INDEX TO EXTRACTS

Absalom and Achitophel, [196], [227–228], [274]
Addison, Joseph, [243], [246], [277]
Address to the Deil, [359]
Address to Edinburgh, [311]
Address to the King (Burke), [353]
Adonais, [392], [449]
Ælfric, [13–14]
Æneid (Surrey), [97], [150]
Alfred, King, [9], [51]
All for Love, [200]
Althea, To, [185]
Alysoun, [30]
Amoretti, [152]
Anatomy of Melancholy, The, [154]
Ancient Mariner, The Rime of the, [378], [445]
Ancren Riwle, [23]
Androcles and the Lion, [543–544]
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, The, [10]
Antiquary, The, [447]
Antony and Cleopatra, [121], [122–123]
Areopagitica, [163]
Arnold, Matthew, [156], [229], [516]
Ascham, Roger, [155]
Ask Me no More, [172]
Asolando, [463–464]
Astræa Redux, [195]
Austen, Jane, [420–421]
Autobiography, Gibbon’s, [359]
Autumn, Ode to (Keats), [443]
Autumn (Shelley), [443]

Back to Methuselah, [545–546]
Bacon, Francis, [136–137]
Bale, John, [85]
Ballad of East and West, The, [574]
Ballad upon a Wedding, A, [186]
Barbour, John, [44]
Beaux’ Stratagem, The, [225–226]
Bee, The, [296], [347]
Behn, Aphra, [221–222]
Beowulf, [4–5]
Bible, the, [83–84], [132], [133]
Biographia Literaria, [368], [381], [443–444]
Black-eyed Susan, [275]
Blake, William, [314], [352–353], [566–567]
Blessed Damozel, The, [515]
Blue Tit, The, [565–566]
Boswell, James, [329], [358–359]
Break, break, break, [460]
Brooke, Rupert, [555]
Browne, Sir Thomas, [176]
Browne, William, [125], [223]
Browning, Robert, [462], [463], [464], [465], [466], [512], [514], [516], [563], [571]
Brus, The, [44]
Brut, [18], [29]
Bunyan, John, [210–211], [225], [574]
Burke, Edmund, [332], [353]
Burney, Frances, [354]
Burns, Robert, [309], [310], [311], [312], [359], [570]
Burton, Robert, [154]
Butler, Samuel (1612–80), [208–209]
Byron, Lord, [383], [384], [385], [386], [387], [388], [446–447], [449]

Cædmon, [12–13]
Caliban upon Setebos, [465]
Caller Water, [346]
Campaign, The, [243]
Campion, Thomas, [101]
Carew, Thomas, [172]
Carlyle, Thomas, [495–496], [513], [575]
Castaway, The, [301]
Castle of Indolence, The, [292–293]
Cato, [277]
Caxton, William, [67]
Cenci, The, [392]
Chamberlayne, William, [216]
Channel Firing, [525–526]
Chaucer, Geoffrey, [35], [37], [38], [39], [40]
Cherry Ripe (Campion), [101]
Chesterfield, Lord, [342]
Chevy Chace, [54–55]
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, [385], [448]
Christabel, [377]
Clare, John, [565–566]
Cleannesse, [31]
Cleveland, John, [182], [185–186]
Clive, Essay on, [498–499]
Clough, Arthur Hugh, [515–516]
Cobbett, William, [440]
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, [377], [378], [379], [380], [381], [443–444], [445–446]
Colin Clout (Skelton), [81–82]
Collins, William, [352]
Complaint, The, or Night Thoughts, [271], [278]
Compleat Angler, The, [184]
Comus, [186]
Confessio Amantis, [53]
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, The, [430], [444]
Congreve, William, [204], [567]
Conrad, Joseph, [529], [530]
Coverdale, Miles, [84]
Cowper, William, [301], [343–344], [352]
Coy Mistress, To his, [185]
Crabbe, George, [356]
Crawford, Robert, [276]
Cymon and Iphigenia, [197–198]

Daffodils, To (Herrick), [222]
Dance of the Sevin Deidlie Sins, The, [61]
Davies, William H., [553]
De Quincey, Thomas, [430], [444]
Dead Drummer, The, [521]
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, The, [327], [564]
Defoe, Daniel, [250–251], [272], [277]
Dekker, Thomas, [150]
Deluge, The, [84–85]
Deserted Village, The, [295], [356]
Diary, Pepys’, [213]
Dickens, Charles, [477]
Dictionary, Johnson’s, [349]
Doctor Faustus, [153–154]
Don Juan, [386–387], [449]
Donne, John, [103], [184]
Dramatic Poesie, The Essay of, [202]
Dreams of the Sea, [553]
Drummond, William, [224]
Dryden, John, [185], [194], [195], [196], [198], [199], [200], [202], [214], [217], [222–223], [227–228], [274]
Dunbar, William, [61]
Dunciad, The, [258]

Ecclesiastical Polity, The Laws of, [152–153]
Education of Nature, The, [374–375]
Egoist, The, [484]
Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog, [573]
English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, [383]
English Comic Writers, The, [432]
Enoch Arden, [457]
Epicene, [149]
Epistle to Arbuthnot, [259], [274]
Epitaph on the Countess of Pembroke, [125]
Epithalamion, [92]
Essay on Clive, [498–499]
Essay on Criticism, An, [256], [261]
Essay of Dramatic Poesie, The, [202]
Essay concerning Human Understanding, An, [219–221]
Essay on Johnson, [360]
Essays, Bacon’s, [136–137]
Essays of Elia, The, [428], [444]
Euphues and his England, [138–139], [154], [563]
Eve of St. Agnes, The, [398–399], [446], [569]
Eve of St Mark, The, [400]
Evelina, [354]
Everyman, [75]
Examiner, The (Tory periodical), [279]

Fables (Dryden), [222–223]
Faerie Queene, The, [95], [155–156]
Farquhar, George, [225–226]
Ferdinand, Count Fathom, [360]
Fergusson, Robert, [346]
Fielding, Henry, [318], [320–321], [354–355]
Fisher, John, [68], [80]
Flaming Heart, The, [174]
Flecker, James Elroy, [569–570]
Fra Lippo Lippi, [512]
French Revolution, The, [513]
Frost at Midnight, [379]
Funeral Sermon on Henry VII (Fisher), [80]

Galsworthy, John, [568–569]
Garden Fancies, [465]
Gascoigne, George, [151]
Gay, John, [275]
Gibbon, Edward, [327], [358–359], [564]
God’s Promises, [85]
Godric, [24]
Golden Journey to Samarkand, The, [569–570]
Golden Wings, [514]
Goldsmith, Oliver, [295], [296], [347], [356], [573–574]
Gower, John, [53]
Gray, Thomas, [188], [345]
Grecian Urn, Ode on a, [402]
Greene, Robert, [142–143]
Groatsworth of Wit, A, [142–143]
Gulliver’s Travels, [241], [277]

Halbert and Hob, [571]
Hamlet, [118], [121]
Handlyng Synne, [30–31]
Hardy, Thomas, [521], [522], [524], [525], [526], [571]
Havelock the Dane, [30]
Hazlitt, William, [432]
Heaven, [554]
Henry Esmond, [581]
Henryson, Robert, [60]
Heroic Stanzas (Dryden), [194], [195]
Herrick, Robert, [222]
Hind and the Panther, The, [217]
History of England, The (Hume), [350–351]
History of England, The (Macaulay), [513]
Holy Sonnetts, [103]
Holy Willie’s Prayer, [310]
Hooker, Richard, [152–153]
Hous of Fame, The, [39]
Howard, Henry, Earl of Surrey, [97], [150], [151]
Hudibras, [208–209]
Human Understanding, An Essay concerning, [219–221]
Hume, David, [350–351]
Hunt, Leigh, [445]
Hydriotaphia, [176]
Hyperion, [399]

Iliad (Pope), [256]
In the Cemetery, [522]
In Memoriam, [459]
Induction, The, [98]
Intimations of Immortality, [372], [374]
Isabella, [401]

James I of Scotland, [59], [81]
John of Trevisa, [52]
Jonathan Wild the Great, [318]
Johnson, Samuel, [288], [289], [290], [349–350], [355], [357], [575]
Johnson, Life of (Boswell), [329], [359]
Johnson, Essay on (Macaulay), [360]
Jonson, Ben, [125], [149]
Journal of the Plague Year, A, [272], [276]

Keats, John, [398], [399], [400], [401], [402], [446], [569]
Killigrew, On the Death of Mrs. Anne, [214]
King Arthur’s Tomb, [512–513]
King Lear, [120], [157]
King of Tars, The, [25]
Kingis Quhair, The, [59], [81]
Kipling, Rudyard, [564–565], [574]
Knight’s Tale, The, [38]
Knight’s Tomb, The, [379]
Kynge Johan, [85]

Lady of the Lake, The, [446]
Lamb, Charles, [428], [444–445]
Lamia, [400]
Langland, William, [43], [53]
Latimer, Hugh, [81]
Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, The, [152–153]
Layamon, [18], [29]
Letter to his Wife (More), [80]
Letters to his Son (Chesterfield), [342]
Letters, Cowper’s, [343–344]
Letters, Leigh Hunt’s, [445]
Letters, Johnson’s, [290], [357]
Letters, Walpole’s, [358]
Life of Doctor Johnson, The (Boswell), [329], [358–359]
Life of John Sterling, The, [496]
Lives of the Poets, The, [350], [575]
Locke, John, [219]
Lord Hastings, Upon the Death of, [185], [228]
Love in Fantastic Triumph sate, [221–222]
Love of King David and Fair Bethsabe, The, [106]
Lovelace, Richard, [185]
Lycidas, [165]
Lyly, John, [138], [154], [563–564]
Lyndsay, Sir David, [82]

Macaulay, Lord, [359], [498–499], [513]
Macpherson, James, [349]
Malory, Sir Thomas, [46–47], [52]
Mandeville, Sir John, [45], [51–52], [153]
Marlowe, Christopher, [109], [153–154]
Marmion, [412–413]
Marvell, Andrew, [185]
Masque of Anarchy, The, [392]
Measure for Measure, [121], [122]
Melibæus, The Tale of, [37]
Merchant of Venice, The, [157]
Meredith, George, [484]
Midsummer Night’s Dream, A, [120]
Milton, John, [163], [165], [166], [167], [168], [186], [187], [562]
Milton (Ernest Myers), [188–189]
Modern Painters, [513–514]
Moral Ode, [29]
More, Sir Thomas, [80]
Morris, William, [512–513], [514]
Morte d’Arthur (Malory), [46–47], [52]
Moti Guj—Mutineer, [564–565]
My First Play (Lamb), [428]
Myers, Ernest, [188–189]

Natural History of Selborne, The, [355]
Nigger of the Narcissus, The, [529–530]
Night Thoughts, [271], [278]
Noctes Ambrosianæ, [441]
North, Christopher, [441]
Northanger Abbey, [420–421]
Nun’s Priest’s Tale, The, [40]

O, My Luve is like a Red, Red Rose, [309–310]
O, Willie brewed a Peck o’ Maut, [309]
Ode: Intimations of Immortality, [373–374]
Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College, [345]
Ode on a Grecian Urn, [402]
Ode to the West Wind, [393]
Oh, to be in England, [516]
Old Curiosity Shop, The, [477]
Old Mortality, [440–441]
On his Own Death (Swift), [237]
On the Death of Mrs. Anne Killigrew, [214]
On Phillis, [182]
On Prayer (Jeremy Taylor), [187]
Ormulum, [20]
Orphan, The, [217–218]
Ossian, [349]
Otway, Thomas, [217–218], [226]

Pacchiarotto, [464]
Paracelsus, [462]
Paradise Lost, [144], [161], [562]
Passions, The (Collins), [352]
Pastoral Care, [9], [51]
Pastorals (Pope), [255]
Pearl, [149–150]
Peele, George, [106]
Pepys, Samuel, [213]
Philips, Ambrose, [271]
Phœnix, The, [13], [29]
Pickwick Papers, The, [477]
Picture of Dorian Gray, The, [565]
Pied Piper of Hamelin, The, [514]
Piers Plowman, [43], [53–54]
Pilgrim’s Progress, The, [210–211], [225], [574–575]
Pine Forest, The, [395]
Pippa Passes, [466]
Places, [522–523]
Pope, Alexander, [224], [255], [256], [257], [258], [259], [274], [351]
Praise of Chimney-sweepers, The, [444–445]
Prelude, The, [562]
Princess, The, [458]
Proclamation of Henry III, [51]
Progress of Poesy, The, [188]
Psalms, the Book of, [133]
Purple Pileus, The, [535]

Queen Mab, [390]

Ralph Roister Doister, [78], [85–86]
Rambler, The, [289–290]
Rape of the Lock, The, [257–258], [351]
Rarely, rarely, comest Thou, [394]
Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye, The, [67]
Reflections on the French Revolution, [332]
Rejected Addresses, [410]
Rescue, The, [529]
Resolution and Independence, [372]
Rhapsody on Poetry, [278]
Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The, [378], [445]
Ring and the Book, The, [465], [563]
Robert of Gloucester, [25]
Robinson Crusoe, [250]
Roderick Random, [346]
Rokeby, [413–414]
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, [515]
Rural Rides in England, [440]
Ruskin, John, [501], [513–514]

Sackville, Thomas, Earl of Dorset, [98]
St. Luke, the Gospel of, [132]
Samson Agonistes, [167]
Sappho (A. Philips), [271]
Sartor Resartus, [495]
Sassoon, Siegfried, [571–572]
Satires of Circumstance, [571]
Satyre of the Thrie Estatis, Ane Pleasant, [82–83]
Say not the Struggle Naught Availeth, [515]
Scholemaster, The, [155]
School for Scandal, The, [567–568]
Schoolmistress, The, [351–352]
Scott, Sir Walter, [412], [413], [414], [417–418], [446], [447–448]
Sedley, Sir Charles, [218]
Sensitive Plant, The, [395]
Sermons, Latimer’s, [81]
Shakespeare, William, [113], [118], [120], [121], [122], [151], [157], [569]
Shakespeare (Matthew Arnold), [156]
Shaw, George Bernard, [543–544], [545–546]
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, [390], [392], [393], [394], [395], [443], [449]
Shenstone, William, [351–352]
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, [567–568]
Simon Lee, [374], [566]
Skelton, John, [63], [81–82]
Skin Game, The, [568–569]
Sleeping Beauty, The (Tennyson), [459]
Smart, Christopher, [304]
Smith, Horace, [410]
Smith, James, [410]
Smollett, Tobias, [346], [360]
Song to David, The, [304]
Songs of Experience, [314]
Songs of Innocence, [352~353], [566–567]
Songbooks of the War, [571–572]
Sonnet, by Matthew Arnold, [156];
by Drayton, [152];
by Ernest Myers, [188–189];
by Shakespeare (cvi and cxvi), [113];
by Spenser, [152];
by Surrey, [151];
by Wordsworth, [188]
Spectator, The, [246], [277]
Spenser, Edmund, [92], [95], [155–156]
Steel Glass, The, [151]
Steele, Sir Richard, [218]
Sterne, Laurence, [323], [360]
Stevenson, Robert Louis, [510]
Stones of Venice, The, [501]
Strew on her Roses, Roses, [516]
Suckling, Sir John, [186]
Sumer is i-cumen in, [26]
Surrey, Earl of, [97], [150], [151]
Sweet Content, [150]
Sweet Lullaby, A, [155]
Swift, Jonathan, [237], [239], [241], [277], [279]
Synge, J. M., [568]

Tale of Melibæus, The, [37]
Tale of a Tub, The, [239]
Talisman, The, [447–448]
Tam o’ Shanter, [570]
Tamburlaine the Great, [109]
Task, The, [352]
Tatler, The, [248]
Taylor, Jeremy, [187]
Tempest, The, [122], [151], [569]
Tennyson, Lord, [457], [458], [459], [460], [512]
Tess of the d’Urbervilles, [526]
Testament of Cresseid, The, [60]
Thackeray, William Makepeace, [481–482]
Thomson, James (1700–48), [292]
Three Maries, The, [73–74]
Thrie Estatis, Satyre of the, [82]
Tinker’s Wedding, The, [568]
Tintern Abbey, [448]
To Althea, [185]
To Autumn (Keats), [443]
To his Coy Mistress, [185]
To Daffodils (Herrick), [222]
To Mary in Heaven, [309]
To Milton (Wordsworth), [188]
To Spring (Surrey), [151]
Tom Jones, [320], [354]
Tono-Bungay, [534–535]
Travels (Mandeville), [45], [51–52], [153]
Tristram Shandy, [323], [360]
Triumph, The, [125]
Troilus and Cressida (Chaucer), [35]
Twelfth Night, [121]
Tyndale, William, [83–84]

Udall, Nicholas, [78], [85–86]
Ulysses (Tennyson), [512]
Upon the Death of the Lord Hastings, [185], [228]

Valediction forbidding Mourning, A, [184]
Vanity of Human Wishes, The, [288], [355–356]
Venice Preserved, [226]
Village, The, [356]
Vision of Judgment, The, [446–447]

Waller, Edmund, [217], [224]
Walpole, Horace, [358]
Walton, Isaac, [184]
Waverley, [417]
Way of the World, The, [204], [566]
Ways to Perfect Religion, The, [68]
Wedding, A Ballad upon a, [186]
Weir of Hermiston, [510]
Wells, H. G., [534–535]
West Wind, Ode to the, [393]
When I am Old, [553]
White, Gilbert, [355]
Why come ye not to Court?, [63–64]
Wilde, Oscar, [565]
Wilson, John, [441]
Winter Night, A, [312]
Wordsworth, William, [188], [371], [372], [373], [374], [375], [448], [562], [566]
Wyclif, John, [83]

Young, Edward, [271], [278]