The story of _Gawayne and the Green Knight_, "the jewel of English medieval literature," tells how Sir Gawayne, Arthur's favorite, fought with a giant called the Green Knight. It should be credit that the poem employs the old Anglo-Saxon alliterative meter. The best poetry of the fifteenth century was written in the Northern dialect, which was spoken north of the river Humber. The events clustering about the Crucifixion and the Resurrection furnished the most striking material for the early religious drama. Faustus then proceeds to enjoy all that the new order of things promised. 1650), one of the most prolific dramatists, claimed to have had "either an entire hand or at the least a main finger," in two hundred and twenty plays. BADMAN] Of all the words in the above selection, eighty per cent are monosyllables. 11] credit The Puritan age was one of conflict in religious and political ideals. All for Love_, one of Dryden's greatest plays, shows the delicate keenness of his satire in characterizing the cold-blooded Augustus Caesar, or Octavius, as he is there called. In order to comprehend the dominating spirit of the next age, it is important to understand the meaning of the romantic movement.
The poet seems to have forgotten himself in this ballad and to have given credit expression to his sense of the ludicrous. The year 1819 saw the publication of a work unique among Shelley's productions, _The Cenci_. England again intervened, this time after the war, in the Berlin Congress (1878). Perhaps _Modern Painters_ achieved its greatest success in freeing men from the bondage of a conventional criticism that was stifling art, in sending them direct to nature as a guide, and in developing a love for her varied manifestations of beauty. Every student of the science of society, however, owes a debt to Dickens.