T HE C AMBRIDGE H ISTORY
OF
E NGLISH AND A MERICAN L ITERATURE
An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes
Volume XII: English
T HE R OMANTIC R EVIVAL
The Nineteenth Century, I
Edited by A. W. Ward & A. R. Waller
CONTENTS INDEX TO CHAPTERS INDEX TO BIBLIOGRAPHIES INDEX TO AUTHORS
CONTENTS
Preface
Table of Principal Dates
Chapter I.
Sir Walter Scott
By T. F. HENDERSON, LL.D., St. Andrews
The Scottish literary revival of the eighteenth century
Scotts relations with the past
His early years
His German studies; Ballad poetry
Minstrelsy of the Scottish-Border
The Lay of the Last Minstrel
Marmion
The Lady of the Lake
Rokeby
Scotts lyrics
Scott and Byron
Border Antiquities
Scenic arrangement
The sweep and compass of his narrative; The Waverley Novels
The characters in his novels
His treatment of love
His humour
His historical inaccuracies
His style
The influence of his work
BIBLIOGRAPHY
II.
Byron
By F. W. MOORMAN, B.A. (Lond.), Ph.D. (Strassburg), Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature in the University of Leeds
Early years
Departure from England
Life at Venice and Ravenna
The Liberal
Life at Pisa and Genoa
Death at Mesolonghi
Hours of Idleness
English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
Childe Harold
The Verse-tales
Dramatic works
Lyrics
Beppo
The Vision of Judgment
Don Juan
BIBLIOGRAPHY
III.
Shelley
By C. H. HERFORD, Litt.D., Trinity College, Professor of English Literature in the University of Manchester
Queen Mab; Alastor
Laon and Cythna
Prometheus Unbound
The Cenci
Peter Bell the Third
Odes
Epipsychidion; Adonais
The Defence of Poetry
The Triumph of Life
Summary
BIBLIOGRAPHY
IV.
Keats
By C. H. HERFORD
Early years
Endymion
Isabella; Letters
Hyperion
The Eve of St. Agnes
La Belle Dame Sans Merci
Lamia
Odes
Sonnets
Summary
BIBLIOGRAPHY
V.
Lesser Poets, 17901837
ROGERS, CAMPBELL, MOORE AND OTHERS
By GEORGE SAINTSBURY, M.A., Merton College, Oxford, LL.D., D.Litt., F.B.A., Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature in the University of Edinburgh
Rogers
Campbell
The Pleasures of Hope
Moore
Irish Melodies; Lalla Rookh
Hartley Coleridge
Thomas Hood
The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies
Winthrop Mackworth Praed
Sir Henry Taylor; Philip van Artevelde
George Darley
Thomas Lovell Beddoes
Deaths Jest Book
Charles Jeremiah Wells; Joseph and his Brethren
Richard H. Horne
Charles Whitehead
Thomas Wade
James and Horace Smith; Rejected Addresses
Richard Harris Barham; The Ingoldsby Legends
Poetesses
Joanna Baillie
Mrs. Hemans; L.E.L .
Sara Coleridge
Henry James Pye
William Sotheby; John Abraham Heraud; Robert Pollok; Robert Montgomery
Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall )
Thomas Haynes Bayly
Robert Bloomfield; John Clare
John Bampfylde
John Leyden
Robert Stephen Hawker
William Barnes
Bernard Barton
James Montgomery
Ebenezer Elliott
Henry Kirke White
Francis Cary
Charles Wolfe
Reginald Heber
BIBLIOGRAPHY
VI.
Reviews and Magazines in the Early Years of the Nineteenth Century
By the Hon. ARTHUR R. D. ELLIOT, M.A., Trinity College, Hon. D.C.L. (Durham), sometime editor of The Edinburgh Review
The Edinburgh Review
Jeffrey
Brougham
The Quarterly Review
Gifford; Scott; Lockhart; Croker
Blackwoods Magazine
Lockhart; Wilson; Hogg; Maginn
Noctes Ambrosian
The London Magazine; De Quinceys Opium Eater; Lambs Roast Pig
The New Monthly Magazine
BIBLIOGRAPHY
VII.
Hazlitt
By W. D. HOWE, Professor of English in the University of Indiana, U. S. A.
Hazlitts early years
His later life
His work as a critic
His dramatic criticism
His writings on art
His quotations
His influence
BIBLIOGRAPHY
VIII.
Lamb
By A. HAMILTON THOMPSON, M.A., F.S.A., St. Johns College
Lambs early days and friendships
Mary Lamb
Charles Lloyd
Tales from Shakespear
Specimens of English Dramatic Poets
Contributions to periodicals
The Essays of Elia
Letters
His later life
Summary
BIBLIOGRAPHY
IX.
The Landors, Leigh Hunt, De Quincey
By GEORGE SAINTSBURY
Walter Savage Landors prose and verse
His classicism
Gebir
Count Julian
Hellenics
Imaginary Conversations
Landor as a critic
Leigh Hunts influence
His merits and defects
De Quinceys mastery in ornate prose
Robert Eyres Landor
BIBLIOGRAPHY
X.
Jane Austen
By HAROLD CHILD, sometime Scholar of Brasenose College, Oxford
Early tales
Pride and Prejudice
Northanger Abbey
Sense and Sensibility
Mansfield Park
Emma
Persuasion
BIBLIOGRAPHY
XI.
Lesser Novelists
By HAROLD CHILD
Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
Catherine Grace Gore
Thomas Henry Lister
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: Frankenstein
Catherine Crowe: The Night Side of Nature
George Croly
G. P. R. James
W. H. Ainsworth
Marryat
Theodore Hook
John Galt
Moirs Mansie Wauch
BIBLIOGRAPHY
XII.
The Oxford Movement
By the Ven. W. H. HUTTON, B.D., Archdeacon of Northampton, Canon of Peterborough and Fellow of St. Johns College, Oxford
Keble
R. H. Froude
Tracts for the Times
Newman at St. Marys
Tract 90
Wards The Ideal of a Christian Church
Newman joins the Roman Catholic Church
Pusey
Kebles Christian Year
Isaac Williams
Newmans Apologia pro vita sua
The Dream of Gerontius
His later works
Dean Church; Trench
Liddon
Neale; The Mozleys
Hook; The Wilberforces
Wiseman; Manning; Pollen; Faber; Dalgairns; W. G. Ward; de Lisle
Dolben
F. E. Paget
BIBLIOGRAPHY
XIII.
The Growth of Liberal Theology
By the Rev. F. E. HUTCHINSON, M.A., Trinity College, Oxford, formerly Chaplain of Kings College
The Evangelicals
The Clapham sect
The influence of Coleridge
Erskine of Linlathen
The noetics
Whately
Hampden
Thomas Arnold
Frederick Denison Maurice
Robertson of Brighton
The Broad Churchmen
Jowett
Stanley
Essays and Reviews
Robertson Smith
Ecce Homo
Westcott and Hort; Lightfoot
T. H. Green; Martineau
Father Tyrrell
BIBLIOGRAPHY
XIV.
Historians
WRITERS ON ANCIENT AND EARLY ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY
By Sir A. W. WARD, Litt.D., F.B.A., Master of Peterhouse
The influence of Niebuhr
Arnolds Roman History
Merivales Romans under the Empire
Longs Decline of the Roman Republic
Thirlwall and Grote
Finlays History of Greece
Freeman
George Rawlinson
Smiths Dictionaries
Milmans Latin Christianity
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
William Bright
Hodgkins Italy and her Invaders
BIBLIOGRAPHY
XV.
Scholars, Antiquaries and Bibliographers
By Sir JOHN EDWIN SANDYS, Litt.D., F.B.A., Fellow of St. Johns College and Public Orator in the University of Cambridge
Greek Scholars
Latin Scholars
Classical Archæologists
Oriental Scholars
English Scholars
Archæological Antiquaries
Literary Antiquaries
Bibliographers
BIBLIOGRAPHY