Chapter I. |
Edmund Burke |
|
By HERBERT J. C. GRIERSON, M.A., LL.D., Chalmers Professor of English Literature in the University of Aberdeen
- Early Life and Work
- A Vindication of Natural Society; The Sublime and Beautiful
- Political Career
- Writings on Public Affairs; Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents
- The American Controversy
- Writings on Ireland
- Indian Speeches
- Warren Hastings
- The French Revolution
- Burke’s Political Philosophy
- His Temperament
- His Prose
- The Speech on Economical Reform
- A Letter to a Noble Lord
- Burke as an Orator
BIBLIOGRAPHY |
|
II. |
Political Writers and Speakers |
|
By C. W. PREVITÉ-ORTON, M.A., Fellow of St. John’s College
- Light, Short, Satiric Verse
- The Rolliad
- John Wolcot (Peter Pindar)
- George Canning; The Anti-Jacobin
- George Ellis; John Hookham Frere; William Gifford; The Baviad; The Maeviad
- The Needy Knife-grinder
- Richard Payne Knight; Erasmus Darwin
- The Rovers
- The New Morality
- William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft; Political Justice; Caleb Williams; St. Leon; Vindication of the Rights of Woman
- Thomas Paine: The Rights of Man; The Age of Reason
- William Cobbett; Weekly Political Register
- Rural Rides
- Orators
- Charles James Fox
- The Younger Pitt
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
- Henry Grattan
BIBLIOGRAPHY |
|
III. |
Bentham and the Early Utilitarians |
|
By W. R. SORLEY, Litt.D., F.B.A., Fellow of King’s College, Knightbridge Professor of Moral Philosophy
- Jeremy Bentham
- His Friends; Étienne Dumont, James Mill
- The Westminster Review
- A Fragment on Government; Sir William Blackstone’s Commentaries
- The Principle of Utility; Beccaria’s Crimes and Punishments
- An Introduction to the Principle of Morals and Legislation
- The Hedonic Calculus
- Natural Rights
- Arthur Young; Travels in France
- Thomas Robert Malthus; An Essay on the Principle of Population
- Dugald Stewart
BIBLIOGRAPHY |
|
IV. |
William Cowper |
|
By HAROLD CHILD, sometime Scholar of Brasenose College, Oxford
- Cowper’s Early Years
- His Friendship with the Unwins; John Newton
- Olney Hymns
- Satires
- Lady Austen; The Task
- John Gilpin; On the Receipt of my Mother’s Picture
- Translations
- Letters
BIBLIOGRAPHY |
|
V. |
William Wordsworth |
|
By ÉMILE LEGOUIS, Professor of English Language and Literature at the Sorbonne
- The Influence of Rousseau
- Wordsworth’s Childhood
- His Wanderings
- The French Revolution
- Dorothy Wordsworth
- Friendship with Coleridge
- Lyrical Ballads
- Wordsworth’s Marriage
- Ode to Duty
- The Excursion
- The White Doe of Rylstone
- Laodamia
- Sonnets; Later Years
- The Ruined Cottage
- His poetry of Nature
- There was a Boy
- Wordsworth and Shelley
- Michael
- The Lucy poems
- His Description of the Moral Emotions
BIBLIOGRAPHY |
|
VI. |
Coleridge |
|
By C. E. VAUGHAN, M.A., Balliol College, Oxford
- Early Years
- The French Revolution
- Coleridge’s Friendship with Wordsworth
- The Opium habit
- The Friend; Biographia Literaria
- Influence of Wordsworth
- Kubla Khan
- The Ancient Mariner
- Christabel
- The Poetry of Nature; Anima Poetœ
- The Hour of Romance
- Coleridge’s Theory of Criticism
- Coleridge as Philosopher
BIBLIOGRAPHY |
|
VII. |
George Crabbe |
|
By HAROLD CHILD
- Early Life
- The Library
- The Village
- The Newspaper
- The Parish Register
- Sir Eustace Grey
- The Borough
- Tales
- Tales of the Hall
- The Change in English Poetry during Crabbe’s Lifetime
- Crabbe’s Couplets
- Summary
BIBLIOGRAPHY |
|
VIII. |
Southey
Lesser Poets of the Eighteenth Century |
|
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
- SOUTHEY
- Details of Southey’s Life
- His Politics
- Wat Tyler; Joan of Arc; Southey’s Blank Verse
- Holly Tree; My Days among the Dead are passed
- Ballads
- Thalaba
- Madoc
- Southey as Historian and Reviewer
- Commonplace Books
- The Curse of Kehama
- The Life of Nelson
- Roderick the last of the Goths
- The Life of John Wesley
- Miscellaneous Prose; The Lives of the Admirals
- The Doctor
- Southey’s Letters
- Southey and Dryden
- LESSER POETS OF THE LATER EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
- Anstey; The New Bath Guide
- Hanbury Williams
- John Hall Stevenson; Crazy Tales
- Erasmus Darwin; The Botanic Garden; The Loves of the Plants
- William Hayley; The Triumph of Temper
- The Della Cruscans
- William Lisle Bowles
- Frank Sayers
- Sir William Jones
BIBLIOGRAPHY |
|
IX. |
Blake |
|
By J. P. R. WALLIS, M.A., Assistant Lecturer in English Literature in the University of Liverpool
- Early Career
- Poetical Sketches
- An Island in the Moon
- Beginnings of Mysticism; Songs of Innocence and Thel
- Tiriel; Revolutionary writings
- The Marriage of Heaven and Hell and the earlier “Prophecies”
- The later Lambeth books
- Songs of Experience
- Europe and The Song of Los
- The Urizen group
- The crisis in Blake’s spiritual development
- The Four Zoas
- His mystical Christianity
- Milton and Jerusalem
- His Theory of Imagination
- Lesser Verse and Prose
- Blake and the Romantic Revival
BIBLIOGRAPHY |
|
X. |
Burns
Lesser Scottish Verse |
|
By T. F. HENDERSON
- BURNS
- The Old School of Scottish Verse
- Burns’s Indebtedness to his Predecessors
- The Kilmarnock volume
- The Cotter’s Saturday Night
- Burns’s “English” poems
- His six-line stave
- Death and Doctor Hornbook; The Address to the Deil
- Holy Willie’s Prayer
- The Auld Farmer’s New Year Salutation to his Mare Maggie
- The Christis Kirk stave
- The Holy Fair
- Halloween
- The Cherrie and the Slae stave
- The Jolly Beggars; Tam o’ Shanter
- Burns at Edinburgh
- His Songs and Adaptations
- LESSER SCOTTISH VERSE
- Joanna Baillie
- Lady Anne Lindsay of Balcarres; Susanna Blamire; Mrs. Grant of Carron; Mrs. Grant of Laggan; Elizabeth Hamilton; Mrs. John Hunter; Mrs. Maclehose (“Clarinda”)
- Caroline Oliphant, Lady Nairne
- Dr. Blacklock; Richard Gall; John Hamilton; John Lapraik; John Lowe
- Hector MacNeil
- James Tytler
- John Mayne
- Sir Alexander Boswell
- Robert Tannahill; Alexander Wilson; William Motherwell
- James Hogg
- The Queen’s Wake
- John Leyden
- Allan Cunningham
- Thomas Mounsey Cunningham
- William Tennant
- John Hyslop; Robert Gilfillan; William Nicholson; William Glen; William Watt
- Michael Bruce and John Logan; The Cuckoo; James Grahame
- Robert Pollok
BIBLIOGRAPHY |
|
XI. |
The Prosody of the Eighteenth Century |
|
By GEORGE SAINTSBURY, M.A.
- Changes in the Heroic Couplet of Dryden
- The Octosyllabic Couplet
- The Spenserian Stanza
- Blank Verse
- Lyric Poetry of the Eighteenth Century
- Edward Bysshe’s Art of Poetry
- Eighteenth Century Prosodists
- Joshua Steele
- Young
- Shenstone; Gray; Johnson
- John Mason
- Mitford
- Cowper
- Summary
BIBLIOGRAPHY |
|
XII. |
The Georgian Drama |
|
By HAROLD V. ROUTH, M.A., Peterhouse, Lecturer in English Literature at Goldsmiths’ College, London
- The Decay of the Drama and the Advance of the Actor
- The Theatre in the Eighteenth Century and its Audiences
- Richard Cumberland; The Brothers; The West Indian
- Lesser Playwrights
- Oliver Goldsmith: She Stoops to Conquer
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan: The Rivals
- A Trip to Scarborough
- The School for Scandal
- Hannah More; Percy
- Hannah Cowley
- General Burgoyne: The Heiress
- Thomas Holcroft: The Road to Ruin; The Deserted Daughter
- Elizabeth Inchbald
- George Colman the Younger: Inkle and Yarico
- Thomas Morton and others
- Cumberland’s Jew
- Realism and the Drama
BIBLIOGRAPHY |
|
XIII. |
The Growth of the Later Novel |
|
By GEORGE SAINTSBURY
- Thomas Amory: John Buncle
- Memoirs of Several Ladies
- William Beckford
- Vathek
- William Godwin
- Caleb Williams; St. Leon
- Thomas Holcroft: Autobiography, Novels
- Mrs. Inchbald: A Simple Story, Nature and Art
- Robert Bage: Hermsprong
- Maria Edgeworth
- Belinda
- The Absentee; Ormond
- Tales for the Young
- Charlotte Smith; Regina Maria Roche; Eaton Stannard Barrett
- Clara Reeve
- Ann Radcliffe
- The Mysteries of Udolpho and other works
- Matthew Gregory Lewis: The Monk
- Charles Robert Maturin: Melmoth the Wanderer
- Jane and Anna Maria Porter: Thaddeus of Warsaw; The Scottish Chiefs
- Thomas Hope: Anastasius
- Thomas Love Peacock
BIBLIOGRAPHY |
|
XIV. |
Book Production and Distribution, 1625–1800 |
|
By H. G. ALDIS, M.A., Peterhouse, Secretary of the University Library
- Attempts at State Control under Charles I. and the Commonwealth
- The Censorship of L’Estrange
- Lapse of the Licensing Laws
- Copyright before 1709
- The first Copyright Act
- The battle for Perpetual Copyright
- The relations between Author and Publisher in the Seventeenth Century
- Milton, Baxter
- Earnings of playwrights
- Literature becomes a Profession
- Increase of the Reading Classes
- Patrons and Dedications
- The Publisher as Patron and Employer
- Leading Publishers in Commonwealth and Restoration times
- The Eighteenth Century
- Tonson, Lintot, Dodsley, Millar
- Trade books
- Society for Encouragement of Learning
- Bell’s Poets and Johnson’s Poets; Paternoster Row Numbers
- Booksellers’ Clubs
- Cadell, Strahan
- Literary Booksellers
- Curll and Grub Street
- “The Trade” in London
- Little Britain
- Scot, Bateman, the Ballards
- Other Localities; Westminster Hall
- Literary Coffee-houses
- Payne, Davies
- Popular Literature
- Practical Divinity, Chapbooks
- The Retail Bookseller
- Sale by auction
- Printed Catalogues; James Lackington
- Circulating Libraries and Book Clubs
- Trade Lists of Current Publications
- Trade sales
- The Provincial Trade
- Scotland and Ireland
BIBLIOGRAPHY |
|
XV. |
The Bluestockings |
|
By MRS. H. G. ALDIS
- The term “Bluestocking”
- Conversation parties; Mrs. Vesey
- Mrs. Montagu
- Her share in Lord Lyttelton’s Dialogues of the Dead
- Her Essay on Shakespeare; Mrs. Montagu and Voltaire
- Mrs. Elizabeth Carter
- Her Translation of Epictetus
- Hannah More
- Her friendship with Horace Walpole
- Mrs. Chapone
BIBLIOGRAPHY |
|
XVI. |
Children’s Books |
|
By F. J. HARVEY DARTON, sometime Scholar of St. John’s College, Oxford
- Schoolbooks
- The Hornbook
- Books of Courtesy
- Hell-fire tales
- “Exemplary” Compilations
- Bunyan’s Divine Emblems
- Watts’s Divine Songs
- The Chapbook
- Fairy Tales
- Nursery Rimes
- John Newbery
- Dorothy Kilner
- Sarah Trimmer
- Mrs. Sherwood
- Maria Edgeworth
- Thomas Day’s Sandford and Merton
- The Moral Tale in Verse
- Ann and Jane Taylor’s Original Poems
- Miss Turner’s Cautionary Stories
- Charles and Mary Lamb
- Later Writings for Children
BIBLIOGRAPHY |