WORKS FOR CONSULTATION AND FURTHER STUDY

(OPTIONAL)

McCarthy's History of Our Own Times.

Walker's The Age of Tennyson and The Greater Victorian Poets.
Frederic Harrison's Early Victorian Literature.

Saintsbury's A History of Nineteenth Century Literature.
Oliphant's The Victorian Age of English Literature.

Morley's Literature in the Age of Victoria.

Craik's English Prose Selections, Vol. V., pp. 373-771.
Gosse's Modern English Literature, pp. 334-385.
Scudder's Social Ideals in English Letters, pp. 114–318.

Stedman's Victorian Poets.

Victorian Literature in Dowden's Transcripts and Studies.

The Scientific Movement and Literature, Mr. Tennyson and Mr. Browning, and George Eliot in Dowden's Studies in Literature.

Symonds's Elizabethan and Victorian Literature in Fortnightly Review, Vol. 51, or Living Age, Vol. 180.

Myers's Modern Poets and the Meaning of Life in Nineteenth Century, Vol. 33.

Bagehot's Literary Studies. (Thackeray, Dickens, Macaulay, Tennyson, and Browning.)

Bayne's Lessons from My Masters. (Carlyle, Tennyson, and Ruskin.) Zapp's Three Great Teachers of Our Time. (Carlyle, Tennyson, and Ruskin.)

Hutton's Essays, Theological and Literary. (Browning, Arnold, and Tennyson.)

Hutton's Modern Guides of English Thought in Matters of Faith. (Carlyle, Arnold, and George Eliot.)

Cooke's Poets and Problems. (Ruskin, Browning, and Tennyson.) Masson's British Novelists and Their Styles. (Thackeray and Dickens.)

Anne Thackeray Ritchie's Records of Tennyson, Ruskin, and Browning.

Minto's Manual of English Prose Literature. (Macaulay and Carlyle.) Trevelyan's Life and Letters of Macaulay.

Morrison's Life of Macaulay.

Froude's Thomas Carlyle.

Garnett's Life of Carlyle.

Nichol's Life of Carlyle.

Collingwood's The Life and Works of John Ruskin.

Mather's John Ruskin: His Life and Teachings.

Ruskin's Præterita: Scenes of My Past Life.

Waldstein's The Work of John Ruskin: Its Influence upon Modern

Thought and Life.

Scudder's An Introduction to the Writings of John Ruskin.

Saintsbury's Matthew Arnold.

Introduction to Gates's Prose Selections from Matthew Arnold.

Arnold's Letters, edited by Russell.

Swinburne's Essays and Studies. (Matthew Arnold.)

Foster's The Life of Charles Dickens.

Ward's Life of Dickens.

Marzials's Life of Dickens.

Trollope's Life of Thackeray.

Merivale and Marzials's Life of Thackeray.

Cross's George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journal. Oscar Browning's Life of George Eliot.

Cooke's George Eliot: A Critical Study of Her Life, Writings, and Philosophy.

Blind's George Eliot.

Brown's The Ethics of George Eliot's Works.

Sharp's Life of Browning.

Orr's Life and Letters of Browning.

Orr's A Handbook to the Works of Robert Browning.

Symon's Introduction to the Study of Browning.

Corson's An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry. Berdoe's Browning's Message to His Times.

Berdoe's The Browning Cyclopedia.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, A Memoir, by his son.

Waugh's Alfred, Lord Tennyson: A Study of His Life and Work. Ainger's Tennyson, in the Dictionary of National Biography. (The best short life.)

Brooke's Tennyson: His Art and Relation to Modern Life.

Van Dyke's The Poetry of Tennyson.

Luce's Handbook to the Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

APPENDIX

SUPPLEMENTARY LIST OF MINOR AUTHORS AND THEIR CHIEF WORKS

1400-1558

John Lydgate (1370?-1451?): Falls of Princes. Thomas Occleve (1370?-1450?): Mother of God; Governail of Princes. James I. of Scotland (1394-1437): The King's Quair. Sir John Fortescue (1394?-1476?): Difference between an Absolute and Limited Monarchy. The Paston Letters (1422-1509). Stephen Hawes (d. 1523?): Pastime of Pleasure. 1529) Bowge of Court; Philip Sparrow. 1552) Ship of Fools. Sir Thomas More History of Edward V. and Richard III. 1555): Sermon on the Ploughers. 1555): Satire of the Three Estates.

1558-1603

John Skelton (1460?

Alex. Barclay (1475?— (1478-1535): Utopia; Hugh Latimer (1485?— Sir David Lindsay (1490–

Prose Writers. Roger Ascham (1515-1568): The Scholemaster. Raphael Holinshed (d. 1580?): Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland. John Stow (1525?-1605): Survey of London. Sir Thomas North (1535?-1601?): Translation of Plutarch's Lives. Richard Hakluyt (1552?-1616): Voyages. George Puttenham (d. 1590?) : Art of English Poesie. Stephen Gosson (1555-1624): The School of Abuse.

Poets and Dramatists. George Gascoigne (1525?-1577): The Steele Glas. John Lyly (1554?-1606): Alexander and Campaspe (prose. For his Euphues, see p. 117). Thomas Kyd (1557?— 1595?): The Spanish Tragedy. Thomas Lodge (1558?-1625): Phillis (for his novel, see p. 276). William Warner (1558?-1609):

Albion's England. George Peele (1558?-1597?): David and Bethsabe. George Chapman (1559?-1634): Translation of Homer. Robert Greene (1560?-1592): The Honourable History of Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay. Thomas Dekker (1570?— 1641?): Old Fortunatus. John Donne (1573-1631): Poems. Cyril Tourneur (1575?-1626): The Revenger's Tragedy. Thomas Heywood (d. 1650?): A Woman Killed with Kindness. John Marston (1575?-1634) Antonio and Mellida.

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1603-1660

Prose Writers. Robert Burton (1577-1640): The Anatomy of Melancholy. Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682): Religio Medici; Urn Burial. Richard Baxter (1615-1691): The Saints' Everlasting Rest. John Evelyn (1620-1706): Diary (begins 1641, ends 1697).

Poets and Dramatists. - Thomas Middleton (1570?-1627): The Changeling. Phineas Fletcher (1582-1650?): The Purple Island. Philip Massinger (1583-1640): A New Way to Pay Old Debts. William Drummond (1585-1649): Sonnets; The Cypresse Grove (prose). Giles Fletcher (1588?-1623): Christ's Victory and Triumph. George Wither (1588–1667): Juvenilia. George Herbert (1593-1633): The Temple. James Shirley (1596–1666): The Traitor. Sir William Davenant (1606-1668): Gondibert. Edmund Waller (1606-1687): Poems; Song - "Go, lovely Rose." Richard Crashaw (1613?-1649?): Steps to the Temple; The Delights of the Muses. Sir John Denham (1615-1669): Cooper's Hill. Abraham Cowley (1618-1667): Anacreontiques. Andrew Marvell (1621-1678): The Garden.

1660-1700

Prose Writers. Sir William Temple (1628-1699)

Essays.

Isaac Barrow (1630-1677): Sermons. John Tillotson (1630– 1694) Sermons. Samuel Pepys (1633-1703): Diary (1660 to 1669). Robert South (1634-1716): Sermons. Aphra Behn (16401689) Oroonoko. Jeremy Collier (1650-1726): Short View of

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the Immorality and Profaneness of the Stage. Richard Bentley (1662-1742): Epistles of Phalaris.

Dramatists of the Restoration. George Etherege (1635?1691?): The Man of Mode. William Wycherley (1640-1715): The Plain Dealer. Thomas Shadwell (1642?-1692): Epsom Wells. Thomas Otway (1652-1685): Venice Preserved. John Vanbrugh (1666?-1726): The Confederacy. William Congreve (1670-1729): Love for Love. Colley Cibber (1671-1757): The Careless Husband. George Farquhar (1678-1707): The Beaux' Stratagem.

1700-1740

Prose Writers. Gilbert Burnet (1643-1715): History of My Own Time. Francis Atterbury (1662-1732): Sermons. John Arbuthnot (1667-1735); The History of John Bull. Lord Bolingbroke (1678-1751): Letter to Sir William Windham. Bishop Berkeley (1685-1753): Alciphron or the Minute Philosopher. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762): Letters. Bishop Butler (1692–1752): Analogy of Natural and Revealed Religion. William Warburton (1698-1779): The Divine Legation of Moses.

Poets. Matthew Prior (1664-1721): Shorter Poems. Isaac Watts (1674-1748): Psalms and Hymns. Thomas Parnell (1679– 1718) The Night-Piece on Death; The Hermit. John Gay (1685-1732) Fables; Beggar's Opera. Allan Ramsay (16861758): The Gentle Shepherd.

1740-1780

Prose Writers. Gilbert White (1720-1793): Natural History of Selborne. William Robertson (1721-1793): History of the Reign of Charles V. Adam Smith (1723-1790): Wealth of Nations. Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792): Discourses on Painting. Thomas Warton (1728-1790): History of English Poetry. Sir Philip Francis (1740-1818): Letters of Junius. Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816): The Rivals; The School for Scandal. Fanny Burney (1752-1840): Evelina.