Demeter, 454.
Democracy, modern, the rise of,
279 ff.; and the age of revolu-
tion, 284; 305; Burns and,
311; Wordsworth and, 322,
in the age of Victoria, 370,
438.
Denis Duval, 419.
De Quincey, Thomas, 184; 241;
326; 344-345; 400.
Descriptive Sketches, 316.
Deserted Village, The, 300, 301.
Dickens, Charles, 377; 411; 412-
417; 419; 427.
Don Juan, 350.
Don Quixote, 412.
Donne, John, 185; 186-188; 210.
Dora, 456.
Dove Cottage, 318.
Drama, religious, 97; 138; before
Shakespeare, 136; prepara-
tion for the Elizabethan, 137;
miracle plays, 139; moralities,
140; interludes, 140; regular
drama, 142; patriotism and
the, 143; Shakespeare's prede-
cessors in, 143; later Eliza-
bethan, 179; decline of, 183;
general survey, 183; influence
of Goldsmith on, in 18th cen-
tury, 300.
Dramatic poetry, 173 n.
Drummond, William, 170.
Dryden, John, 225-231 [life, 226;
as dramatist, 227; satires and
other works, 228; later years,
229; his work in prose and
verse, 230]; his influence, 233;
247; 250; 285.
Dunbar, William, 92.
Dunciad, The, 243-244; 245.
Dunstan, Archbishop of Canter-
bury, 34.
Earthly Paradise, The, 442.
Ecclesiastical History of the
English People, by Bede, 24;
translated by King Alfred, 31;
used by Layamon, 48.
Edinburgh Review, The, 379; 388.
Edward II, by Christopher Mar-
lowe, 143; 146.
Edwin Drood, 417.
Eikonoclastes, 193.
Elegy in a Country Churchyard,
297; 298.
Eliot, George, 411; 422-429.
Elizabeth, Queen, 109; 113; 119;
120-121; 131.
Emerson, R. W., 136; 404.
Endymion, 362; 363; 364; 367.
England, the land of the Angles,
8; settled by the Angles, Sax-
ons, and Jutes, 8; invaded
by the Danes, 26; saved by
Alfred, 28; of the 14th cen-
tury, 54-61; rapid develop-
ment of in the 16th century,
113; unity of in Elizabeth's
time, 120; expansion of her
trade, 122; Milton's England,
173-179; complexity of the age,
178; Restoration --, 219-232;
expansion of, in the 18th cen-
tury, 283, 305; industrial and
social changes, 284; and the
French Revolution, 312-313,
346-347; of Victoria's reign,
369-377; expansion of, in age
of Victoria, 370, 375. See also
ENGLISH LANGUAGE, ENGLISH
PEOPLE, ENGLISH LITERATURE.
English Bards and Scotch Re-
English Dictionary, The, by Dr.
Johnson, 288.
English Humourists, Lectures on
the, 409; 421.
English Language: Alfred, the
founder of English prose, 30;
French supplants it among
upper classes, 41; modified by
French influence, 43; triumphs
over the French in England,
46; East-Midland English be-
comes supreme in Chaucer's
time, 62; rise of English prose
in 14th century, 62; the music
of Chaucer's English, 80;
Elizabethan prose, 165; seven-
teenth-century prose, 207;
development of prose in Dry-
den's time, 224; Dryden's
contribution to English prose,
230; rise of the new prose in
18th century, 246; 250; 273;
prose-writers of Victorian age,
399-401.
English Literature, from the
beginning to King Alfred, 12-
26; Beowulf, 13-17; Chris-
tian literature, 17; Latin prose
and the work of Bede, 22-26;
from King Alfred to the Nor-
man Conquest, 26-36; sum-
mary of the Old English
period, 35; effects of the
Norman Conquest on, 41, 43;
literature after the Norman
Conquest, 44; Latin Chron-
icles, 44; Celtic influence on,
44; romances, 46, 49; revival
of, after Norman Conquest,
47; medieval songs, 51; age
of Chaucer, 54-82; literature
in the 14th century, 61; rise
of English prose, 62; songs
and ballads, 92-97; religious
drama, 97; prelude to the
age of Elizabeth, 109–118;
the Renaissance in litera-
ture, 110; culmination of the
Renaissance, 119-169; later
Elizabethan literature, 179;
non-dramatic poetry of the
early 17th century, 185;
seventeenth-century prose,
207; period of the French
influence, 219-278; domi-
nated by classical standards,
224; prose-writers of the early
18th century, 250-273; the
beginning of modern litera-
ture, 279-368; literature after
the death of Pope, 285-291;
the new spirit in literature,
291 ff. [return to Nature, 291;
new sympathy with man, 292;
children and home-life, 292;
return to poetic manner of
the Elizabethans, 293; a new
world of the imagination,
293; summary, 305]; in the
reign of Victoria, 376; 401;
the Victorian novel, 409-
437; Victorian poetry, 437-
461; the Pre-Raphaelites, 438.
See also ENGLISH LANGUAGE
and ENGLISH RENAISSANCE.
English People, the; their early
home, 1, 2; Angles, Saxons,
Jutes, 1, 2; early English life
and character, 2, 3; their
feast-halls, 3; the English vir-
tues, 4, 5; their religious
nature, 6; belief in Fate, 6, 7;
they settle in Britain, 8; wars
with the Britons and among
themselves, 8; they become
Christianized, 9-11; the influ-
ence of Christian learning on,
11; intellectual development
in the age of Elizabeth, 121;
rise of, to the kingdom of
letters, 122; the Puritans, 174;
lax morality at Restoration,
220; growth of reading public
in early 18th century, 248;
society in coffee-houses, 249;
development of democracy
and humanity in the 18th
century, 279 ff; changes in
life in the 19th century, 372-
373.
English Renaissance, period of
the, 89-218; its coming to
England, 89; delayed by the
Wars of the Roses, 90; end of
these wars, 103; new learning
at the universities, 104; Henry
VIII and his Court, 109; the
Renaissance in literature, 110;
poetry from Wyatt and Surrey
to Spenser, 113; culmination
of, 119-169; unity of the na-
tion, 120; intellectual growth,
121; joy of life, 122; Eliza-
bethan delight in life, 124;
Edmund Spenser, 127-136;
the drama, 136–147; theaters,
147; Shakespeare, 152-165;
Elizabethan prose, 165-169;
summary of Renaissance liter-
ature, 169-172; decline of the,
173-218.
Epic poetry, 173 n. See BEO-
WULF and PARADISE LOST.
Erasmus, Desiderius, 104; 105.
Essay on Criticism, 240.
Essay on Man, 245.
Essay on the Sublime and Beauti-
ful, 303.
Essays, by Lord Bacon, 168;
periodical essays of Steele and
Addison, 253, 258, 262; of
Elia, 342; familiar, 343.
Essays of Elia, 341; 342-343.
Euphuism, 144.
Eve of St. Agnes, The, 363; 365;
366.
Eve of St. John, The, 332; 338.
Evening Walk, An, 316.
Everyman, 140.
Every Man in his Humour, 180,
181.
Evolution, the theory of, 374;
459.
Excursion, The, 322.
Faërie Queene, The, 132; 133–
135; 361.
Faithful Shepherdess, The, 182.
Far from the Madding Crowd,
Farquhar, George, 231.
Faustus, Doctor, 145; 146.
Ferrex and Porrex, 45, 115-116;
142.
Fielding, Henry, 237; 273; 276-
277; 279; 410; 412; 419.
Fletcher, John, 179; 182.
Flight of a Tartar Tribe, The,
345.
Florence of Worcester, Latin
Chronicler, 44.
For A' That and A' that, 311.
Fors Clavigera, 396.
Fortune Theatre, The, 148; 150.
France, An Ode, 331.
Frederick the Great, The Life of,
388; 392.
Freedom of the Press, Milton
pleads for the, 199; granted
by Parliament, 249.
French influence, period of the,
219-278; and the reign of com-
mon sense, 222.
French Revolution, see REVOLU-
French Revolution, The, by Car-
lyle, 388; 390; 393.
Gammer Gurton's Needle, 142.
Gardiner's Daughter, The, 456.
Garrick, David, 287; 288.
Gascoigne, George, 114.
Gentlemen's Magazine, The, 287.
Gentle Shepherd, The, 295.
Geoffrey of Monmouth, 45;
King Lear, Ferrex and Porrex,
King Arthur, 45; 48.
Germ, The, 439.
German Literature, influence of,
on Coleridge, 325; De Quincey
and, 344; Carlyle and, 387.
Giaour, The, 349.
Gibbon, Edward, 288.
Globe Theatre, The, 148; 163.
Godwin, William, 356.
Goldsmith, Oliver, 251; 263;
286; 288; 299-301; 306; 311;
412.
Good-Natured Man, The, 300.
Gorboduc, see Ferrex and Porrex.
Gossip on Romance, A, 433.
Gower, John, 62; 78.
Grace Abounding to the Chief of
Sinners, 214; 216; 218.
Gray, Thomas, 293; 297-298;
306.
Greene, Robert, 144.
Grocyn, William, 104; 110.
Gulliver's Travels, 215; 265; 270.
Gutenberg, German printer, 87.
Guy Mannering, 334.
Guy of Warwick, 49.
Hakluyt's Voyages, 170.
Hallam, Arthur, 453.
Hamlet, 162.
Hardy, Thomas, 411; 434-436.
Harvey, Gabriel, 129.
Hastings, essay by Macaulay,
382.
Hathaway, Anne, 157.
Havelok the Dane, 49.
Hazlitt, William, 127; 323; 327;
341; 342; 343; 344.
Hellas, 357.
Heminge and Condell, editors
of the first folio edition of
Shakespeare's plays, 152.
Henry Esmond, 419; 421.
Henry V, by Shakespeare, 150;
181.
Henry VIII, 105; 109; 110; 120.
Herbert, George, 185; 188-189.
Hereward the Wake, 430.
Hero and Hero-Worship, 392.
Heroic couplet, the, 224; 293.
Herrick, Robert, 190-192; and
Milton, 192.
Hesperides, 192.
Hervé Riel, 448.
Heywood, John, 141.
Heywood, Thomas, 184.
Hilda, Abbess of the Monastery
at Streoneshalh, 19.
Hind and the Panther, The, 229.
History of Colonel Jack, The, 264.
History of England, 383.
History of the World, by Sir
Walter Raleigh, 207-208.
Holy War, The, 214.
Hooker, Richard, 165; 400.
Hours of Idleness, 349.
House of Fame, The, 72.
How they brought the Good News
from Ghent to Aix, 448.
Howard, Henry, Earl of Surrey,
111.
Humanity, development of, in
modern times, 279 ff. [new
spiritual growth, 280; the
rise of Methodism, 280; deeper
sympathy with man, 281, 292;
industrial and social changes,
284]; in Goldsmith, Cowper,
and Crabbe, 299, 306; and
the French Revolution, 312. ·
Humphrey Clinker, 278.
Hunt, Leigh, 341; 343; 361.
Huxley, Thomas, 401.
Hydriotaphia, 210.
Hymn on the Morning of Christ's
Nativity, 196.
Hypatia, 430.
Hyperion, 363; 366.
Idiot Boy, The, 322.
Idler, The, 290.
Idylls of the King, The, 460.
Il Penseroso, 193; 196.
In Memoriam, 438; 453; 454;
456.
Indian Serenade, The, 358.
Inner Temple, The, 340.
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