. A short course in literature, English and American. For the use of schools and academies . er void of literary pro-ductions. The principal events were the Invention of Printing (1438),The breaking up of the Eastern Empire (1453), The Discovery of America(1492), The beginning of the Reformation (1517). It was the period of the Revival of Learning—the Renaissance. Poetrywas left in the hands of the unlearned. Ballad poetry was the were more poets of note in Scotland than in England. James I. ofScotland was the most celebrated poet of the fifteenth century. Surreyand Wyatt were pol
. A short course in literature, English and American. For the use of schools and academies . er void of literary pro-ductions. The principal events were the Invention of Printing (1438),The breaking up of the Eastern Empire (1453), The Discovery of America(1492), The beginning of the Reformation (1517). It was the period of the Revival of Learning—the Renaissance. Poetrywas left in the hands of the unlearned. Ballad poetry was the were more poets of note in Scotland than in England. James I. ofScotland was the most celebrated poet of the fifteenth century. Surreyand Wyatt were polishers of English verse. Sir Thomas More was the most distinguished prose writer of the principal work was the Utopia, written in Latin. The art of printing was introduced into England by William Caxton. The legends of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table werecollected by Sir Thomas Malory (1470). William Tyndale translated the New Testament (1525), for which hewas burned at Antwerp, by order of Henry VIII. Other translations fol-lowed by order of the arbitrary SHAKESPEARE. CHAPTER V. OO^OO The Elizabethan Period. 1558—1649. THE Elizabethan or the G-olden Age of English Literatureis embraced within the reigns of Elizabeth, James I., andCharles L, beginning about the middle of Elizabeths reign,reaching its meridian splendor in the reign of her successor,and gradually declining with the reign of Charles I. It wasthe culmination of the forces of the preceding age. New dis-coveries had opened new mines of thought and enterprise ; theknowledge accumulated in the age just ended was assimilatedin this, and as getting learning had been the fashion of the pre-ceding age, appearing learned was the fashion of this. Thefact that all three of the sovereigns encouraged literature, andthat Elizabeth and James were both ambitious of literary dis-tinction, were incentives to their followers, and literary pursuitsbecame the fashion of the day. The political conditio
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