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PREFATORY NOTE
OUR thanks are due to Mr A. T. Bartholomew, Mr G. A. Brown
and Mr H. V. Routh for specific assistance in respect of the
bibliographies to which their several initials are appended, and to
Mr Bartholomew for bibliographical help in other directions.
The twelfth volume, dealing with the earlier years of the
nineteenth century, is in the press; the concluding volumes
(XIII and xiv), dealing with the Victorian age, will be published
together, as in the case of the two volumes which were concerned
with the Elizabethan drama.
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A. R. W.
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CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
EDMUND BURKE
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PAGE
By HERBERT J. C. GRIERSON, M. A. , LL. D. , Chalmers Pro-
creare
fessor of English Literature in the University of
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Aberdeen
iteer? !
Early Life and Work. A Vindication of Natural Society. The
Sublime and Beautiful. Political Career. Writings on Public
Affairs. Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents.
The American Controversy. Writings on Ireland. Indian
Speeches. Warren Hastings. The French Revolution. Burke's
Political Philosophy. His Temperament. His Prose. The
Speech on Economical Reform. A Letter to a Noble Lord.
Burke as an Orator
1
CHAPTER II
POLITICAL WRITERS AND SPEAKERS
By C. W. PREVITÉ-ORTON, M. A. , Fellow of St John's
College
Light, Short, Satiric Verse. The Rolliad. John Wolcot (Peter
Pindar). George Canning. The Anti-Jacobin. George Ellis.
John Hookham Frere. William Gifford. The Baviad. The
Maeviad. The Needy Knife-grinder. Richard Payne Knight.
Erasmus Darwin. The Rovers. The New Morality. William
Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft. Political Justice. Caleb
Williams. St LeonVindication of the Rights of Woman.
Thomas Paine. The Rights of Man. The Age of Reason.
William Cobbett. Weekly Political Register. Rural Rides.
Orators. Charles James Fox. The Younger Pitt. Richard
Brinsley Sheridan. Henry Grattan.
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CHAPTER III
BENTHAM AND THE EARLY UTILITARIANS
By W. R. SORLEY, Litt. D. , F. B. A. , Fellow of King's College,
Knightbridge Professor of Moral Philosophy
PAGE
Jeremy Bentham. His Friends. Étienne Dumont, James Mill. The
Westminster Review. A Fragment on Government. Sir William
Blackstone's Commentaries. The Principle of Utility. Beccaria's
Crimes and Punishments. An Introduction to the Principle of
Morals and Legislation. The Hedonic Calculus. Natural Rights.
Arthur Young. Travels in France. Thomas Robert Malthus.
An Essay on the Principle of Population. Dugald Stewart
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CHAPTER IV
WILLIAM COW PER
By HAROLD CHILD, sometime Scholar of Brasenose
College, Oxford
Cowper's Early Years.
His Friendship with the Unwing. John
Newton. Olney Hymns. Satires. Lady Austen. The Task.
John Gilpin. On the Receipt of my Mother's Picture. Trans-
lations. Letters
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CHAPTER V
WILLIAM WORDS WORTH
By ÉMILE LEGOUIS, Professor of English Language and
Literature at the Sorbonne
The Influence of Rousseau. Wordsworth's Childhood. His Wander-
ings. The French Revolution. Dorothy Wordsworth. Friendship
with Coleridge. Lyrical Ballads. Wordsworth's Marriage. Ode
to Duty. The Excursion. The White Doe of Rylstone.
Laodamia. Sonnets. Later Years. The Ruined Cottage. His
poetry of Nature. There was a Boy. Wordsworth and Shelley.
Michael, The Lucy poems. His Description of the Moral
Emotions
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CHAPTER VI
COLERIDGE
By C. E. VAUGHAN, M. A. , Balliol College, Oxford
PAGE
Early Years. The French Revolution. Coleridge's Friendship with
Wordsworth. The Opium habit. The Friend. Biographia
Literaria. Influence of Wordsworth. Kubla Khan. The Ancient
Mariner. Christabel. The Poetry of Nature. Anima Poetæ.
The Hour of Romance. Coleridge's Theory of Criticism. Coleridge
as Philosopher.
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CHAPTER VII
GEORGE CRABBE
By HAROLD CHILD
Early Life. The Library. The Village. The Newspaper. The
Parish Register. Sir Eustace Grey. The Borough. Tales.
Tales of the Hall. The Change in English Poetry during
Crabbe's Lifetime. Crabbe's Couplets. Summary .
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CHAPTER VIII
SOUTHEY
LESSER POETS OF THE LATER EIGHTEENTH
CENTURY
A
By GEORGE SAINTSBURY, M. A. , Merton College, Oxford,
LL. D. , D. Litt. , F. B. A. Professor of Rhetorie and English
Literature in the University of Edinburgh
SOUTHEY
Details of Southey's Life. His Politics. Wat Tyler. Joan of Arc.
Southey's Blank Verse. Holly Tree. My Days among the Dead
are passed. Ballads. Thalaba. Madoc. Southey as Historian
and Reviewer. Commonplace Books. The Curse of Kehama.
The Life of Nelson. Roderick the last of the Goths. The Life
of John Wesley. Miscellaneous Prose. The Lives of the
Admirals. The Doctor. Southey's Letters. Southey and
Dryden.
LESSER POETS OF THE LATER EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
Anstey. The New Bath Guide. Hanbury Williams. John Hall
Stevenson. Crazy Tales. Erasmus Darwin. The Botanic
Garden. The Loves of the Plants. William Hayley. The
Triumph of Temper. The Della Cruscans. William Lisle Bowles.
Frank Sayers. Sir William Jones
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CHAPTER IX
BLAKE
Profeu
PAGE
By J. P. R. WALLIS, M. A. , Assistant Lecturer in English
Tra irene
Literature in the University of Liverpool
Early Career. Poetical Sketches. An Island in the Moon. Begin-
nings of Mysticism. Songs of Innocence and Thel. Tiriel.
Revolutionary writings. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
and the earlier 'Prophecies. ' The later Lambeth books. Songs
of Experience. Europe and The Song of Los. The Urizen group.
The crisis in Blake's spiritual development. The Four Zoas. His
mystical Christianity. Milton and Jerusalem. His Theory of
Imagination. Lesser Verse and Prose. Blake and the Romantic
Revival
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CHAPTER X
BURNS
LESSER SCOTTISH VERSE
By T. F. HENDERSON
LL. D. st thdra
BURNS
The Old School of Scottish Verse. Burns's Indebtedness to his Pre-
decessors. The Kilmarnock volume. The Cotter's Saturday
Night. Burns's 'English' poems. His six-line stave. Death
and Doctor Hornbook. The Address to the Deil. Holy Willie's
Prayer. The Auld Farmer's New Year Salutation to his Mare
Maggie. The Christis Kirk stave. The Holy Fair. Halloween.
The Cherrie and The Slae stave. The Jolly Beggars. Tam o'
Shanter. Burns at Edinburgh. His Songs and Adaptations.
LESSER SCOTTISH VERSE
Joanna Baillie. Lady Anne Lindsay of Balcarres. Susanna Blamire.
Mrs Grant of Carron. Mrs Grant of Laggan. Elizabeth Hamilton.
Mrs John Hunter. Mrs Maclehose (“Clarinda'). Caroline Oliphant
Lady Nairne. Dr Blacklock. Richard Gall. John Hamilton.
John Lapraik. John Lowe. Hector MacNeil. James Tytler.
John Mayne. Sir Alexander Boswell. Robert Tannahill. Alex-
ander Wilson. William Motherwell. James Hogg. The Queen's
Wake. John Leyden. Allan Cunningham. Thomas Mounsey
Cunningham. William Tennant. John Hyslop. Robert Gilfillan.
William Nicholson. William Glen. William Watt. Michael
Bruce and John Logan. The Cuckoo. James Grahame. Robert
Pollok
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CHAPTER XI
THE PROSODY OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
By GEORGE SAINTSBURY, M. A.
PAGE
Changes in the Heroic Couplet of Dryden. The Octosyllabic Couplet.
The Spenserian Stanza. Blank Verse. Lyric Poetry of the
Eighteenth Century. Edward Bysshe's Art of Poetry. Eigh-
teenth Century Prosodists. Joshua Steele. Young. Shenstone.
Gray. Johnson. John Mason.
