CONTENTS OF THE SECOND CONVERSATION. Henry Parker, Lord Morley's translation of the Triumphs of curious relation of "A straunge and terrible Wunder, &c. in the Parish Church of Bongay," &c. 1577-Extract from it-Stanzas in rhyme by him quoted from his "Bright burning Beacon" on the Earthquake of 1580—Fleming's list of poets, &c who wrote on the same subject-Turberville and N. Breton-R. Greene's blankverse in "Perimedes the Blacke-Smith," 1588-Two specimens "Enones complaint," in blank-verse, from George Peele's “Arraygnment of Paris," 1584-Thomas Heywood's authority for the introduction of the classic measures in his "Apology for Actors," 1612-His practice in his "Pleasant Dialogues and Dramas," 1637-Aske's Elizabetha triumphans, 1588, and quotation from it regarding Mary Queen of Scots-W. Vallan's "Tale of two Swannes," 1590-Christopher Marlow's translation of the first book of Lucan's Pharsalia, 1600, in blank-verse, with specimens and observations-Cause of his death before 1593 -Comparison between Marlow and Thomas May-Anonymous production of the same kind of verse, "Queen Elizabeth's Entertainment by the Earl of Hertford," in 1591-Description of a poet from it, and quotation of a passage in his address-Speech of the "Fairy Queene" in the same George Chapman-Francis Sabie's productions, and particularly his "Fisherman's Tale" and "Floras Fortune," 1595, in blank-verse-Sabie's poetical experiments in hexameters, blank-verse and rhyme, the last in a work only recently discovered-Richard Mulcaster-His Nania Consolans, 1603, on the death of Queen Elizabeth, and its translation into blank-verse, by himself-Its character, and extracts. |