CHAPTER VI
THE AGE OF CHAUCER
GENERAL
OUTLINE
1.
TIME-CHART OF THE CHIEF AUTHORS
2.
THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND (1630-60)
3.
LITERARY FEATURES OF THE AGE
4.
JOHN MILTON (1608-74)
5.
OTHER POETS
5.1. The Metaphysical Poets
5.2. The Cavalier Poets
6.
DRAMA
6.1. Philip Massinger (1583-1640)
6.2 John Ford (1586-1639?)
7.
PROSE
7.1. Sir Thomas Browne (1605-82)
8.
OTHER PROSE WRITERS
Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon (1609-74), Thomas
Hobbes (1588-1679), Jeremy
Taylor (1613-67), the most prominent literary divine of the period;
followed in rank by Thomas Fuller
(1608-61).
9. THE DEVELOPMENT OF
LITERARY FORMS AND STYLE
9.1. Poetry
9.2. Prose
9.3. Drama
10. TABLE TO ILLUSTRATE THE DEVELOPMENT OF LITERARY STYLE
CHAPTER VI
CLOSER OUTLINE
1.
TIME-CHART OF THE CHIEF AUTHORS
2.
THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND (1630-60)
3.
LITERARY FEATURES OF THE AGE
3.1. The Reaction
3.2. The Pressure of Historical Events
3.3. Milton
3.4. The Metaphysical Poets
3.5. The Cavalier Poets
3.6. The Expansion of Prose
3.7. The Collapse of Drama
4.
JOHN MILTON (1608-74)
4.1. His Life
4.2. His Prose
4.3. His Poetry
4.4. Features of his Poetry
5.
OTHER POETS
5.1. The Metaphysical Poets
(a) George Herbert (1593-1633)
(b) Richard Crashaw (1613(?)-49)
(c) Henry Vaughan (1622 (?)-95)
(d) Thomas Carew (1594 (?)-1639 (?))
(e) Abraham Cowley (1618-67)
(f) Andrew Marvell (1621-78)
5.2. The Cavalier Poets
(a) Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
(b) Richard Lovelace (1618-58)
(c) Sir John Suckling (1609-42)
6.
DRAMA
6.1. Philip Massinger (1583-1640)
6.2 John Ford (1586-1639?)
7.
PROSE
7.1. Sir Thomas Browne (1605-82)
8.
OTHER PROSE WRITERS
Edward
Hyde, Earl of Clarendon (1609-74), Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), Jeremy
Taylor (1613-67), the most prominent literary divine of the period;
followed in rank by Thomas Fuller
(1608-61).
9.
THE DEVELOPMENT OF LITERARY FORMS AND STYLE
9.1. Poetry
(a) The Lyric
(b) The Epic
(c) The Ode
(d) Descriptive and Narrative Poetry. New
Classicism.
(e) Decline in the lyrical
style
(f) Decline in blank
verse.
(g) The beginning of
heroic couplet
9.2. Prose
(a) The Sermon
(b) Philosophical Works
(c) Historical Works
(d) Miscellaneous Prose
(e) Opposing tendencies in prose. The three styles
9.3. Drama:
(a) Decline and temporary collapse
(b) Other
plawrights
10.
TABLE TO ILLUSTRATE THE DEVELOPMENT OF LITERARY STYLE