His Defects 565 CHAPTER XXII. HISTORY OF POETRY FROM 1600 TO 1650. Low Estimation of the Seicentisti 566 Not quite so great as formerly 566 Praise of them by Rubbi 566 Also by Salfi 566 Adone of Marini 567 Its Character 567 And Popularity 567 Secchia Rapita of Tassoni 568 Chiabrera 569 His Followers 569 The Styles of Spanish Poetry 570 The Romances 570 The Brothers Argensola 570 Villegas 571 Quevedo 571 Defects of Taste in Spanish Verse 571 Pedantry and far-fetched Allusions 572 Gongora 572 The Schools formed by him 573 Malherbe 573 Criticisms upon his Poetry 574 Satires of Regnier 574 Racan--Maynard 574 Voiture 574 Sarrasin 575 Low state of German Literature 575 Literary Societies 575 Opitz 575 His Followers 576 Dutch Poetry 576 Spiegel 576 Hooft-Cats-Vondel 577 Danish Poetry 577 English Poets numerous in this age 577 Phineas Fletcher 577 Giles Fletcher 578 Philosophical Poetry 578 Lord Brooke 578 Denham’s Cooper’s Hill 579