Part 2 — APPENDIX II BIBLIOGRAPHY
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I. GENERAL WORKS
The Cambridge History of English Literature.
A Short History of English Literature, G. Saintsbury.
Cyclopædia of English Literature.
A History of English Poetry, W. J. Courthope.
A History of English Prosody, G. Saintsbury.
History of English Dramatic Literature, Sir A. W. Ward.
Chronicle of the English Drama, F. G. Fleay.
The English Novel, Sir W. Raleigh.
The English Novel, G. Saintsbury.
English and Scottish Popular Ballads, F. J. Child.
Scottish Vernacular Literature, A. Henderson.
Early English Literature, Stopford A. Brooke.
Early English Literature, B. ten Brink.
English Literature from the Norman Conquest to Chaucer, W. H. Schofield.
The Transition Period, G. Gregory Smith.
Elizabethan Literature, G. Saintsbury.
History of Eighteenth-Century Literature, E. Gosse.
The Age of Dryden, R. Garnett.
The Augustan Age, O. Elton.
Nineteenth-Century Literature, G. Saintsbury.
A Survey of English Literature, 1830–1880, O. Elton.
English Prose (extracts), H. Craik.
English Poets (extracts), T. H. Ward.
The Encyclopædia Britannica.
Dictionary of National Biography.
II. BIOGRAPHY AND CRITICISM
Notes.—1. Abbreviations:
E., “English Men of Letters.”
S.W., “Studies of Living Writers.”
W.D., “Writers of the Day.”
P.B., “The People’s Books.”
2. When the title of a book is not given it is identical with the name of the writer being dealt with. For instance, the title of Courthope’s work on Addison is Joseph Addison.
Addison, Joseph
E., W. J. Courthope.
See English Humourists, Thackeray, and English Comic Writers, Hazlitt.
Arnold, Matthew
E., Herbert Paul.
See Studies in Literature, Sir A. T. Quiller-Couch.
Austen, Jane
E., F. W. Cornish.
S. F. Maldon.
Bacon, Francis
E., R. W. Church.
See Essays, Macaulay.
P.B., A. R. Skemp.
Bennett, Arnold
W.D., F. J. Harvey Dalton.
See Some Impressions of my Elders, St. John G. Ervine.
Brontë, Charlotte
Charlotte Brontë and her Circle, Clement K. Shorter.
Life of, Mrs. Gaskell.
Browne, Sir Thomas
E., E. Gosse.
Browning, Robert
E., G. K. Chesterton.
P.B., A. R. Skemp.
E. Gosse.
Introduction to the Study of, A. Symons.
The Poetry of, Stopford A. Brooke.
See Obiter Dicta, A. Birrell, and Literary Studies, W. Bagehot.
Bunyan, John
E., J. A. Froude.
Life of, W. Hale White.
See The Art of Letters, R. Lynd, and Essays, Macaulay.
Burke, Edmund
E., Lord Morley.
Life of, Sir J. Prior.
See Obiter Dicta, A. Birrell.
Burney, Fanny
E., A. Ainger.
Burns, Robert
E., Principal Shairp.
Life of, J. G. Lockhart.
Primer of, W. A. Craigie.
See English Poets, Hazlitt; Essays, Carlyle; Familiar Studies of Men and Books, R. L. Stevenson; Essays, W. E. Henley.
Butler, Samuel (1612–80)
See English Comic Writers, Hazlitt.
Butler, Samuel (1835–1902)
Life of, H. Festing Jones.
Records and Memorials of, R. A. Streatfield.
Byron, Lord
Life of, T. Moore.
E., John Nichol.
See Essays, Macaulay; Essays, W. E. Henley; English Poets, Hazlitt.
Carlyle, Thomas
E., John Nichol.
Life of, J. A. Froude.
P.B., L. Maclean Watt.
See Obiter Dicta, A. Birrell, and My Study Windows, J. R. Lowell.
Chaucer, Geoffrey
E., Sir A. Ward.
See My Study Windows, J. R. Lowell, and Riches of, C. Cowden-Clarke.
Coleridge, S. T.
E., H. D. Traill.
P.B., S. L. Bensusan.
See English Poets, Hazlitt; Essays and Studies, A. C. Swinburne; Studies in Literature, Sir A. T. Quiller-Couch; The Art of Letters, R. Lynd.
Collins, William
See Lives of the Poets, Dr. Johnson, and The Art of Letters, R. Lynd.
Congreve, William
Life of, E. Gosse.
See Lives of the Poets, Dr. Johnson; English Comic Writers, Hazlitt; Essays, Macaulay; English Humourists, Thackeray.
Conrad, Joseph
S.W., R. Curle.
W.D., Hugh Walpole.
See The Moderns, J. Freeman.
Cowper, William
E., Goldwin Smith.
See English Poets, Hazlitt; Literary Studies, W. Bagehot; The Art of Letters, R. Lynd.
Crabbe, George
E., A. Ainger.
T. H. Kebbel.
Defoe, Daniel
E., W. Minto.
See British Novelists, D. Masson, and Hours in a Library, Sir Leslie Stephen.
De Quincey, Thomas
E., D. Masson.
See Hours in a Library, Sir Leslie Stephen.
Dickens, Charles
Life of, J. Forster.
G. K. Chesterton.
E., Sir A. W. Ward.
P.B., S. Dark.
See Literary Studies, W. Bagehot.
Donne, John
Life and Letters of, E. Gosse.
See English Poets, Hazlitt; Studies in Literature, Sir A. T. Quiller-Couch; The Art of Letters, R. Lynd.
Dryden, John
E., G. Saintsbury.
See Lives of the Poets, Dr. Johnson, and Essays, Macaulay.
Eliot, George
E., Sir Leslie Stephen.
Oscar Browning.
Fielding, Henry
E., Austin Dobson.
See English Humourists, Thackeray, and Essays, W. E. Henley.
Galsworthy, John
W.D., Sheila Kaye-Smith.
See Some Impressions of my Elders, St. John G. Ervine.
Gibbon, Edward
E., J. C. Morrison.
See Literary Studies, W. Bagehot, and Essays Political and Biographical, Sir Spencer Walpole.
Goldsmith, Oliver
E., W. Black.
Austin Dobson.
See English Comic Writers, Hazlitt, and English Humourists, Thackeray.
Gray, Thomas
E., E. Gosse.
See Essays in Criticism, Matthew Arnold, and The Art of Letters, R. Lynd.
Hardy, Thomas
W.D., H. Child.
The Art of, L. P. Johnson.
H. C. Duffin.
See Studies in Literature, Sir A. T. Quiller-Couch, and The Moderns, J. Freeman.
Hazlitt, William
E., A. Birrell.
See Essays, W. E. Henley, and Hours in a Library, Sir Leslie Stephen.
Johnson, Samuel
Life of, J. Boswell.
E., Sir Leslie Stephen.
See Essays, Macaulay, and Obiter Dicta, A. Birrell.
Jonson, Ben
Life of, J. A. Symonds.
E., G. Gregory Smith.
See English Comic Writers, Hazlitt.
Keats, John
Life of, Lord Houghton.
Life of, Sir Sidney Colvin.
E., Sir Sidney Colvin.
P.B., E. Thomas.
See Essays, F. Jeffrey; Essays in Criticism, Matthew Arnold; Four Poets, Stopford A. Brooke.
Kipling, Rudyard
Rudyard Kipling: A Criticism, R. Le Gallienne.
W. D., J. Farmer.
Lamb, Charles
Life of, E. V. Lucas.
E., A. Ainger.
P.B., Flora Masson.
See The Spirit of the Age, Hazlitt, and Obiter Dicta, A. Birrell.
Landor, W. S.
E., Sir Sidney Colvin.
Macaulay, Lord
Life and Letters of, Sir G. O. Trevelyan.
E., J. C. Morrison.
See Literary Studies, W. Bagehot; Critical Miscellanies, Lord Morley; Hours in a Library, Sir Leslie Stephen.
Marlowe, Christopher
See English Dramatic Poets, C. Lamb, and English Comic Writers, Hazlitt.
Meredith, George
The Poetry and Philosophy of, G. M. Trevelyan.
Some Characteristics, R. Le Gallienne.
See Studies in Literature, Sir A. T. Quiller-Couch; The Art of Letters, R. Lynd; Studies in Prose and Verse, A. Symons.
Milton, John
Life of, D. Masson.
E., Mark Pattison.
Sir Walter Raleigh.
See Essays, Addison; Lectures, S. T. Coleridge; Literary Studies, W. Bagehot; Essays, Macaulay; Obiter Dicta, A. Birrell.
Morris, William
Life and Letters of, J. W. Mackail.
E., Alfred Noyes.
See The Art of Letters, R. Lynd, and Studies in Prose and Verse, A. Symons.
Pope, Alexander
E., Sir Leslie Stephen.
See Lives of the Poets, Dr. Johnson; My Study Windows, J. R. Lowell; English Poets, Hazlitt; The English Humourists, Thackeray; Obiter Dicta, A. Birrell; Hours in a Library, Sir Leslie Stephen.
Richardson, Samuel
E., Austin Dobson.
See The English Comic Writers, Hazlitt, and Hours in a Library, Sir Leslie Stephen.
Rossetti, D. G.
Record and Study of, W. Sharp.
F. G. Stephen.
See Essays and Studies, A. C. Swinburne.
Ruskin, John
E., Frederic Harrison.
Life of, W. G. Collingwood.
Studies in, E. T. Cook.
Scott, Walter
Life of, J. G. Lockhart.
E., R. H. Hutton.
G. Saintsbury.
See The Spirit of the Age, Hazlitt; Essays, Carlyle; Hours in a Library, Sir Leslie Stephen; Literary Studies, W. Bagehot; Four Poets, Stopford A. Brooke.
Shakespeare, William
Life of, Sir Sidney Lee.
E., Sir Walter Raleigh.
P. B., C. Herford.
Studies in, J. C. Collins.
Shakespearian Tragedy, A. C. Bradley.
Ten Plays of, Stopford A. Brooke.
Among my Books, J. R. Lowell.
See English Comic Writers, Hazlitt; Literary Studies, W. Bagehot; Lectures on Dramatic Literature, Hazlitt; Essays and Lectures on, S. T. Coleridge; Essays, Carlyle; Shakespeare’s Mind and Art, E. Dowden.
Shaw, George Bernard
George Bernard Shaw: His Life and Works, A. Henderson.
G. K. Chesterton.
S.W., J. McCabe.
See The Moderns, J. Freeman; Dramatists of To-day, E. E. Hale; Some Impressions of my Elders, St. John G. Ervine.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Life of, E. Dowden.
E., J. A. Symonds.
P.B., Sydney Waterlow.
See Essays, D. Masson; Essays, R. H. Hutton; Literary Studies, W. Bagehot; The Art of Letters, R. Lynd; Four Poets, Stopford A. Brooke.
Smollett, Tobias
See English Comic Writers, Hazlitt; English Humourists, Thackeray; Essays, W. E. Henley.
Southey, Robert
E., E. Dowden.
See Essays, Macaulay.
Spenser, Edmund
E., R. W. Church.
Life of, J. W. Hales.
See English Poets, Hazlitt, and Essays, Leigh Hunt.
Steele, Richard
See English Humourists, Thackeray, and Studies in English Literature, Dennis.
Sterne, Laurence
Life of, P. Fitzgerald.
See English Humourists, Thackeray, and Literary Studies, W. Bagehot.
Stevenson, R. L.
Life of, G. Balfour.
Sir Walter Raleigh.
See Studies in Prose and Verse, A. Symons.
Swift, Jonathan
E., Sir Leslie Stephen.
See Lives of the Poets, Dr. Johnson; English Comic Writers, Hazlitt; English Humourists, Thackeray.
Swinburne, A. C.
See Studies in Literature, Sir A. T. Quiller-Couch, and Victorian Poets, Stedman.
Taylor, Jeremy
Life of, R. Heber.
E., E. Gosse.
See Lectures, S. T. Coleridge.
Tennyson, Alfred
Life of, H. Tennyson.
Life of, A. C. Benson.
E., Sir Alfred Lyall.
P.B., A. Watson.
See The Art of Letters, R. Lynd; Literary Studies, W. Bagehot; Essays, R. H. Hutton; Essays, P. Bayne; Victorian Poets, Stedman.
Thackeray, W. M.
Life of, Merivale and Marzila.
E., Anthony Trollope.
See Characters and Sketches, Hannay, and Literary Studies, W. Bagehot.
Thomson, James
E., G. C. Macaulay.
See Lives of the Poets, Dr. Johnson, and English Poets, Hazlitt.
Wells, H. G.
W.D., J. D. Beresford.
See The Moderns, J. Freeman, and Some Impressions of my Elders, St. John G. Ervine.
Wilde, Oscar
See Studies in Prose and Verse, A. Symons, and The Art of Letters, R. Lynd.
Wordsworth, William
Life of, C. Knight.
E., T. W. H. Myers.
Sir Walter Raleigh.
P.B., Rosaline Masson.
See English Poets, Hazlitt; Biographic Literaria, S. T. Coleridge; Essays in Criticism, Matthew Arnold; Literary Studies, W. Bagehot; Essays, D. Masson; Essays, R. H. Hutton; Appreciations, W. Pater; Hours in a Library, Sir Leslie Stephen.
III. ESSAYS ON LITERARY SUBJECTS. A series of books of essays arranged in order of composition. These volumes form the basis of a history of English criticism.
Sidney, Sir Philip, Apologie for Poetrie.
Dryden, John, Essay of Dramatic Poesie.
Addison, Joseph, Spectator essays.
Johnson, Dr., Lives of the Poets.
Coleridge, S. T., Biographia Literaria; Essays and Lectures on Shakespeare.
Hazlitt, William, Lectures on the English Poets; The English Comic Writers.
Lamb, Charles, English Dramatic Poets.
Hunt, Leigh, Imagination and Fancy.
Macaulay, Lord, Essays.
Thackeray, W. M., The English Humourists.
Arnold, Matthew, Essays in Criticism.
Hutton, R. H., Essays.
Bagehot, W., Literary Studies.
Swinburne, A. C., Essays and Studies.
Quiller-Couch, Sir A. T., Studies in Literature.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, Hours in a Library.
Henley, W. E., Views and Reviews; Essays.
Collins, J. Churton, Essays and Studies.
Gosse, E., Seventeenth-Century Studies; Some Diversions of a Man of Letters.
Dobson, A., Eighteenth-Century Studies.
Saintsbury, G., Corrected Impressions.
Freeman, J., The Moderns.
Lynd, R., The Art of Letters.
Ervine, St. John G., Some Impressions of my Elders.