HISTORY: Green, History of the English People,
vols. iii, iv; Knight, Popular History of England,
vols. iii, iv, v; Gardiner, The First Two Stuarts,
and the Puritan Revolution; Hale, Fall of the
Stuarts, and Western Europe; Green, Short History
of the English People; Ransome, A Short History
of England; Montgomery, English History.
BIOGRAPHY: Lives of Dryden in the editions of
his Works by Scott, Malone, Christie; Johnson, Dryden
(Lives of the Poets); Saintsbury, Dryden (English
Men of Letters).
CRITICISM: Mitchell, English Lands, Letters,
and Kings
(Elizabeth to Anne); Gosse, From Shakespeare
to Pope;
Lowell, Dryden (Among my Books); Garnett, The
Age of Dryden;
Masson, Dryden and the Literature of the Restoration
(Three Devils); Hamilton, The Poets Laureate
of England;
Hazlitt, On Dryden and Pope.
ROMANCE: Scott, Woodstock, Peveril of the
Peak; Defoe, The Plague in London.
MYTHOLOGY: Bulfinch, Age of Fable; Gayley,
Classic Myths in English Literature_; Smith, Classical
Dictionary.
Dryden’s Life. History. English Literature.
1631, Born Aug. 9th. 1631, Herbert, Temple.
1632,
Milton, L’Allegro
and
II Penseroso.
1633.
Birth of Prince James.
1633,
Massinger, New Way
to
Pay Old Debts.
Ford,
Broken Heart.
Prynne,
Histrio-mastix
1634.
First Ship-money Writ.
1634, Fletcher, Purple
Island.
Cowley,
Poetical Blossoms.
Milton,
Comus.
1635.
Second Ship-money Writ.
1635, Quarles, Emblems.
1636,
Sandys,
Paraphrase
of the
Psalms.
1637, Riot
in Edinburgh.
1637,
Milton, Lycidas.
1638, Scottish
National Covenant.
Judgment against
John Hampden.
1639.
First Bishops’ War.
1640.
Short Parliament.
1640,
Suckling,
Ballad
of a Wedding.
Second Bishops’
War.
Carew,
Poems.
Long Parliament
assembled.
1641.
Execution of Strafford.
Constitutional
1641,
Milton,
Smectymnuus
Tracts,
Reforms. Debate
Clarendon begins History
of
on Grand Remonstrance.
Civil War.
1642.
Committee of Public Safety.
1642,
Fuller, Holy
and
Profane State.
Battle of Edgehill.
Theaters closed.
Browne,
Religio
Medici.
1643.
Westminster Assembly. Solemn
1643,
Denham,
Cooper’s
Hill.
League and Covenant
taken
by House.
1644.
Scotch Army crosses Tweed.
1644,
Milton,
Doctrine
and
Discipline
Royalist defeat
at Marston
of Divorce,
Areopagitica,
On
Moor.
Education.
