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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