English Literature
_Heroes and Hero Worship_
Heroic couplet
_Heroic Stanzas_
Herrick, Robert
_Hesperides and Noble Numbers_ (h[)e]s-p[)e]r'[)i]-d[=e]z)
Heywood, John
Heywood, Thomas
Hilda, abbess
Hildgund (hild'gund)
Historical novel
_History, of England_, Macaulay's;
_of Frederick the Great_, Carlyle's;
_of Henry VIII_, Bacon's;
_of the Reformation in Scotland_, Knox's;
_of the Wortd_, Raleigh's
Hnæf (n[e=]f)
Hobbes, Thomas
Holofernes (hol-[=o]-fer'n[=e]z) in _Judith_
_Holy and Profane State_
_Holy Living_
_Holy War_
_Homer_, Chapman's;
Dryden's;
Pope's;
Cowper's
Hooker, Richard
Hooker, Thomas
_Hours in a Library_
_Hours of Idleness_
_House of Fame_
_House of Life_
Hrothgar (r[)o]th'gar)
_Hudibras_ (h[=u]'d[)i]-bras)
Humanism
_Humphrey Clinker_
Hunt, Leigh
_Husband's Message_
Huxley,
Hygelac (h[=i]-j[=e]'lak)
Hymn book, first English
_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_
_Hymns_, Addison's;
Cowper's
_Hypatia_ (h[=i]-p[=a]'shia)
_Hyperion_ (h[=i]-p[=e]'r[)i]-on)
Idealism of Victorian Age
Ideals
Idols, of Bacon
_Idylls of the King_
_Il Penseroso_ (il pen-s[)e]-r[=o]'s[=o])
_Iliad_, Pope's translation;
Chapman's;
Dryden's
_Imaginary Conversations_
_Impeachment of Warren Hastings_
_In Memoriam_
_Instauratio Magna_ (in-sta-r[=a]'shi-o)
Interludes
_Intimations of Immortality_
Jacobean poets
_Jane Eyre_ (âr)
Jeffrey, Francis
Jest (_or_ gest) books
_Jew of Malta_
_John Gilpin_
Johnson, Samuel; life;
works; his conversations;
Boswell's _Life of Johnson_
_Jonathan Wild_
Jonson, Ben; life; works
_Joseph Andrews_
_Journal of the Plague Year_
_Journal to Stella_
_Judith_
_Juliana_
Keats; life; works;
place in literature
Kilmarnock Burns, the
_Kings' Treasuries_
Kingsley, Charles
_Knight's Tale, The_
Knox, John
_Kubla Khan_ (kob'lä kän)
Kyd, Thomas
_L'Allegro_ (läl-[=a]'gr[=o])
_Lady of the Lake_
Lake poets, the
Lamb, Charles; life; works;
style
Lamb, Mary
_Lamia_ (l[=a]'mi-ä)
_Land of Cockaygne_ (k[)o]-kän')
_Land of Dreams_
Landor, Walter Savage; life;
works
Langland, William
Language, our first speech; dual
character of; Teutonic origin
_Last Days of Pompeii_ (pom-p[=a]'y[=e])
Law, Hooker's idea of
_Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity,_
_Lay Sermons_
Layamon
_Lays of Ancient Rome_
_Lead, Kindly Light_
_Lectures on Shakespeare_
_Legends of Goode Wimmen_
_Leviathan_
Lewes, George Henry
_Liberty of Prophesying_
Life, compared to a sea voyage
_Life of Johnson_
_Life of Savage_
Lindsay, David
Literary Club, the
Literary criticism. _See also_
Critical writing.
_Literary Reminiscences_
Literature, definition; qualities;
tests; object in studying; importance;
Goethe's definition;
spirit of modern
_Literature and Dogma_
_Lives_, Plutarch's; Walton's
_Lives of the Poets_
Locke, John
Lockhart, John
_Lorna Doone_
_Lost Leader, The_
Lovelace, Richard
_Lycidas_ (lis'[)i]-das)
Lydgate, John
Lyly, John (lil'[)i])
_Lyra Apostolica_
_Lyrical Ballads_
Lytton, Edward Bulwer
Macaulay; life; works;
characteristics
Macpherson, James (mak-fer'son)
Magazines, the modern
_Maldon, The Battle of_
Malory
_Mandeville's Travels_
_Manfred_
Marlowe; life; works;
and Milton; and Shakespeare
_Marmion_
Marvell, Andrew
Massinger, Philip
Matter of France, Rome, and Britain
Melodrama
_Memoirs of a Cavalier_
Meredith, George
_Merlin and the Gleam_
Metaphysical poets
Metrical romances
Middleton, Thomas
_Miles Gloriosus_ (m[=e]'les gl[=o]-r[)i]-[=o]'s[u:]s)
_Mill on the Floss_
Milton; life; early or Horton
poems; prose works;
later poetry; and Shakespeare;
Wordsworth's sonnet on
_Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border_
Miracle plays
_Mirror for Magistrates_
_Mr. Badman, Life and Death of_
Modern literature, spirit of
_Modern Painters_
_Modest Proposal, A_
_Moral Epistles_
Moral period of the drama
Moral purpose in Victorian literature
Morality plays
More, Hannah
More, Thomas
Morris, William
_Morte d'Arthur_ (mort där'ther)
_Mother Hubbard's Tale_
_Mulèykeh_ (m[=u]-l[=a]'k[)a])
_My Last Duchess_
_Mysteries of Udolpho, The_ ([=u]-dol'f[=o])
Mystery plays
_New Atalantis_
_Newcomes, The_
Newman, Cardinal; life;
prose works; poems;
style
Newspapers, the first
_Nibelungenlied_ (n[=e]'b[)e]-lung-en-l[=e]d)
_Noah, Play of_
Norman Conquest
Norman pageantry
Norman period. _See_ Anglo-Norman
Normans;
union with Saxons;
literature of
North, Christopher (John Wilson)
North, Thomas
Northanger Abbey (north'[=a]n-jer)
_Northern Antiquities_
Northumbrian literature; decline
of; how saved
Novel, meaning and history;
precursors of; discovery of
modern
Novelists, the first English.
_See_ Scott, Dickens, etc.
_Novum Organum_ (or'g[)a]-num)
_Ode on the Morning of Christ's Nativity_
_Ode to Dejection_
_Ode to the West Wind_
Odes, Pindaric
_Odyssey_, Pope's; Chapman's;
Dryden's
_Old Fortunatus_ (for-t[=u]-n[=a]'tus)
_Oliver Cromwell_, Carlyle's
_Oliver Twist_
_Origin of Species_
_Orlando Furioso_ (or-lan'd[=o] foo-r[=e]-[=o]'s[=o])
Orm, _or_ Orme; his _Ormulum_
Orosius ([=o]-r[=o]'si-us), his history
Ossian (osh'ian) and Ossianic poems
_Owl and Nightingale, The_
Oxford movement
_P's, The Four_
_Palamon and Arcite_ (pal'a-mon, är'-s[=i]te)
_Pamela_ (pam'e-lä)
Pantisocracy (pan-t[=i]-sok'r[=a]-se), of Coleridge,
Southey, etc.
_Paradise Lost_
_Paradise Regained_
_Paradyse of Daynty Devises_
_Paraphrase_, of Cædmon
_Parish Register, The_
_Pauline_
_Pearl, The_
_Pelham_
_Pendennis_
Pepys, Samuel (pep'is, peeps, pips)
Percy, Thomas
_Peregrine Pickle_ (per'e-grin)
_Pericles and Aspasia_ (per'i-kl[=e]z, as-p[=a]'shi-ä)
Philistines, the
_Phoenix_ (f[=e]'nix)
_Pickwick Papers_
_Piers Plowman_ (peers)
_Pilgrim's Progress_
Pindaric odes (pin-där'ic)
_Pippa Passes_
_Plain Man's Pathway to Heaven_
Plutarch's _Lives_
_Poems by Two Brothers_
_Poetaster, The_
_Polyolbion_ (pol-[)i]-ol'b[)i]-on)
Pope, Alexander; life;
works
Porter, Jane
_Practice of Piety_
_Praeterita_ (pr[=e]-ter'[)i]-tä)
_Praise of Folly_
_Prelude, The_
_Pre-Raphaelites_ (rä'f[=a]-el-ites)
_Pride and Prejudice_
_Princess, The_
_Prometheus Unbound_ (pr[=o]-m[=e]'th[=u]s)
Prose development in eighteenth century
Pseudo-classicism (s[=u]'d[=o])
Purchas, Samuel; _Purchas His
Pilgrimes_
Puritan Age: history; literary
characteristics; poets;
prose writers; compared with
Elizabethan; summary;
selections for reading; bibliography,
questions;
chronology
Puritan movement
Puritans, wrong ideas of
Queen Mab, in _Romeo and Juliet_
_Queen's Gardens_
_Rabbi Ben Ezra_
Radcliffe, Mrs. Anne
Raleigh, Walter
_Ralph Royster Doyster_
_Rambler_ essays
_Rape of the Lock_
Reade, Charles
Realism
_Recluse, The_
_Reflections on the French Revolution_
_Religio Laici_
_Religio Medici_
Religious period of the drama
_Reliques of Ancient English Poetry_
_Reminiscences_, Carlyle's
_Remorse_
Renaissance, the (re-n[=a]'säns, r[=e]'n[=a]s-sans, etc.)
Restoration Period: history; literary
characteristics; writers;
summary; selections for
reading; bibliography;
questions; chronology
Revival of Learning Period: history;
literature; summary;
selections for reading; bibliography;
questions; chronology
_Revolt of Islam_
Revolution, French; of
1688; age of
Richardson, Samuel; novels of
_Rights of Man_
_Rime of the Ancient Alariner_
Rime Royal
_Ring and the Book, The_
_Robin Hood_
_Robinson Crusoe_
_Roderick_
_Roderick Random_
Romance; Greek Romances
Romance languages
_Romance of the Rose_
Romantic comedy and tragedy
Romantic enthusiasm
Romantic poetry
Romanticism, Age of; history;
literary characteristics;
poets; prose writers; summary;
selections for reading;
bibliography; questions;
chronology
Romanticism, meaning
_Romola_
_Rosalynde_
Rossetti, Christina (ros-set't[=e])
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
_Rowley Papers_
Royal Society
Runes
Ruskin; life; works;
characteristics; message
Sackville, Thomas
_St. Catherine, Play of_
St. George's Guild
_Saints' Everlasting Rest_
_Samson Agonistes_ (ag-o-nis't[=e]z)
_Sartor Resartus_ (sar'tor re-sar'tus)
Satire; of Swift; of Thackeray
Saxon. _See_ Anglo-Saxon
_School of Shooting_
Science, in Victorian Age
Scop, _or_ poet (skop)
Scott, Walter; life; poetry;
novels; criticism of Jane
Austen
_Scottish Chiefs_
Scyld (skild), story of
Sea, names of, in Anglo-Saxon, 25
_Seafarer, The_
_Seasons, The_
Selections for reading:
Anglo-Saxon period;
Norman;
Chaucer;
Revival of Learning;
Elizabethan;
Puritan;
Restoration;
Eighteenth Century;
Romanticism;
Victorian
_Sentimental Journey_
_Sesame and Lilies_ (ses'a-m[=e])
Shakespeare;
life;
works;
four periods;
sources of plays;
classification of plays;
doubtful plays;
poems;
place and influence
_She Stoops to Conquer_
Shelley;
life;
works;
compared with Wordsworth
_Shepherds' Book_
_Shepherd's Calendar_
Shirley, James
_Shoemaker's Holiday, The_
_Short View of the English Stage_
Sidney, Philip
_Sigurd the Volsung_
_Silas Marner_
_Silent Woman, The_
_Sir Charles Grandison_
Skelton, John
_Sketches by Boz_
Smollett, Tobias
Social development in eighteenth century
_Sohrab and Rustum_ (soo'rhab, _or_ s[=o]'hrab)
_Songs of Innocence_, and _Songs of Experience_
Sonnet, introduction of
_Sonnets_,
of Shakespeare;
of Milton
_Sonnets from the Portuguese_
Southey;
works
_Spanish Gypsy_
_Spanish Tragedy_
_Specimens of English Dramatic Poets_
_Spectator, The_
Spenser;
life;
works;
characteristics;
compared with Chaucer
Spenserian poets
Spenserian stanza
Stage, in early plays;
Elizabethan
Steele, Richard
Stephen, Leslie
Sterne, Lawrence
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Style, a test of literature
Suckling, John
Surrey, Henry Howard, Earl of
_Swan, The_
Swift;
life;
works;
satire;
characteristics
Swinburne
_Sylva_
Symonds, John Addington
Tabard Inn
_Tale of a Tub_
_Tale of Two Cities_
_Tales from Shakespeare_
_Tales in Verse_
_Tales of the Hall_
_Tam o' Shanter_
_Tamburlaine_ (tam'bur-lane)
_Task, The_
_Tatler, The_
Taylor, Jeremy
_Temora_ (te-m[=o]'rä)
_Tempest, The_
_Temple, The_
Tennyson;
life;
works;
characteristics;
message
_Tenure of Kings and Magistrates_
_Terra_
Tests of literature
Teufelsdroeckh (toy'felz-droek)
Thackeray;
life;
works;
characteristics;
style;
and Dickens
_Thaddeus of Warsaw_
_Thalaba_ (täl-ä'bä)
Theater, the first
Thomson, James
_Thyrsis_ (ther'sis)
_Timber_
_Tintern Abbey_
_Tirocinium_ (t[=i]-r[=o]-sin'[)i]-um), _or A Review of Schools_
_Tom Jones_
Tories and Whigs
_Tottel's Miscellany_
Townley plays
_Toxophilus_ (tok-sof'[)i]-lus)
Tractarian movement
_Tracts for the Times_
Tragedy, definition,
of blood
Transition poets
_Traveler, The_
_Treasure Island_
_Treatises on Government_
_Tristram Shandy_
_Troilus and Cressida_ (tr[=o]'[)i]-lus, kres'-[)i]-dä)
Trollope, Anthony
Troyes, Treaty of
_Truth_, or _Good Counsel_
Tyndale, William (tin'dal)
Udall, Nicholas ([=u]'dal)
_Udolpho_ ([=u]-dol'f[=o])
_Unfortunate Traveller, The_
Universality, a test of literature
University wits
_Unto This Last_
_Utopia_
_Vanity Fair_
_Vanity of Human Wishes_
Vaughan, Henry
_Vercelli Book_
_Vicar of Wakefield_
Vice, the, in old plays
Victorian Age,
history,
literary characteristics,
poets,
novelists,
essayists, etc.,
spirit of,
summary,
selections for reading,
bibliography,
questions,
chronology
_View of the State of Ireland_
_Village, The_
_Vision of the Rood_
_Volpone_ (vol-p[=o]'ne)
_Voyages_, Hakluyt's
Wakefield plays
_Waldere_ (väl-d[=a]'re, _or_ väl'dare)
Waller, Edmund
Walton, Izaak
_Waverley_
_Wealth of Nations_
_Weather, The_, play of