A history of English literature

The pages on which authors are more particularly dealt with are given in black type.

A

• A Man’s a Man for a’ That, 310
• A Weary Lot is Thine, 413
• Abbot, The, 415
• Abou Ben Adhem, 406
• Absalom and Achitophel, 195, 215, 227, 274
• Absentee, The, 421
• Acis and Galatea, 262
• Adam Bede, 488
• Adam Blair, 434
• Addison, Joseph, 169, 219, 242, 259, 267, 269, 270, 272, 276, 277, 339, 347, 431, 439, 558
• Address to the Deil, 359
• Address to Edinburgh, 311
• Address to the King (Burke), 353
• Admirable Crichton, The, 548
• Adonais, 392, 449
• Advancement of Learning, The, 135
• Adventurer, The, 344
• Adventures of Harry Richmond, The, 483
• Adventures of Philip, The, 480
• Advice to a Daughter, 211
• Ae Fond Kiss, 308
• Ælfric, 9, 13–14, 71
• Æneid (Douglas), 62
• Æneid (Surrey), 97, 150
• After Dark, 488
• Afton Water, 308
• Agnes Grey, 486
• Aids to Reflection, 381
• Ainsworth, William Harrison, 422, 438
• Airly Beacon, 490
• Akenside, Mark, 303
• Alarum to the Counties of England and Wales, An, 178
• Alastor, 390
• Alchemist, The, 124
• Alcibiades, 206
• Alciphron, 252, 270
• Alexander’s Feast, 198
• Alfred, King, 8, 14, 18, 50, 61
• Alfred (Thomson), 293
• Alfred, The Proverbs of, 20
• Alice in Wonderland, 548
• All Fools, 127
• All for Love, 200, 215
• All the Year Round, 474, 475, 558
• All’s Well that Ends Well, 116
• Allegory, the, 48, 69, 93
• Allegro, L’, 164, 180
• Alliteration, 5, 43, 49
• Alma, 262
• Almayer’s Folly, 527
• Alphonsus, King of Arragon, 106
• Alroy, 425
• Althea, To, 173, 185
• Alton Locke, 489
• Alysoun, 26, 30
• Amazing Marriage, The, 484
• Amelia, 319
• America, The History of, 328
• American Notes, 475
• Amis and Amiloun, 22
• Amoretti, 91, 152
• Amours de Voyage, 469
• Anatomy of Melancholy, The, 140, 146, 154, 175, 400
• Anatomy of the World, An, 102
• Ancient Mariner, The Rime of the, 376–377, 378, 446
• Ancren Riwle, 17, 23
• Andreas, 3
• Androcles and the Lion, 542, 543–544
• Anglo-French language, in medieval England, 15
• Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, The, 10, 11
• Ann Veronica, 532
• Anna of the Five Towns, 538
• Annals of the Parish, The, 422
• Annus Mirabilis, 194
• Anthea, To, 170
• Antiquary, The, 415, 447
• Antonio and Mellida, 128
• Antonio’s Revenge, 128
• Antony and Cleopatra, 117, 119, 121, 123
• Apologie for Poetrie, An, 90, 269
• Apophthegms (Bacon), 135
• Appius and Virginia (early tragedy), 77
• Appius and Virginia (Webster), 129
• Appreciations, 502
• Araygnement of Paris, The, 105
• Arbuthnot, John, 251
• Arcadia, 146, 337
• Areopagitica, 163–164
• Arms and the Man, 541
• Arnold, Matthew, 156, 229, 370, 453, 467, 509, 516, 560
• Arrow of Gold, The, 528
• Art of Political Lying, The, 251
• Arthur and Merlin, 22
• As You Like It, 116
• Ascham, Roger, 137, 155
• Ask me No More, 172
• Asolando, 463
• Astræa Redux, 195
• Astrophel and Stella, 99
• Atalanta in Calydon, 471
• Atheist’s Tragedy, The, 129
• Auld Lang Syne, 311
• Auld Licht Idylls, 547
• Aurengzebe, 199
• Aurora Leigh, 467
• Austen, Jane, 325, 418, 438, 440
• Authorized Version, the, 72, 130
• Autobiography (Gibbon), 326, 359
• Autobiography (Leigh Hunt), 406
• Autumn, Ode to (Keats), 401, 443
• Autumn (Shelley), 443
• Ayenbite of Inwyt, 23
• Ayrshire Legatees, The, 422

B

• Back to Methuselah, 542, 545
• Bacon, Francis, 134, 147, 269
• Bad Child’s Book of Beasts, A, 549
• Baillie, Joanna, 336
• Balaustion’s Adventure, 463
• Bale, John, 85
• Ballad, the, 47, 70, 335
• Ballad of Bouillabaisse, The, 480
• Ballad of East and West, The, 574
• Ballad upon a Wedding, A, 173, 186
• Ballads and Poems (Meredith), 482
• Ballads of Policeman X, The, 480
• Ballads and Sonnets (D. G. Rossetti), 469
• Ballantyne, James, 411
• Ballantyne, John, 411
• Baltic, The Battle of the, 405
• Barbour, John, 33, 44
• Barchester Towers, 487
• Barclay, Alexander, 65, 69
• Bard, The, 298, 335
• Barker, Granville, 559
• Barnaby Rudge, 475
• Barons’ Wars, The, 100
• Barrie, Sir James, 547
• Barrow, Isaac, 181
• Barry Lyndon, 479
• Bartholomew Fair, 124
• Bastard, The, 263
• Battle of the Baltic, The, 405
• Battle of Blenheim, The, 403
• Battle of the Books, The, 238
• Battle of Brunanburgh, The, 6
• Battle of Hastings, The, 314
• Battle of Maldon, The, 6, 11
• Battle-song (Ebenezer Elliott), 408
• Baxter, Richard, 181
• Beauchamp’s Career, 483
• Beaumont, Francis, 126
• Beaux’ Stratagem, The, 205, 215, 225–226
• Becket (Tennyson), 458
• Beckford, William, 324
• Bede, 7, 8, 9
• Bee, The, 296, 344, 347
• Beggar’s Opera, The, 262, 266, 267
• Behn, Aphra, 222, 339
• Belle Dame sans Merci, La, 401, 402
• Belloc, Hilaire, 549
• Bennett, Arnold, 538
• Bentley, Richard, 256
• Beowulf, 2, 4, 11, 12, 179
• Beppo, 385
• Berkeley, George, 252, 270, 509
• Berners, Lord, 70
• Besant, Walter, 490
• Bestiary, The, 20
• Betrothed, The, 415
• Bevis of Hampton, 22
• Bible, the, 70, 83, 130;
• Authorized Version, 130;
• the Bishops’, 72;
• the Geneva (“Breeches,”), 72;
• the Great, 72, 84;
• other early translations of, 71, 83
• Bible in Spain, The, 490
• Biographia Literaria, 368, 380, 443–444
• Black Arrow, The, 491
• Black Dwarf, The, 415
• Black-eyed Susan, 262, 275
• Blackmore, Sir Richard (1650–1729), 264, 266
• Blackmore, Richard D. (1825–1900), 491
• Blackwood’s Magazine, 365, 397, 424, 429, 434, 467, 488, 558
• Blair, Robert, 305
• Blake, William, 314, 334, 345, 353, 556–557
• Blank verse, 97, 183, 271, 437, 456
• Bleak House, 475
• Blenheim, The Battle of, 403
• 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