E
- Earle, John, [140], [269]
- Earth and Animated Nature, The History of, [297]
- Earthly Paradise, The, [470], [507]
- Eastward Hoel, [127]
- Ecclesiastical Polity, The Laws of, [139], [152–153]
- Eclogue, the, [69], [91]
- Edgeworth, Maria, [421]
- Edinburgh Review, The, [365], [383], [432], [433], [497], [558]
- Education, Of (Milton), [163]
- Education of Nature, The, [374–375]
- Edward the First, [105]
- Edward II, [109]
- Edward III, [116]
- Edwin Drood, The Mystery of, [475]
- Egoist, The, [483]
- Elegy written in a Country Churchyard, [298]
- Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog, [295], [573–574]
- Elene, [3], [7]
- Elia, The Essays of, [427], [444–445]
- Eliot, George (Mary Ann Evans), [488], [508], [533]
- Elliott, Ebenezer, [363], [407]
- Elyot, Sir Thomas, [70]
- Emilia in England (Sandra Belloni), [483]
- Emma, [419]
- Empedocles on Etna, [467]
- Empress of Morocco, The, [207]
- Encyclopædia Britannica, The, [497]
- Endimion and Phœbe, [144]
- Endymion (Keats), [397]
- Endymion (Lyly), [105]
- England, A History of (Froude), [503]
- England, The History of (Goldsmith), [297]
- England, A Constitutional History of (Hallam), [436]
- England, The History of (Hume), [328], [341], [350–351]
- England, The History of (Macaulay), [498], [513]
- England’s Helicon, [104]
- England’s Heroical Epistles, [100], [144]
- English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, [383]
- English Comic Writers, The, [432]
- English Humourists, The, [480]
- English in Ireland, The, [503]
- English Mail-coach, The, [429]
- English Rogue, The, [338]
- English Traveller, The, [129]
- Englishman, The, [247]
- Enoch Arden, [457]
- Entail, The, [422]
- Eöthen, [504]
- Epic, the, [11], [179]
- Epic of Women, The, [472]
- Epicene, or The Silent Women, [124], [149]
- Epipsychidion, [392]
- Epistle to Arbuthnot, [259], [274–275]
- Epistle to Curio, [303]
- Epitaph on the Countess of Pembroke, [125]
- Epitaph on a Hare, [301]
- Epithalamion, [92], [179]
- Erectheus, [472]
- Erewhon, [492]
- Essay, the, [145], [268], [344], [438], [508]
- Essay on Clive, [497], [498–499]
- Essay on Criticism, An, [255], [261]
- Essay of Dramatic Poesie, The, [201], [269]
- Essay concerning Human Understanding, An, [219–221], [268]
- Essay on Johnson, [360]
- Essay on Man, An, [253], [260]
- Essay on Mind, An, [466]
- Essay on Poetry, An, [211]
- Essays, Bacon’s, [135]
- Essays, Cowley’s, [169]
- Essays in Criticism, [468]
- Essays of Elia, The, [427], [444–445]
- Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary, [328]
- Esther Waters, [537]
- Etheredge, George, [204]
- Eugene Aram, The Dream of, [409]
- Euphranor, [468]
- Euphues, the Anatomy of Wit, [138], [146], [337], [340]
- Euphues and his England, [138–139], [154], [563–564]
- Euphuism, [138], [147]
- Evan Harrington, [483]
- Evans, Mary Ann (George Eliot), [488]
- Eve of St. Agnes, The, [398], [401], [437], [446], [569]
- Eve of St. John, The, [412]
- Eve of St. Mark, The, [399–400]
- Evelina, [325], [354]
- Evelyn, John, [213], [219]
- Evening Walk, The, [368]
- Every Man in his Humour, [124]
- Every Man out of his Humour, [124]
- Everyman, [74–75]
- Evidences of Christianity, A View of the, [333]
- Examiner, The (Hunt), [365], [406]
- Examiner, The (Tory periodical), [240], [268], [279]
- Example of Virtue, The, [65]
- Excursion, The, [369], [370], [371]
- Exeter Book, the, [3], [6], [7]
- Exodus (Middle English poem), [20]
- Expedition of Humphrey Clinker, The, [321]
- Expostulation and Reply, [368]
F
- Fables (Dryden), [222–223]
- Fables for the Holy Alliance, [405]
- Fabliau, the, [49]
- Faerie Queene, The, [48], [91], [93], [98], [155–156]
- Fair Maid of Perth, The, [415]
- Fair Penitent, The, [207]
- Faithful Shepherdess, The, [127], [145]
- Falcon, The, [458]
- Falkland, [425]
- Falls of Princes, The, [64]
- Famous Chronicle of Edward the First, The, [105]
- Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth, The, [77]
- Fancies Chaste and Noble, [174]
- Far from the Madding Crowd, [523]
- Farquhar, George, [205], [215], [225–226]
- Fates of the Apostles, The, [7]
- Fazio, [435]
- Felix Holt, [488]
- Felltham, Owen, [181], [184]
- Ferdinand, Count Fathom, [321], [360]
- Fergusson, Robert, [315], [345]
- Ferishtah’s Fancies, [463]
- Ferrex and Porrex (Gorboduc), [77], [98]
- Fielding, Henry, [317], [336], [338], [340], [346], [354–355], [479], [480], [481], [557]
- Fifine at the Fair, [463]
- Fight at Finnesburgh, The, [6], [11]
- Fingal, [313]
- Finnesburgh, The Fight at, [6], [11]
- First Men in the Moon, The, [533]
- Fisher, John, [67], [70], [80]
- Fitton, Mary, [112]
- Fitzboodle Papers, The, [479]
- Fitzgerald, Edward, [468]
- Flaming Heart, The, [171]
- Flecker, J. E., [569–570]
- Fletcher, Giles, [101]
- Fletcher, John, [126], [397]
- Fletcher, Phineas, [101]
- Flower and the Leaf, The, [36]
- Flowers of Passion, [536]
- Food of the Gods, The, [532]
- Force of Religion, The, [262]
- Ford, Emanuel, [339]
- Ford, John, [174], [180]
- Forest Minstrel, The, [407]
- Foresters, The, [458]
- Forsyte Saga, The, [547]
- Fortescue, Sir John, [70]
- Fortnightly Review, The, [482]
- Fortunes of Glencore, The, [423]
- Fortunes of Nigel, The, [205], [415]
- Forty New Pieces (W. H. Davies), [552]
- Foul Play, [486]
- Four Georges, The, [480]
- Four Hymns (Spenser), [92]
- Four P’s, The, [76]
- Fra Lippo Lippi, [512]
- Framley Parsonage, [487]
- Francis, Sir Philip, [343]
- Fraser’s Magazine, [478], [479], [494], [500], [503]
- Frederick II, The Life of, [494]
- Free verse, [560]
- Freeman, Edward A., [504], [509]
- French Revolution, the, and English literature, [283], [330], [362], [366], [452]
- French Revolution, The, [494], [513]
- French Revolution, Reflections on the, [331], [332], [345]
- Friar of Orders Grey, The, [335]
- Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay, [106]
- Friend, The, [380]
- Froissart, [70]
- Frost at Midnight, [378], [379]
- Froude, James Anthony, [503]
- Fudge Family in Paris, The, [405]
- Fuller, Thomas, [178], [180], [181], [427]
- Funeral, The, [247]
- Funeral Sermon on Henry VII (Fisher), [80]
G
- Galsworthy, John, [547], [556], [568–569]
- Galt, John, [421]
- Game and Playe of Chesse, The, [66]
- Gammer Gurton’s Needle, [78]
- Garden of Cyrus, The, [175]
- Garden Fancies, [465]
- Gardiner, Samuel, [509]
- Garlande of Laurell, The, [63]
- Garment of Gude Ladies, The, [60]
- Garrick, David, [289]
- Garth, Sir Samuel, [263]
- Gascoigne, George, [99], [144], [151]
- Gawain and the Green Knight, Sir, [21], [25], [337]
- Gay, John, [262], [275]
- Gebir, [403]
- Genesis (Middle English poem), [20]
- Gentle Shepherd, The, [266]
- Gentleman Dancing Master, The, [204]
- Gentleman’s Magazine, The, [289], [438]
- Germany, the influence of, on English literature, [365], [454]
- Gertrude of Wyoming, [405]
- Ghost, The, [305]
- Giaour, The, [384]
- Gibbon, Edward, [272], [325], [341], [347], [348], [359], [436], [564]
- Gil Blas, [338]
- Gil Morrice, [48]
- Gipsy, The, [423]
- Gissing, George, [536], [556]
- Gladstone, The Life of, [550]
- Glove, The, [464]
- Goblin Market, [470]
- God’s Promises, [85]
- Godric, [24]
- Godwin, William, [333], [345], [390]
- Golden Butterfly, The, [490]
- Golden Journey to Samarkand, The, [569–570]
- Golden Targe, The, [61], [70]
- Golden Wings, [514]
- Goldsmith, Oliver, [248], [286], [293], [335], [340], [344], [345], [347], [356], [491], [558], [573–574]
- Gondibert, [179]
- Good Thoughts in Bad Times, [178]
- Good-natured Man, The, [295]
- Gorboduc, [77], [98]
- Gosson, Stephen, [90]
- Governance of England, The, [70]
- Governour, The Boke named the, [70]
- Gower, John, [43], [48], [50], [53]
- Grace Abounding, [209], [210]
- Grahame, Kenneth, [556]
- Grave, The, [305]
- Graves of a Household, The, [408]
- Gray, Thomas, [188], [297], [334], [335], [342], [345], [365], [468]
- Gray-beards at Play, [549]
- Great Expectations, [475]
- Great God Pan, The, [467]
- Great Hoggarty Diamond, The, [479]
- Great Rebellion, The History of the, [176], [341]
- Grecian Urn, Ode on a, [401], [402]
- Greece, The History of, [435]
- Green, John Richard, [504]
- Green grow the Rashes, O!, [311]
- Greene, Robert, [106], [111], [142]
- Gregory I, Pope, [8]
- Gregory, Lady, [519]
- Greville, Fulke, Lord Brooke, [144]
- Griffith Gaunt, [486]
- Groatsworth of Wit bought with a Million of Repentance, A, [111], [142–143]
- Grote, George, [435]
- Grub Street, [235], [249], [286], [287], [294]
- Grub Street, [536]
- Guardian, The (Steele’s), [244], [247]
- Gulliver’s Travels, [240], [277], [425]
- Guy Mannering, [415], [417]
- Guy and Pauline, [539]
- Guy of Warwick, [22]
H
- Hail and Farewell, [537]
- Hakluyt, Richard, [88]
- Halbert and Hob, [571]
- Hales, John, [181]
- Halifax, Lord, [211], [219]
- Hall, Joseph, [141], [144], [163], [269]
- Hallam, Henry, [436]
- Hamlet, [116], [117], [118], [121]
- Hampole, the Hermit, of, [16], [21]
- Hand of Ethelberta, The, [523]
- Handfull of Pleasant Delites, A, [104]
- Handlyng Synne, [19], [30–31]
- Hankin, St. John, [559]
- Hard Cash, [486]
- Hard Times, [475]
- Hardy, Thomas, [453], [520], [536], [538], [539], [556], [559], [560], [561], [571]
- Hare, Epitaph on a, [301]
- Harmony of the Church, The, [100], [144]
- Harold (Lytton), [426]
- Harold (Tennyson), [458]
- Harrington, [421]
- Harrowing of Hell, The, [7]
- Harry Lorrequer, [423]
- Hastings, The Battle of, [314]
- Havelock the Dane, [22], [24], [30]
- Hawes, Stephen, [65]
- Hazlitt, William, [365], [431], [438], [440], [508]
- Head, Richard, [338]
- Heart of Midlothian, The, [415]
- Heartbreak House, [542]
- Heaven, [554–555]
- Hecatompathia, [144]
- Hemans, Felicia, [363], [408]
- Hendyng, The Proverbs of, [20], [25]
- Henrietta Temple, [425]
- Henry IV (Parts 1 and 2), [116], [117]
- Henry the Fifth, The Famous Victories of, [77]
- Henry V, [116], [122]
- Henry VI (Parts 1, 2, and 3), [116]
- Henry VIII, [107], [117]
- Henry Esmond, [479], [481–482]
- Henryson, Robert, [59], [79]
- Herbert, George, [170]
- Hereward the Wake, [489]
- Hermit, The (Goldsmith), [295], [335]
- Hermit, The (Parnell), [265]
- Hero and Leander, [144]
- Heroes, The, [490]
- Heroes and Hero-worship, [494]
- Heroic couplet, the, [183], [216], [284], [334], [335]
- Heroic play, the, [199], [215]
- Heroic Stanzas (Dryden), [194]
- Herrick, Robert, [170], [180], [222]
- Hesperides, The, [170]
- Hewlett, Maurice, [556]
- Heywood, John, [76]
- Heywood, Thomas, [128]
- Higden, Ranulf, [49]
- Hilda Lessways, [538]
- Hind and the Panther, The, [197], [217], [261]
- Historical plays, early, [77];
- research, growth of, [285];
- works, [181], [340], [509]
- Historie of Horestes, The, [77]
- Historie of James the Fourth, The Scottish, [107]
- History of America, The, [328]
- History of Brazil, The, [403]
- History of Charles V, The, [328]
- History of the Crimean War, The, [504]
- History of Earth and Animated Nature, The, [297]
- History of England, The (Froude), [503]
- History of England, The (Goldsmith), [297]
- History of England, A Constitutional (Hallam), [436]
- History of England, The (Hume), [328], [341], [350–351]
- History of England, The (Macaulay), [498], [513]
- History of the English People, A Short, [504]
- History of the Great Rebellion, The, [176], [341]
- History of Greece, The, [435]
- History of the Holy War, The (Fuller), [178]
- History of the Jews, The, [435]
- History of John Bull, The, [251]
- History of Latin Christianity, The, [435]
- History of Mr. Polly, The, [532]
- History of the Norman Conquest, The, [504]
- History of his own Times, The, [221]
- History of the Renaissance, Studies in the, [502]
- History of Richard III, The, [69]
- History of Samuel Titmarsh, The, [478]
- History of Scotland, The (Robertson), [328]
- History of Switzerland, A, [326]
- History of the World, A, [341]
- Hobbes, Thomas, [177], [181], [183], [218]
- Hoccleve, Thomas, [64]
- Hodgson, Ralph, [559]
- Hogg, James, [407], [558]
- Holly-tree, The, [403]
- Holy Dying, [178]
- Holy Fair, The, [308]
- Holy Living, [178]
- Holy Sonnetts, [103]
- Holy War, The, [209]
- Holy War, The History of the (Fuller), [178]
- Holy Willie’s Prayer, [310–311]
- Home, John, [336]
- Home Thoughts from Abroad, [462–463]
- Homer (Chapman), [127], [142]
- Hood, Thomas, [263], [408]
- Hooker, Richard, [139], [147], [152–153]
- Horæ Paulinæ, [333]
- Horn, [22], [24]
- Hound of Heaven, The, [551]
- Hours of Idleness, [383]
- Hous of Fame, The, [35], [39–40]
- House of the Wolfings, The, [471]
- Household Words, [474], [475]
- How He lied to her Husband, [543]
- How they Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix, [464]
- Howard, Henry, Earl of Surrey, [96], [143], [150], [151]
- Howell, James, [181], [184]
- Hudibras, [208], [215], [237], [261]
- Hueffer, Ford Madox, [528]
- Human Knowledge, The Principles of, [252]
- Human Nature, Treatise on, [328]
- Human Understanding, An Essay concerning, [219–220], [268], [269]
- Hume, David, [328], [341], [350–351]
- Humphrey Clinker, The Expedition of, [321]
- Hunt, Leigh, [363], [365], [396], [397], [406], [445]
- Husband’s Message, The, [6]
- Huxley, Thomas Henry, [505]
- Hyde, Edward, Earl of Clarendon, [176], [181], [218], [221], [341], [501]
- Hydriotaphia, or Urne Buriall, [175], [181]
- Hylas and Philonous, Dialogues of, [252]
- Hymen’s Triumph, [104]
- Hymns, Latin, influence of, on the lyric, [26]
- Hypatia, [489]
- Hyperion, [399]
I
- Ibsen, Henrik, [519], [540], [541]
- Idea of a Patriot King, The, [252–253]
- Idiot Boy, The, [368]
- Idler, The (periodical), [289], [344]
- Idylls of the King, The, [457], [458]
- Iliad (Pope), [256]
- Imaginary Conversations, [404]
- Imaginary Portraits, [502]
- Imitation of Spenser, [397]
- Importance of being Earnest, The, [547]
- Impressions of Theophrastus Such, The, [488]
- In the Cemetery, [522]
- In Memoriam, [453], [456], [459]
- Inchcape Rock, The, [403]
- Indian Emperor, The, [199]
- Induction, The, [98], [144]
- Infernal Marriage, The, [425]
- Inheritors, The, [528]
- Inland Voyage, An, [491]
- Inn Album, The, [463]
- Interludes, [76]
- Intimations of Immortality, [373], [374]
- Introduction to the Literature of Europe, An, [436]
- Invisible Man, The, [532]
- Irene, [289], [335]
- Irish Melodies, [404]
- Irrational Knot, The, [540]
- Irving, Sir Henry, [458]
- Isabella, [398], [401]
- Island of Dr. Moreau, The, [533]
- Isle of Palms, The, [434]
- Isles of Greece, The, [388]
- It’s Never too Late to Mend, [486]
- Italy, [406]
- Ivanhoe, [415], [480]
- Ixion in Heaven, [425]