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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