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Coppee, Henry

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


COWLEY, BUTLER, AND WALTON.
Cowley and Milton--Cowley's Life and Works--His Fame--Butler's
Career--Hudibras--His Poverty and Death--Izaak Walton--The Angler; and
Lives--Other Writers

CHAPTER XXI.
DRYDEN, AND THE RESTORED STUARTS.
The Court of Charles II.--Dryden's Early Life--The Death of
Cromwell--The Restoration--Dryden's Tribute--Annus Mirabilis--Absalom
and Achitophel--The Death of Charles--Dryden's Conversion--Dryden's
Fall--His Odes

CHAPTER XXII.
THE RELIGIOUS LITERATURE OF THE GREAT REBELLION AND OF THE RESTORATION.
The English Divines--Hall--Chillingsworth--Taylor--Fuller--Sir T.
Browne--Baxter--Fox--Bunyan--South--Other Writers

CHAPTER XXIII.
THE DRAMA OF THE RESTORATION.
The License of the Age--Dryden--Wycherley--Congreve--Vanbrugh--
Farquhar--Etherege--Tragedy--Otway--Rowe--Lee--Southern

CHAPTER XXIV.
POPE, AND THE ARTIFICIAL SCHOOL.
Contemporary History--Birth and Early Life--Essay, on Criticism--Rape
of the Lock--The Messiah--The Iliad--Value of the Translation--The
Odyssey--Essay on Man--The Artificial School--Estimate of Pope--Other
Writers

CHAPTER XXV.


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