Sketches of English Literature, 1: With Considerations on the Spirit of the Times, Volume 2

Henry Collurn, 1837 - English literature

INTRODUCTION	3

The English Language divided into five epochs	11

Laws and Buildings	17

DressEntertainments and Diversions	23

Repasts	31

Manners continued Vigour and End of the Barbarous	39

Literature at the time of the AngloSaxons the Danes	47

AngloSaxons and Danes	53

Opinion of Luther	185

The Reformation	191

COMMENCEMENT OF PROTESTANT LITERATURE	207

continued	217

and Queen Mary	223

Shakspeare	229

My former Misjudgment of ShakspeareMistaken	235

Voltaires Opinion of ShakspeareOpinion of English	239

THIRD AND FOURTH EPOCHS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE	65

The AngloNorman Trouvères continued Terrestrial	73

MiraclesMysteriesSatires	79

Change in LiteratureStruggle between the two Lan	85

Return by law to the National Language	93

Sentiment of political LibertyWhy different amongst	103

King of Scotland Dumbard	115

Literature under the Tudors	137

Attacks against the Clergy	143

Luther	149

Marriage Private Life of Luther 109	169

Portraits of Luther	175

Mechanism of the English Stage in the sixteenth century	249

Shakspeares Style of Writing has corrupted Taste	260

Striking Beauties of Shakspeare	266

Shakspeares Female Characters	273

Classic Models	279

The Era of Shakspeare	287

Poets and other Writers contemporary with Shakspeare	300

The Life of Shakspeare	306

Shakspeare one of the five or six Great Master Spirits	317

PART THE THIRD	323

Raleigh Cowley	343

Political Writings under Charles I and Cromwell	349

Title	Sketches of English Literature, 1: With Considerations on the Spirit of the Times, Volume 2
Author	François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand
Edition	2
Publisher	Henry Collurn, 1837
Original from	Library of Catalonia
Digitized	27 Mar 2009

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