English Catholic Poets, Chaucer to Dryden

Anglican Ben Jonson called Canterbury Tales Cardinal Catholic poet Catholicism character Chaucer Church clerical comedy condemned contemporary courtly Crashaw criticism D'Avenant death doth drama dramatist Dryden Edmund Gosse Elizabethan England English exaltation facts faith father Faustus Friar genius Goldwin Smith Gower Hamlet heart heaven Henry VIII heroic holy John Heywood Jonson King John land Langland language lines literary literature live Lodge Lodge's London lyric Marlowe Massinger Measure for Measure Mermaid mind modern monk moral passages persons phrase Physician's Tale Piers Plowman play Plowman poem poetry political Pope praise priest Professor Protestant quarrel Queen quoted reform religion religious Richard Richard II Robert Southwell Rome Rosalynde Scene scholars Shakespeare Shirley Sidney sins sonnets soul Spider stage Tale things Thomas Thomas Lodge tion tragedy true verse Vicar of Bray William William Langland words writing wrote