ANALYSIS OF CONTENTS CHAPTER I EFFECTS OF THE CLASSICAL RENAISSANCE ON Double significance of the word "Renaissance"; political and literary. Resurrection of Art in the early civic life of modern Europe. Effects of the Classical Renaissance proportioned to the degree of civil The Renaissance stimulates artistic invention in free communities, but ILLUSTRATIONS FROM THE HISTORY OF ITALIAN POETRY Dante's national Mediævalism. Ariosto's balanced style in the first period of the Classical Renaissance. ILLUSTRATIONS FROM THE HISTORY OF FRENCH POETRY Party struggle between the Feudal and Bourgeois Elements in the French Alliance between the Crown and the Bourgeoisie. Opposition of literary taste between Marot and Ronsard : Malherbe and Victory of the Classical Renaissance under the direction of Boileau. Uncompromising character of French Absolutism and French Classicism. ILLUSTRATIONS FROM THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH POETRY Ambiguity in the ideas of the English People after the separation from the Gradual evolution of the idea of National Unity. Conflict in English Poetry between Mediæval and Classical Elements." Gradual victory of the Classical Renaissance exemplified in Paradise Lost. Struggle between the Crown and Parliament during the seventeenth century its influence on Poetry. Comparison between the course of French Poetry after the accession of Stationary character of French Poetry in the eighteenth century: gradual Johnson's definition of Whiggism: how far true. Whiggism illustrated by the philosophy of Locke as opposed to that of CHARLES MONTAGUE, EARL OF HALIFAX Specimen of his panegyrical style. Contrast between his career and Montague's. Specimens of his panegyrical style: Ode Presented to the King. Character of the poem: Truthful panegyric: Address to Tallard. Addison's Disciples: Thomas Tickell: Eulogy on Rosamund: Prospect of Peace: John Hughes: Panegyrical Poem on Treaty of Ryswick. |
