CHAPTER IV. "the Faërie Queene" and Its Group

"THE FAËRIE QUEENE" AND ITS GROUP

Spenser--His life and the order of his works--The Shepherd's Calendar --The minor poems--The Faërie Queene--Its scheme--The Spenserian stanza--Spenser's language--His general poetical qualities-- Comparison with other English poets--His peculiar charm--The Sonneteers--Fulke Greville--Sidney--Watson--Barnes--Giles Fletcher the elder--Lodge--Avisa--Percy--Zepheria--Constable--Daniel-- Drayton--Alcilia--Griffin--Lynch--Smith--Barnfield--Southwell--The song and madrigal writers--Campion--Raleigh--Dyer--Oxford, etc.-- Gifford--Howell, Grove, and others--The historians--Warner--The larger poetical works of Daniel and Drayton--The satirists--Lodge-- Donne--The poems of Donne generally--Hall--Marston--Guilpin--Tourneur 82-156