A history of English literature - Edward Albert

GENERAL INDEX

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

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

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

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

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