A history of English literature

I. GENERAL WORKS

• The Cambridge History of English Literature.
• A Short History of English Literature, G. Saintsbury.
• Cyclopædia of English Literature.
• A History of English Poetry, W. J. Courthope.
• A History of English Prosody, G. Saintsbury.
• History of English Dramatic Literature, Sir A. W. Ward.
• Chronicle of the English Drama, F. G. Fleay.
• The English Novel, Sir W. Raleigh.
• The English Novel, G. Saintsbury.
• English and Scottish Popular Ballads, F. J. Child.
• Scottish Vernacular Literature, A. Henderson.
• Early English Literature, Stopford A. Brooke.
• Early English Literature, B. ten Brink.
• English Literature from the Norman Conquest to Chaucer, W. H. Schofield.
• The Transition Period, G. Gregory Smith.
• Elizabethan Literature, G. Saintsbury.
• History of Eighteenth-Century Literature, E. Gosse.
• The Age of Dryden, R. Garnett.
• The Augustan Age, O. Elton.
• Nineteenth-Century Literature, G. Saintsbury.
• A Survey of English Literature, 1830–1880, O. Elton.
• English Prose (extracts), H. Craik.
• English Poets (extracts), T. H. Ward.
• The Encyclopædia Britannica.
• Dictionary of National Biography.

II. BIOGRAPHY AND CRITICISM

Notes.—1. Abbreviations:

•  E., “English Men of Letters.”
• S.W., “Studies of Living Writers.”
• W.D., “Writers of the Day.”
•  P.B., “The People’s Books.”

Addison, Joseph

• E., W. J. Courthope.
• See English Humourists, Thackeray, and English Comic Writers, Hazlitt.

Arnold, Matthew

• E., Herbert Paul.
• See Studies in Literature, Sir A. T. Quiller-Couch.

Austen, Jane

• E., F. W. Cornish.
• S. F. Maldon.

Bacon, Francis

• E., R. W. Church.
• See Essays, Macaulay.
• P.B., A. R. Skemp.

Bennett, Arnold

• W.D., F. J. Harvey Dalton.
• See Some Impressions of my Elders, St. John G. Ervine.

Brontë, Charlotte

• Charlotte Brontë and her Circle, Clement K. Shorter.
• Life of, Mrs. Gaskell.

Browne, Sir Thomas

• E., E. Gosse.

Browning, Robert

• E., G. K. Chesterton.
• P.B., A. R. Skemp.
• E. Gosse.
• Introduction to the Study of, A. Symons.
• The Poetry of, Stopford A. Brooke.
• See Obiter Dicta, A. Birrell, and Literary Studies, W. Bagehot.

Bunyan, John

• E., J. A. Froude.
• Life of, W. Hale White.
• See The Art of Letters, R. Lynd, and Essays, Macaulay.

Burke, Edmund

• E., Lord Morley.
• Life of, Sir J. Prior.
• See Obiter Dicta, A. Birrell.

Burney, Fanny

• E., A. Ainger.

Burns, Robert

• E., Principal Shairp.
• Life of, J. G. Lockhart.
• Primer of, W. A. Craigie.
• See English Poets, Hazlitt; Essays, Carlyle; Familiar Studies of Men and Books, R. L. Stevenson; Essays, W. E. Henley.

Butler, Samuel (1612–80)

• See English Comic Writers, Hazlitt.

Butler, Samuel (1835–1902)

• Life of, H. Festing Jones.
• Records and Memorials of, R. A. Streatfield.

Byron, Lord

• Life of, T. Moore.
• E., John Nichol.
• See Essays, Macaulay; Essays, W. E. Henley; English Poets, Hazlitt.

Carlyle, Thomas

• E., John Nichol.
• Life of, J. A. Froude.
• P.B., L. Maclean Watt.
• See Obiter Dicta, A. Birrell, and My Study Windows, J. R. Lowell.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

• E., Sir A. Ward.
• See My Study Windows, J. R. Lowell, and Riches of, C. Cowden-Clarke.

Coleridge, S. T.

• E., H. D. Traill.
• P.B., S. L. Bensusan.
• See English Poets, Hazlitt; Essays and Studies, A. C. Swinburne; Studies in Literature, Sir A. T. Quiller-Couch; The Art of Letters, R. Lynd.

Collins, William

• See Lives of the Poets, Dr. Johnson, and The Art of Letters, R. Lynd.

Congreve, William

• Life of, E. Gosse.
• See Lives of the Poets, Dr. Johnson; English Comic Writers, Hazlitt; Essays, Macaulay; English Humourists, Thackeray.

Conrad, Joseph

• S.W., R. Curle.
• W.D., Hugh Walpole.
• See The Moderns, J. Freeman.

Cowper, William

• E., Goldwin Smith.
• See English Poets, Hazlitt; Literary Studies, W. Bagehot; The Art of Letters, R. Lynd.

Crabbe, George

• E., A. Ainger.
• T. H. Kebbel.

Defoe, Daniel

• E., W. Minto.
• See British Novelists, D. Masson, and Hours in a Library, Sir Leslie Stephen.

De Quincey, Thomas

• E., D. Masson.
• See Hours in a Library, Sir Leslie Stephen.

Dickens, Charles

• Life of, J. Forster.
• G. K. Chesterton.
• E., Sir A. W. Ward.
• P.B., S. Dark.
• See Literary Studies, W. Bagehot.

Donne, John

• Life and Letters of, E. Gosse.
• See English Poets, Hazlitt; Studies in Literature, Sir A. T. Quiller-Couch; The Art of Letters, R. Lynd.

Dryden, John

• E., G. Saintsbury.
• See Lives of the Poets, Dr. Johnson, and Essays, Macaulay.

Eliot, George

• E., Sir Leslie Stephen.
• Oscar Browning.

Fielding, Henry

• E., Austin Dobson.
• See English Humourists, Thackeray, and Essays, W. E. Henley.

Galsworthy, John

• W.D., Sheila Kaye-Smith.
• See Some Impressions of my Elders, St. John G. Ervine.

Gibbon, Edward

• E., J. C. Morrison.
• See Literary Studies, W. Bagehot, and Essays Political and Biographical, Sir Spencer Walpole.

Goldsmith, Oliver

• E., W. Black.
• Austin Dobson.
• See English Comic Writers, Hazlitt, and English Humourists, Thackeray.

Gray, Thomas

• E., E. Gosse.
• See Essays in Criticism, Matthew Arnold, and The Art of Letters, R. Lynd.

Hardy, Thomas

• W.D., H. Child.
• The Art of, L. P. Johnson.
• H. C. Duffin.
• See Studies in Literature, Sir A. T. Quiller-Couch, and The Moderns, J. Freeman.

Hazlitt, William

• E., A. Birrell.
• See Essays, W. E. Henley, and Hours in a Library, Sir Leslie Stephen.

Johnson, Samuel

• Life of, J. Boswell.
• E., Sir Leslie Stephen.
• See Essays, Macaulay, and Obiter Dicta, A. Birrell.

Jonson, Ben

• Life of, J. A. Symonds.
• E., G. Gregory Smith.
• See English Comic Writers, Hazlitt.

Keats, John

• Life of, Lord Houghton.
• Life of, Sir Sidney Colvin.
• E., Sir Sidney Colvin.
• P.B., E. Thomas.
• See Essays, F. Jeffrey; Essays in Criticism, Matthew Arnold; Four Poets, Stopford A. Brooke.

Kipling, Rudyard

• Rudyard Kipling: A Criticism, R. Le Gallienne.
• W. D., J. Farmer.

Lamb, Charles

• Life of, E. V. Lucas.
• E., A. Ainger.
• P.B., Flora Masson.
• See The Spirit of the Age, Hazlitt, and Obiter Dicta, A. Birrell.

Landor, W. S.

• E., Sir Sidney Colvin.

Macaulay, Lord

• Life and Letters of, Sir G. O. Trevelyan.
• E., J. C. Morrison.
• See Literary Studies, W. Bagehot; Critical Miscellanies, Lord Morley; Hours in a Library, Sir Leslie Stephen.

Marlowe, Christopher

• See English Dramatic Poets, C. Lamb, and English Comic Writers, Hazlitt.

Meredith, George

• The Poetry and Philosophy of, G. M. Trevelyan.
• Some Characteristics, R. Le Gallienne.
• See Studies in Literature, Sir A. T. Quiller-Couch; The Art of Letters, R. Lynd; Studies in Prose and Verse, A. Symons.

Milton, John

• Life of, D. Masson.
• E., Mark Pattison.
• Sir Walter Raleigh.
• See Essays, Addison; Lectures, S. T. Coleridge; Literary Studies, W. Bagehot; Essays, Macaulay; Obiter Dicta, A. Birrell.

Morris, William

• Life and Letters of, J. W. Mackail.
• E., Alfred Noyes.
• See The Art of Letters, R. Lynd, and Studies in Prose and Verse, A. Symons.

Pope, Alexander

• E., Sir Leslie Stephen.
• See Lives of the Poets, Dr. Johnson; My Study Windows, J. R. Lowell; English Poets, Hazlitt; The English Humourists, Thackeray; Obiter Dicta, A. Birrell; Hours in a Library, Sir Leslie Stephen.

Richardson, Samuel

• E., Austin Dobson.
• See The English Comic Writers, Hazlitt, and Hours in a Library, Sir Leslie Stephen.

Rossetti, D. G.

• Record and Study of, W. Sharp.
• F. G. Stephen.
• See Essays and Studies, A. C. Swinburne.

Ruskin, John

• E., Frederic Harrison.
• Life of, W. G. Collingwood.
• Studies in, E. T. Cook.

Scott, Walter

• Life of, J. G. Lockhart.
• E., R. H. Hutton.
• G. Saintsbury.
• See The Spirit of the Age, Hazlitt; Essays, Carlyle; Hours in a Library, Sir Leslie Stephen; Literary Studies, W. Bagehot; Four Poets, Stopford A. Brooke.

Shakespeare, William

• Life of, Sir Sidney Lee.
• E., Sir Walter Raleigh.
• P. B., C. Herford.
• Studies in, J. C. Collins.
• Shakespearian Tragedy, A. C. Bradley.
• Ten Plays of, Stopford A. Brooke.
• Among my Books, J. R. Lowell.
• See English Comic Writers, Hazlitt; Literary Studies, W. Bagehot; Lectures on Dramatic Literature, Hazlitt; Essays and Lectures on, S. T. Coleridge; Essays, Carlyle; Shakespeare’s Mind and Art, E. Dowden.

Shaw, George Bernard

• George Bernard Shaw: His Life and Works, A. Henderson.
• G. K. Chesterton.
• S.W., J. McCabe.
• See The Moderns, J. Freeman; Dramatists of To-day, E. E. Hale; Some Impressions of my Elders, St. John G. Ervine.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

• Life of, E. Dowden.
• E., J. A. Symonds.
• P.B., Sydney Waterlow.
• See Essays, D. Masson; Essays, R. H. Hutton; Literary Studies, W. Bagehot; The Art of Letters, R. Lynd; Four Poets, Stopford A. Brooke.

Smollett, Tobias

• See English Comic Writers, Hazlitt; English Humourists, Thackeray; Essays, W. E. Henley.

Southey, Robert

• E., E. Dowden.
• See Essays, Macaulay.

Spenser, Edmund

• E., R. W. Church.
• Life of, J. W. Hales.
• See English Poets, Hazlitt, and Essays, Leigh Hunt.

Steele, Richard

• See English Humourists, Thackeray, and Studies in English Literature, Dennis.

Sterne, Laurence

• Life of, P. Fitzgerald.
• See English Humourists, Thackeray, and Literary Studies, W. Bagehot.

Stevenson, R. L.

• Life of, G. Balfour.
• Sir Walter Raleigh.
• See Studies in Prose and Verse, A. Symons.

Swift, Jonathan

• E., Sir Leslie Stephen.
• See Lives of the Poets, Dr. Johnson; English Comic Writers, Hazlitt; English Humourists, Thackeray.

Swinburne, A. C.

• See Studies in Literature, Sir A. T. Quiller-Couch, and Victorian Poets, Stedman.

Taylor, Jeremy

• Life of, R. Heber.
• E., E. Gosse.
• See Lectures, S. T. Coleridge.

Tennyson, Alfred

• Life of, H. Tennyson.
• Life of, A. C. Benson.
• E., Sir Alfred Lyall.
• P.B., A. Watson.
• See The Art of Letters, R. Lynd; Literary Studies, W. Bagehot; Essays, R. H. Hutton; Essays, P. Bayne; Victorian Poets, Stedman.

Thackeray, W. M.

• Life of, Merivale and Marzila.
• E., Anthony Trollope.
• See Characters and Sketches, Hannay, and Literary Studies, W. Bagehot.

Thomson, James

• E., G. C. Macaulay.
• See Lives of the Poets, Dr. Johnson, and English Poets, Hazlitt.

Wells, H. G.

• W.D., J. D. Beresford.
• See The Moderns, J. Freeman, and Some Impressions of my Elders, St. John G. Ervine.

Wilde, Oscar

• See Studies in Prose and Verse, A. Symons, and The Art of Letters, R. Lynd.

Wordsworth, William

• Life of, C. Knight.
• E., T. W. H. Myers.
• Sir Walter Raleigh.
• P.B., Rosaline Masson.
• See English Poets, Hazlitt; Biographic Literaria, S. T. Coleridge; Essays in Criticism, Matthew Arnold; Literary Studies, W. Bagehot; Essays, D. Masson; Essays, R. H. Hutton; Appreciations, W. Pater; Hours in a Library, Sir Leslie Stephen.

III. ESSAYS ON LITERARY SUBJECTS. A series of books of essays arranged in order of composition. These volumes form the basis of a history of English criticism.

• Sidney, Sir Philip, Apologie for Poetrie.
• Dryden, John, Essay of Dramatic Poesie.
• Addison, Joseph, Spectator essays.
• Johnson, Dr., Lives of the Poets.
• Coleridge, S. T., Biographia Literaria; Essays and Lectures on Shakespeare.
• Hazlitt, William, Lectures on the English Poets; The English Comic Writers.
• Lamb, Charles, English Dramatic Poets.
• Hunt, Leigh, Imagination and Fancy.
• Macaulay, Lord, Essays.
• Thackeray, W. M., The English Humourists.
• Arnold, Matthew, Essays in Criticism.
• Hutton, R. H., Essays.
• Bagehot, W., Literary Studies.
• Swinburne, A. C., Essays and Studies.
• Quiller-Couch, Sir A. T., Studies in Literature.
• Stephen, Sir Leslie, Hours in a Library.
• Henley, W. E., Views and Reviews; Essays.
• Collins, J. Churton, Essays and Studies.
• Gosse, E., Seventeenth-Century Studies; Some Diversions of a Man of Letters.
• Dobson, A., Eighteenth-Century Studies.
• Saintsbury, G., Corrected Impressions.
• Freeman, J., The Moderns.
• Lynd, R., The Art of Letters.
• Ervine, St. John G., Some Impressions of my Elders.