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Title: John Lyly

Author: John Dover Wilson

Release Date: September 6, 2007 [EBook #22525]

Language: English

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JOHN LYLY

BY

JOHN DOVER WILSON,

B.A., Late Scholar of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
Members' Prizeman, 1902. Harness Prizeman, 1904.
Honours in Historical Tripos.

Macmillan and Bowes
Cambridge
1905

A
MIA
DONNA.

PREFACE.

The following treatise was awarded the _Harness Prize_ at Cambridge in
1904. I have, however, revised it since then, and in some matters
considerably enlarged it.

A list of the chief authorities to whom I am indebted will be found at
the end of the book, but it is fitting that I should here make
particular mention of my obligations to the exhaustive work of Mr
Bond[1]. Not only have his labours of research and collation lightened
the task for me, and for any future student of Lyly, to an incalculable
extent, but the various introductory essays scattered up and down his
volumes are full of invaluable suggestions.

[1] _The Complete Works of John Lyly._ R. W. Bond, 3 Vols. Clarendon
Press.

This book was unfortunately nearing its completion before I was able to
avail myself of Mr Martin Hume's _Spanish Influence on English
Literature_. But, though I might have added more had his book been
accessible earlier, I was glad to find that his conclusions left the
main theory of my chapter on Euphuism untouched.