CHAPTER XXII.

HISTORY OF POETRY FROM 1600 TO 1650.

Low Estimation of the Seicentisti 566 Not quite so great as formerly 566 Praise of them by Rubbi 566 Also by Salfi 566 Adone of Marini 567 Its Character 567 And Popularity 567 Secchia Rapita of Tassoni 568 Chiabrera 569 His Followers 569 The Styles of Spanish Poetry 570 The Romances 570 The Brothers Argensola 570 Villegas 571 Quevedo 571 Defects of Taste in Spanish Verse 571 Pedantry and far-fetched Allusions 572 Gongora 572 The Schools formed by him 573 Malherbe 573 Criticisms upon his Poetry 574 Satires of Regnier 574 Racan--Maynard 574 Voiture 574 Sarrasin 575 Low state of German Literature 575 Literary Societies 575 Opitz 575 His Followers 576 Dutch Poetry 576 Spiegel 576 Hooft-Cats-Vondel 577 Danish Poetry 577 English Poets numerous in this age 577 Phineas Fletcher 577 Giles Fletcher 578 Philosophical Poetry 578 Lord Brooke 578 Denham’s Cooper’s Hill 579 Poets called Metaphysical 579 Donne 580 Crashaw 580 Cowley 580 Johnson’s Character of him 580 Narrative Poets--Daniel 580 Drayton’s Polyolbion 581 Browne’s Britannia’s Pastorals 581 Sir John Beaumont 582 Davenant’s Gondibert 582 Sonnets of Shakspeare 582 The person whom they address 583 Sonnets of Drummond and others 584 Carew 584 Ben Jonson 585 Wither 585 Habington 585 Earl of Pembroke 585 Suckling 586 Lovelace 586 Herrick 586 Milton 586 His Comus 586 Lycidas 587 Allegro and Penseroso 587 Ode on the Nativity 588 His Sonnets 588 Anonymous Poetry 588 Latin Poets of France 588 In Germany and Italy 588 In Holland--Heinsius 589 Casimir Sarbievius 589 Barlæus 589 Balde--Greek Poems of Heinsius 590 Latin Poets of Scotland--Jonston’s Psalms 590 Owen’s Epigrams 590 Alabaster’s Roxana 590 May’s Supplement to Lucan 590 Milton’s Latin Poems 591