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Coppee, Henry

"English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction"


WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE (CONTINUED).
The Grounds of his Fame--Creation of Character--Imagination and
Fancy--Power of Expression--His Faults--Influence of
Elizabeth--Sonnets--Ireland and Collier--Concordance--Other Writers

CHAPTER XVI.
BACON, AND THE RISE OF THE NEW PHILOSOPHY.
Birth and Early Life--Treatment of Essex--His Appointments--His
Fall--Writes Philosophy--Magna Instauratio--His Defects--His Fame--His
Essays

CHAPTER XVII.
THE ENGLISH BIBLE.
Early Versions--The Septuagint--The Vulgate--Wiclif;
Tyndale--Coverdale; Cranmer--Geneva; Bishop's Bible--King James's
Bible--Language of the Bible--Revision

CHAPTER XVIII.
JOHN MILTON, AND THE ENGLISH COMMONWEALTH.
Historical Facts--Charles I.--Religious Extremes--Cromwell--Birth and
Early Works--Views of Marriage--Other Prose Works--Effects of the
Restoration--Estimate of his Prose

CHAPTER XIX.
THE POETRY OF MILTON.
The Blind Poet--Paradise Lost--Milton and Dante--His
Faults--Characteristics of the Age--Paradise Regained--His
Scholarship--His Sonnets--His Death and Fame

CHAPTER XX.


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