Such authors, however, may not
be utterly neglected in the formation of a library. It is to meet this
difficulty that I have included the last three volumes on the above
list. Professor Arber's anthologies are full of rare pieces, and
comprise admirable specimens of the verse of Samuel Daniel, Giles
Fletcher, Countess of Pembroke, James I., George Peele, Sir Walter
Raleigh, Thomas Sackville, Sir Philip Sidney, Drummond of Hawthornden,
Thomas Heywood, George Wither, Sir Henry Wotton, Sir William Davenant,
Thomas Randolph, Frances Quarles, James Shirley, and other greater and
lesser poets.
I have included all the important Elizabethan dramatists except John
Marston, all the editions of whose works, according to my researches,
are out of print.
In the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods talent was so extraordinarily
plentiful that the standard of excellence is quite properly raised,
and certain authors are thus relegated to the third, or excluded,
class who in a less fertile period would have counted as at least
second-class.
SUMMARY OF THE FIRST PERIOD. L s. d.
19 prose authors in 36 volumes costing 2 1 6
29 poets in 36 " " 3 7 6
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48 72 L5 9 0
In addition, scores of authors of genuine interest are represented in
the anthologies.
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