RENAISSANCE PROSE

THE TRIVIUM

GRAMMAR (LATIN)

LOGIC

RHETORIC (STYLE)

THE QUADRIVIUM

ARITHMETIC

GEOMETRY

ASTRONOMY

MUSIC

RELIGIOUS POLEMIC

1517 LUTHER AT WITTENBERG

1532 JEAN CALVIN -- INSTITUTES

1535 HENRY VIII SEPARATION

1549 BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER

VERNACULAR BIBLE

1523 TRANS. BEGUN BY WILLIAM TYNDALE

1535 MILES COVERDALE (ZURICH)

1540 THE GREAT BIBLE (TYNDALE-COVERDALE)

1560 THE GENEVA BIBLE

1568 THE BISHOPS BIBLE

1582 NT - RHEIMS

1609 OT - DOUAI

1611 KING JAMES BIBLE

STYLE

1. CICERONEAN =

ELABORATE

BALANCED

ORNATE

2. SENECAN =

LIVELY

SHORT SENTENCES

SUDDEN TURNS AND VARIATIONS

17th CENTURY PROSE

FRANCIS BACON

THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING (1605)

ROBERT BURTON

THE ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY (1621)

JOHN DONNE

SERMONS (1631)

NEOPLATONISTS AT CAMBRIDGE

HENRY MORE

JOHN SMITH

SIR THOMAS BROWNE

RELIGIO MEDICI (1643)

PSEUDODOXIA EPIDEMICA (1646)

HYDRIOTAPHIA or URN BURIAL (1659)

JOHN MILTON

THE DOCTRINE AND DISCIPLINE OF DIVORCE (1644)

AREOPAGITICA (1644)

THE TENURE OF KINGS (1649)

PRO POPULO ANGLICANO DEFENSIO (1649)

DEFENSIO SECUNDA (1654)

THOMAS HOBBES

LEVIATHAN (1651)

IZAAK WALTON

THE COMPLEATE ANGLER (1653)

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