Chapter I. |
Sir Walter Scott |
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By T. F. HENDERSON, LL.D., St. Andrews
- The Scottish literary revival of the eighteenth century
- Scott’s 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
- Scott’s 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
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II. |
Byron |
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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
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III. |
Shelley |
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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
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IV. |
Keats |
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By C. H. HERFORD
- Early years
- Endymion
- Isabella; Letters
- Hyperion
- The Eve of St. Agnes
- La Belle Dame Sans Merci
- Lamia
- Odes
- Sonnets
- Summary
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V. |
Lesser Poets, 1790–1837
ROGERS, CAMPBELL, MOORE AND OTHERS |
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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
- Death’s 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
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Reviews and Magazines in the Early Years of the Nineteenth Century |
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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
- Blackwood’s Magazine
- Lockhart; Wilson; Hogg; Maginn
- Noctes Ambrosianœ
- The London Magazine; De Quincey’s Opium Eater; Lamb’s Roast Pig
- The New Monthly Magazine
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VII. |
Hazlitt |
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By W. D. HOWE, Professor of English in the University of Indiana, U. S. A.
- Hazlitt’s early years
- His later life
- His work as a critic
- His dramatic criticism
- His writings on art
- His quotations
- His influence
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VIII. |
Lamb |
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By A. HAMILTON THOMPSON, M.A., F.S.A., St. John’s College
- Lamb’s 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
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IX. |
The Landors, Leigh Hunt, De Quincey |
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By GEORGE SAINTSBURY
- Walter Savage Landor’s prose and verse
- His classicism
- Gebir
- Count Julian
- Hellenics
- Imaginary Conversations
- Landor as a critic
- Leigh Hunt’s influence
- His merits and defects
- De Quincey’s mastery in ornate prose
- Robert Eyres Landor
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X. |
Jane Austen |
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By HAROLD CHILD, sometime Scholar of Brasenose College, Oxford
- Early tales
- Pride and Prejudice
- Northanger Abbey
- Sense and Sensibility
- Mansfield Park
- Emma
- Persuasion
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XI. |
Lesser Novelists |
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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
- Moir’s Mansie Wauch
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XII. |
The Oxford Movement |
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By the Ven. W. H. HUTTON, B.D., Archdeacon of Northampton, Canon of Peterborough and Fellow of St. John’s College, Oxford
- Keble
- R. H. Froude
- Tracts for the Times
- Newman at St. Mary’s
- Tract 90
- Ward’s The Ideal of a Christian Church
- Newman joins the Roman Catholic Church
- Pusey
- Keble’s Christian Year
- Isaac Williams
- Newman’s 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
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XIII. |
The Growth of Liberal Theology |
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By the Rev. F. E. HUTCHINSON, M.A., Trinity College, Oxford, formerly Chaplain of King’s 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
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XIV. |
Historians
WRITERS ON ANCIENT AND EARLY ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY |
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By Sir A. W. WARD, Litt.D., F.B.A., Master of Peterhouse
- The influence of Niebuhr
- Arnold’s Roman History
- Merivale’s Romans under the Empire
- Long’s Decline of the Roman Republic
- Thirlwall and Grote
- Finlay’s History of Greece
- Freeman
- George Rawlinson
- Smith’s Dictionaries
- Milman’s Latin Christianity
- Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
- William Bright
- Hodgkin’s Italy and her Invaders
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Scholars, Antiquaries and Bibliographers |
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By Sir JOHN EDWIN SANDYS, Litt.D., F.B.A., Fellow of St. John’s College and Public Orator in the University of Cambridge
- Greek Scholars
- Latin Scholars
- Classical Archæologists
- Oriental Scholars
- English Scholars
- Archæological Antiquaries
- Literary Antiquaries
- Bibliographers
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