--Imagination and
Fancy--Power of Expression--His Faults--Influence of
Elizabeth--Sonnets--Ireland and Collier--Concordance--Other Writers

CHAPTER XVI.

BACON, AND THE RISE OF THE NEW PHILOSOPHY.

Birth and Early Life--Treatment of Essex--His Appointments--His
Fall--Writes Philosophy--Magna Instauratio--His Defects--His Fame--His
Essays

CHAPTER XVII.

THE ENGLISH BIBLE.

Early Versions--The Septuagint--The Vulgate--Wiclif;
Tyndale--Coverdale; Cranmer--Geneva; Bishop's Bible--King James's
Bible--Language of the Bible--Revision

CHAPTER XVIII.

JOHN MILTON, AND THE ENGLISH COMMONWEALTH.

Historical Facts--Charles I.--Religious Extremes--Cromwell--Birth and
Early Works--Views of Marriage--Other Prose Works--Effects of the
Restoration--Estimate of his Prose

CHAPTER XIX.

THE POETRY OF MILTON.

The Blind Poet--Paradise Lost--Milton and Dante--His
Faults--Characteristics of the Age--Paradise Regained--His
Scholarship--His Sonnets--His Death and Fame

CHAPTER XX.

COWLEY, BUTLER, AND WALTON.

Cowley and Milton--Cowley's Life and Works--His Fame--Butler's
Career--Hudibras--His Poverty and Death--Izaak Walton--The Angler; and
Lives--Other Writers

CHAPTER XXI.

DRYDEN, AND THE RESTORED STUARTS.

The Court of Charles II.--Dryden's Early Life--The Death of
Cromwell--The Restoration--Dryden's Tribute--Annus Mirabilis--Absalom
and Achitophel--The Death of Charles--Dryden's Conversion--Dryden's
Fall--His Odes

CHAPTER XXII.

THE RELIGIOUS LITERATURE OF THE GREAT REBELLION AND OF THE RESTORATION.

The English Divines--Hall--Chillingsworth--Taylor--Fuller--Sir T.
Browne--Baxter--Fox--Bunyan--South--Other Writers

CHAPTER XXIII.

THE DRAMA OF THE RESTORATION.

The License of the Age--Dryden--Wycherley--Congreve--Vanbrugh--
Farquhar--Etherege--Tragedy--Otway--Rowe--Lee--Southern

CHAPTER XXIV.

POPE, AND THE ARTIFICIAL SCHOOL.

Contemporary History--Birth and Early Life--Essay, on Criticism--Rape
of the Lock--The Messiah--The Iliad--Value of the Translation--The
Odyssey--Essay on Man--The Artificial School--Estimate of Pope--Other
Writers

CHAPTER XXV.

ADDISON, AND THE REIGN OF QUEEN ANNE.

The Character of the Age--Queen Anne--Whigs and Tories--George
I.--Addison: The Campaign--Sir Roger de Coverley--The Club--Addison's
Hymns--Person and Literary Character

CHAPTER XXVI.