_Blessed Damozel, The_, 469, 515
_Blind Beggar, The_, 127
_Blow, bugle, blow_, 459
_Blue Tit, The_, 566
“Bobbed” lines in Old English poetry, 25
Boëthius, 8, 60
_Boke named the Governour, The_, 70
=Bolingbroke, Lord=, =251=, 270
_Book of Faith, The_, 66
_Book of Snobs, The_, 478
_Booke of Ayres, A_, 100
_Books, The Battle of the_, 238
_Boon_, 532
_Borderers, The_, 369, 371, 437
_Borough, The_, 302
=Borrow, George=, =490=
=Boswell, James=, 287, 296, =328=, 343, 359, 439
_Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich, The_, 469
_Bothwell_, 472
_Bowge of Court, The_, 63
=Boyle, Roger=, 339
Brawne, Fanny, 397
_Brazil, The History of_, 403
_Break, break, break_, 460
_Bridal of Triermain, The_, 413
_Bride of Abydos, The_, 384
_Bride of Lammermoor, The_, 415
_Bridge of Sighs, The_ (Hood), 409
=Bridges, Dr. Robert=, 560
_Bristowe Tragedy, The_, 335
_Britannia’s Pastorals_, 144
=Brontë, Anne=, 485
=Brontë, Charlotte=, =485=, 508
=Brontë, Emily=, =485=
_Brook, The_, 460
=Brooke, Rupert=, =554=
Brown, Dr. John, 433
=Browne, Sir Thomas=, =174=, 181, 219, 427, 509
=Browne, William=, 125, 144, 223
_Brownie of Bodsbeck, The_, 407
=Browning, Elizabeth Barrett=, 461, =466=
=Browning, Robert=, 367, 453, =461=, 506, 507, 509, 512, 514, 516,
563, 571
_Brunanburgh, The Battle of_, 6
_Brus, The_, 44
_Brut_, 17–18, 24, 29
=Buckhurst, Lord (Thomas Sackville, Earl of Dorset)=, 77, =98=, 144
_Bull, The_, 560
=Bulwer-Lytton, Edward=, =425=, 438
=Bunyan, John=, 42, 65, =209=, 216, 224–225, 339, 574
=Burke, Edmund=, 283, 286, =330=, 344, 347, 353, 365
_Burke_, 550
=Burnet, Gilbert=, 221
=Burney, Frances=, =325=, 354
=Burns, Robert=, 265, =305=, 334, 335, 345, 359, 371, 404, 570
=Burton, Robert=, =140=, 146, 154–155, 175, 400, 509
_Bury Fair_, 205
_Bussy d’Ambois_, 127
=Butler, Samuel= (1612–80), =207=
=Butler, Samuel= (1835–1902), =492=
=Byron, Lord=, 364, 366, 378, =382=, 404, 414, 436, 439, 446–447,
448
_Byron, The Life of_, 405, 439
C
_Cadenus and Vanessa_, 237
=Cædmon=, 2, 3, =6=, 12–13
_Cæsar_ (Froude), 503
_Cæsar and Cleopatra_, 542
_Cain_, 387
_Cakes and Ale_, 558
_Caleb Williams_, 334
_Caliban upon Setebos_, 465
_Caligula_, 207
_Caller Water_, 346
_Cambises, King of Percia_, 77
_Campaign, The_, 242
=Campbell, Thomas=, =405=
=Campion, Thomas=, =100=, 143, 147
_Candida_, 541, 543
_Canterbury Tales, The_, 35, 48
_Cap and Bells, The_, 401
=Capgrave, John=, 70
_Captain Popanilla, The Voyage of_, 425
_Captain Singleton_, 250, 339
=Captives, The=, 129
_Card, The_, 538
=Carew, Thomas=, =172=, 181
=Carlyle, Thomas=, 438, 453, =493=, 508, 510, 513, 575
_Carnival_, 539
Carols, 47, 70
_Casa Guidi Windows_, 467
_Cashel Byron’s Profession_, 540
_Castaway, The_, 301
_Castle Dangerous_, 415
_Castle of Health, The_, 70
_Castle of Indolence, The_, 292
_Castle of Otranto, The_, 323
_Castle Rackrent_, 421
_Cathleen ni Hoolihan_, 555
_Catiline his Conspiracy_, 125
_Cato_, 243, 267, 277
_Catriona_, 492
Cavalier poets, the, 161, 173
=Caxton, William=, 46, =66=
_Caxtons, The_, 426
_Cecilia_, 325
_Cenci, The_, 391, 395, 437
_Certain Bokes of Virgiles Æneis turned into English Meter_, 97,
150
_Certayne Ecloges_, 65
_Certayne Notes of Instruction concerning the Making of Verse in
English_, 99
=Chamberlayne, William=, 180, 216
_Chameleon, The_, 262
_Chance_, 528
_Change in the Cabinet, A_, 549
_Changeling, The_, 128
_Channel Firing_, 525–526
=Chapman, George=, =127=
_Character of a Trimmer, The_, 211
_Characters_ (Overbury), 139
_Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays, The_, 431
_Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, and Times_, 253
_Charles V, The History of_, 328
_Charles, Duke of Byron_, 127
_Charles O’Malley_, 423
_Chartism_ (Carlyle), 494
_Chastelard_, 472
=Chatterton, Thomas=, =313=, 335, 345
=Chaucer, Geoffrey=, =33=, 197, 215, 285, 507
_Chaucer’s ABC_, 34
_Cherry Ripe_ (Campion), 101
_Cherry Ripe_ (Herrick), 170
=Chesterfield, Earl of=, =333=, 342
=Chesterton, G. K.=, =549=
_Chevy Chace_, 48, 54–55
_Child’s Garden of Verses, A_, 492
_Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage_, 383, 437, 448
_Chillianwallah_, 482
_Christ_, 7
_Christ’s Victorie and Triumph_, 102
_Christabel_, 377
Christabel metre, the, 377
_Christian Hero, The_, 270
_Christian Morals_, 175
_Christie Johnstone_, 486
_Christis Kirk on the Green_, 58
_Christmas Carol, A_, 475
_Chronicle, Anglo-Saxon_, 10, 11
_Chronicle of England, The_, 70
_Chronicle History of King Leir, The_, 77, 118
_Chronologia Sacra_, 141
_Church-History of Britain, The_, 178
=Churchill, Charles=, =304=
_Citizen of the World, The_, 296
_City Madam, The_, 174
_City of the Plague, The_, 434
_Civil Wars, The_, 104
=Clare, John=, =409=, 565–566
=Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of=, =176=, 181, 218, 221, 341, 501
_Clarissa Harlowe_, 316
_Clayhanger_, 538
_Cleannesse_, 21, 31, 50
_Cleomenes_, 201
=Cleveland, John=, 181, 185–186
Clevelandisms, 182
_Clive, Essay on_, 497
_Cloister and the Hearth, The_, 486
=Clough, Arthur Hugh=, =468=, 515–516
_Club of Queer Trades, The_, 549
Clubs and coffee-houses, 234
=Cobbett, William=, 365, =435=, 440
=Coleridge, Samuel Taylor=, 363, 366, 368, 370, =375=, 429, 431,
436, 439, 443–444, 445–446, 496, 508
_Colin Clout_ (Skelton), 81
_Colin Clouts come Home againe_, 91
_Collected Poems_, W. H. Davies’, 552
_Collection of Original Trifles_, 409
=Collier, Jeremy=, 219
=Collins, Wilkie=, =487=
=Collins, William=, =299=, 335, 345, 352
_Colonel Jack_, 250, 339
_Columbus_, 406
Comedies, early, 77
_Comedy of Errors, The_, 116, 117
_Comic Annual, The_, 408
_Comical Revenge, The_, 205
_Coming Race, The_, 426
_Complaint, The, or Night Thoughts_, 263, 271, 278
_Complaint of Henry, Duke of Buckingham, The_, 98
_Complaint of Our Lady, The_, 64
_Complaint of Rosamund, The_, 104
_Compleat Angler, The_, 181, 184
_Compleynte of Chaucer to his Purse, The_, 36
_Compleynte of Faire Anelida, The_, 34
_Compleynte of Mars, The_, 34
_Compleynte unto Pité, The_, 34
_Comus_, 164, 186
_Confederacy, The_, 205
_Confessio Amantis_, 43, 50, 53
_Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, The_, 429, 430–431, 444
_Confessions of a Young Man, The_, 537
=Congreve, William=, =203=, 205, 215, 567
_Coningsby_, 425
_Connoisseur, The_, 344
_Conquest of England, The_, 504
_Conquest of Granada, The_ (Dryden), 199
=Conrad, Joseph=, =526=, 561
_Conscience_, 62
_Conscious Lovers, The_, 247
_Constable of the Tower, The_, 422
_Constantia and Philetus_, 169
_Contarini Fleming_, 425
_Conversion of Swerers, The_, 65
_Cooper’s Hill_, 180, 183
_Coriolanus_, 117
_Corn Law Rhymes_, 408
_Cornelia_, 108
_Cornhill Magazine, The_, 467, 480, 500, 558
_Corsair, The_, 384
_Cotter’s Saturday Night, The_, 307, 310, 312
_Count Basil_, 336
_Count Julian_, 403
_Count Robert of Paris_, 415
_Countess Cathleen, The_, 555
_Countess of Pembroke, Epitaph on the_, 125
_Country of the Blind, The_, 532, 534
_Country Wife, The_, 204, 215
_Court of Love, The_, 36
=Coverdale, Miles=, 71, 84
Coverley papers, the, 245, 339, 558
=Cowley, Abraham=, 160, =169=, 180, 216, 269
=Cowper, William=, =300=, 335, 343, 344, 345, 352, 364, 439
_Coy Mistress, To his_, 185
=Crabbe, George=, =302=, 335, 345, 356, 364, 408
=Cranmer, Thomas=, 70
=Crashaw, Richard=, =170=, 180
=Crawford, Robert=, 276
_Creation, The_, 265
_Crimean War, The History of the_, 504
_Cripps the Carrier_, 491
_Critic, The_, 336
_Criticism, An Essay on_, 255, 256, 261
_Cromwell, The Life of_, 550
_Crossing the Bar_, 460
_Crown of Wild Olive, The_, 500
=Crowne, John=, =207=
_Cruise of the Midge, The_, 424
_Cry of the Children, The_, 467
_Culture and Anarchy_, 468
_Cup, The_, 458
Curll, Edmund, 235
_Curse of Kehama, The_, 403
_Cursor Mundi_, 20
_Cymbeline_, 117
_Cymon and Iphigenia_, 197–198
=Cynewulf=, 2, =7=
_Cynthia’s Revels_, 124
_Cypress Grove, The_, 183
D
_Daffodils, To_ (Herrick), 222
_Daily Courant, The_, 268
_Daily News, The_, 474
_Daisy, The_, 551
_Dance of the Sevin Deidlie Sins, The_, 61
=Daniel, Samuel=, =103=, 143
_Daniel Deronda_, 488
=D’Arblay, Madame=, =325=
_Darnley_, 423
=Darwin, Charles=, 452, =505=
_Dauber_, 552
=Davenant, Sir William=, 180, 183
_David Copperfield_, 475
_Davideis, The_, 169, 179, 183
=Davies, William H.=, =552=, 559, 560
=Day, John=, 145
=De la Mare, Walter=, 560
_De Montfort_, 336
_De l’Orme_, 423
=De Quincey, Thomas=, =428=, 439, 441, 444, 558
_Dead Drummer, The_, 521
_Dead Secret, The_, 487
_Death of Œnone, The_, 458
_Death-bed, The_, 409
_Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, The_, 326, 341, 564
_Defence of Guenevere, The_, 470
_Defence of Poetry, The_, 394
=Defoe, Daniel=, =249=, 268, 270, 272, 277, 339, 557
_Deformed Transformed, The_, 387
_Deirdre of the Sorrows_, 548
_Dejection_, 378
=Dekker, Thomas=, =128=, 150, 174
_Delia_, 104, 143
_Deluge, The_, 84–85
_Demos_, 536
=Denham, Sir John=, 160, 180, 216
_Denis Duval_, 480
_Deor’s Complaint_, 6, 11
_Descent of Man, The_, 505
_Descriptive poetry_, 48, 144, 436, 506, 559
_Descriptive Sketches_ (Wordsworth), 268
_Deserted Village, The_, 265, 293, 294, 295, 335, 556
_Desperate Remedies_, 523
_Destruction of Troy, The_, 22
_Dethe of the Duchesse, The_, 34
_Devereux_, 425
_Devil is an Ass, The_, 124
_Devil’s Law Case, The_, 129
Dialects, Middle English, 16, 20;
Old English, 3
_Diall of Princes, The_, 141
_Dialogues of Hylas and Philonous_, 252
_Diana of the Crossways_, 484
_Diary_ (Evelyn), 213
_Diary_ (Pepys), 212–213
=Dickens, Charles=, 453, =472=, 487, 507, 508, 510, 534, 557, 558
_Dictes and Sayengis of the Philosophers, The_, 66
_Dictionary_, Johnson’s, 287, 289, 349–350
_Dido_, 107, 109
_Dipsychus_, 469
_Dirge on Edward IV_, 63
_Discourse concerning Oliver Cromwell_, 169
_Dispensary, The_, 263
=Disraeli, Benjamin=, =424=, 438
_Distant Prospect of Eton College, Ode on a_, 298
_Distressed Mother, The_, 264
_Divorce, On_ (Milton), 163
_Doctor Faustus_, 109, 153–154
_Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde_, 491
_Doctor Thorne_, 487
_Doctor’s Dilemma, The_, 542
_Dombey and Son_, 475
_Don Carlos_, 206
_Don Juan_, 385, 437, 449
_Don Quixote_, 338
_Don Sebastian_, 201
=Donne, John=, =102=, 140, 143, 144, 172, 184–185
=Dorset, Thomas Sackville, Earl of= (1536–1608), =77=, =98=, 144.
See also Buckhurst, Lord.
=Dorset, Earl of= (1637–1706), 213
_Double Dealer, The_, 203
=Douglas, Gawain=, =62=, 79
_Douglas_ (Home), 336
_Dover Beach_, 468
=Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan=, 558
Drama, the, 72, 89, 144, 161, 180, 335, 437, 507, 558
_Drama in Muslin, A_, 537
_Dramatic Idylls_, 463
_Dramatic Lyrics_, 462
_Dramatic Monologues_, 463
_Dramatic Poesie, The Essay of_, 201, 269
_Dramatis Personæ_, 463
_Drapier’s Letters_, 240, 270, 343
=Drayton, Michael=, =100=, 144, 397
_Dream-Children_, 428
_Dream of Eugene Aram, The_, 409
_Dream of the Rood, The_, 7
_Dreams of the Sea_, 553
_Dreme, The_, 59
=Drinkwater, John=, =553=, 559
_Drummer, The_, 243
=Drummond, William=, 182, 224
_Dry Sticks_, 404
=Dryden, John=, 169, 185, =193=, 215, 217, 222, 228, 269, 273, 274,
305
_Dublin University Magazine, The_, 423
_Duchess of Malfy, The_, 129
_Duke of Milan, The_, 174
=Dunbar, William=, =61=, 70, 79
_Duncan Campbell_, 249
_Dunciad, The_, 235, 258, 264, 266
Dunton, John, 235
_Dynasts, The_, 521, 559
E
=Earle, John=, =140=, 269
_Earth and Animated Nature, The History of_, 297
_Earthly Paradise, The_, 470, 507
_Eastward Hoel_, 127
_Ecclesiastical Polity, The Laws of_, 139, 152–153
Eclogue, the, 69, 91
=Edgeworth, Maria=, =421=
_Edinburgh Review, The_, 365, 383, 432, 433, 497, 558
_Education, Of_ (Milton), 163
_Education of Nature, The_, 374–375
_Edward the First_, 105
_Edward II_, 109
_Edward III_, 116
_Edwin Drood, The Mystery of_, 475
_Egoist, The_, 483
_Elegy written in a Country Churchyard_, 298
_Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog_, 295, 573–574
_Elene_, 3, 7
_Elia, The Essays of_, 427, 444–445
=Eliot, George= (Mary Ann Evans), =488=, 508, 533
=Elliott, Ebenezer=, 363, =407=
=Elyot, Sir Thomas=, 70
_Emilia in England (Sandra Belloni)_, 483
_Emma_, 419
_Empedocles on Etna_, 467
_Empress of Morocco, The_, 207
_Encyclopædia Britannica, The_, 497
_Endimion and Phœbe_, 144
_Endymion_ (Keats), 397
_Endymion_ (Lyly), 105
_England, A History of_ (Froude), 503
_England, The History of_ (Goldsmith), 297
_England, A Constitutional History of_ (Hallam), 436
_England, The History of_ (Hume), 328, 341, 350–351
_England, The History of_ (Macaulay), 498, 513
_England’s Helicon_, 104
_England’s Heroical Epistles_, 100, 144
_English Bards and Scotch Reviewers_, 383
_English Comic Writers, The_, 432
_English Humourists, The_, 480
_English in Ireland, The_, 503
_English Mail-coach, The_, 429
_English Rogue, The_, 338
_English Traveller, The_, 129
_Englishman, The_, 247
_Enoch Arden_, 457
_Entail, The_, 422
_Eöthen_, 504
Epic, the, 11, 179
_Epic of Women, The_, 472
_Epicene, or The Silent Women_, 124, 149
_Epipsychidion_, 392
_Epistle to Arbuthnot_, 259, 274–275
_Epistle to Curio_, 303
_Epitaph on the Countess of Pembroke_, 125
_Epitaph on a Hare_, 301
_Epithalamion_, 92, 179
_Erectheus_, 472
_Erewhon_, 492
Essay, the, 145, 268, 344, 438, 508
_Essay on Clive_, 497, 498–499
_Essay on Criticism, An_, 255, 261
_Essay of Dramatic Poesie, The_, 201, 269
_Essay concerning Human Understanding, An_, 219–221, 268
_Essay on Johnson_, 360
_Essay on Man, An_, 253, 260
_Essay on Mind, An_, 466
_Essay on Poetry, An_, 211
_Essays_, Bacon’s, 135
_Essays_, Cowley’s, 169
_Essays in Criticism_, 468
_Essays of Elia, The_, 427, 444–445
_Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary_, 328
_Esther Waters_, 537
=Etheredge, George=, =204=
_Eugene Aram, The Dream of_, 409
_Euphranor_, 468
_Euphues, the Anatomy of Wit_, 138, 146, 337, 340
_Euphues and his England_, 138–139, 154, 563–564
Euphuism, 138, 147
_Evan Harrington_, 483
=Evans, Mary Ann= (George Eliot), =488=
_Eve of St. Agnes, The_, 398, 401, 437, 446, 569
_Eve of St. John, The_, 412
_Eve of St. Mark, The_, 399–400
_Evelina, 325_, 354
=Evelyn, John=, =213=, 219
_Evening Walk, The_, 368
_Every Man in his Humour_, 124
_Every Man out of his Humour_, 124
_Everyman_, 74–75
_Evidences of Christianity, A View of the_, 333
_Examiner, The_ (Hunt), 365, 406
_Examiner, The_ (Tory periodical), 240, 268, 279
_Example of Virtue, The_, 65
_Excursion, The_, 369, 370, 371
Exeter Book, the, 3, 6, 7
_Exodus_ (Middle English poem), 20
_Expedition of Humphrey Clinker, The_, 321
_Expostulation and Reply_, 368
F
_Fables_ (Dryden), 222–223
_Fables for the Holy Alliance_, 405
_Fabliau_, the, 49
_Faerie Queene, The_, 48, 91, 93, 98, 155–156
_Fair Maid of Perth, The_, 415
_Fair Penitent, The_, 207
_Faithful Shepherdess, The_, 127, 145
_Falcon, The_, 458
_Falkland_, 425
_Falls of Princes_, The, 64
_Famous Chronicle of Edward the First, The_, 105
_Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth, The_, 77
_Fancies Chaste and Noble_, 174
_Far from the Madding Crowd_, 523
=Farquhar, George=, =205=, 215, 225–226
_Fates of the Apostles, The_, 7
_Fazio_, 435
_Felix Holt_, 488
=Felltham, Owen=, 181, 184
_Ferdinand, Count Fathom_, 321, 360
=Fergusson, Robert=, =315=, 345
_Ferishtah’s Fancies_, 463
_Ferrex and Porrex (Gorboduc)_, 77, 98
=Fielding, Henry=, =317=, 336, 338, 340, 346, 354–355, 479, 480,
481, 557
_Fifine at the Fair_, 463
_Fight at Finnesburgh, The_, 6, 11
_Fingal_, 313
_Finnesburgh, The Fight at_, 6, 11
_First Men in the Moon, The_, 533
=Fisher, John=, =67=, 70, 80
Fitton, Mary, 112
_Fitzboodle Papers, The_, 479
=Fitzgerald, Edward=, =468=
_Flaming Heart, The_, 171
=Flecker, J. E.=, 569–570
=Fletcher, Giles=, =101=
=Fletcher, John=, =126=, 397
=Fletcher, Phineas=, =101=
_Flower and the Leaf, The_, 36
_Flowers of Passion_, 536
_Food of the Gods, The_, 532
_Force of Religion, The_, 262
=Ford, Emanuel=, 339
=Ford, John=, =174=, 180
_Forest Minstrel, The_, 407
_Foresters, The_, 458
_Forsyte Saga, The_, 547
=Fortescue, Sir John=, 70
_Fortnightly Review, The_, 482
_Fortunes of Glencore, The_, 423
_Fortunes of Nigel, The_, 205, 415
_Forty New Pieces_ (W. H. Davies), 552
_Foul Play_, 486
_Four Georges, The_, 480
_Four Hymns_ (Spenser), 92
_Four P’s, The_, 76
_Fra Lippo Lippi_, 512
_Framley Parsonage_, 487
=Francis, Sir Philip=, 343
_Fraser’s Magazine_, 478, 479, 494, 500, 503
_Frederick II, The Life of_, 494
Free verse, 560
=Freeman, Edward A.=, =504=, 509
French Revolution, the, and English literature, 283, 330, 362, 366,
452
_French Revolution, The_, 494, 513
_French Revolution, Reflections on the_, 331, 332, 345
_Friar of Orders Grey, The_, 335
_Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay_, 106
_Friend, The_, 380
Froissart, 70
_Frost at Midnight_, 378, 379
=Froude, James Anthony=, =503=
_Fudge Family in Paris, The_, 405
=Fuller, Thomas=, =178=, 180, 181, 427
_Funeral, The_, 247
_Funeral Sermon on Henry VII_ (Fisher), 80
G
=Galsworthy, John=, =547=, 556, 568–569
=Galt, John=, 421
_Game and Playe of Chesse, The_, 66
_Gammer Gurton’s Needle_, 78
_Garden of Cyrus, The_, 175
_Garden Fancies_, 465
=Gardiner, Samuel=, 509
_Garlande of Laurell, The_, 63
_Garment of Gude Ladies, The_, 60
Garrick, David, 289
=Garth, Sir Samuel=, =263=
=Gascoigne, George=, =99=, 144, 151
_Gawain and the Green Knight, Sir_, 21, 25, 337
=Gay, John=, =262=, 275
_Gebir_, 403
_Genesis_ (Middle English poem), 20
_Gentle Shepherd, The_, 266
_Gentleman Dancing Master, The_, 204
_Gentleman’s Magazine, The_, 289, 438
Germany, the influence of, on English literature, 365, 454
_Gertrude of Wyoming_, 405
_Ghost, The_, 305
_Giaour, The_, 384
=Gibbon, Edward=, 272, =325=, 341, 347, 348, 359, 436, 564
_Gil Blas_, 338
_Gil Morrice_, 48
_Gipsy, The_, 423
=Gissing, George=, =536=, 556
_Gladstone, The Life of_, 550
_Glove, The_, 464
_Goblin Market_, 470
_God’s Promises_, 85
=Godric=, 24
=Godwin, William=, =333=, 345, 390
_Golden Butterfly, The_, 490
_Golden Journey to Samarkand, The_, 569–570
_Golden Targe, The_, 61, 70
_Golden Wings_, 514
=Goldsmith, Oliver=, 248, 286, =293=, 335, 340, 344, 345, 347, 356,
491, 558, 573–574
_Gondibert_, 179
_Good Thoughts in Bad Times_, 178
_Good-natured Man, The_, 295
_Gorboduc_, 77, 98
=Gosson, Stephen=, 90
_Governance of England, The_, 70
_Governour, The Boke named the_, 70
=Gower, John=, =43=, 48, 50, 53
_Grace Abounding_, 209, 210
=Grahame, Kenneth=, 556
_Grave, The_, 305
_Graves of a Household, The_, 408
=Gray, Thomas=, 188, =297=, 334, 335, 342, 345, 365, 468
_Gray-beards at Play_, 549
_Great Expectations_, 475
_Great God Pan, The_, 467
_Great Hoggarty Diamond, The_, 479
_Great Rebellion, The History of the_, 176, 341
_Grecian Urn, Ode on a_, 401, 402
_Greece, The History of_, 435
=Green, John Richard=, =504=
_Green grow the Rashes, O!_, 311
=Greene, Robert=, =106=, 111, 142
Gregory I, Pope, 8
=Gregory, Lady=, 519
=Greville, Fulke, Lord Brooke=, 144
_Griffith Gaunt_, 486
_Groatsworth of Wit bought with a Million of Repentance, A_, 111,
142–143
=Grote, George=, =435=
Grub Street, 235, 249, 286, 287, 294
_Grub Street_, 536
_Guardian, The_ (Steele’s), 244, 247
_Gulliver’s Travels_, 240, 277, 425
_Guy Mannering_, 415, 417
_Guy and Pauline_, 539
_Guy of Warwick_, 22
H
_Hail and Farewell_, 537
=Hakluyt, Richard=, 88
_Halbert and Hob_, 571
=Hales, John=, 181
=Halifax, Lord=, =211=, 219
=Hall, Joseph=, =141=, 144, 163, 269
=Hallam, Henry=, =436=
_Hamlet_, 116, 117, 118, 121
=Hampole, the Hermit=, of, 16, =21=
_Hand of Ethelberta, The_, 523
_Handfull of Pleasant Delites, A_, 104
_Handlyng Synne_, 19, 30–31
=Hankin, St. John=, 559
_Hard Cash_, 486
_Hard Times_, 475
=Hardy, Thomas=, 453, =520=, 536, 538, 539, 556, 559, 560, 561, 571
_Hare, Epitaph on a_, 301
_Harmony of the Church, The_, 100, 144
_Harold_ (Lytton), 426
_Harold_ (Tennyson), 458
_Harrington_, 421
_Harrowing of Hell, The_, 7
_Harry Lorrequer_, 423
_Hastings, The Battle of_, 314
_Havelock the Dane_, 22, 24, 30
=Hawes, Stephen=, =65=
=Hazlitt, William=, 365, =431=, 438, 440, 508
=Head, Richard=, 338
_Heart of Midlothian, The_, 415
_Heartbreak House_, 542
_Heaven_, 554–555
_Hecatompathia_, 144
=Hemans, Felicia=, 363, =408=
_Hendyng, The Proverbs of_, 20, 25
_Henrietta Temple_, 425
_Henry IV_ (Parts 1 and 2), 116, 117
_Henry the Fifth, The Famous Victories of_, 77
_Henry V_, 116, 122
_Henry VI_ (Parts 1, 2, and 3), 116
_Henry VIII_, 107, 117
_Henry Esmond_, 479, 481–482
=Henryson, Robert=, =59=, 79
=Herbert, George=, =170=
_Hereward the Wake_, 489
_Hermit, The_ (Goldsmith), 295, 335
_Hermit, The_ (Parnell), 265
_Hero and Leander_, 144
_Heroes, The_, 490
_Heroes and Hero-worship_, 494
Heroic couplet, the, 183, 216, 284, 334, 335
Heroic play, the, 199, 215
_Heroic Stanzas_ (Dryden), 194
=Herrick, Robert=, =170=, 180, 222
_Hesperides, The_, 170
=Hewlett, Maurice=, 556
=Heywood, John=, 76
=Heywood, Thomas=, =128=
=Higden, Ranulf=, 49
_Hilda Lessways_, 538
_Hind and the Panther, The_, 197, 217, 261
Historical plays, early, 77;
research, growth of, 285;
works, 181, 340, 509
_Historie of Horestes, The_, 77
_Historie of James the Fourth, The Scottish_, 107
_History of America, The_, 328
_History of Brazil, The_, 403
_History of Charles V, The_, 328
_History of the Crimean War, The_, 504
_History of Earth and Animated Nature, The_, 297
_History of England, The_ (Froude), 503
_History of England, The_ (Goldsmith), 297
_History of England, A Constitutional_ (Hallam), 436
_History of England, The_ (Hume), 328, 341, 350–351
_History of England, The_ (Macaulay), 498, 513
_History of the English People, A Short_, 504
_History of the Great Rebellion, The_, 176, 341
_History of Greece, The_, 435
_History of the Holy War, The_ (Fuller), 178
_History of the Jews, The_, 435
_History of John Bull, The_, 251
_History of Latin Christianity, The_, 435
_History of Mr. Polly, The_, 532
_History of the Norman Conquest, The_, 504
_History of his own Times, The_, 221
_History of the Renaissance, Studies in the_, 502
_History of Richard III, The_, 69
_History of Samuel Titmarsh, The_, 478
_History of Scotland, The_ (Robertson), 328
_History of Switzerland, A_, 326
_History of the World, A_, 341
=Hobbes, Thomas=, =177=, 181, 183, 218
=Hoccleve, Thomas=, =64=
=Hodgson, Ralph=, 559
=Hogg, James=, =407=, 558
_Holly-tree, The_, 403
_Holy Dying_, 178
_Holy Fair, The_, 308
_Holy Living_, 178
_Holy Sonnetts_, 103
_Holy War, The_, 209
_Holy War, The History of the_ (Fuller), 178
_Holy Willie’s Prayer_, 310–311
=Home, John=, 336
_Home Thoughts from Abroad_, 462–463
_Homer_ (Chapman), 127, 142
=Hood, Thomas=, 263, =408=
=Hooker, Richard=, =139=, 147, 152–153
_Horæ Paulinæ_, 333
_Horn_, 22, 24
_Hound of Heaven, The_, 551
_Hours of Idleness_, 383
_Hous of Fame, The_, 35, 39–40
_House of the Wolfings, The_, 471
_Household Words_, 474, 475
_How He lied to her Husband_, 543
_How they Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix_, 464
=Howard, Henry, Earl of Surrey=, =96=, 143, 150, 151
=Howell, James=, 181, 184
_Hudibras_, 208, 215, 237, 261
=Hueffer, Ford Madox=, 528
_Human Knowledge, The Principles of_, 252
_Human Nature, Treatise on_, 328
_Human Understanding, An Essay concerning_, 219–220, 268, 269
=Hume, David=, =328=, 341, 350–351
_Humphrey Clinker, The Expedition of_, 321
=Hunt, Leigh=, 363, 365, 396, 397, =406=, 445
_Husband’s Message, The_, 6
=Huxley, Thomas Henry=, =505=
=Hyde, Edward, Earl of Clarendon=, =176=, 181, 218, 221, 341, 501
_Hydriotaphia, or Urne Buriall_, 175, 181
_Hylas and Philonous, Dialogues of_, 252
_Hymen’s Triumph_, 104
Hymns, Latin, influence of, on the lyric, 26
_Hypatia_, 489
_Hyperion_, 399
I
Ibsen, Henrik, 519, 540, 541
_Idea of a Patriot King, The_, 252–253
_Idiot Boy, The_, 368
_Idler, The_ (periodical), 289, 344
_Idylls of the King, The_, 457, 458
_Iliad_ (Pope), 256
_Imaginary Conversations_, 404
_Imaginary Portraits_, 502
_Imitation of Spenser_, 397
_Importance of being Earnest, The_, 547
_Impressions of Theophrastus Such, The_, 488
_In the Cemetery_, 522
_In Memoriam_, 453, 456, 459
_Inchcape Rock, The_, 403
_Indian Emperor, The_, 199
_Induction, The_, 98, 144
_Infernal Marriage, The_, 425
_Inheritors, The_, 528
_Inland Voyage, An_, 491
_Inn Album, The_, 463
Interludes, 76
_Intimations of Immortality_, 373, 374
_Introduction to the Literature of Europe, An_, 436
_Invisible Man, The_, 532
_Irene_, 289, 335
_Irish Melodies_, 404
_Irrational Knot, The_, 540
Irving, Sir Henry, 458
_Isabella_, 398, 401
_Island of Dr. Moreau, The_, 533
_Isle of Palms, The_, 434
_Isles of Greece, The_, 388
_It’s Never too Late to Mend_, 486
_Italy_, 406
_Ivanhoe_, 415, 480
_Ixion in Heaven_, 425
J
_Jack Hinton_, 423
_Jack Sheppard_, 422
_Jack Wilton, or The Unfortunate Traveller_, 107, 146, 338
_Jacob Faithful_, 424
=Jacobs, W. W.=, 558
_Jacqueline_, 406
=James I of Scotland=, =58=, 81
_James the Fourth, The Scottish Historie of_, 107
=James, G. P. R.=, =422=, 438
_Jane Eyre_, 453, 485
_Jane Shore_, 207
_Japhet in Search of a Father_, 424
=Jeffrey, Francis=, =432=
=Jehan de Bourgogne=, =45=
_Jeronimo_, 108
=Jerrold, Douglas=, 558
_Jew of Malta, The Rich_, 109
_Jews, The History of the_, 435
_Joan of Arc_, 403
_Joan and Peter_, 532
_Job_, 264
_Jocasta_, 77, 99
_Jockey’s Intelligencer, The_, 268
_Jocoseria_, 463
_Johan Johan_, 76
=John of Trevisa=, 49, 52
_John Anderson, my Jo_, 308
_John Bull, The History of_, 251
_John Bull’s Other Island_, 542
_John Gilpin_, 301, 335
_John Woodvil_, 427
Johnson, Esther, 236
=Johnson, Samuel=, 193, 207, 263, 268, 272, 283, =286=, 294, 297,
300, 313, 335, 340, 343, 347, 349–350, 355–356, 356–358, 439,
494, 558, 575
_Johnson, Life of_, 276, 328, 343, 360
_Johnson, Essay on_ (Macaulay), 360
Johnsonese, 289, 347, 349, 440
_Jolly Beggars, The_, 308
_Jonathan Wild the Great_, 318
_Jongleurs_, 26
=Jonson, Ben=, 110, =123=, 149, 172
_Joseph Andrews_, 318
_Journal of the Plague Year, A_, 250, 272, 277
_Journal to Stella_, 240
_Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, A_, 291
_Journey from this World to the Next_, 318
_Joy_, 547
_Joyfull Medytacyon, A_, 65
_Jude the Obscure_, 523
_Judith_, 3
_Julia, To_, 170
_Julian and Maddalo_, 392
_Juliana_, 7
_Julius Cæsar_, 116
_Jungle Book, The_, 538
Junian manuscript, the, 3, 7
=Junius=, 286, 343
_Justice_, 547
Jutish dialect, the, 3
K
=Keats, John=, 94, 363, 364, 392, =396=, 406, 436, 439, 443, 446,
459, 506, 569
Kemble, J. M., 7
_Kenilworth_, 415
Kennings, in Old English poetry, 5, 12
Kentish dialect, the, 3, 16
_Kidnapped_, 492
_Killigrew, On the Death of Mrs. Anne_, 214
_Kilmeny_, 407
_Kim_, 538
_King Alisaunder_, 22
_King Arthur’s Tomb_, 512, 513
_King Edward the Fourth_, 129
_King Hart_, 62
_King John_, 116, 119
_King Lear_, 116, 120, 157
_King Leir, The Chronicle History of_, 77, 118
_King and No King, A_, 127
_King Stephen_, 401
_King of Tars, The_, 25
_King’s Own, The_, 424
_Kingis Quhair, The_, 58, 81
=Kinglake, Alexander=, =503=
=Kingsley, Charles=, =489=
=Kipling, Rudyard=, =537=, 556, 560, 564, 574
_Kipps_, 532, 533
_Kiss for Cinderella, A_, 548
_Knight of the Burning Pestle, The_, 127
_Knight of Gwynne, The_, 423
_Knight’s Tale, The_, 38
_Knight’s Tomb, The_, 378
_Kubla Khan_, 377
=Kyd, Thomas=, =107=
_Kynge Johan_, 85
L
_Lack of Stedfastness, The_, 36
_Lacrymæ Musarum_, 551
_Lady of the Lake, The_, 413, 446
_Lady Montague’s Page_, 423
_Lady of Pleasure, The_, 180
_Lady Windermere’s Fan_, 547
_Lake Isle of Innisfree, The_, 555
_Lalla Rookh_, 404
=Lamb, Charles=, 365, 375, =426=, 439, 441, 444–445, 558
_Lament for the Makaris_, 60, 61
_Lamia_, 400
_Land of Heart’s Desire, The_, 555
=Landor, Walter Savage=, =403=
=Langland, William=, =41=, 48, 53–54
=Langley, William=--_see_ =Langland, William=
Language, Old English, 3
_Laodicean, A_, 523
_Laon and Cynthia_ (_The Revolt of Islam_), 391
_Lara_, 384
_Last Chronicle of Barset, The_, 487
_Last Day, The_, 262
_Last Days of Pompeii, The_, 426
_Last Poems_ (E. B. Browning), 467
=Latimer, Hugh=, =68=, 81
_Latin Christianity, The History of_, 435
_Latter-day Pamphlets_, 494
_Lavengro_, 490
_Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, The_, 139, 152–153
_Lay of the Last Minstrel, The_, 412
_Lay Sermons and Addresses_, 506
_Lays of Ancient Rome, The_, 497
_Lays of France_, 472
=Layamon=, =17=, 29
Lecture, the, and literature, 508
_Lectures on the English Poets_, 431
=Lee, Nathaniel=, =206=
_Legend of the Rhine, The_, 480
_Legende of Good Women, The_, 35, 39
_Lenora_, 421
_Lenore_, 412
Letter-writing, 341, 439
_Letter to the English People, A_, 10
_Letter to a Noble Lord, A_, 331
_Letter, More’s to his Wife_, 80
_Letter to Windham_, 251
_Letters_, Cowper’s, 302, 343–344
_Letters, Drapier’s_, 240, 270, 343
_Letters_, Howell’s, 181
_Letters_, Leigh Hunt’s, 445
_Letters_, Johnson’s, 343, 357
_Letters of Junius_, 343
_Letters_, Lady M. Wortley Montagu’s, 252, 341
_Letters_, Pope’s, 260
_Letters_, Walpole’s, 323, 343, 358
_Letters of Peter Plymley, The_, 433
_Letters on a Regicide Peace_, 331
_Letters to his Son_ (Chesterfield), 333, 342
_Letters on the Spirit of Patriotism_, 251
=Lever, Charles=, =423=
_Leviathan, The_, 177, 183
_Levities_, 304
=Lewis, Matthew=, =324=
_Liberty_, 292
_Liberty of Prophesying, The_, 178
_Library, The_, 282, 302
_Life and Death of Jason, The_, 470
_Life and Death of Mr. Badman, The_, 209, 339
_Life of Byron, The_, 401, 439
_Life of Cromwell, The_, 550
_Life of Frederick II, The_, 494
_Life of Gladstone, The_, 550
_Life of Jesus, The_, Strauss’s (George Eliot), 488
_Life of Doctor Johnson, The_, 287, 328, 329, 343, 336
_Life of Napoleon, The_, 416
_Life of Nelson, The_, 403
_Life of Schiller, The_, 494
_Life of Scott, The_, 435, 439
_Life of John Sterling, The_, 494, 496
_Light that Failed, The_, 538
Lindisfarne Gospels, the, 71
_Literature and Dogma_, 468
_Literature of Europe, An Introduction to the_, 436
_Little Dorrit_, 475
_Lives of the Novelists, The_, 416
_Lives of the Poets, The_, 291, 350, 575
_Lives of the Saints, The_, 9
_Lochaber no More_, 265
=Locke, John=, =219=, 268, 269
=Lockhart, John G.=, 411, =434=, 438, 439, 440
_Locksley Hall_, 456
_Locksley Hall Sixty Years after_, 458
_Locrine_, 472
=Lodge, Thomas=, =107=, 142
_London_, 287, 288, 335
_London Gazette, The_, 268
_London Lickpenny_, 64
_London Magazine, The_, 365, 408, 427, 429, 558
_Looker On, The_, 344
_Lord Hastings, Upon the Death of the_, 185, 228
_Lord Jim_, 527, 531
_Lorna Doone_, 491
_Lotos-Eaters, The_, 456
_Lounger, The_, 344
_Love_, 378
_Love of Fame, The_, 263
_Love in Fantastic Triumph sate_, 221–222
_Love of King David and Fair Bethsabe, The_, 106
_Love for Love_, 203
_Love and Mr. Lewisham_, 532
_Love Triumphant_, 201
_Love in the Valley_, 482
_Love in a Wood_, 204
_Love’s Labour’s Lost_, 116, 117
_Love’s Sacrifice_, 174
_Lovel the Widower_, 480
=Lovelace, Richard=, =173=, 185
_Lover’s Melancholy, The_, 174
_Lucasta, To_, 173
_Lucy_, 372
_Lucy Gray_, 368, 370
_Luria_, 463
_Lycidas_, 164
=Lydgate, John=, =64=, 70
_Lyfe of John Picus, The_, 69
_Lying Lover, The_, 247
=Lyly, John=, 105, 107, =138=, 154, 337, 563–564
=Lyndsay, Sir David=, =59=, 79, 82–83
=Lyric, the=, 11, 16, 47, 114, 143, 178, 179, 181, 213, 218, 266,
335, 436, 506
_Lyrical Ballads_, 367, 368, 369, 375, 376
=Lytton, Lord=, =425=, 438
M
=Macaulay, Lord=, 287, 360, 438, =496=, 508, 509, 510, 513
_Macbeth_, 116, 117, 119
_MacFlecknoe_, 197, 215
=Mackenzie, Compton=, =539=
=Mackenzie, Henry=, =324=, 344
=Macpherson, James=, 290, =312=, 335, 348, 349
Macready, William Charles, 462
_Magnificence_, 63
_Maid of Sker, The_, 491
_Maid’s Tragedy, The_, 127
_Making of England, The_, 504
_Maldon, The Battle of_, 6
_Male Regle, La_, 64
=Malory, Sir Thomas=, 33, =46=, 50, 52, 457
_Man, An Essay on_, 253, 260
_Man of Feeling, The_, 324
_Man of Mode, The_, 205
_Man in the Moon, The_, 100
_Man and Superman_, 542, 544
_Man who was Thursday, The_, 549
_Man’s Place in Nature_, 506
_Mandalay_, 538
=Mandeville, Sir John=, 33, =44=, 49, 50, 51–52, 153
_Manfred_, 387
=Manning, Robert=, =18=, 24
_Mansfield Park_, 419
Manuscripts, Old English, 3
Marco Polo, 45
=Mare, Walter de la=, 560
_Marino Faliero_, 387
_Marius the Epicurean_, 502
Marlborough, Duke of, 232, 242
=Marlowe, Christopher=, 104, 105, =108=, 129, 144, 153–154
_Marmion_, 412
=Marryat, Frederick=, =423=
=Marston, John=, =127=
_Martin Chuzzlewit_, 475
=Marvell, Andrew=, 179, 185, 214
_Mary in Heaven, To_, 309, 311
_Mary Rose_, 548
_Mary Stuart_ (Swinburne), 472
=Masefield, John=, =552=, 559
_Masks and Faces_, 486
Masque, the, 125, 145
_Masque of Anarchy, The_, 392, 437
_Masque of Beauty, The_, 125
_Masque of Queens, The_, 125
_Massacre at Paris, The_, 109
=Massinger, Philip=, =173=, 180
_Master of Ballantrae, The_, 492
_Master Humphrey’s Clock_, 474
_Masterman Ready_, 424
_Maud_, 456
_Mayor of Casterbridge, The_, 523, 525
_Mazeppa_, 385
_Measure for Measure_, 116, 121, 122
_Medal, The_, 197
_Melibœus, The Tale of_, 36, 37
_Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, The_, 479
_Memoirs of a Cavalier, The_, 250
_Men and Women_, 463
_Men, Women, and Books_, 406
_Merchant of Venice, The_, 116, 157
_Mercurius Anglicus_, 267
_Mercurius Politicus_, 267
_Mercurius Pragmaticus_, 267
=Meredith, George=, =482=, 492, 508, 510
=Meres, Francis=, 115
_Merry Wives of Windsor, The_, 116
Metaphysical poets, the, 160, 161, 170, 184
Meter, early development of, 24
Middle English, 49
=Michel of Northgate, Dan=, 23
_Middlemarch_, 488
=Middleton, Thomas=, =128=
Midland dialect, the, 3, 16
_Midshipman Easy, Mr._, 424
_Midsummer Night’s Dream, A_, 76, 116, 118, 119, 120
=Mill, John Stuart=, 452
_Mill on the Floss, The_, 488
=Miller, Hugh=, =504=
=Milman, Henry Hart=, =435=
=Milton, John=, 94, 102, 160, =161=, 182, 186, 217, 303, 459, 501,
562
_Milton_ (Earnest Myers), 188–189
Mimes, 72
_Mind, An Essay on_, 466
=Minot, Laurence=, 19, 25
_Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, The_, 412
Miracle-plays, 74
_Mirror, The_, 344
_Mirror for Magistrates, The_, 98
_Mirror of the Sea, The_, 528
Miscellanies, poetical, 104
_Misfortunes of King Arthur, The_, 77
_Mr. Britling sees it Through_, 532
_Mr. Clutterbuck’s Election_, 549
_Mr. Midshipman Easy_, 424
_Mr. Polly, The History of_, 532
_Mrs. Anne Killigrew, On the Death of_, 214
_Mrs. Warren’s Profession_, 541
_Mistress, The_, 169
_Mithridates_, 206
_Modern Love_, 482
_Modern Painters_, 500, 513–514
_Modern Utopia, A_, 533
Molière, 192
_Moll Flanders_, 250, 339
_Monk, The_, 324
=Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley=, =252=, 341
Montaigne, 269
_Monthly Magazine, The_, 473
_Moon, The_, 552
_Moonstone, The_, 487
=Moore, George=, 520, =536=
=Moore, Thomas=, =404=
_Moral Ode_, 20, 28, 29
_Moral and Political Philosophy_, 333
_Morall Fabillis of Esope, The_, 60
Morality-plays, 74
=More, Sir Thomas=, =69=, 80
=Morley, Lord=, =550=, 561
_Morning Chronicle, The_, 365, 473
_Morning Post, The_, 365, 380
=Morris, William=, =470=, 506, 507, 512–513, 514
_Morte d’Arthure_ (Middle English romance), 22
_Morte d’Arthur_ (Malory), 46–47, 52
_Morte d’Arthur_ (Tennyson), 456
_Mother Hubberd’s Tale_, 91, 92
_Mother’s Picture, On the Receipt of my_, 301
_Moti Guj--Mutineer_, 564
_Mourning Bride, The_, 203
_Much Ado about Nothing_, 116
_Mummer’s Wife, A_, 537
Mummings, 72
_Munera Pulveris_, 500
_Murder considered as One of the Fine Arts_, 429
_Muse in Exile, The_, 551
_Music and Moonlight_, 472
_My First Play_ (Lamb), 428
_My Heart’s in the Hielands_, 308
_My Novel_, 426
=Myers, Ernest=, 188–189
_Mysteries of Udolpho, The_, 324
Mystery-plays, 73
N
_Napoleon, The Life of_, 416
Narrative poetry, 48, 144, 215, 266, 436, 506, 559
=Nash, Thomas=, =107=, 142, 338
_Natural History of Selborne, The_, 334, 355
_Naval Officer, The_, 424
_Necessity of Atheism, The_, 389
_Neglected Heart, A_, 472
_Nelson, The Life of_, 403
_Nero_, 206
_New Arabian Nights, The_, 491
_New Atlantis, The_, 135, 146
_New Machiavelli, The_, 532
_New Monthly Magazine, The_, 405, 408
_New Poems_ (M. Arnold), 467
_New Poems_ (C. G. Rossetti), 470
_New Voyage round the World, A_, 250
_New Way to pay Old Debts, A_, 174
_New Worlds for Old_, 533
_Newcomes, The_, 479
Newman, Cardinal John, 454
=Nicholas of Guildford=, 20
_Nicholas Nickleby_, 474
_Nigger of the Narcissus, The_, 528, 529–530
_Night_ (Charles Churchill), 305
_Night Thoughts, The Complaint, or_, 263, 270, 271, 278, 305
_Nightingale, Ode to a_, 401
_No Name_, 487
_Noble Numbers_, 170
_Noctes Ambrosianæ_, 434, 441
_Nocturnal Reverie, The_, 264
_Norman Conquest, The History of the_, 504
=North, Christopher=, =433=, 441
_Northanger Abbey_, 418, 420
Northern dialect, the, 16, 20
Northumbrian dialect, the, 3, 7, 16
=Norton Thomas=, 77, 98
_Nostromo_, 528
_Notes of Instruction concerning the Making of Verse in English,
Certayne_, 99
Novel, the, 107, 146, 336, 437, 507, 555–556
_Nun’s Priest’s Tale, The_, 40–41
_Nuptials of Attila, The_, 482
_Nut-brown Maid, The_, 47
_Nutting_, 368
_Nymphidia_, 100
O
_O’ a’ the Airts_, 308
_O, my Luve is like a Red, Red Rose_, 308, 309–310
_O, Willie brewed a Peck o’ Maut_, 308
_Oberon, the Fairy Prince_, 125
_Observer, The_, 344
=Occleve, Thomas=, =64=
_Occleve’s Complaint_, 64
_Oceana_, 503
_Odd Women, The_, 536
Ode, the, 179, 214
_Ode to Autumn_ (Keats), 401, 443
_Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College_, 298
_Ode to Evening_, 299
_Ode to France_, 378
_Ode on a Grecian Urn_, 401, 402
_Ode: Intimations of Immortality_, 373, 374
_Ode on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity_, 164
_Ode to a Nightingale_, 401
_Ode to the West Wind_, 393
_O’Donovan, The_, 423
_Œdipus Tyrannus, or Swellfoot the Tyrant_, 437
_Œnone_, 456
_Œnone, The Death of_, 458
_Oh, to be in England_, 516
_Old Bachelor, The_, 203
_Old Curiosity Shop, The_, 475, 477
_Old English Baron, The_, 416
Old English language, the, 3
_Old Fortunatus_, 128
_Old Mortality_, 415, 440–441
_Old Red Sandstone, The_, 505
_Old St. Paul’s_, 422
_Old Wives’ Tale, The_ (Bennett), 538
_Old Wives’ Tale, The_ (Peele), 106
=Oldham, John=, 215
_Oliver Cromwell’s Letters and Speeches_, 494
_Oliver Twist_, 474
_Olor Iscanus_, 171
_On Divorce_ (Milton), 163
_On his Own Death_ (Swift), 237
_On the Death of Mrs. Anne Killigrew_, 214
_Of Education_ (Milton), 163
_On Nothing_, 550
_On Phillis_, 182
_On Prayer_ (Jeremy Taylor), 187–188
_On the Receipt of my Mother’s Picture_, 301
_On Shakespeare_ (Milton), 164
_One of our Conquerors_, 484
_Ordeal of Richard Fever, The_, 482
_Origin of Species, The_, 453, 505, 506
_Origines upon the Maudeleyne_, 36
_Orinooko, or The Royal Slave_, 339
_Orison to Our Lady, The_, 20
_Orlando Furioso_, 107
_Ormond_, 421
=Orm, or Ormin=, 19
_Ormulum_, 19, 24
Orosius, 8
_Orphan, The_, 206, 217–218
_Orpheus and Eurydice_, 60
=O’Shaughnessy, Arthur Edward=, =472=
_Ossian_, 290, 313, 348
_Othello_, 116
_Otho the Great_, 401
_Ottava rima_, 386, 398
=Otway, Thomas=, =206=, 217–218, 226, 391, 392
_Our Mutual Friend_, 475
_Outcast of the Islands, An_, 527
_Outline of History, An_, 533
=Overbury, Sir Thomas=, =139=, 269
_Ovid_ (Sandys), 183
_Owl and the Nightingale, The_, 20
_Oxford Gazette, The_, 268
P
_Pacchiarotto_, 464
_Pageant, A_, 470
_Pair of Blue Eyes, A_, 523
=Paley, William=, =333=, 345
_Palice of Honour, The_, 62
_Palladis Tamia, Wit’s Treasury_, 115
_Pamela_, 315, 316, 340, 341
Pamphlets, 89, 142
_Paolo and Francesca_, 559
_Paracelsus_, 462
_Paradise Lost_, 165, 179, 187, 562
_Paradise Regained_, 166, 179
_Paradyse of Daynty Devises, The_, 104
_Parisina_, 384
_Parismus, Prince of Bohemia_, 339
_Parlement of Foules, The_, 34
_Parleyings with Certain People_, 463
_Parliament of Bees, The_, 145
=Parnell, Thomas=, =265=
_Parson’s Tale, The_, 36, 37
_Parthenissa_, 339
_Passetyme of Pleasure, The_, 65
_Passionate Elopement, The_, 539
_Passionate Pilgrim, The_, 104, 112
_Passions, The_, 335, 352
_Past and Present_, 494
_Past and Present, Poems of the_ (Hardy), 521
_Pastoral Care_, 8, 9, 51
Pastoral poetry, 178, 266
_Pastorals_ (Pope), 255
=Pater, Walter=, =502=, 508
_Path to Rome, The_, 550
_Patience_, 21, 22
_Patronage_, 421
_Paul Clifford_, 425
_Pauline_, 461
_Peacock Pie_, 560
_Pearl_, 21, 25, 28, 149–150
_Peblis to the Play_, 58
=Pecock, Reginald=, =66=
=Peele, George=, =105=
_Peg Woffington_, 486
_Pelham_, 425
_Pendennis_, 479
_Peninsular War, The_, 403
_Penseroso, Il_, 164, 180
=Pepys, Samuel=, 194, =212=, 219, 240
=Percy, Bishop Thomas=, 285, 335, 345
_Peregrine Pickle_, 321
_Pericles_, 117
Periodicals, 234, 267, 344, 438
_Perkin Warbeck_, 174
_Persian Eclogues_, 299
_Persuasion_, 419
_Peter Bell_, 369
_Peter Pan_, 548
_Peter Plymley, The Letters of_, 433
_Peter Porcupine’s Journal_, 435
_Peter Simple_, 424
_Peter’s Letters to his Kinsfolk_, 434
_Peveril of the Peak_, 415
=Phaer, Thomas=, 142
_Pharonnida_, 180
_Philanderer, The_, 541
_Philaster_, 127
=Philips, Ambrose=, =264=, 271
=Philips, John=, 270
=Phillips, Stephen=, 559
_Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime
and Beautiful, A_, 331, 344
_Phœnix, The_, 7, 13, 29
_Phœnix Nest, The_, 104
Picaresque novel, the, 338
_Pickwick Papers, The_, 473, 474, 475, 476, 477, 557
_Picture of Dorian Gray, The_, 546, 565
_Pied Piper of Hamelin, The_, 514
_Piers the Plowman, The Vision of William concerning_, 42, 50,
53–54
_Pilgrim of Glencoe, The_, 405
_Pilgrim Fathers, The_ (Hemans), 408
_Pilgrim’s Progress, The_, 209, 210–211, 225, 240, 339, 575
Pindaric odes, 169, 180, 334
_Pindaric Odes_ (Gray), 298
_Pindarique Odes_ (Cowley), 169, 180
_Pine Forest, The_, 395
=Pinero, Sir Arthur=, 559
_Pippa Passes_, 462, 466
_Piramus and Thisbe_ (Cowley), 169
_Pirate, The_, 415
_Pistyl of Susan, The_, 28
_Places_, 522–523
_Plague Year, A Journal of the_, 250
_Plain Dealer, The_, 204
_Plain Tales from the Hills_, 538
Play-cycles, 75
_Playboy of the Western World, The_, 548
_Pleasures of Hope, The_, 405
_Pleasures of the Imagination, The_, 303
_Pleasures of Memory, The_, 405
_Plebeian, The_, 247, 268
Plutarch’s _Lives_ (North), 141
_Poems_ (M. Arnold), 467
_Poems_ (Clare), 409
_Poems_ (Cowper), 300
_Poems_ (Keats), 397
_Poems_ (Compton Mackenzie), 539
_Poems_ (D. G. Rossetti), 469
_Poems_ (Tennyson, 1832), 455
_Poems_ (Tennyson, 1833), 455~456
_Poems_ (Vaughan), 171
_Poems, Chiefly Lyrical_ (Tennyson), 455
_Poems of 1908–1914_ (Drinkwater), 554
_Poems and Ballads_ (Swinburne), 471
_Poems by Two Brothers_ (A. and C. Tennyson), 455
_Poems of the Past and Present_ (Hardy), 521
_Poems by the Way_ (W. Morris), 471
_Poetaster, The_, 124, 128
_Poetical Sketches_ (Blake), 314
_Poetry, An Essay on_ (Temple), 211
_Political Justice_, 333, 345
_Political Lying, The Art of_, 251
_Political Register, The_, 365, 435
Political writing, 233
_Polychronicon_, 40
_Polyolbion_, 100, 144
_Poor Relations_, 540
=Pope, Alexander=, 224, =253=, 265, 266, 270, 272, 273, 274–275,
334, 351, 368, 383
=Porter, Jane=, 416
_Praise of Chimney-Sweepers, The_, 444–445
_Præterita_, 500
Prayer Book, the, 70
Pre-Raphaelites, the, 402, 453, 469, 470, 506, 509
_Prelude, The_, 369, 437, 562–563
_Present Discontents, Thoughts on the_, 331
_Preston Fight_, 422
_Pretty Lady, The_, 538
_Pricke of Conscience, The_, 21
_Pride and Prejudice_, 419
_Prince Arthur_, 264
_Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau_, 463
_Prince’s Progress, The_, 470
_Prince’s Quest, The_, 551
_Princess, The_, 456, 458
_Principles of Human Knowledge, The_, 252
=Prior, Matthew=, =261=, 266
_Prisoner of Chillon, The_, 385
_Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft, The_, 536
_Proclamation of Henry III_, 51
_Prodigy, The_, 264
_Professor, The_, 485
_Progress of Poesy, The_, 188, 298
_Progress of the Soul, The_, 102
_Prologue, The_ (Chaucer), 36, 38
_Prometheus Bound_, 467
_Prometheus Unbound_, 391, 394
_Prophecy of Famine, The_, 305
_Prothalamion_, 92, 179
_Proud Maisie_, 413
_Proverbs of Alfred, The_, 20
_Proverbs of Hendyng, The_, 20, 25
_Provoked Wife, The_, 205
_Provost, The_, 422
Psalms, the Book of, 132, 133
_Pseudodoxia Epidemica_, 175
_Pseudo-Martyr, The_, 103
_Public Intelligencer, The_, 268
_Public Ledger, The_, 296
_Public Spirit of the Whigs, The_, 240
Publishing houses, 235
_Punch_, 409, 478, 480
_Purple Island, The_, 101
_Purple Pileus, The_, 535
=Purvey, John=, 71
_Pyrenees, The_, 550
Q
_Quality Street_, 548
_Quarterly Review, The_, 365, 397, 558
_Queen Mab_, 390
_Queen Mary_ (Tennyson), 458
_Queen Mother and Rosamond, The_, 472
_Queen’s Wake, The_ (Hogg), 407
_Queenes Wake, The_ (Daniel), 104
_Quentin Durward_, 415, 423
R
=Radcliffe, Mrs.=, =324=, 340
=Raleigh, Sir Walter=, 341
_Ralph Roister Doister_, 77, 78, 85–86
_Rambler, The_, 289, 344, 347
=Ramsay, Allan=, =265=
_Rape of the Lock, The_, 257, 351
_Rape of Lucrece, The_, 112, 144
_Rarely, rarely, comest Thou_, 395
_Rasselas_, 290, 340
_Rauf Coilyear_, 22
=Reade, Charles=, =486=
_Reader, The_, 247
_Ready-Money Mortiboy_, 490
Realism, 519
_Rebecca and Rowena_, 480
_Recessional, The_, 538
_Recluse, The_, 369
_Recruiting Officer, The_, 205
_Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye, The_, 66, 67
_Red Cotton Night-Cap Country_, 463
_Redgauntlet_, 415, 557
_Reflections on the French Revolution_, 331, 332, 345
_Regiment of Princes, The_, 64
_Rehearsal, The_, 215
_Reign of William Rufus, The_, 504
_Rejected Addresses_, 409
_Relapse, The_, 205
_Religio Medici_, 175
_Reliques of Ancient Poetry_, 285, 335
_Remarks on the Barrier Treaty_, 240
_Remorse_, 378, 437
_Renaissance, Studies in the History of the_, 502
_Renaissance in Italy, The_, 502
_Repressor of Over-much Blaming the Clergy, The_, 66
_Rescue, The_, 528, 529
_Resolution and Independence_, 372
_Resolves_, 181
Restoration comedy, 202;
tragedy, 206
_Retreat, The_, 172
_Return of the Druses, The_, 463
_Return of the Native, The_, 523
_Revenger’s Tragedy, The_, 129
_Review, The_, 249, 268
_Revolt of Islam, The_, 391
Revolution, the French, and English literature, 283, 330, 362, 366,
452
_Reynard the Fox_, 552
_Rhapsody on Poetry_, 278
_Rhoda Fleming_, 483
Rhyme royal, 58, 98
=Rice, James=, =490=
_Rich Relatives_, 539
_Richard Cœur-de-Lion_, 22
_Richard II_, 116
_Richard III, The Historie of_ (More), 69
_Richard III_ (Shakespeare), 116
=Richardson, Samuel=, =315=, 340, 341
_Richelieu_ (G. P. R. James), 422
_Richelieu_ (Lytton), 426
_Riddles_ (Exeter Book), 7
_Riders to the Sea_, 548
_Rienzi_, 426
_Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The_, 376, 378–379, 445–446
_Rimini_, 406
_Ring and the Book, The_, 463, 465, 507, 563
_Rival Ladies, The_, 199, 216
_Rival Queens, The_, 206
_Rivals, The_, 336
_Roaring Girle, The_, 128
_Rob Roy_, 415
_Robene and Makyne_, 60
=Robert of Gloucester=, =18=, 25
=Robertson, William=, =328=, 341
_Robinson Crusoe_, 249, 250, 340
=Rochester, Earl of=, 213
_Roderick the Goth_, 403
_Roderick Random_, 321, 346
=Rogers, John=, 72
=Rogers, Samuel=, 405
_Rokeby_, 413–414
=Rolle, Richard, of Hampole=, 16, =21=
_Romance_, 528
_Romance of the Forest, The_, 324
Romances, metrical, 22, 26, 49, 57, 337
Romanticism, 89
_Romany Rye, The_, 490
_Romaunt of the Rose, The_, 34
_Romeo and Juliet_, 116
_Romola_, 488
_Rookwood_, 422
_Roots of the Mountains, The_, 471
_Rosamond_, 243
_Rosciad, The_, 305
_Rose Aylmer_, 403
_Rose Mary_, 469
=Rossetti, Christina Georgina=, =469=
=Rossetti, Dante Gabriel=, 467, =469=, 506, 515
_Roundabout Papers, The_, 480, 508
=Rowe, Nicholas=, =207=
_Rowley Poems, The_, 313
_Roxana_, 250
Royal Society, the, 219
_Royall King, The_, 129
_Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyâm, The_, 468
_Ruins of Rome, The_, 91
_Ruins of Time, The_, 91
_Rule, Britannia_, 293
_Rural Rides in England_, 435, 440
_Rural Sports_, 262
=Ruskin, John=, =499=, 502, 508, 513–514
=Russell, George=, (‘A. E.’), 520
_Ruth_, 368, 371
S
=Sackville, Thomas, Earl of Dorset=, Lord Buckhurst, 77, =98=, 144
_Sad Shepherd, The_, 124
_St. Cecilia’s Day, A Song for_ (Dryden), 198
_St. Irvyne_, 393
St. Luke, the Gospel of, 132
_St. Ronan’s Well_, 415
_Saint’s Tragedy, The_, 490
_Saints’ Everlasting Rest, The_, 181
_Saisiaz, La_, 463
_Samson Agonistes_, 166
_Samuel Titmarsh, The History of_, 478–479
_Sandra Belloni (Emilia in England)_, 483
_Sands of Dee, The_, 490
=Sandys, George=, 183
_Sappho_ (A. Philips), 271
_Sartor Resartus_, 494, 495–496
=Sassoon, Siegfried=, 560, 571–572
Satire, the, 195, 196, 214, 266, 437
_Satires_ (Donne), 102
_Satires of Circumstance_, 521, 571
_Satiromastix_, 128
_Saturday Review, The_, 540
_Satyre of the Thrie Estatis, Ane Pleasant_, 59, 82–83
=Savage, Richard=, =263=
_Say not the Struggle Naught Availeth_, 469, 515–516
_Scenes from Clerical Life_, 488
_Schiller, The Life of_, 494
_Scholar-Gipsy, The_, 468
_Scholemaster, The_, 137, 155
_School of Abuse, The_, 90
_School for Scandal, The_, 336, 567–568
_Schoolmistress, The_, 304, 335, 351–352
_Scornful Lady, The_, 127
_Scotland, The History of_ (Robertson), 328
_Scots wha hae_, 311
=Scott, Michael=, =424=
=Scott, Sir Walter=, 205, 337, 340, 364, 365, 367, 384, 396, =410=,
421, 436, 437, 438, 440, 441, 446, 447–448, 474, 497, 557
_Scott, The Life of_, 435, 439
_Scottish Chiefs, The_, 416
_Scottish Historie of James the Fourth, The_, 107
Scottish literature, 33, 58, 90
_Scriblerus, Memoirs of_, 251
=Scudéri, Mademoiselle=, =338=, 339
_Seafarer, The_, 6
_Seasons, The_, 284, 291, 292, 301, 409
_Secret Agent, The_, 528
=Sedley, Sir Charles=, 213, 218
_Sejanus his Fall_, 125
_Sense and Sensibility_, 419
_Sensitive Plant, The_, 395
_Sentimental Journey, A_, 322
_Sentimental Tommy_, 547
_Seraphim, The_, 467
Sermon, the, 180
_Sermons_ (Latimer), 81
_Sermons_ (Tillotson), 212
_Sesame and Lilies_, 500
Sestette, the Romance, 25
=Settle, Elkanah=, =207=
_Seven Lamps of Architecture, The_, 500
_Shadow of the Glen, The_, 548
_Shadow Line, The_, 528
_Shadowy Waters, The_, 559
=Shadwell, Thomas=, 197, =205=
=Shaftesbury, Earl of=, =252=
=Shakespeare, William=, 76, 77, =110=, 151, 157, 199, 202, 206,
285, 374, 417, 459, 569
_Shakespeare_ (Matthew Arnold), 156
_Shakespeare, On_ (Milton), 164
Shakespearian style, the, 120
=Shaw, George Bernard=, 519, =540=, 559, 561
_She Stoops to Conquer_, 295
_She Would if She Could_, 205
=Shelley, Percy Bysshe=, 307, 334, 363, 364, 366, 371, 383, =389=,
396, 436, 437, 439, 443, 449, 462
=Shenstone, William=, =304=, 351–352
_Shepherd’s Calendar, The_, 91, 144, 183
_Shepherd’s Week, The_, 262
=Sheridan, Richard Brinsley=, 336, 547, 567–568
_Shilling for my Thoughts, A_, 549
_Ship of Fools, The_, 65
=Shirley, James=, 180
_Shirley_, 485
_Shoemaker’s Holiday, The_, 128
_Short History of the English People, A_, 504
Short story, the development of the, 557
_Short Studies on Great Subjects_, 503
_Short View of the Profaneness and Immorality of the English
Stage_, 219
_Shortest Way with the Dissenters, The_, 249
_Sibylline Leaves_, 380
_Sicilian Romance, A_, 324
=Sidney, Sir Philip=, 90, 91, =99=, 143, 146, 269, 337
_Siege of Corinth, The_, 384
_Silas Marner_, 488, 523
_Silex Scintillans_, 172
_Silver Box, The_, 547
_Simon Lee_, 374, 566
_Sinister Street_, 539
_Sir Charles Grandison_, 316
_Sir Courtly Nice_, 207
_Sir Ferumbras_, 22
_Sir Gawain and the Green Knight_, 21, 22, 25, 337
_Sir John Chiverton_, 422
_Sir Launcelot Graves_, 321
_Sir Orpheo_, 22
_Sir Patrick Spens_, 48
_Sir Ralph Esher_, 407
_Sir Tristrem_, 22, 25, 28
_Sister Teresa_, 537
_Sisters, The_, 472
=Skelton, John=, =62=, 81–82
=Skeltonics=, 63
_Sketches by Boz_, 473, 474
_Skin Game, The_, 547, 568–569
_Sleeping Beauty, The_, 459
=Smart, Christopher=, =303=, 335
=Smith, Adam=, =332=
=Smith, Horace=, =409=
=Smith, James=, =409=
=Smith, Sydney=, =433=
=Smollett, Tobias=, 303, =321=, 338, 340, 346, 360, 423, 557
_Snare, The_, 560
_Soldier, The_, 554
_Soldiers, Three_, 538
_Soliman and Perseda_, 108
_Solomon_, 261
_Some Reminiscences_ (Conrad), 528
_Song to David, The_, 303
_Song of Honour, The_, 560
_Song for St. Cecilia’s Day, A_ (Dryden), 198
_Song of the Shirt, The_, 409
_Songs of Childhood_, 560
_Songs of Experience_, 314
_Songs of Innocence_, 352–353, 566–567
_Songs of Mourning_, 100
_Songs before Sunrise_, 471–472
_Songs of a Worker_, 472
_Songs to Ælla_, 314
_Songbooks of the War_, 571–572
Sonnet, the English, 91, 96, 99, 104, 112, 113, 143, 144, 372–373;
the Italian, 96, 143, 165
_Sonnet_, by Matthew Arnold, 156;
by Drayton, 152;
by Ernest Myers, 188–189;
by Spenser, 152;
by Surrey, 151;
by Wordsworth, 188
_Sonnets_, Shakespeare’s, 112
_Sonnets from the Portuguese_, 467
_Sophonisba_, 206, 293
_Sordello_, 462
_Soul of a Bishop, The_, 533
_Soul’s Destroyer, The_, 552
=South, Robert=, 181
=Southey, Robert=, 364, 365, 375, 385, =402=, 436, 438, 440
=Southwell, Robert=, 144
_Spanish Ballads_, 434
_Spanish Gipsy, The_, 128
_Spanish Tragedy, The_, 108
_Spectator, The_, 235, 244, 245, 247, 268, 276, 289, 344
_Speculum Meditantis_, 43
=Spencer, Herbert=, 452
=Spenser, Edmund=, 60, =90=, 101, 102, 143, 144, 155–156, 292, 397,
436, 437
_Spenser, Imitation of_ (Keats), 398
Spenserian stanza, the, 94, 292, 304, 335, 398, 405, 436, 437
_Spirit of the Age, The_, 431
_Spirit of Patriotism, Letters on the_, 251
_Spleen, The_, 264
_Splendid Shilling, The_, 270
=Sprat, Thomas=, 219
_Squire of Alsatia, The_, 205
_Squire of Low Degree, The_, 22–23
Standardizing of English, the, 32
=Stanyhurst, Richard=, 142
_Staple of News, The_, 124
_Star Chamber, The_, 422
_Stately Homes of England, The_, 408
_Steel Glass, The_, 99, 144, 151
=Steele, Sir Richard=, 244, =247=, 268, 339, 431
=Stephens, James=, 560
_Steps to the Temple_, 171
_Sterling, John, The Life of_, 494
=Sterne, Laurence=, =322=, 340, 360, 557
=Stevenson, Robert Louis=, =491=, 508, 510
_Stones of Venice, The_, 500, 501
_Story of the Glittering Plain, The_, 471
_Story of Ingelond, The_, 18
_Story of Thebes, The_, 64
_Stafford_, 462
_Strange Story, A_, 426
_Strayed Reveller, The_, 467, 560
_Strew on her Roses, Roses_, 516
_Strife_, 547
=Stubbs, William=, 509
_Studies of the Greek Poets_, 502
_Studies in the History of the Renaissance_, 502
_Sublime and Beautiful, A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of
our Ideas of the_, 331, 345~346
=Suckling, Sir John=, =173=, 180, 183, 186
_Sullen Lovers, The_, 205
_Sumer is i-cumen in_, 26
_Summer Night, A_, 468
_Summer’s Last Will and Testament_, 107
_Sundering Flood, The_, 471
_Superhuman Antagonists, The_, 551
_Supposes_, 99
=Surrey, Henry Howard, Earl of=, =96=, 143, 150, 151
_Suspiria de Profundis_, 429
_Sweet Content_, 150
_Sweet Lullaby, A_, 155
_Sweet Stay-at-Home_, 552–553
_Swellfoot the Tyrant_, 437
=Swift, Jonathan=, 219, =236=, 243, 245, 262, 270, 272, 278, 279,
318, 343, 365, 545
=Swinburne, Algernon Charles=, =471=, 482, 506, 553
_Switzerland, A History of_, 326
_Swords and Ploughshares_, 554
_Sybil_, 425
_Sylvia and Michael_, 539
_Sylvia Scarlett_, 539
=Symonds, John Addington=, =501=, 508
=Synge, J. M.=, 519, =548=, 568
T
_Table Talk_ (Coleridge), 381
_Tale of Melibæus, The_, 36, 37
_Tale of a Tub, The_, 239, 270
_Tale of Two Cities, A_, 475
_Tales of Fashionable Life_, 421
_Tales of a Grandfather, The_, 416
_Tales from Shakespeare_, Lamb’s, 427
_Tales in Verse_, 302
_Talisman, The_, 415, 447–448
_Tam o’ Shanter_, 307, 308, 570
_Tamburlaine the Great_ (Marlowe), 109–110
_Tamerlane_ (Rowe), 207
_Taming of the Shrew, The_, 99, 116
_Tancred_, 425, 438
_Task, The_, 300, 335, 352
_Tatler, The_, 244, 247, 268
=Taylor, Jeremy=, 68, =177=, 180, 187
_Tears of the Muses, The_, 91
_Temora_, 313
_Tempest, The_, 117, 122, 151, 569
=Temple, Sir William=, =211=, 219, 236, 238, 269
_Temple, The_, 170
_Temple of Glass, the_, 64
_Tenant of Wildfell Hall, The_, 486
_Tender Husband, The_, 247
=Tennyson, Lord=, 94, 402, 453, =454=, 506, 507, 509, 512
Terror novelists, the, 323–324
_Terza rima_, 96
_Tess of the d’Urbervilles_, 523, 526
_Testament and Compleynt of the Papyngo, The_, 59
_Testament of Cresseid, The_, 60
_Testament of Squyer Meldrum, The_, 59
_Testimony of the Rocks, The_, 505
=Thackeray, William Makepeace=, 453, =478=, 485, 507, 508, 510, 539
_Thalaba the Destroyer_, 403
_Thalia Rediviva_, 172
Theatres, early London, 111
_Theocritus_, 69
_These Twain_, 538
_Thief and the Cordelier, The_, 262
=Thompson, Francis=, =551=, 560
=Thomson James= (1700–48), 284, =291=
_Thorn, The_, 368
_Thoughts on the Present Discontents_, 331
_Three Fishers, The_, 490
_Three Maries, The_, 73–74
_Thrie Estatis, Ane Pleasant Satyre of the_, 59, 82–83
_Thrissill and the Rois, The_, 61
_Thunderstorms_, 552
_Thyestes_, 207
_Thyrsis_, 469
=Tillotson, John=, =212=
_Timbuctoo_, 455
_Time Machine, The_, 532
_Time’s Revenges_, 464
_Times, The_, 365
_Timon of Athens_, 117
_Tinker’s Wedding, The_, 548, 568
_Tintern Abbey_, 448
_Tithonous_, 507
_Titus Andronicus_, 116
_To Althea_, 173, 185
_To Anthea_, 170
_To Chloe_ (Prior), 262
_To his Coy Mistress_, 185
_To Daffodils_ (Herrick), 222
_To Julia_, 170
_To Lucasta, going to the Wars_, 173
_To Mary in Heaven_, 309, 311
_To Milton_ (Wordsworth), 188
_To Spring_ (Surrey), 151
Tolstoy, Leo, 519
_Tom Burke of Ours_, 423
_Tom Cringle’s Log_, 424
_Tom Jones_, 319, 336, 354–355
_Tom Thumb_, 336
_Tono-Bungay_, 532, 534–535
Tonson, Jacob, 235
_Tottel’s Miscellany_, 96, 97, 104
=Tourneur, Cyril=, =129=, 180
_Tower of London, The_, 422
_Town, The_, 407
_Town Mouse and the Country Mouse, The_, 261
_Toxophilus_, 137
Tragedies, early, 77
_Tragedy of Chabot, The_, 127
_Tragic Comedians, The_, 484
_Traveller, The_, 294, 335
_Travels_ (Mandeville), 45–46, 51–52, 153
_Travels with a Donkey_, 491
_Treasure Island_, 491
_Treatise on Human Nature_, 328
_Tremendous Trifles_, 549
_Trials of Margaret Lyndsay, The_, 434
_Tristram of Lyonesse_ (Swinburne), 472
_Tristram Shandy_, 322, 323, 360
_Triumph, The_, 125
_Trivia_, 262
_Troilus and Cressida_ (Chaucer), 34, 40, 58, 60
_Troilus and Cressida_ (Dryden), 201
_Troilus and Cressida_ (Shakespeare), 116
=Trollope, Anthony=, =486=
_Troubles of Queene Elizabeth, The_, 129
_Troublesome Raigne of King John, The_, 77
_Troy Town_, 469
_True-born Englishman, The_, 249
_Trumpet-Major, The_, 523
_Tub, The Tale of a_, 238, 239, 270
_Tunnynge of Elynore Runnynge, The_, 63
Turner, J. M. W., 499, 500
_Twa Meryit Wemen and the Wedo, The_, 61
_Twelfth Night, The_, 116, 121
_Twixt Land and Sea_, 528
_Two Books of Ayres_, 100
_Two Chiefs of Dunboy, The_, 503
_Two Foscari, The_, 387
_Two Gentlemen of Verona, The_, 116, 117
_Two Noble Kinsmen, The_, 117
_Two Paths, The_, 500
_Two on a Tower_, 523
_Two Years Ago_, 489
=Tyndale, William=, 71, 83–84
_Tyrannic Love_, 192, 199
U
=Udall, Nicholas=, 77, 78, 85–86
_Udolpho, The Mysteries of_, 324
_Ulysses_ (Stephen Phillips), 559
_Ulysses_ (Tennyson), 456, 506, 512
_Unclassed, The_, 536
_Unco Guid, The_, 308
_Uncommercial Traveller, The_, 508
_Under the Greenwood Tree_, 523
_Underwoods_ (Jonson), 125
_Underwoods_ (Stevenson), 492
_Unfortunate Traveller, Jack Wilton, or The_, 107, 146, 338
University Wits, the, 104
_Unnatural Combat, The_, 174
_Unto this Last_, 500
_Up the Rhine_, 408
_Urne Buriall_, 175, 181
=Ussher, James=, =140=
_Utopia_, 69, 135, 146
V
_Valediction forbidding Mourning, A_, 184–185
_Valenciennes_, 521
_Valerius_, 434
=Vanbrugh, Sir John=, =205=
Vanhomrigh, Esther, 236
_Vanity Fair_, 478, 479
_Vanity of Human Wishes, The_, 288, 355–356
_Vathek_, 324
=Vaughan, Henry=, =171=
_Venice Preserved_, 206, 215, 226–227, 391
_Venus and Adonis_, 112, 144
Vercelli Book, the, 3, 7
_Vers libre_, 560
_Vicar of Wakefield, The_, 296, 340
Vice, the, in early plays, 74
_Victory_, 528
_View of the Evidences of Christianity, A_, 334
_View of the Present State of Ireland, A_, 92
_Village, The_, 282, 302, 335, 356
_Villette_, 485
_Vindication of Natural Society, A_, 330
_Virgidemiarum_, 141
_Virgiles Æneis turned into English Meter, Certain Bokes of_, 97,
150
_Virgin Goddess, The_, 559
_Virgin Martyr, The_, 128, 174
_Virginians, The_, 479
_Virginibus Puerisque_, 491
_Vision of Judgment, The_, 385, 437, 446–447
_Vision of Mirza_, 244
_Vision of William concerning Piers the Plowman, The_, 42, 50
_Vittoria_, 483
_Vivian Grey_, 424
_Volpone, or The Fox_, 124
_Voltaire_, 550
_Vox Clamantis_, 43
_Voyage of the Beagle, The_, 505
_Voyage of Captain Popanilla, The_, 425
_Voyage to Lisbon, A_, 319
W
=Wace=, 17
_Waggoner, The_, 369
_Waldhere_, 6
=Waller, Edmund=, =183=, 216, 224
=Walpole, Horace=, 298, =323=, 343, 358
Walpole, Sir Robert, 286
_Walpole_, 550
=Walton, Isaac=, 181, 184
_Wanderer, The_ (Old English poem), 6
_Wanderer, The_ (Savage), 263
_Wanderings of Oisin, The_, 555
_Warden, The_, 487
_Watchman, The_, 375, 380
_Water Babies, The_, 490
=Watson, Thomas=, 144
=Watson, Sir William=, =550=, 559
Watts-Dunton, Theodore, 471
_Waverley_, 411, 415, 417–418
_Way of All Flesh, The_, 492
_Way of the World, The_, 203, 204, 215, 567
_Ways to Perfect Religion_, 68
_We are Seven_, 370
_Wealth of Nations, The_, 332, 505
=Webster, John=, =129=, 180
_Wedding, A Ballad upon a_, 186
_Weekly News, The_, 267
_Weir of Hermiston_, 492, 510–511
_Well Beloved, The_, 524
_Well of the Saints, The_, 548
=Wells, H. G.=, =531=, 545, 561
Wessex dialect, the, 3
_Wessex Poems_ (Hardy), 520
_West Wind, Ode to the_, 393
_Westminster Review, The_, 365, 488, 503
_Westward Ho!_, 489
_What d’ye call It?_, 262
_What Every Women Knows_, 548
_When I am Old_, 553
_When the Kye comes Hame_, 407
_Whims and Oddities_, 408
_Whimsicalities_, 409
=White, Gilbert=, =334=, 345, 355
_White Cascade, The_, 553
_White Devil, The_, 129
_White Doe of Rylstone, The_, 369, 371
_White Squall, The_, 480
_Why come ye not to Court?_, 63–64
_Widow in the Bye Street, The_, 552
_Widowers’ Houses_, 541
_Widsith_, 2, 6
_Wife’s Complaint, The_, 6
_Wild Gallant, The_, 199
_Wild Knight, The_, 549
_Wild Swans of Coole, The_, 555
_Wild Wales_, 490
=Wilde, Oscar=, =483=, 546, 559, 565
_Wilhelm Meister_, 493
_Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue_, 460
_William of Palerne_, 22
=Wilson, John=, =433=, 441
=Winchilsea, Lady=, =264=, 266
_Wind among the Reeds, The_, 555
_Window in Thrums, A_, 547
_Windsor Castle_, 422
_Windsor Forest_, 256
_Wine, Water, and Song_, 549
_Winter Night, A_, 312
_Winter’s Tale, The_, 117
_Witch, The_, 128
_Witch of Atlas, The_, 392
_Witch of Edmonton, The_, 128, 174
=Wither, George=, 179
_Within the Tides_, 528
_Woman Killed with Kindnesse, A_, 129
_Woman in the Moon, The_, 105
_Woman in White, The_, 487
_Women beware Women_, 128
_Woodlanders, The_, 523
_Woodstock_, 415
Wordsworth, Dorothy, 366
=Wordsworth, William=, 188, 264, 303, 363, 365, =366=, 375, 376,
377, 379, 410, 436, 437, 562–563, 566
_Wordsworth’s Grave_, 551
_Workers of the Dawn_, 536
_World, A History of the_ (Raleigh), 341
_Worthies of England, The_, 178
_Woundes of Civile War, The_, 107
_Wulf and Eadwacer_, 6
=Wulfstan=, =9=, 12
_Wuthering Heights_, 485
=Wyat, Sir Thomas=, =96=, 143
=Wycherley, William=, =204=, 215
=Wyclif, John=, =46=, 50, 71, 83
_Wynnere and Wastour_, 50
Y
_Yarrow Revisited_, 369
_Ye Banks and Braes_, 308
_Ye Mariners of England_, 405
_Year of Shame, The_, 551
_Yeast_, 489
=Yeats, W. B.=, 519, =555=, 559
_Yellowplush Papers, The_, 478
_You Never Can Tell_, 541
=Young, Edward=, =262=, 270, 278
_Youth_, 527
_Ywain and Gawain_, 22
Z
_Zastorizzi_, 393
=Zola, Emile=, 519, 537
FOOTNOTES:
[1] Coats of mail.
[2] Fire.
[3] king.
[4] rowed.
[5] build.
[6] fine.
[7] birth.
[8] Romans.
[9] loyalty.
[10] peace.
[11] traitor.
[12] hides.
[13] seemliest.
[14] bondage.
[15] lucky.
[16] chance.
[17] I wot, I know.
[18] dirty.
[19] blue.
[20] foaming.
[21] approach.
[22] destroyed.
[23] smell.
[24] cucumbers.
[25] each one.
[26] wonder.
[27] yearned.
[28] Sultan.
[29] any.
[30] raised.
[31] Cheddar.
[32] rain.
[33] suitable.
[34] rocks.
[35] faintness.
[36] seized.
[37] as.
[38] realm.
[39] commenced.
[40] one.
[41] both.
[42] are.
[43] parted.
[44] Dryden wrote before the metrical importance of the final _e_
was understood.
[45] inlaid.
[46] gems.
[47] gleaming.
[48] lily.
[49] frosted.
[50] shivered.
[51] eyes.
[52] hollow.
[53] moisture.
[54] blue.
[55] out over.
[56] gray.
[57] tangled.
[58] attire.
[59] withered dress.
[60] sheaf.
[61] arrows.
[62] feathered.
[63] once.
[64] drawn.
[65] wasteful wants.
[66] cassock.
[67] nonce.
[68] deceiver.
[69] grinned.
[70] groans.
[71] broil.
[72] bear.
[73] blood.
[74] arbor.
[75] living person.
[76] play.
[77] blow.
[78] died.
[79] feeding.
[80] tribute.
[81] slime.
[82] prepare.
[83] _The Shepherd’s Calendar_ (1579).
[84] _Polyolbion_ (1612).
[85] _Tamburlaine_ (1587).
[86] _Love’s Labour’s Lost_ (1594).
[87] _Every Man in his Humour_ (1598).
[88] _Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity_ (1593).
[89] _Essays_ (1597).
[90] _Anatomy of Melancholy_ (1621).
[91] Mammon.
[92] carving.
[93] ore.
[94] hammered.
[95] ingots.
[96] utterly wasted.
[97] peeled.
[98] The passage containing this reference appears on pp. 142–143.
[99] This piece is sometimes ascribed to _William Browne_ (1588–1643.)
[100] Peele.
[101] Nash and Marlowe.
[102] _The Induction_ (1555).
[103] _Tottel’s Miscellany_ (1557).
[104] _The Steel Glass_ (1576).
[105] _The Shepherd’s Calendar_ (1579).
[106] Plutarch’s _Lives_ (1579).
[107] _The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity_ (1593).
[108] _Venus and Adonis_ (1593).
[109] _Essays_ (1597).
[110] _Characters_ (1614).
[111] rejoice.
[112] bride.
[113] bulged.
[114] peel.
[115] The Cave of Despair.
[116] _Poetical Blossoms_ (1633).
[117] _Noble Numbers_ (1647).
[118] _Ode on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity_ (1629).
[119] _Paradise Lost_ (1658).
[120] _Religio Medici_ (1642).
[121] _The History of the Great Rebellion_ (1646).
[122] _Holy Living_ (1650).
[123] _The Leviathan_ (1651).
[124] Of St. Theresa.
[125] _Ode on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity_ (1629).
[126] _Religio Medici_ (1642).
[127] _The History of the Great Rebellion_ (1646).
[128] _Holy Living_ (1650).
[129] _Paradise Lost_ (1658).
[130] _Samson Agonistes_ (1671).
[131] 1802.
[132] _Astræa Redux_ (1660).
[133] _Hudibras_ (1663).
[134] _The Old Bachelor_ (1693).
[135] _The Pilgrim’s Progress_ (1678).
[136] His dedications, etc.
[137] _Religio Laici_ (1682).
[138] _The Hind and the Panther_ (1687).
[139] _Don Sebastian_ (1690).
[140] _Alexander’s Feast_ (1697).
[141] _Fables_ (1700).
[142] _The Rape of the Lock_ (1712).
[143] _The Complaint, or Night Thoughts_ (1742).
[144] _Gulliver’s Travels_ (1726).
[145] _The Spectator_ (1711).
[146] _Robinson Crusoe_ (1719).
[147] Sir Leslie Stephen.
[148] _The Funeral_ (1701).
[149] _The Review_ (1704).
[150] _The Campaign_ (1704).
[151] _The Battle of the Books_ (1704).
[152] _Pastorals_ (1709).
[153] The Coverley essays.
[154] _The Tatler_ (1709).
[155] _An Essay on Criticism_ (1711).
[156] _Cato_ (1713).
[157] _Robinson Crusoe_ (1719).
[158] _Gulliver’s Travels_ (1726).
[159] _The Dunciad_ (1728).
[160] Elkanah Settle (see p. 207).
[161] Lord John Hervey.
[162] _The Seasons_ (1730).
[163] _Elegy written in a Country Churchyard_ (1751).
[164] _Poems_ (Kilmarnock edition, 1786).
[165] _Pamela_ (1740).
[166] _Tom Jones_ (1749).
[167] _The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire_ (1776).
[168] vomited.
[169] Mount Pindus, sacred to the Muses. Hence, a poet’s dream.
[170] That is, “the blind one.” A reference to Milton’s blindness.
[171] share.
[172] rinse.
[173] _London_ (1738).
[174] _Pamela_ (1740).
[175] _Joseph Andrew_ (1742).
[176] _The Castle of Indolence_ (1748).
[177] _The Vanity of Human Wishes_ (1749).
[178] _Irene_ (1749).
[179] _The Rambler_ (1750).
[180] _Elegy written in a Country Churchyard_ (1751).
[181] _Rasselas_ (1759).
[182] _The Rosciad_ (1761).
[183] _The Traveller_ (1764).
[184] _The Vicar of Wakefield_ (1766).
[185] _The Good-natured Man_ (1768).
[186] _The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire_ (1776).
[187] _The Task_ (1785).
[188] The Devil.
[189] going last.
[190] perhaps.
[191] _Lyrical Ballads_ (1798).
[192] _Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage_ (1812).
[193] _Endymion_ (1818).
[194] _The Lay of the Last Minstrel_ (1805).
[195] _Waverley_ (1814).
[196] _Northanger Abbey_ (1798).
[197] _The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater_ (1821).
[198] _Lyrical Ballads_ (1798).
[199] _Northanger Abbey_ (1798).
[200] _The Watchman_ (1796).
[201] _The Lay of the Last Minstrel_ (1805).
[202] _Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage_ (1812).
[203] _Queen Mab_ (1813).
[204] _Waverley_ (1814).
[205] _Manfred_ (1817).
[206] _Endymion_ (1818).
[207] _Biographia Literaria_ (1817).
[208] _Don Juan_ (1819).
[209] _The Cenci_ (1819).
[210] _The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater_ (1821).
[211] _The Essays of Elia_ (1823).
[212] _The Life of Byron_ (1830).
[213] _The Life of Scott_ (1837).
[214] _The Borderers_ (1842).
[215] _Poems_ (1832).
[216] _Pauline_ (1833).
[217] _The Pickwick Papers_ (1836).
[218] _Vanity Fair_ (1847).
[219] _The Ordeal of Richard Feverel_ (1859).
[220] _Sartor Resartus_ (1833).
[221] _Essay on Milton_ (1825).
[222] _The Seven Lamps of Architecture_ (1849).
[223] Such a passage appears on p. 513.
[224] Coleridge.
[225] _Poems_ (1832).
[226] _Poems_ (1833).
[227] _Sartor Resartus_ (1833).
[228] _Pauline_ (1833).
[229] _The Pickwick Papers_ (1836).
[230] _Dramatic Lyrics_ (1842).
[231] _The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon_ (1842).
[232] _Modern Painters_ (1843).
[233] _The Return of the Druses_ (1843).
[234] _The Ordeal of Richard Feverel_ (1859).
[235] _Chastelard_ (1865).
[236] _Queen Mary_ (1875).
[237] An extract will be found on p. 565.
[238] irons.
[239] rope.
[240] mouth.
[241] Poetry
[242] Prose
[243] Stopped.
[244] Loose.
[245] English form.
[246] Italian form.
Transcriber’s Notes:
1. Obvious printers’, punctuation and spelling errors have been
corrected silently.
2. Where hyphenation is in doubt, it has been retained as in the
original.
3. Some hyphenated and non-hyphenated versions of the same words have
been retained as in the original.
4. Italics are shown as _xxx_.
5. Bold print is shown as =xxx=.