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THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY
OF
ENGLISH LITERATURE
VOLUME XIII
THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
II
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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
C. F. CLAY, MANAGER
London: FETTER LANE, E. C.
Edinburgh: 100 PRINCES STREET
Paris : THE GALIGNANI LIBRARY
Bombay, Calcutta and Madras: MACMILLAN AND CO. , LTD.
Toronto: J. M. DENT AND SONS, LTD.
Tokyo: THE MARUZEN-KABUSHIKI-KAISHA
Copyrighted in the United States of America by
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS,
2, 4 AND 6, WEST 45TH STREET, NEW YORK CITY
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THE
CAMBRIDGE HISTORY
OF
ENGLISH LITERATURE
EDITED BY
SIR A. W. WARD, Litt. D. , F. B. A. , Master of Peterhouse
AND
A. R. WALLER, M. A. , Peterhouse
VOLUME XIII
THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
II
*ET
NON
ROCA *SACRAE
HINC
CAMBRIDGE:
at the University Press
1916
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THE NEW YORK
PUBLIC LʻBRARY
909684A
ASTOR, LENOX AND
TILDEN FOUNDATIONS
R
1937
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PREFATORY NOTE
AMON
MONG the names of the writers treated in our concluding
volumes, that of Henry James, who had quite recently
elected to identify himself altogether with his adopted country,
would, naturally, have found an honourable place, had we known
that he would be lost so soon to the world of English letters.
But the swift hand of death left us no time for a fit appreciation
of one who was himself a most careful, as well as a most
considerate, literary critic. We have had to content ourselves
with a list of his publications in the bibliographical section
of our work.
A. W. W.
A. R. W.
April 1916
Cosaw'3)
مریم
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CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
CARLYLE
PAGE
By J. G. ROBERTSON, M. A. , B. Sc. (Glasgow), Ph. D. (Leipzig),
Professor of German Language and Literature in the
University of London
Goethe on Carlyle. Carlyle's early years. Life of Schiller. Carlyle's
marriage. His relation to Goethe. Sartor Resartus, The French
Revolution. On Heroes. Chartism. Past and Present. Latter-
Day Pamphlets. Oliver Cromwell. John Sterling. Frederick
the Great. Carlyle as a moral force
1
CHAPTER II
THE TENNYSONS
By HERBERT J. C. GRIERSON, M. A. , Professor of Rhetoric and
English Literature in the University of Edinburgh
Tennyson's early poems. The Princess. In Memoriam. Maud.
Idylls of the King. Enoch Arden and dialect ballads. Dramas
and later poems and ballads. His metres. Summary. Charles
Tennyson. Frederick Tennyson
23
CHAPTER III
ROBERT BROWNING AND ELIZABETH BARRETT
BROWNING
By Sir HENRY JONES, M. A. , F. B. A. , Professor of Moral
Philosophy in the University of Glasgow
Robert Browning's early years. The influence upon him of Byron and
Shelley. Pauline. Paracelsus. Strafford. Sordello. Bells and
Pomegranates. The dramatic element in Browning's work.
Elizabeth Barrett's Poems. Sonnets from the Portuguese, Casa
Guidi Windows. Aurora Leigh. Christmas Eve and Easter
Day. The Ring and the Book. Later poems.
49
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viii
Contents
CHAPTER IV
MATTHEW ARNOLD, ARTHUR PUGH CLOUGH,
JAMES THOMSON
By W. LEWIS JONES, M. A. , sometime Scholar of Queens'
College, Professor of English Language and Literature
at the University College of North Wales, Bangor
PAGE
Arnold's early poems.
The Strayed Reveller. Arnold's 'theory of
poetry. Sohrab and Rustum. His later poems. The qualities
of his poetry. His prose. Essays in Criticism. The Study of
Celtic Literature. Culture and Anarchy. Arthur Hugh Clough.
His hexameters. The Bothie. James Thomson. The City of
Dreadful Night
85
CHAPTER V
THE ROSSETTIS, WILLIAM MORRIS, SWINBURNE
AND OTHERS
By A. HAMILTON THOMPSON, M. A. , F. S. A. , St John's College
The pre-Raphaelites. The Germ. The Blessed Damozel. The House
of Life. The Earthly Paradise. Sigurd the Volsung. Morris's
prose narratives. Swinburne's early years. Atalanta in Calydon.
Poems and Ballads. Tristram of Lyonesse. Swinburne's prose.
Christina Rossetti. Arthur O'Shaughnessy. Edward FitzGerald.
1
110
.
1
CHAPTER VI
LESSER POETS OF THE MIDDLE AND LATER
NINETEENTH CENTURY
1
By GEORGE SAINTSBURY, M. A. , Merton College, Oxford,
LL. D. , D. Litt. , F. B. A.
Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome. Tupper's Proverbial Philosophy.
Bailey's Festus. Ernest Jones. Ebenezer Jones. Alexander Smith.
Sydney Dobell. Aytoun's Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers. Bon
Gaultier Ballads. Percival Leigh. W. J. Prowse. Mortimer
Collins. Edward Lear. Frederick Locker. C. S. Calverley.
H. D. Traill. J. K. Stephen. Lewis Carroll. Keble.
Christmas Eve and Easter
Day. The Ring and the Book. Later poems.
49
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viii
Contents
CHAPTER IV
MATTHEW ARNOLD, ARTHUR PUGH CLOUGH,
JAMES THOMSON
By W. LEWIS JONES, M. A. , sometime Scholar of Queens'
College, Professor of English Language and Literature
at the University College of North Wales, Bangor
PAGE
Arnold's early poems.
The Strayed Reveller. Arnold's 'theory of
poetry. Sohrab and Rustum. His later poems. The qualities
of his poetry. His prose. Essays in Criticism. The Study of
Celtic Literature. Culture and Anarchy. Arthur Hugh Clough.
His hexameters. The Bothie. James Thomson. The City of
Dreadful Night
85
CHAPTER V
THE ROSSETTIS, WILLIAM MORRIS, SWINBURNE
AND OTHERS
By A. HAMILTON THOMPSON, M. A. , F. S. A. , St John's College
The pre-Raphaelites. The Germ. The Blessed Damozel. The House
of Life. The Earthly Paradise. Sigurd the Volsung. Morris's
prose narratives. Swinburne's early years. Atalanta in Calydon.
Poems and Ballads. Tristram of Lyonesse. Swinburne's prose.
Christina Rossetti. Arthur O'Shaughnessy. Edward FitzGerald.
1
110
.
1
CHAPTER VI
LESSER POETS OF THE MIDDLE AND LATER
NINETEENTH CENTURY
1
By GEORGE SAINTSBURY, M. A. , Merton College, Oxford,
LL. D. , D. Litt. , F. B. A.
Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome. Tupper's Proverbial Philosophy.
Bailey's Festus. Ernest Jones. Ebenezer Jones. Alexander Smith.
Sydney Dobell. Aytoun's Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers. Bon
Gaultier Ballads. Percival Leigh. W. J. Prowse. Mortimer
Collins. Edward Lear. Frederick Locker. C. S. Calverley.
H. D. Traill. J. K. Stephen. Lewis Carroll. Keble. Newman.
Isaac Williams. Faber. Neale. Trench. W. M. Wilks Call.
T. T. Lynch. Translations. Caroline Archer Clive. Sarah Flower
Adams. Fanny Kemble. Adelaide Anne Procter. Isa Craig. Jean
Ingelow. Harriet Eleanor Hamilton-King. Augusta Webster.
Margaret Veley. Mathilde Blind. Michael Field. Constance
Naden. Amy Levy. Mary E. Coleridge. Lord Houghton.
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Contents
ix
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6
T. Gordon Hake. Sir F. H. Doyle. Alfred Domett. W. J. Linton.
W. B. Scott. Aubrey de Vere. Thomas Westwood. Charles
Mackay. Coventry Patmore. George Macdonald. F. T. Palgrave.
William Johnson (Cory). T. E. Brown. R. W. Dixon. Sebastian
Evans. Owen Meredith. Edwin Arnold. Lewis Morris. Sir
Alfred Lyall. Alfred Austin, Roden Noel. Lord de Tabley.
Thomas Ashe. John Addington Symonds. Robert Buchanan.
Frederic Myers. Andrew Lang. French forms of verse. W. E.
Henley. Philip Bourke Marston. Robert Louis Stevenson.
H. E. Clarke. E. C. Lefroy. John Davidson. Francis Thompson.
Ernest Dowson. Richard Middleton. Summary
147
CHAPTER VII
THE PROSODY OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
By GEORGE SAINTSBURY
Ossian. Percy's Reliques. Chatterton. Blake. Anti-Bysshism.
Coleridge's Christabel. Southey. Scott. Moore. Byron. Shelley.
Keats. Warner's Metronariston. Guest. Victorian prosody.
The hexameter controversy. Later prosodists. Summary
225
.
CHAPTER VIII
NINETEENTH-CENTURY DRAMA
By HAROLD CHILD, sometime Scholar of Brasenose
College, Oxford
The drama a popular amusement in the nineteenth century. Richard
Lalor Sheil. Charles Robert Maturin. H. H. Milman. Sheridan
Knowles. R. H. Horne. J. Westland Marston. Melodrama. Black-
eyd Susan Dion Boucicault. Tom Taylor. W. G. Wills.
Douglas Jerrold. John Poole.
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THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY
OF
ENGLISH LITERATURE
VOLUME XIII
THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
II
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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
C. F. CLAY, MANAGER
London: FETTER LANE, E. C.
Edinburgh: 100 PRINCES STREET
Paris : THE GALIGNANI LIBRARY
Bombay, Calcutta and Madras: MACMILLAN AND CO. , LTD.
Toronto: J. M. DENT AND SONS, LTD.
Tokyo: THE MARUZEN-KABUSHIKI-KAISHA
Copyrighted in the United States of America by
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS,
2, 4 AND 6, WEST 45TH STREET, NEW YORK CITY
1
1
All rights reserved
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THE
CAMBRIDGE HISTORY
OF
ENGLISH LITERATURE
EDITED BY
SIR A. W. WARD, Litt. D. , F. B. A. , Master of Peterhouse
AND
A. R. WALLER, M. A. , Peterhouse
VOLUME XIII
THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
II
*ET
NON
ROCA *SACRAE
HINC
CAMBRIDGE:
at the University Press
1916
## p. iv (#8) ###############################################
THE NEW YORK
PUBLIC LʻBRARY
909684A
ASTOR, LENOX AND
TILDEN FOUNDATIONS
R
1937
## p. v (#9) ################################################
PREFATORY NOTE
AMON
MONG the names of the writers treated in our concluding
volumes, that of Henry James, who had quite recently
elected to identify himself altogether with his adopted country,
would, naturally, have found an honourable place, had we known
that he would be lost so soon to the world of English letters.
But the swift hand of death left us no time for a fit appreciation
of one who was himself a most careful, as well as a most
considerate, literary critic. We have had to content ourselves
with a list of his publications in the bibliographical section
of our work.
A. W. W.
A. R. W.
April 1916
Cosaw'3)
مریم
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CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
CARLYLE
PAGE
By J. G. ROBERTSON, M. A. , B. Sc. (Glasgow), Ph. D. (Leipzig),
Professor of German Language and Literature in the
University of London
Goethe on Carlyle. Carlyle's early years. Life of Schiller. Carlyle's
marriage. His relation to Goethe. Sartor Resartus, The French
Revolution. On Heroes. Chartism. Past and Present. Latter-
Day Pamphlets. Oliver Cromwell. John Sterling. Frederick
the Great. Carlyle as a moral force
1
CHAPTER II
THE TENNYSONS
By HERBERT J. C. GRIERSON, M. A. , Professor of Rhetoric and
English Literature in the University of Edinburgh
Tennyson's early poems. The Princess. In Memoriam. Maud.
Idylls of the King. Enoch Arden and dialect ballads. Dramas
and later poems and ballads. His metres. Summary. Charles
Tennyson. Frederick Tennyson
23
CHAPTER III
ROBERT BROWNING AND ELIZABETH BARRETT
BROWNING
By Sir HENRY JONES, M. A. , F. B. A. , Professor of Moral
Philosophy in the University of Glasgow
Robert Browning's early years. The influence upon him of Byron and
Shelley. Pauline. Paracelsus. Strafford. Sordello. Bells and
Pomegranates. The dramatic element in Browning's work.
Elizabeth Barrett's Poems. Sonnets from the Portuguese, Casa
Guidi Windows. Aurora Leigh. Christmas Eve and Easter
Day. The Ring and the Book. Later poems.
49
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viii
Contents
CHAPTER IV
MATTHEW ARNOLD, ARTHUR PUGH CLOUGH,
JAMES THOMSON
By W. LEWIS JONES, M. A. , sometime Scholar of Queens'
College, Professor of English Language and Literature
at the University College of North Wales, Bangor
PAGE
Arnold's early poems.
The Strayed Reveller. Arnold's 'theory of
poetry. Sohrab and Rustum. His later poems. The qualities
of his poetry. His prose. Essays in Criticism. The Study of
Celtic Literature. Culture and Anarchy. Arthur Hugh Clough.
His hexameters. The Bothie. James Thomson. The City of
Dreadful Night
85
CHAPTER V
THE ROSSETTIS, WILLIAM MORRIS, SWINBURNE
AND OTHERS
By A. HAMILTON THOMPSON, M. A. , F. S. A. , St John's College
The pre-Raphaelites. The Germ. The Blessed Damozel. The House
of Life. The Earthly Paradise. Sigurd the Volsung. Morris's
prose narratives. Swinburne's early years. Atalanta in Calydon.
Poems and Ballads. Tristram of Lyonesse. Swinburne's prose.
Christina Rossetti. Arthur O'Shaughnessy. Edward FitzGerald.
1
110
.
1
CHAPTER VI
LESSER POETS OF THE MIDDLE AND LATER
NINETEENTH CENTURY
1
By GEORGE SAINTSBURY, M. A. , Merton College, Oxford,
LL. D. , D. Litt. , F. B. A.
Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome. Tupper's Proverbial Philosophy.
Bailey's Festus. Ernest Jones. Ebenezer Jones. Alexander Smith.
Sydney Dobell. Aytoun's Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers. Bon
Gaultier Ballads. Percival Leigh. W. J. Prowse. Mortimer
Collins. Edward Lear. Frederick Locker. C. S. Calverley.
H. D. Traill. J. K. Stephen. Lewis Carroll. Keble.
Christmas Eve and Easter
Day. The Ring and the Book. Later poems.
49
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viii
Contents
CHAPTER IV
MATTHEW ARNOLD, ARTHUR PUGH CLOUGH,
JAMES THOMSON
By W. LEWIS JONES, M. A. , sometime Scholar of Queens'
College, Professor of English Language and Literature
at the University College of North Wales, Bangor
PAGE
Arnold's early poems.
The Strayed Reveller. Arnold's 'theory of
poetry. Sohrab and Rustum. His later poems. The qualities
of his poetry. His prose. Essays in Criticism. The Study of
Celtic Literature. Culture and Anarchy. Arthur Hugh Clough.
His hexameters. The Bothie. James Thomson. The City of
Dreadful Night
85
CHAPTER V
THE ROSSETTIS, WILLIAM MORRIS, SWINBURNE
AND OTHERS
By A. HAMILTON THOMPSON, M. A. , F. S. A. , St John's College
The pre-Raphaelites. The Germ. The Blessed Damozel. The House
of Life. The Earthly Paradise. Sigurd the Volsung. Morris's
prose narratives. Swinburne's early years. Atalanta in Calydon.
Poems and Ballads. Tristram of Lyonesse. Swinburne's prose.
Christina Rossetti. Arthur O'Shaughnessy. Edward FitzGerald.
1
110
.
1
CHAPTER VI
LESSER POETS OF THE MIDDLE AND LATER
NINETEENTH CENTURY
1
By GEORGE SAINTSBURY, M. A. , Merton College, Oxford,
LL. D. , D. Litt. , F. B. A.
Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome. Tupper's Proverbial Philosophy.
Bailey's Festus. Ernest Jones. Ebenezer Jones. Alexander Smith.
Sydney Dobell. Aytoun's Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers. Bon
Gaultier Ballads. Percival Leigh. W. J. Prowse. Mortimer
Collins. Edward Lear. Frederick Locker. C. S. Calverley.
H. D. Traill. J. K. Stephen. Lewis Carroll. Keble. Newman.
Isaac Williams. Faber. Neale. Trench. W. M. Wilks Call.
T. T. Lynch. Translations. Caroline Archer Clive. Sarah Flower
Adams. Fanny Kemble. Adelaide Anne Procter. Isa Craig. Jean
Ingelow. Harriet Eleanor Hamilton-King. Augusta Webster.
Margaret Veley. Mathilde Blind. Michael Field. Constance
Naden. Amy Levy. Mary E. Coleridge. Lord Houghton.
1
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Contents
ix
PAGE
6
T. Gordon Hake. Sir F. H. Doyle. Alfred Domett. W. J. Linton.
W. B. Scott. Aubrey de Vere. Thomas Westwood. Charles
Mackay. Coventry Patmore. George Macdonald. F. T. Palgrave.
William Johnson (Cory). T. E. Brown. R. W. Dixon. Sebastian
Evans. Owen Meredith. Edwin Arnold. Lewis Morris. Sir
Alfred Lyall. Alfred Austin, Roden Noel. Lord de Tabley.
Thomas Ashe. John Addington Symonds. Robert Buchanan.
Frederic Myers. Andrew Lang. French forms of verse. W. E.
Henley. Philip Bourke Marston. Robert Louis Stevenson.
H. E. Clarke. E. C. Lefroy. John Davidson. Francis Thompson.
Ernest Dowson. Richard Middleton. Summary
147
CHAPTER VII
THE PROSODY OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
By GEORGE SAINTSBURY
Ossian. Percy's Reliques. Chatterton. Blake. Anti-Bysshism.
Coleridge's Christabel. Southey. Scott. Moore. Byron. Shelley.
Keats. Warner's Metronariston. Guest. Victorian prosody.
The hexameter controversy. Later prosodists. Summary
225
.
CHAPTER VIII
NINETEENTH-CENTURY DRAMA
By HAROLD CHILD, sometime Scholar of Brasenose
College, Oxford
The drama a popular amusement in the nineteenth century. Richard
Lalor Sheil. Charles Robert Maturin. H. H. Milman. Sheridan
Knowles. R. H. Horne. J. Westland Marston. Melodrama. Black-
eyd Susan Dion Boucicault. Tom Taylor. W. G. Wills.
Douglas Jerrold. John Poole.
