An essay on English poetry; with notices of the British poets

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Part II 34 JCOTTISH POETRY 118

LIVES OF BRITISH POETS.

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Geoffrey Chaucer .

Alexander Hume

John Gower . . .

Thomas Nash. . .

John Lydgate . .

Edward Vere, Earl of

James I. of Scotland

Oxford ....

Kobert Henrysone .

Thomas Storer . .

William Dunbar .

Joseph Hall . . .

Sir David Lyndsay .

WilUam Warner . .

Sir Thomas Wyat .

Sir John Harrington

Henry Howard, Earl

Henry Perrot. . .

of Surrey . . .

Sir Thomas Overbury iLord Vaux . . .

Sir Walter Raleigh .

Richard Edwards .

Joshua Sylvester . .

WilUam Hunnis . .

Samuel Daniel

Thomas Sackville,Ba-

Giles and Phineas ron Buckhurst and

Fletcher. . . .

Earl of Dorset. .

Henry Constable . .

George. Gascoigne .

Nicholas Breton .

John Harrington.

Dr. Thomas Lodge .

Sir Philip Sydney .

Beaumont and

Robert Greene . .

Fletcher. . . .

Christopher Marlowe

Sir John Davies .

lobert Southwell .

Thomas Goffe. • .

\ lomas Watson . .

Sir Fulke GreviUe .

Edmund Spenser. .

Sir John Beaumont .

John Lyly . . . .

Michael Drayton. .

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Edward Fairfax . . 188

Samuel Rowlands . 190

John Donne . .' . 190

Thomas Picke . .192

George Herbert . .192

John Marston. . .193

George Chapman. . 194

Thomas Randolph . 195

Richard Corbet . .196

Thomas Middleton . 196

Richard Niccols . .197

Charles Fitzgeffrey . 197

Thomas Carew . . 206

Sir Henry Wotton . 207 William Alexander,

EarlofSterline . 208

Nathaniel Field . . 208

Thomas Dekker . . 209

John Webster . . 210

John Ford . . .210

WilUam Rowley . . 211

Philip Massinger. . 212

Sir John Suckling . 214 William Cartwright . 215

Page George Sandys . . 216 Francis Quarles . .216 William Browne . . 217 Thomas Nabbes . . 218 Thomas Heywood . 219 William Drummond. 220 Thomas May . . .222 Richard Crashaw . 223 William Habington . 224 William Chamber-

layne . . . .225 Richard Lovelace . 226 Katherine PhiUps . 227 William Heminge . 2^ James Shhrley . . 228* Alexander Brome . 228 Robert Herrick . . 229 Abraham Cowley . 230 Sir Richard Fanshawe 232 Sir William Davenant 232 Sir John Denham . 233 George Wither . . 234 Jasper Mayne . . 237 Richard Brathwaite . 238 John Milton . . .238 Andrew Marvell . . 241 Samuel Butler . . 243 Charles Cotton . . 243 Dr. Henry More . . 244 George Etherege. . 245 Nathaniel Lee . . 246 Thomas Shadwell . 247 Henry Vaughan . . 247 JohnPomfret . . 247 Thomas Brown . . 248 Charles Sackville, Earl

of Dorset ... 248 George Stepney . . 248 John Philips ... 248