Essayists and Critics.—George Barrow (1803-1881): The Bible in Spain; Lavengro. Walter Bagehot (1826-1877): Literary Studies; The English Constitution. Leslie Stephen (1832-1904): Hours in a Library; History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century. John Morley (1838- ): Studies in Literature; Edmund Burke; Life of Gladstone. John Addington Symonds (1840-1893): The History of the Renaissance in Italy. Austin Dobson (1840- ): Eighteenth Century Vignettes; Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson, Oliver Goldsmith; also Collected Poems. Edward Dowden (1843-1913): Shakespeare, His Mind and Art; Life of Shelley; Studies in Literature, 1789-1877. Andrew Lang (1844-1912): Letters to Dead Authors; Essays in Little; The Iliad in English Prose (assisted by Leaf and Myers); also Ballads and Lyrics of old France. Augustine Birrell (1850- ): Obiter Dicta; Men, Women, and Books; In the Name of the Bodleian A. C. Bradley (1851- ): Shakespearean Tragedy; Oxford Lectures on Poetry Alice Meynell (1855- ): The Rhythm of Life; The Spirit of Place; also Collected Poems. William Archer (1856- ): Poets of the Younger Generation; Masks or Faces: A Study in the Psychology of Acting. John W. Mackail (1859- ): The Springs of Helicon; Life of William Norris.
Novelists.—Wilkie Collins (1824-1899): The Moonstone. Dinah Maria
Craik (1826-1877): John Halifax, Gentleman. Charles L. Dodgson
(Lewis Carroll 1832-1898): Alice in Wonderland; Through the Looking
Glass. Joseph H. Shorthouse (1834-1903): John Inglesant. Walter
Besant (1836-1901): All Sorts and Conditions of Men. William Black
(1841-1898): A Daughter of Heth. Canon W. Barry, D.D. (1849- ): The
Two Standards. Mrs. Humphry Ward (1851- ): Marcella. Canon P.A.
Sheehan, D.D. (1852- ): My New Curate; The Queen's Fillet. Hall
Caine (1853- ): The Manxman. Rider Haggard (1856- ): King Solomon's
Mines. George Gissing (1857-1903): New Grub Street; The Private
Papers of Henry Ryecroft. John Ascough (Rt. Rev. Mgr.
Bicherstaffe-Drew, 1858- ): Marotz. Kenneth Grahame (1859- ): The
Golden Age; Dream Days. A. Conan Doyle (1859- ): The White Company;
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. R.H. Benson (1871- ): By What
Authority; The Queen's Tragedy. Mrs. Wilfrid Ward: Great
Possessions.
Poets.—Richard H. Barham (1788-1845): Ingoldsby Legends. James C. Mangan (1803-1849): Selected Poems. Edward Fitzgerald (1809-1883): Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (translation). Aubrey de Vere (1814-1902): Irish Odes. Coventry Patmore (1823-1896): The Angel in the House; Amelia. Sidney Dobell (1824-1874): The Roman; Balder. Adelaide Anne Procter (1825-1864): Legends and Lyrics. Jean Ingelow (1830-1897): Poems. Edwin Arnold (1832-1904): The Light of Asia. Lewis Morris (1833-1907): Epic of Hades. James Thompson (1834-1882): The City of Dreadful Night. J.B.L. Warren (Lord de Tabley, 1835-1895): Poems: Dramatic and Lyrical. Alfred Austin (1835-1913, appointed poet-laureate in 1896): English Lyrics, edited by William Watson. Theodore Watts-Dunton (1832- ): The Coming of Love. Philip Bourke Marston (1850-1887): Song-Tide and Other Poems; Wind Voices. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900): Ave Imperatrix; The Ballad of Reading Gaol; De Profundis (prose).
1900-
Essayists.—Vernon Lee (Violet Paget, 1857- ): The Enchanted Woods and Other Essays; The Sentimental Traveler. Lawrence Pearsall Jacks (1860- ): Mad Shepherds, and Other Human Studies. Arthur Symons (1865- ): William Blake; The Romantic Movement in English Poetry. Edward Verrall Lucas (1868- ): Life of Charles Lamb; Old Lamps for New; also the stories Over Bemerton's and Mr. Ingleside. Hilaire Belloc (1870- ): On Everything.
Novelists.—Justin Huntley M'Carthy (1860- ): The Proud Prince; If
I Were King. W.W. Jacobs (1863- ): Many Cargoes; Ship's Company.
Anthony Hope Hawkins (Anthony Hope, 1863- ): The Prisoner of Zenda;
Rupert of Hentzau. Marie Corelli (1864- ): Thelma; Ardath. Robert
S. Hichens (1864- ): The Garden of Allah. G.W. Birmingham (rev. J.O.
Hannay, 1865- ): Spanish Gold. Seumas Macmanus (1870- ): The
Chimney Corner; Donegal Fairy Stories. J.C. Snaith (1876- ):
Araminta; Broke of Covenden. May Sinclair: The Divine Fire.
Poets.—A.E. Housman (1859- ): A Shropshire Lad. Katherine Tynan
Hinkson (1861- ): Collected Poems; New Poems (1911). Arthur
Christopher Benson (1862- ): Collected Poems; Paul The Minstrel.
Henry Newbolt (1862- ): Admirals All. Herbert Trench (1865- ):
Deirdre Wedded and Nineteen Other Poems; Collected Poems. Ethna
Carberry (1866-1902): The Passing of the Gael. Richard Le Gallienne
(1866- ): Robert Louis Stevenson and Other Poems; Attitudes and
Avowals (essays); The End of the Rainbow (stories). Lionel Johnson
(1867-1902): Poems. Lawrence Binyon (1869- ): London Visions;
Atilla (poetic drama). Nora Hopper Chesson (1871-1906): Under
Quicken Boughs. Dora Sigerson Shorter (1873- ): Collected Poems.
John Drinkwater (1882- ): Poems of Love and Death; King Cophetua.
Richard Middleton. (1882-1911): Poems and Songs. Lascelles
Abercrombie: Interludes. James Stephens: Hill of Vision; Crock of
Gold (prose fiction). T. Sturge Moore: Aphrodite against Artemis;
Poems.
Celtic Dramatists.—George Moore (1853- ): The Bending of the Bough. Edward Martyn (1859- ): The Heather Field. William Boyle: The Building Fund. Padric Colum: Thomas Muskerry; the Fiddler's House. Lennox Robinson: Patriots. Rutherford Mayne: The Turn of the Road. H. Granville Barker (English dramatist, 1877- ): The Voysey Inheritance.
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