufficiently Potent. Sixteenth Century Brilliant; Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries highly Cultured; Nineteenth Century Notably Original. INDEX INITIATION INTO LITERATURE CHAPTER I