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GEORGE III.) m Poems, given in Chalmers xvii. and Anderson xi. d The Roman Father, 1750, a tragedy, often repr.; Creusa, a successful tragedy, founded on the Ion of Euripides, 1754; a successful comedy, The School for Lovers, 1762, &c.; Plays and Poems, 1774. [He succeeded Colley Cibber as Laureate.]

Whitelock, Bulstrode, 1605-1676. Historical writer, &c. (COMMONWEALTH, CHARLES II.) p Memorials of English Affairs (1625–1660), pr. posthumously 1682, no complete ed. till 1732; repr. Oxford, 1853. [He was Cromwell's ambassador to Sweden, and published an account of his visit. He was Speaker in 1556.]

Whitgift, John, 1533 ?-1604. Archbishop of Canterbury. (ELIZABETH.) p Works, collected by the Parker Soc., 3 vols., 18511853. 'Life' by John Strype, 1718, repr. 1822. Dean Hook's Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury, x. The Athena Cantabrigienses ii. 369-79 gives a list of 91 works.

Wilberforce, William, M.P. Slavery abolitionist. (GEORGE III. to WILLIAM IV.) p Practical View of Christianity, 1795, 5 ed, in six months; trans. into most European languages. Burke read it on his deathbed. Repr. in Ancient and Modern Lib. of Theolog. Lit. 1888. ['Life,' by his sons, 1838.]

Wilkins, George, fl. 1608. (JAMES I.) p The Painfull Adventures of Pericles, Prince of Tyre, 1608, founded on the play of Pericles. Repr. by Prof. Mommsen, 1857. This Wilkins is usually called 'the Younger;' and to another (?), said to have died 1603, are assigned a The Miseries of Inforst Mariage, 1607, repr. Hazlitt's Dodsley; and The Travailes of the three English Brothers, 1607, an historical play wr. with W. Rowley and J. Day (q.v.).

Williams, Sir Charles Hanbury, 1709-1759. Diplomatist and poet. (GEORGE II.) m Poems, 1763; Odes, 1775. Works,' with notes by H. Walpole, 1822. [He wrote lively lampoons and political squibs in support of Sir R. Walpole, and was Minister at Berlin and St. Petersburg.]

Poet.

? Willobie (Willoughby), Henry, 1575-1596? (ELIZABETH.) m Willobie his Avisa, 1594, repr. by Grosart, 1880. There is much doubt as to the existence of any real Willobie.

Wilmot, Robert, fl. 1568-1619. Dramatist and clergyman. (ELIZABETH.) d The Tragedie of Tancred and Gismund, 1591. Repr. Hazlitt's Dodsley, vii. R. W. wrote act v. and 'polished' the whole. See Hazlitt's preface.

Wilson, Arthur, 1596-1652. Historian and dramatist. (JAMES I. to COMMONWEALTH.) p History of Great Britain (i.e. of

the reign of James I.), 1653. d The Inconstant Lady, pr. in 1814 by Dr. Ph. Bliss. Two plays are still unpublished.

Wilson, John, d. circa 1696. Dramatist. (CHARLES II.) d Andronicus Comnenius, a tragedy, 1664; The Cheats, a comedy, 1664 (wr. 1662); The Projectors, a comedy, 1668; Belphegor, a tragi-comedy, 1691. All repr. in Dramatic Works, 1874, with a list of other works in the Introduction.

Wilson, Robert, f. 1584 ?-1600. Dramatist. (ELIZABETH.) a The Coblers Prophesie, 1594; The three Ladies of London, 1584; Three Lords and Three Ladies of London, both 'by R. W.,' repr. in Hazlitt's Dodsley vi. and attributed by him to R. Wilmot.

Wilson, Sir Thomas, 1520?-1581. Master of St. Catharine's Hospital. (EDWARD VI. to ELIZABETH.) p The Rule of Reason, conteining the Arte of Logique, 1551, one of the earliest works of the kind. It alludes to Ralph Roister Doister (see p. 48) fifteen years before it was published. The Arte of Rhetorique, 1553, our earliest work on criticism.

Winifred. See Boniface.

Wireker, Nigel, xii. cent. Satirist. (HENRY II., RICHARD I.) m Speculum Stultorum. A satire on the schoolmen, churchmen, and monastic orders of the day. The hero, Brunellus (a diminutive of Brown) is an Ass, and the 3,800 lines of Latin elegiacs are often referred to under that name, e.g. in Chaucer's Nonne Preestes Tale, 1. 492. The author is said to have been Precentor in the Benedictine Monastery at Canterbury about 1200. The work was printed 1473.

Wolcott, John, M.D. ('Peter Pindar'), 1738-1819. Satirist. (GEORGE III.) About 70 publications. m Poems, 1778. Collected editions, 1789-1792, &c. [Scott calls him 'the most unsparing calumniator of his time;' with Burns he was a favourite and 'a glorious fellow.']

Wolfe, Rev. Charles, 1791–1823. Poet. (GEORGE III.) m Burial of Sir John Moore, which, with fifteen sermons, letters, poems, and memoir, appeared in his Remains, 1825.

Wollstonecraft, Mary (Mrs. Godwin), 1759-1797. (GEORGE III.) p Thoughts on the Education of Daughters, 1787; Vindication of the Rights of Women, 1792 (latest ed. 1892); Original Stories, 1791, often repr. Her Letters to Imlay were repr. and edited, 1878, by C. Kegan Paul, author of a Life of Godwin. 'Life' in the Eminent Women Series.

Wood, Anthony à, 1632–1695. Antiquary. (CHARLES II.) p Historia et Antiquitates Universitatis Oxoniensis, 1674; Athenæ Oxonienses, 1691-1692, a very valuable account of eminent Oxford

students. The 1813–1820 ed. in 4 vols. (ed. Ph. Bliss) contains over 2,200 lives.

Worsley, Philip Stanhope, d. 1866. Translator. (Victoria.) m Poems and Translations, 1863; Trans. of the Odyssey, 1861-62, repr. 1895; the Iliad, 1865. [Matthew Arnold said the Odyssey was 'delightful to read,' and 'the most pleasing of those hitherto produced.']

Wotton, Rev. William, 1666–1726. Savant. (WILLIAM III.) p Reflections on Ancient and Modern Learning (Boyle and Bentley controversy), 1694. [At five years he could translate from Hebrew, Greek, and Latin into English. He was B.A. at Cambridge at twelve years five months, and then knew twelve languages.]

Young, Bartholomew, d. 1621. Translator. (ELIZABETH.) p Trans. of book iv. of Guazzo's Ciuile Conversation, 1586 (see Pettie, who did i.-iii.); Montemayor's Diana, from Spanish, 1598 (see p. 295, No. II.)

GENERAL INDEX.

[This Index contains the names of all the Authors mentioned in the Handbook and Appendices (pp. 1-364). It contains also most of the titles of the principal works of those Authors who are mentioned in the Handbook (pp. 1-264).]

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Bastard, Thomas, 310

Battle of Brunanburh, The, 12, 267
- of Maldon, The, 12
of the Books, The, 130
Baviad, The, 160
Baxter, Richard, 98
Beattie, James, 126
Beaumont, Francis, 68
Sir John, 311
Beckford, William, 143
Becon, Thomas, 311

Beddoes, Thomas Lovell, 311
Bees, Fable of the, The, 134
Beggar's Opera, The, 122
Behemoth, 92

Behn, Aphra, or Afra, 311
Bellenden, John, 311
Bentham, Jeremy, 189
Bentley, Richard, 311
Beowulf, 6, 10, 266
Beppo, 175

Berkeley, George, 133
Berners, Juliana, 311
- Lord, 46

Beveridge, William, 312
Beverley, Peter, 312
Bevis of Hampton, 28

Bible, Translations of the, 45
Biographia Literaria, 170
Birch, Dr. Thomas, 312
Bishops' Bible, The, 75

Blacklock, Thomas, 312

Blackmore, Sir Richard, 126

Blackstone, Sir William, 151

Blackwood's Magazine, 192
Blair, Dr. Hugh, 312

Baldwin, William, 52, 309

Bale, John, 309

Ballenden, or Ballantyne, John, 311

Banim, John, 309

Barbauld, Anna Lætitia, 309

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Barbour, John, 32

Barclay, John, 309

- Robert, 98, 310

Bard, The, 124

Barham, Richard Harris, 310

Barklay, Alexander, 44
Barnaby Rudge, 201
Barnard, Lady Anne, 310
Barnes, Barnabe, 310
William, 233
Barnfield, Richard, 310
Barrow, Isaac, 98
Barton, Bernard, 310

Robert, 126

Blake, William, 312

Bleak House, 200

Blenerhasset, Thomas, 312

Blessington, Lady, 312
Blind Harry, 312
Bloomfield, Robert, 172
Bodenham, John, 313
Boethius, 36

Bolingbroke, Viscount, 134
Boniface, St. (Winifred), 313
Book of Snobs, The, 203

- of the Duchesse, The, 35
Borough, The, 159
Borron, Hélie de, 21

- Robert, or Robiers, de, 20, 25

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