History of English Literature from "Beowulf" to Swinburne

by Andrew Lang

Index [665]

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[LIST OF AUTHORS.]

Adamnan, Abbot (c. 625-704), [25].
Addison, Joseph (1672-1719), [399]-[407].
Ælfric (c. 955-1020), [33].
Ailred (c. 1109-1166), [36].
Ainsworth, William Harrison (1805-1882), [610].
Alcuin (735-804), [26].
Aldhelm, Bp. (c. 640—709), [25].
Alexander, Sir William, Earl of Stirling (c. 1567-1640), [441].
Alfred, King (849-901), [26]-8.
Andrewes, Lancelot (1555-1626), [282].
Arbuthnot, John (1667-1735), [420].
Arnold, Matthew (1822-1888), [586]-90.
Ascham, Roger (1515-1568), [175], [176].
Asser, Bp. (fl. c. 900), [27].
Atterbury, Francis (1662-1732), [420].
Austen, Jane (1775-1817), [536]-40.
Ayton, Sir Robert (1570-1638), [441].
Aytoun, William Edmonstoune, (1813-1865), [206].
Bacon, Francis (1561-1626), [265], [270]-8.
Baillie, Lady Grizel (1665-1746), [445].
Bale, John (1495-1563) [158], [159].
Bannatyne, George (1545-1608), [445].
Barbour, John (c. 1316-1396), [130]-2.
Barclay, Alexander (c. 1475-1552), [152].
Barnfield, Richard (1574-1627), [289].
Barrow, Isaac (1630-1677), [317].
Baxter, Richard (1615-1691), [317].
Beattie, James (1735-1803), [447].
Beaumont, Francis (1584-1616), [242]-7.
Beaumont, Sir John (1582-1628), [300]-1.
Beckford, William (1759-1844), [530].
Beddoes, Thomas Lovell (1803-1849), [607].
Bede (673-735), [23]-[26], [42], [43].
Behn, Mrs. Aphra (1640-1689), [361], [458].
Bentley, Richard (1662-1742), [420].
Berkeley, George (1685-1753), [420], [421].
Berners, Lord (1467-1533), [122].
Besant, Sir Walter (1836-1901), [642].
Black, William (1841-1898), [642].
Blackwood, William (1776-1834), [548].
Blair, Robert (1699-1746), [432].
Borrow, George (1803-1881), [632].
Boswell, James (1740-1795), [460], [471].
Bowles, William Lisle (1762-1850), [499].
Braddon, Mary Elizabeth (1837- ), [635].
Brome, Richard (fl. c. 1623-1652),.
Brontë, Anne (1820-1849), [623].
Brontë, Charlotte (1816-1855), [623]-5.
Brontë, Emily (1818-1848), [623]-5.
Broome, William (1689-1745), [384].
Brougham, Henry, Lord Brougham (1778-1868), [547].
Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810), [536].
Browne, Sir Thomas (1605-1682), [306]-9.
Browne, William (c. 1591-1643), [301], [302].
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861), [596], [597].
Browning, Robert (1812-1889), [573]-6.
Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878), [562].
Bunyan, John (1628-1688), [322]-[324].
Burke, Edmund (1729-1797), [478]-82.
Burnet, Gilbert (1643-1715), [442].
Burnett, James, Lord Monboddo (1714-1799), [447].
Burney, Charles (1726-1814), [531].
Burney, Frances (1752-1840), [530]-2.
Burns, Robert (1759-1796), [447]-[450].
Burton, Robert (1577-1640), [303]-5.
Butler, Samuel (1612-1680), [355]-7.
Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824), [519]-25.
Cædmon (fl. c. 670), [16]-[18].
Campbell, Thomas (1777-1844), [606].
Campion, Thomas (fl. 1581-1619), [290].
Canning, George (1770-1827), [548].
Capgrave, John (1393-1464), [122].
Carew, Richard (1555-1620), [281].
Carew, Thomas (c. 1598-1639), [335], [336].
Carlyle, Alexander (1722-1805), [444].
Carlyle, Thomas (1795-1881), [648]-51.
Cartwright, William (1611-1643), [264], [339].
Caxton, William (c. 1422-1491), [47], [124], [125].
Chambers, Robert (1802-1871), [611].
Chapman, George (c. 1559-1634), [247]-50, [281].
Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770), [434]-6.
Chaucer, Geoffrey (c. 1340-1400), [78]-[98], [117], [118].
Chillingworth, William (1602-1644), [137].
Churchill, Charles (1731-1764), [451].
Churchyard, Thomas (c. 1520-1604), [166].
Cibber, Colley (1671-1757), [365], [385], [399].
Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of (1607-1674), [325]-7.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834), [498]-[502].
Collins, Wilkie (1824-1889), [633].
Collins, William (1721-1759), [426], [427].
Colman, George (1762-1836), [492].
Congreve, William (1670-1729), [363]-5.
Constable, Henry (c. 1560-1613), [289].
Cooper, Anthony Ashley, Earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713), [420], [443].
Cooper, James Fenimore (1789-1851), [544], [545].
Corbet, Richard (1582-1635), [300].
Cotton, Charles (1630-1687), [343].
Coverdale, Miles (1488-1568), [174].
Cowley, Abraham (1618-1667), [341], [342].
Cowper, William (1731-1800), [436]-40.
Crabbe, George (1754-1832), [452]-7.
Cranmer, Thomas (1489-1556) [174].
Crashaw, Richard (c. 1613-1649), [59], [328], [329].
Creighton, Mandell (1843-1901), [654].
Cross, Mary Ann: "George Eliot" (1819-1880), [637], [638].
Cudworth, Ralph (1617-1688), [317], [419].
Cynewulf (fl. c. 750), [18], [19].
Dalrymple, Sir David, Lord Hailes (1726-1792), [447].
Daniel, Samuel (1562-1619), [283], [294]-6.
D'Arblay, Madame, see Frances Burney.
Darwin, Charles (1809-1882), [661], [662].
Davenant, Sir William (1606-1668), [264], [340], [341], [359].
Davies, Sir John (1569-1626), [296], [297].
Day, Thomas (1748-1789), [534].
De Foe, Daniel (1661-1731), [415]-9.
Dekker, Thomas (c. 1570-1641), [235], [251], [253].
De la Ramée, Louise (1840-1908), [634].
Denham, Sir John (1615-1669) [342].
De Quincey, Thomas (1785-1859), [557]-9.
Dickens, Charles (1812-1870), [612]-6.
Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield (1804-1881), [610].
Donne, John (1573-1631), [282], [283], [284]-8.
Douglas, Gawain (c. 1473-1522), [143], [144].
Drayton, Michael (1563-1631), [283], [291]-3.
Drummond, William, of Hawthornden (1585-1649), [239], [441].
Dryden, John (1631-1700), [359], [360], [361], [373]-80.
Dunbar, William (c. 1460-1520), [138]-40.
D'Urfey, Thomas (1653-1723), [483].
Dyer, John (c. 1700-1758), [432].
Edgeworth, Maria (1767-1849), [534]-6.
Edwards, Jonathan (1629-1712), [561].
Edwards, Richard (c.1523-1566), [162].
Eliot, George, see Mary Ann Cross.
Elliot, Jean (1727-1805), [445].
Elyot, Sir Thomas (c. 1499-1546), [173], [174].
Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882), [579]-82.
Etherege, Sir George (c. 1635-1691), [358], [361].
Evelyn, John (1620-1706), [327].
Fairfax, Edward (fl. c. 1600), [281].
Farquhar, George (1678-1707), [368], [369].
Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730), [384].
Ferguson, Rev. Adam (1723-1816), [446].
Fergusson, Robert (1750-1774), [446], [449].
Ferrier, Susan (1782-1854), [609].
Fielding, Henry (1707-1754), [461]-7.
FitzGerald, Edward (1809-1883), [594]-5.
Fitzneale, Richard (fl. 1169-1198), [38].
Fletcher, Giles (c. 1549-1611), [297].
Fletcher, John (1579-1625), [242]-7.
Fletcher, Phineas (c. 1582-1650), [283], [297]-[300].
Florence of Worcester (d. 1118), [36].
Florio, John (c. 1553-1625), [281].
Forbes, Bishop Robert (1708-1775), [645].
Ford, John (fl. c.. 1613-1633), [261]-3.
Fordun, John (d. c. 1384), [133].
Forster, John (1812-1876), [574].
Fox, George (1624-1690), [325].
Francis, Sir Philip (1740-1818), [496].
Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790), [561].
Freeman, E. A. (1823-1892), [653]-4.
Freneau, Philip (1752-1832), [560]-[562].
Froude, James Anthony (1818-1894), [651]-3.
Froude, Richard Hurrell (1803-1836), [652].
Fuller, Thomas (1608-1661), [317]-8.
Galt, John (1779-1839), [455], [609].
Gardiner, Samuel Rawson (1829-1902), [312], [647], [653].
Gascoigne, George (c. 1525-1577), [162], [167]-9.
Gaskell, Elizabeth (1810-1865), [641].
Gay, John (1685-1732), [388]-[390].
Geoffrey of Monmouth (c. 1100-1155), [36], [42]-7.
Gerald of Wales (c. 1147-1217), [38], [39].
Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794), [490]-4.
Gildas (c. 516-570), [23], [43].
Giraldus Cambrensis, see Gerald of Wales.
Glanvill, Joseph (1636-1680), [317], [372], [419].
Godric, St. (c. 1065-1170), [34].
Golding, Arthur (c. 1536-1605), [166], [281].
Goldsmith, Oliver (1728-1774), [474]-8.
Googe, Barnabe (1540-1594), [166].
Gosson, Stephen (1554-1624), [180], [201].
Gower, John (c. 1325-1408), [106]-9.
Gray, Thomas (1716-1771), [428]-[430].
Green, J. R. (1837-1883), [654].
Green, Matthew (1696-1737), [432].
Greene, Robert (c. 1560-1592), [194], [198]-[200].
Griffin, B. (fl. 1596), [289].
Grimald, Nicholas (1519-1562), [166].
Grote, George (1794-1871), [659].
Gwynne, Talbot (fl. c. 1862-1865), [641].
Habington, William (1605-1654), [339].
Hales, John (1584-1656), [317].
Hall, Joseph (1574-1656), [282], [310].
Hallam, Henry (1777-1859), [643]-5.
Hamilton, William, of Bangour (1704-1754), [445].
Hamilton, William, of Gilbertfield (c. 1665-1751), [445].
Harington, Sir John (1561-1612), [281].
Harry, Blind (fl. c. 1480-1492), [140]-2.
Harvey, Gabriel (c. 1545-1630), [176], [184].
Hawes, Stephen (c. 1475-1523), [113], [114].
Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864), [625]-8.
Haywood, Eliza (c. 1693-1756), [458].
Hazlitt, William (1778-1830), [555]-7.
Henley, W. E. (1849-1903), [641].
Henry of Huntingdon (fl. 1125-1154), [38].
Henry son, Robert (fl. c. 1462), [135]-8.
Herbert, Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury (1583-1648), [305], [306].
Herbert, George (1593-1633), [330], [331].
Herrick, Robert (1591-1674), [334], [335].
Heywood, John (c. 1497-1580), [157], [158].
Heywood, Thomas (fl. c. 1596-1650), [256], [257].
Higden, Ranulf (d. 1364), [118].
Hobbes, Thomas (1588-1679), [318]-21.
Hogg, James (1770-1835), [612].
Holland, Philemon (1552-1637), [281].
Holland, Sir Richard (fl. c. 1450), [142].
Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809-1894), [628], [629].
Home, Henry, Lord Kames (1696-1782), [446].
Home, John (1722-1808), [381], [427], [446].
Hood, Thomas (1799-1845), [607].
Hook, Theodore (1788-1841), [613].
Hooker, Richard (c. 1553-1600), [265], [266]-70.
Horner, Francis (1778-1817), [547].
Howard, Henry, Earl of Surrey (c. 1517-1547), [163], [165], [166].
Howell, James (1594-1666), [327].
Huchown (fl. 1342-1377), [75].
Hume, David (1711-1776), [488]-[490].
Hunt, James Henry Leigh (1784-1859), [553]-5.
Hutcheson, Francis (1694-1746), [444].
Huxley, T. H. (1825-1895), [661], [662].
Irving, Washington (1783-1859), [546], [547].
James I of Scotland (1394-1437), [133]-
James, G. P. R. (1799-1860), [610].
Jeffrey, Francis (1773-1850), [547].
Jocelin de Brakelond (fl. 1173-1202), [38].
Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784), [381], [471]-4.
Jonson, Ben (<c. 1573-1637), [233]-41.
"Junius" (fl. 1768-1773), [496].
Keats, John (1795-1821), [525]-7.
Kingsley, Charles (1819-1875), [629]-31.
Kingsley, Henry (1830-1876), [631].
Kirke, Edward (1553-1613), [184].
Knox, John (c. 1505-1572), [146].
Kyd, Thomas (c. 1558-1594), [208], [209].
Lamb, Charles (1775-1834), [550]-3.
Landor, Walter Savage (1775-1864), [527]-9.
Langland, William (c. 1332-1400), [99]-[106].
Lawrence, G. A. (1827-1876), [634].
Layamon (fl. c. 1200-1220), [48]-[51].
Lecky, W. E. H. (1838-1903), [662]-4.
Leighton, Robert (1611-1684), [442].
Leslie of Ross, Bishop (1527-1596), [148].
Lever, Charles (1806-1872), [610], [611].
Lingard, John (1772-1851), [643].
Locke, John (1632-1704), [419].
Lockhart, George, of Carnwath
Lockhart, John Gibson (1794-1854), [548], [549], [612].
Lodge, Thomas (c. 1558-1625), [200], [201], [202].
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882), [565]-8.
Lovelace, Richard (1618-1658), [336], [337].
Lowell, James Russell (1819-1891), [582]-6.
Lydgate, John (c. 1370-1446), [110]-11, [169].
Lyly, John (c. 1554-1606), [177], [178], [195], [196].
Lyndsay, Sir David (1490-1555), [144]-6.
Lytton, Edward George Bulwer (1803-1873), [611].
Macaulay, Thomas Babington (1800-1859), [645]-8.
Mackenzie, Sir George (1636-1691), [184], [442]-3.
Macpherson, James (1736-1796), [483].
Malory, Sir Thomas (c. 1400-1471), [42], [61], [124]-8.
Mandeville, Sir John (fl. c. 1322-1357), [118]-20.
Map, Walter (c. 1137-1200), [39]-[40].
Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593) [204]-8.
Marryat, Capt. Frederick (1792-1848), [612].
Marston, John (c. 1575-1634), [235], [250], [251].
Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678), [345]-7.
Massinger, Philip (1583-1640), [243], [259]-61.
Mather, Cotton (1663-1728), [561].
Mayne, Jasper (1604-1672), [264].
Meredith, George (1828-1909), [595], [596], [634]-6.
Meres, Francis (1565-1647), [220], [222], [233].
Middleton, Thomas (c. 1570-1627), [253]-5.
Mill, James (1773-1836), [659].
Mill, John Stuart (1806-1873), [659].
Milman, Henry Hart (1791-1868), [659].
Milton, John (1608-1674), [309]-[312], [347]-55.
Minot, Laurence (c. 1300-1352), [59], [142].
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley (1689-1762), [495].
Montgomery, Alexander (c. 1556-1610), [440].
Montgomery, Robert (1807-1855), [424].
Moore, Thomas (1779-1852), [606], [607].
More, Henry (1614-1687), [317], [372].
More, Sir Thomas (1478-1535), [173].
Morris, William (1834-1896), [42], [599]-[601].
Nairne, Carolina, Lady (1766-1845), [446].
Napier, Sir William (1785-1860), [658].
Nash, Thomas (1567-1601), [203], [204].
Nennius (c. 800), [23], [43].
Newman, John Henry, Cardinal (1801-1890), [631], [652], [659]-[662].
Nicholas of Guildford (fl. 1250), [54].
Nicolls, Thomas (fl. 1550), [280].
North, Christopher, see John Wilson.
North, Roger (1653-1733), [327].
North, Sir Thomas (c. 1535-1601), [229], [281].
Occleve, Thomas (c. 1368-1450), [111]-13.
Oliphant, May Margaret Wilson, (1828-1897), [633].
Ormin (c. 1200), [52].
Otway, Thomas (1652-1685), [359], [369]-71.
Ouida, see De la Ramée.
Overbury, Sir Thomas (1581-1613), [279], [280].
Painter, William (c. 1540-1594), [281].
Palgrave, Sir Francis (1788-1861), [643].
Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718), [392].
Pater, Walter Horatio (1839-1894), [592], [593].
Payn, James (1830-1898), [634].
Peacock, Thomas Love (1785-1866), [632].
Pecock, Reginald (c. 1395-1460), [120]-2.
Peele, George (c. 1558-1598), [193], [196]-8.
Pepys, Samuel (1633-1703), [327].
Percy, Thomas (1729-1811), [150], [483].
Phaer, Thomas (c. 1510-1560), [166], [281].
Philips, Ambrose (1675-1749), [390]-1.
Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849), [576]-9.
Pope, Alexander (1688-1744), [382]-6.
Praed, Winthrop Mackworth (1802-1839), [608].
Prescott, William Hickling (1796-1859), [654]-7.
Prior, Matthew (1664-1721), [386]-8.
Prynne, William (1600-1669) [262], [263].
Radcliff, Ann (1764-1822), [485], [522], [532]-4.
Raleigh, Sir Walter (c. 1552-1618), [265], [278]-9.
Ramsay, Allan (1686-1758), [445].
Randolph, Thomas (1605-1635), [264].
Reade, Charles (1814-1884), [641]-2.
Reeve, Clara (1729-1807), [530].
Reynolds, John Hamilton (1796-1852), [525].
Rich, Barnaby (c. 1540-1620), [201], [280].
Richard, Prior of Hexham (fl. 1138-1154), [36].
Richardson, Samuel (1689-1761), [458]-61.
Ritson, Joseph (1752-1803), [483].
Robert of Gloucester (fl. c. 1260-1300), [41], [56].
Robertson, William (1721-1793), [490].
Robynson, Ralph (fl. c. 1551), [173].
Rogers, Samuel (1763-1855), [606].
Rolle, Richard (c. 1290-1349), [58].
Rossetti, Christina (1830-1894), [597], [598].
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882), [598], [599].
Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718), [381].
Rowley, William (c. 1585-1642), [253], [255].
Ruskin, John (1819-1900), [590]-2.
Sackville, Thomas (1536-1608), [161], [162], [169]-71.
St. John, Henry, Viscount Bolingbroke (1678-1751), [420].
Savile, Sir Henry (1549-1622), [281].
Scott, Alexander (c. 1525-1584), [440].
Scott, John (1783-1821), [548].
Scott, Michael (1789-1835), [612].
Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832), [62], [149], [150], [151], [424], [502]-6, [540]-4.
Sedley, Sir Charles (c. 1639-1701), [361].
Shadwell, Thomas (1642-1692), [361].
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616), [212]-33.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822), [516]-9.
Shenstone, William (1714-1763), [433].
Sherburne, Sir Edward (1618-1702), [343].
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816), [494], [455].
Shirley, James (1596-1666), [263], [264].
Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586), [178]-83.
Simeon of Durham (fl. 1130), [36].
Skelton, John (c. 1460-1529), [151].
Smith, Horace (1779-1849), [548].
Smith, Captain John (1580-1631), [560].
Smith, Sydney (1771-1845), [547].
Smith, William (fl. 1596), [289].
Smollett, Tobias (1721-1771), [467]-70.
South, Robert (1634-1716), [317].
Southerne, Thomas (1660-1746), [380], [381].
Southey, Robert (1774-1843), [513]-6.
Spencer, Herbert (1820-1903), [662].
Spenser, Edmund (c. 1552-1599), [184]-92, [266].
Stanley, Thomas (1625-1678), [343].
Stanyhurst, Richard (1547-1618), [281].
Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729), [394]-9.
Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768), [485]-8.
Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894), [638]-41.
Still, John (1543-1608), [160], [161].
Strachey, William (fl. 1609-1618), [560].
Stubbs, William (1825-1901), [644], [654].
Suckling, Sir John (1609-1642), [264], [338], [339].
Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745), [407]-15.
Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909), [602]-6.
Symonds, John Addington (1840-1893), [592], [593].
Talfourd, Sir T. N. (1795-1854), [574].
Tautphœus, Baroness (1807-1893), [641].
Taylor, Jeremy (1613-1667), [312]-7.
Temple, Sir William (1628-1699), [409], [430].
Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892), [42], [568]-73.
Thackeray, William Makepeace (1811-1863), [616]-22.
Thomas of Ercildoune (d. c. 1299), [62]-4.
Thomson, James (1700-1748), [381], [424]-6.
Tickell, Thomas (1686-1740), [391]-3.
Tourneur, Cyril (c. 1575-1626), [259].
Trevisa, John (c. 1326-1412), [118].
Trollope, Anthony (1815-1882), [636], [637].
Turner, Sharon (1768-1847), [643].
Tusser, Thomas (c. 1524-1580), [166].
Udall, Nicholas (1505-1556), [159], [160].
Urquhart, Sir Thomas (1611-1660), [140], [441].
Ussher, James (1581-1656), [282].
Vanbrugh, Sir John (1666-1726), [365]-8.
Vaughan, Henry (1622-1695), [331]-3.
Villiers, George, second Duke of Buckingham (1627-1688), [358], [359].
Wace (fl. 1170), [46].
Waller, Edmund (1606-1687), [343]-5.
Walpole, Horace (1717-1797), [482]-5.
Walton, Izaac (1593-1683), [321], [322].
Wardlaw, Elizabeth, Lady (1677-1727), [445].
Warton, Joseph (1722-1800), [431], [432].
Warton, Thomas (c. 1688-1745), [431].
Warton, Thomas (1728-1790), [431], [483].
Watson, Thomas (c. 1557-1592), [289].
Webster, John (c. 1580-1625), [257]-9.
Whetstone, George (c. 1544-1587), [166].
Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-1892), [563]-5.
Whyte-Melville, George John (1821-1878), [633], [634].
Wilkie, Prof. William (1721-1772), [490].
William of Malmesbury (c. 1095-1143), [36], [37].
William of Newburgh (1136-1198), [38].
Willoughby, Henry (c. 1574-1596), [289].
Wilson, John (1785-1854), [548], [558], [644].
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CHAPTER I.

ANGLO-SAXON LITERATURE.

The literature of every modern country is made up of many elements, contributed by various races; and has been modified at different times by foreign influences. Thus, among the ancient Celtic inhabitants of our islands, the peoples whom the Romans found here, the Welsh have given us the materials of the famous romances of King Arthur, and from the Gaelic tribes of Ireland and Scotland come the romances of heroes less universally known, Finn, Diarmaid, Cuchulain, and the rest. But the main stock of our earliest poetry and prose, like the main stock of our language, is Anglo-Saxon. The Anglo-Saxon tribes who invaded Britain, and after the departure of the Romans (411) conquered the greater part of the island, must have had a literature of their own, and must have brought it with them over sea.