GENERAL INDEX

The pages on which authors are more particularly dealt with are given in black type.

A Man’s a Man for a’ That, [310]
A Weary Lot is Thine, [413]
Abbot, The, [415]
Abou Ben Adhem, [406]
Absalom and Achitophel, [195], [215], [227], [274]
Absentee, The, [421]
Acis and Galatea, [262]
Adam Bede, [488]
Adam Blair, [434]
Addison, Joseph, [169], [219], [242], [259], [267], [269], [270], [272], [276], [277], [339], [347], [431], [439], [558]
Address to the Deil, [359]
Address to Edinburgh, [311]
Address to the King (Burke), [353]
Admirable Crichton, The, [548]
Adonais, [392], [449]
Advancement of Learning, The, [135]
Adventurer, The, [344]
Adventures of Harry Richmond, The, [483]
Adventures of Philip, The, [480]
Advice to a Daughter, [211]
Ae Fond Kiss, [308]
Ælfric, [9], [13–14], [71]
Æneid (Douglas), [62]
Æneid (Surrey), [97], [150]
After Dark, [488]
Afton Water, [308]
Agnes Grey, [486]
Aids to Reflection, [381]
Ainsworth, William Harrison, [422], [438]
Airly Beacon, [490]
Akenside, Mark, [303]
Alarum to the Counties of England and Wales, An, [178]
Alastor, [390]
Alchemist, The, [124]
Alcibiades, [206]
Alciphron, [252], [270]
Alexander’s Feast, [198]
Alfred, King, [8], [14], [18], [50], [61]
Alfred (Thomson), [293]
Alfred, The Proverbs of, [20]
Alice in Wonderland, [548]
All Fools, [127]
All for Love, [200], [215]
All the Year Round, [474], [475], [558]
All’s Well that Ends Well, [116]
Allegory, the, [48], [69], [93]
Allegro, L’, [164], [180]
Alliteration, [5], [43], [49]
Alma, [262]
Almayer’s Folly, [527]
Alphonsus, King of Arragon, [106]
Alroy, [425]
Althea, To, [173], [185]
Alton Locke, [489]
Alysoun, [26], [30]
Amazing Marriage, The, [484]
Amelia, [319]
America, The History of, [328]
American Notes, [475]
Amis and Amiloun, [22]
Amoretti, [91], [152]
Amours de Voyage, [469]
Anatomy of Melancholy, The, [140], [146], [154], [175], [400]
Anatomy of the World, An, [102]
Ancient Mariner, The Rime of the, [376–377], [378], [446]
Ancren Riwle, [17], [23]
Andreas, [3]
Androcles and the Lion, [542], [543–544]
Anglo-French language, in medieval England, [15]
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, The, [10], [11]
Ann Veronica, [532]
Anna of the Five Towns, [538]
Annals of the Parish, The, [422]
Annus Mirabilis, [194]
Anthea, To, [170]
Antiquary, The, [415], [447]
Antonio and Mellida, [128]
Antonio’s Revenge, [128]
Antony and Cleopatra, [117], [119], [121], [123]
Apologie for Poetrie, An, [90], [269]
Apophthegms (Bacon), [135]
Appius and Virginia (early tragedy), [77]
Appius and Virginia (Webster), [129]
Appreciations, [502]
Araygnement of Paris, The, [105]
Arbuthnot, John, [251]
Arcadia, [146], [337]
Areopagitica, [163–164]
Arms and the Man, [541]
Arnold, Matthew, [156], [229], [370], [453], [467], [509], [516], [560]
Arrow of Gold, The, [528]
Art of Political Lying, The, [251]
Arthur and Merlin, [22]
As You Like It, [116]
Ascham, Roger, [137], [155]
Ask me No More, [172]
Asolando, [463]
Astræa Redux, [195]
Astrophel and Stella, [99]
Atalanta in Calydon, [471]
Atheist’s Tragedy, The, [129]
Auld Lang Syne, [311]
Auld Licht Idylls, [547]
Aurengzebe, [199]
Aurora Leigh, [467]
Austen, Jane, [325], [418], [438], [440]
Authorized Version, the, [72], [130]
Autobiography (Gibbon), [326], [359]
Autobiography (Leigh Hunt), [406]
Autumn, Ode to (Keats), [401], [443]
Autumn (Shelley), [443]
Ayenbite of Inwyt, [23]
Ayrshire Legatees, The, [422]

Back to Methuselah, [542], [545]
Bacon, Francis, [134], [147], [269]
Bad Child’s Book of Beasts, A, [549]
Baillie, Joanna, [336]
Balaustion’s Adventure, [463]
Bale, John, [85]
Ballad, the, [47], [70], [335]
Ballad of Bouillabaisse, The, [480]
Ballad of East and West, The, [574]
Ballad upon a Wedding, A, [173], [186]
Ballads and Poems (Meredith), [482]
Ballads of Policeman X, The, [480]
Ballads and Sonnets (D. G. Rossetti), [469]
Ballantyne, James, [411]
Ballantyne, John, [411]
Baltic, The Battle of the, [405]
Barbour, John, [33], [44]
Barchester Towers, [487]
Barclay, Alexander, [65], [69]
Bard, The, [298], [335]
Barker, Granville, [559]
Barnaby Rudge, [475]
Barons’ Wars, The, [100]
Barrie, Sir James, [547]
Barrow, Isaac, [181]
Barry Lyndon, [479]
Bartholomew Fair, [124]
Bastard, The, [263]
Battle of the Baltic, The, [405]
Battle of Blenheim, The, [403]
Battle of the Books, The, [238]
Battle of Brunanburgh, The, [6]
Battle of Hastings, The, [314]
Battle of Maldon, The, [6], [11]
Battle-song (Ebenezer Elliott), [408]
Baxter, Richard, [181]
Beauchamp’s Career, [483]
Beaumont, Francis, [126]
Beaux’ Stratagem, The, [205], [215], [225–226]
Becket (Tennyson), [458]
Beckford, William, [324]
Bede, [7], [8], [9]
Bee, The, [296], [344], [347]
Beggar’s Opera, The, [262], [266], [267]
Behn, Aphra, [222], [339]
Belle Dame sans Merci, La, [401], [402]
Belloc, Hilaire, [549]
Bennett, Arnold, [538]
Bentley, Richard, [256]
Beowulf, [2], [4], [11], [12], [179]
Beppo, [385]
Berkeley, George, [252], [270], [509]
Berners, Lord, [70]
Besant, Walter, [490]
Bestiary, The, [20]
Betrothed, The, [415]
Bevis of Hampton, [22]
Bible, the, [70], [83], [130];
Authorized Version, [130];
the Bishops’, [72];
the Geneva (“Breeches,”), [72];
the Great, [72], [84];
other early translations of, [71], [83]
Bible in Spain, The, [490]
Biographia Literaria, [368], [380], [443–444]
Black Arrow, The, [491]
Black Dwarf, The, [415]
Black-eyed Susan, [262], [275]
Blackmore, Sir Richard (1650–1729), [264], [266]
Blackmore, Richard D. (1825–1900), [491]
Blackwood’s Magazine, [365], [397], [424], [429], [434], [467], [488], [558]
Blair, Robert, [305]
Blake, William, [314], [334], [345], [353], [556–557]
Blank verse, [97], [183], [271], [437], [456]
Bleak House, [475]
Blenheim, The Battle of, [403]
Blessed Damozel, The, [469], [515]
Blind Beggar, The, [127]
Blow, bugle, blow, [459]
Blue Tit, The, [566]
“Bobbed” lines in Old English poetry, [25]
Boëthius, [8], [60]
Boke named the Governour, The, [70]
Bolingbroke, Lord, [251], [270]
Book of Faith, The, [66]
Book of Snobs, The, [478]
Booke of Ayres, A, [100]
Books, The Battle of the, [238]
Boon, [532]
Borderers, The, [369], [371], [437]
Borough, The, [302]
Borrow, George, [490]
Boswell, James, [287], [296], [328], [343], [359], [439]
Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich, The, [469]
Bothwell, [472]
Bowge of Court, The, [63]
Boyle, Roger, [339]
Brawne, Fanny, [397]
Brazil, The History of, [403]
Break, break, break, [460]
Bridal of Triermain, The, [413]
Bride of Abydos, The, [384]
Bride of Lammermoor, The, [415]
Bridge of Sighs, The (Hood), [409]
Bridges, Dr. Robert, [560]
Bristowe Tragedy, The, [335]
Britannia’s Pastorals, [144]
Brontë, Anne, [485]
Brontë, Charlotte, [485], [508]
Brontë, Emily, [485]
Brook, The, [460]
Brooke, Rupert, [554]
Brown, Dr. John, [433]
Browne, Sir Thomas, [174], [181], [219], [427], [509]
Browne, William, [125], [144], [223]
Brownie of Bodsbeck, The, [407]
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, [461], [466]
Browning, Robert, [367], [453], [461], [506], [507], [509], [512], [514], [516], [563], [571]
Brunanburgh, The Battle of, [6]
Brus, The, [44]
Brut, [17–18], [24], [29]
Buckhurst, Lord (Thomas Sackville, Earl of Dorset), [77], [98], [144]
Bull, The, [560]
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward, [425], [438]
Bunyan, John, [42], [65], [209], [216], [224–225], [339], [574]
Burke, Edmund, [283], [286], [330], [344], [347], [353], [365]
Burke, [550]
Burnet, Gilbert, [221]
Burney, Frances, [325], [354]
Burns, Robert, [265], [305], [334], [335], [345], [359], [371], [404], [570]
Burton, Robert, [140], [146], [154–155], [175], [400], [509]
Bury Fair, [205]
Bussy d’Ambois, [127]
Butler, Samuel (1612–80), [207]
Butler, Samuel (1835–1902), [492]
Byron, Lord, [364], [366], [378], [382], [404], [414], [436], [439], [446–447], [448]
Byron, The Life of, [405], [439]

Cadenus and Vanessa, [237]
Cædmon, [2], [3], [6], [12–13]
Cæsar (Froude), [503]
Cæsar and Cleopatra, [542]
Cain, [387]
Cakes and Ale, [558]
Caleb Williams, [334]
Caliban upon Setebos, [465]
Caligula, [207]
Caller Water, [346]
Cambises, King of Percia, [77]
Campaign, The, [242]
Campbell, Thomas, [405]
Campion, Thomas, [100], [143], [147]
Candida, [541], [543]
Canterbury Tales, The, [35], [48]
Cap and Bells, The, [401]
Capgrave, John, [70]
Captain Popanilla, The Voyage of, [425]
Captain Singleton, [250], [339]
Captives, The, [129]
Card, The, [538]
Carew, Thomas, [172], [181]
Carlyle, Thomas, [438], [453], [493], [508], [510], [513], [575]
Carnival, [539]
Carols, [47], [70]
Casa Guidi Windows, [467]
Cashel Byron’s Profession, [540]
Castaway, The, [301]
Castle Dangerous, [415]
Castle of Health, The, [70]
Castle of Indolence, The, [292]
Castle of Otranto, The, [323]
Castle Rackrent, [421]
Cathleen ni Hoolihan, [555]
Catiline his Conspiracy, [125]
Cato, [243], [267], [277]
Catriona, [492]
Cavalier poets, the, [161], [173]
Caxton, William, [46], [66]
Caxtons, The, [426]
Cecilia, [325]
Cenci, The, [391], [395], [437]
Certain Bokes of Virgiles Æneis turned into English Meter, [97], [150]
Certayne Ecloges, [65]
Certayne Notes of Instruction concerning the Making of Verse in English, [99]
Chamberlayne, William, [180], [216]
Chameleon, The, [262]
Chance, [528]
Change in the Cabinet, A, [549]
Changeling, The, [128]
Channel Firing, [525–526]
Chapman, George, [127]
Character of a Trimmer, The, [211]
Characters (Overbury), [139]
Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays, The, [431]
Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, and Times, [253]
Charles V, The History of, [328]
Charles, Duke of Byron, [127]
Charles O’Malley, [423]
Chartism (Carlyle), [494]
Chastelard, [472]
Chatterton, Thomas, [313], [335], [345]
Chaucer, Geoffrey, [33], [197], [215], [285], [507]
Chaucer’s ABC, [34]
Cherry Ripe (Campion), [101]
Cherry Ripe (Herrick), [170]
Chesterfield, Earl of, [333], [342]
Chesterton, G. K., [549]
Chevy Chace, [48], [54–55]
Child’s Garden of Verses, A, [492]
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, [383], [437], [448]
Chillianwallah, [482]
Christ, [7]
Christ’s Victorie and Triumph, [102]
Christabel, [377]
Christabel metre, the, [377]
Christian Hero, The, [270]
Christian Morals, [175]
Christie Johnstone, [486]
Christis Kirk on the Green, [58]
Christmas Carol, A, [475]
Chronicle, Anglo-Saxon, [10], [11]
Chronicle of England, The, [70]
Chronicle History of King Leir, The, [77], [118]
Chronologia Sacra, [141]
Church-History of Britain, The, [178]
Churchill, Charles, [304]
Citizen of the World, The, [296]
City Madam, The, [174]
City of the Plague, The, [434]
Civil Wars, The, [104]
Clare, John, [409], [565–566]
Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of, [176], [181], [218], [221], [341], [501]
Clarissa Harlowe, [316]
Clayhanger, [538]
Cleannesse, [21], [31], [50]
Cleomenes, [201]
Cleveland, John, [181], [185–186]
Clevelandisms, [182]
Clive, Essay on, [497]
Cloister and the Hearth, The, [486]
Clough, Arthur Hugh, [468], [515–516]
Club of Queer Trades, The, [549]
Clubs and coffee-houses, [234]
Cobbett, William, [365], [435], [440]
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, [363], [366], [368], [370], [375], [429], [431], [436], [439], [443–444], [445–446], [496], [508]
Colin Clout (Skelton), [81]
Colin Clouts come Home againe, [91]
Collected Poems, W. H. Davies’, [552]
Collection of Original Trifles, [409]
Collier, Jeremy, [219]
Collins, Wilkie, [487]
Collins, William, [299], [335], [345], [352]
Colonel Jack, [250], [339]
Columbus, [406]
Comedies, early, [77]
Comedy of Errors, The, [116], [117]
Comic Annual, The, [408]
Comical Revenge, The, [205]
Coming Race, The, [426]
Complaint, The, or Night Thoughts, [263], [271], [278]
Complaint of Henry, Duke of Buckingham, The, [98]
Complaint of Our Lady, The, [64]
Complaint of Rosamund, The, [104]
Compleat Angler, The, [181], [184]
Compleynte of Chaucer to his Purse, The, [36]
Compleynte of Faire Anelida, The, [34]
Compleynte of Mars, The, [34]
Compleynte unto Pité, The, [34]
Comus, [164], [186]
Confederacy, The, [205]
Confessio Amantis, [43], [50], [53]
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, The, [429], [430–431], [444]
Confessions of a Young Man, The, [537]
Congreve, William, [203], [205], [215], [567]
Coningsby, [425]
Connoisseur, The, [344]
Conquest of England, The, [504]
Conquest of Granada, The (Dryden), [199]
Conrad, Joseph, [526], [561]
Conscience, [62]
Conscious Lovers, The, [247]
Constable of the Tower, The, [422]
Constantia and Philetus, [169]
Contarini Fleming, [425]
Conversion of Swerers, The, [65]
Cooper’s Hill, [180], [183]
Coriolanus, [117]
Corn Law Rhymes, [408]
Cornelia, [108]
Cornhill Magazine, The, [467], [480], [500], [558]
Corsair, The, [384]
Cotter’s Saturday Night, The, [307], [310], [312]
Count Basil, [336]
Count Julian, [403]
Count Robert of Paris, [415]
Countess Cathleen, The, [555]
Countess of Pembroke, Epitaph on the, [125]
Country of the Blind, The, [532], [534]
Country Wife, The, [204], [215]
Court of Love, The, [36]
Coverdale, Miles, [71], [84]
Coverley papers, the, [245], [339], [558]
Cowley, Abraham, [160], [169], [180], [216], [269]
Cowper, William, [300], [335], [343], [344], [345], [352], [364], [439]
Coy Mistress, To his, [185]
Crabbe, George, [302], [335], [345], [356], [364], [408]
Cranmer, Thomas, [70]
Crashaw, Richard, [170], [180]
Crawford, Robert, [276]
Creation, The, [265]
Crimean War, The History of the, [504]
Cripps the Carrier, [491]
Critic, The, [336]
Criticism, An Essay on, [255], [256], [261]
Cromwell, The Life of, [550]
Crossing the Bar, [460]
Crown of Wild Olive, The, [500]
Crowne, John, [207]
Cruise of the Midge, The, [424]
Cry of the Children, The, [467]
Culture and Anarchy, [468]
Cup, The, [458]
Curll, Edmund, [235]
Curse of Kehama, The, [403]
Cursor Mundi, [20]
Cymbeline, [117]
Cymon and Iphigenia, [197–198]
Cynewulf, [2], [7]
Cynthia’s Revels, [124]
Cypress Grove, The, [183]

Daffodils, To (Herrick), [222]
Daily Courant, The, [268]
Daily News, The, [474]
Daisy, The, [551]
Dance of the Sevin Deidlie Sins, The, [61]
Daniel, Samuel, [103], [143]
Daniel Deronda, [488]
D’Arblay, Madame, [325]
Darnley, [423]
Darwin, Charles, [452], [505]
Dauber, [552]
Davenant, Sir William, [180], [183]
David Copperfield, [475]
Davideis, The, [169], [179], [183]
Davies, William H., [552], [559], [560]
Day, John, [145]
De la Mare, Walter, [560]
De Montfort, [336]
De l’Orme, [423]
De Quincey, Thomas, [428], [439], [441], [444], [558]
Dead Drummer, The, [521]
Dead Secret, The, [487]
Death of Œnone, The, [458]
Death-bed, The, [409]
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, The, [326], [341], [564]
Defence of Guenevere, The, [470]
Defence of Poetry, The, [394]
Defoe, Daniel, [249], [268], [270], [272], [277], [339], [557]
Deformed Transformed, The, [387]
Deirdre of the Sorrows, [548]
Dejection, [378]
Dekker, Thomas, [128], [150], [174]
Delia, [104], [143]
Deluge, The, [84–85]
Demos, [536]
Denham, Sir John, [160], [180], [216]
Denis Duval, [480]
Deor’s Complaint, [6], [11]
Descent of Man, The, [505]
Descriptive poetry, [48], [144], [436], [506], [559]
Descriptive Sketches (Wordsworth), [268]
Deserted Village, The, [265], [293], [294], [295], [335], [556]
Desperate Remedies, [523]
Destruction of Troy, The, [22]
Dethe of the Duchesse, The, [34]
Devereux, [425]
Devil is an Ass, The, [124]
Devil’s Law Case, The, [129]
Dialects, Middle English, [16], [20];
Old English, [3]
Diall of Princes, The, [141]
Dialogues of Hylas and Philonous, [252]
Diana of the Crossways, [484]
Diary (Evelyn), [213]
Diary (Pepys), [212–213]
Dickens, Charles, [453], [472], [487], [507], [508], [510], [534], [557], [558]
Dictes and Sayengis of the Philosophers, The, [66]
Dictionary, Johnson’s, [287], [289], [349–350]
Dido, [107], [109]
Dipsychus, [469]
Dirge on Edward IV, [63]
Discourse concerning Oliver Cromwell, [169]
Dispensary, The, [263]
Disraeli, Benjamin, [424], [438]
Distant Prospect of Eton College, Ode on a, [298]
Distressed Mother, The, [264]
Divorce, On (Milton), [163]
Doctor Faustus, [109], [153–154]
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, [491]
Doctor Thorne, [487]
Doctor’s Dilemma, The, [542]
Dombey and Son, [475]
Don Carlos, [206]
Don Juan, [385], [437], [449]
Don Quixote, [338]
Don Sebastian, [201]
Donne, John, [102], [140], [143], [144], [172], [184–185]
Dorset, Thomas Sackville, Earl of (1536–1608), [77], [98], [144].
See also [Buckhurst, Lord].
Dorset, Earl of (1637–1706), [213]
Double Dealer, The, [203]
Douglas, Gawain, [62], [79]
Douglas (Home), [336]
Dover Beach, [468]
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan, [558]
Drama, the, [72], [89], [144], [161], [180], [335], [437], [507], [558]
Drama in Muslin, A, [537]
Dramatic Idylls, [463]
Dramatic Lyrics, [462]
Dramatic Monologues, [463]
Dramatic Poesie, The Essay of, [201], [269]
Dramatis Personæ, [463]
Drapier’s Letters, [240], [270], [343]
Drayton, Michael, [100], [144], [397]
Dream-Children, [428]
Dream of Eugene Aram, The, [409]
Dream of the Rood, The, [7]
Dreams of the Sea, [553]
Dreme, The, [59]
Drinkwater, John, [553], [559]
Drummer, The, [243]
Drummond, William, [182], [224]
Dry Sticks, [404]
Dryden, John, [169], [185], [193], [215], [217], [222], [228], [269], [273], [274], [305]
Dublin University Magazine, The, [423]
Duchess of Malfy, The, [129]
Duke of Milan, The, [174]
Dunbar, William, [61], [70], [79]
Duncan Campbell, [249]
Dunciad, The, [235], [258], [264], [266]
Dunton, John, [235]
Dynasts, The, [521], [559]

Earle, John, [140], [269]
Earth and Animated Nature, The History of, [297]
Earthly Paradise, The, [470], [507]
Eastward Hoel, [127]
Ecclesiastical Polity, The Laws of, [139], [152–153]
Eclogue, the, [69], [91]
Edgeworth, Maria, [421]
Edinburgh Review, The, [365], [383], [432], [433], [497], [558]
Education, Of (Milton), [163]
Education of Nature, The, [374–375]
Edward the First, [105]
Edward II, [109]
Edward III, [116]
Edwin Drood, The Mystery of, [475]
Egoist, The, [483]
Elegy written in a Country Churchyard, [298]
Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog, [295], [573–574]
Elene, [3], [7]
Elia, The Essays of, [427], [444–445]
Eliot, George (Mary Ann Evans), [488], [508], [533]
Elliott, Ebenezer, [363], [407]
Elyot, Sir Thomas, [70]
Emilia in England (Sandra Belloni), [483]
Emma, [419]
Empedocles on Etna, [467]
Empress of Morocco, The, [207]
Encyclopædia Britannica, The, [497]
Endimion and Phœbe, [144]
Endymion (Keats), [397]
Endymion (Lyly), [105]
England, A History of (Froude), [503]
England, The History of (Goldsmith), [297]
England, A Constitutional History of (Hallam), [436]
England, The History of (Hume), [328], [341], [350–351]
England, The History of (Macaulay), [498], [513]
England’s Helicon, [104]
England’s Heroical Epistles, [100], [144]
English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, [383]
English Comic Writers, The, [432]
English Humourists, The, [480]
English in Ireland, The, [503]
English Mail-coach, The, [429]
English Rogue, The, [338]
English Traveller, The, [129]
Englishman, The, [247]
Enoch Arden, [457]
Entail, The, [422]
Eöthen, [504]
Epic, the, [11], [179]
Epic of Women, The, [472]
Epicene, or The Silent Women, [124], [149]
Epipsychidion, [392]
Epistle to Arbuthnot, [259], [274–275]
Epistle to Curio, [303]
Epitaph on the Countess of Pembroke, [125]
Epitaph on a Hare, [301]
Epithalamion, [92], [179]
Erectheus, [472]
Erewhon, [492]
Essay, the, [145], [268], [344], [438], [508]
Essay on Clive, [497], [498–499]
Essay on Criticism, An, [255], [261]
Essay of Dramatic Poesie, The, [201], [269]
Essay concerning Human Understanding, An, [219–221], [268]
Essay on Johnson, [360]
Essay on Man, An, [253], [260]
Essay on Mind, An, [466]
Essay on Poetry, An, [211]
Essays, Bacon’s, [135]
Essays, Cowley’s, [169]
Essays in Criticism, [468]
Essays of Elia, The, [427], [444–445]
Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary, [328]
Esther Waters, [537]
Etheredge, George, [204]
Eugene Aram, The Dream of, [409]
Euphranor, [468]
Euphues, the Anatomy of Wit, [138], [146], [337], [340]
Euphues and his England, [138–139], [154], [563–564]
Euphuism, [138], [147]
Evan Harrington, [483]
Evans, Mary Ann (George Eliot), [488]
Eve of St. Agnes, The, [398], [401], [437], [446], [569]
Eve of St. John, The, [412]
Eve of St. Mark, The, [399–400]
Evelina, [325], [354]
Evelyn, John, [213], [219]
Evening Walk, The, [368]
Every Man in his Humour, [124]
Every Man out of his Humour, [124]
Everyman, [74–75]
Evidences of Christianity, A View of the, [333]
Examiner, The (Hunt), [365], [406]
Examiner, The (Tory periodical), [240], [268], [279]
Example of Virtue, The, [65]
Excursion, The, [369], [370], [371]
Exeter Book, the, [3], [6], [7]
Exodus (Middle English poem), [20]
Expedition of Humphrey Clinker, The, [321]
Expostulation and Reply, [368]

Fables (Dryden), [222–223]
Fables for the Holy Alliance, [405]
Fabliau, the, [49]
Faerie Queene, The, [48], [91], [93], [98], [155–156]
Fair Maid of Perth, The, [415]
Fair Penitent, The, [207]
Faithful Shepherdess, The, [127], [145]
Falcon, The, [458]
Falkland, [425]
Falls of Princes, The, [64]
Famous Chronicle of Edward the First, The, [105]
Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth, The, [77]
Fancies Chaste and Noble, [174]
Far from the Madding Crowd, [523]
Farquhar, George, [205], [215], [225–226]
Fates of the Apostles, The, [7]
Fazio, [435]
Felix Holt, [488]
Felltham, Owen, [181], [184]
Ferdinand, Count Fathom, [321], [360]
Fergusson, Robert, [315], [345]
Ferishtah’s Fancies, [463]
Ferrex and Porrex (Gorboduc), [77], [98]
Fielding, Henry, [317], [336], [338], [340], [346], [354–355], [479], [480], [481], [557]
Fifine at the Fair, [463]
Fight at Finnesburgh, The, [6], [11]
Fingal, [313]
Finnesburgh, The Fight at, [6], [11]
First Men in the Moon, The, [533]
Fisher, John, [67], [70], [80]
Fitton, Mary, [112]
Fitzboodle Papers, The, [479]
Fitzgerald, Edward, [468]
Flaming Heart, The, [171]
Flecker, J. E., [569–570]
Fletcher, Giles, [101]
Fletcher, John, [126], [397]
Fletcher, Phineas, [101]
Flower and the Leaf, The, [36]
Flowers of Passion, [536]
Food of the Gods, The, [532]
Force of Religion, The, [262]
Ford, Emanuel, [339]
Ford, John, [174], [180]
Forest Minstrel, The, [407]
Foresters, The, [458]
Forsyte Saga, The, [547]
Fortescue, Sir John, [70]
Fortnightly Review, The, [482]
Fortunes of Glencore, The, [423]
Fortunes of Nigel, The, [205], [415]
Forty New Pieces (W. H. Davies), [552]
Foul Play, [486]
Four Georges, The, [480]
Four Hymns (Spenser), [92]
Four P’s, The, [76]
Fra Lippo Lippi, [512]
Framley Parsonage, [487]
Francis, Sir Philip, [343]
Fraser’s Magazine, [478], [479], [494], [500], [503]
Frederick II, The Life of, [494]
Free verse, [560]
Freeman, Edward A., [504], [509]
French Revolution, the, and English literature, [283], [330], [362], [366], [452]
French Revolution, The, [494], [513]
French Revolution, Reflections on the, [331], [332], [345]
Friar of Orders Grey, The, [335]
Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay, [106]
Friend, The, [380]
Froissart, [70]
Frost at Midnight, [378], [379]
Froude, James Anthony, [503]
Fudge Family in Paris, The, [405]
Fuller, Thomas, [178], [180], [181], [427]
Funeral, The, [247]
Funeral Sermon on Henry VII (Fisher), [80]

Galsworthy, John, [547], [556], [568–569]
Galt, John, [421]
Game and Playe of Chesse, The, [66]
Gammer Gurton’s Needle, [78]
Garden of Cyrus, The, [175]
Garden Fancies, [465]
Gardiner, Samuel, [509]
Garlande of Laurell, The, [63]
Garment of Gude Ladies, The, [60]
Garrick, David, [289]
Garth, Sir Samuel, [263]
Gascoigne, George, [99], [144], [151]
Gawain and the Green Knight, Sir, [21], [25], [337]
Gay, John, [262], [275]
Gebir, [403]
Genesis (Middle English poem), [20]
Gentle Shepherd, The, [266]
Gentleman Dancing Master, The, [204]
Gentleman’s Magazine, The, [289], [438]
Germany, the influence of, on English literature, [365], [454]
Gertrude of Wyoming, [405]
Ghost, The, [305]
Giaour, The, [384]
Gibbon, Edward, [272], [325], [341], [347], [348], [359], [436], [564]
Gil Blas, [338]
Gil Morrice, [48]
Gipsy, The, [423]
Gissing, George, [536], [556]
Gladstone, The Life of, [550]
Glove, The, [464]
Goblin Market, [470]
God’s Promises, [85]
Godric, [24]
Godwin, William, [333], [345], [390]
Golden Butterfly, The, [490]
Golden Journey to Samarkand, The, [569–570]
Golden Targe, The, [61], [70]
Golden Wings, [514]
Goldsmith, Oliver, [248], [286], [293], [335], [340], [344], [345], [347], [356], [491], [558], [573–574]
Gondibert, [179]
Good Thoughts in Bad Times, [178]
Good-natured Man, The, [295]
Gorboduc, [77], [98]
Gosson, Stephen, [90]
Governance of England, The, [70]
Governour, The Boke named the, [70]
Gower, John, [43], [48], [50], [53]
Grace Abounding, [209], [210]
Grahame, Kenneth, [556]
Grave, The, [305]
Graves of a Household, The, [408]
Gray, Thomas, [188], [297], [334], [335], [342], [345], [365], [468]
Gray-beards at Play, [549]
Great Expectations, [475]
Great God Pan, The, [467]
Great Hoggarty Diamond, The, [479]
Great Rebellion, The History of the, [176], [341]
Grecian Urn, Ode on a, [401], [402]
Greece, The History of, [435]
Green, John Richard, [504]
Green grow the Rashes, O!, [311]
Greene, Robert, [106], [111], [142]
Gregory I, Pope, [8]
Gregory, Lady, [519]
Greville, Fulke, Lord Brooke, [144]
Griffith Gaunt, [486]
Groatsworth of Wit bought with a Million of Repentance, A, [111], [142–143]
Grote, George, [435]
Grub Street, [235], [249], [286], [287], [294]
Grub Street, [536]
Guardian, The (Steele’s), [244], [247]
Gulliver’s Travels, [240], [277], [425]
Guy Mannering, [415], [417]
Guy and Pauline, [539]
Guy of Warwick, [22]

Hail and Farewell, [537]
Hakluyt, Richard, [88]
Halbert and Hob, [571]
Hales, John, [181]
Halifax, Lord, [211], [219]
Hall, Joseph, [141], [144], [163], [269]
Hallam, Henry, [436]
Hamlet, [116], [117], [118], [121]
Hampole, the Hermit, of, [16], [21]
Hand of Ethelberta, The, [523]
Handfull of Pleasant Delites, A, [104]
Handlyng Synne, [19], [30–31]
Hankin, St. John, [559]
Hard Cash, [486]
Hard Times, [475]
Hardy, Thomas, [453], [520], [536], [538], [539], [556], [559], [560], [561], [571]
Hare, Epitaph on a, [301]
Harmony of the Church, The, [100], [144]
Harold (Lytton), [426]
Harold (Tennyson), [458]
Harrington, [421]
Harrowing of Hell, The, [7]
Harry Lorrequer, [423]
Hastings, The Battle of, [314]
Havelock the Dane, [22], [24], [30]
Hawes, Stephen, [65]
Hazlitt, William, [365], [431], [438], [440], [508]
Head, Richard, [338]
Heart of Midlothian, The, [415]
Heartbreak House, [542]
Heaven, [554–555]
Hecatompathia, [144]
Hemans, Felicia, [363], [408]
Hendyng, The Proverbs of, [20], [25]
Henrietta Temple, [425]
Henry IV (Parts 1 and 2), [116], [117]
Henry the Fifth, The Famous Victories of, [77]
Henry V, [116], [122]
Henry VI (Parts 1, 2, and 3), [116]
Henry VIII, [107], [117]
Henry Esmond, [479], [481–482]
Henryson, Robert, [59], [79]
Herbert, George, [170]
Hereward the Wake, [489]
Hermit, The (Goldsmith), [295], [335]
Hermit, The (Parnell), [265]
Hero and Leander, [144]
Heroes, The, [490]
Heroes and Hero-worship, [494]
Heroic couplet, the, [183], [216], [284], [334], [335]
Heroic play, the, [199], [215]
Heroic Stanzas (Dryden), [194]
Herrick, Robert, [170], [180], [222]
Hesperides, The, [170]
Hewlett, Maurice, [556]
Heywood, John, [76]
Heywood, Thomas, [128]
Higden, Ranulf, [49]
Hilda Lessways, [538]
Hind and the Panther, The, [197], [217], [261]
Historical plays, early, [77];
research, growth of, [285];
works, [181], [340], [509]
Historie of Horestes, The, [77]
Historie of James the Fourth, The Scottish, [107]
History of America, The, [328]
History of Brazil, The, [403]
History of Charles V, The, [328]
History of the Crimean War, The, [504]
History of Earth and Animated Nature, The, [297]
History of England, The (Froude), [503]
History of England, The (Goldsmith), [297]
History of England, A Constitutional (Hallam), [436]
History of England, The (Hume), [328], [341], [350–351]
History of England, The (Macaulay), [498], [513]
History of the English People, A Short, [504]
History of the Great Rebellion, The, [176], [341]
History of Greece, The, [435]
History of the Holy War, The (Fuller), [178]
History of the Jews, The, [435]
History of John Bull, The, [251]
History of Latin Christianity, The, [435]
History of Mr. Polly, The, [532]
History of the Norman Conquest, The, [504]
History of his own Times, The, [221]
History of the Renaissance, Studies in the, [502]
History of Richard III, The, [69]
History of Samuel Titmarsh, The, [478]
History of Scotland, The (Robertson), [328]
History of Switzerland, A, [326]
History of the World, A, [341]
Hobbes, Thomas, [177], [181], [183], [218]
Hoccleve, Thomas, [64]
Hodgson, Ralph, [559]
Hogg, James, [407], [558]
Holly-tree, The, [403]
Holy Dying, [178]
Holy Fair, The, [308]
Holy Living, [178]
Holy Sonnetts, [103]
Holy War, The, [209]
Holy War, The History of the (Fuller), [178]
Holy Willie’s Prayer, [310–311]
Home, John, [336]
Home Thoughts from Abroad, [462–463]
Homer (Chapman), [127], [142]
Hood, Thomas, [263], [408]
Hooker, Richard, [139], [147], [152–153]
Horæ Paulinæ, [333]
Horn, [22], [24]
Hound of Heaven, The, [551]
Hours of Idleness, [383]
Hous of Fame, The, [35], [39–40]
House of the Wolfings, The, [471]
Household Words, [474], [475]
How He lied to her Husband, [543]
How they Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix, [464]
Howard, Henry, Earl of Surrey, [96], [143], [150], [151]
Howell, James, [181], [184]
Hudibras, [208], [215], [237], [261]
Hueffer, Ford Madox, [528]
Human Knowledge, The Principles of, [252]
Human Nature, Treatise on, [328]
Human Understanding, An Essay concerning, [219–220], [268], [269]
Hume, David, [328], [341], [350–351]
Humphrey Clinker, The Expedition of, [321]
Hunt, Leigh, [363], [365], [396], [397], [406], [445]
Husband’s Message, The, [6]
Huxley, Thomas Henry, [505]
Hyde, Edward, Earl of Clarendon, [176], [181], [218], [221], [341], [501]
Hydriotaphia, or Urne Buriall, [175], [181]
Hylas and Philonous, Dialogues of, [252]
Hymen’s Triumph, [104]
Hymns, Latin, influence of, on the lyric, [26]
Hypatia, [489]
Hyperion, [399]

Ibsen, Henrik, [519], [540], [541]
Idea of a Patriot King, The, [252–253]
Idiot Boy, The, [368]
Idler, The (periodical), [289], [344]
Idylls of the King, The, [457], [458]
Iliad (Pope), [256]
Imaginary Conversations, [404]
Imaginary Portraits, [502]
Imitation of Spenser, [397]
Importance of being Earnest, The, [547]
Impressions of Theophrastus Such, The, [488]
In the Cemetery, [522]
In Memoriam, [453], [456], [459]
Inchcape Rock, The, [403]
Indian Emperor, The, [199]
Induction, The, [98], [144]
Infernal Marriage, The, [425]
Inheritors, The, [528]
Inland Voyage, An, [491]
Inn Album, The, [463]
Interludes, [76]
Intimations of Immortality, [373], [374]
Introduction to the Literature of Europe, An, [436]
Invisible Man, The, [532]
Irene, [289], [335]
Irish Melodies, [404]
Irrational Knot, The, [540]
Irving, Sir Henry, [458]
Isabella, [398], [401]
Island of Dr. Moreau, The, [533]
Isle of Palms, The, [434]
Isles of Greece, The, [388]
It’s Never too Late to Mend, [486]
Italy, [406]
Ivanhoe, [415], [480]
Ixion in Heaven, [425]

Jack Hinton, [423]
Jack Sheppard, [422]
Jack Wilton, or The Unfortunate Traveller, [107], [146], [338]
Jacob Faithful, [424]
Jacobs, W. W., [558]
Jacqueline, [406]
James I of Scotland, [58], [81]
James the Fourth, The Scottish Historie of, [107]
James, G. P. R., [422], [438]
Jane Eyre, [453], [485]
Jane Shore, [207]
Japhet in Search of a Father, [424]
Jeffrey, Francis, [432]
Jehan de Bourgogne, [45]
Jeronimo, [108]
Jerrold, Douglas, [558]
Jew of Malta, The Rich, [109]
Jews, The History of the, [435]
Joan of Arc, [403]
Joan and Peter, [532]
Job, [264]
Jocasta, [77], [99]
Jockey’s Intelligencer, The, [268]
Jocoseria, [463]
Johan Johan, [76]
John of Trevisa, [49], [52]
John Anderson, my Jo, [308]
John Bull, The History of, [251]
John Bull’s Other Island, [542]
John Gilpin, [301], [335]
John Woodvil, [427]
Johnson, Esther, [236]
Johnson, Samuel, [193], [207], [263], [268], [272], [283], [286], [294], [297], [300], [313], [335], [340], [343], [347], [349–350], [355–356], [356–358], [439], [494], [558], [575]
Johnson, Life of, [276], [328], [343], [360]
Johnson, Essay on (Macaulay), [360]
Johnsonese, [289], [347], [349], [440]
Jolly Beggars, The, [308]
Jonathan Wild the Great, [318]
Jongleurs, [26]
Jonson, Ben, [110], [123], [149], [172]
Joseph Andrews, [318]
Journal of the Plague Year, A, [250], [272], [277]
Journal to Stella, [240]
Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, A, [291]
Journey from this World to the Next, [318]
Joy, [547]
Joyfull Medytacyon, A, [65]
Jude the Obscure, [523]
Judith, [3]
Julia, To, [170]
Julian and Maddalo, [392]
Juliana, [7]
Julius Cæsar, [116]
Jungle Book, The, [538]
Junian manuscript, the, [3], [7]
Junius, [286], [343]
Justice, [547]
Jutish dialect, the, [3]

Keats, John, [94], [363], [364], [392], [396], [406], [436], [439], [443], [446], [459], [506], [569]
Kemble, J. M., [7]
Kenilworth, [415]
Kennings, in Old English poetry, [5], [12]
Kentish dialect, the, [3], [16]
Kidnapped, [492]
Killigrew, On the Death of Mrs. Anne, [214]
Kilmeny, [407]
Kim, [538]
King Alisaunder, [22]
King Arthur’s Tomb, [512], [513]
King Edward the Fourth, [129]
King Hart, [62]
King John, [116], [119]
King Lear, [116], [120], [157]
King Leir, The Chronicle History of, [77], [118]
King and No King, A, [127]
King Stephen, [401]
King of Tars, The, [25]
King’s Own, The, [424]
Kingis Quhair, The, [58], [81]
Kinglake, Alexander, [503]
Kingsley, Charles, [489]
Kipling, Rudyard, [537], [556], [560], [564], [574]
Kipps, [532], [533]
Kiss for Cinderella, A, [548]
Knight of the Burning Pestle, The, [127]
Knight of Gwynne, The, [423]
Knight’s Tale, The, [38]
Knight’s Tomb, The, [378]
Kubla Khan, [377]
Kyd, Thomas, [107]
Kynge Johan, [85]

Lack of Stedfastness, The, [36]
Lacrymæ Musarum, [551]
Lady of the Lake, The, [413], [446]
Lady Montague’s Page, [423]
Lady of Pleasure, The, [180]
Lady Windermere’s Fan, [547]
Lake Isle of Innisfree, The, [555]
Lalla Rookh, [404]
Lamb, Charles, [365], [375], [426], [439], [441], [444–445], [558],
Lament for the Makaris, [60], [61]
Lamia, [400]
Land of Heart’s Desire, The, [555]
Landor, Walter Savage, [403]
Langland, William, [41], [48], [53–54]
Langley, William—see [Langland, William]
Language, Old English, [3]
Laodicean, A, [523]
Laon and Cynthia (The Revolt of Islam), [391]
Lara, [384]
Last Chronicle of Barset, The, [487]
Last Day, The, [262]
Last Days of Pompeii, The, [426]
Last Poems (E. B. Browning), [467]
Latimer, Hugh, [68], [81]
Latin Christianity, The History of, [435]
Latter-day Pamphlets, [494]
Lavengro, [490]
Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, The, [139], [152–153]
Lay of the Last Minstrel, The, [412]
Lay Sermons and Addresses, [506]
Lays of Ancient Rome, The, [497]
Lays of France, [472]
Layamon, [17], [29]
Lecture, the, and literature, [508]
Lectures on the English Poets, [431]
Lee, Nathaniel, [206]
Legend of the Rhine, The, [480]
Legende of Good Women, The, [35], [39]
Lenora, [421]
Lenore, [412]
Letter-writing, [341], [439]
Letter to the English People, A, [10]
Letter to a Noble Lord, A, [331]
Letter, More’s to his Wife, [80]
Letter to Windham, [251]
Letters, Cowper’s, [302], [343–344]
Letters, Drapier’s, [240], [270], [343]
Letters, Howell’s, [181]
Letters, Leigh Hunt’s, [445]
Letters, Johnson’s, [343], [357]
Letters of Junius, [343]
Letters, Lady M. Wortley Montagu’s, [252], [341]
Letters, Pope’s, [260]
Letters, Walpole’s, [323], [343], [358]
Letters of Peter Plymley, The, [433]
Letters on a Regicide Peace, [331]
Letters to his Son (Chesterfield), [333], [342]
Letters on the Spirit of Patriotism, [251]
Lever, Charles, [423]
Leviathan, The, [177], [183]
Levities, [304]
Lewis, Matthew, [324]
Liberty, [292]
Liberty of Prophesying, The, [178]
Library, The, [282], [302]
Life and Death of Jason, The, [470]
Life and Death of Mr. Badman, The, [209], [339]
Life of Byron, The, [401], [439]
Life of Cromwell, The, [550]
Life of Frederick II, The, [494]
Life of Gladstone, The, [550]
Life of Jesus, The, Strauss’s (George Eliot), [488]
Life of Doctor Johnson, The, [287], [328], [329], [343], [336]
Life of Napoleon, The, [416]
Life of Nelson, The, [403]
Life of Schiller, The, [494]
Life of Scott, The, [435], [439]
Life of John Sterling, The, [494], [496]
Light that Failed, The, [538]
Lindisfarne Gospels, the, [71]
Literature and Dogma, [468]
Literature of Europe, An Introduction to the, [436]
Little Dorrit, [475]
Lives of the Novelists, The, [416]
Lives of the Poets, The, [291], [350], [575]
Lives of the Saints, The, [9]
Lochaber no More, [265]
Locke, John, [219], [268], [269]
Lockhart, John G., [411], [434], [438], [439], [440]
Locksley Hall, [456]
Locksley Hall Sixty Years after, [458]
Locrine, [472]
Lodge, Thomas, [107], [142]
London, [287], [288], [335]
London Gazette, The, [268]
London Lickpenny, [64]
London Magazine, The, [365], [408], [427], [429], [558]
Looker On, The, [344]
Lord Hastings, Upon the Death of the, [185], [228]
Lord Jim, [527], [531]
Lorna Doone, [491]
Lotos-Eaters, The, [456]
Lounger, The, [344]
Love, [378]
Love of Fame, The, [263]
Love in Fantastic Triumph sate, [221–222]
Love of King David and Fair Bethsabe, The, [106]
Love for Love, [203]
Love and Mr. Lewisham, [532]
Love Triumphant, [201]
Love in the Valley, [482]
Love in a Wood, [204]
Love’s Labour’s Lost, [116], [117]
Love’s Sacrifice, [174]
Lovel the Widower, [480]
Lovelace, Richard, [173], [185]
Lover’s Melancholy, The, [174]
Lucasta, To, [173]
Lucy, [372]
Lucy Gray, [368], [370]
Luria, [463]
Lycidas, [164]
Lydgate, John, [64], [70]
Lyfe of John Picus, The, [69]
Lying Lover, The, [247]
Lyly, John, [105], [107], [138], [154], [337], [563–564]
Lyndsay, Sir David, [59], [79], [82–83]
Lyric, the, [11], [16], [47], [114], [143], [178], [179], [181], [213], [218], [266], [335], [436], [506]
Lyrical Ballads, [367], [368], [369], [375], [376]
Lytton, Lord, [425], [438]

Macaulay, Lord, [287], [360], [438], [496], [508], [509], [510], [513]
Macbeth, [116], [117], [119]
MacFlecknoe, [197], [215]
Mackenzie, Compton, [539]
Mackenzie, Henry, [324], [344]
Macpherson, James, [290], [312], [335], [348], [349]
Macready, William Charles, [462]
Magnificence, [63]
Maid of Sker, The, [491]
Maid’s Tragedy, The, [127]
Making of England, The, [504]
Maldon, The Battle of, [6]
Male Regle, La, [64]
Malory, Sir Thomas, [33], [46], [50], [52], [457]
Man, An Essay on, [253], [260]
Man of Feeling, The, [324]
Man of Mode, The, [205]
Man in the Moon, The, [100]
Man and Superman, [542], [544]
Man who was Thursday, The, [549]
Man’s Place in Nature, [506]
Mandalay, [538]
Mandeville, Sir John, [33], [44], [49], [50], [51–52], [153]
Manfred, [387]
Manning, Robert, [18], [24]
Mansfield Park, [419]
Manuscripts, Old English, [3]
Marco Polo, [45]
Mare, Walter de la, [560]
Marino Faliero, [387]
Marius the Epicurean, [502]
Marlborough, Duke of, [232], [242]
Marlowe, Christopher, [104], [105], [108], [129], [144], [153–154]
Marmion, [412]
Marryat, Frederick, [423]
Marston, John, [127]
Martin Chuzzlewit, [475]
Marvell, Andrew, [179], [185], [214]
Mary in Heaven, To, [309], [311]
Mary Rose, [548]
Mary Stuart (Swinburne), [472]
Masefield, John, [552], [559]
Masks and Faces, [486]
Masque, the, [125], [145]
Masque of Anarchy, The, [392], [437]
Masque of Beauty, The, [125]
Masque of Queens, The, [125]
Massacre at Paris, The, [109]
Massinger, Philip, [173], [180]
Master of Ballantrae, The, [492]
Master Humphrey’s Clock, [474]
Masterman Ready, [424]
Maud, [456]
Mayor of Casterbridge, The, [523], [525]
Mazeppa, [385]
Measure for Measure, [116], [121], [122]
Medal, The, [197]
Melibœus, The Tale of, [36], [37]
Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, The, [479]
Memoirs of a Cavalier, The, [250]
Men and Women, [463]
Men, Women, and Books, [406]
Merchant of Venice, The, [116], [157]
Mercurius Anglicus, [267]
Mercurius Politicus, [267]
Mercurius Pragmaticus, [267]
Meredith, George, [482], [492], [508], [510]
Meres, Francis, [115]
Merry Wives of Windsor, The, [116]
Metaphysical poets, the, [160], [161], [170], [184]
Meter, early development of, [24]
Middle English, [49]
Michel of Northgate, Dan, [23]
Middlemarch, [488]
Middleton, Thomas, [128]
Midland dialect, the, [3], [16]
Midshipman Easy, Mr., [424]
Midsummer Night’s Dream, A, [76], [116], [118], [119], [120]
Mill, John Stuart, [452]
Mill on the Floss, The, [488]
Miller, Hugh, [504]
Milman, Henry Hart, [435]
Milton, John, [94], [102], [160], [161], [182], [186], [217], [303], [459], [501], [562]
Milton (Earnest Myers), [188–189]
Mimes, [72]
Mind, An Essay on, [466]
Minot, Laurence, [19], [25]
Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, The, [412]
Miracle-plays, [74]
Mirror, The, [344]
Mirror for Magistrates, The, [98]
Mirror of the Sea, The, [528]
Miscellanies, poetical, [104]
Misfortunes of King Arthur, The, [77]
Mr. Britling sees it Through, [532]
Mr. Clutterbuck’s Election, [549]
Mr. Midshipman Easy, [424]
Mr. Polly, The History of, [532]
Mrs. Anne Killigrew, On the Death of, [214]
Mrs. Warren’s Profession, [541]
Mistress, The, [169]
Mithridates, [206]
Modern Love, [482]
Modern Painters, [500], [513–514]
Modern Utopia, A, [533]
Molière, [192]
Moll Flanders, [250], [339]
Monk, The, [324]
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, [252], [341]
Montaigne, [269]
Monthly Magazine, The, [473]
Moon, The, [552]
Moonstone, The, [487]
Moore, George, [520], [536]
Moore, Thomas, [404]
Moral Ode, [20], [28], [29]
Moral and Political Philosophy, [333]
Morall Fabillis of Esope, The, [60]
Morality-plays, [74]
More, Sir Thomas, [69], [80]
Morley, Lord, [550], [561]
Morning Chronicle, The, [365], [473]
Morning Post, The, [365], [380]
Morris, William, [470], [506], [507], [512–513], [514]
Morte d’Arthure (Middle English romance), [22]
Morte d’Arthur (Malory), [46–47], [52]
Morte d’Arthur (Tennyson), [456]
Mother Hubberd’s Tale, [91], [92]
Mother’s Picture, On the Receipt of my, [301]
Moti Guj—Mutineer, [564]
Mourning Bride, The, [203]
Much Ado about Nothing, [116]
Mummer’s Wife, A, [537]
Mummings, [72]
Munera Pulveris, [500]
Murder considered as One of the Fine Arts, [429]
Muse in Exile, The, [551]
Music and Moonlight, [472]
My First Play (Lamb), [428]
My Heart’s in the Hielands, [308]
My Novel, [426]
Myers, Ernest, [188–189]
Mysteries of Udolpho, The, [324]
Mystery-plays, [73]

Napoleon, The Life of, [416]
Narrative poetry, [48], [144], [215], [266], [436], [506], [559]
Nash, Thomas, [107], [142], [338]
Natural History of Selborne, The, [334], [355]
Naval Officer, The, [424]
Necessity of Atheism, The, [389]
Neglected Heart, A, [472]
Nelson, The Life of, [403]
Nero, [206]
New Arabian Nights, The, [491]
New Atlantis, The, [135], [146]
New Machiavelli, The, [532]
New Monthly Magazine, The, [405], [408]
New Poems (M. Arnold), [467]
New Poems (C. G. Rossetti), [470]
New Voyage round the World, A, [250]
New Way to pay Old Debts, A, [174]
New Worlds for Old, [533]
Newcomes, The, [479]
Newman, Cardinal John, [454]
Nicholas of Guildford, [20]
Nicholas Nickleby, [474]
Nigger of the Narcissus, The, [528], [529–530]
Night (Charles Churchill), [305]
Night Thoughts, The Complaint, or, [263], [270], [271], [278], [305]
Nightingale, Ode to a, [401]
No Name, [487]
Noble Numbers, [170]
Noctes Ambrosianæ, [434], [441]
Nocturnal Reverie, The, [264]
Norman Conquest, The History of the, [504]
North, Christopher, [433], [441]
Northanger Abbey, [418], [420]
Northern dialect, the, [16], [20]
Northumbrian dialect, the, [3], [7], [16]
Norton Thomas, [77], [98]
Nostromo, [528]
Notes of Instruction concerning the Making of Verse in English, Certayne, [99]
Novel, the, [107], [146], [336], [437], [507], [555–556]
Nun’s Priest’s Tale, The, [40–41]
Nuptials of Attila, The, [482]
Nut-brown Maid, The, [47]
Nutting, [368]
Nymphidia, [100]

O’ a’ the Airts, [308]
O, my Luve is like a Red, Red Rose, [308], [309–310]
O, Willie brewed a Peck o’ Maut, [308]
Oberon, the Fairy Prince, [125]
Observer, The, [344]
Occleve, Thomas, [64]
Occleve’s Complaint, [64]
Oceana, [503]
Odd Women, The, [536]
Ode, the, [179], [214]
Ode to Autumn (Keats), [401], [443]
Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College, [298]
Ode to Evening, [299]
Ode to France, [378]
Ode on a Grecian Urn, [401], [402]
Ode: Intimations of Immortality, [373], [374]
Ode on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity, [164]
Ode to a Nightingale, [401]
Ode to the West Wind, [393]
O’Donovan, The, [423]
Œdipus Tyrannus, or Swellfoot the Tyrant, [437]
Œnone, [456]
Œnone, The Death of, [458]
Oh, to be in England, [516]
Old Bachelor, The, [203]
Old Curiosity Shop, The, [475], [477]
Old English Baron, The, [416]
Old English language, the, [3]
Old Fortunatus, [128]
Old Mortality, [415], [440–441]
Old Red Sandstone, The, [505]
Old St. Paul’s, [422]
Old Wives’ Tale, The (Bennett), [538]
Old Wives’ Tale, The (Peele), [106]
Oldham, John, [215]
Oliver Cromwell’s Letters and Speeches, [494]
Oliver Twist, [474]
Olor Iscanus, [171]
On Divorce (Milton), [163]
On his Own Death (Swift), [237]
On the Death of Mrs. Anne Killigrew, [214]
Of Education (Milton), [163]
On Nothing, [550]
On Phillis, [182]
On Prayer (Jeremy Taylor), [187–188]
On the Receipt of my Mother’s Picture, [301]
On Shakespeare (Milton), [164]
One of our Conquerors, [484]
Ordeal of Richard Fever, The, [482]
Origin of Species, The, [453], [505], [506]
Origines upon the Maudeleyne, [36]
Orinooko, or The Royal Slave, [339]
Orison to Our Lady, The, [20]
Orlando Furioso, [107]
Ormond, [421]
Orm, or Ormin, [19]
Ormulum, [19], [24]
Orosius, [8]
Orphan, The, [206], [217–218]
Orpheus and Eurydice, [60]
O’Shaughnessy, Arthur Edward, [472]
Ossian, [290], [313], [348]
Othello, [116]
Otho the Great, [401]
Ottava rima, [386], [398]
Otway, Thomas, [206], [217–218], [226], [391], [392]
Our Mutual Friend, [475]
Outcast of the Islands, An, [527]
Outline of History, An, [533]
Overbury, Sir Thomas, [139], [269]
Ovid (Sandys), [183]
Owl and the Nightingale, The, [20]
Oxford Gazette, The, [268]

Pacchiarotto, [464]
Pageant, A, [470]
Pair of Blue Eyes, A, [523]
Paley, William, [333], [345]
Palice of Honour, The, [62]
Palladis Tamia, Wit’s Treasury, [115]
Pamela, [315], [316], [340], [341]
Pamphlets, [89], [142]
Paolo and Francesca, [559]
Paracelsus, [462]
Paradise Lost, [165], [179], [187], [562]
Paradise Regained, [166], [179]
Paradyse of Daynty Devises, The, [104]
Parisina, [384]
Parismus, Prince of Bohemia, [339]
Parlement of Foules, The, [34]
Parleyings with Certain People, [463]
Parliament of Bees, The, [145]
Parnell, Thomas, [265]
Parson’s Tale, The, [36], [37]
Parthenissa, [339]
Passetyme of Pleasure, The, [65]
Passionate Elopement, The, [539]
Passionate Pilgrim, The, [104], [112]
Passions, The, [335], [352]
Past and Present, [494]
Past and Present, Poems of the (Hardy), [521]
Pastoral Care, [8], [9], [51]
Pastoral poetry, [178], [266]
Pastorals (Pope), [255]
Pater, Walter, [502], [508]
Path to Rome, The, [550]
Patience, [21], [22]
Patronage, [421]
Paul Clifford, [425]
Pauline, [461]
Peacock Pie, [560]
Pearl, [21], [25], [28], [149–150]
Peblis to the Play, [58]
Pecock, Reginald, [66]
Peele, George, [105]
Peg Woffington, [486]
Pelham, [425]
Pendennis, [479]
Peninsular War, The, [403]
Penseroso, Il, [164], [180]
Pepys, Samuel, [194], [212], [219], [240]
Percy, Bishop Thomas, [285], [335], [345]
Peregrine Pickle, [321]
Pericles, [117]
Periodicals, [234], [267], [344], [438]
Perkin Warbeck, [174]
Persian Eclogues, [299]
Persuasion, [419]
Peter Bell, [369]
Peter Pan, [548]
Peter Plymley, The Letters of, [433]
Peter Porcupine’s Journal, [435]
Peter Simple, [424]
Peter’s Letters to his Kinsfolk, [434]
Peveril of the Peak, [415]
Phaer, Thomas, [142]
Pharonnida, [180]
Philanderer, The, [541]
Philaster, [127]
Philips, Ambrose, [264], [271]
Philips, John, [270]
Phillips, Stephen, [559]
Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, A, [331], [344]
Phœnix, The, [7], [13], [29]
Phœnix Nest, The, [104]
Picaresque novel, the, [338]
Pickwick Papers, The, [473], [474], [475], [476], [477], [557]
Picture of Dorian Gray, The, [546], [565]
Pied Piper of Hamelin, The, [514]
Piers the Plowman, The Vision of William concerning, [42], [50], [53–54]
Pilgrim of Glencoe, The, [405]
Pilgrim Fathers, The (Hemans), [408]
Pilgrim’s Progress, The, [209], [210–211], [225], [240], [339], [575]
Pindaric odes, [169], [180], [334]
Pindaric Odes (Gray), [298]
Pindarique Odes (Cowley), [169], [180]
Pine Forest, The, [395]
Pinero, Sir Arthur, [559]
Pippa Passes, [462], [466]
Piramus and Thisbe (Cowley), [169]
Pirate, The, [415]
Pistyl of Susan, The, [28]
Places, [522–523]
Plague Year, A Journal of the, [250]
Plain Dealer, The, [204]
Plain Tales from the Hills, [538]
Play-cycles, [75]
Playboy of the Western World, The, [548]
Pleasures of Hope, The, [405]
Pleasures of the Imagination, The, [303]
Pleasures of Memory, The, [405]
Plebeian, The, [247], [268]
Plutarch’s Lives (North), [141]
Poems (M. Arnold), [467]
Poems (Clare), [409]
Poems (Cowper), [300]
Poems (Keats), [397]
Poems (Compton Mackenzie), [539]
Poems (D. G. Rossetti), [469]
Poems (Tennyson, 1832), [455]
Poems (Tennyson, 1833), [455~456]
Poems (Vaughan), [171]
Poems, Chiefly Lyrical (Tennyson), [455]
Poems of 1908–1914 (Drinkwater), [554]
Poems and Ballads (Swinburne), [471]
Poems by Two Brothers (A. and C. Tennyson), [455]
Poems of the Past and Present (Hardy), [521]
Poems by the Way (W. Morris), [471]
Poetaster, The, [124], [128]
Poetical Sketches (Blake), [314]
Poetry, An Essay on (Temple), [211]
Political Justice, [333], [345]
Political Lying, The Art of, [251]
Political Register, The, [365], [435]
Political writing, [233]
Polychronicon, [40]
Polyolbion, [100], [144]
Poor Relations, [540]
Pope, Alexander, [224], [253], [265], [266], [270], [272], [273], [274–275], [334], [351], [368], [383]
Porter, Jane, [416]
Praise of Chimney-Sweepers, The, [444–445]
Præterita, [500]
Prayer Book, the, [70]
Pre-Raphaelites, the, [402], [453], [469], [470], [506], [509]
Prelude, The, [369], [437], [562–563]
Present Discontents, Thoughts on the, [331]
Preston Fight, [422]
Pretty Lady, The, [538]
Pricke of Conscience, The, [21]
Pride and Prejudice, [419]
Prince Arthur, [264]
Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau, [463]
Prince’s Progress, The, [470]
Prince’s Quest, The, [551]
Princess, The, [456], [458]
Principles of Human Knowledge, The, [252]
Prior, Matthew, [261], [266]
Prisoner of Chillon, The, [385]
Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft, The, [536]
Proclamation of Henry III, [51]
Prodigy, The, [264]
Professor, The, [485]
Progress of Poesy, The, [188], [298]
Progress of the Soul, The, [102]
Prologue, The (Chaucer), [36], [38]
Prometheus Bound, [467]
Prometheus Unbound, [391], [394]
Prophecy of Famine, The, [305]
Prothalamion, [92], [179]
Proud Maisie, [413]
Proverbs of Alfred, The, [20]
Proverbs of Hendyng, The, [20], [25]
Provoked Wife, The, [205]
Provost, The, [422]
Psalms, the Book of, [132], [133]
Pseudodoxia Epidemica, [175]
Pseudo-Martyr, The, [103]
Public Intelligencer, The, [268]
Public Ledger, The, [296]
Public Spirit of the Whigs, The, [240]
Publishing houses, [235]
Punch, [409], [478], [480]
Purple Island, The, [101]
Purple Pileus, The, [535]
Purvey, John, [71]
Pyrenees, The, [550]

Quality Street, [548]
Quarterly Review, The, [365], [397], [558]
Queen Mab, [390]
Queen Mary (Tennyson), [458]
Queen Mother and Rosamond, The, [472]
Queen’s Wake, The (Hogg), [407]
Queenes Wake, The (Daniel), [104]
Quentin Durward, [415], [423]

Radcliffe, Mrs., [324], [340]
Raleigh, Sir Walter, [341]
Ralph Roister Doister, [77], [78], [85–86]
Rambler, The, [289], [344], [347]
Ramsay, Allan, [265]
Rape of the Lock, The, [257], [351]
Rape of Lucrece, The, [112], [144]
Rarely, rarely, comest Thou, [395]
Rasselas, [290], [340]
Rauf Coilyear, [22]
Reade, Charles, [486]
Reader, The, [247]
Ready-Money Mortiboy, [490]
Realism, [519]
Rebecca and Rowena, [480]
Recessional, The, [538]
Recluse, The, [369]
Recruiting Officer, The, [205]
Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye, The, [66], [67]
Red Cotton Night-Cap Country, [463]
Redgauntlet, [415], [557]
Reflections on the French Revolution, [331], [332], [345]
Regiment of Princes, The, [64]
Rehearsal, The, [215]
Reign of William Rufus, The, [504]
Rejected Addresses, [409]
Relapse, The, [205]
Religio Medici, [175]
Reliques of Ancient Poetry, [285], [335]
Remarks on the Barrier Treaty, [240]
Remorse, [378], [437]
Renaissance, Studies in the History of the, [502]
Renaissance in Italy, The, [502]
Repressor of Over-much Blaming the Clergy, The, [66]
Rescue, The, [528], [529]
Resolution and Independence, [372]
Resolves, [181]
Restoration comedy, [202];
tragedy, [206]
Retreat, The, [172]
Return of the Druses, The, [463]
Return of the Native, The, [523]
Revenger’s Tragedy, The, [129]
Review, The, [249], [268]
Revolt of Islam, The, [391]
Revolution, the French, and English literature, [283], [330], [362], [366], [452]
Reynard the Fox, [552]
Rhapsody on Poetry, [278]
Rhoda Fleming, [483]
Rhyme royal, [58], [98]
Rice, James, [490]
Rich Relatives, [539]
Richard Cœur-de-Lion, [22]
Richard II, [116]
Richard III, The Historie of (More), [69]
Richard III (Shakespeare), [116]
Richardson, Samuel, [315], [340], [341]
Richelieu (G. P. R. James), [422]
Richelieu (Lytton), [426]
Riddles (Exeter Book), [7]
Riders to the Sea, [548]
Rienzi, [426]
Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The, [376], [378–379], [445–446]
Rimini, [406]
Ring and the Book, The, [463], [465], [507], [563]
Rival Ladies, The, [199], [216]
Rival Queens, The, [206]
Rivals, The, [336]
Roaring Girle, The, [128]
Rob Roy, [415]
Robene and Makyne, [60]
Robert of Gloucester, [18], [25]
Robertson, William, [328], [341]
Robinson Crusoe, [249], [250], [340]
Rochester, Earl of, [213]
Roderick the Goth, [403]
Roderick Random, [321], [346]
Rogers, John, [72]
Rogers, Samuel, [405]
Rokeby, [413–414]
Rolle, Richard, of Hampole, [16], [21]
Romance, [528]
Romance of the Forest, The, [324]
Romances, metrical, [22], [26], [49], [57], [337]
Romanticism, [89]
Romany Rye, The, [490]
Romaunt of the Rose, The, [34]
Romeo and Juliet, [116]
Romola, [488]
Rookwood, [422]
Roots of the Mountains, The, [471]
Rosamond, [243]
Rosciad, The, [305]
Rose Aylmer, [403]
Rose Mary, [469]
Rossetti, Christina Georgina, [469]
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, [467], [469], [506], [515]
Roundabout Papers, The, [480], [508]
Rowe, Nicholas, [207]
Rowley Poems, The, [313]
Roxana, [250]
Royal Society, the, [219]
Royall King, The, [129]
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyâm, The, [468]
Ruins of Rome, The, [91]
Ruins of Time, The, [91]
Rule, Britannia, [293]
Rural Rides in England, [435], [440]
Rural Sports, [262]
Ruskin, John, [499], [502], [508], [513–514]
Russell, George, (‘A. E.’), [520]
Ruth, [368], [371]

Sackville, Thomas, Earl of Dorset, Lord Buckhurst, [77], [98], [144]
Sad Shepherd, The, [124]
St. Cecilia’s Day, A Song for (Dryden), [198]
St. Irvyne, [393]
St. Luke, the Gospel of, [132]
St. Ronan’s Well, [415]
Saint’s Tragedy, The, [490]
Saints’ Everlasting Rest, The, [181]
Saisiaz, La, [463]
Samson Agonistes, [166]
Samuel Titmarsh, The History of, [478–479]
Sandra Belloni (Emilia in England), [483]
Sands of Dee, The, [490]
Sandys, George, [183]
Sappho (A. Philips), [271]
Sartor Resartus, [494], [495–496]
Sassoon, Siegfried, [560], [571–572]
Satire, the, [195], [196], [214], [266], [437]
Satires (Donne), [102]
Satires of Circumstance, [521], [571]
Satiromastix, [128]
Saturday Review, The, [540]
Satyre of the Thrie Estatis, Ane Pleasant, [59], [82–83]
Savage, Richard, [263]
Say not the Struggle Naught Availeth, [469], [515–516]
Scenes from Clerical Life, [488]
Schiller, The Life of, [494]
Scholar-Gipsy, The, [468]
Scholemaster, The, [137], [155]
School of Abuse, The, [90]
School for Scandal, The, [336], [567–568]
Schoolmistress, The, [304], [335], [351–352]
Scornful Lady, The, [127]
Scotland, The History of (Robertson), [328]
Scots wha hae, [311]
Scott, Michael, [424]
Scott, Sir Walter, [205], [337], [340], [364], [365], [367], [384], [396], [410], [421], [436], [437], [438], [440], [441], [446], [447–448], [474], [497], [557]
Scott, The Life of, [435], [439]
Scottish Chiefs, The, [416]
Scottish Historie of James the Fourth, The, [107]
Scottish literature, [33], [58], [90]
Scriblerus, Memoirs of, [251]
Scudéri, Mademoiselle, [338], [339]
Seafarer, The, [6]
Seasons, The, [284], [291], [292], [301], [409]
Secret Agent, The, [528]
Sedley, Sir Charles, [213], [218]
Sejanus his Fall, [125]
Sense and Sensibility, [419]
Sensitive Plant, The, [395]
Sentimental Journey, A, [322]
Sentimental Tommy, [547]
Seraphim, The, [467]
Sermon, the, [180]
Sermons (Latimer), [81]
Sermons (Tillotson), [212]
Sesame and Lilies, [500]
Sestette, the Romance, [25]
Settle, Elkanah, [207]
Seven Lamps of Architecture, The, [500]
Shadow of the Glen, The, [548]
Shadow Line, The, [528]
Shadowy Waters, The, [559]
Shadwell, Thomas, [197], [205]
Shaftesbury, Earl of, [252]
Shakespeare, William, [76], [77], [110], [151], [157], [199], [202], [206], [285], [374], [417], [459], [569]
Shakespeare (Matthew Arnold), [156]
Shakespeare, On (Milton), [164]
Shakespearian style, the, [120]
Shaw, George Bernard, [519], [540], [559], [561]
She Stoops to Conquer, [295]
She Would if She Could, [205]
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, [307], [334], [363], [364], [366], [371], [383], [389], [396], [436], [437], [439], [443], [449], [462]
Shenstone, William, [304], [351–352]
Shepherd’s Calendar, The, [91], [144], [183]
Shepherd’s Week, The, [262]
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, [336], [547], [567–568]
Shilling for my Thoughts, A, [549]
Ship of Fools, The, [65]
Shirley, James, [180]
Shirley, [485]
Shoemaker’s Holiday, The, [128]
Short History of the English People, A, [504]
Short story, the development of the, [557]
Short Studies on Great Subjects, [503]
Short View of the Profaneness and Immorality of the English Stage, [219]
Shortest Way with the Dissenters, The, [249]
Sibylline Leaves, [380]
Sicilian Romance, A, [324]
Sidney, Sir Philip, [90], [91], [99], [143], [146], [269], [337]
Siege of Corinth, The, [384]
Silas Marner, [488], [523]
Silex Scintillans, [172]
Silver Box, The, [547]
Simon Lee, [374], [566]
Sinister Street, [539]
Sir Charles Grandison, [316]
Sir Courtly Nice, [207]
Sir Ferumbras, [22]
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, [21], [22], [25], [337]
Sir John Chiverton, [422]
Sir Launcelot Graves, [321]
Sir Orpheo, [22]
Sir Patrick Spens, [48]
Sir Ralph Esher, [407]
Sir Tristrem, [22], [25], [28]
Sister Teresa, [537]
Sisters, The, [472]
Skelton, John, [62], [81–82]
Skeltonics, [63]
Sketches by Boz, [473], [474]
Skin Game, The, [547], [568–569]
Sleeping Beauty, The, [459]
Smart, Christopher, [303], [335]
Smith, Adam, [332]
Smith, Horace, [409]
Smith, James, [409]
Smith, Sydney, [433]
Smollett, Tobias, [303], [321], [338], [340], [346], [360], [423], [557]
Snare, The, [560]
Soldier, The, [554]
Soldiers, Three, [538]
Soliman and Perseda, [108]
Solomon, [261]
Some Reminiscences (Conrad), [528]
Song to David, The, [303]
Song of Honour, The, [560]
Song for St. Cecilia’s Day, A (Dryden), [198]
Song of the Shirt, The, [409]
Songs of Childhood, [560]
Songs of Experience, [314]
Songs of Innocence, [352–353], [566–567]
Songs of Mourning, [100]
Songs before Sunrise, [471–472]
Songs of a Worker, [472]
Songs to Ælla, [314]
Songbooks of the War, [571–572]
Sonnet, the English, [91], [96], [99], [104], [112], [113], [143], [144], [372–373];
the Italian, [96], [143], [165]
Sonnet, by Matthew Arnold, [156];
by Drayton, [152];
by Ernest Myers, [188–189];
by Spenser, [152];
by Surrey, [151];
by Wordsworth, [188]
Sonnets, Shakespeare’s, [112]
Sonnets from the Portuguese, [467]
Sophonisba, [206], [293]
Sordello, [462]
Soul of a Bishop, The, [533]
Soul’s Destroyer, The, [552]
South, Robert, [181]
Southey, Robert, [364], [365], [375], [385], [402], [436], [438], [440]
Southwell, Robert, [144]
Spanish Ballads, [434]
Spanish Gipsy, The, [128]
Spanish Tragedy, The, [108]
Spectator, The, [235], [244], [245], [247], [268], [276], [289], [344]
Speculum Meditantis, [43]
Spencer, Herbert, [452]
Spenser, Edmund, [60], [90], [101], [102], [143], [144], [155–156], [292], [397], [436], [437]
Spenser, Imitation of (Keats), [398]
Spenserian stanza, the, [94], [292], [304], [335], [398], [405], [436], [437]
Spirit of the Age, The, [431]
Spirit of Patriotism, Letters on the, [251]
Spleen, The, [264]
Splendid Shilling, The, [270]
Sprat, Thomas, [219]
Squire of Alsatia, The, [205]
Squire of Low Degree, The, [22–23]
Standardizing of English, the, [32]
Stanyhurst, Richard, [142]
Staple of News, The, [124]
Star Chamber, The, [422]
Stately Homes of England, The, [408]
Steel Glass, The, [99], [144], [151]
Steele, Sir Richard, [244], [247], [268], [339], [431]
Stephens, James, [560]
Steps to the Temple, [171]
Sterling, John, The Life of, [494]
Sterne, Laurence, [322], [340], [360], [557]
Stevenson, Robert Louis, [491], [508], [510]
Stones of Venice, The, [500], [501]
Story of the Glittering Plain, The, [471]
Story of Ingelond, The, [18]
Story of Thebes, The, [64]
Stafford, [462]
Strange Story, A, [426]
Strayed Reveller, The, [467], [560]
Strew on her Roses, Roses, [516]
Strife, [547]
Stubbs, William, [509]
Studies of the Greek Poets, [502]
Studies in the History of the Renaissance, [502]
Sublime and Beautiful, A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the, [331], [345~346]
Suckling, Sir John, [173], [180], [183], [186]
Sullen Lovers, The, [205]
Sumer is i-cumen in, [26]
Summer Night, A, [468]
Summer’s Last Will and Testament, [107]
Sundering Flood, The, [471]
Superhuman Antagonists, The, [551]
Supposes, [99]
Surrey, Henry Howard, Earl of, [96], [143], [150], [151]
Suspiria de Profundis, [429]
Sweet Content, [150]
Sweet Lullaby, A, [155]
Sweet Stay-at-Home, [552–553]
Swellfoot the Tyrant, [437]
Swift, Jonathan, [219], [236], [243], [245], [262], [270], [272], [278], [279], [318], [343], [365], [545]
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, [471], [482], [506], [553]
Switzerland, A History of, [326]
Swords and Ploughshares, [554]
Sybil, [425]
Sylvia and Michael, [539]
Sylvia Scarlett, [539]
Symonds, John Addington, [501], [508]
Synge, J. M., [519], [548], [568]

Table Talk (Coleridge), [381]
Tale of Melibæus, The, [36], [37]
Tale of a Tub, The, [239], [270]
Tale of Two Cities, A, [475]
Tales of Fashionable Life, [421]
Tales of a Grandfather, The, [416]
Tales from Shakespeare, Lamb’s, [427]
Tales in Verse, [302]
Talisman, The, [415], [447–448]
Tam o’ Shanter, [307], [308], [570]
Tamburlaine the Great (Marlowe), [109–110]
Tamerlane (Rowe), [207]
Taming of the Shrew, The, [99], [116]
Tancred, [425], [438]
Task, The, [300], [335], [352]
Tatler, The, [244], [247], [268]
Taylor, Jeremy, [68], [177], [180], [187]
Tears of the Muses, The, [91]
Temora, [313]
Tempest, The, [117], [122], [151], [569]
Temple, Sir William, [211], [219], [236], [238], [269]
Temple, The, [170]
Temple of Glass, the, [64]
Tenant of Wildfell Hall, The, [486]
Tender Husband, The, [247]
Tennyson, Lord, [94], [402], [453], [454], [506], [507], [509], [512]
Terror novelists, the, [323–324]
Terza rima, [96]
Tess of the d’Urbervilles, [523], [526]
Testament and Compleynt of the Papyngo, The, [59]
Testament of Cresseid, The, [60]
Testament of Squyer Meldrum, The, [59]
Testimony of the Rocks, The, [505]
Thackeray, William Makepeace, [453], [478], [485], [507], [508], [510], [539]
Thalaba the Destroyer, [403]
Thalia Rediviva, [172]
Theatres, early London, [111]
Theocritus, [69]
These Twain, [538]
Thief and the Cordelier, The, [262]
Thompson, Francis, [551], [560]
Thomson James (1700–48), [284], [291]
Thorn, The, [368]
Thoughts on the Present Discontents, [331]
Three Fishers, The, [490]
Three Maries, The, [73–74]
Thrie Estatis, Ane Pleasant Satyre of the, [59], [82–83]
Thrissill and the Rois, The, [61]
Thunderstorms, [552]
Thyestes, [207]
Thyrsis, [469]
Tillotson, John, [212]
Timbuctoo, [455]
Time Machine, The, [532]
Time’s Revenges, [464]
Times, The, [365]
Timon of Athens, [117]
Tinker’s Wedding, The, [548], [568]
Tintern Abbey, [448]
Tithonous, [507]
Titus Andronicus, [116]
To Althea, [173], [185]
To Anthea, [170]
To Chloe (Prior), [262]
To his Coy Mistress, [185]
To Daffodils (Herrick), [222]
To Julia, [170]
To Lucasta, going to the Wars, [173]
To Mary in Heaven, [309], [311]
To Milton (Wordsworth), [188]
To Spring (Surrey), [151]
Tolstoy, Leo, [519]
Tom Burke of Ours, [423]
Tom Cringle’s Log, [424]
Tom Jones, [319], [336], [354–355]
Tom Thumb, [336]
Tono-Bungay, [532], [534–535]
Tonson, Jacob, [235]
Tottel’s Miscellany, [96], [97], [104]
Tourneur, Cyril, [129], [180]
Tower of London, The, [422]
Town, The, [407]
Town Mouse and the Country Mouse, The, [261]
Toxophilus, [137]
Tragedies, early, [77]
Tragedy of Chabot, The, [127]
Tragic Comedians, The, [484]
Traveller, The, [294], [335]
Travels (Mandeville), [45–46], [51–52], [153]
Travels with a Donkey, [491]
Treasure Island, [491]
Treatise on Human Nature, [328]
Tremendous Trifles, [549]
Trials of Margaret Lyndsay, The, [434]
Tristram of Lyonesse (Swinburne), [472]
Tristram Shandy, [322], [323], [360]
Triumph, The, [125]
Trivia, [262]
Troilus and Cressida (Chaucer), [34], [40], [58], [60]
Troilus and Cressida (Dryden), [201]
Troilus and Cressida (Shakespeare), [116]
Trollope, Anthony, [486]
Troubles of Queene Elizabeth, The, [129]
Troublesome Raigne of King John, The, [77]
Troy Town, [469]
True-born Englishman, The, [249]
Trumpet-Major, The, [523]
Tub, The Tale of a, [238], [239], [270]
Tunnynge of Elynore Runnynge, The, [63]
Turner, J. M. W., [499], [500]
Twa Meryit Wemen and the Wedo, The, [61]
Twelfth Night, The, [116], [121]
Twixt Land and Sea, [528]
Two Books of Ayres, [100]
Two Chiefs of Dunboy, The, [503]
Two Foscari, The, [387]
Two Gentlemen of Verona, The, [116], [117]
Two Noble Kinsmen, The, [117]
Two Paths, The, [500]
Two on a Tower, [523]
Two Years Ago, [489]
Tyndale, William, [71], [83–84]
Tyrannic Love, [192], [199]

Udall, Nicholas, [77], [78], [85–86]
Udolpho, The Mysteries of, [324]
Ulysses (Stephen Phillips), [559]
Ulysses (Tennyson), [456], [506], [512]
Unclassed, The, [536]
Unco Guid, The, [308]
Uncommercial Traveller, The, [508]
Under the Greenwood Tree, [523]
Underwoods (Jonson), [125]
Underwoods (Stevenson), [492]
Unfortunate Traveller, Jack Wilton, or The, [107], [146], [338]
University Wits, the, [104]
Unnatural Combat, The, [174]
Unto this Last, [500]
Up the Rhine, [408]
Urne Buriall, [175], [181]
Ussher, James, [140]
Utopia, [69], [135], [146]

Valediction forbidding Mourning, A, [184–185]
Valenciennes, [521]
Valerius, [434]
Vanbrugh, Sir John, [205]
Vanhomrigh, Esther, [236]
Vanity Fair, [478], [479]
Vanity of Human Wishes, The, [288], [355–356]
Vathek, [324]
Vaughan, Henry, [171]
Venice Preserved, [206], [215], [226–227], [391]
Venus and Adonis, [112], [144]
Vercelli Book, the, [3], [7]
Vers libre, [560]
Vicar of Wakefield, The, [296], [340]
Vice, the, in early plays, [74]
Victory, [528]
View of the Evidences of Christianity, A, [334]
View of the Present State of Ireland, A, [92]
Village, The, [282], [302], [335], [356]
Villette, [485]
Vindication of Natural Society, A, [330]
Virgidemiarum, [141]
Virgiles Æneis turned into English Meter, Certain Bokes of, [97], [150]
Virgin Goddess, The, [559]
Virgin Martyr, The, [128], [174]
Virginians, The, [479]
Virginibus Puerisque, [491]
Vision of Judgment, The, [385], [437], [446–447]
Vision of Mirza, [244]
Vision of William concerning Piers the Plowman, The, [42], [50]
Vittoria, [483]
Vivian Grey, [424]
Volpone, or The Fox, [124]
Voltaire, [550]
Vox Clamantis, [43]
Voyage of the Beagle, The, [505]
Voyage of Captain Popanilla, The, [425]
Voyage to Lisbon, A, [319]

Wace, [17]
Waggoner, The, [369]
Waldhere, [6]
Waller, Edmund, [183], [216], [224]
Walpole, Horace, [298], [323], [343], [358]
Walpole, Sir Robert, [286]
Walpole, [550]
Walton, Isaac, [181], [184]
Wanderer, The (Old English poem), [6]
Wanderer, The (Savage), [263]
Wanderings of Oisin, The, [555]
Warden, The, [487]
Watchman, The, [375], [380]
Water Babies, The, [490]
Watson, Thomas, [144]
Watson, Sir William, [550], [559]
Watts-Dunton, Theodore, [471]
Waverley, [411], [415], [417–418]
Way of All Flesh, The, [492]
Way of the World, The, [203], [204], [215], [567]
Ways to Perfect Religion, [68]
We are Seven, [370]
Wealth of Nations, The, [332], [505]
Webster, John, [129], [180]
Wedding, A Ballad upon a, [186]
Weekly News, The, [267]
Weir of Hermiston, [492], [510–511]
Well Beloved, The, [524]
Well of the Saints, The, [548]
Wells, H. G., [531], [545], [561]
Wessex dialect, the, [3]
Wessex Poems (Hardy), [520]
West Wind, Ode to the, [393]
Westminster Review, The, [365], [488], [503]
Westward Ho!, [489]
What d’ye call It?, [262]
What Every Women Knows, [548]
When I am Old, [553]
When the Kye comes Hame, [407]
Whims and Oddities, [408]
Whimsicalities, [409]
White, Gilbert, [334], [345], [355]
White Cascade, The, [553]
White Devil, The, [129]
White Doe of Rylstone, The, [369], [371]
White Squall, The, [480]
Why come ye not to Court?, [63–64]
Widow in the Bye Street, The, [552]
Widowers’ Houses, [541]
Widsith, [2], [6]
Wife’s Complaint, The, [6]
Wild Gallant, The, [199]
Wild Knight, The, [549]
Wild Swans of Coole, The, [555]
Wild Wales, [490]
Wilde, Oscar, [483], [546], [559], [565]
Wilhelm Meister, [493]
Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue, [460]
William of Palerne, [22]
Wilson, John, [433], [441]
Winchilsea, Lady, [264], [266]
Wind among the Reeds, The, [555]
Window in Thrums, A, [547]
Windsor Castle, [422]
Windsor Forest, [256]
Wine, Water, and Song, [549]
Winter Night, A, [312]
Winter’s Tale, The, [117]
Witch, The, [128]
Witch of Atlas, The, [392]
Witch of Edmonton, The, [128], [174]
Wither, George, [179]
Within the Tides, [528]
Woman Killed with Kindnesse, A, [129]
Woman in the Moon, The, [105]
Woman in White, The, [487]
Women beware Women, [128]
Woodlanders, The, [523]
Woodstock, [415]
Wordsworth, Dorothy, [366]
Wordsworth, William, [188], [264], [303], [363], [365], [366], [375], [376], [377], [379], [410], [436], [437], [562–563], [566]
Wordsworth’s Grave, [551]
Workers of the Dawn, [536]
World, A History of the (Raleigh), [341]
Worthies of England, The, [178]
Woundes of Civile War, The, [107]
Wulf and Eadwacer, [6]
Wulfstan, [9], [12]
Wuthering Heights, [485]
Wyat, Sir Thomas, [96], [143]
Wycherley, William, [204], [215]
Wyclif, John, [46], [50], [71], [83]
Wynnere and Wastour, [50]

Yarrow Revisited, [369]
Ye Banks and Braes, [308]
Ye Mariners of England, [405]
Year of Shame, The, [551]
Yeast, [489]
Yeats, W. B., [519], [555], [559]
Yellowplush Papers, The, [478]
You Never Can Tell, [541]
Young, Edward, [262], [270], [278]
Youth, [527]
Ywain and Gawain, [22]

Zastorizzi, [393]
Zola, Emile, [519], [537]