Halleck's New English Literature

by Reuben Post Halleck

CHAPTER X: TWENTIETH-CENTURY LITERATURE

Interest in the Present.—One result of the growing scientific spirit has been an increasing interest in contemporary problems and literature. At the beginning of the Victorian age, the chief part of the literature studied in college was nearly two thousand years old. When English courses were finally added, they frequently ended with Milton. To-day, however, many colleges have courses in strictly contemporary literature. The scientific attitude toward life has caused a recognition of the fact that he who disregards current literature remains ignorant of a part of the life and thought of to-day and that he resembles the mathematician who neglects one factor in the solution of a problem.

It is true that the future may take a different view of all contemporary things, including literature; but this possibility does not justify neglect of the present. We should also remember that different stages in the growth of nations and individuals constantly necessitate changes in estimating the relative importance of the thought of former centuries.

The Trend of Contemporary Literature.—The diversity of taste in the wide circle of twentieth-century readers has encouraged authors of both the realistic and the romantic schools. The main tendency of scientific influence and of the new interest in racial welfare is toward realism. In his stories of the "Five Towns," Arnold Bennett shows how the dull industrial life affects the character of the individual. Much of the fiction of H.G. Wells presents matter of scientific or sociological interest. Poets like John Masefield and Wilfrid Gibson sing with an almost prosaic sincerity of the life of workmen and of the squalid city streets. The drama is frequently a study of the conditions affecting contemporary life.

Twentieth-century writers are not, however, neglecting the other great function of literature,—to charm life with romantic visions and to bring to it deliverance from care. The poetry of Noyes takes us back to the days of Drake and to the Mermaid Inn, where we listen to Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Jonson. The Irish poets and dramatists disclose a world of the "Ever-Young," where there is:—

"A laughter in the diamond air, a music in the trembling grass."

The influence of the great German skeptic, Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), appears in some of Shaw's dramas, as well as in the novels of Wells; but the poets of this age seem to have more faith than Swinburne or Matthew Arnold or some of the minor versifiers of the last quarter of the nineteenth century.

Two prominent essayists, Arthur Christopher Benson (1862- ) and Gilbert K. Chesterton (1874- ) are sincere optimists. Such volumes of Benson's essays as From a College Window (1906), Beside Still Waters (1907), and Thy Rod and Thy Staff (1912) have strengthened faith and proved a tonic to many. Chesterton is a suggestive and stimulating essayist in spite of the fact that he often bombards his readers with too much paradox. Early in life he was an agnostic and a follower of Herbert Spencer, but he later became a champion of Christian faith. Sometimes Chesterton seems to be merely clever, but he is usually too thought-provoking to be read passively. His Robert Browning (1903), Varied Types (1903), Heretics (1905), George Bernard Shaw (1909), and The Victorian Age in Literature (1913) keep most readers actively thinking.

THE NOVEL

Joseph Conrad.—This son of distinguished Polish exiles from Russia, Joseph Conrad Korzeniowski, as he was originally named, was born in the Ukraine, in 1857. Until his nineteenth year he was unfamiliar with the English language. Instead of following the literary or military traditions of his family, he joined the English merchant marine. Sailing the seas of the world, touching at strange tropical ports and uncharted islands, elbowing all the races of the globe, hearing all the languages spoken by man,—such were Conrad's activities between his twentieth and thirty-seventh years.

[Illustration: JOSEPH CONRAD.]

At thirty-seven, needing a little rest, he settled in England and began to write. Short stories, novels, and an interesting autobiographical volume, A Personal Record (1912), represent Conrad's production. Among his ablest books are Tales of Unrest (1898), a volume of sea stories, and Lord Jim (1900), a novel full of the fascination of strange seas and shores, but still more remarkable for its searching analysis of a man's recovery of self-respect after a long period of remorse for failure to meet a momentary crisis. Youth, A Narrative, and Two Other Tales (1902), contains one of Conrad's strongest stories, The End of the Tether. This is a tender story of an old sea captain, who for the sake of a cherished daughter holds his post against terrific odds, including blindness and disgrace. Typhoon (1903) is an almost unrivaled account of a ship's fight against mad hurricanes and raging seas.

One of Conrad's prime distinctions is his power to visualize scenes. The terror, beauty, caprice, and mercilessness of the sea; the silence and strangeness of the impenetrable tropical forest; atmospheres tense with storm or brilliant with sunshine,—these he records with strong effect. But though he has gained his fame largely as a chronicler of remote seas and shores, his handling of the human element is but little less impressive.

Conrad's method is unusual. Though his sentences are sufficiently direct and terse, his general order of narration is not straightforward. He often seems to progress slowly at the start, but after the characters have been made familiar, the story proceeds to its powerful and logical conclusion.

Arnold Bennett.—Bennett was born in Hanley, North Staffordshire, in 1867. He studied law, but abandoned it to become for seven years an editor of Woman, a London periodical. In 1900 he resigned this position to devote himself entirely to literature. He went to France to live, and began to write novels under the influence of the French and Russian realistic novelists.

[Illustration: ARNOLD BENNETT.]

Bennett is the author of many works of uneven merit. Some of these were written merely to strike the popular taste and to sell. His serious, careful work is seen at its best in his stories of the Five Towns, so called from the small towns of his native Staffordshire. One of the best of these novels, The Old Wives' Tale (1908), is a painstaking record of the different temperaments and experiences of two sisters, from their happy childhood to a pathetic, disillusioned old age. The intimate, homely revelations and the literal fidelity to life in The Old Wives' Tale give it a high rank among twentieth-century English novels.

Clayhanger (1910) is another strong story of life in the "Five Towns" pottery district of Staffordshire. Although the hero, Edwin Clayhanger, is not a strong personality, Bennett's art makes us keenly interested in Edwin's simple, impressionable nature, in his eagerness for life, and in his experiences as a young dreamer, lover, son, and brother. Hilda Lessways (1911), a companion volume to Clayhanger, but a story of less power, continues the history of the same characters. Bennett reveals in these novels one of his prime gifts,—the skill to paint domestic pictures vividly and to invest them with a distinct local atmosphere. His art has won a signal triumph in arousing interest in simple scenes and average characters. He can present the romance of the commonplace,—of gray, dull monotonous, almost negative existence.

He has enlivened the contemporary stage with a few brisk comedies. Milestones was written in collaboration with Edward Knoblauch, an American author. Its characters, representing three generations, illustrate humorously the truth that what is to-day's innovation becomes to-morrow's August convention. The Honeymoon (1911) is a farce of misunderstandings adroitly handled.

Although Bennett has shown great versatility, yet his individual, strong, and vital work is found in the one field where he brings us face to face with the circumscribed, but appealing life of the "Five Towns" district of his youth.

John Galsworthy.—John Galsworthy was born in Coombe, Surrey, in 1867. He was graduated from Oxford with an honor degree in law in 1889 and was called to the bar in 1890. He traveled for a large part of two years, visiting, among other places, Russia, Canada, Australia, South Africa, and the Fiji Islands. On one of these trips he met Joseph Conrad, then a sailor, and they became warm friends. Galsworthy was twenty-eight when he began to write.

[Illustration: JOHN GALSWORTHY.]

Four of his novels deal with the upper classes of English society. The Man of Property (1906) treats of the wealthy class, The Country House (1907) presents the conservative country squire, Fraternity (1909) portrays the intellectual class, and The Patrician (1911) pictures the aristocrat. Galsworthy is the relentless analyist of well-to-do, conventional English society. As Frederic Taber Cooper well says, "British stolidity, British conservatism, the unvarying fixity of the social system, the sacrifice of individual needs and cravings to caste and precedent and public opinion,—these are the themes which Mr. Galsworthy never wearies of satirizing with a mordant irony."

Since his object is to present problems of life, many of his characters are but types. On the other hand, Soames Forsyte in The Man of Property, Lord Miltoun, Mrs. Noel, and Lady Casterley in The Patrician, are among the most brilliant and real characters in modern fiction. Galsworthy's style is clear, his plot construction is excellent, and his humor in caricaturing social types has many of the qualities of Dickens's.

Herbert George Wells.—Wells was born in Bromley, Kent, in 1866. He expected to be a shopkeeper and was apprenticed in his fourteenth year to a chemist; but this did not satisfy his ambition. Later, however, he won scholarships that enabled him to take a degree in science. While preparing himself to graduate from the University of London, he worked in Huxley's laboratory. The experiments there inspired him to write stories based on scientific facts and hypotheses, such as The Time Machine (1895) and In the Days of the Comet (1906). Wells is also vitally interested in problems of sociology. The Discovery of the Future (1902) and The Future in America (1906) present possibilities of scientifically planning man's further development. Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul (1905) and Marriage (1912) are his best works, considered as actual novels of character. Kipps is a bitter but strong portrayal of the pretense and hypocrisy of society and of its inertia in responding to human needs, and Marriage is a subtle, psychological analysis of a conjugal misunderstanding and an attempted readjustment. Wells's study of man as a biological development and his preference of actual facts to sentimental conclusions are in accord with the trend of modern social science.

[Illustration: HERBERT GEORGE WELLS.]

The work of Wells covers a wide range of subjects. He has written scientific romances, blood-curdling tales, strange phantasies, prophetic Utopias, and sociological novels. He shows an increasing tendency to depict the human struggle with environment, heredity, and the manifold forces that affect the earning of a livelihood. His characters are more often remembered as specimens exhibiting some phase of life than as attractive or repellent personalities. Increasing power of portraying character, however, is evident in his later work. He has a daring imagination, a sense of humor, satiric power, and a capacity for expressing himself in vivid and picturesque English.

Eden Phillpotts was born in India in 1862. His novels, however, are as definitely associated with Devonshire as Hardy's are with Wessex, and Bennett's with North Staffordshire. Phillpotts is noted for his power to paint "landscapes with figures." The "figures" are the farmers, villagers, and shepherds of that part of Devon, known as Dartmoor; and the landscapes are the granite crags, the moors; and farmlands of "good red earth." Widecombe Fair (1913) is the twentieth volume that he has published as a result of twenty years' work among these children of Devon. Sometimes the roughness and untutored emotions of the Dartmoor characters repel the readers; but these characters form strong, picturesque groups of human beings, and their dialect adds a pleasant flavor to the novels. Phillpotts's frequent use of coincidences weakens the effect and mars the naturalness of the plot, since their recurrence comes to be anticipated. Children of the Mist (1898) and Demeter's Daughter (1911) are among his ablest novels.

Maurice Hewlett was born in Kent in 1861, of an old Somerset family. He began writing in his boyhood, giving proof even then of his skill in catching the manner of other writers. His style to-day reëchoes his reading of many authors in Latin, French, Italian, and English.

The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay (1900) shows Hewlett's romantic fancy and love for historical characters and pageants. While this novel is full of life, color, and movement, it displays his proneness to allow the romantic vein to run to the fantastic in both episode and style. The Stooping Lady (1907) deals with the love of a lady of high degree for a humble youth whom her devotion ennobles.

Hewlett's style is finished and richly poetical, but often too ornate and too encrusted with archaic terms and other artificial forms.

Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, born in Cornwall in 1863, is a fiction writer, critic, poet, and anthologist. Having much of Stevenson's love for romantic adventure, he was chosen to finish St. Ives, left incomplete by Stevenson. The Splendid Spur (1889), a spirited tale of romance and war in the perturbed time of Charles I., is one of his best stories of adventure.

Among his books on simple Cornish life may be mentioned The Delectable Duchy (1893). It is a collection of short stories and sketches. Quiller-Couch sees life without a touch of morbid somberness and he commands a vivacious, highly-trained style.

William Frend De Morgan was born in London, in 1839. He published his first novel, Joseph Vance (1906), at the age of sixty-seven. This plain, straightforward story of a little boy befriended by a generous-hearted London doctor won for De Morgan wide and hearty applause. While some contemporary writers fashion their style and select their material on the models of French or Russian realists, De Morgan goes to the great English masters, Thackeray and Dickens. Like them, De Morgan writes copiously and leisurely.

Alice-for-Short (1907) and Somehow Good (1908) are strong novels, but Joseph Vance, with its carelessly constructed plot and power to awaken tears and smiles, remains De Morgan's best piece of fiction.

William John Locke was born in the Barbados in 1863. He gained much of his reputation from his tenth book, The Beloved Vagabond (1906). The book takes its charm from the whimsical and quixotic temperament of the hero. He is typical of Locke's other leading characters, who, like Hamlet's friend, Horatio, take "fortune's buffets and rewards with equal thanks." Like other novels by the same author, this story is pervaded by a distinctly Bohemian atmosphere, wherein the ordinary conventions of society are disregarded.

Locke's humor, his deft characterization, his toleration of human failings, largely compensate for his lack of significant plots. He is sometimes whimsical to the point of eccentricity, and his high spirits often verge on extravagance; but at his best he has the power of refreshing the reader with gentle irony, genial laughter, and love for human kind.

Israel Zangwill, the Jewish writer, was born in London in 1864. He first won fame by interpreting the Jewish temperament as he saw it manifested in London's dingy, pitiful Ghetto quarter. "This Ghetto London of ours," he says, "is a region where, amid uncleanness and squalor, the rose of romance blows yet a little longer in the raw air of English reality, a world of dreams as fantastic and poetic as the mirage of the Orient where they were woven."

In his volume, The Children of the Ghetto (1892), Zangwill admirably chronicles the lives of these people and the sharp contrasts between their quaint traditions and a great modern commercial city's customs.

POETRY

The Celtic Renaissance.—Some of the best recent English verse has been written by poets of Irish birth or sympathies. Because of the distinctive quality of both the poetry and prose of these Celtic writers, the term "Celtic Renaissance" has been applied to their work, which glows with spiritual emotion and discloses a world of dreams, fairies, and romantic aspiration. As Richard Wagner received from the Scandinavian folk-lore the inspiration for his great music, as Tennyson found the incentive for The Idylls of the Kings in Malory's Morte d'Arthur, so the modern Celtic poets turned back to the primitive legends of their country for tales of Cuchulain who fought the sea, Caolte who besieged the castle of the gods, Oisin, who wandered three hundred years in the land of the immortals, and Deirdre who stands in the same relation to Celtic literature as Helen to Greek and Brunnhilde to German literature. Some of the fascination that the past and its fairy kingdom exerted over these poets may be found in this stanza from Russell's The Gates of Dreamland:—

"Oh, the gates of the mountain have opened once again
And the sound of song and dancing falls upon the ears of men,
And the Land of Youth lies gleaming, flushed with rainbow light and
mirth.
And the old enchantment lingers in the honey-heart of earth."[1]

William Butler Yeats.—One of the most talented and active workers in this Celtic Renaissance is William Butler Yeats, born in 1865 in Dublin, Ireland. He came from an artistic family, his father, brother, and sisters being either artists or identified with the arts and crafts movement. Yeats himself studied art in Dublin, but poetry was more attractive to him than painting.

He was greatly influenced by spending his youthful days with his grandparents in County Sligo, where he heard the old Irish legends told by the peasants, who still believed them. He translated these stories from Irish into English and wrote poems and essays relating to them. After reaching the age of thirty-four, he became engaged in writing dramas and in assisting to establish the Irish National Theater in Dublin. In thus reviving Ireland's heroic history, Yeats has served his country and his art.

[Illustration: WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS.]

The Wanderings of Oisin (1889) is his best narrative poem. Oisin, one of the ancient Celtic heroes, returns, after three hundred years of adventure, to find Ireland Christianized. St. Patrick hears him relate that he had been carried by his immortal wife, Niamh, to the land of the Ever-Young,—

"Where broken faith has never been known,
And the blushes of first love never have flown,"[2]

that he had battled for a hundred years with an undying foe, and that his strength had not waned during his stay on those immortal shores, although he had felt the effect of age when his foot again touched his native land. The days of "gods and fighting" men are brought back in this romantic poem. The battles, however, are not such gory conflicts as Scott and Kipling can paint. Yeats's contemplative genius presents bloodless battles, symbolic of life's continued fight, and accentuates the eternal hope and peace in the land of immortal youth.

Among his shorter narrative poems, which show some of the power of The Wanderings of Oisin, are The Death of Cuchulain, The Old Age of Queen Maeve, and Baile and Aillinn. Baille and Aillinn are the Irish Romeo and Juliet, each of whom hears from the baleful Aengus the false report that the other is dead. Each lover unhesitatingly seeks death in order to meet the other at once beyond these mortal shores. Yeats has also told simple stories in simple verse, as may be seen in The Ballad of Father Gilligan or The Fiddler of Dooney.

The most striking characteristic of Yeats's work is the pensive yearning for a spiritual love, for an unchecked joy, and an unchanging peace beyond what mortal life can give. These qualities are strikingly illustrated by such poems as Into the Twilight, The Everlasting Voices, The Hosting of the Sidhe (Fairies), The Stolen Child. The very spirit of Celtic poetry is seen in these lines from The Lake Isle of Innisfree:—

"And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet's wings."[3]

Yeats's verse has been called "dream-drenched poems." The term is admirably descriptive of his romantic, lyrical verse.

George W. Russell.—Among the most prominent of these Celtic imaginative writers is George W. Russell (1867- ), "the Irish Emerson," popularly known as "A.E." He is a poet, a painter, a mystic, and a dramatist. With Lady Gregory and Yeats, he has been one of the most active workers for the Irish National Theater. He is an efficient member of those coöperative societies which are trying to improve Ireland's industrial and agricultural conditions.

Russell's poetry is highly spiritual. Sometimes it is so mystical that like Prospero's messenger, Ariel, it vanishes into thin air. His shadowy pictures of nature and his lyrical beauty and tenderness are evident in two little volumes of his verse, Homeward Songs by the Way (1894) and The Divine Vision (1904). This Stanza from Beauty, in The Divine Vision, shows his spiritual longing for quiet, peace, and beauty, in which to worship his Creator:—

"Oh, twilight, fill in pearl dew, each healing drop may bring
Some image of the song the Quiet seems to sing.

My spirit would have beauty to offer at the shrine,
And turn dull earth to gold and water into wine,
And burn in fiery dreams each thought till thence refined
It may have power to mirror the mighty Master's mind."[4]

Fiona Macleod.—All the work of William Sharp that he published under the pseudonym of "Fiona Macleod" belongs to this Celtic Renaissance. Born in 1856 at Paisley, Scotland, he settled in London in 1878, and became widely known as William Sharp, the critic. When he turned to his boyhood's home, the West Highlands of Scotland, for inspiration, he wrote, under the pen-name of Fiona Macleod, poetic prose stories and many poems about these Scotch Celts. He kept the secret of his identity so well that not until his death in 1905 was it known that Fiona Macleod, the mystic, was William Sharp, the critic.

Mountain Lovers (1895), a romantic novel of primitive people who live with nature in her loneliness, mystery, and terror, and who possess an instinctive, speechless, and poetic knowledge of her moods, is one of the earliest and most interesting of his long novels. He excels in the short story. Some of his finest work in this field is in The Sin Eater (1895), which contains uncanny tales of quaint, strongly-marked highland characters with their weird traditions.

From the Hills of Dream (1901) and The Hour of Beauty (1907) are two small volumes of short poems full of the witchery of dreams, of death, of youth, and of lonely scenes. These poems come from a land far off from our common world. Delicacy of fancy, a freedom from any touch of impurity, a beauty as of "dew-sweet moon-flowers glimmering white through the mirk of a dust laden with sea-mist," are the qualities of Fiona Macleod's best verse.

John Masefield.—Instead of looking to the land of dreams and the misty past, like the Celtic writers, Masefield and Gibson, two younger English poets, have found in the everyday life of the present time the themes for their verse. Masefield was born in 1875 in Shropshire. He was a seafarer in his youth, and later, a traveler by land and sea. These varied experiences contributed color and vividness to his narrative verse.

[Illustration: JOHN MASEFIELD.]

He has written several long narrative poems on unromantic subjects. Dauber (1912) contains some of his best lines and its story is the most poetic. This poem follows the fortunes of a poor youth who, wishing to be a painter of ships, went to sea to study his mode at first hand. Masefield describes, with much power, the young artist's ambition, his rough handling by the uncouth sailors, and his perilous experiences while rounding Cape Horn. Dauber exhibits the poet's power of vividly picturing human figures and landscapes. This poem, like most of Masefield's long narrative poems, is a story of human failure,—a dull prosaic failure, such as prose fiction presents in its pessimistic moods.

A strong and cheerful note is struck in some of Masefield's short lyrics, notably in Laugh and be Merry, Roadways, The Seekers, and Being Her Friend. In Laugh and be Merry, the song is almost triumphant:—

"Laugh and be proud to belong to the old proud pageant of man.
* * * * *
Laugh and battle, and work, and drink of the wine outpoured
In the dear green earth, the sign of the joy of the Lord."[5]

Masefield's fancy does not busy itself with dreams and impossible visions. He paints life in its grayness and sordidness and dull mediocrity. Sometimes his verse is merely plain rimed prose, but again it becomes vigorous, picturesque, and vivid in description, as in the following lines from Dauber:—

"…then the snow
Whirled all about, dense, multitudinous cold,
Mixed with the wind's one devilish thrust and shriek
Which whiffled out men's tears, deafened, took hold,
Flattening the flying drift against the cheek."[6]

Wilfred W. Gibson.—Gibson, who was born in Hexham in 1878, sings of the struggling oppressed work-a-day people:—

"Crouched in the dripping dark
With steaming shoulders stark
The man who hews the coal to feed the fires."[7]

His poem, The Machine, awakens sympathy for the printer of Christmas story books and reveals Gibson as the twentieth-century Thomas Hood of The Song of the Shirt. One of the most richly human of his poems is The Crane, the story of the seamstress mother and her lame boy. His realistic volume of verse bearing the significant title, Daily Bread (1910), contains a number of narrative poems, which endeavor to set to music the "one measure" to which all life moves,—the earning of daily bread.

Gibson owes much of his popularity to his spirit of democracy and to the story form of his verse. Like Masefield, he sacrifices beauty to dull realism. Gibson manifests less range, less dramatic feeling, than Masefield, but avoids Masefield's uncouthness and repellent dramatic episodes.

These two poets illustrate a tendency to introduce a new realistic poetry. Wordsworth wrote of Michael and the Westmoreland peasantry, but Masefield and Gibson have taken as subjects of verse the toilers of factory, foundry, and forecastle. Closeness to life and simplicity of narration characterize these authors. They approximate the subject matter and technique of realistic fiction.

Alfred Noyes.—Alfred Noyes was born in 1880 in Wolverhampton Staffordshire. He wrote verse while an Oxford undergraduate and he has since become one of the leading poets of the twentieth century. He has traveled in England and in America, reading his poems and lecturing on literary subjects.

[Illustration: ALFRED NOYES.]

The Flower of Old Japan (1903) is a fairy tale of children who dream of the pictures on blue china plates and Japanese fans. The poem is symbolic. The children are ourselves; and Japan is but the "kingdom of those dreams which …are the sole reality worth living and dying for."

The poet says of this kingdom:—

"Deep in every heart it lies
With its untranscended skies;
For what heaven should bend above
Hearts that own the heaven of love?"[8]

The Forest of Wild Thyme (1905) affords another

"Hour to hunt the fairy gleam
That flutters through this childish dream."[9]

There is also a deeper meaning to be read into this poem. The mystery of life, small as well as great, is found simply told in these lines:—

"What does it take to make a rose,
Mother-mine?
The God that died to make it knows
It takes the world's eternal wars,
It takes the moon and all the stars,
It takes the might of heaven and hell
And the everlasting Love as well,
Little child."[10]

Noyes has published several volumes of lyrical verse. Some of it possesses the lightness of these elfish tales. The Barrel Organ, The Song of Re-Birth, and Forty Singing Seamen are among his finest lyrics. They display much rhythmic beauty and variety. He strikes a deeply sorrowful and passionate note in The Haunted Palace and De Profundis. A line like this in The Haunted Palace—

"…I saw the tears
Bleed through her eyes with the slow pain of years,"[11]

indicates the strong emotional metaphor that occasionally deepens the passion of his verse.

England's sea power, immortalized in song from Beowulf to Swinburne, often inspires Noyes. His finest long poem is Drake: An English Epic (1908), which relates the adventures of this Elizabethan sea-captain and his victory over the Armada. The spirit of a daring romantic age of discovery is shown in these lines that tell how Drake and his men—

"…went out
To danger as to a sweetheart far away,
Who even now was drawing the western clouds
Like a cymar of silk and snow-white furs
Close to her, till her body's beauty seemed
Clad in a mist of kisses."[12]

Another volume of poems, Tales of the Mermaid Tavern (1913), brings us into the company of Shakespeare, Marlowe, Spencer, Jonson, Raleigh, and others of the great Elizabethan group that made the Mermaid Tavern their chosen resort. Greene's farewell to Shakespeare,—

"You took my clay and made it live,"[13]

shows that Noyes has caught something of the spirit that animated Elizabethan England.

Noyes is one of the most spontaneous and fluent writers of modern English poetry. Whether he is mystical, dramatic, playful, or marching along the course of a long narrative poem, he handles his verse with ease and facility. His language, his rhythm, and his thought are most happily blended in his graceful singing lyrics. The work of Noyes is inspired by the desire to show that all things and all souls are—

"One with the dream that triumphs beyond the light of the spheres,
We come from the Loom of the Weaver that weaves the Web of
Years."[14]

THE MODERN DRAMA

The revival of the drama is a characteristic feature of the latter part of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century. The plays of the Norwegian, Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906), affected England profoundly in the last decade of the nineteenth century and proved an impetus to a new dramatic movement, seen in the work of men like Shaw.

The great literary school of dramatists passed away soon after the death of Shakespeare. While it is true that the writing of plays has been practically continuous since the time of the Restoration, yet for more than two hundred years after that event, the history of the drama has had little memorable work to record. There were two brief interesting comic periods: (1) the period of Congreve at the close of the seventeenth century, and (2) of Goldsmith and Sheridan nearly a hundred years later. The literary plays of the Victorians,—Browning, Tennyson, and Swinburne,—were lacking in dramatic essentials.

The modern drama has accomplished certain definite results. Pinero's work is typical of vast improvement in technique. Shaw is noted for his power of "investing modern conversation with vivacity and point." J.M. Synge has won distinction for presenting the great elemental forces that underlie the actions of primitive human beings. The playwrights are making the drama perform some of the functions that have been filled by the novel. The modern drama is also wrestling with the problem of combining literary form, poetic spirit, and good dramatic action. Some of the modern plays deal with unpleasant subjects, and some of the least worthy are immoral in their tendencies. Such plays will be forgotten, for the Anglo-Saxon race has never yet immortalized an unwholesome drama. Fortunately, however, the influence of a large proportion of the plays is pure and wholesome. In this class may be included the dramas of the Irish school and of Barrie, the majority by Galsworthy, and a number by Phillips and Shaw.

Jones and Pinero.—The work of Henry Arthur Jones and Sir Arthur Wing Pinero marks the advance of the English drama from artificiality and narrowness of scope toward a wider, closer relation to life. Henry Arthur Jones, both a playwright and a critic, was born in Grandborough, Buckinghamshire, in 1851. Contemporary English life is the subject of his numerous plays. The Manoeuvers of Jane (1898) and _Mrs. Dane's Defence (1900), are among his best works.

[Illustration: HENRY ARTHUR JONES.]

Sir Arthur Wing Pinero, born in 1855 in London, began his career as an actor.

[Illustration: ARTHUR WING PINERO.]

His real ambition, however, was to write for the stage. More than forty works, including farces, comedies of sentiment, and serious dramas of English life, attest his zeal as a dramatist. Among his most successful farces are The Magistrate (1885), The School Mistress (1886), and The Amazons (1893). Clever invention of absurd situations and success in starting infectious laughter are the prime qualities of these plays.

The Second Mrs. Tanqueray (1893) is by most critics considered Pinero's masterpiece. The failure of a character to regain respectability once forfeited supplies the nucleus for the dramatic situations. Excellent in craftsmanship as it is disagreeable in theme, this play contains no superfluous word to retard the action or mar the technical economy. Adolphus William Ward says: "With The Second Mrs. Tanqueray the English acted drama ceased to be a merely insular product, and took rank in the literature of Europe. Here was a play which, whatever its faults, was …an epoch-marking play."

One great service of Pinero and Jones to the twentieth-century drama has been excellent craftsmanship. Their technical skill may be specifically noted in the naturalness of the dialogues, in the movement of the characters about the stage, in the performance of some acts apparently trivial but really significant, and in the substitution of devices to take the place of the old soliloquies and "asides." Of the two, Pinero is the better craftsman, since Jones, in his endeavor to paint a moral, sometimes weakens his dramatic effect.

George Bernard Shaw.—Shaw was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1856. He was willful and took "refuge in idleness" at school. His education consisted mainly in studying music with his talented mother, in haunting picture galleries, and in wide reading. At the age of twenty, he went to London and began his literary career. He was at various times a journalist, a critic of art, music, and the drama, a lecturer, a novelist, and a playwright. Shaw describes himself as a man "up to the chin in the life of his times." He is a vegetarian, an anti-vivisectionist, an advocate for woman's suffrage, and a socialist.

[Illustration: GEORGE BERNARD SHAW.]

Arms and the Man, Candida, You Never Can Tell, and The Man of Destiny, published (1898) in the second volume of Plays, Pleasant and Unpleasant; and The Devil's Disciple, published (1900) in Three Plays for Puritans, are among his best dramas. With their stage directions and descriptions, they are as delightful to read as novels. Of these plays, Candida is first in character drawing and human interest. The dramatic action is wholly within the mental states of the three chief actors, but the situations are made intense through a succession of unique, absorbing, entertaining, and well-developed conversations.

Shaw is more destructive than constructive in his philosophy as expressed in his plays; and he criticizes so many of the institutions held sacred by society that people have refused to accept him seriously, even when he has written expository prefaces to his dramas. In Arms and the Man, he satirizes the romantic admiration for the soldier's calling; in The Doctor's Dilemma (1906), he attacks the professional man; in Widowers' Houses (1898), he assails the rich property holder with his high rents on poor people's houses: and in Man and Superman (1903), he dissects love and home until the sentiment is entirely taken out of them.

Shaw's chief object is to place before his audience facts, reasons, and logical conclusions. He will not tolerate romantic emotions or sentimentalism, which he ridicules with a reckless audacity, a literal incisiveness, and a satiric wit that none of his contemporaries can excel. His chief claim to his present important position among playwrights is based on his originality and fearlessness of thought, the unfailing sprightliness of his conversation, the infectious spirit of raillery in his comedies, and his mastery of the requirements of the modern stage.

J.M. Barrie.—With the successful stage production of The Little Minister (1897), Barrie passed from novelist to playwright. The qualities of humor, fancy, and quaint characterization, which were such a charm in his novels, reappear in his plays.

[Illustration: JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE.]

The Admirable Crichton, produced in 1903, is one of Barrie's most successful comedies. He displays skill and humor in handling the absurd situation of a peer's family wrecked on a desert island, where the butler, as the most resourceful member of the party, takes command. In Peter Pan (1904), the dramatization of the novel, The Little White Bird, care-free, prankish Peter Pan visits three children in their sleep and teaches them to fly away with him. He carries them to the little people of the fairy world, to the pirate ship, to other scenes dear to children's hearts, and finally to his home in the tree tops. The play is a mixture of fancy, symbolism, and realism. These are woven into a bright phantasy by an imagination that is near to childhood and has not lost its morning's brightness.

What Every Woman Knows (produced in 1908) shows Barrie's dramatic art at its height. He knows how to introduce variety and to give his characters an opportunity to reveal themselves. Every word, every movement of the heroine, Maggie Shand, adds to the unfolding of a fascinating personality. A period of intensely dramatic action may be followed by a comparative pause, such as occurs when the audience sees Maggie's husband slowly realize her cleverness and helpfulness, —qualities that had been long apparent to every one else.

Barrie shows the ability to present dramatically situations that are emotionally appealing or delightfully humorous. His plays exhibit admirably the deep feelings, the momentary moods, the resourcefulness, or the peculiar whimsicalities of men and women.

John Galsworthy.—As a means of presenting social problems, Galsworthy utilizes the drama even more than the novel. Faulty prison systems, discords between labor and capital, discrepancies between law and justice, are some of the themes he chooses to dramatize. The Silver Box (1906) ironically interprets Justice as blind rather than impartial. The poor man is often punished while the more fortunate man goes free. Strife (1909), in some respects the most powerful of his plays, illustrates the clash between capital and labor. In The Eldest Son (1912), the conflict is between two social orders. Justice (1910), which secured reforms in the English prison system, shows how a young man is affected by an inflexible but legal punishment; and how such a method fails to assist him humanely to a better manhood, but drives him to lower and lower depths.

In Joy (1907), a delightful play, Galsworthy momentarily relinquishes social problems for a drama of more personal emotion. In the mystical, poetical composition, The Little Dream (1911), he presents an allegory of the maiden in the Alps, dreaming first of the simple mountain life and then of the life in cities. With its spiritual note and delicate fancy, The Little Dream turns a golden key on the ideal world beyond the strife and gloom dramatized in the sociological plays.

Galsworthy has good stagecraft. His characterization is distinct and consistent. His plays are simple in construction and direct in movement. He strictly avoids rhetorical and theatrical effects, but his dramatic economies often sacrifice all charm and aesthetic appeal. His gray world leaves no hope save the desperate one that conditions so grim may shame and spur society to reform.

Stephen Phillips.—This dramatist and poet was born at Somerton, near Oxford, in 1864. The boy was sent to Shakespeare's birthplace, Stratford-on-Avon, to attend school. He entered Cambridge, but at the end of his first term he left the university to join a company of Shakespearean players. His six years with them initiated him into the technique of stagecraft, which he later applied in the writing of his poetic dramas.

[Illustration: STEPHEN PHILLIPS.]

Before producing the plays for which he is known, he wrote some narrative and lyric verse. Marpessa (1890), a blank verse poem, is a beautiful treatment of the old Greek myth, in which Apollo, the god, and Idas, the mortal, woo Marpessa. Marlowe might have written the lines in which Apollo promises to take her to a home above the world, where movement is ecstasy and repose is thrilling. In some of his non-dramatic poems, Christ in Hades (1896), Cities of Hell (1907), and The New Inferno (1896), Phillips shows how the subject of life and punishment after death attracts him.

With the appearance of his Paolo and Francesca in 1899, the poetic drama seemed phoenix-like to arise from its ashes. Tennyson and Browning had failed to write successful plays. In fact, since the death of Dryden, poetry and drama had seemed to be afraid to approach each other. Phillips effected at least a temporary union. His several plays have distinctly dramatic qualities and many passages of poetic beauty. From both a dramatic and a poetic point of view, Paolo and Francesca is Phillips's best play. Its dramatic values lie chiefly in its power to create and sustain a sense of something definitely progressing toward a certain point. The poetic elements of the play consist in the beauty of atmosphere and the charm of the lines. Giovanni Malatesta, the ugly tyrant of Rimini, being at war when his marriage draws near, sends his young brother Paolo to escort Francesca to Rimini. On the journey Paolo and Francesca fall in love with each other. When Giovanni discovers this, his jealous hand slays them. To such a tragic climax, Phillips drives steadily onward from the first scene, thus focusing the interest on a concrete dramatic situation.

Herod (1900) is a drama of ambition versus love. Herod, the great historic king of the Jews, though passionately in love with his wife Mariamne, sacrifices her brother Aristobulus to his suspicions, fearing that this young prince, the last of the Maccabees, may supplant him on the throne. This sacrifice, prompted by evil counselors, results in a train of tragic episodes, including Mariamne's death and Herod's madness. The lines in which Herod speaks of thinking in gold and dreaming in silver call to mind the hyperbole and music of Marlowe's mighty line.

Ulysses (1902), more of a panorama than a play, is founded on the Homeric story. Its scenes are laid in Olympus, in Hades, on Calypso's isle, and finally in Ithaca. Calypso tries to retain Ulysses upon her isle, beautiful—

"With sward of parsley and of violet
And poplars shimmering in a silvery dream."[15]

He struggles against her enchantment, returns home, finds his wife surrounded by her suitors, joins in their bow-drawing contest, and, in a most exciting and dramatic scene, surpasses all rivals and claims his faithful, beautiful Penelope.

The plays of Phillips not infrequently lack that clinching power that stretches the interest taut. Many scenes are admirably spectacular, suggestive of richly decorated tapestries, which hang separately in spacious rooms; but the plays need more forceful dramatic action, moving through changes to a climax. Phillips's diction, though sometimes rhetorical, is also often ornately beautiful and highly poetical. We feel that even in his plays, he is greater as a poet than as a dramatist.

CELTIC DRAMATISTS

Strong national feeling, interest in the folklore and peasant life of Ireland, and ambition to establish a national theater, have led to a distinct and original Irish drama. In 1899, with a fund of two hundred and fifty dollars, Lady Gregory, William Butler Yeats, G.W. Russell, and other playwrights and patrons succeeded in establishing in Dublin the Irish Literary Theater now known as the Irish National Theater.

The object of this theater is twofold. In the first place, it aims to produce "literary" plays, not the vapid, panoramic kind that merely pass away the time. In the second place, the Irish plays present fabled and historical Irish heroes and the humble Irish peasant.

Patriotism inspired many writers to assist in this national movement. Some gathered stories from the lips of living Irish-speaking peasants; others collected and translated into English the old legends of heroes. Dr. Douglas Hyde's translations of The Five Songs of Connacht (1894) and The Religious Songs of Connacht (1906) are valuable works and have greatly influenced the Irish writers.

Lady Augusta Gregory.—Lady Gregory, born in 1852, in Roxborough, County Galway, has made some of the best of these translations in her works, Cuchulain of Muirthemma, and Gods and Fighting Men. "These two books have come to many as a first revelation of the treasures buried in Gaelic literature, and they are destined to do much for the floating of old Irish story upon the world. They aim to do for the great cycles of Irish romance what Malory did for the Arthurian stories."[16]

[Illustration: LADY GREGORY.]

Lady Gregory wrote also for the Irish Theater plays that have been acted successfully not only in Ireland but in England and in America. Among her best serious plays are The Gaol Gate (1906), a present-day play, the hero of which dies to save a neighbor, The Rising of the Moon (1907), and Grania (1912). McDonough's Wife (1913) is an excellent brief piece with an almost heroic note at the close. The great vagabond piper, McDonough, master of wonderful music, returns from wandering, to find his wife dead, and, because of his thriftlessness, about to be denied honorable burial. McDonough steps to the door, pipes his marvelous tunes, and immediately the village flocks to do homage to his wife.

Lady Gregory's farces have primarily made her fame. Spreading the News (1904), Hyacinth Halvey (1906), The Image (1910), and The Bogie Men (1913) are representative of her vigorous and well-constructed farces. They are varied in subject, the incidents are well developed, the characters are genuine Irish peasants and villagers, and the humor is infectious. It is interesting to note that Lady Gregory has continued to write farces because of the demand for them in the Irish National Theater, in order to offset the large number of tragedies by other authors.

William Butler Yeats.—In addition to delightful poetic fancy, Yeats possesses considerable dramatic ability and stagecraft. In The Countess Cathleen (rewritten in 1912), the poor peasants are driven by a famine to the verge of starvation. Many die; but some are fed by the Countess Cathleen, while others sell their souls for the price of food to demons disguised as merchants. When these demons steal Countess Cathleen's stores in order to stop her charities, with instant Irish quickness and generosity, she sells her soul for a great price to the demons, in order to save her people here and hereafter. Such a tremendous sacrifice, however, is not permitted. Because of the purity of her motive, armed angels save her soul in the last impressive act. Supernatural powers, both pagan and Christian, participate in the play. Spirits haunt the woods, enter the peasants' cottages, and cast spells on the inhabitants. The play is Irish in story, in symbolism, and in the fancifulness of the conception.

The Land of Heart's Desire is another drama that has sprung from the soil and folklore of Ireland. This play was one of the first Celtic dramas to be produced, and in its present revised form (1912) it is one of the most engaging of the Irish plays. Partly in prose and partly in verse, it is the story of a young bride who tires of her monotonous life and calls upon the fairies to release her. The old parents tell her that duty comes before love of the fairies.

The good priest begs her not to forsake her faithful young husband; but the fairy wins, and, leaving a dead bride in the cottage, bears away the living bride to a land where—

"The fairies dance in a place apart,
Shaking their milk-white feet in a ring,
Tossing their milk-white arms in the air;
For they have heard the wind laugh and murmur and sing
Of a land where even the old are fair,
And even the wise are merry of tongue."[17]

Patriotic love for Ireland is the very breath of Cathleen ni Hoolihan (1902), a one-act prose play in which Cathleen symbolizes Ireland. The Shadowy Waters (1900) and Deirdre (1907) are more poetic than dramatic. The first of these with the mysterious harper, the far-sailing into unknown seas, the parting with everything but the loved one, shows Yeats in his deeply mystical mood. In Deirdre is dramatized part of a popular legend of the great queen by that name, who was too beautiful for happiness. She has seven long years of joy and then accepts her fate in the calm, triumphant way of the old heroic times.

Yeats's plays reflect the childlike superstitions and lively imagination of his country. He loves the fairies, the dreams of eternal youth, the symbolizing of things of the spirit by lovely things of earth. His plays are poetical, fanciful, and romantic.

John Millington Synge.—One of the most notable of the Irish writers, J.M. Synge, was born near Dublin in 1871 and died in that city in 1909. His brief span of life has yielded only scanty biographical data. He came of an old Wicklow family; he was graduated from Trinity College, Dublin; afterwards he wandered through much of Europe, finally settling in France.

[Illustration: JOHN SYNGE.]

In 1899, William Butler Yeats discovered him in Paris, a "man all folded up in brooding intellect," writing essays on French authors,—on Molière, for example, from whom he learned the trick of characterization; on Racine, who taught him concentration; on Rabelais, who infected him with love of deep laughter. Yeats, suspecting that Synge could be an original writer as well as an interpreter of others, persuaded him to go back to Ireland, to the Aran Islands, off Galway. Synge discovered there a lost kingdom of the imagination, a place where spontaneous feeling and primitive imagination had not been repressed by the outside world's customs and discipline, and where the constant voice of the ocean, the touch of the mysterious, all-embracing mist, and the gleam of the star through a rift in the clouds banished all sense of difference between the natural and the supernatural.

When Synge died in his thirty-eighth year, he had written only six short plays, all between 1903 and 1909. Two of these, In the Shadow of the Glen and Riders to the Sea, contain only one act. The Tinker's Wedding has two acts, and the rest are three-act plays.

In the Shadow of the Glen, Riders to the Sea, and The Well of the Saints, produced respectively in 1903, 1904, and 1905, show that Synge came at once into full possession of his dramatic power. Even in his earliest written play, The Well of The Saints, we find a style stripped of superfluous verbiage and vibrant with emotion. In the Shadow of the Glen, his first staged play, consumes only a half hour. The scene is laid in a cabin far off in a lonely glen, and the four actors,—a woman oppressed by loneliness, an unfeeling husband who feigns death, and two visitors,—make a singularly well-knit impressive drama.

Riders to the Sea has been pronounced the greatest drama of the modern Celtic school. Some critics consider this the most significant tragedy produced in English since Shakespeare. Simple and impressive as a Greek tragedy, it has for its central figure an old mother whose husband and five sons have been lost at sea. The simple but poignant feeling of the drama focuses on the death of Maurya's sixth and last son, Bartley. This tragic episode, simply presented, touches the depths of human sympathy. In old Maurya, Synge created an impressive figure of what Macbeth calls "rooted sorrow."

The Playboy of the Western World, produced first in 1907, is a three-act play. It is as fantastically humorous as the Riders to the Sea is tragical. Dread of his father ties this peasant to his stupid toil. A fearful deed frees the youth and throws him into the company of the lovely maiden, Pegeen, and admiring friends. The latent poetry and wild joy of living awake in him, and, under the spur of praise, he performs great feats. He who had never before dared to face girls, makes such love to Pegeen that poesy itself seems to be talking. The Playboy is one of the wildest conceptions of character in modern drama. His very extravagance compels interest. Pegeen is a fitting sweetheart for him. Her father is a stalwart figure, possessing a shrewd philosophy and rare strength of speech, as "fully flavored as nut or apple." Some critics object to such a boisterous play, but they should remember that it is intended to be an extravagant peasant fantasia.

Deirdre of the Sorrows, another three-act play, produced first in 1910, tells the story of the beautiful princess Deirdre, of her isolated young life, and her seven years of perfect union with her lover Naisi. When her lover is slain, this true and tender queen of the North loosens the knot of life to accompany him.

Synge belongs in the first rank of modern dramatists. The forty Irish characters that he has created reveal the basal elements of universal human nature. His purpose is like Shakespeare's,—to reveal throbbing life, not to talk in his own person, nor to discuss problems. Synge has dramatized the primal hope, fear, sorrow, and loneliness of life. Although his plays are written in prose and have the distinctive flavor of his lowly characters, yet a recent critic justly says that Synge "for the first time sets English dramatic prose to a rhythm as noble as the rhythms of blank verse."

SUMMARY

The twentieth century shows two main lines of development,—the realistic and the romantic. The two leading essayists of the period, A.C. Benson and G.K. Chesterton, are both idealists and champions of religious faith.

Among the novelists, Conrad tells impressive stories of distant seas and shores; Bennett's strongest fiction gives realistic pictures of life in English industrial towns; Galsworthy's novels present the problems that affect the upper class of Englishmen; Wells writes scientific romances and sociological novels.

Some of the best poetry, full of the fascination of a dreamy far-off world, has been written by the Celtic poets, Yeats, Russell, and Fiona Macleod. Masefield and Gibson have produced much realistic verse about the life of the common toiler. Noyes has written Drake, a romantic epic, and a large amount of graceful lyrical verse, in some of which there is much poetic beauty.

The most distinctive work of recent times has been in the field of the drama. Pinero has improved its technique; Shaw has given it remarkable conversational brilliancy; Barrie has brought to it fancy and humor and sweetness; Galsworthy has used it to present social problems; Phillips has tried to restore to it the Elizabethan poetic spirit. The Celtic dramatists form a separate school. Lady Gregory, Yeats, and Synge have all written plays based on Irish life, folklore, or mythology. The plays of Synge, the greatest member of the group, reveal the universal primitive emotions of human beings.

CONCLUSION

Three distinctive moral influences in English literature specially impress us,—the call to strenuous manhood:—

"…this thing is God,
To be man with thy might,"

the increasing sympathy with all earth's children:—

"Ye blessed creatures, I have heard the call,
Ye to each other make,"

and the persistent expression of Anglo-Saxon faith. As we pause in our study, we may hear in the twentieth-century song of Alfred Noyes, the echo of the music from the loom of the Infinite Weaver:—

"Under the breath of laughter, deep in the tide of tears,
I hear the loom of the Weaver that weaves the Web of Years."[18]

REFERENCE FOR FURTHER STUDY

Kennedy's English Literature, 1880-1895 (Shaw, Wells, Fiona Macleod,
Yeats).

Kelman's Mr. Chesterton's Point of View (in Among Famous Books).

Cooper's Some English Story Tellers.

Conrad's A Personal Record.

Phelps's Essays on Modern Novelists (De Morgan).

Yeats's Celtic Twilight.

Figgis's Studies and Appreciations (Mr. W.B. Yeats's Poetry. The
Art of J.M. Synge.)

More's Drift of Romanticism (Fiona Macleod).

Borsa's The English Stage of To-day.

Jones's (Henry Arthur) The Foundation of a National Drama: A Collection of Essays, Lectures, and Speeches, Delivered and Written in the Years 1896-1912.

Hamilton's The Theory of the Theater.

Hunt's The Play of To-day.

Hale's Dramatists of To-day.

Henderson's George Bernard Shaw: His Life and Works, 2 vols.

Chesterton's George Bernard Shaw.

Weygandt's Irish Plays and Playwrights (excellent).

Krans's William Butler Yeats and the Irish Literary Revival.

Howe's J.M. Synge: A Critical Study.

Yeats's J.M. Synge and the Ireland of His Time (in The Cutting of an Agate, 1912).

Bickley's J.M. Synge and the Irish Dramatic Movement.

Elton's Living Irish Literature (in Modern Studies).

SUGGESTED READINGS WITH QUESTIONS AND SUGGESTIONS

Essays.—From A.C. Benson, read one of these collections of essays: The Altar Fire, Beside Still Waters, Thy Rod and Thy Staff, and one or more of these biographies: Tennyson, John Ruskin, Rossetti (E.M.L.), Walter Pater (E.M.L.); from Chesterton, one of these collections of essays: Varied Types, Heretics, Orthodoxy, and one or more of these biographies: George Bernard Shaw, Charles Dickens, Robert Browning (E.M.L.). For other twentieth-century essays, see the preceding bibliography and the paragraph following this.

The Novel.—From Conrad, read Youth, Typhoon, Lord Jim; from
Bennett, The Old Wives' Tale, Clayhanger; from Galsworthy, The Man
of Property, The Patrician; from Wells, The Time Machine,
Kipps, The Future in America (essay); from Phillpotts, Children of
the Mist, Demeter's Daughter; from Hewlett, Life and Death of
Richard Yea and Nay, The Stooping Lady; from Quiller-Couch, The
Splendid Spur, The Delectable Duchy; from De Morgan, Joseph Vance,
Somehow Good; from Locke, The Beloved Vagabond, The Adventures of
Aristide Pujol; from Zangwill, The Children of the Ghetto, The
Melting Pot (play).

Poetry.—From The Poetical Works of William B. Yeats (Macmillan), read The Wanderings of Oisin, The Lake Isle of Innisfree, The Hosting of the Sidhe, The Voice of the Waters; from Fiona Macleod's Poems and Dramas (Duffield), The Vision, The Lonely Hunter, The Rose of Flame; from Masefield, the part of Dauber describing the rounding of Cape Horn, beginning p. 119, in The Story of a Round-House (Macmillan); from Gibson's Fires (Macmillan), The Crane, The Machine; from Noyes's Poems (Macmillan, 1906), The Song of Re-Birth, The Barrel Organ, Forty Singing Seamen, The Highwayman; Book II from his Drake: An English Epic (Stokes).

The Drama.—From Jones, read The Manoeuvers of Jane, Mrs. Dane's
Defence (Samuel French); from Pinero, The Amazons, The School
Mistress, or Sweet Lavender (W.H. Baker); from Shaw's Plays
Pleasant and Unpleasant (Brentano), Candida, You Never Can Tell,
Arms and the Man from Barrie, Peter Pan, What Every Woman Knows;
from Galsworthy, Strife, Joy, The Little Dream; from Phillips,
Marpessa (poem), Ulysses (Macmillan), Herod; from Lady
Gregory's, Seven Short Plays (Putnam), The Gaol Gate, Spreading the
News; from her New Comedies (Putnam, 1913), McDonough's Wife, The
Bogie Men; from Yeats's Poetical Works, Vol. II. (Macmillan), The
Land of Heart's Desire, Countess Cathleen; from Synge, Riders to the
Sea, The Playboy of the Western World, Deirdre of the Sorrows (John
W. Luce).

Questions and Suggestions.—Stevenson's The Home Book of Verse and The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse contain selections from a number of the poets. McCarthy's Irish Literature, 10 vols., gives selections from work written prior to 1904. The majority of the indicated readings can be found only in the original works of the authors.

Give an outline of the most important thoughts from one essay and one biography, by both Benson and Chesterton.

What distinctive subject matter do you find in each of the novelists?
How do same reflect the spirit of the age?

What are the chief characteristics of each of the poets? What does the phrase "Celtic Renaissance" signify?

In brief, what had the drama accomplished from the time of the closing of the theaters in 1642 to 1890? What distinctive contributions to the modern drama have Pinero, Shaw, and Barrie made? Describe the work of Lady Gregory, Yeats, and Synge. In what does Synge's special power consist?

FOOTNOTES TO CHAPTER X:

[Footnotes 1-11: Printed by permission of The Macmillan Company.]

[Footnotes 12-13: Printed by permission of Frederick A. Stokes
Company.]

[Footnotes 14-15: Printed by permission of the Macmillan Company.]

[Footnote 16: Krans's William Butler Yeats and the Irish Literary
Revival.]

[Footnotes 17-18: Printed by permission of The Macmillan Company.]

SUPPLEMENTARY LIST OF AUTHORS AND THEIR CHIEF WORKS:

1400-1558:

John Lydgate (1370?-1451?): Falls of Princes. Thomas Occleve (1370?-1450?): Mother of God; Governail of Princes. Sir John Fortescue (1394?-1476?): Difference between an Absolute and Limited Monarchy. The Paston Letters (1422-1509). Stephen Hawes (d. 1523?): Pastime of Pleasure. John Skelton (1460?-1529): Bowge of Court; Philip Sparrow. Alex. Barclay (1475?-1552): Ship of Fools. Sir Thomas More (1478-1535): Utopia; History of Edward V. and Richard III. Hugh Latimer (1485?-1555): Sermon on the Ploughers. Sir David Lindsay (1490-1555): Satire of the Three Estates.

1558-1603:

John Knox(1505-1572): Admonition; History of the Reformation of
Religion within the Realm of Scotland; Sermons. George Puttenham
(d. 1590?): Art of English Poesie. Edward Dyer (1550?-1607): My
Mind to Me a Kingdom Is. Samuel Daniel (1562-1619): The Complaint of
Rosamund; A Defence of Rhyme (prose). Fulke Greville (Lord Brooke,
1554-1628): Caelica. Stephen Gosson (1555-1624): The School of
Abuse. George Gascoigne (1525?-1577):The Steele Glas. William
Warner (1558?-1609): Albion's England.

1603-1660:

Prose Writers.—Robert Burton (1577-1640): The Anatomy of Melancholy. John Selden (1584-1654): Table Talk. Richard Baxter (1615-1691): The Saints' Everlasting Rest.

Poets and Dramatists.—Phineas Fletcher (1582-1650?): The Purple Island. William Drummond (1585-1649): Sonnets; The Cypresse Grove (prose). Giles Fletcher (1588?-1623): Christ's Victory and Triumph. George Wither (1588-1667): Juvenilia. William Browne (1591-1643?) Britannia's Pastorals. Sir William D'Avenant (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.

1660-1740:

Dramatists of the Restoration.—Sir William D'Avenant (1606-1668): Love and Honor. George Etherege (1635?-1691?): The Man of Mode. William Wycherley (1640-1715): The Plain Dealer. Thomas Shadwell (1642?-1692): Epson Wells. Thomas Otway (1652-1685): Venice Preserved. John Vanbrugh (1666?-1726): The Confederacy. Colley Cibber (1671-1757): The Careless Husband. George Farquhar (1678-1707): The Beaux' Stratagem.

Prose Writers.—Sir William Temple (1628-1699): Essays. Isaac
Barrow (1630-1677): Sermons. Robert South (1634-1716): Sermons.
Richard Bentley (1662-1742): Epistles of Phalaris. Gilbert Burnet
(1643-1715): 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
(1673-1748): Psalms and Hymns. Thomas Parnell (1679-1718): A
Night-Piece on Death; The Hermit. John Gay (1685-1732): Fables; The
Beggar's Opera. Allan Ramsay (1686-1758): The Gentle Shepherd. John
Dyer (1700?-1758): Grongar Hill.

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. Fanny Burney (1752-1840): Evelina.

Poets.—Edward Young (1681-1765): Night Thoughts. Charles Wesley (1708-1788): Hymns. Mark Akenside (1721-1803): The Minstrel. Robert Fergusson (1750-1774): Braid Claith; Ode to the Gowdspink.

1780-1837:

Philosophers.—William Paley (1743-1805): Natural Theology. Jeremy
Bentham (1748-1832): Principles of Morals and Legislation. William
Godwin (1756-1836): Inquiry concerning Political Justice. Thomas
Robert Malthus (1766-1834): Essay on the Principle of Population.
David Ricardo (1772-1823): Principles of Political Economy. James
Mill (1773-1836): Analysis of the Human Mind.

Historians.—John Lingard (1771-1851): History of England. Henry
Hallam (1777-1859): Constitutional History of England. Sir William
Napier (1785-1860): History of the Peninsular War.

Essayists.—William Cobbett (1762-1835): Rural Rides in England.
Sydney Smith (1771-1845): Letters of Peter Plymley. Francis Jeffrey
(1773-1850): Essays. John Wilson (1785-1854): Noctes Ambrosianae.
John Gibson Lockhard (1794-1854): Life of Sir Walter Scott.

Novelists and Dramatists.—William Beckford (1759-1844): Vathek. Maria Edgeworth (1767-1849): Castle Rackrent. Jane Porter (1776-1850): Scottish Chiefs. John Galt (1779-1839): The Annals of the Parish. James Sheridan Knowles (1784-1862): The Hunchback; The Love Chase. Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866): Nightmare Abbey. Mary Russell Mitford (1787-1855): Our Village.

Poets.—George Crabbe (1754-1832): The Borough. Joanna Baillie (1762-1851): Poems. James Hogg (1770-1835): Queen's Wake. Thomas Campbell (1777-1844): The Pleasures of Hope. Thomas Moore (1779-1852): Irish Melodies; Lalla Rookh. Ebenezer Elliott (1781-1849): Corn Law Rhymes. Bryan W. Procter (1787-1874): English Songs. John Keble (1792-1866) The Christian Year. Felicia Hemans (1793-1835): Songs of the Affections. Thomas Hood (1799-1845): The Song of the Shirt; The Bridge of Sighs. Winthrop Praed (1802-1839): The Season; The Letter of Advice. Thomas Beddoes (1803-1849): Lyrics from Death's Jest Book and from The Bride's Tragedy.

1837-1900:

Philosophers and Scientists.—Sir William Hamilton (1788-1856) Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic. Michael Faraday (1791-1867): Experimental Researches. Sir Charles Lyell (1797-1875): Principles of Geology; Antiquity of Man. John Stuart Mill (1806-1873): System of Logic; Utilitarianism. George Henry Lewes (1817-1878): A Biographical History of Philosophy; Problems of Life and Mind. Sir Henry Maine (1822-1888): Ancient Law; Village Communities.

Historians.—Henry Hart Milman (1791-1868): History of Latin
Christianity down to the Death of Pope Nicholas V. George Grote
(1794-1871): _History of Greece. James Anthony Froude (1818-1894):
History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Defeat of the
Spanish Armada. Henry Thomas Buckle (1821-1862): History of
Civilization. Edward Augustus Freeman (1823-1892): The History of
the Norman Conquest. William Stubbs (1825-1901): The Constitutional
History of England in its Origin and Development. Samuel Rawson
Gardiner (1829-1902): _History of England from the Accession of James
I. to the Outbreak of Civil War, 1603-1642; History of the Great Civil
War, 1642-1649; History of the Commonwealth and the Protectorate,
1649-1660. Justin M'Carthy (1830-1912): A History of Our Own Times.
John Richard Green (1837-1883): A Short History of the English
People. William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1838-1903): History of
England in the Eighteenth Century. James Bryce (1838- ): The Holy
Roman Empire; The American Commonwealth. Rt. Rev. Abbot Gasquet,
D.D., O.S.B. (1846- ): Henry VIII and the English Monasteries; The
Greater Abbeys of England. Wilfrid Ward (1856- ): Aubrey de Vere;
Life and Times of Cardinal Newman.

Essayists and Critics.—George Barrow (1803-1881): The Bible in Spain; Lavengro. Walter Bagehot (1826-1877): Literary Studies; The English Constitution. Leslie Stephen (1832-1904): Hours in a Library; History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century. John Morley (1838- ): Studies in Literature; Edmund Burke; Life of Gladstone. John Addington Symonds (1840-1893): The History of the Renaissance in Italy. Austin Dobson (1840- ): Eighteenth Century Vignettes; Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson, Oliver Goldsmith; also Collected Poems. Edward Dowden (1843-1913): Shakespeare, His Mind and Art; Life of Shelley; Studies in Literature, 1789-1877. Andrew Lang (1844-1912): Letters to Dead Authors; Essays in Little; The Iliad in English Prose (assisted by Leaf and Myers); also Ballads and Lyrics of old France. Augustine Birrell (1850- ): Obiter Dicta; Men, Women, and Books; In the Name of the Bodleian A. C. Bradley (1851- ): Shakespearean Tragedy; Oxford Lectures on Poetry Alice Meynell (1855- ): The Rhythm of Life; The Spirit of Place; also Collected Poems. William Archer (1856- ): Poets of the Younger Generation; Masks or Faces: A Study in the Psychology of Acting. John W. Mackail (1859- ): The Springs of Helicon; Life of William Norris.

Novelists.—Wilkie Collins (1824-1899): The Moonstone. Dinah Maria
Craik (1826-1877): John Halifax, Gentleman. Charles L. Dodgson
(Lewis Carroll 1832-1898): Alice in Wonderland; Through the Looking
Glass. Joseph H. Shorthouse (1834-1903): John Inglesant. Walter
Besant (1836-1901): All Sorts and Conditions of Men. William Black
(1841-1898): A Daughter of Heth. Canon W. Barry, D.D. (1849- ): The
Two Standards. Mrs. Humphry Ward (1851- ): Marcella. Canon P.A.
Sheehan, D.D. (1852- ): My New Curate; The Queen's Fillet. Hall
Caine (1853- ): The Manxman. Rider Haggard (1856- ): King Solomon's
Mines. George Gissing (1857-1903): New Grub Street; The Private
Papers of Henry Ryecroft. John Ascough (Rt. Rev. Mgr.
Bicherstaffe-Drew, 1858- ): Marotz. Kenneth Grahame (1859- ): The
Golden Age; Dream Days. A. Conan Doyle (1859- ): The White Company;
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. R.H. Benson (1871- ): By What
Authority; The Queen's Tragedy. Mrs. Wilfrid Ward: Great
Possessions.

Poets.—Richard H. Barham (1788-1845): Ingoldsby Legends. James C. Mangan (1803-1849): Selected Poems. Edward Fitzgerald (1809-1883): Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (translation). Aubrey de Vere (1814-1902): Irish Odes. Coventry Patmore (1823-1896): The Angel in the House; Amelia. Sidney Dobell (1824-1874): The Roman; Balder. Adelaide Anne Procter (1825-1864): Legends and Lyrics. Jean Ingelow (1830-1897): Poems. Edwin Arnold (1832-1904): The Light of Asia. Lewis Morris (1833-1907): Epic of Hades. James Thompson (1834-1882): The City of Dreadful Night. J.B.L. Warren (Lord de Tabley, 1835-1895): Poems: Dramatic and Lyrical. Alfred Austin (1835-1913, appointed poet-laureate in 1896): English Lyrics, edited by William Watson. Theodore Watts-Dunton (1832- ): The Coming of Love. Philip Bourke Marston (1850-1887): Song-Tide and Other Poems; Wind Voices. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900): Ave Imperatrix; The Ballad of Reading Gaol; De Profundis (prose).

1900-

Essayists.—Vernon Lee (Violet Paget, 1857- ): The Enchanted Woods and Other Essays; The Sentimental Traveler. Lawrence Pearsall Jacks (1860- ): Mad Shepherds, and Other Human Studies. Arthur Symons (1865- ): William Blake; The Romantic Movement in English Poetry. Edward Verrall Lucas (1868- ): Life of Charles Lamb; Old Lamps for New; also the stories Over Bemerton's and Mr. Ingleside. Hilaire Belloc (1870- ): On Everything.

Novelists.—Justin Huntley M'Carthy (1860- ): The Proud Prince; If
I Were King. W.W. Jacobs (1863- ): Many Cargoes; Ship's Company.
Anthony Hope Hawkins (Anthony Hope, 1863- ): The Prisoner of Zenda;
Rupert of Hentzau. Marie Corelli (1864- ): Thelma; Ardath. Robert
S. Hichens (1864- ): The Garden of Allah. G.W. Birmingham (rev. J.O.
Hannay, 1865- ): Spanish Gold. Seumas Macmanus (1870- ): The
Chimney Corner; Donegal Fairy Stories. J.C. Snaith (1876- ):
Araminta; Broke of Covenden. May Sinclair: The Divine Fire.

Poets.—A.E. Housman (1859- ): A Shropshire Lad. Katherine Tynan
Hinkson (1861- ): Collected Poems; New Poems (1911). Arthur
Christopher Benson (1862- ): Collected Poems; Paul The Minstrel.
Henry Newbolt (1862- ): Admirals All. Herbert Trench (1865- ):
Deirdre Wedded and Nineteen Other Poems; Collected Poems. Ethna
Carberry (1866-1902): The Passing of the Gael. Richard Le Gallienne
(1866- ): Robert Louis Stevenson and Other Poems; Attitudes and
Avowals (essays); The End of the Rainbow (stories). Lionel Johnson
(1867-1902): Poems. Lawrence Binyon (1869- ): London Visions;
Atilla (poetic drama). Nora Hopper Chesson (1871-1906): Under
Quicken Boughs. Dora Sigerson Shorter (1873- ): Collected Poems.
John Drinkwater (1882- ): Poems of Love and Death; King Cophetua.
Richard Middleton. (1882-1911): Poems and Songs. Lascelles
Abercrombie: Interludes. James Stephens: Hill of Vision; Crock of
Gold (prose fiction). T. Sturge Moore: Aphrodite against Artemis;
Poems.

Celtic Dramatists.—George Moore (1853- ): The Bending of the Bough. Edward Martyn (1859- ): The Heather Field. William Boyle: The Building Fund. Padric Colum: Thomas Muskerry; the Fiddler's House. Lennox Robinson: Patriots. Rutherford Mayne: The Turn of the Road. H. Granville Barker (English dramatist, 1877- ): The Voysey Inheritance.

INDEX

Abercrombie, Lascelles

Absalom and Achitophel

Abt Vogler

Actors, in early plays in Elizabethan theater

Adam Bede

Addison, Joseph, collaborates with Steele
incidental reference to
life of
references on
suggested readings in
works of

Admirable Crichton, The

Adonais

Advancement of Learning

Adventures of Harry Richmond

AElfric

Aids to Reflection

Akenside, Mark

Alastor

Alchemist, The

Alexander's Feast

Alfred, King

Alice-for-Short

All for Love

Alysoun

Amazing Marriage, The

Amazone, The

Amelia

American Taxation, Speech on

Amorists

Ancient Mariner

Ancren Riwle

Andrea del Sarto

Andreas

Anglo-Norman period and Chaucer's Age
characteristics of Normans
history
language
metrical romances
poets
prose writers
references on
suggested readings and question
summary

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

Anglo-Saxon language

Anglo-Saxon period
history
home, migrations and religion of Anglo-Saxons
language
mission of English literature
poetry
prose
references on
subject matter and aim
suggested readings and questions
summary

Anglo-Saxons, earliest literature of

Annus Mirabilis

Antiquary, The

Apologia, Newman's

Apologie for Poetrie

Arbuthnot, John

Arcadia

Archer, William

Areopagitica

Arnold, Edwin

Arnold, Matthew
general characteristics of
incidental references to
life of
poetical works
prose works
quoted
references on
suggested readings in

Arnold, Thomas

Arthur, King

Ascham, Roger

Astraea Redux

As You Like It

Atalanta in Calydon

Atterbury, Francis

Aurengzebe

Austen, Jane, incidental references to life and works of references on suggested readings in

Austin, Alfred

Autobiography, Franklin's

Ayseough, John

Bacon, Francis, incidental references to
life of
references on
suggested readings in
works of

Bacon, Roger

Bagehot, Walter

Baillie, Joanna

Balder Dead

Bale, John

Ballad of Agincourt

Ballads, English in fifteenth century

Barchester Towers

Barclay, Alexander

Barham, Richard H.

Barker, H. Granville

Barnaby Rudge

Barrack Room Ballads

Barrie, incidental references to suggested readings in

Barrow, Isaac

Battle of Brunänburh

Battle of the Books

Baxter, Richard

Beattie, James

Beaumont, Frances

Becket

Becket, Thomas à

Beckford, William

Beddoes, Thomas

Bede, Ecclesiastical History references on suggested readings in works of

Behn, Mrs. Aphra

Belloc, Hilaire

Bennett, Arnold
suggested readings in

Benson, Arthur Christopher
suggested readings in

Benson, R.H.

Bentham, Jeremy

Bentley, Richard

Beowulf suggested readings in

Berkeley, George

Besant, Walter

Bible, King James version Tyndale's translation of Wycliffe's translation of

Bickerstaff, Isaac

Bickerstaffe-Drew, Rt. Rev. Mgr.

Binyon, Lawrence

Biographia Literaria

Birmingham, G.W. (Hanney, Rev. J.O.)

Birrell, Augustine

Black, William

Blackmore, Richard D. suggested readings in

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine

Blake, William references on suggested readings in

Blank verse in eighteenth century introduction into England Shakespeare's and Marlowe's use of

Bleak House

Blessed Damozel, The

Blot in the 'Scutcheon

Bolingbroke, Lord

Bonduca

Book of Martyrs

Borrow, George

Boswell, James

Boy actors

Boyle, William

Bradley, Andrew

Brandes, Georg, quoted

Bret Harte

Bride of Lammermoor

Bridges, Robert suggested readings in

Brontë, Charlotte references for suggested readings in

Brontë, Emily

Brooke, Stopford, quoted

Brown, Charles Brockden

Browne, Sir Thomas

Browne, William

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, life of
quoted
references on
suggested readings in

Browning, Robert
general characteristics of
incidental references to
life of
optimistic philosophy of
references on
suggested readings in
works of

Brut
Layamon's
Wace's

Bryce, James

Buckle, Henry Thomas

Bulwer Lytton
suggested readings in

Bunyan
general characteristics of
incidental references to
life of
references for
suggested readings in
works of

Burke, Edmund references for suggested readings in

Burnet, Gilbert

Burney, Fanny

Burns, Robert
general characteristics of
incidental references to
life of
love songs of
poetic creed of
references on
suggested readings in
works of

Burton, Robert

Butler, Bishop

Butler, Samuel

Byron, Lord
compared with Shakespeare
dramas of
general characteristics
incidental references to
life of
references on
suggested readings in
works of

Caedmon
compared with Milton

Caedmonian Cycle

Cain

Caine, hall

Caliban upon Setebos

Camden, William

Campbell, Thomas

Canterbury Tales

Carberry, Ethna

Carew, Thomas
suggested readings in

Carlyle, Thomas
general characteristics of
incidental references to
life of
quoted
references on
Sartor Resartus
suggested readings in
works of

Carols of fifteenth century

Carroll, Lewis

Castle of Indolence

Castle of Otranto

Cathedrals, Gothic

Cato

Cavalier poets

Caxton, William

Celtic dramatists

Celtic imagery

Celtic Renaissance

Cenci, The

Cèrvantes

Chapel Royal

Chapman, George

Charge of the Light Brigade

Chatterton, Thomas
suggested readings in

Chaucer, Geoffrey
Canterbury Tales
compared with Spenser
earlier poems of
incidental references to
influence on English language
life of
qualitites of
quoted
references on
suggested readings in

Chaucer's age. See Anglo-Norman period

Chesson, Nora Hopper

Chester plays

Chesterton, Gilbert K. references on suggested readings in

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

Child's Garden of Verse, A

Christ, Cynewulf's

Christabel

Christmas Carol, A

Chronicle, The, Stow's

Chronicles of England, Ireland and Scotland

Cibber, Colley

Citizen of the World

Clarendon, Lord

Clarissa Harlowe

Classical couplet

Classic school

Clive, Robert

Cloister and the Hearth

Cloud, The

Clough, Arthur Hugh suggested readings in

Cobbett, William

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
association with Wordsworth
general characteristics of
incidental references to
life of
poetry of
prose of
quoted
references on
suggested readings in

Collier, Jeremy

Collins, Wilkie suggested readings in

Collins, William

Colloquium

Colombe's Birthday

Colum, Padric

Comedies, early

Comedy of Errors, The

Complete Angler

Comus

Conciliation with America, Burke's speech on

Conduct of the Understanding

Confessio Amantis

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

Congreve, William

Conrad, Joseph references on suggested readings in

Cooper, Frederic Taber, quoted

Corelli, Marie

Cornish, William

Cotter's Saturday Night

Couplet, classical "riming"

Court plays

Coventry plays

Cowley, Abraham

Cowper, William
general characteristics of
incidental references to
life of
references on
suggested readings in
works of

Crabbe, George

Craik, Dinah Maria

Cranford

Cranmer's Bible

Crashaw, Richard

Critical writings
Addison's
Age of Romanticism
Arnold's
Carlyle's
Coleridge's
De Quincey's
Dryden's
Johnson's
Pope's
Swinburne's

Criticism, first essay on

Cromwell's Bible

Cross, John W.

Crossing the Bar

Cry of the Children

Curse of Kehama

Cymbeline

Cynewulf

Cynewulf Cycle suggested readings in

Daniel Deronda

Daniel, Samuel

Darwin, Charles

D'Avenant, Sir William

David and Bathsabe

David Balfour

David Copperfield

Davidson, John suggested readings in

Deathe of Blanche the Duchesse

Decameron, framework of similar to Canterbury Tales

De-foe, Daniel a journalist incidental references to life of references on suggested readings in works of

Dekker, Thomas

Deloney, Thomas suggested readings in

De Morgan, William Frend references on suggested readings in

Denham, Sir John

Departmental Ditties

De Quincey, Thomas
general characteristics of
incidental references to
life of
references on
suggested readings in
works of

Deserted Village, The

De Vere, Aubrey

Diana of the Crossways

Diary, Evelyn's
Pepys's

Dickens, Charles
contrasted with Thackeray
general characteristics of
incidental references to
life of
references on
suggested readings in
works of

Dictionary of the English Language, Johnson's

Didactic verse

Discovery of Guiana, The

Disdain Returned

Diurnall

Divine Vision, The

Dobell, Sidney

Dobson, Austin quoted suggested readings in

Dodgson, Charles L. (Lewis Carroll)

Dombey and Son

Don Juan

Donne, John opposes sonnet suggested readings in

Don Quixote

Double Dealer, The

Douglas, Gawain

Dover Beach

Dowden, Edward quoted

Doyle, A. Conan

Dr. Faustus

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Drake: An English Epic

Drama, English
and the unities
actors in early
Beaumont and Fletcher in
comedies, early
court plays
decline of
during Restoration
early religious
end of Elizabethan
interlude
Irish
Marlowe, founder of English
miracle and mystery plays
modern
morality plays
suggested readings in
See also Elizabethan Age, Jonson, Marlowe, Shakespeare, etc.

Dramatic Lyrics, Browning's

Dramatic Romances and Lyrics, Browning's

Dramatic unities

Dramatis Personae

Drapier's Letters

Drayton, Michael suggested readings in

Dream Children

Dream of Fair Women, A

Dream of Gerontius

Drinkwater, John

Drummond, William

Dryden, John
general characteristics of
incidental references to
life of
prose of
quoted
references on
suggested readings in
Spenser's influence on
works of

Duchess of Malfi, The

Dunbar, William

Dunciad

Dyer, Edward

Dyer, John

Earthly Paradise

Edgeworth, Maria

Edinburgh Review

Edward II

Egoist, The

Eighteenth century, early literature. See Restoration period, etc.

Eighteenth century, later literature
history
literary characteristics
novelists
poets
prose writers
references on
romanticism
suggested readings and questions
summary

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

Elene

Eliot, George
general characteristics
incidental references to
life of
references on
suggested readings in
works of

Elizabeth, Queen

Elizabethan age
history
Jonson
life of
Marlowe
minor dramatists
miracle and mystery plays
morality plays
poetry (non-dramatic)
presentation of Elizabethan plays
prose writers
references on
Shakespeare
suggested readings in
summary

Elliott, Ebenezer

Emma

Endymion

England, origin of name of

English humorists of the Eighteenth Century

English language, Chaucer's influence on emergence of modern

English literature mission of subject matter and aim of

Epigrams, Watson's

Epipsychidion

Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot

Epithalamion

Essay of Dramatic Poesy

Essay on Criticism

Essay on Man

Essays
Addison's
Arnold's
Bacon's
Benson's
Carlyle's
Chesterton's
De Quincey's
Goldsmith's
Johnson's
Lamb's
Macaulay's
Newman's
Pater's
Pope's
Stevenson's
Swinburne's
Thackeray's

Essays in Criticism

Essays of Elia

Etherege, George

Ethical purposes, in literature. See Moral ideals

Euphues

Euphuism

Evan Harrington

Eve of St. Agnes

Evelyn, John

Every Man in His Humor

Excursion

Exeter Book

Expedition of Humphrey Clinker

Fables, Ancient and modern

Faerie Queene

Faithful Shepherdess

Familiar Studies of Men and Books

Far From the Madding Crowd

Far Traveler, The

Faraday, Michael

Farquhar, George

Faustus, Dr.

Fergusson, Robert

Field, Eugene

Fielding, Henry references on suggested readings in works of

Fight at Finnsburg

Fiona Macleod. See Sharp, William

Fitzgerald, Edward

Fleet Street Eclogues

Fletcher, Giles

Fletcher, John

Fletcher, Phineas

Flower of Old Japan

Ford

Forest of Wild Thyme

Fors Clavigera

Fortescue, Sir John

Fortunes of Men

Four Georges

Four P's

Fox, Charles James

Foxe, John

Fragments of Science

Francis, Sir Philip

Frankenstein

Franklin, Benjamin

Freeman, Edward Augustus quoted

French element in English

French Revolution, influence on literature

French Revolution (Carlyle's)

Fronde, James Anthony

Fuller, Thomas

Funeral Elegy

Galsworthy, John suggested readings in

Galt, John

Gammer Gurton's Needle

Gaol Gate

Gardiner, Samuel Rawson

Gardiner's Daughter, The

Garrick, David

Gascoigne, George

Gaskell, Elizabeth C. suggested readings in

Gasquet, Rt. Rev. Abbot

Gates of Dreamland

Gawayne and the Green Knight

Gay, John

General reference list for English literature

Gentle Craft

Geoffrey of Monmouth

Gibbon, Edward quoted suggested readings in

Gibson, Wilfrid suggested readings in

Gissing, George

Gladstone, William E.

Gleeman songs of

Globe Theater

Godwin, William

Goldsmith, Oliver
general characteristics of
incidental references to
life of
quoted
references on
suggested readings in
works of

Good-Natured Man, The

Gorboduc

Gosse. Edmund, quoted

Gosson, Stephen

Gower, John suggested readings in

Grahame, Kenneth

Gray, Thomas references for suggested readings in

Green, John Richard

Greene, Robert

Gregory, Lady Augusta suggested readings in

Gregory, Pope

Greville, Fulke (Lord Brooke)

Grote, George

Gulliver's Travels

Guy Mannering

Haggard, Rider

Hakluyt, Richard

Hallam, Arthur Henry

Hamilton, Sir William

Hamlet

Handlyng Synne

Hard Times

Hardy, Thomas
general characteristics of
incidental references to
life of
references on
suggested readings in
works of

Harleian, M.S.

Hawes, Stephen

Hawkins, Anthony Hope (Anthony Hope)

Hazlitt, William suggested readings in

Heart of Midlothian

Heine, Heinrich

Hemans, Felicia

Henley, W.E. suggested readings in

Henry Esmond

Henry IV

Henry V

Henry VIII

Henryson, Robert

Herbert, George

Hero and Leander

Herod

Heroes and hero Worship

Herrick, Robert suggested readings in

Hesperides

Hewlett, Maurice suggested readings in

Heywood, John

Heywood, Thomas

Hichens, Robert S.

Hilda Lessways

Hind and the Panther

Hinkson, Catherine Tynan

Historical prose

Historical Sketches, Newman's

History, English, Age of Romanticism
Anglo-Norman period
Anglo-Saxon period
Eighteenth century
Elizabethan age
Puritan age
Renaissance
Restoration period
Victorian age

History of England, Hume's
Macaulay's

History of Friedrich II

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, The

History of the Great Rebellion

History of the Kings of Britain

History of the Reign of Henry VII

History of the World

History of the Worthies of England (Fuller's)

Hobbes, Thomas

Hogg, James

Holinshed, Raphael

Holman-Hunt, William

Holy Dying

Holy Living

Holy War

Homer, Chapman's

Homer, Pope's translation of

Homeward Songs by the Way

Homilies

Hood, Thomas

Hooker, Richard references on suggested readings in

Hope, Anthony (Hawkins)

Horace, influence of

Hous of Fame

Housman, A.E.

Howells, William D., quoted

Hudibras

Hugo, Victor, quoted

Hume, David references on suggested readings in

Humor
Addison's
Arnold's
Barrie's
Burns's
Carlyle's
Chaucer's
Cowper's
De Quincey's
Dickens's
Fielding's
Fuller's
Goldsmith's
Locke's
Meredith's
Pope's
Sterne's
Swift's
Thackeray's

Hundred Years' War

Hunt, Leigh
suggested readings in

Huxley, Thomas
quoted

Hyde, Dr. Douglas

Hydriotaphia

Hymns, Addison's

Hyperion

Ibsen, Henrik, influence of

Idea of a University

Ideals. See Moral ideals.

Idler

Idylls of the King

Il Penseroso

Iliad, Pope's translation of

Imaginary Conversations

In a Balcony

In Memoriam

In the South Seas

Induction (Sackville's)

Ingelow, Jean

Inland Voyage

Interlude

Invention, age of

Irish drama

Irish National Theater

Isabella

Ivanhoe

Jack of Newberry

Jacks, Lawrence Pearsall

Jacobs, W.W.

James I of Scotland

Jane Eyre

Jeffrey, Francis

Jew of Malta

John Gilpin

Johnson, Lionel

Johnson Samuel
Boswell's life of
converser and literary lawgiver
general characteristics of
incidental references to
life of
quoted
references on
suggested readings in
works of

Jonathan Wild the Great

Jones, Henry Arthur suggested readings in

Jonson, Ben general characteristics of incidental references to life of opposes sonnet plays of quoted references on suggested readings in

Joseph Andrews

Joseph Vance

Journal of the Plague Year

Journal to Stella

Jude the Obscure

Judith

Juliana

Julius Caesar

Jungle Books

Jury system, development of

Just So Stories

Kant

Keats, John general characteristics incidental references to life of poems of references on suggested readings in

Keble, John

Kenilworth

Kidnapped

Kim

King Lear

King of the Golden River, The

King's Quair, The

Kingsley, Charles
suggested readings in

Kipling, Rudyard
general characteristics of
incidental references to
life of
Nobel prize awarded to
prose of
references on
suggested readings in
verse of

Knighte's Tale, Chaucer's

Knoblauch, Edward

Knowles, James Sheridan

Knox, John

Kubla Khan

Kyd, Thomas

Lady of the Lake

Lake Poets

L'Allegro

Lamb, Charles quoted references on suggested readings in

Lamia

Landor, Walter Savage suggested readings in

Lang, Andrew

Längland, William references on suggested readings in

Language, new English

Languages, after Norman Conquest

Last Days of Pompeii

Latimer, Hugh

Layamon suggested readings in

Lay of the Last Minstrel

Lay Sermons, Huxley's

Lays of Ancient Rome

Lecky, William Edward Hartpole

Lectures on Art

Lectures on Shakespeare

Lee, Vernon (Violet Paget)

Le Gallienne, Richard

Legende of Good Women

Leviathan

Lewes, George Henry

Life and Death of Mr. Badman

Life of Johnson Boswell's Macaulay's

Life of Nelson

Light that Failed, The

Lindsay, Sir David

Lingard, John

Literary Club

Literary England literary itinerary references on

Literature
change in subject-matter after Restoration
childhood introduced into
definitions of
influence of spirit of reform on
Pre-Raphaelite movement
Reformation influences

Little Minister

Little White Bird

Lives of the English Poets

Lives of the Saints

Locke, John
references on

Locke, William John
suggested readings in

Lockhart, John Gibson

Locksley Hall

Locksley Hall Sixty Years After

Lodge, Thomas suggested readings in

London

Lord Ormont and His Aminta

Lorna Doone

Lounsbury, T.R., quoted

Love lyrics

Lovelace, Richard

Love's Labor's Lost

Lowell, James Russell, quoted

Lucas, Edward Verrall

Lucrece

Luther, Martin

Lycidas

Lydgate, john

Lyell, Sir Charles

Lyly, John references on suggested readings in

Lyrical Ballads, Coleridge's Wordsworth's

Lyrical verse in Elizabethan age

Lytton, Edward Bulwer

Macaulay, Thomas Babington
general characteristics of
History of England
incidental references to
life of
quoted
references on
suggested readings in
works of

Macbeth

M'Carthy, Justin Huntley

Mac Flecknoe

Mackail, John w.

Macleod, Fiona. See Sharp, William

Macmanus, Seumas

Macpherson, James

Magna Charta

Maid's Tragedy

Maine, Sir Henry

Malory, Sir Thomas

Malthus, Thomas Robert

Malthusian theorem

Mandeville, Sir John

Manfred

Mangan, James C.

Mansfield Park

Marlowe, Christopher
general characteristics of
incidental references to
life of
references on
suggested readings in
works of

Marmion

Marston, John

Marston, Philip Bourke

Martin Chuzzlewit

Martyn, Edward

Marvell, Andrew

Masefield, John suggested readings in

Masque

Massinger, Philip

Masson, David, quoted

Master of Ballantrae

Maud

Mayor of Casterbridge

Melancholy, literature of

Memoirs of a Cavalier

Memories and Portraits

Men and Women

Merchant of Venice

Meredith, George
general characteristics of
incidental references to
life of
quoted
references on
suggested readings in
works of

Metrical romances

Meynell, Alice

Michael

Michaelmas Term

Middle Ages

Middlemarch

Middleton, Richard

Middleton, Thomas

Midsummer Night's Dream

Mill, James

Mill, John Stuart

Mill on the Floss

Millais, John Everett

Milman, Henry Hart

Milton, John
characteristics of poetry
compared with Shakespeare
incidental references to
influence of Paradise Lost
life of
Macaulay's essay on
Paradise Lost
quoted
references on
Spenser's influence on
suggested readings in
works of

Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border

Miracle plays suggested readings in

Mitford, Mary Russell

Modern Painters

Modest Proposal

Molière

Moll Flanders

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

Moore, George

Moore, Thomas

Moore, T. Sturge

Moral ideals, Addison's Browning's Carlyle's Dickens's George Eliot's in Beowulf Meredith's Milton's of Alfred the Great of Puritan age Richardson's Ruskin's Shakespeare's Swinburne's under minor dramatists

Moralitites, suggested readings for

Morality play

More, Sir Thomas suggested readings in

Morley, Henry, quoted

Morley, John

Morris, Lewis

Morris, William references on suggested readings in

Morte d'Arthur

Mourning Bride

Much Ado About Nothing

Mysteries of Udolpho

Mystery plays

Napier, Sir William

Nashe, Thomas
suggested readings in

Nature
as depicted in Scottish poetry
Burns's, treatment of
Byron's, poetry of
Chaucer's love of
Coleridge's treatment of
Cowper's poems of
Dunbar a student of
Gray's poetry of
growth of appreciation of
Keats's treatment of
poetry of
Ruskin's love of
Scott's treatment of
Shakespeare's treatment of
Shelley's treatment of
Tennyson's poetry of
Thomason's poetry of
Walton's love of
Wordsworth's poetry of

Navigations, Voyages, and Discoveries of the English Nation

Necessity of Atheism

New Atlantis

New Year's Eve

Newbolt, Henry

Newcomes, The

Newman, Cardinal John Henry
general characteristics of
life of
references on
suggested readings in
works of

"News books"

"News letters"

Newspapers

Nicholas Nickleby

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Nightingale, To a

Noble Numbers

Norman conquest

North, Sir Thomas

Northanger Abbey

Novel, development of
development of modern
in eighteenth century
in sixteenth century
in twentieth century
in Victorian age
(See also Scott, Dickens, Eliot, Thackeray, etc.)
picaresque
suggested readings for

Novum Organum

Noyes, Alfred suggested readings in

Nut-Brown maid, The

Oberämmergau Passion Play

Occleve, Thomas

Ode on a Grecian Urn

Ode on the Passions

Ode to Evening

Ode to Mrs. Anne Killigrew

Ode to the West Wind

Odyssey, Pope's translation of

Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity

Old Bachelor, The

Old China

Old Curiosity Shop, The

Old Mortality

Oliver Twist

Olney Hymns

On the Morning of Christ's Nativity

On Translating Homer

Ordeal of Richard Feverel

Origin of Species

Orm's Ormulum

Oroonoke

Orosius (Alfred's)

Ossian

Othello

Otway, Thomas

Our Mutual Friend

Palace of Art

Paley, William

Pamela

Pandosto

Paracelsus

Paradise Lost

Paradise Regained

Paraphrase, Caedmon's

Parnell, Thomas

Passion Play at Oberämmergau

Past and Present

Pastoral lyrics

Pater, Walter references on suggested readings in

Patmore, Coventry

Peacock, Thomas Love

Peele, George

Pendennis

Pepys, Samuel

Percy, Thomas

Peregrine Pickle

Pericles and Aspasia

Perkin Warbeck

Persuasion

Peter Pan

Philaster

Phillips, Stephen
suggested readings in

Phillpotts, Eden
suggested readings in

Philosophical prose Coleridge's of age of Romantiscism of eighteenth century

Philosophical prose, of Puritan age

Phoenix

Picaresque novel

Pickwick Papers

Piers Plowman references on suggested readings for

Pilgrim's Progress

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing suggested readings in

Pippä Passes

Play of Noah's Flood

Play of the Shepherds

Playboy of the Western World

Plays, Pleasant and Unpleasant

Plutarch's Lives

Poe, Edgar Allan, quoted

Poet, The

Pope, Alexander
general characteristics of
incidental references to
life of
references on
suggested readings in
translation of Homer
works of

Pope Gregory

Porter, Jane

Praed, Winthrop

Praeterita

Prelude, The

Pre-Raphaelite movement suggested readings in

Pre-Raphaelitism

Pride and Prejudice

Princess, The

Printing, invention of

Prior, Matthew

Procter, Adelaide Anne

Procter, Bryan W.

Prometheus Unbound

Puritan age
history
poets
prose writers
references on
suggested readings and questions
summary

Puttenham, George

Quarterly Review

Quiller-Couch (Cooch), Sir Arthur suggested readings in

Rabbi Ben Ezra

Radcliffe, Mrs. Anne

Raleigh, Sir Walter

Ralph Royster Doyster

Rambler, The

Ramsay, Allan

Rape of the Lock

Rasselas

Reade, Charles suggested readings in

Readings, suggestions for

Recessional

References, historical and literary

References for literary England

Reflections on the Revolution in France

Reformation

Religio Laici

Religio Medici

Religion, effect of on literature

Religious drama

Reliques of Ancient English Poetry

Reminiscences, Carlyle's

Renaissance
causes and effects of the Renaissance
culmination of
history
in Elizabeth's reign
influence on Chaucer
invention of printing
poets
prose writers
references on
suggested readings and questions
summary

Renaissance; Studies in Art and Poetry

Restoration period and early eighteenth-century literature
dramatists
history
poets
prose writers
references on
suggested readings and questions
summary

Return of the Native

Review

Revolt of Islam

Reynolds, G.F., quoted

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

Rhoda Fleming

Ricardo, David

Richard II

Richard III

Richardson, Samuel references on suggested readings in

Ring and the Book

Rivals

Robert of Brunne

Robertson, William

Robin Hood

Robinson Crusoe

Robinson, Lennox

Roderick Random

Romance, distinguished from modern novel

Romance of the Forest

Romantiscism
age of
appreciation of nature
history
literary characteristics
poets
prose writers

Romanticism, references on suggested readings and questions summary

Romaunt of the Rose

Romeo and Juliet

Romola

Rosalynde

Rossetti, Christina

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel references on

Round Table

Rowley, Thomas

Rowley, William

Ruskin, John
art works of
general characteristics of
incidental references to
life of
references on
suggested readings in
works of

Russell, George W.
suggested readings in

Sackville, Thomas

Saintsbury, George, quoted

Samson Agonistes

Sartor Resartus

Satire, Addison's
Carlyle's
Dryden's
Fielding's
Meredith's
Pope's
Swift's
Thackeray's

Saul

Saxon. See Anglo-Saxon.

Scenery, in early theater

Scenes of Clerical Life

Scholar-Gypsy

Scholemaster, The

School for Scandal

School Mistress, The

Schoolmen

Science, age of
influence on literature

Scop
songs of

Scott, Sir Walter
general characteristics of
incidental references to
life of
references on
suggested readings in
works of

Seafarer, The

Seasons, The

Second Mrs. Tanqueray, The

Selden, John

Sense and Sensibility

Sentimental Journey through France and Italy

Sentimental Tommy

Sesame and Lilies

Seven Lamps of Architecture

Shadwell, Thomas

Shakespeare, William
amount and classification of work
connection with London stage
development as dramatist
general characteristics of
incidental references to
influence of Bible on
life of
publication of plays
quoted
references on
sonnets
sources of plots
suggested readings in
table of plays
variety of style

Sharp, William (Fiona Macleod)
references on
suggested readings in

Shaw, George Bernard
references on
suggested readings in

She Stoops to Conquer

Sheehan, Canon, P.A.

Shelley, Mrs.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe
general characteristics of
incidental references to
life of
lyrical genius
references on
suggested readings in
works of

Shepherd's Calendar

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

Shirley, James

Shoemaker's Holiday

Short View of the Immorality of the Stage

Shorter, Dora Sigerson

Shorthouse, Joseph H.

Sidney, Sir Philip quoted references on suggested readings in works of

Sigurd, the Volsung

Silas Marner

Silent Woman, The

Sinclair, May

Sir Charles Grandison

Sir Roger de Coverley Papers

Skeltin, John

Skylark, To a

Smith, Adam

Smith, Sydney

Smollett, Tobias references on

Smollett, suggested readings in

Snaith, J.C.

Social movement of nineteenth century

Sohrab and Rustum

Somehow Good

Song of Roland

Songs before Sunrise

Songs of Experience

Songs of Innocence

Sonnets
in Elizabethan Age
introduction of
Jonson and Donne oppose
Keats's
Milton's
Shakespeare's
Sidney's
Spenser's
Wordsworth's

Sonnets from the Portuguese

Sordello

Southey, Robert

Spanish Gypsy, The

Spanish Tragedy, The

Specimens of English Dramatic Poets

Spectator, The

Spodding, James, quoted

Speech on American Taxation (Burke's)

Speech on Conciliation with America (Burke's)

Spencer, Herbert

Spenser, Edmund, chief characteristics of poetry of
Faerie Queene
incidental references to
life of
references on
sonnets of
subjective poet
suggested readings in

St. Francis

Stage, in early English theater

Stalky and Co.

Steele, Richard
suggested readings in

Stephen, Leslie
quoted

Stephens, James

Sterne, Laurence references on suggested reading in

Stevenson, Robert Louis
general characteristics of
incidental references to
life of
references on
suggested readings in
works of

Stevenson, William

Stones of Venice, The

Story, short

Stow, John

Strafford

Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Stubbs, William

Study of Celtic Literature

Suckling, Sir John suggested readings in

Suggested readings

Summaries

Summer's Last Will and Testament

Surrey, Earl of sonnets of suggested readings in

Survey of London

Sweet, Professor, quoted

Swift, Jonathon
general characteristics of
incidental references to
life of
references on
suggested readings in
works of

Swinburne, Algernon Charles
general characteristics of
incidental references to
life of
quoted
references on
suggested readings in
works of

Switzerland

Symonds, John Addington
quoted

Symons, Arthur
suggested readings in

Synge, John Millington
references on

Synthetic Philosophy

Table Talk

Taine, H.A., quoted

Tale of a Tub

Tale of Two Cities

Tales from Shakespeare

Tales of a Grandfather

Tales of a Mermaid Tavern

Talisman

Tam o'Shanter

Tamburlaine

Task, The

Tatler

Taylor, Jeremy

Tempest, The

Ten Brink, quoted

Tennyson, Alfred
general characteristics of
incidental references to
life of
quoted
references on
suggested readings in
works of

Tess of the D'Urberville's

Thackeray, William Makepeace
general characteristics of
incidental references to
life of
quoted
references on
suggested readings in
works of

Theater, Elizabethan

Thompson, Frances suggested readings in

Thompson, James

Thomson, James suggested readings in

Thoreau, quoted

Thyrnie

Time and Tide by Weare and Tyne

Tom Jones

Tottel's Miscellany

Tourneur, Cyril

Traitor, The

Traveller, The

Travels, Mandeville's

Travels with a Donkey

Treasure Island

Treatise of Human Nature

Trelawny, Edward

Trench, Herbert

Trick to Catch the Old One

Tristram and Iseule

Tristram of Lioness

Tristram Shandy

Troilus and Criseyde

Trollope, Anthony suggested readings in.

Twelfth Night

Twentieth-century literature
dramatists
essayists
novelists
poets
references on
suggested readings and questions
summary
trend of contemporary literature

Two Voices, The

Tyndale, William
suggested readings in

Tyndall, John
quoted

Udall, Nicholas

Ulysses

Underwoods

Unfortunate Traveler

Unities, dramatic

"University wits"

Unto this Last

Urn Burial

Utopia

Vanbrugh, John

Vanity Fair

Vanity of Human Wishes

Vaughan, Henry

Venus and Adonis

Vercelli Book

Vicar of Wakefield

Vice, in old plays

Victorian age
essayists
history of
novelists
poets
references on
scientific writers
short stories
suggested readings and questions
summary

Vignettes in Rhyme

Virginians

Vision of Judgement

Volpone

Voltaire

Vox Clamantis

Vulgar Errors

Wace

Wagner, Richard

Wallace, Professor C.W. quoted

Waller, Edmund

Walpole, Horace suggested readings in

Walpole, Herbert

Walton, Izaak

Wanderer, The

Warburton, William

Ward, Mrs. Humphry

Ward, Mrs. Wilfrid

Ward, Wilfrid

Warner, William

Warren, J.B.L. (Lord de Tabley)

War of the Roses

Warton, Thomas

Watson, William suggested readings in

Watts, Isaac

Waits-Dunton, Theodore

Waverly

Way of the World

Webster, John

War of Hermiston

Wells, Herbert George references on suggested readings in

Wesley, Charles

Wesley, John

Westward Ho

What Every Woman Knows

White Devil, The

White, Gilbert

Whitefield, George

Widecombe Fair

Widsið

Wilde, Oscar

Wilson, John

Winter's Tale

Witch of Atlas

Wither, George

Woman Killed with Kindness, A

Woodlanders, The

Woodstock

Wordsworth, William
general characteristics of
incidental references to
life of
poet of child life
poet of man
poet of nature
quoted
references on
suggested readings in
works of

World, The

Wotton, Sir Henry, quoted

Wounds of Civil War

Wright

Wuthering Heights

Wyatt, Sir Thomas suggested readings in

Wycherley, William

Wycliffe, John

Yeats, William Butler references on suggested reading in

York plays

Young, Edward

Youth of the Year

Zangwill, Israel suggested readings in