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The first three the excerpt from Wilson's Art of Rhetoric, Sir Philip Sidney's Letter to his brother Robert, and the dissertation from Meres's Palladis Tamia are, if minor, certainly characteristic examples of pre-Elizabethan and Elizabethan literary criticism.
This fact, however, will not justify the sweeping generalizations based upon it. Judging from the pre-Elizabethan literature, who would have expected the brilliancy of the Elizabethan period? Similarly in regard to the Victorian period of English literature.
The narrative of our pre-Elizabethan campaigns is interesting merely as a story; and, when told as for instance D. Hannay has told it in the introductory chapters of his 'Short History of the Royal Navy' it will be found instructive and worthy of careful study at the present day.
It is expressed in maxim and apothegm, in play and poem. One of our old pre-Elizabethan writers has put it in classic form in English: The falling out of faithful friends is the renewing of love.
There, after long and anxious consultation, Hilary, observing that "Somebody had better do something," began to prepare the dinner as in pre-Elizabethan days; but the three ladies' appetites were small. About three in the afternoon, Hilary, giving utterance to the hidden alarm of all, said "I think, sisters, I had better go down as quickly as I can to Mrs. Hand's."
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