between good and evil, he is the fittest
representative of the Puritan spirit in literature.

REFERENCES FOR FUTURE STUDY

HISTORICAL

Read the chapters on this period in Gardiner,[12] Walker, Cheney,
Lingard, or Green. For the social life, see Traill, IV. The monumental
history of this time has been written in eighteen volumes by Samuel
Rawson Gardiner. His _Oliver Cromwell_, I vol., is excellent, as is
also Frederick Harrison's _Oliver Cromwell_.

LITERARY

The _Cambridge History of English Literature_, Vol. VII.

Courthope's _History of English Poetry_, Vol. III.

Masterman's _The Age of Milton_.

Saintsbury's _A History of Elizabethan Literature_ (comes down to
1660).

Dowden's _Puritan and Anglican Studies in Literature.

Dictionary of National Biography_ (for lives of minor writers).

Froude's _John Bunyan._

Brown's _John Bunyan, his Life, Times, and Works._

Macaulay's Life of Bunyan in _Encylopaedia Britannica_ or in his
_Essays._

Macaulay's _Essay on Southey's Edition of the Pilgrim's Progress._

Masson's _The Life of John Milton, Narrated in Connection with the
Political, Ecclesiastical, and Literary history of his Time_ (6
vols.).

Masson's _Poetical Works of John Milton_, 3 vols., contains
excellent introductions and notes, and is the standard edition.

Raleigh's _Milton_.

Pattison's _Milton_. (E.M.L.)

Woodhull's _The Epic of Paradise Lost_.

Macaulay's _Essay on Milton_.

Lowell's _Milton_ (in _Among My Books_).

Addison's criticisms on Milton, beginning in number 267 of _The
Spectator_, are suggestive.

SUGGESTED READINGS WITH QUESTIONS AND SUGGESTIONS

Prose.--The student will obtain a fair idea of the prose of this age
by reading Milton's _Areopagitica_, Cassell's _National Library_ (15
cents), or _Temple Classics_ (45 cents); Craik,[13] II., 471-475; the
selections from Thomas Hobbes, Craik, II., 214-221; from Thomas
Fuller, Craik, II., 377-387; from Sir Thomas Browne, Craik, II.,
318-335; from Jeremy Taylor, Craik, II., 529-542; and from Izaak
Walton, Craik, II., 343-349. Manly, II., has selections from all these
writers; the _Oxford Treasury_ and _Century_, from all but Hobbes. The
student who has the time will wish to read _The Complete Angler_
entire (Cassell's _National Library_, 15 cents; or _Temple Classics_,
45 cents).

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