John Lyly

Since the day when Taine established a scientific basis for the historical study of Art, criticism has tended gradually but naturally to fall into two divisions, as distinct fro...

It was as a novelist that Lyly first came before the world of English letters. In 1578 he published a volume, bearing the inscription, _Euphues: the anatomy of wyt_, to which wa...

Now these lines are practically a transcript of the opening words of the 47th sonnet in Watson's _Hekatompathia_ published in 1582. Remembering Lyly's penetrating observation th...

Despite the disproportionate attention given to euphuism by so many of Lyly's critics, _Euphues_ is no less important as a novel than as a piece of prose. We can, however, dismi...

So far we have been dealing with those of Lyly's writings, which, though they are his most famous, form quite a small section of his work, and exerted an influence upon later wr...

At the beginning of this essay I gave a short account of the main facts of our author's life, reserving my judgment upon his character and genius until after the examination of...