Part 2 — GENERAL INDEX

The pages on which authors are more particularly dealt with are given in black type.

A

A Man’s a Man for a’ That, 310

A Weary Lot is Thine, 413

Abbot, The, 415

Abou Ben Adhem, 406

Absalom and Achitophel, 195, 215, 227, 274

Absentee, The, 421

Acis and Galatea, 262

Adam Bede, 488

Adam Blair, 434

Addison, Joseph, 169, 219, 242, 259, 267, 269, 270, 272, 276, 277, 339, 347, 431, 439, 558

Address to the Deil, 359

Address to Edinburgh, 311

Address to the King (Burke), 353

Admirable Crichton, The, 548

Adonais, 392, 449

Advancement of Learning, The, 135

Adventurer, The, 344

Adventures of Harry Richmond, The, 483

Adventures of Philip, The, 480

Advice to a Daughter, 211

Ae Fond Kiss, 308

Ælfric, 9, 13–14, 71

Æneid (Douglas), 62

Æneid (Surrey), 97, 150

After Dark, 488

Afton Water, 308

Agnes Grey, 486

Aids to Reflection, 381

Ainsworth, William Harrison, 422, 438

Airly Beacon, 490

Akenside, Mark, 303

Alarum to the Counties of England and Wales, An, 178

Alastor, 390

Alchemist, The, 124

Alcibiades, 206

Alciphron, 252, 270

Alexander’s Feast, 198

Alfred, King, 8, 14, 18, 50, 61

Alfred (Thomson), 293

Alfred, The Proverbs of, 20

Alice in Wonderland, 548

All Fools, 127

All for Love, 200, 215

All the Year Round, 474, 475, 558

All’s Well that Ends Well, 116

Allegory, the, 48, 69, 93

Allegro, L’, 164, 180

Alliteration, 5, 43, 49

Alma, 262

Almayer’s Folly, 527

Alphonsus, King of Arragon, 106

Alroy, 425

Althea, To, 173, 185

Alton Locke, 489

Alysoun, 26, 30

Amazing Marriage, The, 484

Amelia, 319

America, The History of, 328

American Notes, 475

Amis and Amiloun, 22

Amoretti, 91, 152

Amours de Voyage, 469

Anatomy of Melancholy, The, 140, 146, 154, 175, 400

Anatomy of the World, An, 102

Ancient Mariner, The Rime of the, 376–377, 378, 446

Ancren Riwle, 17, 23

Andreas, 3

Androcles and the Lion, 542, 543–544

Anglo-French language, in medieval England, 15

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, The, 10, 11

Ann Veronica, 532

Anna of the Five Towns, 538

Annals of the Parish, The, 422

Annus Mirabilis, 194

Anthea, To, 170

Antiquary, The, 415, 447

Antonio and Mellida, 128

Antonio’s Revenge, 128

Antony and Cleopatra, 117, 119, 121, 123

Apologie for Poetrie, An, 90, 269

Apophthegms (Bacon), 135

Appius and Virginia (early tragedy), 77

Appius and Virginia (Webster), 129

Appreciations, 502

Araygnement of Paris, The, 105

Arbuthnot, John, 251

Arcadia, 146, 337

Areopagitica, 163–164

Arms and the Man, 541

Arnold, Matthew, 156, 229, 370, 453, 467, 509, 516, 560

Arrow of Gold, The, 528

Art of Political Lying, The, 251

Arthur and Merlin, 22

As You Like It, 116

Ascham, Roger, 137, 155

Ask me No More, 172

Asolando, 463

Astræa Redux, 195

Astrophel and Stella, 99

Atalanta in Calydon, 471

Atheist’s Tragedy, The, 129

Auld Lang Syne, 311

Auld Licht Idylls, 547

Aurengzebe, 199

Aurora Leigh, 467

Austen, Jane, 325, 418, 438, 440

Authorized Version, the, 72, 130

Autobiography (Gibbon), 326, 359

Autobiography (Leigh Hunt), 406

Autumn, Ode to (Keats), 401, 443

Autumn (Shelley), 443

Ayenbite of Inwyt, 23

Ayrshire Legatees, The, 422

B

Back to Methuselah, 542, 545

Bacon, Francis, 134, 147, 269

Bad Child’s Book of Beasts, A, 549

Baillie, Joanna, 336

Balaustion’s Adventure, 463

Bale, John, 85

Ballad, the, 47, 70, 335

Ballad of Bouillabaisse, The, 480

Ballad of East and West, The, 574

Ballad upon a Wedding, A, 173, 186

Ballads and Poems (Meredith), 482

Ballads of Policeman X, The, 480

Ballads and Sonnets (D. G. Rossetti), 469

Ballantyne, James, 411

Ballantyne, John, 411

Baltic, The Battle of the, 405

Barbour, John, 33, 44

Barchester Towers, 487

Barclay, Alexander, 65, 69

Bard, The, 298, 335

Barker, Granville, 559

Barnaby Rudge, 475

Barons’ Wars, The, 100

Barrie, Sir James, 547

Barrow, Isaac, 181

Barry Lyndon, 479

Bartholomew Fair, 124

Bastard, The, 263

Battle of the Baltic, The, 405

Battle of Blenheim, The, 403

Battle of the Books, The, 238

Battle of Brunanburgh, The, 6

Battle of Hastings, The, 314

Battle of Maldon, The, 6, 11

Battle-song (Ebenezer Elliott), 408

Baxter, Richard, 181

Beauchamp’s Career, 483

Beaumont, Francis, 126

Beaux’ Stratagem, The, 205, 215, 225–226

Becket (Tennyson), 458

Beckford, William, 324

Bede, 7, 8, 9

Bee, The, 296, 344, 347

Beggar’s Opera, The, 262, 266, 267

Behn, Aphra, 222, 339

Belle Dame sans Merci, La, 401, 402

Belloc, Hilaire, 549

Bennett, Arnold, 538

Bentley, Richard, 256

Beowulf, 2, 4, 11, 12, 179

Beppo, 385

Berkeley, George, 252, 270, 509

Berners, Lord, 70

Besant, Walter, 490

Bestiary, The, 20

Betrothed, The, 415

Bevis of Hampton, 22

Bible, the, 70, 83, 130;

Authorized Version, 130;

the Bishops’, 72;

the Geneva (“Breeches,”), 72;

the Great, 72, 84;

other early translations of, 71, 83

Bible in Spain, The, 490

Biographia Literaria, 368, 380, 443–444

Black Arrow, The, 491

Black Dwarf, The, 415

Black-eyed Susan, 262, 275

Blackmore, Sir Richard (1650–1729), 264, 266

Blackmore, Richard D. (1825–1900), 491

Blackwood’s Magazine, 365, 397, 424, 429, 434, 467, 488, 558

Blair, Robert, 305

Blake, William, 314, 334, 345, 353, 556–557

Blank verse, 97, 183, 271, 437, 456

Bleak House, 475

Blenheim, The Battle of, 403

Blessed Damozel, The, 469, 515

Blind Beggar, The, 127

Blow, bugle, blow, 459

Blue Tit, The, 566

“Bobbed” lines in Old English poetry, 25

Boëthius, 8, 60

Boke named the Governour, The, 70

Bolingbroke, Lord, 251, 270

Book of Faith, The, 66

Book of Snobs, The, 478

Booke of Ayres, A, 100

Books, The Battle of the, 238

Boon, 532

Borderers, The, 369, 371, 437

Borough, The, 302

Borrow, George, 490

Boswell, James, 287, 296, 328, 343, 359, 439

Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich, The, 469

Bothwell, 472

Bowge of Court, The, 63

Boyle, Roger, 339

Brawne, Fanny, 397

Brazil, The History of, 403

Break, break, break, 460

Bridal of Triermain, The, 413

Bride of Abydos, The, 384

Bride of Lammermoor, The, 415

Bridge of Sighs, The (Hood), 409

Bridges, Dr. Robert, 560

Bristowe Tragedy, The, 335

Britannia’s Pastorals, 144

Brontë, Anne, 485

Brontë, Charlotte, 485, 508

Brontë, Emily, 485

Brook, The, 460

Brooke, Rupert, 554

Brown, Dr. John, 433

Browne, Sir Thomas, 174, 181, 219, 427, 509

Browne, William, 125, 144, 223

Brownie of Bodsbeck, The, 407

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 461, 466

Browning, Robert, 367, 453, 461, 506, 507, 509, 512, 514, 516, 563, 571

Brunanburgh, The Battle of, 6

Brus, The, 44

Brut, 17–18, 24, 29

Buckhurst, Lord (Thomas Sackville, Earl of Dorset), 77, 98, 144

Bull, The, 560

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward, 425, 438

Bunyan, John, 42, 65, 209, 216, 224–225, 339, 574

Burke, Edmund, 283, 286, 330, 344, 347, 353, 365

Burke, 550

Burnet, Gilbert, 221

Burney, Frances, 325, 354

Burns, Robert, 265, 305, 334, 335, 345, 359, 371, 404, 570

Burton, Robert, 140, 146, 154–155, 175, 400, 509

Bury Fair, 205

Bussy d’Ambois, 127

Butler, Samuel (1612–80), 207

Butler, Samuel (1835–1902), 492

Byron, Lord, 364, 366, 378, 382, 404, 414, 436, 439, 446–447, 448

Byron, The Life of, 405, 439

C

Cadenus and Vanessa, 237

Cædmon, 2, 3, 6, 12–13

Cæsar (Froude), 503

Cæsar and Cleopatra, 542

Cain, 387

Cakes and Ale, 558

Caleb Williams, 334

Caliban upon Setebos, 465

Caligula, 207

Caller Water, 346

Cambises, King of Percia, 77

Campaign, The, 242

Campbell, Thomas, 405

Campion, Thomas, 100, 143, 147

Candida, 541, 543

Canterbury Tales, The, 35, 48

Cap and Bells, The, 401

Capgrave, John, 70

Captain Popanilla, The Voyage of, 425

Captain Singleton, 250, 339

Captives, The, 129

Card, The, 538

Carew, Thomas, 172, 181

Carlyle, Thomas, 438, 453, 493, 508, 510, 513, 575

Carnival, 539

Carols, 47, 70

Casa Guidi Windows, 467

Cashel Byron’s Profession, 540

Castaway, The, 301

Castle Dangerous, 415

Castle of Health, The, 70

Castle of Indolence, The, 292

Castle of Otranto, The, 323

Castle Rackrent, 421

Cathleen ni Hoolihan, 555

Catiline his Conspiracy, 125

Cato, 243, 267, 277

Catriona, 492

Cavalier poets, the, 161, 173

Caxton, William, 46, 66

Caxtons, The, 426

Cecilia, 325

Cenci, The, 391, 395, 437

Certain Bokes of Virgiles Æneis turned into English Meter, 97, 150

Certayne Ecloges, 65

Certayne Notes of Instruction concerning the Making of Verse in English, 99

Chamberlayne, William, 180, 216

Chameleon, The, 262

Chance, 528

Change in the Cabinet, A, 549

Changeling, The, 128

Channel Firing, 525–526

Chapman, George, 127

Character of a Trimmer, The, 211

Characters (Overbury), 139

Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays, The, 431

Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, and Times, 253

Charles V, The History of, 328

Charles, Duke of Byron, 127

Charles O’Malley, 423

Chartism (Carlyle), 494

Chastelard, 472

Chatterton, Thomas, 313, 335, 345

Chaucer, Geoffrey, 33, 197, 215, 285, 507

Chaucer’s ABC, 34

Cherry Ripe (Campion), 101

Cherry Ripe (Herrick), 170

Chesterfield, Earl of, 333, 342

Chesterton, G. K., 549

Chevy Chace, 48, 54–55

Child’s Garden of Verses, A, 492

Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, 383, 437, 448

Chillianwallah, 482

Christ, 7

Christ’s Victorie and Triumph, 102

Christabel, 377

Christabel metre, the, 377

Christian Hero, The, 270

Christian Morals, 175

Christie Johnstone, 486

Christis Kirk on the Green, 58

Christmas Carol, A, 475

Chronicle, Anglo-Saxon, 10, 11

Chronicle of England, The, 70

Chronicle History of King Leir, The, 77, 118

Chronologia Sacra, 141

Church-History of Britain, The, 178

Churchill, Charles, 304

Citizen of the World, The, 296

City Madam, The, 174

City of the Plague, The, 434

Civil Wars, The, 104

Clare, John, 409, 565–566

Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of, 176, 181, 218, 221, 341, 501

Clarissa Harlowe, 316

Clayhanger, 538

Cleannesse, 21, 31, 50

Cleomenes, 201

Cleveland, John, 181, 185–186

Clevelandisms, 182

Clive, Essay on, 497

Cloister and the Hearth, The, 486

Clough, Arthur Hugh, 468, 515–516

Club of Queer Trades, The, 549

Clubs and coffee-houses, 234

Cobbett, William, 365, 435, 440

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 363, 366, 368, 370, 375, 429, 431, 436, 439, 443–444, 445–446, 496, 508

Colin Clout (Skelton), 81

Colin Clouts come Home againe, 91

Collected Poems, W. H. Davies’, 552

Collection of Original Trifles, 409

Collier, Jeremy, 219

Collins, Wilkie, 487

Collins, William, 299, 335, 345, 352

Colonel Jack, 250, 339

Columbus, 406

Comedies, early, 77

Comedy of Errors, The, 116, 117

Comic Annual, The, 408

Comical Revenge, The, 205

Coming Race, The, 426

Complaint, The, or Night Thoughts, 263, 271, 278

Complaint of Henry, Duke of Buckingham, The, 98

Complaint of Our Lady, The, 64

Complaint of Rosamund, The, 104

Compleat Angler, The, 181, 184

Compleynte of Chaucer to his Purse, The, 36

Compleynte of Faire Anelida, The, 34

Compleynte of Mars, The, 34

Compleynte unto Pité, The, 34

Comus, 164, 186

Confederacy, The, 205

Confessio Amantis, 43, 50, 53

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, The, 429, 430–431, 444

Confessions of a Young Man, The, 537

Congreve, William, 203, 205, 215, 567

Coningsby, 425

Connoisseur, The, 344

Conquest of England, The, 504

Conquest of Granada, The (Dryden), 199

Conrad, Joseph, 526, 561

Conscience, 62

Conscious Lovers, The, 247

Constable of the Tower, The, 422

Constantia and Philetus, 169

Contarini Fleming, 425

Conversion of Swerers, The, 65

Cooper’s Hill, 180, 183

Coriolanus, 117

Corn Law Rhymes, 408

Cornelia, 108

Cornhill Magazine, The, 467, 480, 500, 558

Corsair, The, 384

Cotter’s Saturday Night, The, 307, 310, 312

Count Basil, 336

Count Julian, 403

Count Robert of Paris, 415

Countess Cathleen, The, 555

Countess of Pembroke, Epitaph on the, 125

Country of the Blind, The, 532, 534

Country Wife, The, 204, 215

Court of Love, The, 36

Coverdale, Miles, 71, 84

Coverley papers, the, 245, 339, 558

Cowley, Abraham, 160, 169, 180, 216, 269

Cowper, William, 300, 335, 343, 344, 345, 352, 364, 439

Coy Mistress, To his, 185

Crabbe, George, 302, 335, 345, 356, 364, 408

Cranmer, Thomas, 70

Crashaw, Richard, 170, 180

Crawford, Robert, 276

Creation, The, 265

Crimean War, The History of the, 504

Cripps the Carrier, 491

Critic, The, 336

Criticism, An Essay on, 255, 256, 261

Cromwell, The Life of, 550

Crossing the Bar, 460

Crown of Wild Olive, The, 500

Crowne, John, 207

Cruise of the Midge, The, 424

Cry of the Children, The, 467

Culture and Anarchy, 468

Cup, The, 458

Curll, Edmund, 235

Curse of Kehama, The, 403

Cursor Mundi, 20

Cymbeline, 117

Cymon and Iphigenia, 197–198

Cynewulf, 2, 7

Cynthia’s Revels, 124

Cypress Grove, The, 183

D

Daffodils, To (Herrick), 222

Daily Courant, The, 268

Daily News, The, 474

Daisy, The, 551

Dance of the Sevin Deidlie Sins, The, 61

Daniel, Samuel, 103, 143

Daniel Deronda, 488

D’Arblay, Madame, 325

Darnley, 423

Darwin, Charles, 452, 505

Dauber, 552

Davenant, Sir William, 180, 183

David Copperfield, 475

Davideis, The, 169, 179, 183

Davies, William H., 552, 559, 560

Day, John, 145

De la Mare, Walter, 560

De Montfort, 336

De l’Orme, 423

De Quincey, Thomas, 428, 439, 441, 444, 558

Dead Drummer, The, 521

Dead Secret, The, 487

Death of Œnone, The, 458

Death-bed, The, 409

Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, The, 326, 341, 564

Defence of Guenevere, The, 470

Defence of Poetry, The, 394

Defoe, Daniel, 249, 268, 270, 272, 277, 339, 557

Deformed Transformed, The, 387

Deirdre of the Sorrows, 548

Dejection, 378

Dekker, Thomas, 128, 150, 174

Delia, 104, 143

Deluge, The, 84–85

Demos, 536

Denham, Sir John, 160, 180, 216

Denis Duval, 480

Deor’s Complaint, 6, 11

Descent of Man, The, 505

Descriptive poetry, 48, 144, 436, 506, 559

Descriptive Sketches (Wordsworth), 268

Deserted Village, The, 265, 293, 294, 295, 335, 556

Desperate Remedies, 523

Destruction of Troy, The, 22

Dethe of the Duchesse, The, 34

Devereux, 425

Devil is an Ass, The, 124

Devil’s Law Case, The, 129

Dialects, Middle English, 16, 20;

Old English, 3

Diall of Princes, The, 141

Dialogues of Hylas and Philonous, 252

Diana of the Crossways, 484

Diary (Evelyn), 213

Diary (Pepys), 212–213

Dickens, Charles, 453, 472, 487, 507, 508, 510, 534, 557, 558

Dictes and Sayengis of the Philosophers, The, 66

Dictionary, Johnson’s, 287, 289, 349–350

Dido, 107, 109

Dipsychus, 469

Dirge on Edward IV, 63

Discourse concerning Oliver Cromwell, 169

Dispensary, The, 263

Disraeli, Benjamin, 424, 438

Distant Prospect of Eton College, Ode on a, 298

Distressed Mother, The, 264

Divorce, On (Milton), 163

Doctor Faustus, 109, 153–154

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 491

Doctor Thorne, 487

Doctor’s Dilemma, The, 542

Dombey and Son, 475

Don Carlos, 206

Don Juan, 385, 437, 449

Don Quixote, 338

Don Sebastian, 201

Donne, John, 102, 140, 143, 144, 172, 184–185

Dorset, Thomas Sackville, Earl of (1536–1608), 77, 98, 144.

See also Buckhurst, Lord.

Dorset, Earl of (1637–1706), 213

Double Dealer, The, 203

Douglas, Gawain, 62, 79

Douglas (Home), 336

Dover Beach, 468

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan, 558

Drama, the, 72, 89, 144, 161, 180, 335, 437, 507, 558

Drama in Muslin, A, 537

Dramatic Idylls, 463

Dramatic Lyrics, 462

Dramatic Monologues, 463

Dramatic Poesie, The Essay of, 201, 269

Dramatis Personæ, 463

Drapier’s Letters, 240, 270, 343

Drayton, Michael, 100, 144, 397

Dream-Children, 428

Dream of Eugene Aram, The, 409

Dream of the Rood, The, 7

Dreams of the Sea, 553

Dreme, The, 59

Drinkwater, John, 553, 559

Drummer, The, 243

Drummond, William, 182, 224

Dry Sticks, 404

Dryden, John, 169, 185, 193, 215, 217, 222, 228, 269, 273, 274, 305

Dublin University Magazine, The, 423

Duchess of Malfy, The, 129

Duke of Milan, The, 174

Dunbar, William, 61, 70, 79

Duncan Campbell, 249

Dunciad, The, 235, 258, 264, 266

Dunton, John, 235

Dynasts, The, 521, 559

E

Earle, John, 140, 269

Earth and Animated Nature, The History of, 297

Earthly Paradise, The, 470, 507

Eastward Hoel, 127

Ecclesiastical Polity, The Laws of, 139, 152–153

Eclogue, the, 69, 91

Edgeworth, Maria, 421

Edinburgh Review, The, 365, 383, 432, 433, 497, 558

Education, Of (Milton), 163

Education of Nature, The, 374–375

Edward the First, 105

Edward II, 109

Edward III, 116

Edwin Drood, The Mystery of, 475

Egoist, The, 483

Elegy written in a Country Churchyard, 298

Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog, 295, 573–574

Elene, 3, 7

Elia, The Essays of, 427, 444–445

Eliot, George (Mary Ann Evans), 488, 508, 533

Elliott, Ebenezer, 363, 407

Elyot, Sir Thomas, 70

Emilia in England (Sandra Belloni), 483

Emma, 419

Empedocles on Etna, 467

Empress of Morocco, The, 207

Encyclopædia Britannica, The, 497

Endimion and Phœbe, 144

Endymion (Keats), 397

Endymion (Lyly), 105

England, A History of (Froude), 503

England, The History of (Goldsmith), 297

England, A Constitutional History of (Hallam), 436

England, The History of (Hume), 328, 341, 350–351

England, The History of (Macaulay), 498, 513

England’s Helicon, 104

England’s Heroical Epistles, 100, 144

English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, 383

English Comic Writers, The, 432

English Humourists, The, 480

English in Ireland, The, 503

English Mail-coach, The, 429

English Rogue, The, 338

English Traveller, The, 129

Englishman, The, 247

Enoch Arden, 457

Entail, The, 422

Eöthen, 504

Epic, the, 11, 179

Epic of Women, The, 472

Epicene, or The Silent Women, 124, 149

Epipsychidion, 392

Epistle to Arbuthnot, 259, 274–275

Epistle to Curio, 303

Epitaph on the Countess of Pembroke, 125

Epitaph on a Hare, 301

Epithalamion, 92, 179

Erectheus, 472

Erewhon, 492

Essay, the, 145, 268, 344, 438, 508

Essay on Clive, 497, 498–499

Essay on Criticism, An, 255, 261

Essay of Dramatic Poesie, The, 201, 269

Essay concerning Human Understanding, An, 219–221, 268

Essay on Johnson, 360

Essay on Man, An, 253, 260

Essay on Mind, An, 466

Essay on Poetry, An, 211

Essays, Bacon’s, 135

Essays, Cowley’s, 169

Essays in Criticism, 468

Essays of Elia, The, 427, 444–445

Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary, 328

Esther Waters, 537

Etheredge, George, 204

Eugene Aram, The Dream of, 409

Euphranor, 468

Euphues, the Anatomy of Wit, 138, 146, 337, 340

Euphues and his England, 138–139, 154, 563–564

Euphuism, 138, 147

Evan Harrington, 483

Evans, Mary Ann (George Eliot), 488

Eve of St. Agnes, The, 398, 401, 437, 446, 569

Eve of St. John, The, 412

Eve of St. Mark, The, 399–400

Evelina, 325, 354

Evelyn, John, 213, 219

Evening Walk, The, 368

Every Man in his Humour, 124

Every Man out of his Humour, 124

Everyman, 74–75

Evidences of Christianity, A View of the, 333

Examiner, The (Hunt), 365, 406

Examiner, The (Tory periodical), 240, 268, 279

Example of Virtue, The, 65

Excursion, The, 369, 370, 371

Exeter Book, the, 3, 6, 7

Exodus (Middle English poem), 20

Expedition of Humphrey Clinker, The, 321

Expostulation and Reply, 368

F

Fables (Dryden), 222–223

Fables for the Holy Alliance, 405

Fabliau, the, 49

Faerie Queene, The, 48, 91, 93, 98, 155–156

Fair Maid of Perth, The, 415

Fair Penitent, The, 207

Faithful Shepherdess, The, 127, 145

Falcon, The, 458

Falkland, 425

Falls of Princes, The, 64

Famous Chronicle of Edward the First, The, 105

Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth, The, 77

Fancies Chaste and Noble, 174

Far from the Madding Crowd, 523

Farquhar, George, 205, 215, 225–226

Fates of the Apostles, The, 7

Fazio, 435

Felix Holt, 488

Felltham, Owen, 181, 184

Ferdinand, Count Fathom, 321, 360

Fergusson, Robert, 315, 345

Ferishtah’s Fancies, 463

Ferrex and Porrex (Gorboduc), 77, 98

Fielding, Henry, 317, 336, 338, 340, 346, 354–355, 479, 480, 481, 557

Fifine at the Fair, 463

Fight at Finnesburgh, The, 6, 11

Fingal, 313

Finnesburgh, The Fight at, 6, 11

First Men in the Moon, The, 533

Fisher, John, 67, 70, 80

Fitton, Mary, 112

Fitzboodle Papers, The, 479

Fitzgerald, Edward, 468

Flaming Heart, The, 171

Flecker, J. E., 569–570

Fletcher, Giles, 101

Fletcher, John, 126, 397

Fletcher, Phineas, 101

Flower and the Leaf, The, 36

Flowers of Passion, 536

Food of the Gods, The, 532

Force of Religion, The, 262

Ford, Emanuel, 339

Ford, John, 174, 180

Forest Minstrel, The, 407

Foresters, The, 458

Forsyte Saga, The, 547

Fortescue, Sir John, 70

Fortnightly Review, The, 482

Fortunes of Glencore, The, 423

Fortunes of Nigel, The, 205, 415

Forty New Pieces (W. H. Davies), 552

Foul Play, 486

Four Georges, The, 480

Four Hymns (Spenser), 92

Four P’s, The, 76

Fra Lippo Lippi, 512

Framley Parsonage, 487

Francis, Sir Philip, 343

Fraser’s Magazine, 478, 479, 494, 500, 503

Frederick II, The Life of, 494

Free verse, 560

Freeman, Edward A., 504, 509

French Revolution, the, and English literature, 283, 330, 362, 366, 452

French Revolution, The, 494, 513

French Revolution, Reflections on the, 331, 332, 345

Friar of Orders Grey, The, 335

Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay, 106

Friend, The, 380

Froissart, 70

Frost at Midnight, 378, 379

Froude, James Anthony, 503

Fudge Family in Paris, The, 405

Fuller, Thomas, 178, 180, 181, 427

Funeral, The, 247

Funeral Sermon on Henry VII (Fisher), 80

G

Galsworthy, John, 547, 556, 568–569

Galt, John, 421

Game and Playe of Chesse, The, 66

Gammer Gurton’s Needle, 78

Garden of Cyrus, The, 175

Garden Fancies, 465

Gardiner, Samuel, 509

Garlande of Laurell, The, 63

Garment of Gude Ladies, The, 60

Garrick, David, 289

Garth, Sir Samuel, 263

Gascoigne, George, 99, 144, 151

Gawain and the Green Knight, Sir, 21, 25, 337

Gay, John, 262, 275

Gebir, 403

Genesis (Middle English poem), 20

Gentle Shepherd, The, 266

Gentleman Dancing Master, The, 204

Gentleman’s Magazine, The, 289, 438

Germany, the influence of, on English literature, 365, 454

Gertrude of Wyoming, 405

Ghost, The, 305

Giaour, The, 384

Gibbon, Edward, 272, 325, 341, 347, 348, 359, 436, 564

Gil Blas, 338

Gil Morrice, 48

Gipsy, The, 423

Gissing, George, 536, 556

Gladstone, The Life of, 550

Glove, The, 464

Goblin Market, 470

God’s Promises, 85

Godric, 24

Godwin, William, 333, 345, 390

Golden Butterfly, The, 490

Golden Journey to Samarkand, The, 569–570

Golden Targe, The, 61, 70

Golden Wings, 514

Goldsmith, Oliver, 248, 286, 293, 335, 340, 344, 345, 347, 356, 491, 558, 573–574

Gondibert, 179

Good Thoughts in Bad Times, 178

Good-natured Man, The, 295

Gorboduc, 77, 98

Gosson, Stephen, 90

Governance of England, The, 70

Governour, The Boke named the, 70

Gower, John, 43, 48, 50, 53

Grace Abounding, 209, 210

Grahame, Kenneth, 556

Grave, The, 305

Graves of a Household, The, 408

Gray, Thomas, 188, 297, 334, 335, 342, 345, 365, 468

Gray-beards at Play, 549

Great Expectations, 475

Great God Pan, The, 467

Great Hoggarty Diamond, The, 479

Great Rebellion, The History of the, 176, 341

Grecian Urn, Ode on a, 401, 402

Greece, The History of, 435

Green, John Richard, 504

Green grow the Rashes, O!, 311

Greene, Robert, 106, 111, 142

Gregory I, Pope, 8

Gregory, Lady, 519

Greville, Fulke, Lord Brooke, 144

Griffith Gaunt, 486

Groatsworth of Wit bought with a Million of Repentance, A, 111, 142–143

Grote, George, 435

Grub Street, 235, 249, 286, 287, 294

Grub Street, 536

Guardian, The (Steele’s), 244, 247

Gulliver’s Travels, 240, 277, 425

Guy Mannering, 415, 417

Guy and Pauline, 539

Guy of Warwick, 22

H

Hail and Farewell, 537

Hakluyt, Richard, 88

Halbert and Hob, 571

Hales, John, 181

Halifax, Lord, 211, 219

Hall, Joseph, 141, 144, 163, 269

Hallam, Henry, 436

Hamlet, 116, 117, 118, 121

Hampole, the Hermit, of, 16, 21

Hand of Ethelberta, The, 523

Handfull of Pleasant Delites, A, 104

Handlyng Synne, 19, 30–31

Hankin, St. John, 559

Hard Cash, 486

Hard Times, 475

Hardy, Thomas, 453, 520, 536, 538, 539, 556, 559, 560, 561, 571

Hare, Epitaph on a, 301

Harmony of the Church, The, 100, 144

Harold (Lytton), 426

Harold (Tennyson), 458

Harrington, 421

Harrowing of Hell, The, 7

Harry Lorrequer, 423

Hastings, The Battle of, 314

Havelock the Dane, 22, 24, 30

Hawes, Stephen, 65

Hazlitt, William, 365, 431, 438, 440, 508

Head, Richard, 338

Heart of Midlothian, The, 415

Heartbreak House, 542

Heaven, 554–555

Hecatompathia, 144

Hemans, Felicia, 363, 408

Hendyng, The Proverbs of, 20, 25

Henrietta Temple, 425

Henry IV (Parts 1 and 2), 116, 117

Henry the Fifth, The Famous Victories of, 77

Henry V, 116, 122

Henry VI (Parts 1, 2, and 3), 116

Henry VIII, 107, 117

Henry Esmond, 479, 481–482

Henryson, Robert, 59, 79

Herbert, George, 170

Hereward the Wake, 489

Hermit, The (Goldsmith), 295, 335

Hermit, The (Parnell), 265

Hero and Leander, 144

Heroes, The, 490

Heroes and Hero-worship, 494

Heroic couplet, the, 183, 216, 284, 334, 335

Heroic play, the, 199, 215

Heroic Stanzas (Dryden), 194

Herrick, Robert, 170, 180, 222

Hesperides, The, 170

Hewlett, Maurice, 556

Heywood, John, 76

Heywood, Thomas, 128

Higden, Ranulf, 49

Hilda Lessways, 538

Hind and the Panther, The, 197, 217, 261

Historical plays, early, 77;

research, growth of, 285;

works, 181, 340, 509

Historie of Horestes, The, 77

Historie of James the Fourth, The Scottish, 107

History of America, The, 328

History of Brazil, The, 403

History of Charles V, The, 328

History of the Crimean War, The, 504

History of Earth and Animated Nature, The, 297

History of England, The (Froude), 503

History of England, The (Goldsmith), 297

History of England, A Constitutional (Hallam), 436

History of England, The (Hume), 328, 341, 350–351

History of England, The (Macaulay), 498, 513

History of the English People, A Short, 504

History of the Great Rebellion, The, 176, 341

History of Greece, The, 435

History of the Holy War, The (Fuller), 178

History of the Jews, The, 435

History of John Bull, The, 251

History of Latin Christianity, The, 435

History of Mr. Polly, The, 532

History of the Norman Conquest, The, 504

History of his own Times, The, 221

History of the Renaissance, Studies in the, 502

History of Richard III, The, 69

History of Samuel Titmarsh, The, 478

History of Scotland, The (Robertson), 328

History of Switzerland, A, 326

History of the World, A, 341

Hobbes, Thomas, 177, 181, 183, 218

Hoccleve, Thomas, 64

Hodgson, Ralph, 559

Hogg, James, 407, 558

Holly-tree, The, 403

Holy Dying, 178

Holy Fair, The, 308

Holy Living, 178

Holy Sonnetts, 103

Holy War, The, 209

Holy War, The History of the (Fuller), 178

Holy Willie’s Prayer, 310–311

Home, John, 336

Home Thoughts from Abroad, 462–463

Homer (Chapman), 127, 142

Hood, Thomas, 263, 408

Hooker, Richard, 139, 147, 152–153

Horæ Paulinæ, 333

Horn, 22, 24

Hound of Heaven, The, 551

Hours of Idleness, 383

Hous of Fame, The, 35, 39–40

House of the Wolfings, The, 471

Household Words, 474, 475

How He lied to her Husband, 543

How they Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix, 464

Howard, Henry, Earl of Surrey, 96, 143, 150, 151

Howell, James, 181, 184

Hudibras, 208, 215, 237, 261

Hueffer, Ford Madox, 528

Human Knowledge, The Principles of, 252

Human Nature, Treatise on, 328

Human Understanding, An Essay concerning, 219–220, 268, 269

Hume, David, 328, 341, 350–351

Humphrey Clinker, The Expedition of, 321

Hunt, Leigh, 363, 365, 396, 397, 406, 445

Husband’s Message, The, 6

Huxley, Thomas Henry, 505

Hyde, Edward, Earl of Clarendon, 176, 181, 218, 221, 341, 501

Hydriotaphia, or Urne Buriall, 175, 181

Hylas and Philonous, Dialogues of, 252

Hymen’s Triumph, 104

Hymns, Latin, influence of, on the lyric, 26

Hypatia, 489

Hyperion, 399

I

Ibsen, Henrik, 519, 540, 541

Idea of a Patriot King, The, 252–253

Idiot Boy, The, 368

Idler, The (periodical), 289, 344

Idylls of the King, The, 457, 458

Iliad (Pope), 256

Imaginary Conversations, 404

Imaginary Portraits, 502

Imitation of Spenser, 397

Importance of being Earnest, The, 547

Impressions of Theophrastus Such, The, 488

In the Cemetery, 522

In Memoriam, 453, 456, 459

Inchcape Rock, The, 403

Indian Emperor, The, 199

Induction, The, 98, 144

Infernal Marriage, The, 425

Inheritors, The, 528

Inland Voyage, An, 491

Inn Album, The, 463

Interludes, 76

Intimations of Immortality, 373, 374

Introduction to the Literature of Europe, An, 436

Invisible Man, The, 532

Irene, 289, 335

Irish Melodies, 404

Irrational Knot, The, 540

Irving, Sir Henry, 458

Isabella, 398, 401

Island of Dr. Moreau, The, 533

Isle of Palms, The, 434

Isles of Greece, The, 388

It’s Never too Late to Mend, 486

Italy, 406

Ivanhoe, 415, 480

Ixion in Heaven, 425

J

Jack Hinton, 423

Jack Sheppard, 422

Jack Wilton, or The Unfortunate Traveller, 107, 146, 338

Jacob Faithful, 424

Jacobs, W. W., 558

Jacqueline, 406

James I of Scotland, 58, 81

James the Fourth, The Scottish Historie of, 107

James, G. P. R., 422, 438

Jane Eyre, 453, 485

Jane Shore, 207

Japhet in Search of a Father, 424

Jeffrey, Francis, 432

Jehan de Bourgogne, 45

Jeronimo, 108

Jerrold, Douglas, 558

Jew of Malta, The Rich, 109

Jews, The History of the, 435

Joan of Arc, 403

Joan and Peter, 532

Job, 264

Jocasta, 77, 99

Jockey’s Intelligencer, The, 268

Jocoseria, 463

Johan Johan, 76

John of Trevisa, 49, 52

John Anderson, my Jo, 308

John Bull, The History of, 251

John Bull’s Other Island, 542

John Gilpin, 301, 335

John Woodvil, 427

Johnson, Esther, 236

Johnson, Samuel, 193, 207, 263, 268, 272, 283, 286, 294, 297, 300, 313, 335, 340, 343, 347, 349–350, 355–356, 356–358, 439, 494, 558, 575

Johnson, Life of, 276, 328, 343, 360

Johnson, Essay on (Macaulay), 360

Johnsonese, 289, 347, 349, 440

Jolly Beggars, The, 308

Jonathan Wild the Great, 318

Jongleurs, 26

Jonson, Ben, 110, 123, 149, 172

Joseph Andrews, 318

Journal of the Plague Year, A, 250, 272, 277

Journal to Stella, 240

Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, A, 291

Journey from this World to the Next, 318

Joy, 547

Joyfull Medytacyon, A, 65

Jude the Obscure, 523

Judith, 3

Julia, To, 170

Julian and Maddalo, 392

Juliana, 7

Julius Cæsar, 116

Jungle Book, The, 538

Junian manuscript, the, 3, 7

Junius, 286, 343

Justice, 547

Jutish dialect, the, 3

K

Keats, John, 94, 363, 364, 392, 396, 406, 436, 439, 443, 446, 459, 506, 569

Kemble, J. M., 7

Kenilworth, 415

Kennings, in Old English poetry, 5, 12

Kentish dialect, the, 3, 16

Kidnapped, 492

Killigrew, On the Death of Mrs. Anne, 214

Kilmeny, 407

Kim, 538

King Alisaunder, 22

King Arthur’s Tomb, 512, 513

King Edward the Fourth, 129

King Hart, 62

King John, 116, 119

King Lear, 116, 120, 157

King Leir, The Chronicle History of, 77, 118

King and No King, A, 127

King Stephen, 401

King of Tars, The, 25

King’s Own, The, 424

Kingis Quhair, The, 58, 81

Kinglake, Alexander, 503

Kingsley, Charles, 489

Kipling, Rudyard, 537, 556, 560, 564, 574

Kipps, 532, 533

Kiss for Cinderella, A, 548

Knight of the Burning Pestle, The, 127

Knight of Gwynne, The, 423

Knight’s Tale, The, 38

Knight’s Tomb, The, 378

Kubla Khan, 377

Kyd, Thomas, 107

Kynge Johan, 85

L

Lack of Stedfastness, The, 36

Lacrymæ Musarum, 551

Lady of the Lake, The, 413, 446

Lady Montague’s Page, 423

Lady of Pleasure, The, 180

Lady Windermere’s Fan, 547

Lake Isle of Innisfree, The, 555

Lalla Rookh, 404

Lamb, Charles, 365, 375, 426, 439, 441, 444–445, 558,

Lament for the Makaris, 60, 61

Lamia, 400

Land of Heart’s Desire, The, 555

Landor, Walter Savage, 403

Langland, William, 41, 48, 53–54

Langley, William—see Langland, William

Language, Old English, 3

Laodicean, A, 523

Laon and Cynthia (The Revolt of Islam), 391

Lara, 384

Last Chronicle of Barset, The, 487

Last Day, The, 262

Last Days of Pompeii, The, 426

Last Poems (E. B. Browning), 467

Latimer, Hugh, 68, 81

Latin Christianity, The History of, 435

Latter-day Pamphlets, 494

Lavengro, 490

Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, The, 139, 152–153

Lay of the Last Minstrel, The, 412

Lay Sermons and Addresses, 506

Lays of Ancient Rome, The, 497

Lays of France, 472

Layamon, 17, 29

Lecture, the, and literature, 508

Lectures on the English Poets, 431

Lee, Nathaniel, 206

Legend of the Rhine, The, 480

Legende of Good Women, The, 35, 39

Lenora, 421

Lenore, 412

Letter-writing, 341, 439

Letter to the English People, A, 10

Letter to a Noble Lord, A, 331

Letter, More’s to his Wife, 80

Letter to Windham, 251

Letters, Cowper’s, 302, 343–344

Letters, Drapier’s, 240, 270, 343

Letters, Howell’s, 181

Letters, Leigh Hunt’s, 445

Letters, Johnson’s, 343, 357

Letters of Junius, 343

Letters, Lady M. Wortley Montagu’s, 252, 341

Letters, Pope’s, 260

Letters, Walpole’s, 323, 343, 358

Letters of Peter Plymley, The, 433

Letters on a Regicide Peace, 331

Letters to his Son (Chesterfield), 333, 342

Letters on the Spirit of Patriotism, 251

Lever, Charles, 423

Leviathan, The, 177, 183

Levities, 304

Lewis, Matthew, 324

Liberty, 292

Liberty of Prophesying, The, 178

Library, The, 282, 302

Life and Death of Jason, The, 470

Life and Death of Mr. Badman, The, 209, 339

Life of Byron, The, 401, 439

Life of Cromwell, The, 550

Life of Frederick II, The, 494

Life of Gladstone, The, 550

Life of Jesus, The, Strauss’s (George Eliot), 488

Life of Doctor Johnson, The, 287, 328, 329, 343, 336

Life of Napoleon, The, 416

Life of Nelson, The, 403

Life of Schiller, The, 494

Life of Scott, The, 435, 439

Life of John Sterling, The, 494, 496

Light that Failed, The, 538

Lindisfarne Gospels, the, 71

Literature and Dogma, 468

Literature of Europe, An Introduction to the, 436

Little Dorrit, 475

Lives of the Novelists, The, 416

Lives of the Poets, The, 291, 350, 575

Lives of the Saints, The, 9

Lochaber no More, 265

Locke, John, 219, 268, 269

Lockhart, John G., 411, 434, 438, 439, 440

Locksley Hall, 456

Locksley Hall Sixty Years after, 458

Locrine, 472

Lodge, Thomas, 107, 142

London, 287, 288, 335

London Gazette, The, 268

London Lickpenny, 64

London Magazine, The, 365, 408, 427, 429, 558

Looker On, The, 344

Lord Hastings, Upon the Death of the, 185, 228

Lord Jim, 527, 531

Lorna Doone, 491

Lotos-Eaters, The, 456

Lounger, The, 344

Love, 378

Love of Fame, The, 263

Love in Fantastic Triumph sate, 221–222

Love of King David and Fair Bethsabe, The, 106

Love for Love, 203

Love and Mr. Lewisham, 532

Love Triumphant, 201

Love in the Valley, 482

Love in a Wood, 204

Love’s Labour’s Lost, 116, 117

Love’s Sacrifice, 174

Lovel the Widower, 480

Lovelace, Richard, 173, 185

Lover’s Melancholy, The, 174

Lucasta, To, 173

Lucy, 372

Lucy Gray, 368, 370

Luria, 463

Lycidas, 164

Lydgate, John, 64, 70

Lyfe of John Picus, The, 69

Lying Lover, The, 247

Lyly, John, 105, 107, 138, 154, 337, 563–564

Lyndsay, Sir David, 59, 79, 82–83

Lyric, the, 11, 16, 47, 114, 143, 178, 179, 181, 213, 218, 266, 335, 436, 506

Lyrical Ballads, 367, 368, 369, 375, 376

Lytton, Lord, 425, 438

M

Macaulay, Lord, 287, 360, 438, 496, 508, 509, 510, 513

Macbeth, 116, 117, 119

MacFlecknoe, 197, 215

Mackenzie, Compton, 539

Mackenzie, Henry, 324, 344

Macpherson, James, 290, 312, 335, 348, 349

Macready, William Charles, 462

Magnificence, 63

Maid of Sker, The, 491

Maid’s Tragedy, The, 127

Making of England, The, 504

Maldon, The Battle of, 6

Male Regle, La, 64

Malory, Sir Thomas, 33, 46, 50, 52, 457

Man, An Essay on, 253, 260

Man of Feeling, The, 324

Man of Mode, The, 205

Man in the Moon, The, 100

Man and Superman, 542, 544

Man who was Thursday, The, 549

Man’s Place in Nature, 506

Mandalay, 538

Mandeville, Sir John, 33, 44, 49, 50, 51–52, 153

Manfred, 387

Manning, Robert, 18, 24

Mansfield Park, 419

Manuscripts, Old English, 3

Marco Polo, 45

Mare, Walter de la, 560

Marino Faliero, 387

Marius the Epicurean, 502

Marlborough, Duke of, 232, 242

Marlowe, Christopher, 104, 105, 108, 129, 144, 153–154

Marmion, 412

Marryat, Frederick, 423

Marston, John, 127

Martin Chuzzlewit, 475

Marvell, Andrew, 179, 185, 214

Mary in Heaven, To, 309, 311

Mary Rose, 548

Mary Stuart (Swinburne), 472

Masefield, John, 552, 559

Masks and Faces, 486

Masque, the, 125, 145

Masque of Anarchy, The, 392, 437

Masque of Beauty, The, 125

Masque of Queens, The, 125

Massacre at Paris, The, 109

Massinger, Philip, 173, 180

Master of Ballantrae, The, 492

Master Humphrey’s Clock, 474

Masterman Ready, 424

Maud, 456

Mayor of Casterbridge, The, 523, 525

Mazeppa, 385

Measure for Measure, 116, 121, 122

Medal, The, 197

Melibœus, The Tale of, 36, 37

Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, The, 479

Memoirs of a Cavalier, The, 250

Men and Women, 463

Men, Women, and Books, 406

Merchant of Venice, The, 116, 157

Mercurius Anglicus, 267

Mercurius Politicus, 267

Mercurius Pragmaticus, 267

Meredith, George, 482, 492, 508, 510

Meres, Francis, 115

Merry Wives of Windsor, The, 116

Metaphysical poets, the, 160, 161, 170, 184

Meter, early development of, 24

Middle English, 49

Michel of Northgate, Dan, 23

Middlemarch, 488

Middleton, Thomas, 128

Midland dialect, the, 3, 16

Midshipman Easy, Mr., 424

Midsummer Night’s Dream, A, 76, 116, 118, 119, 120

Mill, John Stuart, 452

Mill on the Floss, The, 488

Miller, Hugh, 504

Milman, Henry Hart, 435

Milton, John, 94, 102, 160, 161, 182, 186, 217, 303, 459, 501, 562

Milton (Earnest Myers), 188–189

Mimes, 72

Mind, An Essay on, 466

Minot, Laurence, 19, 25

Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, The, 412

Miracle-plays, 74

Mirror, The, 344

Mirror for Magistrates, The, 98

Mirror of the Sea, The, 528

Miscellanies, poetical, 104

Misfortunes of King Arthur, The, 77

Mr. Britling sees it Through, 532

Mr. Clutterbuck’s Election, 549

Mr. Midshipman Easy, 424

Mr. Polly, The History of, 532

Mrs. Anne Killigrew, On the Death of, 214

Mrs. Warren’s Profession, 541

Mistress, The, 169

Mithridates, 206

Modern Love, 482

Modern Painters, 500, 513–514

Modern Utopia, A, 533

Molière, 192

Moll Flanders, 250, 339

Monk, The, 324

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, 252, 341

Montaigne, 269

Monthly Magazine, The, 473

Moon, The, 552

Moonstone, The, 487

Moore, George, 520, 536

Moore, Thomas, 404

Moral Ode, 20, 28, 29

Moral and Political Philosophy, 333

Morall Fabillis of Esope, The, 60

Morality-plays, 74

More, Sir Thomas, 69, 80

Morley, Lord, 550, 561

Morning Chronicle, The, 365, 473

Morning Post, The, 365, 380

Morris, William, 470, 506, 507, 512–513, 514

Morte d’Arthure (Middle English romance), 22

Morte d’Arthur (Malory), 46–47, 52

Morte d’Arthur (Tennyson), 456

Mother Hubberd’s Tale, 91, 92

Mother’s Picture, On the Receipt of my, 301

Moti Guj—Mutineer, 564

Mourning Bride, The, 203

Much Ado about Nothing, 116

Mummer’s Wife, A, 537

Mummings, 72

Munera Pulveris, 500

Murder considered as One of the Fine Arts, 429

Muse in Exile, The, 551

Music and Moonlight, 472

My First Play (Lamb), 428

My Heart’s in the Hielands, 308

My Novel, 426

Myers, Ernest, 188–189

Mysteries of Udolpho, The, 324

Mystery-plays, 73

N

Napoleon, The Life of, 416

Narrative poetry, 48, 144, 215, 266, 436, 506, 559

Nash, Thomas, 107, 142, 338

Natural History of Selborne, The, 334, 355

Naval Officer, The, 424

Necessity of Atheism, The, 389

Neglected Heart, A, 472

Nelson, The Life of, 403

Nero, 206

New Arabian Nights, The, 491

New Atlantis, The, 135, 146

New Machiavelli, The, 532

New Monthly Magazine, The, 405, 408

New Poems (M. Arnold), 467

New Poems (C. G. Rossetti), 470

New Voyage round the World, A, 250

New Way to pay Old Debts, A, 174

New Worlds for Old, 533

Newcomes, The, 479

Newman, Cardinal John, 454

Nicholas of Guildford, 20

Nicholas Nickleby, 474

Nigger of the Narcissus, The, 528, 529–530

Night (Charles Churchill), 305

Night Thoughts, The Complaint, or, 263, 270, 271, 278, 305

Nightingale, Ode to a, 401

No Name, 487

Noble Numbers, 170

Noctes Ambrosianæ, 434, 441

Nocturnal Reverie, The, 264

Norman Conquest, The History of the, 504

North, Christopher, 433, 441

Northanger Abbey, 418, 420

Northern dialect, the, 16, 20

Northumbrian dialect, the, 3, 7, 16

Norton Thomas, 77, 98

Nostromo, 528

Notes of Instruction concerning the Making of Verse in English, Certayne, 99

Novel, the, 107, 146, 336, 437, 507, 555–556

Nun’s Priest’s Tale, The, 40–41

Nuptials of Attila, The, 482

Nut-brown Maid, The, 47

Nutting, 368

Nymphidia, 100

O

O’ a’ the Airts, 308

O, my Luve is like a Red, Red Rose, 308, 309–310

O, Willie brewed a Peck o’ Maut, 308

Oberon, the Fairy Prince, 125

Observer, The, 344

Occleve, Thomas, 64

Occleve’s Complaint, 64

Oceana, 503

Odd Women, The, 536

Ode, the, 179, 214

Ode to Autumn (Keats), 401, 443

Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College, 298

Ode to Evening, 299

Ode to France, 378

Ode on a Grecian Urn, 401, 402

Ode: Intimations of Immortality, 373, 374

Ode on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity, 164

Ode to a Nightingale, 401

Ode to the West Wind, 393

O’Donovan, The, 423

Œdipus Tyrannus, or Swellfoot the Tyrant, 437

Œnone, 456

Œnone, The Death of, 458

Oh, to be in England, 516

Old Bachelor, The, 203

Old Curiosity Shop, The, 475, 477

Old English Baron, The, 416

Old English language, the, 3

Old Fortunatus, 128

Old Mortality, 415, 440–441

Old Red Sandstone, The, 505

Old St. Paul’s, 422

Old Wives’ Tale, The (Bennett), 538

Old Wives’ Tale, The (Peele), 106

Oldham, John, 215

Oliver Cromwell’s Letters and Speeches, 494

Oliver Twist, 474

Olor Iscanus, 171

On Divorce (Milton), 163

On his Own Death (Swift), 237

On the Death of Mrs. Anne Killigrew, 214

Of Education (Milton), 163

On Nothing, 550

On Phillis, 182

On Prayer (Jeremy Taylor), 187–188

On the Receipt of my Mother’s Picture, 301

On Shakespeare (Milton), 164

One of our Conquerors, 484

Ordeal of Richard Fever, The, 482

Origin of Species, The, 453, 505, 506

Origines upon the Maudeleyne, 36

Orinooko, or The Royal Slave, 339

Orison to Our Lady, The, 20

Orlando Furioso, 107

Ormond, 421

Orm, or Ormin, 19

Ormulum, 19, 24

Orosius, 8

Orphan, The, 206, 217–218

Orpheus and Eurydice, 60

O’Shaughnessy, Arthur Edward, 472

Ossian, 290, 313, 348

Othello, 116

Otho the Great, 401

Ottava rima, 386, 398

Otway, Thomas, 206, 217–218, 226, 391, 392

Our Mutual Friend, 475

Outcast of the Islands, An, 527

Outline of History, An, 533

Overbury, Sir Thomas, 139, 269

Ovid (Sandys), 183

Owl and the Nightingale, The, 20

Oxford Gazette, The, 268

P

Pacchiarotto, 464

Pageant, A, 470

Pair of Blue Eyes, A, 523

Paley, William, 333, 345

Palice of Honour, The, 62

Palladis Tamia, Wit’s Treasury, 115

Pamela, 315, 316, 340, 341

Pamphlets, 89, 142

Paolo and Francesca, 559

Paracelsus, 462

Paradise Lost, 165, 179, 187, 562

Paradise Regained, 166, 179

Paradyse of Daynty Devises, The, 104

Parisina, 384

Parismus, Prince of Bohemia, 339

Parlement of Foules, The, 34

Parleyings with Certain People, 463

Parliament of Bees, The, 145

Parnell, Thomas, 265

Parson’s Tale, The, 36, 37

Parthenissa, 339

Passetyme of Pleasure, The, 65

Passionate Elopement, The, 539

Passionate Pilgrim, The, 104, 112

Passions, The, 335, 352

Past and Present, 494

Past and Present, Poems of the (Hardy), 521

Pastoral Care, 8, 9, 51

Pastoral poetry, 178, 266

Pastorals (Pope), 255

Pater, Walter, 502, 508

Path to Rome, The, 550

Patience, 21, 22

Patronage, 421

Paul Clifford, 425

Pauline, 461

Peacock Pie, 560

Pearl, 21, 25, 28, 149–150

Peblis to the Play, 58

Pecock, Reginald, 66

Peele, George, 105

Peg Woffington, 486

Pelham, 425

Pendennis, 479

Peninsular War, The, 403

Penseroso, Il, 164, 180

Pepys, Samuel, 194, 212, 219, 240

Percy, Bishop Thomas, 285, 335, 345

Peregrine Pickle, 321

Pericles, 117

Periodicals, 234, 267, 344, 438

Perkin Warbeck, 174

Persian Eclogues, 299

Persuasion, 419

Peter Bell, 369

Peter Pan, 548

Peter Plymley, The Letters of, 433

Peter Porcupine’s Journal, 435

Peter Simple, 424

Peter’s Letters to his Kinsfolk, 434

Peveril of the Peak, 415

Phaer, Thomas, 142

Pharonnida, 180

Philanderer, The, 541

Philaster, 127

Philips, Ambrose, 264, 271

Philips, John, 270

Phillips, Stephen, 559

Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, A, 331, 344

Phœnix, The, 7, 13, 29

Phœnix Nest, The, 104

Picaresque novel, the, 338

Pickwick Papers, The, 473, 474, 475, 476, 477, 557

Picture of Dorian Gray, The, 546, 565

Pied Piper of Hamelin, The, 514

Piers the Plowman, The Vision of William concerning, 42, 50, 53–54

Pilgrim of Glencoe, The, 405

Pilgrim Fathers, The (Hemans), 408

Pilgrim’s Progress, The, 209, 210–211, 225, 240, 339, 575

Pindaric odes, 169, 180, 334

Pindaric Odes (Gray), 298

Pindarique Odes (Cowley), 169, 180

Pine Forest, The, 395

Pinero, Sir Arthur, 559

Pippa Passes, 462, 466

Piramus and Thisbe (Cowley), 169

Pirate, The, 415

Pistyl of Susan, The, 28

Places, 522–523

Plague Year, A Journal of the, 250

Plain Dealer, The, 204

Plain Tales from the Hills, 538

Play-cycles, 75

Playboy of the Western World, The, 548

Pleasures of Hope, The, 405

Pleasures of the Imagination, The, 303

Pleasures of Memory, The, 405

Plebeian, The, 247, 268

Plutarch’s Lives (North), 141

Poems (M. Arnold), 467

Poems (Clare), 409

Poems (Cowper), 300

Poems (Keats), 397

Poems (Compton Mackenzie), 539

Poems (D. G. Rossetti), 469

Poems (Tennyson, 1832), 455

Poems (Tennyson, 1833), 455~456

Poems (Vaughan), 171

Poems, Chiefly Lyrical (Tennyson), 455

Poems of 1908–1914 (Drinkwater), 554

Poems and Ballads (Swinburne), 471

Poems by Two Brothers (A. and C. Tennyson), 455

Poems of the Past and Present (Hardy), 521

Poems by the Way (W. Morris), 471

Poetaster, The, 124, 128

Poetical Sketches (Blake), 314

Poetry, An Essay on (Temple), 211

Political Justice, 333, 345

Political Lying, The Art of, 251

Political Register, The, 365, 435

Political writing, 233

Polychronicon, 40

Polyolbion, 100, 144

Poor Relations, 540

Pope, Alexander, 224, 253, 265, 266, 270, 272, 273, 274–275, 334, 351, 368, 383

Porter, Jane, 416

Praise of Chimney-Sweepers, The, 444–445

Præterita, 500

Prayer Book, the, 70

Pre-Raphaelites, the, 402, 453, 469, 470, 506, 509

Prelude, The, 369, 437, 562–563

Present Discontents, Thoughts on the, 331

Preston Fight, 422

Pretty Lady, The, 538

Pricke of Conscience, The, 21

Pride and Prejudice, 419

Prince Arthur, 264

Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau, 463

Prince’s Progress, The, 470

Prince’s Quest, The, 551

Princess, The, 456, 458

Principles of Human Knowledge, The, 252

Prior, Matthew, 261, 266

Prisoner of Chillon, The, 385

Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft, The, 536

Proclamation of Henry III, 51

Prodigy, The, 264

Professor, The, 485

Progress of Poesy, The, 188, 298

Progress of the Soul, The, 102

Prologue, The (Chaucer), 36, 38

Prometheus Bound, 467

Prometheus Unbound, 391, 394

Prophecy of Famine, The, 305

Prothalamion, 92, 179

Proud Maisie, 413

Proverbs of Alfred, The, 20

Proverbs of Hendyng, The, 20, 25

Provoked Wife, The, 205

Provost, The, 422

Psalms, the Book of, 132, 133

Pseudodoxia Epidemica, 175

Pseudo-Martyr, The, 103

Public Intelligencer, The, 268

Public Ledger, The, 296

Public Spirit of the Whigs, The, 240

Publishing houses, 235

Punch, 409, 478, 480

Purple Island, The, 101

Purple Pileus, The, 535

Purvey, John, 71

Pyrenees, The, 550

Q

Quality Street, 548

Quarterly Review, The, 365, 397, 558

Queen Mab, 390

Queen Mary (Tennyson), 458

Queen Mother and Rosamond, The, 472

Queen’s Wake, The (Hogg), 407

Queenes Wake, The (Daniel), 104

Quentin Durward, 415, 423

R

Radcliffe, Mrs., 324, 340

Raleigh, Sir Walter, 341

Ralph Roister Doister, 77, 78, 85–86

Rambler, The, 289, 344, 347

Ramsay, Allan, 265

Rape of the Lock, The, 257, 351

Rape of Lucrece, The, 112, 144

Rarely, rarely, comest Thou, 395

Rasselas, 290, 340

Rauf Coilyear, 22

Reade, Charles, 486

Reader, The, 247

Ready-Money Mortiboy, 490

Realism, 519

Rebecca and Rowena, 480

Recessional, The, 538

Recluse, The, 369

Recruiting Officer, The, 205

Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye, The, 66, 67

Red Cotton Night-Cap Country, 463

Redgauntlet, 415, 557

Reflections on the French Revolution, 331, 332, 345

Regiment of Princes, The, 64

Rehearsal, The, 215

Reign of William Rufus, The, 504

Rejected Addresses, 409

Relapse, The, 205

Religio Medici, 175

Reliques of Ancient Poetry, 285, 335

Remarks on the Barrier Treaty, 240

Remorse, 378, 437

Renaissance, Studies in the History of the, 502

Renaissance in Italy, The, 502

Repressor of Over-much Blaming the Clergy, The, 66

Rescue, The, 528, 529

Resolution and Independence, 372

Resolves, 181

Restoration comedy, 202;

tragedy, 206

Retreat, The, 172

Return of the Druses, The, 463

Return of the Native, The, 523

Revenger’s Tragedy, The, 129

Review, The, 249, 268

Revolt of Islam, The, 391

Revolution, the French, and English literature, 283, 330, 362, 366, 452

Reynard the Fox, 552

Rhapsody on Poetry, 278

Rhoda Fleming, 483

Rhyme royal, 58, 98

Rice, James, 490

Rich Relatives, 539

Richard Cœur-de-Lion, 22

Richard II, 116

Richard III, The Historie of (More), 69

Richard III (Shakespeare), 116

Richardson, Samuel, 315, 340, 341

Richelieu (G. P. R. James), 422

Richelieu (Lytton), 426

Riddles (Exeter Book), 7

Riders to the Sea, 548

Rienzi, 426

Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The, 376, 378–379, 445–446

Rimini, 406

Ring and the Book, The, 463, 465, 507, 563

Rival Ladies, The, 199, 216

Rival Queens, The, 206

Rivals, The, 336

Roaring Girle, The, 128

Rob Roy, 415

Robene and Makyne, 60

Robert of Gloucester, 18, 25

Robertson, William, 328, 341

Robinson Crusoe, 249, 250, 340

Rochester, Earl of, 213

Roderick the Goth, 403

Roderick Random, 321, 346

Rogers, John, 72

Rogers, Samuel, 405

Rokeby, 413–414

Rolle, Richard, of Hampole, 16, 21

Romance, 528

Romance of the Forest, The, 324

Romances, metrical, 22, 26, 49, 57, 337

Romanticism, 89

Romany Rye, The, 490

Romaunt of the Rose, The, 34

Romeo and Juliet, 116

Romola, 488

Rookwood, 422

Roots of the Mountains, The, 471

Rosamond, 243

Rosciad, The, 305

Rose Aylmer, 403

Rose Mary, 469

Rossetti, Christina Georgina, 469

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 467, 469, 506, 515

Roundabout Papers, The, 480, 508

Rowe, Nicholas, 207

Rowley Poems, The, 313

Roxana, 250

Royal Society, the, 219

Royall King, The, 129

Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyâm, The, 468

Ruins of Rome, The, 91

Ruins of Time, The, 91

Rule, Britannia, 293

Rural Rides in England, 435, 440

Rural Sports, 262

Ruskin, John, 499, 502, 508, 513–514

Russell, George, (‘A. E.’), 520

Ruth, 368, 371

S

Sackville, Thomas, Earl of Dorset, Lord Buckhurst, 77, 98, 144

Sad Shepherd, The, 124

St. Cecilia’s Day, A Song for (Dryden), 198

St. Irvyne, 393

St. Luke, the Gospel of, 132

St. Ronan’s Well, 415

Saint’s Tragedy, The, 490

Saints’ Everlasting Rest, The, 181

Saisiaz, La, 463

Samson Agonistes, 166

Samuel Titmarsh, The History of, 478–479

Sandra Belloni (Emilia in England), 483

Sands of Dee, The, 490

Sandys, George, 183

Sappho (A. Philips), 271

Sartor Resartus, 494, 495–496

Sassoon, Siegfried, 560, 571–572

Satire, the, 195, 196, 214, 266, 437

Satires (Donne), 102

Satires of Circumstance, 521, 571

Satiromastix, 128

Saturday Review, The, 540

Satyre of the Thrie Estatis, Ane Pleasant, 59, 82–83

Savage, Richard, 263

Say not the Struggle Naught Availeth, 469, 515–516

Scenes from Clerical Life, 488

Schiller, The Life of, 494

Scholar-Gipsy, The, 468

Scholemaster, The, 137, 155

School of Abuse, The, 90

School for Scandal, The, 336, 567–568

Schoolmistress, The, 304, 335, 351–352

Scornful Lady, The, 127

Scotland, The History of (Robertson), 328

Scots wha hae, 311

Scott, Michael, 424

Scott, Sir Walter, 205, 337, 340, 364, 365, 367, 384, 396, 410, 421, 436, 437, 438, 440, 441, 446, 447–448, 474, 497, 557

Scott, The Life of, 435, 439

Scottish Chiefs, The, 416

Scottish Historie of James the Fourth, The, 107

Scottish literature, 33, 58, 90

Scriblerus, Memoirs of, 251

Scudéri, Mademoiselle, 338, 339

Seafarer, The, 6

Seasons, The, 284, 291, 292, 301, 409

Secret Agent, The, 528

Sedley, Sir Charles, 213, 218

Sejanus his Fall, 125

Sense and Sensibility, 419

Sensitive Plant, The, 395

Sentimental Journey, A, 322

Sentimental Tommy, 547

Seraphim, The, 467

Sermon, the, 180

Sermons (Latimer), 81

Sermons (Tillotson), 212

Sesame and Lilies, 500

Sestette, the Romance, 25

Settle, Elkanah, 207

Seven Lamps of Architecture, The, 500

Shadow of the Glen, The, 548

Shadow Line, The, 528

Shadowy Waters, The, 559

Shadwell, Thomas, 197, 205

Shaftesbury, Earl of, 252

Shakespeare, William, 76, 77, 110, 151, 157, 199, 202, 206, 285, 374, 417, 459, 569

Shakespeare (Matthew Arnold), 156

Shakespeare, On (Milton), 164

Shakespearian style, the, 120

Shaw, George Bernard, 519, 540, 559, 561

She Stoops to Conquer, 295

She Would if She Could, 205

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 307, 334, 363, 364, 366, 371, 383, 389, 396, 436, 437, 439, 443, 449, 462

Shenstone, William, 304, 351–352

Shepherd’s Calendar, The, 91, 144, 183

Shepherd’s Week, The, 262

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 336, 547, 567–568

Shilling for my Thoughts, A, 549

Ship of Fools, The, 65

Shirley, James, 180

Shirley, 485

Shoemaker’s Holiday, The, 128

Short History of the English People, A, 504

Short story, the development of the, 557

Short Studies on Great Subjects, 503

Short View of the Profaneness and Immorality of the English Stage, 219

Shortest Way with the Dissenters, The, 249

Sibylline Leaves, 380

Sicilian Romance, A, 324

Sidney, Sir Philip, 90, 91, 99, 143, 146, 269, 337

Siege of Corinth, The, 384

Silas Marner, 488, 523

Silex Scintillans, 172

Silver Box, The, 547

Simon Lee, 374, 566

Sinister Street, 539

Sir Charles Grandison, 316

Sir Courtly Nice, 207

Sir Ferumbras, 22

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, 21, 22, 25, 337

Sir John Chiverton, 422

Sir Launcelot Graves, 321

Sir Orpheo, 22

Sir Patrick Spens, 48

Sir Ralph Esher, 407

Sir Tristrem, 22, 25, 28

Sister Teresa, 537

Sisters, The, 472

Skelton, John, 62, 81–82

Skeltonics, 63

Sketches by Boz, 473, 474

Skin Game, The, 547, 568–569

Sleeping Beauty, The, 459

Smart, Christopher, 303, 335

Smith, Adam, 332

Smith, Horace, 409

Smith, James, 409

Smith, Sydney, 433

Smollett, Tobias, 303, 321, 338, 340, 346, 360, 423, 557

Snare, The, 560

Soldier, The, 554

Soldiers, Three, 538

Soliman and Perseda, 108

Solomon, 261

Some Reminiscences (Conrad), 528

Song to David, The, 303

Song of Honour, The, 560

Song for St. Cecilia’s Day, A (Dryden), 198

Song of the Shirt, The, 409

Songs of Childhood, 560

Songs of Experience, 314

Songs of Innocence, 352–353, 566–567

Songs of Mourning, 100

Songs before Sunrise, 471–472

Songs of a Worker, 472

Songs to Ælla, 314

Songbooks of the War, 571–572

Sonnet, the English, 91, 96, 99, 104, 112, 113, 143, 144, 372–373;

the Italian, 96, 143, 165

Sonnet, by Matthew Arnold, 156;

by Drayton, 152;

by Ernest Myers, 188–189;

by Spenser, 152;

by Surrey, 151;

by Wordsworth, 188

Sonnets, Shakespeare’s, 112

Sonnets from the Portuguese, 467

Sophonisba, 206, 293

Sordello, 462

Soul of a Bishop, The, 533

Soul’s Destroyer, The, 552

South, Robert, 181

Southey, Robert, 364, 365, 375, 385, 402, 436, 438, 440

Southwell, Robert, 144

Spanish Ballads, 434

Spanish Gipsy, The, 128

Spanish Tragedy, The, 108

Spectator, The, 235, 244, 245, 247, 268, 276, 289, 344

Speculum Meditantis, 43

Spencer, Herbert, 452

Spenser, Edmund, 60, 90, 101, 102, 143, 144, 155–156, 292, 397, 436, 437

Spenser, Imitation of (Keats), 398

Spenserian stanza, the, 94, 292, 304, 335, 398, 405, 436, 437

Spirit of the Age, The, 431

Spirit of Patriotism, Letters on the, 251

Spleen, The, 264

Splendid Shilling, The, 270

Sprat, Thomas, 219

Squire of Alsatia, The, 205

Squire of Low Degree, The, 22–23

Standardizing of English, the, 32

Stanyhurst, Richard, 142

Staple of News, The, 124

Star Chamber, The, 422

Stately Homes of England, The, 408

Steel Glass, The, 99, 144, 151

Steele, Sir Richard, 244, 247, 268, 339, 431

Stephens, James, 560

Steps to the Temple, 171

Sterling, John, The Life of, 494

Sterne, Laurence, 322, 340, 360, 557

Stevenson, Robert Louis, 491, 508, 510

Stones of Venice, The, 500, 501

Story of the Glittering Plain, The, 471

Story of Ingelond, The, 18

Story of Thebes, The, 64

Stafford, 462

Strange Story, A, 426

Strayed Reveller, The, 467, 560

Strew on her Roses, Roses, 516

Strife, 547

Stubbs, William, 509

Studies of the Greek Poets, 502

Studies in the History of the Renaissance, 502

Sublime and Beautiful, A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the, 331, 345~346

Suckling, Sir John, 173, 180, 183, 186

Sullen Lovers, The, 205

Sumer is i-cumen in, 26

Summer Night, A, 468

Summer’s Last Will and Testament, 107