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CHAPTER I "the shepheards calender"
Spenser and " Immerito "
Sidney and Spenser
The author's habit of self-appreciation
And of writing under "impersonations'
William Webbe .
Gabriel Harvey .
The " Glosse "...
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CHAPTER n
Information from external sources ....
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Appointment under Lord Grey .
Spenser's monument . . . .
Lord Grey's administration
Grant of land to Spenser in Munster
Rising in Munster .....
Spenser's petition to the Queen ....
Alleged intimacy with Essex
Pension granted to Spenser
Spenser's alleged visits to London from Munster
Rivalry of Essex and Ralegh
Bacon's practice of writing for Essex
Spenser's funeral .....
Motives for secrecy .....
Character of the English ....
The "new poetry" .....
The Court ......
Illustrations from contemporary writings .
Censorship of the press .....
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Social considerations .....
Sensitiveness of genius .....
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Absence of Spenser manuscripts ....
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Length of the Faerie Queene .....
vill SPENSER AND THE BACON IMPERSONATIONS
CHAPTER III Imagination and experience
General intention of the Faerie Qtieene
Considered in relation to Spenser's circumstances
The author as revealed in the work .
His attitude towards the Queen
His method ; the Queen, Prince Arthur
The identity of the principal characters
The Redcrosse Knight .
Sir Guyon ....
Arthegal ....
Scudamore ....
Amoret .....
Irish allusions ....
The " Mutabilitie " cantos
Marinell and Florimell .
The " Rich strond " .
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The trial of Mary, Queen of Scots
Blandamour and Paridell
Some minor characters .
Chapter IV Spenser, Shakespeare And Bacon
Their attitude towards the "crowd" .
Bacon's emotional side deficient .
His passion for order and completeness
And for distinction and magnificence
His spiritual feelings primitive .
" Invention " in English poetry .
Tolstoi's hatred of Shakespeare .
Bacon's ideas as to the nature of the soul
His purpose in writing .
Aristotle's argument, De Anima
Bacon's alleged materialism
His attitude towards metaphysics
And towards the Christian revelation Bacon's theory of " spirits " .
His disparagement of philosophers
Scheme for the "interpretation of Nature" The Tempest, explained in the light of this theory The term "spirits," as used by all three writers
And by the author of the Arte of English Poesie lOI
113 114 119
120 121 133 137
CHAPTER V SPENSER, SHAKESPEARE AND BACON (continued)
Their use of the words " simple " and " simplicity " . Their "inaccuracy" .....
Shakespeare's anachronisms Bacon's " inaccuracy " .
The effect on character of " imitation," Plato's view The " impersonality " of Shakespeare Bacon's theory of the poetic art, illustrated from —
Sidney's Apologia for Poetrie .
The Advancement of Learning
The De Augmentis ....
An address to Lord Mountjoy .
The Arte of English Poesie
That work briefly noticed
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CHAPTER VI The publication of the Complaints
The Ruines of Time ....
Attack on Burghley . . . .
Leicester, the poet's early patron
Loss of favour ......
The Teares of the Muses .....
" Our pleasant Willy," " that same gentle Spirit "
Bacon's dislike of practice at the Bar
Tarlton. ... . .
Virgils Gnat ......
Offence given to Leicester
Complaints of neglect and non-preferment
Prothalamion ......
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Mother Hubberds Tale ...
Attack on Burghley . ...
And on the Court .....
Contrasted with the flattery in Colin Clout
Muiopotmos, or the Fate of the Butterflie
CHAPTER Vn
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY : " LEICESTER'S COMMONWEALTH '
Authorship of writings attributed to Sidney . Letter to the Queen on the French marriage Sidney's correspondence .
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His character ....
. 189
Instructions for Travellers
. 191
Leicester's Commonwealth
. 192
Leicester's Ghost
. 196
Squire's conspiracy
. 198
The affair of Lopez
• 199
Bacon's craving for power
• 199
CHAPTER VIII Spenser's juvenile poems: bacon and gascoigne
Visions of Sellay 3.ndL Visions of Petrarch
A Theatre for Worldlings
The precocity of genius .
The juvenile poems of Chatterton
And of Pope ....
The "Visions "in Spenser's Works compared version ....
Religious influence of Bacon's mother The Gascoigne " impersonation "
Facts about Gascoigne's life .
The publication of the Posies .
" Certayne notes of Instruction "
The Glasse of Govemement .
. 201 with the
. 207 209 211
. 211
224 229
Chapter IX
bacon and gascoigne (contimied')
The Steele Glas ....
The Fruites of Warre .
" Walter Rawely of the Middle Temple "
The Princely Pleasures at Kenelworth Castle .
Robert Laneham
The device which was not presented
The " Farewell "
243 248
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CHAPTER X " Laneham's Letter '
CHAPTER XI bacon and gascoigne {continued)
The Tale of Hemetes the Heremyte .
" A Paradoxe of Baldnesse " .
The Queenes Maiesties entertainment at Woodstock
279 279 280
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77ie Grief of Joy e ....
A delicate Diet for daintiemouthde Droonkardes
The Spoyle of Antwerpe .
The Droomme of Doomsday .
Prefatory epistle to Gilbert's " Discourse "
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281 282 282 292 293
Chapter XII Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage
The "Discourse" of 1576 .....
Gilbert and the North- West Passage .... " How Her Majesty might annoy the King of Spain " Gilbert's expedition to Newfoundland His " Queene Elizabethes Achademy "
The cause of sea currents and Bacon's theory of the tides The Report of Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland, attributed to George Peckham .....
Ten appeals for recruits in verse ....
The Report by Hayes .....
The account in both Reports of Gilbert's death at sea examined Summary of the " Peckham " Report .
Sir
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CHAPTER XIII Spenser's minor poems (continued^
Gabriel Harvey's " Letter-book " .
Daphnaida ......
The complaints of Hamlet
Bacon on the " universal frame of nature "
Colin Clouts Come Home Again
Eulogy of the Queen ...
Meeting with Ralegh .....
Samuel Daniel ......
His " Delia " sonnets ....
Other works .....
Funeral poem on the Earl of Devonshire
The ladies of the Court .....
Sundry discrepancies .....
Astrophel .......
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" Stella," indicated as Sidney's widow .
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The additional Elegies —
" The Doleful Lay of Clorinda "
Two attributed to Lodowick Bryskett .
One by Matthew Roydon
One attributed to Ralegh
" Another of the same "
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" Stella " of the Sidney (•• Astrophel and Stella ") sonnets . 356
Penelope Devereux, Lady Rich ..... 356 Frances Walsingham . . . . . -357
The publication of the " Astrophel and Stella " sonnets . . 358
The character of the author of these sonnets . . . 362
Spenser's " Rosalind " ...... 364
Chapter XIV Spenser And Ralegh : The " Amoretti " And " Epithalamion "
Verses prefixed to the Faerie Queene .... 367
How did Spenser become intimate with Ralegh ? -371
Ralegh's early history . . . . -372
Spenser's Amoretti .... . 374
His marriage ; Elizabeth Boyle ... 374
The " three Elizabeths " sonnet . . . 375
John Hooker's account of Ralegh's ancestry -376
Who is the subject of these sonnets ? . . 379
The " Angel " allusion . , . 382
The last four sonnets . 386
The Epithalamion . . . . 386
Its artificial tone . 387
Royal allusions ... . 388
Theory for these poems suggested . . .391
CHAPTER XV A PAGE IN bacon's LIFE, 1592-1595, AET. 31-34
Bacon, Essex, Ralegh and Cecil . . 395
Bacon's feelings towards Ralegh . ... 396
He offends the Queen ...... 397
His suit, through Essex, for the posts of Attorney and Solicitor 397
Bacon and Essex ......
Bacon and Cecil ....
His conduct considered
412 413 413
CHAPTER XVI RALEGH'S correspondence and POEMS
Ralegh's exclusion from the Court . . .414
His correspondence examined . .411:
Contemporary accounts of Ralegh . .418 xill
His relations with the Queen ....
Bacon on the Queen's " lighter qualities "
Her relations with Essex The Madre de Dios .....
Rumours of marriage ....
The discovery of the intrigue with Elizabeth Throgmorton
Ralegh's letter from the Tower about the Queen
His relations with his wife ....
Letters about his Irish estates
On piracy ......
With Cecil at Dartmouth ....
Not naturally a writer
Letter to the Queen about the succession
Reference to Richard the Second
Date of the poem " To Cynthia "
The " Bothwell " letter ....
A letter to King James
The Poems examined ....
The verse-petition to the Queen
The Epitaph .....
The History of the World, and assistance rendered by others The Report of the Guiana voyage, 1596 A paper written in support of it Ralegh and Shakespeare's " Othello "
Ralegh and Spenser's " Scudamore " .
421 422 422
423 424 425 426 427 429
442 454 457
458 460 462
465 468
Chapter XVII The "faerie Queene " Resumed: The " Fowre Hymnes "
The Redcrosse Knight and Sir Guyon
Prince Arthur ......
Lilly's Endimion .....
Timias .... . .
Sundry other characters .....
Book I. considered as a whole
The last " Mutabilitie " canto ....
Some parallels in Spenser and Shakespeare .
The nurse in Romeo and Juliet ....
Legal metaphors ....
The writer's impartiality ; the Queen
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Descriptions of love in absence ....
The identity of " Rosalind " and of " Stella "
Further as to Marinell .....
The Fowre Hymnes ......
Chapter XVIII Some Characteristics Of Bacon
Fondness for colour and display Verulam House
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Gardens .......
In his dealings with men of affairs
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As a speaker in Parliament .....
Ben Jonson's testimony .....
In conversation ....
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His relations with Ben Jonson ....
His sanguine temperament .....
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Imprudence in action ; ill reports
Accused of inordinate ambition and pride
Self-idealisation ......
His dislike of detail ......
His friend Bettenham
His health .......
Alleged fainting fits ... .
Activity of his imagination
Ideas for the prolongation of life ....
Fondness for flowers and music
" Irrigation in the spring showres " .
CHAPTER XIX Spenser's "view of the present state of Ireland"
Purpose of the treatise
Bacon's views on the subject of Ireland
Compared generally with Spenser's
The treatise examined .
The wish that Ireland were a " sea-poole "
Men attributing their own errors to the stars
The common law of England in Ireland
Description of the north of Ireland
The common law, further as to
The uses of the Irish mantle .
The Irish horse soldier
" Galloglass and kearne "
The Irish bards
The state of religion .
Official corruption
The date of the treatise from internal evidence
The allusions to Essex
Bacon and the Irish appointment of Essex
The description of famine in Munster .
Water-cresses and shamrocks Lord Grey and Smerwick Proposals for a military occupation
Ralegh's views .
Summary justice Establishment of towns A State paper in dialogue form, for which the
are used Spenser's petition to the Queen Spenser as secretary to the Bishop of Rochester of Spenser's sons sss
559 563 563 565 565
566 569 572
CHAPTER XX 'a discourse of civill life, by lodowick bryskett
Facts about Bryskett ......
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The Discourse examined
Bryskett and Spenser . ...
Date of the treatise . . . .
The author an Englishman . . . .
A student of physic ... . .
Criticises Aristotle ... . .
The allusion to the Faerie Queene ....
Describes his early education .
On the nature of the soul ....
Denounces contemporary rhymers
Views as to the myths . . . .
Mentions Sir Philip Sidney ....
Men attributing their own errors to the stars .
The cause of blushing and pallor ....
"Magnanimity" ...
On the nature and limits of the human understanding ,
TABLE OF DATES . ...
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