CONTENTS
IV. - His second American writing- A bold letter to his London patronas- His knowledge refusing to be commanded by their ignorance- The kind of men to make good colonists of- Early sypmtoms of American recalcitrance........................................................27
V.- His third American work - Vivid pictures of Virginia - The climate - The country - The productions - The Indians - His fine statement of the utility of the Virginian enterprise..............................................30
VI.- Captain John Smith's return to England- His subsequent career- A baffled explorer- His pride in the American colonies- Utilized by the playwrights- Thomas Fuller's sarcastic account of him- His champions- Final estimate................................................................35
CHAPTER III.
VIRGINIA: OTHER EARLY WRITERS.
I.- George Percy of Northumberland- His worthiness - His graphic sketches of the brightness and gloom of their first year in America. 39
II. - William Strachey- His terrible voyage and wreck with sir thomas gates- his book descriptive of it and of the state of the colony in Virginia- Some germs of shakespeare's Tempest- Strachey's wonderful picture of a storm at sea.................................................41
III.- Alexander Whitaker, the devoted Christian missionary- His life and death and memory in Virginia- His appeal to England in "Good news from Virgnia"..............................................................45
IV.- John Pory- His coming to Virgnia - his previous career - A cosmopolite in a colony- His return to England - His amusing sketches of Indian character- The humors and consolations of pioneer life along the James River...................................................48
V.- George Sandys - His high personal qualities and his fine genius- His literary services before coming to America- Michael Drayton's exhortation to entice the muses to Virginia- Sandy's fidelity to his literary vocation amid calamity and fatigue- His translation of Ovid- Its relation to poetry and scholarship in the new world- Passages from it. - the story of Philomela- His poetic renown. 51
CHAPTER IV.
VIRGINIA: ITS LITERATURE DURING THE REMAINDER OF THE FIRST PERIOD
I.- The establishment of Maryland upon the territory of Virginia- Maryland's slight literary record for this period blended with that of Virginia- Father Andrew White and his Latin narrative- John