Holland's Influence on English Language and Literature

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Preface

Illustrations

Introduction

Part I Holland's Influence on the Development of Comparative Philology Chapter I The English Language and Comparative Philology

Chapter II The Great Results of Comparative Philology

Chapter III Holland's Share in the Development of Comparative Philology

Chapter IV The Dutch School of Lambert ten Kate and Balthazar Huydecoper

Chapter V Holland's Share in the Revival of Mediaeval Literature During the Nineteenth Century, as the Natural Consequence of the Study of Comparative Philology.

Chapter VI Results of the Study of Comparative Philology and of Mediaeval Literature for the Study of English Language and Literature.

Part II Holland's Influence on the English Language Chapter VII The Close Relationship Between the Dutch and the English Languages

Chapter VIII Why the Influence of England on Dutch Language and Literature is of Recent Date, While that of Holland on English Language and Literature Occurred Much Earlier and During Several Centuries.

Chapter IX The Influence Exerted on the English Language is Entirely Different from that on English Literature.

Chapter X How It Happened that Holland Exerted Influence on the English Language

Chapter XI The Influence which Holland Has Exerted on the English Language

Part III The Influence of the Netherlands on English Literature Chapter XII On Caedmon

Chapter XIII On the Stories of King Arthur, and the French Romances of Chivalry in England

Chapter XIV On William Caxton

Chapter XV On Prognostications or Prophetic Almanacs

Chapter XVI On Thomas a Kempis

Chapter XVII Elckerlÿc and Everyman

Chapter XVIII On Desiderius Erasmus, 1467-1536

Chapter XIX The First English Book on America a Translation from the Dutch

Chapter XX Dutch Legends in England

Chapter XXI Jest Books and Anecdotes (Fool-literature) - Howleglass (Ulenspiegel)

Chapter XXII Hadrianus Junius, 1511-1575

Chapter XXIII The First Complete English Bible Printed at Antwerp, 1527-1535, as a Missionary Work of the Dutch. Miles Coverdale in the Service of Jacob van Meteren.

Chapter XXIV The Emblem Books, Van der Noot, Erasmus, Hadrianus Junius, Whitney, Plantyn, Jacob Cats.

Chapter XXV George Gascoigne - His Abode in the Netherlands and His Works - His ‘Glasse of Government’ and the Latin School-dramas in Holland - Macropedius - Gnaphaeus.

Chapter XXVI Thomas Churchyard (1520-1604) - The ‘Nestor of Elizabethan Heroes’ as a Soldier and Poet in the Netherlands.

Chapter XXVII Sir Jan van der Noot and Edmund Spenser

Chapter XXVIII The ‘Bee Hive of the Romish Church,’ by Marnix of St. Aldegonde

Chapter XXIX Descriptions of Voyages. Lucas Janss Waghenaer, Bernard Langhenes, Jan Huyghen van Linschoten, William Cornelis Schouten, Gerrit de Veer, Hendrik Tollens.

Chapter XXX Religious Literature. Brownists, Separatists or Independents, Baptists, Congregationalists, Quakers, Presbyterians, Methodists.

Chapter XXXI Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Jacobus Struys. The Morality Plays in the Netherlands

Chapter XXXII Philip Sidney

Chapter XXXIII Tracts Relating the Execution of John of Oldenbarnevelt in 1619. The Tragedy of Sir John van Olden Barnevelt. A Play Called the Jeweller of Amsterdam.

Chapter XXXIV John Milton. His Life and Paradise Lost. Milton and Grotius. Milton and Vondel. Milton and Junius. Milton and Salmasius. Milton and Alexander Morus. Bibliography. Hugo Grotius and John Selden. Selden and Ghaswinckel.

Chapter XXXV The Time of the Anglo-Dutch Wars. John Dryden, Andrew Marvell and Edmund Waller

Chapter XXXVI Holland's Influence During the Time of William III, King of England and Stadholder of Holland. Daniel de Foe, Matthew Prior, Burnet and Locke.

Chapter XXXVII Holland's Decline in the Eighteenth Century. Fielding, Smollett, Goldsmith, Southey and Henry Taylor

Chapter XXXVIII Holland's Glory of the Past Remains Inspiring. Motley, Macaulay, Walter Scott, Washington Irving, and Paulding, Longfellow, Charles Reade and Robert Louis Stevenson. English Translations of Dutch Works. Inspiration from Dutch Art. Walter Cranston Larnet's Novel - Rembrandt.

Index of names