CHAPTER I. From Tottel's Miscellany to Spenser

FROM TOTTEL'S MISCELLANY TO SPENSER

The starting-point--Tottel's Miscellany--Its method and authorship--The characteristics of its poetry--Wyatt--Surrey--Grimald--Their metres --The stuff of their poems--The Mirror for Magistrates--Sackville --His contributions and their characteristics--Remarks on the formal criticism of poetry--Gascoigne--Churchyard--Tusser--Turberville-- Googe--The translators--Classical metres--Stanyhurst--Other miscellanies Pages 1-27