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Halleck's New English Literature

FOOTNOTES TO CHAPTER X:

Reading edition

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[Footnote 16: Krans's William Butler Yeats and the Irish Literary Revival.]

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SUPPLEMENTARY LIST OF AUTHORS AND THEIR CHIEF WORKS:

1400-1558:

John Lydgate (1370?-1451?): Falls of Princes. Thomas Occleve (1370?-1450?): Mother of God; Governail of Princes. Sir John Fortescue (1394?-1476?): Difference between an Absolute and Limited Monarchy. The Paston Letters (1422-1509). Stephen Hawes (d. 1523?): Pastime of Pleasure. John Skelton (1460?-1529): Bowge of Court; Philip Sparrow. Alex. Barclay (1475?-1552): Ship of Fools. Sir Thomas More (1478-1535): Utopia; History of Edward V. and Richard III. Hugh Latimer (1485?-1555): Sermon on the Ploughers. Sir David Lindsay (1490-1555): Satire of the Three Estates.

1558-1603:

John Knox(1505-1572): Admonition; History of the Reformation of Religion within the Realm of Scotland; Sermons. George Puttenham (d. 1590?): Art of English Poesie. Edward Dyer (1550?-1607): My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is. Samuel Daniel (1562-1619): The Complaint of Rosamund; A Defence of Rhyme (prose). Fulke Greville (Lord Brooke, 1554-1628): Caelica. Stephen Gosson (1555-1624): The School of Abuse. George Gascoigne (1525?-1577):The Steele Glas. William Warner (1558?-1609): Albion's England.

1603-1660:

Prose Writers.—Robert Burton (1577-1640): The Anatomy of Melancholy. John Selden (1584-1654): Table Talk. Richard Baxter (1615-1691): The Saints' Everlasting Rest.

Poets and Dramatists.—Phineas Fletcher (1582-1650?): The Purple Island. William Drummond (1585-1649): Sonnets; The Cypresse Grove (prose). Giles Fletcher (1588?-1623): Christ's Victory and Triumph. George Wither (1588-1667): Juvenilia. William Browne (1591-1643?) Britannia's Pastorals. Sir William D'Avenant (1606-1668): Gondibert. Edmund Waller (1606-1687): Poems; Song—"Go, lovely Rose." Richard Crashaw (1613?—1649): Steps to the Temple; The Delights of the Muses. Sir John Denham (1615-1669): Cooper's Hill. Abraham Cowley (1618-1667): Anacreontiques. Andrew Marvell (1621-1678): The Garden.

1660-1740:

Dramatists of the Restoration.—Sir William D'Avenant (1606-1668): Love and Honor. George Etherege (1635?-1691?): The Man of Mode. William Wycherley (1640-1715): The Plain Dealer. Thomas Shadwell (1642?-1692): Epson Wells. Thomas Otway (1652-1685): Venice Preserved. John Vanbrugh (1666?-1726): The Confederacy. Colley Cibber (1671-1757): The Careless Husband. George Farquhar (1678-1707): The Beaux' Stratagem.

Prose Writers.—Sir William Temple (1628-1699): Essays. Isaac Barrow (1630-1677): Sermons. Robert South (1634-1716): Sermons. Richard Bentley (1662-1742): Epistles of Phalaris. Gilbert Burnet (1643-1715): Sermons. John Arbuthnot (1667-1735): The History of John Bull. Lord Bolingbroke (1678-1751): Letter to Sir William Windham. Bishop Berkeley (1685-1753): Alciphron or the Minute Philosopher. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762): Letters. Bishop Butler (1692-1752): Analogy of Natural and Revealed Religion. William Warburton (1698-1779): The Divine Legation of Moses.

Poets.—Matthew Prior (1664-1721): Shorter Poems. Isaac Watts (1673-1748): Psalms and Hymns. Thomas Parnell (1679-1718): A Night-Piece on Death; The Hermit. John Gay (1685-1732): Fables; The Beggar's Opera. Allan Ramsay (1686-1758): The Gentle Shepherd. John Dyer (1700?-1758): Grongar Hill.

1740-1780:

Prose Writers.—Gilbert White (1720-1793): Natural History of Selborne. William Robertson (1721-1793): History of the Reign of Charles V. Adam Smith (1723-1790): Wealth of Nations. Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792): Discourses on Painting. Thomas Warton (1728-1790): History of English Poetry. Sir Philip Francis (1740-1818): Letters of Junius. Fanny Burney (1752-1840): Evelina.

Poets.—Edward Young (1681-1765): Night Thoughts. Charles Wesley (1708-1788): Hymns. Mark Akenside (1721-1803): The Minstrel. Robert Fergusson (1750-1774): Braid Claith; Ode to the Gowdspink.

1780-1837:

Philosophers.—William Paley (1743-1805): Natural Theology. Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832): Principles of Morals and Legislation. William Godwin (1756-1836): Inquiry concerning Political Justice. Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834): Essay on the Principle of Population. David Ricardo (1772-1823): Principles of Political Economy. James Mill (1773-1836): Analysis of the Human Mind.

Historians.—John Lingard (1771-1851): History of England. Henry Hallam (1777-1859): Constitutional History of England. Sir William Napier (1785-1860): History of the Peninsular War.

Essayists.—William Cobbett (1762-1835): Rural Rides in England. Sydney Smith (1771-1845): Letters of Peter Plymley. Francis Jeffrey (1773-1850): Essays. John Wilson (1785-1854): Noctes Ambrosianae. John Gibson Lockhard (1794-1854): Life of Sir Walter Scott.

Novelists and Dramatists.—William Beckford (1759-1844): Vathek. Maria Edgeworth (1767-1849): Castle Rackrent. Jane Porter (1776-1850): Scottish Chiefs. John Galt (1779-1839): The Annals of the Parish. James Sheridan Knowles (1784-1862): The Hunchback; The Love Chase. Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866): Nightmare Abbey. Mary Russell Mitford (1787-1855): Our Village.

Poets.—George Crabbe (1754-1832): The Borough. Joanna Baillie (1762-1851): Poems. James Hogg (1770-1835): Queen's Wake. Thomas Campbell (1777-1844): The Pleasures of Hope. Thomas Moore (1779-1852): Irish Melodies; Lalla Rookh. Ebenezer Elliott (1781-1849): Corn Law Rhymes. Bryan W. Procter (1787-1874): English Songs. John Keble (1792-1866) The Christian Year. Felicia Hemans (1793-1835): Songs of the Affections. Thomas Hood (1799-1845): The Song of the Shirt; The Bridge of Sighs. Winthrop Praed (1802-1839): The Season; The Letter of Advice. Thomas Beddoes (1803-1849): Lyrics from Death's Jest Book and from The Bride's Tragedy.

1837-1900:

Philosophers and Scientists.—Sir William Hamilton (1788-1856) Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic. Michael Faraday (1791-1867): Experimental Researches. Sir Charles Lyell (1797-1875): Principles of Geology; Antiquity of Man. John Stuart Mill (1806-1873): System of Logic; Utilitarianism. George Henry Lewes (1817-1878): A Biographical History of Philosophy; Problems of Life and Mind. Sir Henry Maine (1822-1888): Ancient Law; Village Communities.

Historians.—Henry Hart Milman (1791-1868): History of Latin Christianity down to the Death of Pope Nicholas V. George Grote (1794-1871): _History of Greece. James Anthony Froude (1818-1894): History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada. Henry Thomas Buckle (1821-1862): History of Civilization. Edward Augustus Freeman (1823-1892): The History of the Norman Conquest. William Stubbs (1825-1901): The Constitutional History of England in its Origin and Development. Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1829-1902): _History of England from the Accession of James I. to the Outbreak of Civil War, 1603-1642; History of the Great Civil War, 1642-1649; History of the Commonwealth and the Protectorate, 1649-1660. Justin M'Carthy (1830-1912): A History of Our Own Times. John Richard Green (1837-1883): A Short History of the English People. William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1838-1903): History of England in the Eighteenth Century. James Bryce (1838- ): The Holy Roman Empire; The American Commonwealth. Rt. Rev. Abbot Gasquet, D.D., O.S.B. (1846- ): Henry VIII and the English Monasteries; The Greater Abbeys of England. Wilfrid Ward (1856- ): Aubrey de Vere; Life and Times of Cardinal Newman.

Essayists and Critics.—George Barrow (1803-1881): The Bible in Spain; Lavengro. Walter Bagehot (1826-1877): Literary Studies; The English Constitution. Leslie Stephen (1832-1904): Hours in a Library; History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century. John Morley (1838- ): Studies in Literature; Edmund Burke; Life of Gladstone. John Addington Symonds (1840-1893): The History of the Renaissance in Italy. Austin Dobson (1840- ): Eighteenth Century Vignettes; Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson, Oliver Goldsmith; also Collected Poems. Edward Dowden (1843-1913): Shakespeare, His Mind and Art; Life of Shelley; Studies in Literature, 1789-1877. Andrew Lang (1844-1912): Letters to Dead Authors; Essays in Little; The Iliad in English Prose (assisted by Leaf and Myers); also Ballads and Lyrics of old France. Augustine Birrell (1850- ): Obiter Dicta; Men, Women, and Books; In the Name of the Bodleian A. C. Bradley (1851- ): Shakespearean Tragedy; Oxford Lectures on Poetry Alice Meynell (1855- ): The Rhythm of Life; The Spirit of Place; also Collected Poems. William Archer (1856- ): Poets of the Younger Generation; Masks or Faces: A Study in the Psychology of Acting. John W. Mackail (1859- ): The Springs of Helicon; Life of William Norris.

Novelists.—Wilkie Collins (1824-1899): The Moonstone. Dinah Maria Craik (1826-1877): John Halifax, Gentleman. Charles L. Dodgson (Lewis Carroll 1832-1898): Alice in Wonderland; Through the Looking Glass. Joseph H. Shorthouse (1834-1903): John Inglesant. Walter Besant (1836-1901): All Sorts and Conditions of Men. William Black (1841-1898): A Daughter of Heth. Canon W. Barry, D.D. (1849- ): The Two Standards. Mrs. Humphry Ward (1851- ): Marcella. Canon P.A. Sheehan, D.D. (1852- ): My New Curate; The Queen's Fillet. Hall Caine (1853- ): The Manxman. Rider Haggard (1856- ): King Solomon's Mines. George Gissing (1857-1903): New Grub Street; The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft. John Ascough (Rt. Rev. Mgr. Bicherstaffe-Drew, 1858- ): Marotz. Kenneth Grahame (1859- ): The Golden Age; Dream Days. A. Conan Doyle (1859- ): The White Company; Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. R.H. Benson (1871- ): By What Authority; The Queen's Tragedy. Mrs. Wilfrid Ward: Great Possessions.

Poets.—Richard H. Barham (1788-1845): Ingoldsby Legends. James C. Mangan (1803-1849): Selected Poems. Edward Fitzgerald (1809-1883): Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (translation). Aubrey de Vere (1814-1902): Irish Odes. Coventry Patmore (1823-1896): The Angel in the House; Amelia. Sidney Dobell (1824-1874): The Roman; Balder. Adelaide Anne Procter (1825-1864): Legends and Lyrics. Jean Ingelow (1830-1897): Poems. Edwin Arnold (1832-1904): The Light of Asia. Lewis Morris (1833-1907): Epic of Hades. James Thompson (1834-1882): The City of Dreadful Night. J.B.L. Warren (Lord de Tabley, 1835-1895): Poems: Dramatic and Lyrical. Alfred Austin (1835-1913, appointed poet-laureate in 1896): English Lyrics, edited by William Watson. Theodore Watts-Dunton (1832- ): The Coming of Love. Philip Bourke Marston (1850-1887): Song-Tide and Other Poems; Wind Voices. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900): Ave Imperatrix; The Ballad of Reading Gaol; De Profundis (prose).

1900-

Essayists.—Vernon Lee (Violet Paget, 1857- ): The Enchanted Woods and Other Essays; The Sentimental Traveler. Lawrence Pearsall Jacks (1860- ): Mad Shepherds, and Other Human Studies. Arthur Symons (1865- ): William Blake; The Romantic Movement in English Poetry. Edward Verrall Lucas (1868- ): Life of Charles Lamb; Old Lamps for New; also the stories Over Bemerton's and Mr. Ingleside. Hilaire Belloc (1870- ): On Everything.

Novelists.—Justin Huntley M'Carthy (1860- ): The Proud Prince; If I Were King. W.W. Jacobs (1863- ): Many Cargoes; Ship's Company. Anthony Hope Hawkins (Anthony Hope, 1863- ): The Prisoner of Zenda; Rupert of Hentzau. Marie Corelli (1864- ): Thelma; Ardath. Robert S. Hichens (1864- ): The Garden of Allah. G.W. Birmingham (rev. J.O. Hannay, 1865- ): Spanish Gold. Seumas Macmanus (1870- ): The Chimney Corner; Donegal Fairy Stories. J.C. Snaith (1876- ): Araminta; Broke of Covenden. May Sinclair: The Divine Fire.

Poets.—A.E. Housman (1859- ): A Shropshire Lad. Katherine Tynan Hinkson (1861- ): Collected Poems; New Poems (1911). Arthur Christopher Benson (1862- ): Collected Poems; Paul The Minstrel. Henry Newbolt (1862- ): Admirals All. Herbert Trench (1865- ): Deirdre Wedded and Nineteen Other Poems; Collected Poems. Ethna Carberry (1866-1902): The Passing of the Gael. Richard Le Gallienne (1866- ): Robert Louis Stevenson and Other Poems; Attitudes and Avowals (essays); The End of the Rainbow (stories). Lionel Johnson (1867-1902): Poems. Lawrence Binyon (1869- ): London Visions; Atilla (poetic drama). Nora Hopper Chesson (1871-1906): Under Quicken Boughs. Dora Sigerson Shorter (1873- ): Collected Poems. John Drinkwater (1882- ): Poems of Love and Death; King Cophetua. Richard Middleton. (1882-1911): Poems and Songs. Lascelles Abercrombie: Interludes. James Stephens: Hill of Vision; Crock of Gold (prose fiction). T. Sturge Moore: Aphrodite against Artemis; Poems.

Celtic Dramatists.—George Moore (1853- ): The Bending of the Bough. Edward Martyn (1859- ): The Heather Field. William Boyle: The Building Fund. Padric Colum: Thomas Muskerry; the Fiddler's House. Lennox Robinson: Patriots. Rutherford Mayne: The Turn of the Road. H. Granville Barker (English dramatist, 1877- ): The Voysey Inheritance.

INDEX

Abercrombie, Lascelles

Absalom and Achitophel

Abt Vogler

Actors, in early plays in Elizabethan theater

Adam Bede

Addison, Joseph, collaborates with Steele incidental reference to life of references on suggested readings in works of

Admirable Crichton, The

Adonais

Advancement of Learning

Adventures of Harry Richmond

AElfric

Aids to Reflection

Akenside, Mark

Alastor

Alchemist, The

Alexander's Feast

Alfred, King

Alice-for-Short

All for Love

Alysoun

Amazing Marriage, The

Amazone, The

Amelia

American Taxation, Speech on

Amorists

Ancient Mariner

Ancren Riwle

Andrea del Sarto

Andreas

Anglo-Norman period and Chaucer's Age characteristics of Normans history language metrical romances poets prose writers references on suggested readings and question summary

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

Anglo-Saxon language

Anglo-Saxon period history home, migrations and religion of Anglo-Saxons language mission of English literature poetry prose references on subject matter and aim suggested readings and questions summary

Anglo-Saxons, earliest literature of

Annus Mirabilis

Antiquary, The

Apologia, Newman's

Apologie for Poetrie

Arbuthnot, John

Arcadia

Archer, William

Areopagitica

Arnold, Edwin

Arnold, Matthew general characteristics of incidental references to life of poetical works prose works quoted references on suggested readings in

Arnold, Thomas

Arthur, King

Ascham, Roger

Astraea Redux

As You Like It

Atalanta in Calydon

Atterbury, Francis

Aurengzebe

Austen, Jane, incidental references to life and works of references on suggested readings in

Austin, Alfred

Autobiography, Franklin's

Ayseough, John

Bacon, Francis, incidental references to life of references on suggested readings in works of

Bacon, Roger

Bagehot, Walter

Baillie, Joanna

Balder Dead

Bale, John

Ballad of Agincourt

Ballads, English in fifteenth century

Barchester Towers

Barclay, Alexander

Barham, Richard H.

Barker, H. Granville

Barnaby Rudge

Barrack Room Ballads

Barrie, incidental references to suggested readings in

Barrow, Isaac

Battle of Brunänburh

Battle of the Books

Baxter, Richard

Beattie, James

Beaumont, Frances

Becket

Becket, Thomas à

Beckford, William

Beddoes, Thomas

Bede, Ecclesiastical History references on suggested readings in works of

Behn, Mrs. Aphra

Belloc, Hilaire

Bennett, Arnold suggested readings in

Benson, Arthur Christopher suggested readings in

Benson, R.H.

Bentham, Jeremy

Bentley, Richard

Beowulf suggested readings in

Berkeley, George

Besant, Walter

Bible, King James version Tyndale's translation of Wycliffe's translation of

Bickerstaff, Isaac

Bickerstaffe-Drew, Rt. Rev. Mgr.

Binyon, Lawrence

Biographia Literaria

Birmingham, G.W. (Hanney, Rev. J.O.)

Birrell, Augustine

Black, William

Blackmore, Richard D. suggested readings in

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine

Blake, William references on suggested readings in

Blank verse in eighteenth century introduction into England Shakespeare's and Marlowe's use of

Bleak House

Blessed Damozel, The

Blot in the 'Scutcheon

Bolingbroke, Lord

Bonduca

Book of Martyrs

Borrow, George

Boswell, James

Boy actors

Boyle, William

Bradley, Andrew

Brandes, Georg, quoted

Bret Harte

Bride of Lammermoor

Bridges, Robert suggested readings in

Brontë, Charlotte references for suggested readings in

Brontë, Emily

Brooke, Stopford, quoted

Brown, Charles Brockden

Browne, Sir Thomas

Browne, William

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, life of quoted references on suggested readings in

Browning, Robert general characteristics of incidental references to life of optimistic philosophy of references on suggested readings in works of

Brut Layamon's Wace's

Bryce, James

Buckle, Henry Thomas

Bulwer Lytton suggested readings in

Bunyan general characteristics of incidental references to life of references for suggested readings in works of

Burke, Edmund references for suggested readings in

Burnet, Gilbert

Burney, Fanny

Burns, Robert general characteristics of incidental references to life of love songs of poetic creed of references on suggested readings in works of

Burton, Robert

Butler, Bishop

Butler, Samuel

Byron, Lord compared with Shakespeare dramas of general characteristics incidental references to life of references on suggested readings in works of

Caedmon compared with Milton

Caedmonian Cycle

Cain

Caine, hall

Caliban upon Setebos

Camden, William

Campbell, Thomas

Canterbury Tales

Carberry, Ethna

Carew, Thomas suggested readings in

Carlyle, Thomas general characteristics of incidental references to life of quoted references on Sartor Resartus suggested readings in works of

Carols of fifteenth century

Carroll, Lewis

Castle of Indolence

Castle of Otranto

Cathedrals, Gothic

Cato

Cavalier poets

Caxton, William

Celtic dramatists

Celtic imagery

Celtic Renaissance

Cenci, The

Cèrvantes

Chapel Royal

Chapman, George

Charge of the Light Brigade

Chatterton, Thomas suggested readings in

Chaucer, Geoffrey Canterbury Tales compared with Spenser earlier poems of incidental references to influence on English language life of qualitites of quoted references on suggested readings in

Chaucer's age. See Anglo-Norman period

Chesson, Nora Hopper

Chester plays

Chesterton, Gilbert K. references on suggested readings in

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

Child's Garden of Verse, A

Christ, Cynewulf's

Christabel

Christmas Carol, A

Chronicle, The, Stow's

Chronicles of England, Ireland and Scotland

Cibber, Colley

Citizen of the World

Clarendon, Lord

Clarissa Harlowe

Classical couplet

Classic school

Clive, Robert

Cloister and the Hearth

Cloud, The

Clough, Arthur Hugh suggested readings in

Cobbett, William

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor association with Wordsworth general characteristics of incidental references to life of poetry of prose of quoted references on suggested readings in

Collier, Jeremy

Collins, Wilkie suggested readings in

Collins, William

Colloquium

Colombe's Birthday

Colum, Padric

Comedies, early

Comedy of Errors, The

Complete Angler

Comus

Conciliation with America, Burke's speech on

Conduct of the Understanding

Confessio Amantis

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

Congreve, William

Conrad, Joseph references on suggested readings in

Cooper, Frederic Taber, quoted

Corelli, Marie

Cornish, William

Cotter's Saturday Night

Couplet, classical "riming"

Court plays

Coventry plays

Cowley, Abraham

Cowper, William general characteristics of incidental references to life of references on suggested readings in works of

Crabbe, George

Craik, Dinah Maria

Cranford

Cranmer's Bible

Crashaw, Richard

Critical writings Addison's Age of Romanticism Arnold's Carlyle's Coleridge's De Quincey's Dryden's Johnson's Pope's Swinburne's

Criticism, first essay on

Cromwell's Bible

Cross, John W.

Crossing the Bar

Cry of the Children

Curse of Kehama

Cymbeline

Cynewulf

Cynewulf Cycle suggested readings in

Daniel Deronda

Daniel, Samuel

Darwin, Charles

D'Avenant, Sir William

David and Bathsabe

David Balfour

David Copperfield

Davidson, John suggested readings in

Deathe of Blanche the Duchesse

Decameron, framework of similar to Canterbury Tales

De-foe, Daniel a journalist incidental references to life of references on suggested readings in works of

Dekker, Thomas

Deloney, Thomas suggested readings in

De Morgan, William Frend references on suggested readings in

Denham, Sir John

Departmental Ditties

De Quincey, Thomas general characteristics of incidental references to life of references on suggested readings in works of

Deserted Village, The

De Vere, Aubrey

Diana of the Crossways

Diary, Evelyn's Pepys's

Dickens, Charles contrasted with Thackeray general characteristics of incidental references to life of references on suggested readings in works of

Dictionary of the English Language, Johnson's

Didactic verse

Discovery of Guiana, The

Disdain Returned

Diurnall

Divine Vision, The

Dobell, Sidney

Dobson, Austin quoted suggested readings in

Dodgson, Charles L. (Lewis Carroll)

Dombey and Son

Don Juan

Donne, John opposes sonnet suggested readings in

Don Quixote

Double Dealer, The

Douglas, Gawain

Dover Beach

Dowden, Edward quoted

Doyle, A. Conan

Dr. Faustus

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Drake: An English Epic

Drama, English and the unities actors in early Beaumont and Fletcher in comedies, early court plays decline of during Restoration early religious end of Elizabethan interlude Irish Marlowe, founder of English miracle and mystery plays modern morality plays suggested readings in See also Elizabethan Age, Jonson, Marlowe, Shakespeare, etc.

Dramatic Lyrics, Browning's

Dramatic Romances and Lyrics, Browning's

Dramatic unities

Dramatis Personae

Drapier's Letters

Drayton, Michael suggested readings in

Dream Children

Dream of Fair Women, A

Dream of Gerontius

Drinkwater, John

Drummond, William

Dryden, John general characteristics of incidental references to life of prose of quoted references on suggested readings in Spenser's influence on works of

Duchess of Malfi, The

Dunbar, William

Dunciad

Dyer, Edward

Dyer, John

Earthly Paradise

Edgeworth, Maria

Edinburgh Review

Edward II

Egoist, The

Eighteenth century, early literature. See Restoration period, etc.

Eighteenth century, later literature history literary characteristics novelists poets prose writers references on romanticism suggested readings and questions summary

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

Elene

Eliot, George general characteristics incidental references to life of references on suggested readings in works of

Elizabeth, Queen

Elizabethan age history Jonson life of Marlowe minor dramatists miracle and mystery plays morality plays poetry (non-dramatic) presentation of Elizabethan plays prose writers references on Shakespeare suggested readings in summary

Elliott, Ebenezer

Emma

Endymion

England, origin of name of

English humorists of the Eighteenth Century

English language, Chaucer's influence on emergence of modern

English literature mission of subject matter and aim of

Epigrams, Watson's

Epipsychidion

Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot

Epithalamion

Essay of Dramatic Poesy

Essay on Criticism

Essay on Man

Essays Addison's Arnold's Bacon's Benson's Carlyle's Chesterton's De Quincey's Goldsmith's Johnson's Lamb's Macaulay's Newman's Pater's Pope's Stevenson's Swinburne's Thackeray's

Essays in Criticism

Essays of Elia

Etherege, George

Ethical purposes, in literature. See Moral ideals

Euphues

Euphuism

Evan Harrington

Eve of St. Agnes

Evelyn, John

Every Man in His Humor

Excursion

Exeter Book

Expedition of Humphrey Clinker

Fables, Ancient and modern

Faerie Queene

Faithful Shepherdess

Familiar Studies of Men and Books

Far From the Madding Crowd

Far Traveler, The

Faraday, Michael

Farquhar, George

Faustus, Dr.

Fergusson, Robert

Field, Eugene

Fielding, Henry references on suggested readings in works of

Fight at Finnsburg

Fiona Macleod. See Sharp, William

Fitzgerald, Edward

Fleet Street Eclogues

Fletcher, Giles

Fletcher, John

Fletcher, Phineas

Flower of Old Japan

Ford

Forest of Wild Thyme

Fors Clavigera

Fortescue, Sir John

Fortunes of Men

Four Georges

Four P's

Fox, Charles James

Foxe, John

Fragments of Science

Francis, Sir Philip

Frankenstein

Franklin, Benjamin

Freeman, Edward Augustus quoted

French element in English

French Revolution, influence on literature

French Revolution (Carlyle's)

Fronde, James Anthony

Fuller, Thomas

Funeral Elegy

Galsworthy, John suggested readings in

Galt, John

Gammer Gurton's Needle

Gaol Gate

Gardiner, Samuel Rawson

Gardiner's Daughter, The

Garrick, David

Gascoigne, George

Gaskell, Elizabeth C. suggested readings in

Gasquet, Rt. Rev. Abbot

Gates of Dreamland

Gawayne and the Green Knight

Gay, John

General reference list for English literature

Gentle Craft

Geoffrey of Monmouth

Gibbon, Edward quoted suggested readings in

Gibson, Wilfrid suggested readings in

Gissing, George

Gladstone, William E.

Gleeman songs of

Globe Theater

Godwin, William

Goldsmith, Oliver general characteristics of incidental references to life of quoted references on suggested readings in works of

Good-Natured Man, The

Gorboduc

Gosse. Edmund, quoted

Gosson, Stephen

Gower, John suggested readings in

Grahame, Kenneth

Gray, Thomas references for suggested readings in

Green, John Richard

Greene, Robert

Gregory, Lady Augusta suggested readings in

Gregory, Pope

Greville, Fulke (Lord Brooke)

Grote, George

Gulliver's Travels

Guy Mannering

Haggard, Rider

Hakluyt, Richard

Hallam, Arthur Henry

Hamilton, Sir William

Hamlet

Handlyng Synne

Hard Times

Hardy, Thomas general characteristics of incidental references to life of references on suggested readings in works of

Harleian, M.S.

Hawes, Stephen

Hawkins, Anthony Hope (Anthony Hope)

Hazlitt, William suggested readings in

Heart of Midlothian

Heine, Heinrich

Hemans, Felicia

Henley, W.E. suggested readings in

Henry Esmond

Henry IV

Henry V

Henry VIII

Henryson, Robert

Herbert, George

Hero and Leander

Herod

Heroes and hero Worship

Herrick, Robert suggested readings in

Hesperides

Hewlett, Maurice suggested readings in

Heywood, John

Heywood, Thomas

Hichens, Robert S.

Hilda Lessways

Hind and the Panther

Hinkson, Catherine Tynan

Historical prose

Historical Sketches, Newman's

History, English, Age of Romanticism Anglo-Norman period Anglo-Saxon period Eighteenth century Elizabethan age Puritan age Renaissance Restoration period Victorian age

History of England, Hume's Macaulay's

History of Friedrich II

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, The

History of the Great Rebellion

History of the Kings of Britain

History of the Reign of Henry VII

History of the World

History of the Worthies of England (Fuller's)

Hobbes, Thomas

Hogg, James

Holinshed, Raphael

Holman-Hunt, William

Holy Dying

Holy Living

Holy War

Homer, Chapman's

Homer, Pope's translation of

Homeward Songs by the Way

Homilies

Hood, Thomas

Hooker, Richard references on suggested readings in

Hope, Anthony (Hawkins)

Horace, influence of

Hous of Fame

Housman, A.E.

Howells, William D., quoted

Hudibras

Hugo, Victor, quoted

Hume, David references on suggested readings in

Humor Addison's Arnold's Barrie's Burns's Carlyle's Chaucer's Cowper's De Quincey's Dickens's Fielding's Fuller's Goldsmith's Locke's Meredith's Pope's Sterne's Swift's Thackeray's

Hundred Years' War

Hunt, Leigh suggested readings in

Huxley, Thomas quoted

Hyde, Dr. Douglas

Hydriotaphia

Hymns, Addison's

Hyperion

Ibsen, Henrik, influence of

Idea of a University

Ideals. See Moral ideals.

Idler

Idylls of the King

Il Penseroso

Iliad, Pope's translation of

Imaginary Conversations

In a Balcony

In Memoriam

In the South Seas

Induction (Sackville's)

Ingelow, Jean

Inland Voyage

Interlude

Invention, age of

Irish drama

Irish National Theater

Isabella

Ivanhoe

Jack of Newberry

Jacks, Lawrence Pearsall

Jacobs, W.W.

James I of Scotland

Jane Eyre

Jeffrey, Francis

Jew of Malta

John Gilpin

Johnson, Lionel

Johnson Samuel Boswell's life of converser and literary lawgiver general characteristics of incidental references to life of quoted references on suggested readings in works of

Jonathan Wild the Great

Jones, Henry Arthur suggested readings in

Jonson, Ben general characteristics of incidental references to life of opposes sonnet plays of quoted references on suggested readings in

Joseph Andrews

Joseph Vance

Journal of the Plague Year

Journal to Stella

Jude the Obscure

Judith

Juliana

Julius Caesar

Jungle Books

Jury system, development of

Just So Stories

Kant

Keats, John general characteristics incidental references to life of poems of references on suggested readings in

Keble, John

Kenilworth

Kidnapped

Kim

King Lear

King of the Golden River, The

King's Quair, The

Kingsley, Charles suggested readings in

Kipling, Rudyard general characteristics of incidental references to life of Nobel prize awarded to prose of references on suggested readings in verse of

Knighte's Tale, Chaucer's

Knoblauch, Edward

Knowles, James Sheridan

Knox, John

Kubla Khan

Kyd, Thomas

Lady of the Lake

Lake Poets

L'Allegro

Lamb, Charles quoted references on suggested readings in

Lamia

Landor, Walter Savage suggested readings in

Lang, Andrew

Längland, William references on suggested readings in

Language, new English

Languages, after Norman Conquest

Last Days of Pompeii

Latimer, Hugh

Layamon suggested readings in

Lay of the Last Minstrel

Lay Sermons, Huxley's

Lays of Ancient Rome

Lecky, William Edward Hartpole

Lectures on Art

Lectures on Shakespeare

Lee, Vernon (Violet Paget)

Le Gallienne, Richard

Legende of Good Women

Leviathan

Lewes, George Henry

Life and Death of Mr. Badman

Life of Johnson Boswell's Macaulay's

Life of Nelson

Light that Failed, The

Lindsay, Sir David

Lingard, John

Literary Club

Literary England literary itinerary references on

Literature change in subject-matter after Restoration childhood introduced into definitions of influence of spirit of reform on Pre-Raphaelite movement Reformation influences

Little Minister

Little White Bird

Lives of the English Poets

Lives of the Saints

Locke, John references on

Locke, William John suggested readings in

Lockhart, John Gibson

Locksley Hall

Locksley Hall Sixty Years After

Lodge, Thomas suggested readings in

London

Lord Ormont and His Aminta

Lorna Doone

Lounsbury, T.R., quoted

Love lyrics

Lovelace, Richard

Love's Labor's Lost

Lowell, James Russell, quoted

Lucas, Edward Verrall

Lucrece

Luther, Martin

Lycidas

Lydgate, john

Lyell, Sir Charles

Lyly, John references on suggested readings in

Lyrical Ballads, Coleridge's Wordsworth's

Lyrical verse in Elizabethan age

Lytton, Edward Bulwer

Macaulay, Thomas Babington general characteristics of History of England incidental references to life of quoted references on suggested readings in works of

Macbeth

M'Carthy, Justin Huntley

Mac Flecknoe

Mackail, John w.

Macleod, Fiona. See Sharp, William

Macmanus, Seumas

Macpherson, James

Magna Charta

Maid's Tragedy

Maine, Sir Henry

Malory, Sir Thomas

Malthus, Thomas Robert

Malthusian theorem

Mandeville, Sir John

Manfred

Mangan, James C.

Mansfield Park

Marlowe, Christopher general characteristics of incidental references to life of references on suggested readings in works of

Marmion

Marston, John

Marston, Philip Bourke

Martin Chuzzlewit

Martyn, Edward

Marvell, Andrew

Masefield, John suggested readings in

Masque

Massinger, Philip

Masson, David, quoted

Master of Ballantrae

Maud

Mayor of Casterbridge

Melancholy, literature of

Memoirs of a Cavalier

Memories and Portraits

Men and Women

Merchant of Venice

Meredith, George general characteristics of incidental references to life of quoted references on suggested readings in works of

Metrical romances

Meynell, Alice

Michael

Michaelmas Term

Middle Ages

Middlemarch

Middleton, Richard

Middleton, Thomas

Midsummer Night's Dream

Mill, James

Mill, John Stuart

Mill on the Floss

Millais, John Everett

Milman, Henry Hart

Milton, John characteristics of poetry compared with Shakespeare incidental references to influence of Paradise Lost life of Macaulay's essay on Paradise Lost quoted references on Spenser's influence on suggested readings in works of

Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border

Miracle plays suggested readings in

Mitford, Mary Russell

Modern Painters

Modest Proposal

Molière

Moll Flanders

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

Moore, George

Moore, Thomas

Moore, T. Sturge

Moral ideals, Addison's Browning's Carlyle's Dickens's George Eliot's in Beowulf Meredith's Milton's of Alfred the Great of Puritan age Richardson's Ruskin's Shakespeare's Swinburne's under minor dramatists

Moralitites, suggested readings for

Morality play

More, Sir Thomas suggested readings in

Morley, Henry, quoted

Morley, John

Morris, Lewis

Morris, William references on suggested readings in

Morte d'Arthur

Mourning Bride

Much Ado About Nothing

Mysteries of Udolpho

Mystery plays

Napier, Sir William

Nashe, Thomas suggested readings in

Nature as depicted in Scottish poetry Burns's, treatment of Byron's, poetry of Chaucer's love of Coleridge's treatment of Cowper's poems of Dunbar a student of Gray's poetry of growth of appreciation of Keats's treatment of poetry of Ruskin's love of Scott's treatment of Shakespeare's treatment of Shelley's treatment of Tennyson's poetry of Thomason's poetry of Walton's love of Wordsworth's poetry of

Navigations, Voyages, and Discoveries of the English Nation

Necessity of Atheism

New Atlantis

New Year's Eve

Newbolt, Henry

Newcomes, The

Newman, Cardinal John Henry general characteristics of life of references on suggested readings in works of

"News books"

"News letters"

Newspapers

Nicholas Nickleby

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Nightingale, To a

Noble Numbers

Norman conquest

North, Sir Thomas

Northanger Abbey

Novel, development of development of modern in eighteenth century in sixteenth century in twentieth century in Victorian age (See also Scott, Dickens, Eliot, Thackeray, etc.) picaresque suggested readings for

Novum Organum

Noyes, Alfred suggested readings in

Nut-Brown maid, The

Oberämmergau Passion Play

Occleve, Thomas

Ode on a Grecian Urn

Ode on the Passions

Ode to Evening

Ode to Mrs. Anne Killigrew

Ode to the West Wind

Odyssey, Pope's translation of

Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity

Old Bachelor, The

Old China

Old Curiosity Shop, The

Old Mortality

Oliver Twist

Olney Hymns

On the Morning of Christ's Nativity

On Translating Homer

Ordeal of Richard Feverel

Origin of Species

Orm's Ormulum

Oroonoke

Orosius (Alfred's)

Ossian

Othello

Otway, Thomas

Our Mutual Friend

Palace of Art

Paley, William

Pamela

Pandosto

Paracelsus

Paradise Lost

Paradise Regained

Paraphrase, Caedmon's

Parnell, Thomas

Passion Play at Oberämmergau

Past and Present

Pastoral lyrics

Pater, Walter references on suggested readings in

Patmore, Coventry

Peacock, Thomas Love

Peele, George

Pendennis

Pepys, Samuel

Percy, Thomas

Peregrine Pickle

Pericles and Aspasia

Perkin Warbeck

Persuasion

Peter Pan

Philaster

Phillips, Stephen suggested readings in

Phillpotts, Eden suggested readings in

Philosophical prose Coleridge's of age of Romantiscism of eighteenth century

Philosophical prose, of Puritan age

Phoenix

Picaresque novel

Pickwick Papers

Piers Plowman references on suggested readings for

Pilgrim's Progress

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing suggested readings in

Pippä Passes

Play of Noah's Flood

Play of the Shepherds

Playboy of the Western World

Plays, Pleasant and Unpleasant

Plutarch's Lives

Poe, Edgar Allan, quoted

Poet, The

Pope, Alexander general characteristics of incidental references to life of references on suggested readings in translation of Homer works of

Pope Gregory

Porter, Jane

Praed, Winthrop

Praeterita

Prelude, The

Pre-Raphaelite movement suggested readings in

Pre-Raphaelitism

Pride and Prejudice

Princess, The

Printing, invention of

Prior, Matthew

Procter, Adelaide Anne

Procter, Bryan W.

Prometheus Unbound

Puritan age history poets prose writers references on suggested readings and questions summary

Puttenham, George

Quarterly Review

Quiller-Couch (Cooch), Sir Arthur suggested readings in

Rabbi Ben Ezra

Radcliffe, Mrs. Anne

Raleigh, Sir Walter

Ralph Royster Doyster

Rambler, The

Ramsay, Allan

Rape of the Lock

Rasselas

Reade, Charles suggested readings in

Readings, suggestions for

Recessional

References, historical and literary

References for literary England

Reflections on the Revolution in France

Reformation

Religio Laici

Religio Medici

Religion, effect of on literature

Religious drama

Reliques of Ancient English Poetry

Reminiscences, Carlyle's

Renaissance causes and effects of the Renaissance culmination of history in Elizabeth's reign influence on Chaucer invention of printing poets prose writers references on suggested readings and questions summary

Renaissance; Studies in Art and Poetry

Restoration period and early eighteenth-century literature dramatists history poets prose writers references on suggested readings and questions summary

Return of the Native

Review

Revolt of Islam

Reynolds, G.F., quoted

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

Rhoda Fleming

Ricardo, David

Richard II

Richard III

Richardson, Samuel references on suggested readings in

Ring and the Book

Rivals

Robert of Brunne

Robertson, William

Robin Hood

Robinson Crusoe

Robinson, Lennox

Roderick Random

Romance, distinguished from modern novel

Romance of the Forest

Romantiscism age of appreciation of nature history literary characteristics poets prose writers

Romanticism, references on suggested readings and questions summary

Romaunt of the Rose

Romeo and Juliet

Romola

Rosalynde

Rossetti, Christina

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel references on

Round Table

Rowley, Thomas

Rowley, William

Ruskin, John art works of general characteristics of incidental references to life of references on suggested readings in works of

Russell, George W. suggested readings in

Sackville, Thomas

Saintsbury, George, quoted

Samson Agonistes

Sartor Resartus

Satire, Addison's Carlyle's Dryden's Fielding's Meredith's Pope's Swift's Thackeray's

Saul

Saxon. See Anglo-Saxon.

Scenery, in early theater

Scenes of Clerical Life

Scholar-Gypsy

Scholemaster, The

School for Scandal

School Mistress, The

Schoolmen

Science, age of influence on literature

Scop songs of

Scott, Sir Walter general characteristics of incidental references to life of references on suggested readings in works of

Seafarer, The

Seasons, The

Second Mrs. Tanqueray, The

Selden, John

Sense and Sensibility

Sentimental Journey through France and Italy

Sentimental Tommy

Sesame and Lilies

Seven Lamps of Architecture

Shadwell, Thomas

Shakespeare, William amount and classification of work connection with London stage development as dramatist general characteristics of incidental references to influence of Bible on life of publication of plays quoted references on sonnets sources of plots suggested readings in table of plays variety of style

Sharp, William (Fiona Macleod) references on suggested readings in

Shaw, George Bernard references on suggested readings in

She Stoops to Conquer

Sheehan, Canon, P.A.

Shelley, Mrs.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe general characteristics of incidental references to life of lyrical genius references on suggested readings in works of

Shepherd's Calendar

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

Shirley, James

Shoemaker's Holiday

Short View of the Immorality of the Stage

Shorter, Dora Sigerson

Shorthouse, Joseph H.

Sidney, Sir Philip quoted references on suggested readings in works of

Sigurd, the Volsung

Silas Marner

Silent Woman, The

Sinclair, May

Sir Charles Grandison

Sir Roger de Coverley Papers

Skeltin, John

Skylark, To a

Smith, Adam

Smith, Sydney

Smollett, Tobias references on

Smollett, suggested readings in

Snaith, J.C.

Social movement of nineteenth century

Sohrab and Rustum

Somehow Good

Song of Roland

Songs before Sunrise

Songs of Experience

Songs of Innocence

Sonnets in Elizabethan Age introduction of Jonson and Donne oppose Keats's Milton's Shakespeare's Sidney's Spenser's Wordsworth's

Sonnets from the Portuguese

Sordello

Southey, Robert

Spanish Gypsy, The

Spanish Tragedy, The

Specimens of English Dramatic Poets

Spectator, The

Spodding, James, quoted

Speech on American Taxation (Burke's)

Speech on Conciliation with America (Burke's)

Spencer, Herbert

Spenser, Edmund, chief characteristics of poetry of Faerie Queene incidental references to life of references on sonnets of subjective poet suggested readings in

St. Francis

Stage, in early English theater

Stalky and Co.

Steele, Richard suggested readings in

Stephen, Leslie quoted

Stephens, James

Sterne, Laurence references on suggested reading in

Stevenson, Robert Louis general characteristics of incidental references to life of references on suggested readings in works of

Stevenson, William

Stones of Venice, The

Story, short

Stow, John

Strafford

Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Stubbs, William

Study of Celtic Literature

Suckling, Sir John suggested readings in

Suggested readings

Summaries

Summer's Last Will and Testament

Surrey, Earl of sonnets of suggested readings in

Survey of London

Sweet, Professor, quoted

Swift, Jonathon general characteristics of incidental references to life of references on suggested readings in works of

Swinburne, Algernon Charles general characteristics of incidental references to life of quoted references on suggested readings in works of

Switzerland

Symonds, John Addington quoted

Symons, Arthur suggested readings in

Synge, John Millington references on

Synthetic Philosophy

Table Talk

Taine, H.A., quoted

Tale of a Tub

Tale of Two Cities

Tales from Shakespeare

Tales of a Grandfather

Tales of a Mermaid Tavern

Talisman

Tam o'Shanter

Tamburlaine

Task, The

Tatler

Taylor, Jeremy

Tempest, The

Ten Brink, quoted

Tennyson, Alfred general characteristics of incidental references to life of quoted references on suggested readings in works of

Tess of the D'Urberville's

Thackeray, William Makepeace general characteristics of incidental references to life of quoted references on suggested readings in works of

Theater, Elizabethan

Thompson, Frances suggested readings in

Thompson, James

Thomson, James suggested readings in

Thoreau, quoted

Thyrnie

Time and Tide by Weare and Tyne

Tom Jones

Tottel's Miscellany

Tourneur, Cyril

Traitor, The

Traveller, The

Travels, Mandeville's

Travels with a Donkey

Treasure Island

Treatise of Human Nature

Trelawny, Edward

Trench, Herbert

Trick to Catch the Old One

Tristram and Iseule

Tristram of Lioness

Tristram Shandy

Troilus and Criseyde

Trollope, Anthony suggested readings in.

Twelfth Night

Twentieth-century literature dramatists essayists novelists poets references on suggested readings and questions summary trend of contemporary literature

Two Voices, The

Tyndale, William suggested readings in

Tyndall, John quoted

Udall, Nicholas

Ulysses

Underwoods

Unfortunate Traveler

Unities, dramatic

"University wits"

Unto this Last

Urn Burial

Utopia

Vanbrugh, John

Vanity Fair

Vanity of Human Wishes

Vaughan, Henry

Venus and Adonis

Vercelli Book

Vicar of Wakefield

Vice, in old plays

Victorian age essayists history of novelists poets references on scientific writers short stories suggested readings and questions summary

Vignettes in Rhyme

Virginians

Vision of Judgement

Volpone

Voltaire

Vox Clamantis

Vulgar Errors

Wace

Wagner, Richard

Wallace, Professor C.W. quoted

Waller, Edmund

Walpole, Horace suggested readings in

Walpole, Herbert

Walton, Izaak

Wanderer, The

Warburton, William

Ward, Mrs. Humphry

Ward, Mrs. Wilfrid

Ward, Wilfrid

Warner, William

Warren, J.B.L. (Lord de Tabley)

War of the Roses

Warton, Thomas

Watson, William suggested readings in

Watts, Isaac

Waits-Dunton, Theodore

Waverly

Way of the World

Webster, John

War of Hermiston

Wells, Herbert George references on suggested readings in

Wesley, Charles

Wesley, John

Westward Ho

What Every Woman Knows

White Devil, The

White, Gilbert

Whitefield, George

Widecombe Fair

Widsið

Wilde, Oscar

Wilson, John

Winter's Tale

Witch of Atlas

Wither, George

Woman Killed with Kindness, A

Woodlanders, The

Woodstock

Wordsworth, William general characteristics of incidental references to life of poet of child life poet of man poet of nature quoted references on suggested readings in works of

World, The

Wotton, Sir Henry, quoted

Wounds of Civil War

Wright

Wuthering Heights

Wyatt, Sir Thomas suggested readings in

Wycherley, William

Wycliffe, John

Yeats, William Butler references on suggested reading in

York plays

Young, Edward

Youth of the Year

Zangwill, Israel suggested readings in

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