|
Introduction by Henry Craik |
Sir Walter Scott.
1771–1832. |
Critical Introduction by Henry Craik |
The Gipsy’s Curse |
A House of Mourning |
Jeanie Deans as Witness |
The Death of Madge Wildfire |
An Apparition |
The Grand Master of the Templars |
Landscape-Gardening |
Lord Byron |
The Comedy of the Restoration |
Jane Austen.
1775–1817. |
Critical Introduction by Henry Craik |
Mr. Collins |
A Proposal |
An Imitation |
Society at Bath |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
1772–1834. |
Critical Introduction by W. P. Ker |
The Privilege of Genius |
This Enlightened Age |
Study of Philosophy |
Lyrical Ballads: Mr. Wordsworth’s Theory |
Robert Southey.
1774–1843. |
Critical Introduction by William Wallace |
The Battle of Coruña |
The Death of Nelson |
The Origin of Methodism |
Wesley on Old Age |
Evils of the Manufacturing System |
Lord Byron |
Ireland and Catholicism |
Tom Fool a Knight |
Charles Lamb.
1775–1834. |
Critical Introduction by A. Ainger |
Mrs. Battle’s Opinions on Whist |
Mackery End in Hertfordshire |
Sydney Smith.
1771–1845. |
Critical Introduction by George Saintsbury |
Noodle’s Oration |
South American Flora and Fauna |
A Village Parable |
English Justice |
The Synod of Dordrecht |
The Ballot |
Francis Jeffrey.
1773–1850. |
Critical Introduction by J. H. Millar |
The Probable Perpetuity of Wars |
Swift |
Burns |
Burns’s Language |
Theory of English Unsociableness |
Warburton |
Sir Humphry Davy.
1778–1829. |
Critical Introduction by George Saintsbury |
Alchemy |
Parallels between Art and Science |
Sea Serpents and Caithness Mermaids |
Colours in Snow and Water |
William Hazlitt.
1778–1830. |
Critical Introduction by George Saintsbury |
Cobbett’s Inconsistency |
The Exordium of a Farewell to Essay-Writing |
English Humour |
Coleridge |
John Galt.
1779–1839. |
Critical Introduction by J. H. Millar |
Supernatural Warning |
A Kithing |
The Visit of Condolence |
Henry Hallam.
1777–1859. |
Critical Introduction by W. Macneile Dixon |
Feudal Nobility |
Mohammedanism |
Spenser and Ariosto |
The Greatest of Shakespeare’s Tragedies |
Walter Savage Landor.
1775–1864. |
Critical Introduction by W. Macneile Dixon |
A Father’s Love |
The Roman Warrior |
Love, Sleep, and Death |
Henry Peter,
Lord Brougham.
1778–1868. |
Critical Introduction by J. H. Millar |
The Queen’s Innocence |
Mr. Dundas |
Thomas Chalmers.
1780–1847. |
Critical Introduction by J. H. Millar |
Science and Revolution |
Prayer and the Uniformity of Nature |
Taste in Religious Matters |
The Power of a New Affection |
Church and Dissent |
Washington Irving.
1783–1859. |
Critical Introduction by J. H. Millar |
Diedrich Knickerbocker |
The Voyage |
The Devil and Tom Walker |
Goldsmith |
Leigh Hunt.
1784–1859. |
Critical Introduction by George Saintsbury |
Leigh Hunt’s Dungeon |
The Trees in the City |
Spenser as the Painter’s Poet |
The House of the Daughter of Hippocrates |
Thomas De Quincey.
1785–1859. |
Critical Introduction by Reginald Brimley Johnson |
Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow |
Joan of Arc |
Sir William Napier.
1785–1860. |
Critical Introduction by David Hannay |
The Passage of the Douro |
Battle of Fuentes Onoro |
Thomas Love Peacock.
1785–1866. |
Critical Introduction by George Saintsbury |
The Logic of Seithenyn |
Susannah in the Dingle |
Of the Contents of Newspapers |
Mary Russell Mitford.
1787–1855. |
Critical Introduction by Reginald Brimley Johnson |
Hannah |
Tom Cordery |
John Gibson Lockhart.
1794–1854. |
Critical Introduction by George Saintsbury |
Oxford Undergraduate Life a Hundred Years Ago |
Lord Hermand |
Scott’s Conversation |
Burns in Edinburgh |
Adam Blair at the Tarn |
Scott in his Study |
Scott’s Character |
Sir William Hamilton.
1788–1856. |
Critical Introduction by J. H. Millar |
Theology and Classical Study |
The Philosophy of the Unconditioned |
The Necessary Laws of Thought |
Henry Hart Milman.
1791–1868. |
Critical Introduction by W. Macneile Dixon |
Gregory the Great |
St. Francis of Assisi |
The Latin Mysteries |
George Grote.
1794–1871. |
Critical Introduction by W. Macneile Dixon |
The Physical Configuration of Greece |
The Mutilation of the Herma |
The Sophists |
The Condemnation of Socrates |
Thomas Carlyle.
1795–1881. |
Critical Introduction by George Saintsbury |
Exordium of the Life of Schiller |
Teufelsdröckh: the Everlasting Yea |
The Constituent Assembly and the Fourth of August |
The Third Voting |
The Literary and Patriotic Influence of Burns |
Over the Andes |
Dr. Francia |
Jocelin of Brakelond |
Mahomet and Bentham |
The Devil’s Barracks |
Suffrage |
The Last Fight of Olaf Tryggveson |
Thomas Babington,
Lord Macaulay.
1800–1859. |
Critical Introduction by W. P. Ker |
Machiavelli |
Mill on Government |
Byron |
The Dignity of History |
The Trial of Warren Hastings |
Lord Ellenborough’s Proclamation |
Highwaymen |
The Relief of Londonderry |
John Henry Newman.
1801–1890. |
Critical Introduction by H. C. Beeching |
Music a Symbol of the Unseen |
Unreal Words |
Warfare the Condition of Life |
Parting of Friends |
Notes of the True Church |
The Classics |
A Parody of Popular Anti-Roman Rhetoric |
Harriet Martineau.
1802–1876. |
Critical Introduction by Reginald Brimley Johnson |
Cairo |
Samuel Rogers |
Hugh Miller.
1802–1856. |
Critical Introduction by Henry Craik |
The Reading of Nature’s Enigma |
A Highland Scene |
The Measure of Intellect |
Lord Beaconsfield.
1804–1881. |
Critical Introduction by Henry Craik |
Man and Circumstance |
Hopes Dispelled |
Gleams of Light |
The Glories of the Jews |
A Region of Gloom |
Nil desperandum |
Jerusalem by Moonlight |
Sir Robert Peel |
A Sincere Adviser |
John Stuart Mill.
1806–1873. |
Critical Introduction by J. H. Millar |
Human Nature a Science |
Population and Production |
On the Stationary State |
The Formation of Rational Opinion |
Elizabeth Gaskell.
1810–1865. |
Critical Introduction by A. W. Ward |
Esther’s Search for Mary |
A Happy Return |
Cousin Phillis |
Dr. John Brown.
1810–1882. |
Critical Introduction by A. Ainger |
Her Last Half-Crown |
Walter Scott and Marjorie |
Wylie |
William Makepeace
Thackeray.
1811–1863. |
Critical Introduction by George Saintsbury |
Telmessus |
The Arch of Death |
Pendennis in His Glory |
The Modern Woman |
The Duke of Marlborough |
The Renunciation of Allegiance |
Hogarth |
Charles Dickens.
1812–1870. |
Critical Introduction by A. W. Ward |
Mr. Pickwick on the Ice |
Sikes and His Dog |
Christmas at the Cratchits’ |
First Appearance of Mrs. Gamp |
A Retrospect |
The Shipwreck |
The City of the Absent |
The Very Queer Small Boy |
Dean Church.
1815–1890. |
Critical Introduction by H. C. Beeching |
Spenser |
Anselm |
Civilisation and Religion |
Charlotte Brontë.
1816–1855. |
Critical Introduction by W. A. Raleigh |
Religious Discipline |
A Call Unanswered |
A Riot Checked |
James Anthony Froude.
1818–1894. |
Critical Introduction by James Miller Dodds |
End of the Mediæval Age |
England’s Forgotten Worthies |
Results of the Defeat of the Spanish Armada |
History |
Charles Kingsley.
1819–1875. |
Critical Introduction by George Saintsbury |
The Weir at Whitford Priors |
Alton Locke in Lord Lynedale’s Room |
Reflections on a Battlefield |
At the Devil’s Limekiln |
Down Lewthwaite Crag |
Martin Lightfoot |
George Eliot
(Mary Ann Cross).
1819–1880. |
Critical Introduction by Henry Craik |
Nature and Humanity |
Epilogue to Mr. Gilfil’s Love Story |
A Provincial Town |
A Winter Night |
A Farm House |
A Lonely Life |
Savonarola’s Benediction |
Henry Longueville Mansel.
1820–1871. |
Critical Introduction by J. H. Millar |
Rational Theology not Attainable |
Philosophy and Revelation |
The Conception of General Law |
The Limits of Moral Reason |
Matthew Arnold.
1822–1888. |
Critical Introduction by George Saintsbury |
Of Energy in Literature |
Ideas in France, Germany, and England |
Arminius Criticises |
Ancient and Modern Criticism of Poetry |
Mr. Arnold as Barbarian and Populace |
Eutrapelia |
English and German Poetry |
Edward Augustus Freeman.
1823–1892. |
Critical Introduction by G. Gregory Smith |
The Night before the Battle of Hastings |
The Night after the Battle of Hastings |
The Historical Genius of Thucydides |
A First View of Périgueux |
National Prosperity |
Principles of Reform |
John Richard Green.
1837–1883. |
Critical Introduction by G. Gregory Smith |
Queen Elizabeth |
Pitt and His Age |
The Physical Aspect of Early Britain |
Capri |
The Poetry of East London Life |
Walter Pater.
1839–1894. |
Critical Introduction by George Saintsbury |
The Curiosity of Lionardo |
The Æsculapian Theory |
In the Campagna |
Sir Thomas Browne at Norwich |
Style |
Robert Louis Stevenson.
1850–1894. |
Critical Introduction by W. A. Raleigh |
Pulvis et Umbra |
The Wreck of the Christ-Anna |
Nature Awaking |