IV.

ELIZABETHAN AGE.

A.D. 1558-1649.

GREAT INTELLECTUAL SPLENDOR. THE GOLDEN AGE OF

ENGLISH LITERATURE.

POPULARITY OF THE PETRARCHEAN SCHOOL.

PREVALENCE OF EUPHUISM AS A FASHION.

PRODUCTION OF THE GREAT ENGLISH ROMANTIC EPIC, "FAERIE QUEENE," BY EDMUND SPENSER.

OUTBURST OF PATRIOTIC POETRY.

ORIGIN OF ENGLISH POETICAL SATIRE.

DEVELOPMENT OF THEOLOGICAL WRITING BY RICHARD HOOKER.

CULMINATION OF THE DRAMA UNDER SHAKESPEARE. FOUNDATION OF SCHOLARLY HISTORICAL WRITING BY SIR WALTER RALEIGH.

REFORMATION IN NATURAL

PHILOSOPHY DUE TO SIR

FRANCIS BACON.

DECLINE OF POETRY UNDER THE SO-CALLED METAPHYS

ICAL POETS.