A history of English literature

A

• Absalom and Achitophel, 196, 227–228, 274
• Addison, Joseph, 243, 246, 277
• Address to the Deil, 359
• Address to Edinburgh, 311
• Address to the King (Burke), 353
• Adonais, 392, 449
• Ælfric, 13–14
• Æneid (Surrey), 97, 150
• Alfred, King, 9, 51
• All for Love, 200
• Althea, To, 185
• Alysoun, 30
• Amoretti, 152
• Anatomy of Melancholy, The, 154
• Ancient Mariner, The Rime of the, 378, 445
• Ancren Riwle, 23
• Androcles and the Lion, 543–544
• Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, The, 10
• Antiquary, The, 447
• Antony and Cleopatra, 121, 122–123
• Areopagitica, 163
• Arnold, Matthew, 156, 229, 516
• Ascham, Roger, 155
• Ask Me no More, 172
• Asolando, 463–464
• Astræa Redux, 195
• Austen, Jane, 420–421
• Autobiography, Gibbon’s, 359
• Autumn, Ode to (Keats), 443
• Autumn (Shelley), 443

B

• Back to Methuselah, 545–546
• Bacon, Francis, 136–137
• Bale, John, 85
• Ballad of East and West, The, 574
• Ballad upon a Wedding, A, 186
• Barbour, John, 44
• Beaux’ Stratagem, The, 225–226
• Bee, The, 296, 347
• Behn, Aphra, 221–222
• Beowulf, 4–5
• Bible, the, 83–84, 132, 133
• Biographia Literaria, 368, 381, 443–444
• Black-eyed Susan, 275
• Blake, William, 314, 352–353, 566–567
• Blessed Damozel, The, 515
• Blue Tit, The, 565–566
• Boswell, James, 329, 358–359
• Break, break, break, 460
• Brooke, Rupert, 555
• Browne, Sir Thomas, 176
• Browne, William, 125, 223
• Browning, Robert, 462, 463, 464, 465, 466, 512, 514, 516, 563, 571
• Brus, The, 44
• Brut, 18, 29
• Bunyan, John, 210–211, 225, 574
• Burke, Edmund, 332, 353
• Burney, Frances, 354
• Burns, Robert, 309, 310, 311, 312, 359, 570
• Burton, Robert, 154
• Butler, Samuel (1612–80), 208–209
• Byron, Lord, 383, 384, 385, 386, 387, 388, 446–447, 449

C

• Cædmon, 12–13
• Caliban upon Setebos, 465
• Caller Water, 346
• Campaign, The, 243
• Campion, Thomas, 101
• Carew, Thomas, 172
• Carlyle, Thomas, 495–496, 513, 575
• Castaway, The, 301
• Castle of Indolence, The, 292–293
• Cato, 277
• Caxton, William, 67
• Cenci, The, 392
• Chamberlayne, William, 216
• Channel Firing, 525–526
• Chaucer, Geoffrey, 35, 37, 38, 39, 40
• Cherry Ripe (Campion), 101
• Chesterfield, Lord, 342
• Chevy Chace, 54–55
• Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, 385, 448
• Christabel, 377
• Clare, John, 565–566
• Cleannesse, 31
• Cleveland, John, 182, 185–186
• Clive, Essay on, 498–499
• Clough, Arthur Hugh, 515–516
• Cobbett, William, 440
• Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 377, 378, 379, 380, 381, 443–444, 445–446
• Colin Clout (Skelton), 81–82
• Collins, William, 352
• Complaint, The, or Night Thoughts, 271, 278
• Compleat Angler, The, 184
• Comus, 186
• Confessio Amantis, 53
• Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, The, 430, 444
• Congreve, William, 204, 567
• Conrad, Joseph, 529, 530
• Coverdale, Miles, 84
• Cowper, William, 301, 343–344, 352
• Coy Mistress, To his, 185
• Crabbe, George, 356
• Crawford, Robert, 276
• Cymon and Iphigenia, 197–198

D

• Daffodils, To (Herrick), 222
• Dance of the Sevin Deidlie Sins, The, 61
• Davies, William H., 553
• De Quincey, Thomas, 430, 444
• Dead Drummer, The, 521
• Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, The, 327, 564
• Defoe, Daniel, 250–251, 272, 277
• Dekker, Thomas, 150
• Deluge, The, 84–85
• Deserted Village, The, 295, 356
• Diary, Pepys’, 213
• Dickens, Charles, 477
• Dictionary, Johnson’s, 349
• Doctor Faustus, 153–154
• Don Juan, 386–387, 449
• Donne, John, 103, 184
• Dramatic Poesie, The Essay of, 202
• Dreams of the Sea, 553
• Drummond, William, 224
• Dryden, John, 185, 194, 195, 196, 198, 199, 200, 202, 214, 217, 222–223, 227–228, 274
• Dunbar, William, 61
• Dunciad, The, 258

E

• Ecclesiastical Polity, The Laws of, 152–153
• Education of Nature, The, 374–375
• Egoist, The, 484
• Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog, 573
• English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, 383
• English Comic Writers, The, 432
• Enoch Arden, 457
• Epicene, 149
• Epistle to Arbuthnot, 259, 274
• Epitaph on the Countess of Pembroke, 125
• Epithalamion, 92
• Essay on Clive, 498–499
• Essay on Criticism, An, 256, 261
• Essay of Dramatic Poesie, The, 202
• Essay concerning Human Understanding, An, 219–221
• Essay on Johnson, 360
• Essays, Bacon’s, 136–137
• Essays of Elia, The, 428, 444
• Euphues and his England, 138–139, 154, 563
• Eve of St. Agnes, The, 398–399, 446, 569
• Eve of St Mark, The, 400
• Evelina, 354
• Everyman, 75
• Examiner, The (Tory periodical), 279

F

• Fables (Dryden), 222–223
• Faerie Queene, The, 95, 155–156
• Farquhar, George, 225–226
• Ferdinand, Count Fathom, 360
• Fergusson, Robert, 346
• Fielding, Henry, 318, 320–321, 354–355
• Fisher, John, 68, 80
• Flaming Heart, The, 174
• Flecker, James Elroy, 569–570
• Fra Lippo Lippi, 512
• French Revolution, The, 513
• Frost at Midnight, 379
• Funeral Sermon on Henry VII (Fisher), 80

G

• Galsworthy, John, 568–569
• Garden Fancies, 465
• Gascoigne, George, 151
• Gay, John, 275
• Gibbon, Edward, 327, 358–359, 564
• God’s Promises, 85
• Godric, 24
• Golden Journey to Samarkand, The, 569–570
• Golden Wings, 514
• Goldsmith, Oliver, 295, 296, 347, 356, 573–574
• Gower, John, 53
• Gray, Thomas, 188, 345
• Grecian Urn, Ode on a, 402
• Greene, Robert, 142–143
• Groatsworth of Wit, A, 142–143
• Gulliver’s Travels, 241, 277

H

• Halbert and Hob, 571
• Hamlet, 118, 121
• Handlyng Synne, 30–31
• Hardy, Thomas, 521, 522, 524, 525, 526, 571
• Havelock the Dane, 30
• Hazlitt, William, 432
• Heaven, 554
• Henry Esmond, 581
• Henryson, Robert, 60
• Heroic Stanzas (Dryden), 194, 195
• Herrick, Robert, 222
• Hind and the Panther, The, 217
• History of England, The (Hume), 350–351
• History of England, The (Macaulay), 513
• Holy Sonnetts, 103
• Holy Willie’s Prayer, 310
• Hooker, Richard, 152–153
• Hous of Fame, The, 39
• Howard, Henry, Earl of Surrey, 97, 150, 151
• Hudibras, 208–209
• Human Understanding, An Essay concerning, 219–221
• Hume, David, 350–351
• Hunt, Leigh, 445
• Hydriotaphia, 176
• Hyperion, 399

I

• Iliad (Pope), 256
• In the Cemetery, 522
• In Memoriam, 459
• Induction, The, 98
• Intimations of Immortality, 372, 374
• Isabella, 401

J

• James I of Scotland, 59, 81
• John of Trevisa, 52
• Jonathan Wild the Great, 318
• Johnson, Samuel, 288, 289, 290, 349–350, 355, 357, 575
• Johnson, Life of (Boswell), 329, 359
• Johnson, Essay on (Macaulay), 360
• Jonson, Ben, 125, 149
• Journal of the Plague Year, A, 272, 276

K

• Keats, John, 398, 399, 400, 401, 402, 446, 569
• Killigrew, On the Death of Mrs. Anne, 214
• King Arthur’s Tomb, 512–513
• King Lear, 120, 157
• King of Tars, The, 25
• Kingis Quhair, The, 59, 81
• Kipling, Rudyard, 564–565, 574
• Knight’s Tale, The, 38
• Knight’s Tomb, The, 379
• Kynge Johan, 85

L

• Lady of the Lake, The, 446
• Lamb, Charles, 428, 444–445
• Lamia, 400
• Langland, William, 43, 53
• Latimer, Hugh, 81
• Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, The, 152–153
• Layamon, 18, 29
• Letter to his Wife (More), 80
• Letters to his Son (Chesterfield), 342
• Letters, Cowper’s, 343–344
• Letters, Leigh Hunt’s, 445
• Letters, Johnson’s, 290, 357
• Letters, Walpole’s, 358
• Life of Doctor Johnson, The (Boswell), 329, 358–359
• Life of John Sterling, The, 496
• Lives of the Poets, The, 350, 575
• Locke, John, 219
• Lord Hastings, Upon the Death of, 185, 228
• Love in Fantastic Triumph sate, 221–222
• Love of King David and Fair Bethsabe, The, 106
• Lovelace, Richard, 185
• Lycidas, 165
• Lyly, John, 138, 154, 563–564
• Lyndsay, Sir David, 82

M

• Macaulay, Lord, 359, 498–499, 513
• Macpherson, James, 349
• Malory, Sir Thomas, 46–47, 52
• Mandeville, Sir John, 45, 51–52, 153
• Marlowe, Christopher, 109, 153–154
• Marmion, 412–413
• Marvell, Andrew, 185
• Masque of Anarchy, The, 392
• Measure for Measure, 121, 122
• Melibæus, The Tale of, 37
• Merchant of Venice, The, 157
• Meredith, George, 484
• Midsummer Night’s Dream, A, 120
• Milton, John, 163, 165, 166, 167, 168, 186, 187, 562
• Milton (Ernest Myers), 188–189
• Modern Painters, 513–514
• Moral Ode, 29
• More, Sir Thomas, 80
• Morris, William, 512–513, 514
• Morte d’Arthur (Malory), 46–47, 52
• Moti Guj—Mutineer, 564–565
• My First Play (Lamb), 428
• Myers, Ernest, 188–189

N

• Natural History of Selborne, The, 355
• Nigger of the Narcissus, The, 529–530
• Night Thoughts, 271, 278
• Noctes Ambrosianæ, 441
• North, Christopher, 441
• Northanger Abbey, 420–421
• Nun’s Priest’s Tale, The, 40

O

• O, My Luve is like a Red, Red Rose, 309–310
• O, Willie brewed a Peck o’ Maut, 309
• Ode: Intimations of Immortality, 373–374
• Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College, 345
• Ode on a Grecian Urn, 402
• Ode to the West Wind, 393
• Oh, to be in England, 516
• Old Curiosity Shop, The, 477
• Old Mortality, 440–441
• On his Own Death (Swift), 237
• On the Death of Mrs. Anne Killigrew, 214
• On Phillis, 182
• On Prayer (Jeremy Taylor), 187
• Ormulum, 20
• Orphan, The, 217–218
• Ossian, 349
• Otway, Thomas, 217–218, 226

P

• Pacchiarotto, 464
• Paracelsus, 462
• Paradise Lost, 144, 161, 562
• Passions, The (Collins), 352
• Pastoral Care, 9, 51
• Pastorals (Pope), 255
• Pearl, 149–150
• Peele, George, 106
• Pepys, Samuel, 213
• Philips, Ambrose, 271
• Phœnix, The, 13, 29
• Pickwick Papers, The, 477
• Picture of Dorian Gray, The, 565
• Pied Piper of Hamelin, The, 514
• Piers Plowman, 43, 53–54
• Pilgrim’s Progress, The, 210–211, 225, 574–575
• Pine Forest, The, 395
• Pippa Passes, 466
• Places, 522–523
• Pope, Alexander, 224, 255, 256, 257, 258, 259, 274, 351
• Praise of Chimney-sweepers, The, 444–445
• Prelude, The, 562
• Princess, The, 458
• Proclamation of Henry III, 51
• Progress of Poesy, The, 188
• Psalms, the Book of, 133
• Purple Pileus, The, 535

Q

• Queen Mab, 390

R

• Ralph Roister Doister, 78, 85–86
• Rambler, The, 289–290
• Rape of the Lock, The, 257–258, 351
• Rarely, rarely, comest Thou, 394
• Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye, The, 67
• Reflections on the French Revolution, 332
• Rejected Addresses, 410
• Rescue, The, 529
• Resolution and Independence, 372
• Rhapsody on Poetry, 278
• Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The, 378, 445
• Ring and the Book, The, 465, 563
• Robert of Gloucester, 25
• Robinson Crusoe, 250
• Roderick Random, 346
• Rokeby, 413–414
• Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 515
• Rural Rides in England, 440
• Ruskin, John, 501, 513–514

S

• Sackville, Thomas, Earl of Dorset, 98
• St. Luke, the Gospel of, 132
• Samson Agonistes, 167
• Sappho (A. Philips), 271
• Sartor Resartus, 495
• Sassoon, Siegfried, 571–572
• Satires of Circumstance, 571
• Satyre of the Thrie Estatis, Ane Pleasant, 82–83
• Say not the Struggle Naught Availeth, 515
• Scholemaster, The, 155
• School for Scandal, The, 567–568
• Schoolmistress, The, 351–352
• Scott, Sir Walter, 412, 413, 414, 417–418, 446, 447–448
• Sedley, Sir Charles, 218
• Sensitive Plant, The, 395
• Sermons, Latimer’s, 81
• Shakespeare, William, 113, 118, 120, 121, 122, 151, 157, 569
• Shakespeare (Matthew Arnold), 156
• Shaw, George Bernard, 543–544, 545–546
• Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 390, 392, 393, 394, 395, 443, 449
• Shenstone, William, 351–352
• Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 567–568
• Simon Lee, 374, 566
• Skelton, John, 63, 81–82
• Skin Game, The, 568–569
• Sleeping Beauty, The (Tennyson), 459
• Smart, Christopher, 304
• Smith, Horace, 410
• Smith, James, 410
• Smollett, Tobias, 346, 360
• Song to David, The, 304
• Songs of Experience, 314
• Songs of Innocence, 352~353, 566–567
• Songbooks of the War, 571–572
• Sonnet, by Matthew Arnold, 156;
• by Drayton, 152;
• by Ernest Myers, 188–189;
• by Shakespeare (cvi and cxvi), 113;
• by Spenser, 152;
• by Surrey, 151;
• by Wordsworth, 188
• Spectator, The, 246, 277
• Spenser, Edmund, 92, 95, 155–156
• Steel Glass, The, 151
• Steele, Sir Richard, 218
• Sterne, Laurence, 323, 360
• Stevenson, Robert Louis, 510
• Stones of Venice, The, 501
• Strew on her Roses, Roses, 516
• Suckling, Sir John, 186
• Sumer is i-cumen in, 26
• Surrey, Earl of, 97, 150, 151
• Sweet Content, 150
• Sweet Lullaby, A, 155
• Swift, Jonathan, 237, 239, 241, 277, 279
• Synge, J. M., 568