217

Of shepherds.

I. Sidney's life--His travels and friendship with
Languet--His court life and love--His death--The end of
"Stella" 219

II. Sidney's works--Miscellaneous writings--The
"Apologie"--Sidney's appreciation of the poetic and
romantic novel.

The "Arcadia," why written--Sidney's various heroes:
shepherds, knights, princesses, &c.--Eclogues and
battles, fetes, masques and tournaments--Anglo-arcadian
architecture, gardens, dresses and furniture.

Sidney's object according to Fulke Greville, and
according to himself--His lovers--Youthful love, unlawful
love, foolish love, innocent love--Pamela's prayer--The
final imbroglio.

Sidney's style as a novel writer--His wit and
brightness--His eloquence--His bad taste--His fanciful
ornaments 228

III. Sidney's reputation in England--Continuators,
imitators, and admirers among dramatists, poets and
novelists--Shakespeare, Jonson, Day, Shirley,
Quarles--Lady Mary Wroth and her novel--Sidney's
reputation in the eighteenth century, Addison, Young,
Walpole, Cowper--Chap-books.

In France--He is twice translated, and gives rise to a
literary quarrel--Charles Sorel's judgment in the "Berger
extravagant," and Du Bartas' praise--Mareschal's drama
out of the "Arcadia"--Niceron and Florian 260

CHAPTER VI.

_THOMAS NASH; THE PICARESQUE AND
REALISTIC NOVEL_ 287

I. Merry books as a preservative of health--Sidney's
contempt for the comic.

Studies in real life--The picaresque tale; its Spanish
origin--Its success in Europe---Lazarillo and Guzman 287

II. Thomas Nash--His birth, education and life--His
writings, his temperament--His equal fondness for mirth
and for lyrical poetry--His literary theories on art and
style--His vocabulary, his style.

His picaresque novel, "Jack Wilton"--Scenes and
characters--Observation of nature--Dramatic and
melodramatic parts--Historical personages--Nash's
troubles on account of "Jack Wilton."

His other works--Scenes of light comedy in
them--Portraits of the upstart, of the sectary, &c. 295

III. Nash's successors--H. Chettle--Chettle's combined
im