th, as in thin; th, as in then
x, as in vex; [x=], as in exact.
NOTE. Titles of books, poems, essays, etc., are in italics.
Absalom and Achitophel ([=a]-chit'o-fel)
Abt Vogler (äpt v[=o]g'ler)
Actors, in early plays;
Elizabethan
Addison;
life;
works;
hymns;
influence;
style
Adonais (ad-[=o]-n[=a]'is)
Aesc (esk)
Aidan, St. ([=i]'dan)
Aids to Reflection
Alastor ([)a]-l[)a]s-tôr)
Alchemist, The
Alexander's Feast
Alfred, King;
life and times;
works
All for Love
Alysoun, or Alisoun (äl'[)y]-sown or äl'[)y]-zoon), old form of Alice
Amelia
American Taxation, Burke's speech on
An Epistle
Anatomy of Melancholy
Ancren Riwle (angk'ren rol)
Andrea del Sarto (än-dr[=a]'yä del sär't[=o])
Andreas
Angeln
Angles, the
Anglo-Norman Period;
literature;
ballads;
lyrics;
summary;
selections for reading;
bibliography;
questions on;
chronology
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Anglo-Saxon Period;
early poetry;
springs of poetry;
language;
Christian writers;
source books;
summary;
selections for reading;
bibliography;
questions on;
chronology
Anglo-Saxons;
the name;
life;
language;
literature,
see Anglo-Saxon Period.
Annus Mirabilis
Anselm
Apologia, Newman's
Apologie for Poetrie
Arcadia
Areopagitica ([)a]r'=[=e]-[)o]p-[)a]-j[)i]t'[)i]-cä)
Arnold, Matthew;
life;
poetry;
prose works;
characteristics
Art, definition of
Arthurian romances
Artistic period of drama
Artistic quality of literature
Ascham, Roger
Assonance
Astraea Redux ([)a]s-tr[=e]'ä r[=e]'duks)
Astrophel and Stella ([)a]s'tr[=o]-fel)
Atalanta in Calydon ([)a]t-[)a]-l[)a]n'tä, k[)a]l'[)i]-d[)o]n)
Augustan Age, meaning. See
Eighteenth-century literature
Aurora Leigh ([a:]-r[=o]'rä l[=e])
Austen, Jane; life;
novels; Scott's criticism of
Bacon, Francis; life; works;
place and influence
Bacon, Roger
Ballad, the
Ballads and Sonnets
Barchester Towers
Bard, The
Bard of the Dimbovitza (dim-bo-vitz'ä),
Roumanian folk songs
Battle of Agincourt (English, [)a]j'in-k[=o]rt)
Battle of Brunanburh
Battle of the Books
Baxter, Richard
Beaumont, Francis (b[=o]'mont)
Becket
Bede; his history; his account
of Cædmon
Bells and Pomegranates
Benefit of clergy
Beowulf (b[=a]'[=o]-wulf), the poem;
history; poetical form;
manuscript of
Beowulf's Mount
Bibliographies, study of literature;
Anglo-Saxon Period; Norman;
Chaucer; Revival of Learning;
Elizabethan; Puritan;
Restoration; Eighteenth
century; Romanticism;
Victorian; general
Bickerstaff Almanac
Biographia Literaria
Blackmore, Richard
Blake, William; life; works
Blank verse
Blessed Damozel
Blot in the 'Scutcheon, A
Boethius (b[=o]-[=e]'thi-us)
Boileau (bwa-l[=o]'), French critic
Boke of the Duchesse
Book of Martyrs
Borough, The
Boswell, James. See also Johnson
Boy actors
Breton, Nicholas
Brontë, Charlotte and Emily
Browne, Thomas; works
Browning, Mrs. Elizabeth Barrett
Browning, Robert; life;
works; obscurity of; as
a teacher; compared with
Shakespeare; with Tennyson;
periods of work; soul
studies; place and message
Brut, Layamon's; quotation from
Brutus, alleged founder of Britain
Bulwer Lytton
Bunyan, John; life; works;
his style
Burke, Edmund; life; works;
analysis of his orations
Burney, Fanny (Madame D'Arblay)
Burns, Robert; life; poetry;
Carlyle's essay on
Burton, Robert
Butler, Samuel
Byron; life; works;
compared with Scott
Cædmon (k[)a]d'mon), life; works;
his Paraphrase; school of
Cain
Callista
Calvert, Raisley
Camden, William
Campaign, The
Campion, Thomas
Canterbury Tales; plan of;
prologue; Dryden's criticism
of
Canynge's coffer
Carew, Thomas
Carlyle; life; works;
style and message
Carols, in early plays
Casa Guidi Windows (kä'sä gw[=e]'d[=e])
Castell of Perseverance
Castle of Indolence
Cata
Cavalier poets
Caxton; specimen of printing
Celtic legends
Chanson de Gestes
Chanson de Roland
Chapman, George; his Homer;
Keats's sonnet on
Chatterton, Thomas
Chaucer, how to read; life;
works; form of his poetry;
melody; compared with Spenser
Chaucer, Age of: history; writers;
summary; selections for reading;
bibliography; questions on; chronology
Chester plays
Cheyne Row
Childe Harold
Child's Garden of Verses
Chocilaicus (k[=o]-kil-[=a]'[=i]-cus)
Christ, The, of Cynewulf
Christabel
Christian Year
Christmas Carol, A
Christ's Hospital, London
Chronicle, The Anglo-Saxon
Chronicle plays
Chronicles, riming
Chronology: Anglo-Saxon Period;
Norman-French; Age of Chaucer;
Revival of Learning; Elizabethan;
Puritan; Restoration; Eighteenth Century;
Romanticism; Victorian
Citizen of the World
Clarissa
Classic and classicism
Classic influence on the drama
Cloister and the Hearth
Clough, Arthur Hugh
Cockaygne, Land of (k[=o]-k[=a]n')
Coleridge; life; works; critiqal writings
Collier, Jeremy
Collins, William
Comedy, definition; first English; of the court
Complete Angler, The
Comus, Masque of
Conciliation with America, Burke's speech
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Consolations of Philosophy
Cotter's Saturday Night
Couplet, the
Court comedies
Covenant of 1643
Coventry plays
Cowley, Abraham
Cowper, William; life; works
Crabbe, George
Cranford
Crashaw, Richard
Critic, meaning of
Critical writing, Dryden; Coleridge;
in Age of Romanticism;
in Victorian Age
Criticism, Arnold's definition
Cross, John Walter
Crown of Wild Olive
Culture and Anarchy
Curse of Jfehama (k[=e]-hä'mä)
Cursor Mundi
Cycles, of plays; of romances
Cynewulf (kin'[)e]-wulf), 36-38
Cynthia's Revels (sin'thi-ä)
Daniel, Samuel
Daniel Deronda
D'Arblay, Madame (Fanny Burney)
Darwin and Darwinism
Death, Raleigh's apostrophe to
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Defense of Poesie
Defensio pro Populo Anglicano
Defoe; life; works
Dekker, Thomas
Delia
Democracy and Romanticism;
in Victorian Age
Dear's Lament
De Quincey; life; works; style
De Sapientia Veterum
Deserted Village, The
Dethe of Blanche the Duchesse
Diary, Evelyn's; Pepys's; selections from
Dickens;
life;
works;
general plan of novels;
his characters;
his public;
limitations
Dictionary, Johnson's
Discoverie of Guiana (g[=e]-ä'nä)
Divina Commedia (d[=e]-v[=e]'nä kom-m[=a]'d[=e]-ä)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Domestic drama
Donne, John
his poetry
Dotheboys Hall (do-the-boys)
Drama, in Elizabethan Age
origin,
periods of,
miracle and mystery plays,
interludes,
classical influence on,
unities,
the English,
types of,
decline of.
See also Elizabethan Age, Shakespeare,
Jonson, Marlowe, etc.
Dramatic unities
Dramatists, methods of See
Shakespeare, Marlowe, etc.
Drapier's Letters
Drayton, Michael
Dream of Gerontius, The (j[)e]-r[)o]n'sh[)i]-us)
Dryden
life,
works,
influence,
criticism of Canterbury Tales
Duchess of Malfi (mäl'f[=e])
Dunciad, The (dun's[)i]-ad)
Ealhild, queen ([=e]-äl'hild)
Earthly Paradise
Eastward Ho!
Economic conditions, in Age of Romanticism
Edgeworth, Maria
Edward II
Egoist, The
Eighteenth-Century Literature:
history of the period,
literary characteristics,
the Classic Age,
Augustan writers,
romantic revival,
the first novelists,
summary,
selections for reading,
bibliography,
questions,
chronology,
Eikon Basilike ([=i]'kon b[)a]-sil'[)i]-k[=e])
Eikonoklastes ([=i]-kon-[=o]-klas't[=e]z)
Elegy, Gray's
Elene
Elizabethan Age
history,
non-dramatic poets,
first dramatists,
Shakespeare's predecessors,
Shakespeare,
Shakespeare's contemporaries and successors,
prose writers,
summary,
selections,
bibliography,
questions,
chronology
Endymion
English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
English Humorists
English Idyls
Eormanric ([=e]-or'man-ric)
Epicaene ([)e]p'[=i]-sen), or The Silent Woman
Epithalamium ([)e]p-[)i]-th[=a]-l[=a]'m[)i]-um)
Erasmus
Essay concerning Human Understanding
Essay of Dramatic Poesy
Essay on Burns
Essay on Criticism
Essay on Man
Essay on Milton
Essays,
Addison's,
Bacon's
Essays in Criticism
Essays of Elia ([=e]'l[)i]-ä)
Ethics of the Dust
Euphues and euphuism ([=u]'f[=u]-[=e]z)
Evans, Mary Ann. See George Eliot
Evelyn, John
Everlasting No, and Yea, The
Every Man in His Humour
Everyman
Excursion, The
Exeter Book
Faber, Frederick
Fables, Dryden's
Faery Queen
Fall of Princes
Faust (foust), Faustus (fas'tus)
Ferrex and Porrex
Fielding,
novels,
characteristics
Fight at Finnsburgh
Fingal (fing'gal)
First-folio Shakespeare
Fletcher, Giles
Fletcher, John
Ford, John
Formalism
Four Georges, The
Foxe, John
Fragments of Ancient Poetry
French influence in Restoration literature
French language in England
French Revolution, influence of
French Revolution, Carlyle's
Fuller, Thomas
Gammer Gurton's Needle
Gaskell, Mrs. Elizabeth
Gawain and the Green Knight (gä'-w[=a]n)
Gawain cycle of romances, 57
Gebir (g[=a]-b[=e]r')
Geoffrey of Monmouth (jef'r[)i])
George Eliot;
life;
works;
characteristics;
as a moralist
Gest (or jest) books
Geste of Robin Hood
Gibbon,
his history
Gifts of God, The
Girondists (j[)i]-ron'dists)
Gleemen, or minstrels
Goldsmith;
life;
works
Good Counsel
Gorboduc (gôr'b[=o]-duk)
Gorgeous Gallery
Gower
Grace Abounding
Gray, Thomas;
life;
works
Greatest English Poets
Greene, Robert
Gregory, Pope
Grendel; story of;
mother of
Grubb Street
Gulliver's Travels
Gull's Hornbook
Hakluyt, Richard (h[)a]k'loot)
Hallam,
his criticism of Bacon
Hardy, Thomas
Hastings, battle of
Hathaway, Anne
Hazlitt, William
Hengist (h[)e]ng'gist)
Henry Esmond
Herbert, George;
life;
poetry of
Hero and Leander
Heroes and Hero Worship
Heroic couplet
Heroic Stanzas
Herrick, Robert
Hesperides and Noble Numbers (h[)e]s-p[)e]r'[)i]-d[=e]z)
Heywood, John
Heywood, Thomas
Hilda, abbess
Hildgund (hild'gund)
Historical novel
History, of England, Macaulay's;
of Frederick the Great, Carlyle's;
of Henry VIII, Bacon's;
of the Reformation in Scotland, Knox's;
of the Wortd, Raleigh's
Hnæf (n[e=]f)
Hobbes, Thomas
Holofernes (hol-[=o]-fer'n[=e]z) in Judith
Holy and Profane State
Holy Living
Holy War
Homer, Chapman's;
Dryden's;
Pope's;
Cowper's
Hooker, Richard
Hooker, Thomas
Hours in a Library
Hours of Idleness
House of Fame
House of Life
Hrothgar (r[)o]th'gar)
Hudibras (h[=u]'d[)i]-bras)
Humanism
Humphrey Clinker
Hunt, Leigh
Husband's Message
Huxley,
Hygelac (h[=i]-j[=e]'lak)
Hymn book, first English
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
Hymns, Addison's;
Cowper's
Hypatia (h[=i]-p[=a]'shia)
Hyperion (h[=i]-p[=e]'r[)i]-on)
Idealism of Victorian Age
Ideals
Idols, of Bacon
Idylls of the King
Il Penseroso (il pen-s[)e]-r[=o]'s[=o])
Iliad, Pope's translation;
Chapman's;
Dryden's
Imaginary Conversations
Impeachment of Warren Hastings
In Memoriam
Instauratio Magna (in-sta-r[=a]'shi-o)
Interludes
Intimations of Immortality
Jacobean poets
Jane Eyre (âr)
Jeffrey, Francis
Jest (or gest) books
Jew of Malta
John Gilpin
Johnson, Samuel; life;
works; his conversations;
Boswell's Life of Johnson
Jonathan Wild
Jonson, Ben; life; works
Joseph Andrews
Journal of the Plague Year
Journal to Stella
Judith
Juliana
Keats; life; works;
place in literature
Kilmarnock Burns, the
Kings' Treasuries
Kingsley, Charles
Knight's Tale, The
Knox, John
Kubla Khan (kob'lä kän)
Kyd, Thomas
L'Allegro (läl-[=a]'gr[=o])
Lady of the Lake
Lake poets, the
Lamb, Charles; life; works;
style
Lamb, Mary
Lamia (l[=a]'mi-ä)
Land of Cockaygne (k[)o]-kän')
Land of Dreams
Landor, Walter Savage; life;
works
Langland, William
Language, our first speech; dual
character of; Teutonic origin
Last Days of Pompeii (pom-p[=a]'y[=e])
Law, Hooker's idea of
Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity,
Lay Sermons
Layamon
Lays of Ancient Rome
Lead, Kindly Light
Lectures on Shakespeare
Legends of Goode Wimmen
Leviathan
Lewes, George Henry
Liberty of Prophesying
Life, compared to a sea voyage
Life of Johnson
Life of Savage
Lindsay, David
Literary Club, the
Literary criticism. See also
Critical writing.
Literary Reminiscences
Literature, definition; qualities;
tests; object in studying; importance;
Goethe's definition;
spirit of modern
Literature and Dogma
Lives, Plutarch's; Walton's
Lives of the Poets
Locke, John
Lockhart, John
Lorna Doone
Lost Leader, The
Lovelace, Richard
Lycidas (lis'[)i]-das)
Lydgate, John
Lyly, John (lil'[)i])
Lyra Apostolica
Lyrical Ballads
Lytton, Edward Bulwer
Macaulay; life; works;
characteristics
Macpherson, James (mak-fer'son)
Magazines, the modern
Maldon, The Battle of
Malory
Mandeville's Travels
Manfred
Marlowe; life; works;
and Milton; and Shakespeare
Marmion
Marvell, Andrew
Massinger, Philip
Matter of France, Rome, and Britain
Melodrama
Memoirs of a Cavalier
Meredith, George
Merlin and the Gleam
Metaphysical poets
Metrical romances
Middleton, Thomas
Miles Gloriosus (m[=e]'les gl[=o]-r[)i]-[=o]'s[u:]s)
Mill on the Floss
Milton; life; early or Horton
poems; prose works;
later poetry; and Shakespeare;
Wordsworth's sonnet on
Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border
Miracle plays
Mirror for Magistrates
Mr. Badman, Life and Death of
Modern literature, spirit of
Modern Painters
Modest Proposal, A
Moral Epistles
Moral period of the drama
Moral purpose in Victorian literature
Morality plays
More, Hannah
More, Thomas
Morris, William
Morte d'Arthur (mort där'ther)
Mother Hubbard's Tale
Mulèykeh (m[=u]-l[=a]'k[)a])
My Last Duchess
Mysteries of Udolpho, The ([=u]-dol'f[=o])
Mystery plays
New Atalantis
Newcomes, The
Newman, Cardinal; life;
prose works; poems;
style
Newspapers, the first
Nibelungenlied (n[=e]'b[)e]-lung-en-l[=e]d)
Noah, Play of
Norman Conquest
Norman pageantry
Norman period. See Anglo-Norman
Normans;
union with Saxons;
literature of
North, Christopher (John Wilson)
North, Thomas
Northanger Abbey (north'[=a]n-jer)
Northern Antiquities
Northumbrian literature; decline
of; how saved
Novel, meaning and history;
precursors of; discovery of
modern
Novelists, the first English.
See Scott, Dickens, etc.
Novum Organum (or'g[)a]-num)
Ode on the Morning of Christ's Nativity
Ode to Dejection
Ode to the West Wind
Odes, Pindaric
Odyssey, Pope's; Chapman's;
Dryden's
Old Fortunatus (for-t[=u]-n[=a]'tus)
Oliver Cromwell, Carlyle's
Oliver Twist
Origin of Species
Orlando Furioso (or-lan'd[=o] foo-r[=e]-[=o]'s[=o])
Orm, or Orme; his Ormulum
Orosius ([=o]-r[=o]'si-us), his history
Ossian (osh'ian) and Ossianic poems
Owl and Nightingale, The
Oxford movement
P's, The Four
Palamon and Arcite (pal'a-mon, är'-s[=i]te)
Pamela (pam'e-lä)
Pantisocracy (pan-t[=i]-sok'r[=a]-se), of Coleridge,
Southey, etc.
Paradise Lost
Paradise Regained
Paradyse of Daynty Devises
Paraphrase, of Cædmon
Parish Register, The
Pauline
Pearl, The
Pelham
Pendennis
Pepys, Samuel (pep'is, peeps, pips)
Percy, Thomas
Peregrine Pickle (per'e-grin)
Pericles and Aspasia (per'i-kl[=e]z, as-p[=a]'shi-ä)
Philistines, the
Phoenix (f[=e]'nix)
Pickwick Papers
Piers Plowman (peers)
Pilgrim's Progress
Pindaric odes (pin-där'ic)
Pippa Passes
Plain Man's Pathway to Heaven
Plutarch's Lives
Poems by Two Brothers
Poetaster, The
Polyolbion (pol-[)i]-ol'b[)i]-on)
Pope, Alexander; life;
works
Porter, Jane
Practice of Piety
Praeterita (pr[=e]-ter'[)i]-tä)
Praise of Folly
Prelude, The
Pre-Raphaelites (rä'f[=a]-el-ites)
Pride and Prejudice
Princess, The
Prometheus Unbound (pr[=o]-m[=e]'th[=u]s)
Prose development in eighteenth century
Pseudo-classicism (s[=u]'d[=o])
Purchas, Samuel; Purchas His
Pilgrimes
Puritan Age: history; literary
characteristics; poets;
prose writers; compared with
Elizabethan; summary;
selections for reading; bibliography,
questions;
chronology
Puritan movement
Puritans, wrong ideas of
Queen Mab, in Romeo and Juliet
Queen's Gardens
Rabbi Ben Ezra
Radcliffe, Mrs. Anne
Raleigh, Walter
Ralph Royster Doyster
Rambler essays
Rape of the Lock
Reade, Charles
Realism
Recluse, The
Reflections on the French Revolution
Religio Laici
Religio Medici
Religious period of the drama
Reliques of Ancient English Poetry
Reminiscences, Carlyle's
Remorse
Renaissance, the (re-n[=a]'säns, r[=e]'n[=a]s-sans, etc.)
Restoration Period: history; literary
characteristics; writers;
summary; selections for
reading; bibliography;
questions; chronology
Revival of Learning Period: history;
literature; summary;
selections for reading; bibliography;
questions; chronology
Revolt of Islam
Revolution, French; of
1688; age of
Richardson, Samuel; novels of
Rights of Man
Rime of the Ancient Alariner
Rime Royal
Ring and the Book, The
Robin Hood
Robinson Crusoe
Roderick
Roderick Random
Romance; Greek Romances
Romance languages
Romance of the Rose
Romantic comedy and tragedy
Romantic enthusiasm
Romantic poetry
Romanticism, Age of; history;
literary characteristics;
poets; prose writers; summary;
selections for reading;
bibliography; questions;
chronology
Romanticism, meaning
Romola
Rosalynde
Rossetti, Christina (ros-set't[=e])
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
Rowley Papers
Royal Society
Runes
Ruskin; life; works;
characteristics; message
Sackville, Thomas
St. Catherine, Play of
St. George's Guild
Saints' Everlasting Rest
Samson Agonistes (ag-o-nis't[=e]z)
Sartor Resartus (sar'tor re-sar'tus)
Satire; of Swift; of Thackeray
Saxon. See Anglo-Saxon
School of Shooting
Science, in Victorian Age
Scop, or poet (skop)
Scott, Walter; life; poetry;
novels; criticism of Jane
Austen
Scottish Chiefs
Scyld (skild), story of
Sea, names of, in Anglo-Saxon, 25
Seafarer, The
Seasons, The
Selections for reading:
Anglo-Saxon period;
Norman;
Chaucer;
Revival of Learning;
Elizabethan;
Puritan;
Restoration;
Eighteenth Century;
Romanticism;
Victorian
Sentimental Journey
Sesame and Lilies (ses'a-m[=e])
Shakespeare;
life;
works;
four periods;
sources of plays;
classification of plays;
doubtful plays;
poems;
place and influence
She Stoops to Conquer
Shelley;
life;
works;
compared with Wordsworth
Shepherds' Book
Shepherd's Calendar
Shirley, James
Shoemaker's Holiday, The
Short View of the English Stage
Sidney, Philip
Sigurd the Volsung
Silas Marner
Silent Woman, The
Sir Charles Grandison
Skelton, John
Sketches by Boz
Smollett, Tobias
Social development in eighteenth century
Sohrab and Rustum (soo'rhab, or s[=o]'hrab)
Songs of Innocence, and Songs of Experience
Sonnet, introduction of
Sonnets,
of Shakespeare;
of Milton
Sonnets from the Portuguese
Southey;
works
Spanish Gypsy
Spanish Tragedy
Specimens of English Dramatic Poets
Spectator, The
Spenser;
life;
works;
characteristics;
compared with Chaucer
Spenserian poets
Spenserian stanza
Stage, in early plays;
Elizabethan
Steele, Richard
Stephen, Leslie
Sterne, Lawrence
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Style, a test of literature
Suckling, John
Surrey, Henry Howard, Earl of
Swan, The
Swift;
life;
works;
satire;
characteristics
Swinburne
Sylva
Symonds, John Addington
Tabard Inn
Tale of a Tub
Tale of Two Cities
Tales from Shakespeare
Tales in Verse
Tales of the Hall
Tam o' Shanter
Tamburlaine (tam'bur-lane)
Task, The
Tatler, The
Taylor, Jeremy
Temora (te-m[=o]'rä)
Tempest, The
Temple, The
Tennyson;
life;
works;
characteristics;
message
Tenure of Kings and Magistrates
Terra
Tests of literature
Teufelsdroeckh (toy'felz-droek)
Thackeray;
life;
works;
characteristics;
style;
and Dickens
Thaddeus of Warsaw
Thalaba (täl-ä'bä)
Theater, the first
Thomson, James
Thyrsis (ther'sis)
Timber
Tintern Abbey
Tirocinium (t[=i]-r[=o]-sin'[)i]-um), or A Review of Schools
Tom Jones
Tories and Whigs
Tottel's Miscellany
Townley plays
Toxophilus (tok-sof'[)i]-lus)
Tractarian movement
Tracts for the Times
Tragedy, definition,
of blood
Transition poets
Traveler, The
Treasure Island
Treatises on Government
Tristram Shandy
Troilus and Cressida (tr[=o]'[)i]-lus, kres'-[)i]-dä)
Trollope, Anthony
Troyes, Treaty of
Truth, or Good Counsel
Tyndale, William (tin'dal)
Udall, Nicholas ([=u]'dal)
Udolpho ([=u]-dol'f[=o])
Unfortunate Traveller, The
Universality, a test of literature
University wits
Unto This Last
Utopia
Vanity Fair
Vanity of Human Wishes
Vaughan, Henry
Vercelli Book
Vicar of Wakefield
Vice, the, in old plays
Victorian Age,
history,
literary characteristics,
poets,
novelists,
essayists, etc.,
spirit of,
summary,
selections for reading,
bibliography,
questions,
chronology
View of the State of Ireland
Village, The
Vision of the Rood
Volpone (vol-p[=o]'ne)
Voyages, Hakluyt's
Wakefield plays
Waldere (väl-d[=a]'re, or väl'dare)
Waller, Edmund
Walton, Izaak
Waverley
Wealth of Nations
Weather, The, play of
Webster, John
Wedmore, Treaty of
Westward Ho
Whigs and Tories
Whitby (hwit'b[)i])
Widsith (vid'sith)
Wiglaf (vig'läf)
Wilson, John (Christopher North),
Wither, George
Women, in literature
Wordsworth,
life,
poetry,
poems of nature,
poems of life,
last works
Wordsworth, Dorothy
Worthies of England
Wuthering Heights (wuth'er-ing)
Wyatt (w[=i]'at), Thomas
Wyclif (wik'lif)
Wyrd (vird), or fate
York plays
[1.] From The Bard of the Dimbovitza, First Series, p. 73.
[2.] There is a mystery about this old hero which stirs our imagination, but which is never explained. It refers, probably, to some legend of the Anglo-Saxons which we have supplied from other sources, aided by some vague suggestions and glimpses of the past in the poem itself.
[3.] This is not the Beowulf who is hero of the poem.
[4.] Beowulf, ll. 26-50, a free rendering to suggest the alliteration of the original.
[5.] Grendel, of the Eoten (giant) race, the death shadow, the mark stalker, the shadow ganger, is also variously called god's foe, fiend of hell, Cain's brood, etc. It need hardly be explained that the latter terms are additions to the original poem, made, probably, by monks who copied the manuscript. A belief in Wyrd, the mighty power controlling the destinies of men, is the chief religious motive of the epic. In line 1056 we find a curious blending of pagan and Christian belief, where Wyrd is withstood by the "wise God."
[6.] Summary of ll. 710-727. We have not indicated in our translation (or in quotations from Garnett, Morley, Brooke, etc.) where parts of the text are omitted.