BIBLIOGRAPHY

It is best to study English literature one period, or, even in the case of the greatest, one author at a time. In every case the student should see to it that he knows the text of his authors; a knowledge of what critics have said about our poets is a poor substitute for a knowledge of what they have said themselves. Poetry ought to be read slowly and carefully, and the reader ought to pay his author the compliment of crediting him with ideas as important and, on occasion, as abstruse as any in a work of philosophy or abstract science. When the meaning is mastered, the poem ought to be read a second time aloud to catch the magic of the language and the verse. The reading of prose presents less difficulty, but there again the rule is, never allow yourself to be lulled by sound. Reading is an intellectual and not an hypnotic exercise.

The following short bibliography is divided to correspond with the chapters in this book. Prices and publishers are mentioned only when there is no more than one cheap edition of a book known to the author. For the subject as a whole, Chamber's Cyclopaedia of English Literature (3 vols., 10s. 6d. net each), which contains biographical and critical articles on all authors, arranged chronologically and furnished very copiously with specimen passages, may be consulted at any library.

* The books with an asterisk are suggested as those on which reading should be begun. The reader can then proceed to the others and after them to the many authors—great authors—who are not included in this short list.

Chapter I.—*More's Utopia; Haklyut's Voyages (Ed. J. Masefield, Everyman's Library, 8 vols., 1s. net each). North's Translation of Plutarch's Lives (Temple Classics).

Chapter II.—Surrey's and Wyatt's Poems (Aldine Edition. G. Bells & Sons); *Spenser's Works, Sidney's Poems. A good idea of the atmosphere in which poetry was written is to be obtained from Scott's Kenilworth. It is full of inaccuracy in detail.

Chapter III.—*The dramatists in the Mermaid Series (T. Fisher Unwin); *Everyman and other Plays; ed. by A.W. Pollard (Everyman's Library).

Chapter IV.—*Bacon's Essays; Sir Thomas Browne's Works; *Milton's Works; *Poems of John Donne (Muses Library, Routledge); Poems of Robert Herrick.

Chapter V.—*Poems of Dryden; *Poems of Pope; Poems of Thomson; *The Spectator (Routledge's Universal Library or Everyman's); *Swift's Gulliver's Travels; Defoe's Novels.

Chapter VI.—*Boswell's Life of Johnson; *Burke (in selections); Goldsmith's Citizen of the World (Temple Classics); *Burns' Poetical Works; *Poems of Blake (Clarendon Press).

Chapter VII.—*Wordsworth (Golden Treasury Series); *Wordsworth's Prelude (Temple Classics); Coleridge's Poems; *Keats's Poems; *Shelley's Poems; *Byron (Golden Treasury Series); *Lamb, Essays of Elia; Hazlitt (volumes of Essays in World's Classics Series).

Chapter VIII.—*Tennyson's Works; *Browning's Works; Rossetti's Works; *Carlyle's Sartor Resartus, Past and Present, and French Revolution; Ruskin's Unto this Last, Seven Lamps of Architecture; Arnold's Poems; Swinburne (Selections).

Chapter IX.—*Fielding's Tom Jones; Smollett, Roderick Random; *Jane Austen's Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice, and Northanger Abbey (as a parody of the Radcliffe School); *Scott's Waverley, Antiquary, Ivanhoe, Old Mortality, Bride of Lammermoor. It seems hardly necessary to give a selection of later novels.

Chapter X.—W.B. Yeats' Poems; Wilde, Importance of Being Earnest; *Synge, Dramatic Works.

And every new work of the best contemporary authors.

G.H.M.



LIST OF THE CHIEF WORKS AND AUTHORS MENTIONED

The dates attached to the authors are those of birth and death; those with the books, of publication.

CHAPTER I

Sir Thomas More, 1480-1535. Utopia. 1516 (in Latin). William Tindall, 1484-1536. Translation of the New Testament, 1526. Sir John Cheke, 1514-1557. Roger Ascham, 1515-1568. Toxophilus, 1545. Schoolmaster, 1570. Richard Hakluyt, 1553-1616. His Voyages, 1598.

CHAPTER II

Sir Thomas Wyatt, 1503-1542. The Earl of Surrey, 1517-1547. Tottel's Miscellany (containing their poems), 1557. Sir Philip Sidney. 1554-1586. Arcadia, 1590. Astrophel and Stella, 1591. Edmund Spenser, 1552-1599. Shepherd's Calendar, 1579. Fairy Queen, 1589, 1596. John Lyly, 1554-1606. Euphues, 1579. Euphues and his England, 1580. Richard Hooker, 1553-1600. Ecclesiastical Polity, 1594.

CHAPTER III

Christopher Marlowe, 1564-1593. Tamburlaine, 1587 (date of performance). Dr. Faustus, 1588 (date of performance). Edward II., 1593. Thomas Kyd, 1557(?)-1595(?). The Spanish Tragedy, 1594 (published). John Webster, 1580(?)-1625(?). The White Devil, 1608 (date of performance). Duchess of Malfi, 1616 (date of performance). Ben Jonson, 1573-1637. Every Man in his Humour, 1598. Volpone, 1605. Poems, 1616.

CHAPTER IV

John Donne, 1573-1631. Poems, 1633 (first published, but known, like those of all Elizabethan poets, in manuscript long before). William Browne, 1591-1643. George Herbert, 1593-1633. Robert Herrick, 1593-1674. Richard Crashaw, 1613-1649. Francis Bacon, 1561-1626. Advancement of Learning, 1605. Essays, 1625. The Bible, Authorised Version, 1611. Robert Burton, 1577-1640. Anatomy of Melancholy, 1621. Sir Thomas Browne, 1605-1682. Religio Medici, 1642. John Bunyan, 1628-1688. Pilgrim's Progress, 1678. John Milton, 1608-1674. Paradise Lost, 1667. Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes, 1671.

CHAPTER V

John Dryden, 1631-1700. Absalom and Achitophel and Religio Laici, 1682. The Hind and the Panther, 1687. Alexander Pope, 1688-1744. Essay on Criticism, 1711. Rape of the Lock, 1714. James Thomson, 1700-1748. The Seasons, 1730. Daniel Defoe, 1661-1731. Robinson Crusoe, 1719. Jonathan Swift, 1667-1745. The Tale of a Tub, 1704. Gulliver's Travels, 1726. Joseph Addison, 1672-1719. Richard Steele, 1675-1729. The Tatler, 1709-1711. The Spectator, 1711-1712.

CHAPTER VI

Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784. Edmund Burke, 1728-1797. Oliver Goldsmith, 1728-1774. Thomas Gray, 1716-1771. William Collins, 1721-1759. Robert Burns, 1759-1796. Poems, 1786. William Blake, 1757-1827. Songs of Innocence, 1789.

CHAPTER VII

William Wordsworth, 1770-1850. Lyrical Ballads, 1798. Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 1772-1834. Sir Walter Scott, 1771-1832. Lord Byron, 1788-1824. Child Harold's Pilgrimage, 1812-1817. Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1792-1822. John Keats, 1796-1821. Charles Lamb, 1775-1884. Essays of Elia, 1823. William Hazlitt, 1778-1830. Thomas de Quincey, 1785-1859.

CHAPTER VIII

Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892. Poems, 1842. Idylls of the King, 1859. Robert Browning, 1812-1889. Men and Women, 1855. The Ring and the Book, 1868. D. G. Rossetti, 1828-1882. William Morris, 1834-1896. A. C. Swinburne, 1836-1909. Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1880. John Ruskin, 1819-1900.

CHAPTER IX

Samuel Richardson, 1689-1761. Pamela, 1740. Clarissa Harlowe, 1750. Henry Fielding, 1707-1754. Joseph Andrews, 1742. Tom Jones, 1749. Jane Austen, 1775-1817. William Makepeace Thackeray, 1811-1863. Charles Dickens, 1812-1870. George Meredith, 1832-1909.



INDEX

ADDISON, JOSEPH, Advancement of Learning, The, Anatomy of Melancholy, The, Antonio and Mellida, Arcadia, the Countess of Pembroke's, Arnold, Matthew, Ascham, Roger, Astrophel and Stella, Atheist's Tragedy, The, Augustan Age, Austen, Jane, Autobiography,

Bacon, Francis, Ballad, the, Beaumont and Fletcher, Bennett, Arnold, Bible, the, Biography, Blake, William, Blank Verse, Boswell, James, Brontes, the, Browne, Sir Thomas, Browne, William, Browning, Robert, Bunyan, John, Burke, Edmund, Burns, Robert, Burton, Robert, Byron, Lord,

Carew, Thomas, Carlyle, Thomas, Celtic Revival, Character-writing, Chatterton, Thomas, Cheke, Sir John, Christ's Victory and Death, Classicism, Clough, Thomas, Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, Collins, William, Conrad, Joseph, Cowley, Abraham, Cowper, William, Crabbe, George, Crashaw, Richard, Criticism,

Decadence, Defoe, Daniel, De Quincey, Thomas, Dekker, Thomas, Dickens, Charles, Discovery, Voyages of, Disraeli, Benjamin, Dr. Faustus, Donne, John, Drama, the, Dryden, John, Duchess of Malfi, The,

Earle, John, Edward II., Elia, Essays of, Elizabethan Poetry, Elizabethan Prose, Essays, Civil and Moral, Euphues, Everyman,

Fairy Queen, The, Fantastics, the, Fielding, Henry, Fitzgerald, Edward, Fletcher, Giles, Fletcher, Phineas, Ford, John, French Revolution, the,

Gaskell, Mrs., George Eliot, Gibbon, Edward, Gissing, George, Goldsmith, Oliver, Gorboduc, Gray, Thomas, Greene, Robert, Greville, Sir Fulke, Gulliver's Travels,

Hakluyt's Voyages, Hardy, Thomas, Hazlitt, William, Hawthorne, Nathaniel, Henry VII., History of, Herbert, George, Herrick, Robert, Hobbes, Thomas, Hooper, Richard,

Italy, influence of,

Jew of Malta, Johnson, Samuel, Jonson, Ben,

Keats, John, Kipling, Rudyard, Kyd, Thomas,

Lamb, Charles, Locke, John, Lodge, Thomas, Lyly, John, Lyric, the, Lyrical Ballads,

Marlowe, Christopher, Marston, John, Massinger, Philip, Meredith, George, Middleton, Thomas, Milton, John, Miracle Play, the, Moore, George, Morality, the, More, Sir Thomas, Morris, William,

New Atlantis, The, Novel, the,

Obscurity in Poetry, Omar Khayyam, Ossian, Oxford Movement, the,

Paradise Lost, Pastoral Prose and Poetry, Peele, George, Percy, William, Pilgrim's Progress, Platonism, Poetic Diction, Pope, Alexander, Puritanism, Purple Island, The,

Raleigh, Sir Walter, Rape of the Lock, Realism, Religio Medici, Renaissance, the, Reynolds, Sir Joshua, Rhetoric, study of, Richardson, Samuel, Robinson Crusoe, Romanticism, Romantic Revival, the, Rossetti, D. G., Ruskin, John,

Sackville, Thomas, Satire, Scott, Sir Walter, Senecan Tragedy, Seventeenth Century, the, Shaw, G. Bernard, Shelley, P. B., Shenstone, Thomas, Sheridan, R. B., Shirley, John, Sidney, Sir Philip, Smollett, T., Sonnet, the, Sonneteers, the, Spanish Tragedy, The, Spectator, The, Spenser, Edmund, Spenserians, the, Steele, Richard, Sterne, Lawrence, Stevenson, R. L., Supernatural, the, Surrey, the Earl of, Swift, Jonathan, Swinburne, A. C., Synge, J. M.,

Tale of a Tub, The, Tamburlaine, Tatler, The, Temple, Sir William, Tennyson, Alfred, Thackeray, W. M., Theatre, the Elizabethan, Thomson, James, Tottel's Miscellany,

Utopia,

Vaughan, Henry, Victorian Age, the, View of the State of Ireland,

Waller, Edmund, Walton, Isaac, Webster, John, Wells, H. G., White Devil, The, Wilde, Oscar, Wilson, Thomas, Wither, George, Wordsworth, William, Wyatt, Thomas,

Yeats, W. B.,

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