Ayres, Philip, tries to restore romantic poetry, 210; his son- nets, 211
Bacon, Lord Francis, his writings
in advance of his age, 254 Banks, Ann, marries Waller, 60 Barnfield, Richard, 24 Baron, Robert, his tragedy of Mirza, and reference to Den- ham's Sophy, 100 n. Barons' Wars, by Michael Dray- ton, 34, 5, 75
Bartholomew Fair, by Ben Jon-
son, resembles the works of the Dutch dramatist, Brederô, 17 n.
Battle of the Summer Islands,
by Ed. Waller, 65, 73-6; imitated in Davenant's Mada- gascar, 150 Beaumont, Joseph, his Psyche, 172
Behn, Aphara, her eulogy on Waller, 182 n.
Bermuda Islands, the scene of
Waller's Battle of the Summer Islands, 73, 4 n. Bermudas, The, of Andrew Marvell, 220 Betterton, Thos., the actor, 144 Biographia Britannica, its
opinion of Waller in 1766, 45; reference to Denham in, 243
Blake, Wm., his place in English poetry corresponds with that of Burns in Scotch, 258 Boileau, Nicholas, 20 Botticelli, 30
Boyle, Roger, see Lord Orrery Brederô, the greatest Dutch
Britannia's Pastorals, by Wm. Browne, 104
Brooke, Lord, Fulke Greville,
Calamy, Dr Edmund, extract from Wild's poem on his death, 193 n. Cambridge, a 'hotbed of poetry' in the early Caroline period, 24, 5, 37; Waller a scholar at King's, 51; relics of Gray at Pembroke, 165; Cowley, a precocious Cambridge verse- man, 172; the Marinist school there, 172; Cleveland sows his poetical wild oats there, 185, 190; Robert Wild's pic- ture of life there under the Commonwealth, 194-6; Tho- mas Stanley at Pembroke, 204; Henry Vaughan, the Si- lurist, the last survivor of
Herbert's school there, 209; Andrew Marvell, kidnapped from Trinity by the Jesuits, 212, 3; popularity of Settle's Empress of Marocco at, 252 Campbell, Thomas, one of the first of the critics to resusci- tate Chamberlayne's Pharon- nida, 200
Campion, Thomas, his tumbling, rimeless measure, 9 n. Carew, Thomas, 22, 27, 38, 82 n., 150, 208
Chace, The, passage from Somer- ville's, 108 n. 2 "Chalkhill, John," the pseud- onym under which Izaak Walton published Thealma and Clearchus, 209 n. 2 Chamberlayne, William, 197- 203; Keats' indebtedness to him, 199; his Greek romance Pharonnida a forerunner of Byron's writings, 200 Chapelain, Jean, relation of his writings to Cowley's, 119 Chapman, George, 24, 56, 75 Charles I., discourages the writing of poetry, 22; Waller's poem on his escape from shipwreck at Santander, 56-8; fosters by his stupidity the new mental and political ideas of his time, 33; his reception of the news of Buckingham's death, 61, 2; referred to in Waller's poem on the rebuilding of St Paul's, 80, 1; his treatment of Waller at Oxford, 85; warning refer- ence to him in Denham's Sophy, 102, 3; his qualified praise of Cooper's Hill, and unsympathetic advice to Den- ham, 130, I
Charles II., 113, 116, 131, 232,
Charles' Spikenard, by John Cleveland, 186
Chatterton, Thomas, an oppo- nent of the classical school, 4 Chetwood, Knightly, Dean of Gloucester, his criticism of English poetry, 32 n. 2 Chiabrera, his position in Italy analogous to our Cowley, 15 Chloris and Hilas, by Waller, one of the earliest dactylic poems, 188 Christ's Victory and Triumph, by Giles Fletcher, 75 Cid, Corneille's, Ior Cinna, Corneille's, `102 Claremont, by Samuel Garth, a direct imitation of Cooper's Hill, 108
Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl
of, 60, 61, 63, 83, 86 and n. 1, 90, 115, 123, 146 n., 237 Classical reaction, the mental
condition which rendered it possible, 35-9
Classical school, the language and peculiarities of, 10-13, 169; Denham's Sophy its first published representative, 95, 6; its triumph in Cooper's Hill, 103, 4; not due to French influence, III, 12; the final stage of its development, 263 Classicism in Dutch literature, 18 Cleland, William, 194 n. Cleopatra, of Samuel Daniel,
Cleveland, John, released by Oliver Cromwell, 116, 7; has secured no place in the history of English poetry, 184; at first a Marinist, 185; his under- graduate days at Cambridge, 185, 190; a disappointment in both politics and poetry,
186; his use of the triple cadence in lyrics, 187-90 Cockaine, Sir Aston, might have been the Boswell of the early Caroline period, 24 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, assists to revolutionize the taste for classical poetry, 4, 178; his triumph foreseen by Southey, 156; his criticism of Donne, 217; the self-reserve necessary in reading some of his poems, 217 Congreve, William, his refining influence upon Comedy, 263 Contarini, 61
Cooper's Hill, Denham's praise of Waller in his poem of, 79, 80; Dryden's opinion of, 95; date of its publication, 96, 103; a decisive victory for the classical school, 104; its place among topographical poems, 104; subsequent alterations of the first edition, 105-7; reasons for the poem's great and enduring reputation, 107- 9; imitated in Pope's Windsor Forest and Garth's Claremont, 108; its resemblance to May- nard's Alcippe, 120; its in- fluence on Herrick, 246 Corbet, Richard, Bishop of Nor- wich, 187
Corneille, Pierre, doubtful whether he had any influence upon Denham's writings, 101, 2; brings the Alexandrine verse to perfection, 121 Coronation Panegyric, of John Dryden, 228
Cowley, Abraham, 135-78 pas- sim; his position analogous to that of Chiabrera in Italy, 15, 19, 108; attached to Queen Henrietta Maria during the
Exile, 113; meets Crashaw in poverty in Paris, 114, 118; French influence upon him, 119, 121; his desertion from the romantic to the classical school, 140; his place among the classicists, 171, 177; his undergraduate life at Cam- bridge, 172; comparison be- tween him and Victor Hugo, 173; passage from his Elegy on Crashaw, 173-175; his Davideis, 175, 6; Pope's sneer at him, 177 and n.; revival of his influence, 177, 8; Denham's last verses written for his fune- ral, 244 Crabbe, George, his effect on the fame of classical poetry,
Crashaw, Richard, style of his Weeping of the Magdalen, 14 n. ; starving in Paris during the Exile, 114; character of his verse while at Cambridge, 172 and n.; passage from Cowley's Elegy on him, 173—
Crawley, Sir Francis, Judge, impeached by Waller on the ship-money question, 84 Cromwell, Oliver, related to Edmund Waller, 49, 83; re- leases John Cleveland from prison at Yarmouth, 117; Mrs Waller makes capital of her relationship with him, but is eventually silenced, 122, 229; Marvell's Horatian ode on him, 216; Waller's Pane- gyric to him, 129, 30, 231, 2 Crowne, John, dramatist, 262 Cruel Brother, by William Dave- nant, 147
Cupid Crucified, by Thomas Stanley, 206, 7
Curse of Kehama, by Robert Southey, 158
Cyder, of John Philips, its pompous diction, In.
Dactylic movement unknown to the Elizabethans, 9, 10, 187; introduced by Waller and Cleveland, 188, 9 Daniel, Samuel, his tragi-come- dies Cleopatra and Philotas,
Darwin, Erasmus, pomposity of his figures of speech, 12, 170 Daubigny, Lady, shares in the plot of 1643 against the Parliament, 86
Davenant, Sir William, 135-78 passim; 108, 113, 118, 121; a pervert from the romantic school, 140; the legendary son of Shakespeare, 144, 5; his friendship with Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke, 145— 8; in 1637 succeeds Ben Jon- son as poet laureate, 149; his place among the renovators of English verse, 152, 3; com- pared with Southey, 155-9; his life saved by Milton's inter- position, 167
Davideis, a sacred epic by Abra-
ham Cowley, 173, 175; pas- sage quoted from, 176 Davies, Sir John, one of the first to employ the four-line heroic stanza, 165 Dekker, Thomas, dramatist, 17 Denham, Sir John, not affected
by French classicism, 21; Waller's earliest pupil in poetry, 63; his criticism of Waller, 79, 80; Dryden's opinion of his Cooper's Hill, 95; his Sophy the first publi- cation of the classical school,
95, 6, 99-103; his youth, 96, 7; his Essay against Gaming, 97, 8; his Destruc- tion of Troy, 98; was he in- fluenced by Corneille? 10I, 2; his Cooper's Hill, 103—9, 121; Charles I.'s unsympa- thetic advice to him, 131; de- scribes the life of the cavaliers during the Exile, 114 n.; 118; his career during the Com- monwealth, 130-3; passage from his poem Against Love, 133, 4; his essay on the art of translating, 98, 9, 272—4 ̧ Destruction of Troy, by Sir John Denham, 98
D'Ewes, Sir Symeon, 87; ex- tract from his diary describing Waller's appearance at the bar of the House of Commons, 89 n. Dido and Eneas, by Sir Richard Fanshawe, 118
Digby, Lord George, an oppo- nent of the 'Root and Branch' party, 84
Digges, Sir Dudley, 269 Diodati, Dr John, visited at Geneva by Waller, 128 Divine Love, by Waller, passage from, 240, I Dobson, Austin, his suggestion of an English term for the French enjambement, 6 Donne, John, a leader in litera- ture, 14, 182; has a literary acquaintance with Constantine Huyghens, 17; popularity of his poems at Cambridge, 25 and n. 1, 37; 67, 121, 151 n. ; Marvell the last of his school, 216; Coleridge's criticism of him, 217; passage from his Valediction forbidding Mourn- ing, 217; Francis Atterbury's opinion of his verse, 250
Dramatists of the early Caroline period prepare the way for the prosaic reaction, 29
French, their influence upon England, 262 Drayton, Michael, his Barons' Wars, 34, 5, 75; 56, 67; his Polyolbion, 104
Dryden, John, class of poetry identified with, 3; effect of the naturalistic poets on his fame, 4; specimen of his verse from Mac-Flecknoe, 7; Waller's verse compared with his, 20, 58, 210, 233; at one time reckoned inferior to Waller, 48 n.; his opinion of Waller's verse, 54, 5, 95, 153; his Hind and the Panther, 75; his opinion of Denham's Cooper's Hill, 95; his treat- ment of the Alexandrine, 121, 234, 5; in the first rank of seventeenth century writers, 137; employs in his Annus Mirabilis the four-line heroic stanza, 165, 228; Cowley's in- fluence upon him, 177, 227; influence of Cleveland's satires on his style, 192 n. 1; a friend of Philip Ayres, 211; had no share in the early development of the classical movement, 226-8; at first a Marinist, 227; influence of Davenant's Gondibert seen in his Heroic Stanzas and Annus Mirabilis, 228; Oldham's influence upon his satires, 234 and n.; reason for the present neglect of his writings, 252; his opinion of Elkanah Settle's verse, 252 and n. 2; character of his songs, 258-60; his dramas, 263; a pillar of classical poetry, 265
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