English Literature in Its Foreign Relations, 1300 to 1800

ancient Ariosto authority Bible Boccaccio Boileau Canterbury Tales Chaucer classical common contemporary criticism Dante death died dramatic Dryden Edmund Spenser eighteenth century England English literature English poetry epic Essays Euphuism European example expression Faery Queen fiction Florence floruit foreign France French Gabriel Harvey genius German Goethe Greek Heaven Hebrew heroic heroic-couplet Homer human Italian Italy John John Dryden King King Arthur language Latin learning letters literary living London Lycidas Machiavelli Malherbe Marlowe medieval metre Milton mind of Europe modern Montaigne moral muse native nature numbers Paradise partly passage Petrarch philosophy poem poet poetic political Pope Prince prose Racine Reformation Renaissance rhyme romance Rome Rousseau rule scholar sense Shakespeare Sir Philip Sidney Sir Thomas sixteenth century social sought Spenser spirit style Tasso taste things thought tongue translated verse Virgil Voltaire words Wordsworth written wrote