1. Introduction 2. The Break with Medievalism: Italian Humanists 3. Humanism in England: Colet, Erasmus, Vives 4. The Rhetoric Tradition: Jewel, Wilson, Ascham 5. The Defence of Poetry: Willis, Lodge, Sidney 6. The Art of Poetry: Gasgoigne, Harvey, ‘E. K.’, Webbe, Puttenham 7. Critical Developments: Nashe, Harington, Daniel, Meres, Hall 8. Dramatic Criticism: Early Tudor Critics, Gosson, Whetstone, Lyly, Shakespeare, Jonson 9. Later Theorizing: Bacon, Chapman, Bolton, Jonson, Reynolds and Alexander 10. Later Critical Judgments: Bolton, Peacham, Carew, Drayton, Suckling, Jonson 11. The Last Phase: Jonson and Milton 12. Conclusion
Biography
J. W. H. Atkins was a Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge and Emeritus Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Aberystwyth
