Absalom and Achitophel, Dryden, 134, 135.
Account of the Greatest English Poets, Addison, 177.
Actors, in time of Shakespeare, 74, 75. Ad Patrem, Milton, 94. Adam Bede, George Eliot, 501. Addison, Joseph as a moralist and essayist, 174; birth, 174; fondness for natural scenery, 175; educa- tion, 175-177; pension, 177; travels, 177, 178; political advancement, 179-181; as a wit, 179, 180; his dramas, 181, 182; the Spectator, 182-185; the Guardian, etc., 185; quarrel with Pope, 186-188, 197- 199; quarrel with Steele, 188, 189; marriage, 189; death, 189; charac- ter, 190; bibliography, 542. Adonais, Shelley, 397.
Arnold, Matthew, on Byron, 361; on Godwin, 391; on Keats, 405, 406, 410; typical Englishman of the nineteenth century, 461, 462; birth and parentage, 462, 463; early education, 463, 464; at Ox- ford, 464, 465; private secretary to Lord Lansdowne, 466; early poems, 466; marriage, 466; his industry, 467; Poems, 467; Balder Dead, 468; Merope, New Poems, 468; On Translating Homer, Es- says in Criticism, 468; death of child, 469; Friendship's Garland, Culture and Anarchy, St. Paul and Protestantism,Literature and Dogma, God and the Bible, 469, 470; Ode on the death of Dean Stanley, Geist's Grave, 470; in America, 470, 471; death, 471; bibliography, 544. Art of Logic, Milton, 112.
Advancement of Knowledge, The, Astrophel, Spenser, 51 n.
Adventures of Ulysses, Lamb, 338. Aids to Reflection, Coleridge, 326. Alastor, Shelley, 391, 395.
Album Verses, Lamb, 344. Alexander's Feast, Dryden, 138. All for Love, Dryden, 130, 133.
All the Year Round, Dickens's peri- odical, 481.
L'Allegro, Milton, 96.
Allingham, on Carlyle, 430. American Notes, Dickens, 481. Ancient Mariner, The, Coleridge, 301, 318.
Annus Mirabilis, Dryden, 132. Apology, Bacon, 60.
Apology for the Voyage to Guiana, Ralegh, 41.
Apparition of Mrs. Veal, Defoe, 149, 151.
Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs, Burke, 254.
Appeal to Honour and Justice, An, Defoe, 149.
Arcades, Milton, 96. Arden, Mary, 70.
Areopagitica, Milton, 105.
Aubrey, on Ralegh, 34; on Spenser, 54; on Shakespeare, 71. Augustan Age, 142. Austin, Charles, 419.
Bacon, Francis, Declaration on Ra- legh's execution, 43; his weakness, 55; and the Earl of Essex, 55, 59, 60; and Coke, 55, 59-61, 63-66; birth and early influences, 56; ed- ucation, 56; studies the law and is member of Parliament, 57; let- ter to Lord Burleigh, 58; essays, 58, 59; the Apology, 60; marriage, 61; description of himself, 61, 62; The Advancement of Knowledge, 62; Commentarius Solutus, 62; The Wisdom of the Ancients, 63; Attorney-General, 63, 64; Lord Chancellor, 64; Novum Organum, 64; fall, 64-66; History of Henry the Seventh, 67; service to philoso- phy, 67; death, 68; bibliography, 541.
Bailey, Archdeacon, on Keats, 399. Baker, G. P., on Shakespeare's Lon- don, 73, 74.
Balder Dead, Arnold, 468. Ballantynes, the, 279, 281, 282, 287. Barry Lyndon, Thackeray, 491. Battle of the Books, The, Swift, 160. Becket, Tennyson, 521. Bee, the, Goldsmith, 240. Bells and Pomegranates, Browning, 530, 531.
Beppo, Byron, 377.
Bickerstaff Almanac, Swift, 162. Biographia Literaria, Coleridge, 325. Birrell, Augustine, on Burke, 246, 247; on Lamb, 343; on Carlyle, 429, 445.
Blot in the 'Scutcheon, A, Browning, 529, 531.
Blount, Teresa and Martha, 201. Boece, Chaucer, 10.
Boke of the Duchesse, Chaucer, 11. Border Minstrelsy, Scott, 279. Borderers, The, Wordsworth, 301. Boswell, James, 224.
Bride of Abydos, Byron, 371. Brief History of Muscovia, Milton, 112.
Browning, Oscar, on George Eliot, 503, 506.
Browning, Robert, characteristics,
524; birth, 524; education, 525; health, 525, 526; childhood, 526; Pauline, 527; Paracelsus, 527, 528; and Macready, 528-530; Strafford, 529; A Blot in the 'Scutcheon, 529, 531; Sordello, 530; Bells and Pome- granates, 530, 531; and Elizabeth Barrett, 531-533; marriage, 534; in Italy, 534; death of Mrs. Brown- ing, 535; friends and acquaint- ances, 535, 536; picture of family life, 536, 537; honors, 537; later works, 537, 538; The Ring and the Book, 538, 539; death, 540; opti- mism, 540; bibliography, 545. Browning, Mrs., 531-535. Bulwer, New Timon, quoted, 511. Bunyan, John, Pilgrim's Progress, 115, 121-126; birth and parentage, 116; statement that he was a sin- ner, how to be taken, 116; service as a soldier, 117; conversion, 117- 120; as a preacher, 120, 124; writ- ings, 120, 121; imprisonment, 121- 123; death, 125; personal appear- ance, 125, 126; bibliography, 542. Burke, Edmund, and Goldsmith. 243; his store of knowledge and his fervor, 246; birth, 246; educa-
tion, 246, 247; early writings, 247, 248; marriage, 248; at the Club, 248; at Beaconsfield, 249, 250; his attitude on political questions, 250, 251; on the American question, 251, 252; Paymaster of Forces, 252; loss of popularity, 252; in the Hast- ings trial, 253; attitude toward France, 253, 254; Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs, 254; last years and death, 254, 255; poetic and philosophical, 255; bibliogra- phy, 542.
Burns, Robert, two sides to his na- ture, 259; birth, 260; education, 260; farm life, 260-262; person- ality, 261; love affairs, 262-265; his poetry the result of love, 265; at Edinburgh, 266; retires to Ellis- land, 268; as excise officer, 268, 269; last days and death, 269, 270; anecdotes, 270, 271; songs, 271, 272; lacked a central guiding prin- ciple, 272, 273; Carlyle's Essay on, 436; bibliography, 543. Byron, G. G. N., character, 361, 382; object of adulation and of cal- umny, 362; facts of life falsified, 362; a weak man, 363; ancestry, 363, 364; childhood, 364; educa- tion, 364-369; early loves, 365; Hours of Idleness and English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, 369; on the Continent, 370; Childe Harold, Maid of Athens, Hints from Horace, 370, 376; Giaour, Bride of Abydos, Corsair, Lara, 371; marriage, 371, 372; separa- tion from Lady Byron, 372-375; loss of popular favor, 375, 376; leaves England, 376; and Shelley, 376-379; dissipation at Venice, 377; and Countess Guiccioli, 377; works written at Venice, 377; Don Juan, 377-379; at Pisa, 378, 379; and Hunt, 379; other writ- ings, 379, 380; in Greece, 380, 381; death, 381; on Shelley, 385, 386; bibliography, 543.
Cadiz, battle of, 32. Cain, Byron, 378. Campaign, The, Addison, 179. Canterbury Tales, Chaucer, portraits in, 6, 7; character of, 11, 12. Captain Carleton, Defoe, 152. Captain Singleton, Defoe, 151.
Carlyle, Thomas, on Burns, 272;
on Wordsworth, 303-305; his picture of Coleridge, 328, 329; on De Quincey, 357; his gospel, 428, 439, 440, 445; and Froude, 428, 429, 434, 436, 442; his cynicism, 429, 430; Sartor Resartus, 430-432, 437; birth, 430; education, 431; and Edward Irving, 431; his re- ligious crisis, 432, 433; marriage, 433, 434; and Mrs. Carlyle, 434, 435; early writings, 435, 436; and Goethe, 435; at Craigenputtock, 436; at Cheyne Row, Chelsea, 438; The French Revolution, 438; Heroes and Hero-Worship, 438, 439; per- sonal appearance, 440; his friends, 441; other works, 441, 442; dif- ference with Mrs. Carlyle, 442, 443; death of Mrs. Carlyle, 443, 444; last years and death, 444; esti- mate of, 444-446; on Ruskin, 456; on Dickens, 479; on Thackeray, 486, 493; on Tennyson, 514; on Browning, 530; bibliography, 544. Cato, Addison, 181, 186, 198. Cenci, The, Shelley, 394, 395. Charge of the Light Brigade, Tenny- son, 518.
Chartism, Carlyle, 440.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, father of English poetry. 1, 18; birth and ancestry, 2-4; attitude toward higher classes, 3; in domestic service, 4; educa- tion, 4; knowledge of Latin, 4, 10; as page and soldier, 5; portraits in Canterbury Tales, 6, 7; diplomatic missions of, 7, 10; and Petrarch, 7; and Dante, 8, 11; married, 8, 9; and John of Gaunt, 8-10, 13, 14; Comptroller, 9, 10; the Boece, 10; French and Italian influences, 11; character of Canterbury Tales, 11, 12; Legende of Good Women, 12, 13; his amusements, 12-14; his re- ligion, 13, 14; his friends and dis- ciples, 14, 15, 19; last years, 15, 16; personal appearance, 16, 17; combines modern and mediæval, 17; bibliography, 541.
Chesterton, G. K., Pope and the Art
of Satire, 188 n.; on Dickens, 478; on Browning, 532, 533. Childe Harold, Byron, 370, 376. Chimes, The, Dickens, 481. Christabel, Coleridge, 318. Christmas Carol, Dickens, 481.
Church, Dean, on Bacon, 57. Citizen of the World, Goldsmith, 240. Clarke, C. C., on Keats, 400, 401. Clifford, Sir Lewis, 14. Cobham, Lord, 34-36.
Coke, Sir Edward, 36, 55, 59–61, 63– 66.
Coleridge, S, T., on Goldsmith, 245; Ancient Mariner, 301, 318; his ir- resolution, 310, 311; childhood, 311, 312; education, 312-315; Pan- tisocracy, 314; Mary Evans, 314, 315; marriage, 315; The Watch- man, 316; takes opium, 316; and Wordsworth, 301, 316-318; per- sonal appearance, 317; Remorse, 318, 324; Christabel, and other poems, 318, 319; Kubla Khan, 319; in Germany, 320; at Greta Hall, 321; unhappiness and despond- ency, 321-323; in Malta, 323; sepa- ration from wife, 323, 324; moves to London, 324; Lectures, 324, 325; Biographia Literaria and Sibylline Leaves, 325; at Gillman's, 326, 327; Carlyle's picture of him, 328, 329; death, 330; bibliography, 543.
Colin Clout's Come Home Again, Spenser, 51.
Collier, Jeremy, 137.
Colonel Jack, Defoe, 151. Commentarius Solutus, Bacon, 62. Commonwealth, the, 106, 107. Complete English Tradesman, Defoe, 151.
Compleynt of Chaucer to his Purse, The, Chaucer, 16.
Compleynt unto Pite, The, Chaucer, 8. Comus, Milton, 96, 97. Conciliation with the American Colo- nies, Burke, 251.
Confessio Amantis, Gower, 14. Confessions of an English Opium-
Eater, The, De Quincey, 354, 355. Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit, Coleridge, 327.
Congreve, William, Dryden's tribute to, 137.
Corsair, Byron, 371.
Cricket on the Hearth, The, Dickens,
Criticism, new epoch opened by Ar- nold, 467, 468.
Cromwell, 106, 107.
Cross, J. W., on George Eliot, 498, 502; married to George Eliot, 505.
Crossing the Bar, Tennyson, 521, 522. Crown of Wild Olive, Ruskin, 455. Culture and Anarchy, Arnold, 469. Cymbeline, Shakespeare, 79, 523.
Daisy, The, Tennyson, 517. Daniel Deronda, George Eliot, 505. Dante, and Chaucer, 8, 11. Davies, on Shakespeare, 73. De Doctrina Christiana, Milton, 112. De Quincey, Thomas, various in character, 347; a dreamer, 347; of great intellectual force, 347, 348; birth, 348; childhood, 348, 349; education, 349-351; in London, 351; takes opium, 351, 352, 354, 355; friends, 352, 353; beginnings of literary career, 353, 354; The Confessions of an English Opium- | Eater, 354, 355; other works, 355, 356; Suspiria, 356; personal ap- pearance, 357; characteristics, 357, 358; humor, 359; pathos in his life, 359; death, 360; bibliography, 543. Decadence, the, 87.
Defensio pro Populo Anglicano, Mil- ton, 107.
Defoe, Daniel, full of contradictions,
143; variety of pursuits, 143; birth and education, 144; in business, 144, 145; in politics, 145, 147-149; political pamphlets, 145; trial for libel, 146; Hymn to the Pillory, 147; in prison, 147; his writings, 149- 152; last years and death, 152; his loneliness, 152; bibliography, 542.
Dennis, John, 186, 196-198.
Descriptive Sketches, Wordsworth,
America, 480; Christmas stories, 481; other works, 481, 482; sepa- ration from Mrs. Dickens, 482, 483; at Gad's Hill Place, 483; public lectures, 482; second visit to Amer- ica, 482; death, 482; an enduring name, 482, 483; compared with Thackeray as a lecturer, 492, 493; quarrel with Thackeray, 495; bibliography, 544.
Diodati, Charles, 90, 92, 96, 100. Directions to Servants, Swift, 171. Discourse of the Invention of Ships, The, Ralegh, 38.
Discourse on Tenures which were
before the Conquest, A, Ralegh, 38. Discourses in America, Arnold, 470. Discovery of Guiana, Ralegh, 31. Divorce, Milton's treatises on, 104. Doe, Charles, on Bunyan, 124, 125. Dombey and Son, Dickens, 482. Don Juan, Byron, 377-379. Dormer's News-Letter, Defoe, 150. Drummer, Addison, 181.
Dryden, John, on Chaucer, 18; on Spenser, 44; on George Duke of Buckingham, 69; his place in lit- erature, 128; character of his times, 128, 129; immorality in his works, 129; contradictions in, 129, 130; birth and education, 130, 131; marriage and family life, 131, 132; dramatic career, 132, 133, 137; Absalom and Achitophel, 134, 135; The Medal and MacFlecknoe, 135; change of faith, 136, 137; Religio Laici and The Hind and the Pan- ther, 136; last years, 138; death, 139; personal appearance and char- acter, 139; bibliography, 542.
Deserted Village, Goldsmith, 231, Duncan Campbell, Defoe, 151. 242, 245.
Dethe of Blaunche the Duchesse, The, Chaucer, 8.
Dunciad, Pope, 146, 204–206.
Dialogue between a Jesuit and a Re-Education, Milton, 105. cusant, A, Ralegh, 38. Dickens, Charles, on Wordsworth, 303; his kindliness and his courage, 472, 473; birth and childhood, 474, 475; schooling, 475; as reporter, 476; early love, 476, 477; marriage, 477; Sketches by Boz, 477; Pick- wick Club, 478; Oliver Twist, Nicho- las Nickleby, Master Humphrey's Clock, The Old Curiosity Shop, Barnaby Rudge, 478; friends, 479; personality, 479; first visit to
Eighteenth century, its characteristic,
140; chief interests of men in, 140; the life of, 140, 141; character of the literature of, 141, 142. Eikonoklastes, Milton, 107. Elia, Lamb, 342-344. Eliot, George, conspicuous for the masculine nature of her thought, 497; heavy manner of writing. 497, 498; personality, 498, 503; birth and childhood, 498, 499; beginning of literary labors, 500; and Lewes,
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