J
- Jack Hinton, [423]
- Jack Sheppard, [422]
- Jack Wilton, or The Unfortunate Traveller, [107], [146], [338]
- Jacob Faithful, [424]
- Jacobs, W. W., [558]
- Jacqueline, [406]
- James I of Scotland, [58], [81]
- James the Fourth, The Scottish Historie of, [107]
- James, G. P. R., [422], [438]
- Jane Eyre, [453], [485]
- Jane Shore, [207]
- Japhet in Search of a Father, [424]
- Jeffrey, Francis, [432]
- Jehan de Bourgogne, [45]
- Jeronimo, [108]
- Jerrold, Douglas, [558]
- Jew of Malta, The Rich, [109]
- Jews, The History of the, [435]
- Joan of Arc, [403]
- Joan and Peter, [532]
- Job, [264]
- Jocasta, [77], [99]
- Jockey’s Intelligencer, The, [268]
- Jocoseria, [463]
- Johan Johan, [76]
- John of Trevisa, [49], [52]
- John Anderson, my Jo, [308]
- John Bull, The History of, [251]
- John Bull’s Other Island, [542]
- John Gilpin, [301], [335]
- John Woodvil, [427]
- Johnson, Esther, [236]
- Johnson, Samuel, [193], [207], [263], [268], [272], [283], [286], [294], [297], [300], [313], [335], [340], [343], [347], [349–350], [355–356], [356–358], [439], [494], [558], [575]
- Johnson, Life of, [276], [328], [343], [360]
- Johnson, Essay on (Macaulay), [360]
- Johnsonese, [289], [347], [349], [440]
- Jolly Beggars, The, [308]
- Jonathan Wild the Great, [318]
- Jongleurs, [26]
- Jonson, Ben, [110], [123], [149], [172]
- Joseph Andrews, [318]
- Journal of the Plague Year, A, [250], [272], [277]
- Journal to Stella, [240]
- Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, A, [291]
- Journey from this World to the Next, [318]
- Joy, [547]
- Joyfull Medytacyon, A, [65]
- Jude the Obscure, [523]
- Judith, [3]
- Julia, To, [170]
- Julian and Maddalo, [392]
- Juliana, [7]
- Julius Cæsar, [116]
- Jungle Book, The, [538]
- Junian manuscript, the, [3], [7]
- Junius, [286], [343]
- Justice, [547]
- Jutish dialect, the, [3]
K
- Keats, John, [94], [363], [364], [392], [396], [406], [436], [439], [443], [446], [459], [506], [569]
- Kemble, J. M., [7]
- Kenilworth, [415]
- Kennings, in Old English poetry, [5], [12]
- Kentish dialect, the, [3], [16]
- Kidnapped, [492]
- Killigrew, On the Death of Mrs. Anne, [214]
- Kilmeny, [407]
- Kim, [538]
- King Alisaunder, [22]
- King Arthur’s Tomb, [512], [513]
- King Edward the Fourth, [129]
- King Hart, [62]
- King John, [116], [119]
- King Lear, [116], [120], [157]
- King Leir, The Chronicle History of, [77], [118]
- King and No King, A, [127]
- King Stephen, [401]
- King of Tars, The, [25]
- King’s Own, The, [424]
- Kingis Quhair, The, [58], [81]
- Kinglake, Alexander, [503]
- Kingsley, Charles, [489]
- Kipling, Rudyard, [537], [556], [560], [564], [574]
- Kipps, [532], [533]
- Kiss for Cinderella, A, [548]
- Knight of the Burning Pestle, The, [127]
- Knight of Gwynne, The, [423]
- Knight’s Tale, The, [38]
- Knight’s Tomb, The, [378]
- Kubla Khan, [377]
- Kyd, Thomas, [107]
- Kynge Johan, [85]
L
- Lack of Stedfastness, The, [36]
- Lacrymæ Musarum, [551]
- Lady of the Lake, The, [413], [446]
- Lady Montague’s Page, [423]
- Lady of Pleasure, The, [180]
- Lady Windermere’s Fan, [547]
- Lake Isle of Innisfree, The, [555]
- Lalla Rookh, [404]
- Lamb, Charles, [365], [375], [426], [439], [441], [444–445], [558],
- Lament for the Makaris, [60], [61]
- Lamia, [400]
- Land of Heart’s Desire, The, [555]
- Landor, Walter Savage, [403]
- Langland, William, [41], [48], [53–54]
- Langley, William—see [Langland, William]
- Language, Old English, [3]
- Laodicean, A, [523]
- Laon and Cynthia (The Revolt of Islam), [391]
- Lara, [384]
- Last Chronicle of Barset, The, [487]
- Last Day, The, [262]
- Last Days of Pompeii, The, [426]
- Last Poems (E. B. Browning), [467]
- Latimer, Hugh, [68], [81]
- Latin Christianity, The History of, [435]
- Latter-day Pamphlets, [494]
- Lavengro, [490]
- Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, The, [139], [152–153]
- Lay of the Last Minstrel, The, [412]
- Lay Sermons and Addresses, [506]
- Lays of Ancient Rome, The, [497]
- Lays of France, [472]
- Layamon, [17], [29]
- Lecture, the, and literature, [508]
- Lectures on the English Poets, [431]
- Lee, Nathaniel, [206]
- Legend of the Rhine, The, [480]
- Legende of Good Women, The, [35], [39]
- Lenora, [421]
- Lenore, [412]
- Letter-writing, [341], [439]
- Letter to the English People, A, [10]
- Letter to a Noble Lord, A, [331]
- Letter, More’s to his Wife, [80]
- Letter to Windham, [251]
- Letters, Cowper’s, [302], [343–344]
- Letters, Drapier’s, [240], [270], [343]
- Letters, Howell’s, [181]
- Letters, Leigh Hunt’s, [445]
- Letters, Johnson’s, [343], [357]
- Letters of Junius, [343]
- Letters, Lady M. Wortley Montagu’s, [252], [341]
- Letters, Pope’s, [260]
- Letters, Walpole’s, [323], [343], [358]
- Letters of Peter Plymley, The, [433]
- Letters on a Regicide Peace, [331]
- Letters to his Son (Chesterfield), [333], [342]
- Letters on the Spirit of Patriotism, [251]
- Lever, Charles, [423]
- Leviathan, The, [177], [183]
- Levities, [304]
- Lewis, Matthew, [324]
- Liberty, [292]
- Liberty of Prophesying, The, [178]
- Library, The, [282], [302]
- Life and Death of Jason, The, [470]
- Life and Death of Mr. Badman, The, [209], [339]
- Life of Byron, The, [401], [439]
- Life of Cromwell, The, [550]
- Life of Frederick II, The, [494]
- Life of Gladstone, The, [550]
- Life of Jesus, The, Strauss’s (George Eliot), [488]
- Life of Doctor Johnson, The, [287], [328], [329], [343], [336]
- Life of Napoleon, The, [416]
- Life of Nelson, The, [403]
- Life of Schiller, The, [494]
- Life of Scott, The, [435], [439]
- Life of John Sterling, The, [494], [496]
- Light that Failed, The, [538]
- Lindisfarne Gospels, the, [71]
- Literature and Dogma, [468]
- Literature of Europe, An Introduction to the, [436]
- Little Dorrit, [475]
- Lives of the Novelists, The, [416]
- Lives of the Poets, The, [291], [350], [575]
- Lives of the Saints, The, [9]
- Lochaber no More, [265]
- Locke, John, [219], [268], [269]
- Lockhart, John G., [411], [434], [438], [439], [440]
- Locksley Hall, [456]
- Locksley Hall Sixty Years after, [458]
- Locrine, [472]
- Lodge, Thomas, [107], [142]
- London, [287], [288], [335]
- London Gazette, The, [268]
- London Lickpenny, [64]
- London Magazine, The, [365], [408], [427], [429], [558]
- Looker On, The, [344]
- Lord Hastings, Upon the Death of the, [185], [228]
- Lord Jim, [527], [531]
- Lorna Doone, [491]
- Lotos-Eaters, The, [456]
- Lounger, The, [344]
- Love, [378]
- Love of Fame, The, [263]
- Love in Fantastic Triumph sate, [221–222]
- Love of King David and Fair Bethsabe, The, [106]
- Love for Love, [203]
- Love and Mr. Lewisham, [532]
- Love Triumphant, [201]
- Love in the Valley, [482]
- Love in a Wood, [204]
- Love’s Labour’s Lost, [116], [117]
- Love’s Sacrifice, [174]
- Lovel the Widower, [480]
- Lovelace, Richard, [173], [185]
- Lover’s Melancholy, The, [174]
- Lucasta, To, [173]
- Lucy, [372]
- Lucy Gray, [368], [370]
- Luria, [463]
- Lycidas, [164]
- Lydgate, John, [64], [70]
- Lyfe of John Picus, The, [69]
- Lying Lover, The, [247]
- Lyly, John, [105], [107], [138], [154], [337], [563–564]
- Lyndsay, Sir David, [59], [79], [82–83]
- Lyric, the, [11], [16], [47], [114], [143], [178], [179], [181], [213], [218], [266], [335], [436], [506]
- Lyrical Ballads, [367], [368], [369], [375], [376]
- Lytton, Lord, [425], [438]
M
- Macaulay, Lord, [287], [360], [438], [496], [508], [509], [510], [513]
- Macbeth, [116], [117], [119]
- MacFlecknoe, [197], [215]
- Mackenzie, Compton, [539]
- Mackenzie, Henry, [324], [344]
- Macpherson, James, [290], [312], [335], [348], [349]
- Macready, William Charles, [462]
- Magnificence, [63]
- Maid of Sker, The, [491]
- Maid’s Tragedy, The, [127]
- Making of England, The, [504]
- Maldon, The Battle of, [6]
- Male Regle, La, [64]
- Malory, Sir Thomas, [33], [46], [50], [52], [457]
- Man, An Essay on, [253], [260]
- Man of Feeling, The, [324]
- Man of Mode, The, [205]
- Man in the Moon, The, [100]
- Man and Superman, [542], [544]
- Man who was Thursday, The, [549]
- Man’s Place in Nature, [506]
- Mandalay, [538]
- Mandeville, Sir John, [33], [44], [49], [50], [51–52], [153]
- Manfred, [387]
- Manning, Robert, [18], [24]
- Mansfield Park, [419]
- Manuscripts, Old English, [3]
- Marco Polo, [45]
- Mare, Walter de la, [560]
- Marino Faliero, [387]
- Marius the Epicurean, [502]
- Marlborough, Duke of, [232], [242]
- Marlowe, Christopher, [104], [105], [108], [129], [144], [153–154]
- Marmion, [412]
- Marryat, Frederick, [423]
- Marston, John, [127]
- Martin Chuzzlewit, [475]
- Marvell, Andrew, [179], [185], [214]
- Mary in Heaven, To, [309], [311]
- Mary Rose, [548]
- Mary Stuart (Swinburne), [472]
- Masefield, John, [552], [559]
- Masks and Faces, [486]
- Masque, the, [125], [145]
- Masque of Anarchy, The, [392], [437]
- Masque of Beauty, The, [125]
- Masque of Queens, The, [125]
- Massacre at Paris, The, [109]
- Massinger, Philip, [173], [180]
- Master of Ballantrae, The, [492]
- Master Humphrey’s Clock, [474]
- Masterman Ready, [424]
- Maud, [456]
- Mayor of Casterbridge, The, [523], [525]
- Mazeppa, [385]
- Measure for Measure, [116], [121], [122]
- Medal, The, [197]
- Melibœus, The Tale of, [36], [37]
- Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, The, [479]
- Memoirs of a Cavalier, The, [250]
- Men and Women, [463]
- Men, Women, and Books, [406]
- Merchant of Venice, The, [116], [157]
- Mercurius Anglicus, [267]
- Mercurius Politicus, [267]
- Mercurius Pragmaticus, [267]
- Meredith, George, [482], [492], [508], [510]
- Meres, Francis, [115]
- Merry Wives of Windsor, The, [116]
- Metaphysical poets, the, [160], [161], [170], [184]
- Meter, early development of, [24]
- Middle English, [49]
- Michel of Northgate, Dan, [23]
- Middlemarch, [488]
- Middleton, Thomas, [128]
- Midland dialect, the, [3], [16]
- Midshipman Easy, Mr., [424]
- Midsummer Night’s Dream, A, [76], [116], [118], [119], [120]
- Mill, John Stuart, [452]
- Mill on the Floss, The, [488]
- Miller, Hugh, [504]
- Milman, Henry Hart, [435]
- Milton, John, [94], [102], [160], [161], [182], [186], [217], [303], [459], [501], [562]
- Milton (Earnest Myers), [188–189]
- Mimes, [72]
- Mind, An Essay on, [466]
- Minot, Laurence, [19], [25]
- Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, The, [412]
- Miracle-plays, [74]
- Mirror, The, [344]
- Mirror for Magistrates, The, [98]
- Mirror of the Sea, The, [528]
- Miscellanies, poetical, [104]
- Misfortunes of King Arthur, The, [77]
- Mr. Britling sees it Through, [532]
- Mr. Clutterbuck’s Election, [549]
- Mr. Midshipman Easy, [424]
- Mr. Polly, The History of, [532]
- Mrs. Anne Killigrew, On the Death of, [214]
- Mrs. Warren’s Profession, [541]
- Mistress, The, [169]
- Mithridates, [206]
- Modern Love, [482]
- Modern Painters, [500], [513–514]
- Modern Utopia, A, [533]
- Molière, [192]
- Moll Flanders, [250], [339]
- Monk, The, [324]
- Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, [252], [341]
- Montaigne, [269]
- Monthly Magazine, The, [473]
- Moon, The, [552]
- Moonstone, The, [487]
- Moore, George, [520], [536]
- Moore, Thomas, [404]
- Moral Ode, [20], [28], [29]
- Moral and Political Philosophy, [333]
- Morall Fabillis of Esope, The, [60]
- Morality-plays, [74]
- More, Sir Thomas, [69], [80]
- Morley, Lord, [550], [561]
- Morning Chronicle, The, [365], [473]
- Morning Post, The, [365], [380]
- Morris, William, [470], [506], [507], [512–513], [514]
- Morte d’Arthure (Middle English romance), [22]
- Morte d’Arthur (Malory), [46–47], [52]
- Morte d’Arthur (Tennyson), [456]
- Mother Hubberd’s Tale, [91], [92]
- Mother’s Picture, On the Receipt of my, [301]
- Moti Guj—Mutineer, [564]
- Mourning Bride, The, [203]
- Much Ado about Nothing, [116]
- Mummer’s Wife, A, [537]
- Mummings, [72]
- Munera Pulveris, [500]
- Murder considered as One of the Fine Arts, [429]
- Muse in Exile, The, [551]
- Music and Moonlight, [472]
- My First Play (Lamb), [428]
- My Heart’s in the Hielands, [308]
- My Novel, [426]
- Myers, Ernest, [188–189]
- Mysteries of Udolpho, The, [324]
- Mystery-plays, [73]
N
- Napoleon, The Life of, [416]
- Narrative poetry, [48], [144], [215], [266], [436], [506], [559]
- Nash, Thomas, [107], [142], [338]
- Natural History of Selborne, The, [334], [355]
- Naval Officer, The, [424]
- Necessity of Atheism, The, [389]
- Neglected Heart, A, [472]
- Nelson, The Life of, [403]
- Nero, [206]
- New Arabian Nights, The, [491]
- New Atlantis, The, [135], [146]
- New Machiavelli, The, [532]
- New Monthly Magazine, The, [405], [408]
- New Poems (M. Arnold), [467]
- New Poems (C. G. Rossetti), [470]
- New Voyage round the World, A, [250]
- New Way to pay Old Debts, A, [174]
- New Worlds for Old, [533]
- Newcomes, The, [479]
- Newman, Cardinal John, [454]
- Nicholas of Guildford, [20]
- Nicholas Nickleby, [474]
- Nigger of the Narcissus, The, [528], [529–530]
- Night (Charles Churchill), [305]
- Night Thoughts, The Complaint, or, [263], [270], [271], [278], [305]
- Nightingale, Ode to a, [401]
- No Name, [487]
- Noble Numbers, [170]
- Noctes Ambrosianæ, [434], [441]
- Nocturnal Reverie, The, [264]
- Norman Conquest, The History of the, [504]
- North, Christopher, [433], [441]
- Northanger Abbey, [418], [420]
- Northern dialect, the, [16], [20]
- Northumbrian dialect, the, [3], [7], [16]
- Norton Thomas, [77], [98]
- Nostromo, [528]
- Notes of Instruction concerning the Making of Verse in English, Certayne, [99]
- Novel, the, [107], [146], [336], [437], [507], [555–556]
- Nun’s Priest’s Tale, The, [40–41]
- Nuptials of Attila, The, [482]
- Nut-brown Maid, The, [47]
- Nutting, [368]
- Nymphidia, [100]