Appendix II — Bibliography
I. General Works
The Cambridge History of English Literature.
A Short History of English Literature, G. Saintsbury.
Cyclopædia of English Literature.
A History of English Poetry, W. J. Courthope.
A History of English Prosody, G. Saintsbury.
History of English Dramatic Literature, Sir A. W. Ward.
Chronicle of the English Drama, F. G. Fleay.
The English Novel, Sir W. Raleigh.
The English Novel, G. Saintsbury.
English and Scottish Popular Ballads, F. J. Child.
Scottish Vernacular Literature, A. Henderson.
Early English Literature, Stopford A. Brooke.
Early English Literature, B. ten Brink.
English Literature from the Norman Conquest to Chaucer, W. H. Schofield.
The Transition Period, G. Gregory Smith.
Elizabethan Literature, G. Saintsbury.
History of Eighteenth-Century Literature, E. Gosse.
The Age of Dryden, R. Garnett.
The Augustan Age, O. Elton.
Nineteenth-Century Literature, G. Saintsbury.
A Survey of English Literature, 1830–1880, O. Elton.
English Prose (extracts), H. Craik.
English Poets (extracts), T. H. Ward.
The Encyclopædia Britannica.
Dictionary of National Biography.
II. Biography and Criticism
Notes.—1. Abbreviations:
E., “English Men of Letters.”
S.W., “Studies of Living Writers.”
W.D., “Writers of the Day.”
P.B., “The People’s Books.”
2. When the title of a book is not given it is identical with the name of the writer being dealt with. For instance, the title of Courthope’s work on Addison is Joseph Addison.
Addison, Joseph
E., W. J. Courthope.
See English Humourists, Thackeray, and English Comic Writers, Hazlitt.
Arnold, Matthew
E., Herbert Paul.
See Studies in Literature, Sir A. T. Quiller-Couch.
Austen, Jane
E., F. W. Cornish.
S. F. Maldon.
Bacon, Francis
E., R. W. Church.
See Essays, Macaulay.
P.B., A. R. Skemp.
Bennett, Arnold
W.D., F. J. Harvey Dalton.
See Some Impressions of my Elders, St. John G. Ervine.
Brontë, Charlotte
Charlotte Brontë and her Circle, Clement K. Shorter.
Life of, Mrs. Gaskell.
Browne, Sir Thomas
E., E. Gosse.
Browning, Robert
E., G. K. Chesterton.
P.B., A. R. Skemp.
E. Gosse.
Introduction to the Study of, A. Symons.
The Poetry of, Stopford A. Brooke.
See Obiter Dicta, A. Birrell, and Literary Studies, W. Bagehot.
Bunyan, John
E., J. A. Froude.
Life of, W. Hale White.
See The Art of Letters, R. Lynd, and Essays, Macaulay.
Burke, Edmund
E., Lord Morley.
Life of, Sir J. Prior.
See Obiter Dicta, A. Birrell.
Burney, Fanny
E., A. Ainger.
Burns, Robert
E., Principal Shairp.
Life of, J. G. Lockhart.
Primer of, W. A. Craigie.
See English Poets, Hazlitt; Essays, Carlyle; Familiar Studies of Men and Books, R. L. Stevenson; Essays, W. E. Henley.
Butler, Samuel (1612–80)
See English Comic Writers, Hazlitt.
Butler, Samuel (1835–1902)
Life of, H. Festing Jones.
Records and Memorials of, R. A. Streatfield.
Byron, Lord
Life of, T. Moore.
E., John Nichol.
See Essays, Macaulay; Essays, W. E. Henley; English Poets, Hazlitt.
Carlyle, Thomas
E., John Nichol.
Life of, J. A. Froude.
P.B., L. Maclean Watt.
See Obiter Dicta, A. Birrell, and My Study Windows, J. R. Lowell.
Chaucer, Geoffrey
E., Sir A. Ward.
See My Study Windows, J. R. Lowell, and Riches of, C. Cowden-Clarke.
Coleridge, S. T.
E., H. D. Traill.
P.B., S. L. Bensusan.
See English Poets, Hazlitt; Essays and Studies, A. C. Swinburne; Studies in Literature, Sir A. T. Quiller-Couch; The Art of Letters, R. Lynd.
Collins, William
See Lives of the Poets, Dr. Johnson, and The Art of Letters, R. Lynd.
Congreve, William
Life of, E. Gosse.
See Lives of the Poets, Dr. Johnson; English Comic Writers, Hazlitt; Essays, Macaulay; English Humourists, Thackeray.
Conrad, Joseph
S.W., R. Curle.
W.D., Hugh Walpole.
See The Moderns, J. Freeman.
Cowper, William
E., Goldwin Smith.
See English Poets, Hazlitt; Literary Studies, W. Bagehot; The Art of Letters, R. Lynd.
Crabbe, George
E., A. Ainger.
T. H. Kebbel.
Defoe, Daniel
E., W. Minto.
See British Novelists, D. Masson, and Hours in a Library, Sir Leslie Stephen.
De Quincey, Thomas
E., D. Masson.
See Hours in a Library, Sir Leslie Stephen.
Dickens, Charles
Life of, J. Forster.
G. K. Chesterton.
E., Sir A. W. Ward.
P.B., S. Dark.
See Literary Studies, W. Bagehot.
Donne, John
Life and Letters of, E. Gosse.
See English Poets, Hazlitt; Studies in Literature, Sir A. T. Quiller-Couch; The Art of Letters, R. Lynd.
Dryden, John
E., G. Saintsbury.
See Lives of the Poets, Dr. Johnson, and Essays, Macaulay.
Eliot, George
E., Sir Leslie Stephen.
Oscar Browning.
Fielding, Henry
E., Austin Dobson.
See English Humourists, Thackeray, and Essays, W. E. Henley.
Galsworthy, John
W.D., Sheila Kaye-Smith.
See Some Impressions of my Elders, St. John G. Ervine.
Gibbon, Edward
E., J. C. Morrison.
See Literary Studies, W. Bagehot, and Essays Political and Biographical, Sir Spencer Walpole.
Goldsmith, Oliver
E., W. Black.
Austin Dobson.
See English Comic Writers, Hazlitt, and English Humourists, Thackeray.
Gray, Thomas
E., E. Gosse.
See Essays in Criticism, Matthew Arnold, and The Art of Letters, R. Lynd.
Hardy, Thomas
W.D., H. Child.
The Art of, L. P. Johnson.
H. C. Duffin.
See Studies in Literature, Sir A. T. Quiller-Couch, and The Moderns, J. Freeman.
Hazlitt, William
E., A. Birrell.
See Essays, W. E. Henley, and Hours in a Library, Sir Leslie Stephen.
Johnson, Samuel
Life of, J. Boswell.
E., Sir Leslie Stephen.
See Essays, Macaulay, and Obiter Dicta, A. Birrell.
Jonson, Ben
Life of, J. A. Symonds.
E., G. Gregory Smith.
See English Comic Writers, Hazlitt.
Keats, John
Life of, Lord Houghton.
Life of, Sir Sidney Colvin.
E., Sir Sidney Colvin.
P.B., E. Thomas.
See Essays, F. Jeffrey; Essays in Criticism, Matthew Arnold; Four Poets, Stopford A. Brooke.
Kipling, Rudyard
Rudyard Kipling: A Criticism, R. Le Gallienne.
W. D., J. Farmer.
Lamb, Charles
Life of, E. V. Lucas.
E., A. Ainger.
P.B., Flora Masson.
See The Spirit of the Age, Hazlitt, and Obiter Dicta, A. Birrell.
Landor, W. S.
E., Sir Sidney Colvin.
Macaulay, Lord
Life and Letters of, Sir G. O. Trevelyan.
E., J. C. Morrison.
See Literary Studies, W. Bagehot; Critical Miscellanies, Lord Morley; Hours in a Library, Sir Leslie Stephen.
Marlowe, Christopher
See English Dramatic Poets, C. Lamb, and English Comic Writers, Hazlitt.
Meredith, George
The Poetry and Philosophy of, G. M. Trevelyan.
Some Characteristics, R. Le Gallienne.
See Studies in Literature, Sir A. T. Quiller-Couch; The Art of Letters, R. Lynd; Studies in Prose and Verse, A. Symons.
Milton, John
Life of, D. Masson.
E., Mark Pattison.
Sir Walter Raleigh.
See Essays, Addison; Lectures, S. T. Coleridge; Literary Studies, W. Bagehot; Essays, Macaulay; Obiter Dicta, A. Birrell.
Morris, William
Life and Letters of, J. W. Mackail.
E., Alfred Noyes.
See The Art of Letters, R. Lynd, and Studies in Prose and Verse, A. Symons.
Pope, Alexander
E., Sir Leslie Stephen.
See Lives of the Poets, Dr. Johnson; My Study Windows, J. R. Lowell; English Poets, Hazlitt; The English Humourists, Thackeray; Obiter Dicta, A. Birrell; Hours in a Library, Sir Leslie Stephen.
Richardson, Samuel
E., Austin Dobson.
See The English Comic Writers, Hazlitt, and Hours in a Library, Sir Leslie Stephen.
Rossetti, D. G.
Record and Study of, W. Sharp.
F. G. Stephen.
See Essays and Studies, A. C. Swinburne.
Ruskin, John
E., Frederic Harrison.
Life of, W. G. Collingwood.
Studies in, E. T. Cook.
Scott, Walter
Life of, J. G. Lockhart.
E., R. H. Hutton.
G. Saintsbury.
See The Spirit of the Age, Hazlitt; Essays, Carlyle; Hours in a Library, Sir Leslie Stephen; Literary Studies, W. Bagehot; Four Poets, Stopford A. Brooke.
Shakespeare, William
Life of, Sir Sidney Lee.
E., Sir Walter Raleigh.
P. B., C. Herford.
Studies in, J. C. Collins.
Shakespearian Tragedy, A. C. Bradley.
Ten Plays of, Stopford A. Brooke.
Among my Books, J. R. Lowell.
See English Comic Writers, Hazlitt; Literary Studies, W. Bagehot; Lectures on Dramatic Literature, Hazlitt; Essays and Lectures on, S. T. Coleridge; Essays, Carlyle; Shakespeare’s Mind and Art, E. Dowden.
Shaw, George Bernard
George Bernard Shaw: His Life and Works, A. Henderson.
G. K. Chesterton.
S.W., J. McCabe.
See The Moderns, J. Freeman; Dramatists of To-day, E. E. Hale; Some Impressions of my Elders, St. John G. Ervine.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Life of, E. Dowden.
E., J. A. Symonds.
P.B., Sydney Waterlow.
See Essays, D. Masson; Essays, R. H. Hutton; Literary Studies, W. Bagehot; The Art of Letters, R. Lynd; Four Poets, Stopford A. Brooke.
Smollett, Tobias
See English Comic Writers, Hazlitt; English Humourists, Thackeray; Essays, W. E. Henley.
Southey, Robert
E., E. Dowden.
See Essays, Macaulay.
Spenser, Edmund
E., R. W. Church.
Life of, J. W. Hales.
See English Poets, Hazlitt, and Essays, Leigh Hunt.
Steele, Richard
See English Humourists, Thackeray, and Studies in English Literature, Dennis.
Sterne, Laurence
Life of, P. Fitzgerald.
See English Humourists, Thackeray, and Literary Studies, W. Bagehot.
Stevenson, R. L.
Life of, G. Balfour.
Sir Walter Raleigh.
See Studies in Prose and Verse, A. Symons.
Swift, Jonathan
E., Sir Leslie Stephen.
See Lives of the Poets, Dr. Johnson; English Comic Writers, Hazlitt; English Humourists, Thackeray.
Swinburne, A. C.
See Studies in Literature, Sir A. T. Quiller-Couch, and Victorian Poets, Stedman.
Taylor, Jeremy
Life of, R. Heber.
E., E. Gosse.
See Lectures, S. T. Coleridge.
Tennyson, Alfred
Life of, H. Tennyson.
Life of, A. C. Benson.
E., Sir Alfred Lyall.
P.B., A. Watson.
See The Art of Letters, R. Lynd; Literary Studies, W. Bagehot; Essays, R. H. Hutton; Essays, P. Bayne; Victorian Poets, Stedman.
Thackeray, W. M.
Life of, Merivale and Marzila.
E., Anthony Trollope.
See Characters and Sketches, Hannay, and Literary Studies, W. Bagehot.
Thomson, James
E., G. C. Macaulay.
See Lives of the Poets, Dr. Johnson, and English Poets, Hazlitt.
Wells, H. G.
W.D., J. D. Beresford.
See The Moderns, J. Freeman, and Some Impressions of my Elders, St. John G. Ervine.
Wilde, Oscar
See Studies in Prose and Verse, A. Symons, and The Art of Letters, R. Lynd.
Wordsworth, William
Life of, C. Knight.
E., T. W. H. Myers.
Sir Walter Raleigh.
P.B., Rosaline Masson.
See English Poets, Hazlitt; Biographic Literaria, S. T. Coleridge; Essays in Criticism, Matthew Arnold; Literary Studies, W. Bagehot; Essays, D. Masson; Essays, R. H. Hutton; Appreciations, W. Pater; Hours in a Library, Sir Leslie Stephen.
III. ESSAYS ON LITERARY SUBJECTS. A series of books of essays arranged in order of composition. These volumes form the basis of a history of English criticism.
Sidney, Sir Philip, Apologie for Poetrie.
Dryden, John, Essay of Dramatic Poesie.
Addison, Joseph, Spectator essays.
Johnson, Dr., Lives of the Poets.
Coleridge, S. T., Biographia Literaria; Essays and Lectures on Shakespeare.
Hazlitt, William, Lectures on the English Poets; The English Comic Writers.
Lamb, Charles, English Dramatic Poets.
Hunt, Leigh, Imagination and Fancy.
Macaulay, Lord, Essays.
Thackeray, W. M., The English Humourists.
Arnold, Matthew, Essays in Criticism.
Hutton, R. H., Essays.
Bagehot, W., Literary Studies.
Swinburne, A. C., Essays and Studies.
Quiller-Couch, Sir A. T., Studies in Literature.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, Hours in a Library.
Henley, W. E., Views and Reviews; Essays.
Collins, J. Churton, Essays and Studies.
Gosse, E., Seventeenth-Century Studies; Some Diversions of a Man of Letters.
Dobson, A., Eighteenth-Century Studies.
Saintsbury, G., Corrected Impressions.
Freeman, J., The Moderns.
Lynd, R., The Art of Letters.
Ervine, St. John G., Some Impressions of my Elders.
Footnotes
1 Coats of mail.
2 Fire.
3 king.
4 rowed.
5 build.
6 fine.
7 birth.
8 Romans.
9 loyalty.
10 peace.
11 traitor.
12 hides.
13 seemliest.
14 bondage.
15 lucky.
16 chance.
17 I wot, I know.
18 dirty.
19 blue.
20 foaming.
21 approach.
22 destroyed.
23 smell.
24 cucumbers.
25 each one.
26 wonder.
27 yearned.
28 Sultan.
29 any.
30 raised.
31 Cheddar.
32 rain.
33 suitable.
34 rocks.
35 faintness.
36 seized.
37 as.
38 realm.
39 commenced.
40 one.
41 both.
42 are.
43 parted.
44 Dryden wrote before the metrical importance of the final e was understood.
45 inlaid.
46 gems.
47 gleaming.
48 lily.
49 frosted.
50 shivered.
51 eyes.
52 hollow.
53 moisture.
54 blue.
55 out over.
56 gray.
57 tangled.
58 attire.
59 withered dress.
60 sheaf.
61 arrows.
62 feathered.
63 once.
64 drawn.
65 wasteful wants.
66 cassock.
67 nonce.
68 deceiver.
69 grinned.
70 groans.
71 broil.
72 bear.
73 blood.
74 arbor.
75 living person.
76 play.
77 blow.
78 died.
79 feeding.
80 tribute.
81 slime.
82 prepare.
83 The Shepherd’s Calendar (1579).
84 Polyolbion (1612).
85 Tamburlaine (1587).
86 Love’s Labour’s Lost (1594).
87 Every Man in his Humour (1598).
88 Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity (1593).
89 Essays (1597).
90 Anatomy of Melancholy (1621).
91 Mammon.
92 carving.
93 ore.
94 hammered.
95 ingots.
96 utterly wasted.
97 peeled.
98 The passage containing this reference appears on pp. 142–143.
99 This piece is sometimes ascribed to William Browne (1588–1643.)
100 Peele.
101 Nash and Marlowe.
102 The Induction (1555).
103 Tottel’s Miscellany (1557).
104 The Steel Glass (1576).
105 The Shepherd’s Calendar (1579).
106 Plutarch’s Lives (1579).
107 The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity (1593).
108 Venus and Adonis (1593).
109 Essays (1597).
110 Characters (1614).
111 rejoice.
112 bride.
113 bulged.
114 peel.
115 The Cave of Despair.
116 Poetical Blossoms (1633).
117 Noble Numbers (1647).
118 Ode on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity (1629).
119 Paradise Lost (1658).
120 Religio Medici (1642).
121 The History of the Great Rebellion (1646).
122 Holy Living (1650).
123 The Leviathan (1651).
124 Of St. Theresa.
125 Ode on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity (1629).
126 Religio Medici (1642).
127 The History of the Great Rebellion (1646).
128 Holy Living (1650).
129 Paradise Lost (1658).
130 Samson Agonistes (1671).
131 1802.
132 Astræa Redux (1660).
133 Hudibras (1663).
134 The Old Bachelor (1693).
135 The Pilgrim’s Progress (1678).
136 His dedications, etc.
137 Religio Laici (1682).
138 The Hind and the Panther (1687).
139 Don Sebastian (1690).
140 Alexander’s Feast (1697).
141 Fables (1700).
142 The Rape of the Lock (1712).
143 The Complaint, or Night Thoughts (1742).
144 Gulliver’s Travels (1726).
145 The Spectator (1711).
146 Robinson Crusoe (1719).
147 Sir Leslie Stephen.
148 The Funeral (1701).
149 The Review (1704).
150 The Campaign (1704).
151 The Battle of the Books (1704).
152 Pastorals (1709).
153 The Coverley essays.
154 The Tatler (1709).
155 An Essay on Criticism (1711).
156 Cato (1713).
157 Robinson Crusoe (1719).
158 Gulliver’s Travels (1726).
159 The Dunciad (1728).
160 Elkanah Settle (see p. 207).
161 Lord John Hervey.
162 The Seasons (1730).
163 Elegy written in a Country Churchyard (1751).
164 Poems (Kilmarnock edition, 1786).
165 Pamela (1740).
166 Tom Jones (1749).
167 The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776).
168 vomited.
169 Mount Pindus, sacred to the Muses. Hence, a poet’s dream.
170 That is, “the blind one.” A reference to Milton’s blindness.
171 share.
172 rinse.
173 London (1738).
174 Pamela (1740).
175 Joseph Andrew (1742).
176 The Castle of Indolence (1748).
177 The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749).
178 Irene (1749).
179 The Rambler (1750).
180 Elegy written in a Country Churchyard (1751).
181 Rasselas (1759).
182 The Rosciad (1761).
183 The Traveller (1764).
184 The Vicar of Wakefield (1766).
185 The Good-natured Man (1768).
186 The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776).
187 The Task (1785).
188 The Devil.
189 going last.
190 perhaps.
191 Lyrical Ballads (1798).
192 Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (1812).
193 Endymion (1818).
194 The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805).
195 Waverley (1814).
196 Northanger Abbey (1798).
197 The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821).
198 Lyrical Ballads (1798).
199 Northanger Abbey (1798).
200 The Watchman (1796).
201 The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805).
202 Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (1812).
203 Queen Mab (1813).
204 Waverley (1814).
205 Manfred (1817).
206 Endymion (1818).
207 Biographia Literaria (1817).
208 Don Juan (1819).
209 The Cenci (1819).
210 The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821).
211 The Essays of Elia (1823).
212 The Life of Byron (1830).
213 The Life of Scott (1837).
214 The Borderers (1842).
215 Poems (1832).
216 Pauline (1833).
217 The Pickwick Papers (1836).
218 Vanity Fair (1847).
219 The Ordeal of Richard Feverel (1859).
220 Sartor Resartus (1833).
221 Essay on Milton (1825).
222 The Seven Lamps of Architecture (1849).
223 Such a passage appears on p. 513.
224 Coleridge.
225 Poems (1832).
226 Poems (1833).
227 Sartor Resartus (1833).
228 Pauline (1833).
229 The Pickwick Papers (1836).
230 Dramatic Lyrics (1842).
231 The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon (1842).
232 Modern Painters (1843).
233 The Return of the Druses (1843).
234 The Ordeal of Richard Feverel (1859).
235 Chastelard (1865).
236 Queen Mary (1875).
237 An extract will be found on p. 565.
238 irons.
239 rope.
240 mouth.
241 Poetry
242 Prose
243 Stopped.
244 Loose.
245 English form.
246 Italian form.