English Literature
Bibliographies at the ends of the preceding chapters.
_SELECTIONS_
Manly's English Poetry and Manly's English Prose (Ginn and Company) are the
best single-volume collections, covering the whole field of English
literature.
Pancoast's Standard English Poetry, and Pancoast's Standard English Prose
(Holt).
Oxford Book of English Verse, and Oxford Treasury of English Literature, 3
vols. (Clarendon Press).
Page's British Poets of the Nineteenth Century (Sanborn).
Stedman's Victorian Anthology (Houghton, Mifflin).
Ward's English Poets, 4 vols.; Craik's English Prose Selections, 5 vols.;
Chambers's Encyclopedia of English Literature, etc.
_MISCELLANEOUS_
The Classic Myths in English Literature (Ginn and Company).
Adams's Dictionary of English Literature.
Ryland's Chronological Outlines of English Literature.
Brewer's Reader's Handbook.
Botta's Handbook of Universal Literature.
Ploetz's Epitome of Universal History.
Hutton's Literary Landmarks of London.
Heydrick's How to Study Literature.
For works on the English language see Bibliography of the Norman period, p.
65.
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INDEX
KEY TO PRONUNCIATION
[=a], as in fate; [)a], as in fat; ä, as in arm; [a:], as in all; [a.], as
in what; â, as in care
[=e], as in mete; [)e], as in met; ê, as in there
[=i], as in ice; [)i], as in it; ï, as in machine
[=o], as in old; [)o], as in not; [o:], as in move; [.o], as in son; ô, as
in horse; [=oo] as in food; [)oo], as in foot
[=u], as in use; [)u], as in up; û, as in fur; [:u], as in rule; [.u], as
in pull
[=y], as in fly; [)y], as in baby
c, as in call; ç, as in mice; ch, as in child; [-c]h, as in school
g, as in go; [.g], as in cage
s, as in saw; [s=], as in is
th, as in thin; th, as in then
x, as in vex; [x=], as in exact.
NOTE. Titles of books, poems, essays, etc., are in _italics_.
_Absalom and Achitophel_ ([=a]-chit'o-fel)
_Abt Vogler_ (äpt v[=o]g'ler)
Actors, in early plays;
Elizabethan
Addison;
life;
works;
hymns;
influence;
style
_Adonais_ (ad-[=o]-n[=a]'is)
Aesc (esk)
Aidan, St. ([=i]'dan)
_Aids to Reflection_
_Alastor_ ([)a]-l[)a]s-tôr)
_Alchemist, The_
_Alexander's Feast_
Alfred, King;
life and times;
works
_All for Love_
_Alysoun_, or Alisoun (äl'[)y]-sown or äl'[)y]-zoon), old form of Alice
_Amelia_
_American Taxation_, Burke's speech on
_An Epistle_
_Anatomy of Melancholy_
_Ancren Riwle_ (angk'ren rol)
_Andrea del Sarto_ (än-dr[=a]'yä del sär't[=o])
_Andreas_
Angeln
Angles, the
Anglo-Norman Period;
literature;
ballads;
lyrics;
summary;
selections for reading;
bibliography;
questions on;
chronology
_Anglo-Saxon Chronicle_
Anglo-Saxon Period;
early poetry;
springs of poetry;
language;
Christian writers;
source books;
summary;
selections for reading;
bibliography;
questions on;
chronology
Anglo-Saxons;
the name;
life;
language;
literature,
_see_ Anglo-Saxon Period.
_Annus Mirabilis_
Anselm
_Apologia_, Newman's
_Apologie for Poetrie_
_Arcadia_
_Areopagitica_ ([)a]r'=[=e]-[)o]p-[)a]-j[)i]t'[)i]-cä)
Arnold, Matthew;
life;
poetry;
prose works;
characteristics
Art, definition of
Arthurian romances
Artistic period of drama
Artistic quality of literature
Ascham, Roger
Assonance
_Astraea Redux_ ([)a]s-tr[=e]'ä r[=e]'duks)
_Astrophel and Stella_ ([)a]s'tr[=o]-fel)
_Atalanta in Calydon_ ([)a]t-[)a]-l[)a]n'tä, k[)a]l'[)i]-d[)o]n)
Augustan Age, meaning. _See_
Eighteenth-century literature
_Aurora Leigh_ ([a:]-r[=o]'rä l[=e])
Austen, Jane; life;
novels; Scott's criticism of
Bacon, Francis; life; works;
place and influence
Bacon, Roger
Ballad, the
_Ballads and Sonnets_
_Barchester Towers_
_Bard, The_
_Bard of the Dimbovitza_ (dim-bo-vitz'ä),
Roumanian folk songs
_Battle of Agincourt_ (English, [)a]j'in-k[=o]rt)
_Battle of Brunanburh_
_Battle of the Books_
Baxter, Richard
Beaumont, Francis (b[=o]'mont)
_Becket_
Bede; his history; his account
of Cædmon
_Bells and Pomegranates_
Benefit of clergy
_Beowulf_ (b[=a]'[=o]-wulf), the poem;
history; poetical form;
manuscript of
Beowulf's Mount
Bibliographies, study of literature;
Anglo-Saxon Period; Norman;
Chaucer; Revival of Learning;
Elizabethan; Puritan;
Restoration; Eighteenth
century; Romanticism;
Victorian; general
_Bickerstaff Almanac_
_Biographia Literaria_
Blackmore, Richard
Blake, William; life; works
Blank verse
_Blessed Damozel_
_Blot in the 'Scutcheon, A_
Boethius (b[=o]-[=e]'thi-us)
Boileau (bwa-l[=o]'), French critic
_Boke of the Duchesse_
_Book of Martyrs_
_Borough, The_
Boswell, James. _See also_ Johnson
Boy actors
Breton, Nicholas
Brontë, Charlotte and Emily
Browne, Thomas; works
Browning, Mrs. Elizabeth Barrett
Browning, Robert; life;
works; obscurity of; as
a teacher; compared with
Shakespeare; with Tennyson;
periods of work; soul
studies; place and message
_Brut_, Layamon's; quotation from
Brutus, alleged founder of Britain
Bulwer Lytton
Bunyan, John; life; works;
his style
Burke, Edmund; life; works;
analysis of his orations
Burney, Fanny (Madame D'Arblay)
Burns, Robert; life; poetry;
Carlyle's essay on
Burton, Robert
Butler, Samuel
Byron; life; works;
compared with Scott
Cædmon (k[)a]d'mon), life; works;
his _Paraphrase_; school of
_Cain_
_Callista_
Calvert, Raisley
Camden, William
_Campaign, The_
Campion, Thomas
_Canterbury Tales_; plan of;
prologue; Dryden's criticism
of
Canynge's coffer
Carew, Thomas
Carlyle; life; works;
style and message
Carols, in early plays
_Casa Guidi Windows_ (kä'sä gw[=e]'d[=e])
_Castell of Perseverance_
_Castle of Indolence_
_Cata_
Cavalier poets
Caxton; specimen of printing
Celtic legends
_Chanson de Gestes_
_Chanson de Roland_
Chapman, George; his _Homer_;
Keats's sonnet on
Chatterton, Thomas
Chaucer, how to read; life;
works; form of his poetry;
melody; compared with Spenser
Chaucer, Age of: history; writers;
summary; selections for reading;
bibliography; questions on; chronology
Chester plays
Cheyne Row
_Childe Harold_
_Child's Garden of Verses_
Chocilaicus (k[=o]-kil-[=a]'[=i]-cus)
_Christ, The_, of Cynewulf
_Christabel_
_Christian Year_
_Christmas Carol, A_
Christ's Hospital, London
_Chronicle, The Anglo-Saxon_
Chronicle plays
Chronicles, riming
Chronology: Anglo-Saxon Period;
Norman-French; Age of Chaucer;
Revival of Learning; Elizabethan;
Puritan; Restoration; Eighteenth Century;
Romanticism; Victorian
_Citizen of the World_
_Clarissa_
Classic and classicism
Classic influence on the drama
_Cloister and the Hearth_
Clough, Arthur Hugh
_Cockaygne, Land of_ (k[=o]-k[=a]n')
Coleridge; life; works; critiqal writings
Collier, Jeremy
Collins, William
Comedy, definition; first English; of the court
_Complete Angler, The_
_Comus, Masque of_
_Conciliation with America_, Burke's speech
_Confessions of an English Opium-Eater_
_Consolations of Philosophy_
_Cotter's Saturday Night_
Couplet, the
Court comedies
Covenant of 1643
Coventry plays
Cowley, Abraham
Cowper, William; life; works
Crabbe, George
_Cranford_
Crashaw, Richard
Critic, meaning of
Critical writing, Dryden; Coleridge;
in Age of Romanticism;
in Victorian Age
Criticism, Arnold's definition
Cross, John Walter
_Crown of Wild Olive_
_Culture and Anarchy_
_Curse of Jfehama_ (k[=e]-hä'mä)
_Cursor Mundi_
Cycles, of plays; of romances
Cynewulf (kin'[)e]-wulf), 36-38
_Cynthia's Revels_ (sin'thi-ä)
Daniel, Samuel
_Daniel Deronda_
D'Arblay, Madame (Fanny Burney)
Darwin and _Darwinism_
Death, Raleigh's apostrophe to
_Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire_
_Defense of Poesie_
_Defensio pro Populo Anglicano_
Defoe; life; works
Dekker, Thomas
_Delia_
Democracy and Romanticism;
in Victorian Age
_Dear's Lament_
De Quincey; life; works; style
_De Sapientia Veterum_
_Deserted Village, The_
_Dethe of Blanche the Duchesse_
_Diary_, Evelyn's; Pepys's; selections from
Dickens;
life;
works;
general plan of novels;
his characters;
his public;
limitations
_Dictionary_, Johnson's
_Discoverie of Guiana_ (g[=e]-ä'nä)
_Divina Commedia_ (d[=e]-v[=e]'nä kom-m[=a]'d[=e]-ä)
_Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde_
Domestic drama
Donne, John
his poetry
Dotheboys Hall (do-the-boys)
Drama, in Elizabethan Age
origin,
periods of,
miracle and mystery plays,
interludes,
classical influence on,
unities,
the English,
types of,
decline of.
_See also_ Elizabethan Age, Shakespeare,
Jonson, Marlowe, etc.
Dramatic unities
Dramatists, methods of _See_
Shakespeare, Marlowe, etc.
_Drapier's Letters_
Drayton, Michael
_Dream of Gerontius, The_ (j[)e]-r[)o]n'sh[)i]-us)
Dryden
life,
works,
influence,
criticism of _Canterbury Tales_
_Duchess of Malfi_ (mäl'f[=e])
_Dunciad, The_ (dun's[)i]-ad)
Ealhild, queen ([=e]-äl'hild)
_Earthly Paradise_
_Eastward Ho_!
Economic conditions, in Age of Romanticism
Edgeworth, Maria
_Edward II_
_Egoist, The_
Eighteenth-Century Literature:
history of the period,
literary characteristics,
the Classic Age,
Augustan writers,
romantic revival,
the first novelists,
summary,
selections for reading,
bibliography,
questions,
chronology,
_Eikon Basilike_ ([=i]'kon b[)a]-sil'[)i]-k[=e])
Eikonoklastes ([=i]-kon-[=o]-klas't[=e]z)
_Elegy_, Gray's
_Elene_
Elizabethan Age
history,
non-dramatic poets,
first dramatists,
Shakespeare's predecessors,
Shakespeare,
Shakespeare's contemporaries and successors,
prose writers,
summary,
selections,
bibliography,
questions,
chronology
_Endymion_
_English Bards and Scotch Reviewers_
_English Humorists_
_English Idyls_
Eormanric ([=e]-or'man-ric)
_Epicaene_ ([)e]p'[=i]-sen), or _The Silent Woman_
_Epithalamium_ ([)e]p-[)i]-th[=a]-l[=a]'m[)i]-um)
Erasmus
_Essay concerning Human Understanding_
_Essay of Dramatic Poesy_
_Essay on Burns_
_Essay on Criticism_
_Essay on Man_
_Essay on Milton_
_Essays_,
Addison's,
Bacon's
_Essays in Criticism_
_Essays of Elia_ ([=e]'l[)i]-ä)
_Ethics of the Dust_
_Euphues_ and euphuism ([=u]'f[=u]-[=e]z)
Evans, Mary Ann. _See_ George Eliot
Evelyn, John
_Everlasting No_, and _Yea, The_
_Every Man in His Humour_
_Everyman_
_Excursion, The_
_Exeter Book_
Faber, Frederick
_Fables_, Dryden's
_Faery Queen_
_Fall of Princes_
_Faust_ (foust), _Faustus_ (fas'tus)
_Ferrex and Porrex_
Fielding,
novels,
characteristics
_Fight at Finnsburgh_
_Fingal_ (fing'gal)
First-folio Shakespeare
Fletcher, Giles
Fletcher, John
Ford, John
Formalism
_Four Georges, The_
Foxe, John
_Fragments of Ancient Poetry_
French influence in Restoration literature
French language in England
French Revolution, influence of
_French Revolution_, Carlyle's
Fuller, Thomas
_Gammer Gurton's Needle_
Gaskell, Mrs. Elizabeth
_Gawain and the Green Knight_ (gä'-w[=a]n)
Gawain cycle of romances, 57
_Gebir_ (g[=a]-b[=e]r')
Geoffrey of Monmouth (jef'r[)i])
George Eliot;
life;
works;
characteristics;
as a moralist
Gest (_or_ jest) books
_Geste of Robin Hood_
Gibbon,
his history
_Gifts of God, The_
Girondists (j[)i]-ron'dists)
Gleemen, _or_ minstrels
Goldsmith;
life;
works
_Good Counsel_
_Gorboduc_ (gôr'b[=o]-duk)
_Gorgeous Gallery_
Gower
_Grace Abounding_
Gray, Thomas;
life;
works
_Greatest English Poets_
Greene, Robert
Gregory, Pope
Grendel; story of;
mother of
Grubb Street
_Gulliver's Travels_
_Gull's Hornbook_
Hakluyt, Richard (h[)a]k'loot)
Hallam,
his criticism of Bacon
Hardy, Thomas
Hastings, battle of
Hathaway, Anne
Hazlitt, William
Hengist (h[)e]ng'gist)
_Henry Esmond_
Herbert, George;
life;
poetry of
_Hero and Leander_