O
- O’ a’ the Airts, [308]
- O, my Luve is like a Red, Red Rose, [308], [309–310]
- O, Willie brewed a Peck o’ Maut, [308]
- Oberon, the Fairy Prince, [125]
- Observer, The, [344]
- Occleve, Thomas, [64]
- Occleve’s Complaint, [64]
- Oceana, [503]
- Odd Women, The, [536]
- Ode, the, [179], [214]
- Ode to Autumn (Keats), [401], [443]
- Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College, [298]
- Ode to Evening, [299]
- Ode to France, [378]
- Ode on a Grecian Urn, [401], [402]
- Ode: Intimations of Immortality, [373], [374]
- Ode on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity, [164]
- Ode to a Nightingale, [401]
- Ode to the West Wind, [393]
- O’Donovan, The, [423]
- Œdipus Tyrannus, or Swellfoot the Tyrant, [437]
- Œnone, [456]
- Œnone, The Death of, [458]
- Oh, to be in England, [516]
- Old Bachelor, The, [203]
- Old Curiosity Shop, The, [475], [477]
- Old English Baron, The, [416]
- Old English language, the, [3]
- Old Fortunatus, [128]
- Old Mortality, [415], [440–441]
- Old Red Sandstone, The, [505]
- Old St. Paul’s, [422]
- Old Wives’ Tale, The (Bennett), [538]
- Old Wives’ Tale, The (Peele), [106]
- Oldham, John, [215]
- Oliver Cromwell’s Letters and Speeches, [494]
- Oliver Twist, [474]
- Olor Iscanus, [171]
- On Divorce (Milton), [163]
- On his Own Death (Swift), [237]
- On the Death of Mrs. Anne Killigrew, [214]
- Of Education (Milton), [163]
- On Nothing, [550]
- On Phillis, [182]
- On Prayer (Jeremy Taylor), [187–188]
- On the Receipt of my Mother’s Picture, [301]
- On Shakespeare (Milton), [164]
- One of our Conquerors, [484]
- Ordeal of Richard Fever, The, [482]
- Origin of Species, The, [453], [505], [506]
- Origines upon the Maudeleyne, [36]
- Orinooko, or The Royal Slave, [339]
- Orison to Our Lady, The, [20]
- Orlando Furioso, [107]
- Ormond, [421]
- Orm, or Ormin, [19]
- Ormulum, [19], [24]
- Orosius, [8]
- Orphan, The, [206], [217–218]
- Orpheus and Eurydice, [60]
- O’Shaughnessy, Arthur Edward, [472]
- Ossian, [290], [313], [348]
- Othello, [116]
- Otho the Great, [401]
- Ottava rima, [386], [398]
- Otway, Thomas, [206], [217–218], [226], [391], [392]
- Our Mutual Friend, [475]
- Outcast of the Islands, An, [527]
- Outline of History, An, [533]
- Overbury, Sir Thomas, [139], [269]
- Ovid (Sandys), [183]
- Owl and the Nightingale, The, [20]
- Oxford Gazette, The, [268]
P
- Pacchiarotto, [464]
- Pageant, A, [470]
- Pair of Blue Eyes, A, [523]
- Paley, William, [333], [345]
- Palice of Honour, The, [62]
- Palladis Tamia, Wit’s Treasury, [115]
- Pamela, [315], [316], [340], [341]
- Pamphlets, [89], [142]
- Paolo and Francesca, [559]
- Paracelsus, [462]
- Paradise Lost, [165], [179], [187], [562]
- Paradise Regained, [166], [179]
- Paradyse of Daynty Devises, The, [104]
- Parisina, [384]
- Parismus, Prince of Bohemia, [339]
- Parlement of Foules, The, [34]
- Parleyings with Certain People, [463]
- Parliament of Bees, The, [145]
- Parnell, Thomas, [265]
- Parson’s Tale, The, [36], [37]
- Parthenissa, [339]
- Passetyme of Pleasure, The, [65]
- Passionate Elopement, The, [539]
- Passionate Pilgrim, The, [104], [112]
- Passions, The, [335], [352]
- Past and Present, [494]
- Past and Present, Poems of the (Hardy), [521]
- Pastoral Care, [8], [9], [51]
- Pastoral poetry, [178], [266]
- Pastorals (Pope), [255]
- Pater, Walter, [502], [508]
- Path to Rome, The, [550]
- Patience, [21], [22]
- Patronage, [421]
- Paul Clifford, [425]
- Pauline, [461]
- Peacock Pie, [560]
- Pearl, [21], [25], [28], [149–150]
- Peblis to the Play, [58]
- Pecock, Reginald, [66]
- Peele, George, [105]
- Peg Woffington, [486]
- Pelham, [425]
- Pendennis, [479]
- Peninsular War, The, [403]
- Penseroso, Il, [164], [180]
- Pepys, Samuel, [194], [212], [219], [240]
- Percy, Bishop Thomas, [285], [335], [345]
- Peregrine Pickle, [321]
- Pericles, [117]
- Periodicals, [234], [267], [344], [438]
- Perkin Warbeck, [174]
- Persian Eclogues, [299]
- Persuasion, [419]
- Peter Bell, [369]
- Peter Pan, [548]
- Peter Plymley, The Letters of, [433]
- Peter Porcupine’s Journal, [435]
- Peter Simple, [424]
- Peter’s Letters to his Kinsfolk, [434]
- Peveril of the Peak, [415]
- Phaer, Thomas, [142]
- Pharonnida, [180]
- Philanderer, The, [541]
- Philaster, [127]
- Philips, Ambrose, [264], [271]
- Philips, John, [270]
- Phillips, Stephen, [559]
- Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, A, [331], [344]
- Phœnix, The, [7], [13], [29]
- Phœnix Nest, The, [104]
- Picaresque novel, the, [338]
- Pickwick Papers, The, [473], [474], [475], [476], [477], [557]
- Picture of Dorian Gray, The, [546], [565]
- Pied Piper of Hamelin, The, [514]
- Piers the Plowman, The Vision of William concerning, [42], [50], [53–54]
- Pilgrim of Glencoe, The, [405]
- Pilgrim Fathers, The (Hemans), [408]
- Pilgrim’s Progress, The, [209], [210–211], [225], [240], [339], [575]
- Pindaric odes, [169], [180], [334]
- Pindaric Odes (Gray), [298]
- Pindarique Odes (Cowley), [169], [180]
- Pine Forest, The, [395]
- Pinero, Sir Arthur, [559]
- Pippa Passes, [462], [466]
- Piramus and Thisbe (Cowley), [169]
- Pirate, The, [415]
- Pistyl of Susan, The, [28]
- Places, [522–523]
- Plague Year, A Journal of the, [250]
- Plain Dealer, The, [204]
- Plain Tales from the Hills, [538]
- Play-cycles, [75]
- Playboy of the Western World, The, [548]
- Pleasures of Hope, The, [405]
- Pleasures of the Imagination, The, [303]
- Pleasures of Memory, The, [405]
- Plebeian, The, [247], [268]
- Plutarch’s Lives (North), [141]
- Poems (M. Arnold), [467]
- Poems (Clare), [409]
- Poems (Cowper), [300]
- Poems (Keats), [397]
- Poems (Compton Mackenzie), [539]
- Poems (D. G. Rossetti), [469]
- Poems (Tennyson, 1832), [455]
- Poems (Tennyson, 1833), [455~456]
- Poems (Vaughan), [171]
- Poems, Chiefly Lyrical (Tennyson), [455]
- Poems of 1908–1914 (Drinkwater), [554]
- Poems and Ballads (Swinburne), [471]
- Poems by Two Brothers (A. and C. Tennyson), [455]
- Poems of the Past and Present (Hardy), [521]
- Poems by the Way (W. Morris), [471]
- Poetaster, The, [124], [128]
- Poetical Sketches (Blake), [314]
- Poetry, An Essay on (Temple), [211]
- Political Justice, [333], [345]
- Political Lying, The Art of, [251]
- Political Register, The, [365], [435]
- Political writing, [233]
- Polychronicon, [40]
- Polyolbion, [100], [144]
- Poor Relations, [540]
- Pope, Alexander, [224], [253], [265], [266], [270], [272], [273], [274–275], [334], [351], [368], [383]
- Porter, Jane, [416]
- Praise of Chimney-Sweepers, The, [444–445]
- Præterita, [500]
- Prayer Book, the, [70]
- Pre-Raphaelites, the, [402], [453], [469], [470], [506], [509]
- Prelude, The, [369], [437], [562–563]
- Present Discontents, Thoughts on the, [331]
- Preston Fight, [422]
- Pretty Lady, The, [538]
- Pricke of Conscience, The, [21]
- Pride and Prejudice, [419]
- Prince Arthur, [264]
- Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau, [463]
- Prince’s Progress, The, [470]
- Prince’s Quest, The, [551]
- Princess, The, [456], [458]
- Principles of Human Knowledge, The, [252]
- Prior, Matthew, [261], [266]
- Prisoner of Chillon, The, [385]
- Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft, The, [536]
- Proclamation of Henry III, [51]
- Prodigy, The, [264]
- Professor, The, [485]
- Progress of Poesy, The, [188], [298]
- Progress of the Soul, The, [102]
- Prologue, The (Chaucer), [36], [38]
- Prometheus Bound, [467]
- Prometheus Unbound, [391], [394]
- Prophecy of Famine, The, [305]
- Prothalamion, [92], [179]
- Proud Maisie, [413]
- Proverbs of Alfred, The, [20]
- Proverbs of Hendyng, The, [20], [25]
- Provoked Wife, The, [205]
- Provost, The, [422]
- Psalms, the Book of, [132], [133]
- Pseudodoxia Epidemica, [175]
- Pseudo-Martyr, The, [103]
- Public Intelligencer, The, [268]
- Public Ledger, The, [296]
- Public Spirit of the Whigs, The, [240]
- Publishing houses, [235]
- Punch, [409], [478], [480]
- Purple Island, The, [101]
- Purple Pileus, The, [535]
- Purvey, John, [71]
- Pyrenees, The, [550]
Q
- Quality Street, [548]
- Quarterly Review, The, [365], [397], [558]
- Queen Mab, [390]
- Queen Mary (Tennyson), [458]
- Queen Mother and Rosamond, The, [472]
- Queen’s Wake, The (Hogg), [407]
- Queenes Wake, The (Daniel), [104]
- Quentin Durward, [415], [423]
R
- Radcliffe, Mrs., [324], [340]
- Raleigh, Sir Walter, [341]
- Ralph Roister Doister, [77], [78], [85–86]
- Rambler, The, [289], [344], [347]
- Ramsay, Allan, [265]
- Rape of the Lock, The, [257], [351]
- Rape of Lucrece, The, [112], [144]
- Rarely, rarely, comest Thou, [395]
- Rasselas, [290], [340]
- Rauf Coilyear, [22]
- Reade, Charles, [486]
- Reader, The, [247]
- Ready-Money Mortiboy, [490]
- Realism, [519]
- Rebecca and Rowena, [480]
- Recessional, The, [538]
- Recluse, The, [369]
- Recruiting Officer, The, [205]
- Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye, The, [66], [67]
- Red Cotton Night-Cap Country, [463]
- Redgauntlet, [415], [557]
- Reflections on the French Revolution, [331], [332], [345]
- Regiment of Princes, The, [64]
- Rehearsal, The, [215]
- Reign of William Rufus, The, [504]
- Rejected Addresses, [409]
- Relapse, The, [205]
- Religio Medici, [175]
- Reliques of Ancient Poetry, [285], [335]
- Remarks on the Barrier Treaty, [240]
- Remorse, [378], [437]
- Renaissance, Studies in the History of the, [502]
- Renaissance in Italy, The, [502]
- Repressor of Over-much Blaming the Clergy, The, [66]
- Rescue, The, [528], [529]
- Resolution and Independence, [372]
- Resolves, [181]
- Restoration comedy, [202];
- tragedy, [206]
- Retreat, The, [172]
- Return of the Druses, The, [463]
- Return of the Native, The, [523]
- Revenger’s Tragedy, The, [129]
- Review, The, [249], [268]
- Revolt of Islam, The, [391]
- Revolution, the French, and English literature, [283], [330], [362], [366], [452]
- Reynard the Fox, [552]
- Rhapsody on Poetry, [278]
- Rhoda Fleming, [483]
- Rhyme royal, [58], [98]
- Rice, James, [490]
- Rich Relatives, [539]
- Richard Cœur-de-Lion, [22]
- Richard II, [116]
- Richard III, The Historie of (More), [69]
- Richard III (Shakespeare), [116]
- Richardson, Samuel, [315], [340], [341]
- Richelieu (G. P. R. James), [422]
- Richelieu (Lytton), [426]
- Riddles (Exeter Book), [7]
- Riders to the Sea, [548]
- Rienzi, [426]
- Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The, [376], [378–379], [445–446]
- Rimini, [406]
- Ring and the Book, The, [463], [465], [507], [563]
- Rival Ladies, The, [199], [216]
- Rival Queens, The, [206]
- Rivals, The, [336]
- Roaring Girle, The, [128]
- Rob Roy, [415]
- Robene and Makyne, [60]
- Robert of Gloucester, [18], [25]
- Robertson, William, [328], [341]
- Robinson Crusoe, [249], [250], [340]
- Rochester, Earl of, [213]
- Roderick the Goth, [403]
- Roderick Random, [321], [346]
- Rogers, John, [72]
- Rogers, Samuel, [405]
- Rokeby, [413–414]
- Rolle, Richard, of Hampole, [16], [21]
- Romance, [528]
- Romance of the Forest, The, [324]
- Romances, metrical, [22], [26], [49], [57], [337]
- Romanticism, [89]
- Romany Rye, The, [490]
- Romaunt of the Rose, The, [34]
- Romeo and Juliet, [116]
- Romola, [488]
- Rookwood, [422]
- Roots of the Mountains, The, [471]
- Rosamond, [243]
- Rosciad, The, [305]
- Rose Aylmer, [403]
- Rose Mary, [469]
- Rossetti, Christina Georgina, [469]
- Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, [467], [469], [506], [515]
- Roundabout Papers, The, [480], [508]
- Rowe, Nicholas, [207]
- Rowley Poems, The, [313]
- Roxana, [250]
- Royal Society, the, [219]
- Royall King, The, [129]
- Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyâm, The, [468]
- Ruins of Rome, The, [91]
- Ruins of Time, The, [91]
- Rule, Britannia, [293]
- Rural Rides in England, [435], [440]
- Rural Sports, [262]
- Ruskin, John, [499], [502], [508], [513–514]
- Russell, George, (‘A. E.’), [520]
- Ruth, [368], [371]
S
- Sackville, Thomas, Earl of Dorset, Lord Buckhurst, [77], [98], [144]
- Sad Shepherd, The, [124]
- St. Cecilia’s Day, A Song for (Dryden), [198]
- St. Irvyne, [393]
- St. Luke, the Gospel of, [132]
- St. Ronan’s Well, [415]
- Saint’s Tragedy, The, [490]
- Saints’ Everlasting Rest, The, [181]
- Saisiaz, La, [463]
- Samson Agonistes, [166]
- Samuel Titmarsh, The History of, [478–479]
- Sandra Belloni (Emilia in England), [483]
- Sands of Dee, The, [490]
- Sandys, George, [183]
- Sappho (A. Philips), [271]
- Sartor Resartus, [494], [495–496]
- Sassoon, Siegfried, [560], [571–572]
- Satire, the, [195], [196], [214], [266], [437]
- Satires (Donne), [102]
- Satires of Circumstance, [521], [571]
- Satiromastix, [128]
- Saturday Review, The, [540]
- Satyre of the Thrie Estatis, Ane Pleasant, [59], [82–83]
- Savage, Richard, [263]
- Say not the Struggle Naught Availeth, [469], [515–516]
- Scenes from Clerical Life, [488]
- Schiller, The Life of, [494]
- Scholar-Gipsy, The, [468]
- Scholemaster, The, [137], [155]
- School of Abuse, The, [90]
- School for Scandal, The, [336], [567–568]
- Schoolmistress, The, [304], [335], [351–352]
- Scornful Lady, The, [127]
- Scotland, The History of (Robertson), [328]
- Scots wha hae, [311]
- Scott, Michael, [424]
- Scott, Sir Walter, [205], [337], [340], [364], [365], [367], [384], [396], [410], [421], [436], [437], [438], [440], [441], [446], [447–448], [474], [497], [557]
- Scott, The Life of, [435], [439]
- Scottish Chiefs, The, [416]
- Scottish Historie of James the Fourth, The, [107]
- Scottish literature, [33], [58], [90]
- Scriblerus, Memoirs of, [251]
- Scudéri, Mademoiselle, [338], [339]
- Seafarer, The, [6]
- Seasons, The, [284], [291], [292], [301], [409]
- Secret Agent, The, [528]
- Sedley, Sir Charles, [213], [218]
- Sejanus his Fall, [125]
- Sense and Sensibility, [419]
- Sensitive Plant, The, [395]
- Sentimental Journey, A, [322]
- Sentimental Tommy, [547]
- Seraphim, The, [467]
- Sermon, the, [180]
- Sermons (Latimer), [81]
- Sermons (Tillotson), [212]
- Sesame and Lilies, [500]
- Sestette, the Romance, [25]
- Settle, Elkanah, [207]
- Seven Lamps of Architecture, The, [500]
- Shadow of the Glen, The, [548]
- Shadow Line, The, [528]
- Shadowy Waters, The, [559]
- Shadwell, Thomas, [197], [205]
- Shaftesbury, Earl of, [252]
- Shakespeare, William, [76], [77], [110], [151], [157], [199], [202], [206], [285], [374], [417], [459], [569]
- Shakespeare (Matthew Arnold), [156]
- Shakespeare, On (Milton), [164]
- Shakespearian style, the, [120]
- Shaw, George Bernard, [519], [540], [559], [561]
- She Stoops to Conquer, [295]
- She Would if She Could, [205]
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe, [307], [334], [363], [364], [366], [371], [383], [389], [396], [436], [437], [439], [443], [449], [462]
- Shenstone, William, [304], [351–352]
- Shepherd’s Calendar, The, [91], [144], [183]
- Shepherd’s Week, The, [262]
- Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, [336], [547], [567–568]
- Shilling for my Thoughts, A, [549]
- Ship of Fools, The, [65]
- Shirley, James, [180]
- Shirley, [485]
- Shoemaker’s Holiday, The, [128]
- Short History of the English People, A, [504]
- Short story, the development of the, [557]
- Short Studies on Great Subjects, [503]
- Short View of the Profaneness and Immorality of the English Stage, [219]
- Shortest Way with the Dissenters, The, [249]
- Sibylline Leaves, [380]
- Sicilian Romance, A, [324]
- Sidney, Sir Philip, [90], [91], [99], [143], [146], [269], [337]
- Siege of Corinth, The, [384]
- Silas Marner, [488], [523]
- Silex Scintillans, [172]
- Silver Box, The, [547]
- Simon Lee, [374], [566]
- Sinister Street, [539]
- Sir Charles Grandison, [316]
- Sir Courtly Nice, [207]
- Sir Ferumbras, [22]
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, [21], [22], [25], [337]
- Sir John Chiverton, [422]
- Sir Launcelot Graves, [321]
- Sir Orpheo, [22]
- Sir Patrick Spens, [48]
- Sir Ralph Esher, [407]
- Sir Tristrem, [22], [25], [28]
- Sister Teresa, [537]
- Sisters, The, [472]
- Skelton, John, [62], [81–82]
- Skeltonics, [63]
- Sketches by Boz, [473], [474]
- Skin Game, The, [547], [568–569]
- Sleeping Beauty, The, [459]
- Smart, Christopher, [303], [335]
- Smith, Adam, [332]
- Smith, Horace, [409]
- Smith, James, [409]
- Smith, Sydney, [433]
- Smollett, Tobias, [303], [321], [338], [340], [346], [360], [423], [557]
- Snare, The, [560]
- Soldier, The, [554]
- Soldiers, Three, [538]
- Soliman and Perseda, [108]
- Solomon, [261]
- Some Reminiscences (Conrad), [528]
- Song to David, The, [303]
- Song of Honour, The, [560]
- Song for St. Cecilia’s Day, A (Dryden), [198]
- Song of the Shirt, The, [409]
- Songs of Childhood, [560]
- Songs of Experience, [314]
- Songs of Innocence, [352–353], [566–567]
- Songs of Mourning, [100]
- Songs before Sunrise, [471–472]
- Songs of a Worker, [472]
- Songs to Ælla, [314]
- Songbooks of the War, [571–572]
- Sonnet, the English, [91], [96], [99], [104], [112], [113], [143], [144], [372–373];
- the Italian, [96], [143], [165]
- Sonnet, by Matthew Arnold, [156];
- by Drayton, [152];
- by Ernest Myers, [188–189];
- by Spenser, [152];
- by Surrey, [151];
- by Wordsworth, [188]
- Sonnets, Shakespeare’s, [112]
- Sonnets from the Portuguese, [467]
- Sophonisba, [206], [293]
- Sordello, [462]
- Soul of a Bishop, The, [533]
- Soul’s Destroyer, The, [552]
- South, Robert, [181]
- Southey, Robert, [364], [365], [375], [385], [402], [436], [438], [440]
- Southwell, Robert, [144]
- Spanish Ballads, [434]
- Spanish Gipsy, The, [128]
- Spanish Tragedy, The, [108]
- Spectator, The, [235], [244], [245], [247], [268], [276], [289], [344]
- Speculum Meditantis, [43]
- Spencer, Herbert, [452]
- Spenser, Edmund, [60], [90], [101], [102], [143], [144], [155–156], [292], [397], [436], [437]
- Spenser, Imitation of (Keats), [398]
- Spenserian stanza, the, [94], [292], [304], [335], [398], [405], [436], [437]
- Spirit of the Age, The, [431]
- Spirit of Patriotism, Letters on the, [251]
- Spleen, The, [264]
- Splendid Shilling, The, [270]
- Sprat, Thomas, [219]
- Squire of Alsatia, The, [205]
- Squire of Low Degree, The, [22–23]
- Standardizing of English, the, [32]
- Stanyhurst, Richard, [142]
- Staple of News, The, [124]
- Star Chamber, The, [422]
- Stately Homes of England, The, [408]
- Steel Glass, The, [99], [144], [151]
- Steele, Sir Richard, [244], [247], [268], [339], [431]
- Stephens, James, [560]
- Steps to the Temple, [171]
- Sterling, John, The Life of, [494]
- Sterne, Laurence, [322], [340], [360], [557]
- Stevenson, Robert Louis, [491], [508], [510]
- Stones of Venice, The, [500], [501]
- Story of the Glittering Plain, The, [471]
- Story of Ingelond, The, [18]
- Story of Thebes, The, [64]
- Stafford, [462]
- Strange Story, A, [426]
- Strayed Reveller, The, [467], [560]
- Strew on her Roses, Roses, [516]
- Strife, [547]
- Stubbs, William, [509]
- Studies of the Greek Poets, [502]
- Studies in the History of the Renaissance, [502]
- Sublime and Beautiful, A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the, [331], [345~346]
- Suckling, Sir John, [173], [180], [183], [186]
- Sullen Lovers, The, [205]
- Sumer is i-cumen in, [26]
- Summer Night, A, [468]
- Summer’s Last Will and Testament, [107]
- Sundering Flood, The, [471]
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