CHAPTER I

FROM TOTTEL'S MISCELLANY TO SPENSER

The starting-point--Tottel's _Miscellany_--Its method and authorship--The characteristics of its poetry--Wyatt--Surrey--Grimald--Their metres --The stuff of their poems--_The Mirror for Magistrates_--Sackville --His contributions and their characteristics--Remarks on the formal criticism of poetry--Gascoigne--Churchyard--Tusser--Turberville-- Googe--The translators--Classical metres--Stanyhurst--Other miscellanies Pages 1-27

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