32) §4. Fulke Greville. IX. The Successors of Spenser. Vol. 4. Prose and Poetry: Sir Thomas North to Michael Drayton. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...He freed John Speed s hand from the daily employment of a manual trade. He endowed a history chair at Cambridge into which he put the renowned Dorislaus of Holland;...

33) §11. "Poly-Olbion". X. Michael Drayton. Vol. 4. Prose and Poetry: Sir Thomas North to Michael Drayton. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...a philosophy of metre, doubtless chose the metre of Poly-Olbion with care. It is written in riming couplets of twelve-syllabled lines: a sober, jogging motion, as...

34) §9. "Englands Heroicall Epistles". X. Michael Drayton. Vol. 4. Prose and Poetry: Sir Thomas North to Michael Drayton. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...Brandon, duke of Suffolk; Surrey and Geraldine; lady Jane Grey and lord Guilford Dudley. Two of these pairs, Drayton had already treated in other poems; to all, he...

35) §15. Later prosodists. VII. The Prosody of the Nineteenth Century. Vol. 13. The Victorian Age, Part One. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...with an entirely new terminology of a most fantastic character, not much knowledge of the history of the subject and a certain return to the eighteenth-century views...

36) §28. Henry Brooke s poetry. VI. Lesser Verse Writers. Vol. 9. From Steele and Addison to Pope and Swift. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...compound of genius and dulness. There were full thirty years between it and Universal Beauty—his longest and best known, though by no means his earliest or his best,...

37) §7. John Wotton; Richard Barnfield. VI. The Song-Books and Miscellanies. Vol. 4. Prose and Poetry: Sir Thomas North to Michael Drayton. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...beauty of a lass, whose name we learn to be Eliza. In the introductory letter to The Encomion of Lady Pecunia, Barnfield openly admits his search for an uncommon,...

38) §13. "The Muses Elizium". X. Michael Drayton. Vol. 4. Prose and Poetry: Sir Thomas North to Michael Drayton. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...of all, perhaps, is the well known letter in verse To Henery Reynolds, in which Drayton tells the story of his boyish resolve to be a poet, and goes on to give an...

39) §9. Humours . XVI. London and the Development of Popular Literature. Vol. 4. Prose and Poetry: Sir Thomas North to Michael Drayton. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...to dignify any mental characteristic or even pose with the name of humour, and to deem the most miserable affectations worthy of literary comment. 58 27 The debasement...

40) §6. Rise of Formal Satire. XVI. London and the Development of Popular Literature. Vol. 4. Prose and Poetry: Sir Thomas North to Michael Drayton. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...he demonstrated that classical satire could be most effectively written in the decasyllabic couplet. 22 Note 20. See ante, Vol. III, pp. 449, 615. [ back ] Note 21....