THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE

An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes

Volume XII: English THE ROMANTIC REVIVAL The Nineteenth Century, I

Edited by A. W. Ward & A. R. Waller

Chapter I.	Sir Walter Scott
	By T. F. HENDERSON, LL.D., St. Andrews The Scottish literary revival of the eighteenth century Scott’s relations with the past His early years His German studies; Ballad poetry Minstrelsy of the Scottish-Border The Lay of the Last Minstrel Marmion The Lady of the Lake Rokeby Scott’s lyrics Scott and Byron Border Antiquities Scenic arrangement The sweep and compass of his narrative; The Waverley Novels The characters in his novels His treatment of love His humour His historical inaccuracies His style The influence of his work BIBLIOGRAPHY

II.	Byron
	By F. W. MOORMAN, B.A. (Lond.), Ph.D. (Strassburg), Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature in the University of Leeds Early years Departure from England Life at Venice and Ravenna The Liberal Life at Pisa and Genoa Death at Mesolonghi Hours of Idleness English Bards and Scotch Reviewers Childe Harold The Verse-tales Dramatic works Lyrics Beppo The Vision of Judgment Don Juan BIBLIOGRAPHY

III.	Shelley
	By C. H. HERFORD, Litt.D., Trinity College, Professor of English Literature in the University of Manchester Queen Mab; Alastor Laon and Cythna Prometheus Unbound The Cenci Peter Bell the Third Odes Epipsychidion; Adonais The Defence of Poetry The Triumph of Life Summary BIBLIOGRAPHY

IV.	Keats
	By C. H. HERFORD Early years Endymion Isabella; Letters Hyperion The Eve of St. Agnes La Belle Dame Sans Merci Lamia Odes Sonnets Summary BIBLIOGRAPHY

V.	Lesser Poets, 1790–1837 ROGERS, CAMPBELL, MOORE AND OTHERS
	By GEORGE SAINTSBURY, M.A., Merton College, Oxford, LL.D., D.Litt., F.B.A., Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature in the University of Edinburgh Rogers Campbell The Pleasures of Hope Moore Irish Melodies; Lalla Rookh Hartley Coleridge Thomas Hood The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies Winthrop Mackworth Praed Sir Henry Taylor; Philip van Artevelde George Darley Thomas Lovell Beddoes Death’s Jest Book Charles Jeremiah Wells; Joseph and his Brethren Richard H. Horne Charles Whitehead Thomas Wade James and Horace Smith; Rejected Addresses Richard Harris Barham; The Ingoldsby Legends Poetesses Joanna Baillie Mrs. Hemans; L.E.L. Sara Coleridge Henry James Pye William Sotheby; John Abraham Heraud; Robert Pollok; Robert Montgomery Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) Thomas Haynes Bayly Robert Bloomfield; John Clare John Bampfylde John Leyden Robert Stephen Hawker William Barnes Bernard Barton James Montgomery Ebenezer Elliott Henry Kirke White Francis Cary Charles Wolfe Reginald Heber BIBLIOGRAPHY

VI.	Reviews and Magazines in the Early Years of the Nineteenth Century
	By the Hon. ARTHUR R. D. ELLIOT, M.A., Trinity College, Hon. D.C.L. (Durham), sometime editor of The Edinburgh Review The Edinburgh Review Jeffrey Brougham The Quarterly Review Gifford; Scott; Lockhart; Croker Blackwood’s Magazine Lockhart; Wilson; Hogg; Maginn Noctes Ambrosianœ The London Magazine; De Quincey’s Opium Eater; Lamb’s Roast Pig The New Monthly Magazine BIBLIOGRAPHY

VII.	Hazlitt
	By W. D. HOWE, Professor of English in the University of Indiana, U. S. A. Hazlitt’s early years His later life His work as a critic His dramatic criticism His writings on art His quotations His influence BIBLIOGRAPHY

VIII.	Lamb
	By A. HAMILTON THOMPSON, M.A., F.S.A., St. John’s College Lamb’s early days and friendships Mary Lamb Charles Lloyd Tales from Shakespear Specimens of English Dramatic Poets Contributions to periodicals The Essays of Elia Letters His later life Summary BIBLIOGRAPHY

IX.	The Landors, Leigh Hunt, De Quincey
	By GEORGE SAINTSBURY Walter Savage Landor’s prose and verse His classicism Gebir Count Julian Hellenics Imaginary Conversations Landor as a critic Leigh Hunt’s influence His merits and defects De Quincey’s mastery in ornate prose Robert Eyres Landor BIBLIOGRAPHY

X.	Jane Austen
	By HAROLD CHILD, sometime Scholar of Brasenose College, Oxford Early tales Pride and Prejudice Northanger Abbey Sense and Sensibility Mansfield Park Emma Persuasion BIBLIOGRAPHY

XI.	Lesser Novelists
	By HAROLD CHILD Susan Edmonstone Ferrier Catherine Grace Gore Thomas Henry Lister Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: Frankenstein Catherine Crowe: The Night Side of Nature George Croly G. P. R. James W. H. Ainsworth Marryat Theodore Hook John Galt Moir’s Mansie Wauch BIBLIOGRAPHY

XII.	The Oxford Movement
	By the Ven. W. H. HUTTON, B.D., Archdeacon of Northampton, Canon of Peterborough and Fellow of St. John’s College, Oxford Keble R. H. Froude Tracts for the Times Newman at St. Mary’s Tract 90 Ward’s The Ideal of a Christian Church Newman joins the Roman Catholic Church Pusey Keble’s Christian Year Isaac Williams Newman’s Apologia pro vita sua The Dream of Gerontius His later works Dean Church; Trench Liddon Neale; The Mozleys Hook; The Wilberforces Wiseman; Manning; Pollen; Faber; Dalgairns; W. G. Ward; de Lisle Dolben F. E. Paget BIBLIOGRAPHY

XIII.	The Growth of Liberal Theology
	By the Rev. F. E. HUTCHINSON, M.A., Trinity College, Oxford, formerly Chaplain of King’s College The Evangelicals The Clapham sect The influence of Coleridge Erskine of Linlathen The noetics Whately Hampden Thomas Arnold Frederick Denison Maurice Robertson of Brighton The Broad Churchmen Jowett Stanley Essays and Reviews Robertson Smith Ecce Homo Westcott and Hort; Lightfoot T. H. Green; Martineau Father Tyrrell BIBLIOGRAPHY

XIV.	Historians WRITERS ON ANCIENT AND EARLY ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY
	By Sir A. W. WARD, Litt.D., F.B.A., Master of Peterhouse The influence of Niebuhr Arnold’s Roman History Merivale’s Romans under the Empire Long’s Decline of the Roman Republic Thirlwall and Grote Finlay’s History of Greece Freeman George Rawlinson Smith’s Dictionaries Milman’s Latin Christianity Arthur Penrhyn Stanley William Bright Hodgkin’s Italy and her Invaders BIBLIOGRAPHY

XV.	Scholars, Antiquaries and Bibliographers
	By Sir JOHN EDWIN SANDYS, Litt.D., F.B.A., Fellow of St. John’s College and Public Orator in the University of Cambridge Greek Scholars Latin Scholars Classical Archæologists Oriental Scholars English Scholars Archæological Antiquaries Literary Antiquaries Bibliographers BIBLIOGRAPHY

THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE

An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes

Volume XII: English THE ROMANTIC REVIVAL The Nineteenth Century, I

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