master of form, 365; place as
a poet, 366; limitations, 366];
376; 394; 441; 453.
King's Quair, The, 92.
King's Tragedy, The, 441.
Kingsley, Charles, 411; 430.
Kipling, Rudyard, 411; 436-437.
Kirke, Edmund, 129.
Knight's Quarterly, 379.
Kubla Khan, 329.
Kyd, Thomas, 144.
La Belle Dame sans Merci, 366.
Lady of the Lake, The, 334.
Lake Country, the English, 315.
L'Allegro, 193; 196.
Lamb, Charles, 147; 323; 324;
327; 339-344 [life, 340; retire-
ment and death, 342; as
critic and essayist, 342; Essays
of Elia, 342]; 377; 400.
Lamb, Mary, 340; 344.
Lanfranc, Archbishop of Can-
terbury, 40.
Lang, Andrew, 332.
Langland, William, 61; 65;
Vision of Piers the Plowman,
65.
Latimer, Hugh, 114.
Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, The,
166.
Lay of the Last Minstrel, The,
Layamon, 48; the Brut, 48.
Lays of Ancient Rome, 382.
Lear, King, 45; 156; 162.
Lee, Nathaniel, 231.
Letters on a Regicide Peace, 304.
Levana and Our Ladies of Sor-
Lewes, George Henry, 424; 425.
Life and Death of Mr. Badman,
214.
Life of Captain Singleton, 264.
Life of Savage, 289.
Life of Schiller, 387.
Linacre, Thomas, 104; 105.
Little Dorrit, 413.
Literary Club, the, 288; 300.
Lives, by Isaac Walton, 211.
Lives of the Poets, by Dr. John-
son, 288; 290.
Locke, John, 231.
Locksley Hall, 453; 458.
Locksley Hall Sixty Years After,
458.
London, in Chaucer's time, 56;
becomes the literary center,
62; Shakespeare's, 125; of
Pope, 235; 249.
London, poem by Dr. Johnson,
287.
London Magazine, The, 343, 345.
London Quarterly, The, 362.
Lotus Eaters, The, 456.
Lowell, James Russell, 66; 237;
316; 323.
Lucrece, 159; 160.
Lucy, To, 321.
Lucy Gray, 322.
Luther, Martin, 87.
Lycidas, 172; 192; 198.
Lydgate, John, 91.
Lyly, John, 144.
Lyrical Ballads, 317.
Macaulay, Thomas Babington,
291; 344; 377-383 [entrance
into literature, 379; social
and other successes, 380;
character and work, 381; Lays
of Ancient Rome, 382; essayist
and historian, 382]; 384; 399;
409.
Macaulay, Zachary, 378.
Macbeth, 156; 161.
Mac Flecknoe, 229; 244.
Machiavelli, essay by Macaulay,
382.
Maildulf, founds an abbey at
Malmesbury, 18.
Malmesbury, abbey of, founded
by Maildulf, 18.
Malory, Sir Thomas, 101; Morte
d'Arthur, 101.
Mandeville, Sir John, 65.
Manfred, 350.
Marlowe, Christopher, 145-147;
157; 356.
Marmion, 334.
Martin Chuzzlewit, 414; 415.
Masques, 180; 197.
Master of Ballantrae, The, 432.
Maud, 456.
Measure for Measure, 162.
Medieval Revival, the, 294–295.
Memoirs of a Cavalier, 264.
Men and Women, 447.
Merchant of Venice, The, 146;
160; 162.
Meredith, George, 433-434.
Mermaid Tavern, the, 125; 179;
181; 187; 195; 288.
Methodism, rise of, 280.
Middlemarch, 429.
Midsummer Night's Dream, 158;
163.
Milton, John, 172; the England
of, 173–179; and Shakespeare,
173; and Herrick, 192; 193–
207 [boyhood in London, 195;
Cambridge, 195; Horton, 196;
L'Allegro and Il Penseroso,
196; Comus, 197; Lycidas, 198;
travels, 198; prose period, 199;
later poetic period, 200; his
ideal of life, 201; Paradise
Lost, 203]; as prose-writer, 211;
221; 227; 316; 322; 456.
Milton, essay by Macaulay, 379;
382.
Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border,
333.
Miracle plays, 97; 139.
Mirror for Magistrates, The, 116–
117.
Mitre, The, 289.
Modern Painters, 395; 396.
Moll Flanders, 264.
Monasteries, founding of in
England, 12; destroyed by
the Danes in the North, 27.
Montague, Lady Mary Wortley,
277.
Moore, Thomas, 347.
Moralities, 140.
More, Sir Thomas, 104; 105-
106; 109.
Morris, William, 55; 441-443.
Morte d'Arthur, by Malory, 101.
Morte d'Arthur, by Tennyson,
453.
Mother Hubbard's Tale, 131.
Much Ado About Nothing, 159.
Murder Considered as One of the
Fine Arts, 345.
My Last Duchess, 449.
My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose,
310.
Nature, return to, in modern
literature, 291; 296; 306;
Wordsworth's poetry of, 318-
322; Coleridge's poetry of,
330.
Necessity of Atheism, On the, 355.
Newcomes, The, 419; 420.
Newman, John Henry (Cardi-
nal), 400-401; 404.
Newton, Sir Isaac, 232.
Noble Numbers, 190.
Norman Conquest, from Alfred
to the, 26, 32; decline of
literature before the, 33, 35;
effects of on England, the
English language, and Eng-
lish literature, 39-44; sum-
mary of its influence, 52.
Norman French, becomes the
language of the upper classes,
41.
Normandy, 37; loss of by King
John, 47.
Normans, the, 35; settle in Nor-
mandy, 37; origin of their
civilization, 38; conquer Eng-
land, 39; become supreme in
Church and State in England,
39-40.
Northern Farmer, The, 456.
Northumbria, Christianity intro-
duced into, 10; invaded by the
Danes, 27.
Norton, co-author with Sack-
ville, 142.
Novel, the, 262; 264; 265; of
domestic life, 273-278; The
Waverley Novels, 334, 338;
the Victorian, 409-437.
Novum Organum, 168.
Occleve, Thomas, 91.
Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton
College, 298.
Ode on a Grecian Urn, 363; 366.
Ode on the Popular Superstitions
of the Highlands of Scotland,
Ode on the Intimations of Im-
mortality, 322.
Ode to Dejection, 326.
Ode to Duty, 322.
Ode to the West Wind, 358.
Odes, of William Collins, 297.
Old Cumberland Beggar, The,
322.
Old Familiar Faces, The, 342.
Oliver Twist, 416.
Ordeal of Richard Feverel, The,
433.
Othello, 161.
Otway, Thomas, 231.
Our Mutual Friend, 416.
Owl and the Nightingale, The,
50.
Oxford, decline of learning at,
in the 15th century, 91; re-
newed interest in learning at
end of the 15th century, 104;
influence of, on Arnold, 402-
404.
Oxford Reformers, the, 104.
Palace of Art, The, 453; 457.
Palgrave, F. T., 66.
Pamela, 275; 276.
Pantisocracy, 325.
Paracelsus, 447.
Paradise Lost, 193; 195; 200;
201; 203-207; 215.
Paradise Regained, 195; 201.
Paris, Matthew, Latin Chroni-
cler, 44.
Pastorals, by Pope, 239.
Pattison, Mark, 193.
Pauline, 447.
Pearl, The, 62.
Peele, George, 144.
Pendennis, 419; 420; 421.
Persian Eclogues, 297.
Petrarch, Francis, 61; 71; 84;
110; 111; 112.
Pickwick Papers, The, 414; 417.
Pied Piper of Hamelin, The, 448.
Piers the Plowman, Vision of, 65.
Pilgrim's Progress, 214; 215-217.
Pippa Passes, 447.
Pitt, William, administration of,
282.
Plain Tales from the Hills, 437.
Poems and Ballads, by Swin-
burne, 444.
Poems, Chiefly Lyrical, by
Tennyson, 377; 452.
Poetry, non-dramatic of the
early 17th century, 185; be-
comes mechanical, 223; be-
comes prosaic, 234; See also
ENGLISH LITERATURE.
Pope, Alexander, 217; 223; 224;
225; 234; 237-246 [life, 238;
Pastorals, 239; Essay on Criti-
cism, 240; Rape of the Lock,
241; translations and com-
mentaries, 242; Twickenham,
243; The Dunciad, 243; Essay
on Man, 245; the spokesman
of his time, 245; character,
246]; 256; 279; 285; 292; 297;
376; 428; 438.
Præterita, 395.
Pre-Raphaelites, the, 439; 449.
Printing, invention of in Ger-
many, 87; introduced into
England by Caxton, 98.
Prometheus Unbound, 357; 358.
Prose, English, see ENGLISH
Puritans, The, 174-177; their
hostility to the stage, 183;
and the Restoration, 219–220.
Put yourself in his Place, 430.
Queen Mab, 355.
Quentin Durward, 335.
Raleigh, Sir Walter, 130-131;
207-208; 210; 400.
Ralph Roister Doister, 142.
Rambler, The, 287; 290.
Ramsay, Allan, 295.
Rape of the Lock, The, 241-242;
245; 268.
Rasselas, 288.
Reade, Charles, 430.
Red Harlaw, 338.
Reflections on the Revolution in
France, 304.
Reform Bill, The, 369; 371; 380.
Reformation, The, in Europe,
87; 119; finds expression in
literature, 174–175.
Religio Laici, 229.
Religio Medici, 209.
Religious drama, the, 97.
Religious poets of the 17th cen-
tury, the, 188.
Reminiscences, The, of Carlyle,
389.
Renaissance, the, in Europe, 83–
89; meaning of the term, 83;
revival of learning, 84; re-
vival of art, 85; voyages and
discoveries, 85; printing, 87;
the Reformation, 87; the
Copernican Theory, 88; com-
ing of, to England, 89. See
also ENGLISH RENAISSANCE.
Restoration, the, 183; 200; Eng-
land of, 219-232; other writers
of, 231.
Revolt of Islam, The, 356–357.
Revolution: of 1688, effect of on
authorship, 247; the age of,
284; Burke and the French
Revolution, 304; the French
Revolution, 312-314; Cole-
ridge and the French Revolu-
tion, 330; poets of the, 346 ff.,
356; Carlyle and the French
Revolution, 391.
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 288.
Richard II, 159.
Richardson, Samuel, 273; 275–
276.
Ring and the Book, The, 448.
Roads, On, Essay by Stevenson,
432.
Robinson Crusoe, 215; 263-264;
265; 270.
Roderick Random, 278.
Rolle, Richard, 62; writes the
Prick of Conscience, 62.
Romance of the Rose, The, 69; 70.
Romances, medieval, of Charle-
magne, Alexander the Great,
King Arthur, etc., 46; Have-
lok the Dane, Guy of Warwick,
beauty and art, 398; social
reform, 399]; 400; 401; 408;
409; 443; 459; 460; 461.
Rydal Mount, 318.
Sackville, Thomas, 114-117;
142.
Sad Shepherd, The, 182.
Saint Paul's, Grammar School
of, 106.
St. Simon Stylites, 456.
Samson Agonistes, 195; 201; 202.
Sartor Resartus, 386; 388; 390.
Saxons, the, 1; 2; 8.
Scenes of Clerical Life, 424.
Science, advance of, in the Vic-
torian age, 370; 372; and be-
lief, 374; in poetry, 438.
Scotland, poets of, in the 14th
and 15th centuries, 91-92; in
18th century, 295; Burns and,
310; Scott and, 331-333.
Scott country, the, 331.
Scott, Sir Walter, 295; 297; 314;
331-339 [life, 331; Sandy-
Knowe, 332; early 'literary
work, 333; Lay of the Last
Minstrel, 333; Waverley Novels,
334; prosperity and failure,
335; character and work,
337; as novelist, 338]; 349;
369; 376; 377; 407; 411.
Seasons, The, 296.
Sejanus and Catiline, 181.
Sense and Sensibility, 411.
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 439- Shakespeare, William, and the
Rousseau, Jean Jacques, 284;
313.
Ruskin, John, 377; 381; 392;
394-399 [life, 394; ideas of
drama, 136-137; his prede-
cessors, 143; life and work,
152-165 [early surroundings,
152; education, 155; marriage,
156; in London, 157; work,
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