Burney, Fanny, life and novels, 319; | Cowper, William, account of, 336;
extract from novels, 320.
Burns, Robert, account of, 339; his
songs, 340.
Butler, Samuel, writings of, 207.
Byron, George Gordon, Lord, criti-
cised by Edinburgh Review, 378;
Childe Harold, 379; poems and
plays, 382.
CEDMON, account of, 34; poem by,
quoted, 35.
Cæsar, Julius, invades Britain, 21.
Caleb Williams, novel by William
Godwin, 411.
Campaspe, play by Lyly, extract from,
Campbell, Thomas, poems of, 364.
Canterbury Tales, quoted, 74-78.
Canute, see Cnut.
Carew, Thomas, poems of, 177.
Castaway, The, poem by Cowper,
quoted, 337.
Cavaliers, character of, 186.
poems of, quoted, 337-339.
Crabbe, George, poems of, 342.
Cressy, battle of, 57.
Cromwell, Oliver, Lord Protector, 187;
John Milton his secretary, 190.
Crown of Laurel, poem by Skelton, 88.
Crusades, influence of, 45.
Cuthbert, disciple of Beda, 37.
DANES, war with English, 40; con-
quer England, 40; a Teutonic tribe,
Daniel, Samuel, poems of, 115.
Davenant, Sir William, improves the
stage, 229.
De Foe, Daniel, account of, 257; ex-
tracts from works, 259.
Dekker, Thomas, extracts from, 164.
Denham, Sir John, poet of Charles I.'s
reign, 172.
Denmark, voyage in, 38; Northmen
from, 41.
De Quincey, Thomas, writings of, 410.
Caxton, William, life and work of, 80. Deserted Village, extract from, 317.
Cedric the Saxon, 29.
Cecil, Robert, 114.
Chapman, George, translator of Ho-
mer, 162.
Charles I., King, affairs in his reign,
187; beheaded, 187.
Charles II., King, character of, 198;
estimate of Cowley, 203.
Chatterton, Thomas, account of his
life, 329; works, 332.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 61; life and works,
69; his Canterbury Tales, 71-80.
Childe Harold, poem, quoted, 379.
Chivalry, influence of, 46.
Clarissa Harlowe, quoted, 300.
Clubs, in London, 244.
Cnut, king of England, 41; song
composed by, 42.
Colonel Jack, De Foe's novel, extract
from, 259.
Collins, William, poems of, 295.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 348; life
and poetry, 349-356.
Complete Angler, The, description of,
Condell, Henry, edits Shakespeare,
140.
Confessio Amantis, by Gower, 68.
Congreve, William, account of, 283;
play, extract from, 284.
Consolations of Philosophy, by Boe-
thius, quoted, 38.
Cornwall, Britons settle in, 22.
Donne, John, life of, 170; extracts
from poetry of, 171.
Drama, English, sudden rise of, 121;
its originality, 135; of the Restora-
tion, 228.
Drayton, Michael, poems of, 115.
Drummond, William, description of
Jonson, 157.
Dryden, John, life and writings, 229;
extracts from plays, 231, 235; last
days, 239.
EDDIUS, writes first English biogra-
phy, 36.
Edgeworth, Maria, novels of, 325;
visit to Scott, 424.
Edinburgh Review, criticises Byron,
378; criticises Keats, 395.
Edward III., King, 57; fights at
Cressy, 57; pensions Chaucer, 70.
Edward the Confessor, in Normandy,
42; made king of England, 43;
death of 43.
Egwin, Bishop, writes first English
autobiography, 36.
Elaine, story of, 82.
Eleanor, queen of England, 45.
Elegy in Country Churchyard, 302.
Elizabeth, Queen, her accession to the
throne, 95; luxury in her reign, 96;
pensions Spenser, 99.
Emma, queen of England, 42.
Cowley, Abraham, life and works, 203; English language, displaced by Latin,
extracts from poems, 205.
36; Gospels translated into, 37;
struggles against foreign tongues, | Gower, John, 61; works of, 68; com-
49; establishment in England, 57.
English tribes, called Angles, 21;
conquer Britain, 22.
Essay on Man, quoted, 249.
Essays of Elia, quoted, 403.
Ethelbert, king of Kent, 25.
Ethelred the Unready, 42.
Etherege, George, dramatist, 229.
Euphues, extracts from, 128.
Europe in prehistoric times, 27.
Eurydice, story of, 38.
Evelina, Miss Burney's novel, extract
from, 320.
Evelyn, John, life and works, 212; ex-
tract from diary, 217.
Eve of St. Agnes, poem, extract from,
398.
Exeter Book, extract from, 32.
FAIRY QUEEN, account of, 100; ex-
tracts from, 101-107.
Farquhar, George, comedy writer,
286.
Faustus, play by Marlowe, extracts
from, 132.
Ferrex and Porrex, first English
tragedy, 122.
Fielding, Henry, account of, 303.
Fletcher, John, collaborates with
Shakespeare, 141; life and works,
158; extracts from plays, 160.
Ford, John, dramatist, 167.
Foxe, John, quoted, 66.
France, minstrels in, 44.
Franks, a Teutonic tribe, 20.
French literature, influence on Eng-
lish, 230.
Fuller, Thomas, quoted, 65; work of,
GAIMAR, Geoffrey, Anglo-Norman
poet, 48.
Galahad, Knight of Round Table, 47,
Gay, John, life and works, 253.
Geoffrey of Monmouth, 46, 55:
Gerald de Barri, or Gerald of Wales,
48.
Germany, minstrels in, 44.
Gertrude of Wyoming, extracts from,
367.
Goodwin, William, novel of, 411.
Gogmagog, British giant, 47.
Goldsmith, Oliver, quoted, 309; mem-
ber of Literary Club, 312; life and
works, 313; extracts from works,
316-318.
Goths, a Teutonic tribe, 20.
pliment to Chaucer, 69; works pub-
lished by Caxton, 81.
Gray, Thomas, account of, 293; poems
quoted, 294.
Gregory the Great, Pope, 25.
Greene, Robert, early dramatist, 123;
life and works, 124; extract from
plays, 124.
Greville, Fulke, Lord Brooke, 113.
Guenever, queen of Arthur, 82.
Gulliver's Travels, quoted, 276-282.
Guy of Gisborne, Robin Hood and,
ballad, quoted, 51.
HAMLET, play of, extract from, 146.
Harold, king of England, 43.
Hastings, Battle of, 43.
Hazlitt, William, quoted, 284, 286;
account of, 406.
Hebrews, of Semitic race, 25; influence
of their literature on English, 26.
Heminge, John, edits Shakespeare's
plays, 140.
Hengist, invades Britain, 22.
Henry I., King, 45..
Henry II., King, literature in his
reign, 45.
Henry III., King, issues proclamation
in English, 57,
Henry VIII., King, events of his
reign, 84.
Henry of Huntingdon, 45.
Henry, Prince, son of James I., 186.
Herbert, George, life and poetry of,
174.
Herrick, Robert, life and works of,
175; a royalist, 188.
Hilda, Abbess, at Whitby, 34.
History of Friars Bacon and Bungay,
extracts from, 124.
Holcroft, Thomas, works of, 411.
Holinshed's Chronicle, 142.
Holy Grail, quest for, 447.
Homer, Northern poetry compared
with, 31; first English translation,
162; Pope's translation, 247.
Horsa, invades Britain, 22.
Howard, Thomas, Earl of Surrey,
poems of, 89; quoted, 90.
Hudibras, poem by Butler, 208.
Hunt, Leigh, account of, 407.
Idyls of the KING, by Tennyson, 82.
Il Penseroso, quoted, 194, 195.
Imaginary Conversations, by Landor,
Indian Emperor, play of, quoted, 234.
Invention of printing, influence of, 80.
Irish Melodies, quoted, 370.
Italian literature, its influence on
English, 96.
Italy, wandering scholars from, 42.
Ivanhoe, novel by Scott, 29; extracts
from, 49, 414.
JAMES I., King, arrests Raleigh, 113;
reign of, 185.
Jew of Malta, play of, extract from,
133.
John, King, loses Normandy, 57.
John of Gaunt, patron of Chaucer,
70; Shakespeare's character of, 144.
Johnson, Samuel, influence of, on his
age, 154; account of, 307; works
of, 309; his account of Goldsmith,
315; meets Miss Burney, 319.
Jonson, Ben, account of, 153; his
plays, 155; songs of, 156; descrip-
tion of, 157; a friend of Herrick,
176; influence of, on his age, 307.
Jutes, their position in Europe, 20.
KEATS, JOHN, account of, 395; poetry,
396; extracts from poems, 396-
Kenilworth, novel by Scott, 156; ex-
tract from, 419.
Kit-Kat Club, founded, 245.
Knights of Round Table, 47.
Literary Club, founded by Dr. John-
son, 312.
Lockhart, John, biographer of Walter
Scott, 412.
Lodge, Thomas, dramatist, 135.
London, ancient name of, 47; Lamb's
description of, 402.
Lord of the Isles, poem, extract from,
375-
Love for Love, play, extract from,
284.
Love, or Genevieve, poem by Cole-
ridge, quoted, 353.
Lovelace, Richard, 177; life and works,
180; a Royalist, 180.
Lowell, James Russell, quoted, 401.
Lydgate, John, 80, 81.
Lyly, John, quoted, 96; early drama-
tist, 126; life and works, 127; ex-
tracts from works, 127, 128.
MACAULAY, THOMAS BABINGTON,
on Bunyan, 227; on Dr. Johnson,
312.
Macpherson, James, edits Ossian's
poems, 327.
Malcontent, The, play of, extract
from, 163.
Malory, Sir Thomas, writes Morte
d'Arthur, 82.
Mandeville, John, 62; life and writings,
66; extracts from, 67, 68.
Knight's Tale, Chaucer's, extract from, Mannyng, Robert, of Brunne, 56.
LAKE SCHOOL OF POETRY, account
of, 349.
Lalla Rookh, extracts from, 372.
L'Allegro, extracts from, 191-194.
Lamb, Charles, character and works
of, 402; extract from essays, 403;
friend of Hazlitt, 406.
Lamb, Mary, sister of Charles, 403.
Landor, Walter, Savage, account of,
408.
Lanfranc, establishes a school, 42;
Archbishop of Canterbury, 45.
Langland, William, 61; account of,
62; extract from his poem, 63.
Launcelot du Lake, knight of the
Round Table, 47; in
d'Arthur, 82.
Layamon, author of the Brut, 55.
Lee, Nathaniel, dramatist, 229.
Leicester, Earl of, 96.
Man of Law's Tale, from Chaucer,
extract from, 77.
Map, Walter, works of, 47.
Marlowe, Christopher, early dramatist,
122; life and works, 129; extracts
from plays of, 131-134.
Marston, John, 163.
Marvell, Andrew, a Puritan, 261; ac-
count of, 202; extract from poems,
Masques, description of, 156; Milton's
Comus and Arcades, 190.
Massinger, Philip, 167.
Matthew of Paris, history of, 56.
Maturin, Charles Robert, 411.
Mermaid Tavern, club which met there,
155; Milton born near, 189.
Mill, John Stuart, opinion of Words-
worth, 362.
Milton, John, greatness of, 189; life
and works, 189; extracts from po-
ems, 191-196, 198-200; plea for free
press, 197.
Miracle-plays, subjects of, 121.
Moore, Thomas, account of, 368; ex-
tracts from Irish Melodies, 370;
from Lalla Rookh, 372.
in reign of Charles I., 186.
More, Sir Thomas, death of, 86; ex- | Puritans, opposed to the drama, 186;
tracts from Utopia of, 86.
Morte d'Arthur, account of, 82; ex-
tract from, 83.
Mysteries. See Miracle-plays.
NASH, THOMAS, dramatist of sixteenth
century, 134; Spring song by, 135.
Night Thoughts, poem, extract from,
288.
Norman Conquest, 43.
Normandy, settled by Northmen, 41;
lost to English Crown, 57.
Normans, in Northern France, 41;
literature among, 44.
Northmen, invade France, 4%.
North Sea, 20, 21.
OCCLEVE, THOMAS, poems of, 80.
Ode to Immortality, extracts from,
360.
Ode to Skylark, poem, quoted, 386.
Odericus Vitalis, early historian, 45.
Odin, god of Teutons, 23.
Opie, Amelia, novels of, 325.
Ormin, early English writer, 55.
Ormulum, 55.
Orpheus, story of, 38.
Ossian, poems of, extract from, 327.
Otway, Thomas, dramatic poet, 229.
PAMELA, novel by Richardson, 299.
Paradise Lost, poem of, extract from,
198.
Parnell, Thomas, song quoted, 236.
Passion Play, resemblance to early
drama, 121.
Peele, George, account of, 122.
Pepys, Samuel, account of, 213; ex-
tracts from Diary of, 214.
Percy, Thomas, edits old ballads,
326.
Peter the Great, Czar, in England,
213.
Philaster, play of, extracts from, 165.
Picts, overrun Britain, 22.
Pilgrim's Progress, description of,
222; extract from, 224.
Pleasures of Memory, poem, extract
from, 343..
Plutarch's Lives, used by Shakespeare,
143.
Polyolbion, poem by Draytonf, 115.
Pope, Alexander, account of, 246;
extracts from poems, 248-250.
Porter, Anna Maria, novels of, 326.
Porter, Jane, novels of, 326.
Prior, Matthew, poem by, quoted, 252.
QUARTERLY REVIEW, criticises Keats,
395.
RADCLIFFE, ANNE, novels of, 325.
Raleigh, Walter, portrait of, 96; Fairy
Queen dedicated to, 98; life and
works, 113; extract from letter of,
Rambler, edited by Dr. Johnson, 310,
Rape of the Lock, extract from, 248.
Rasselas, 310.
Reliques of Ancient English Poetry,
published, 327.
Review, edited by De Foe, 264.
Richard II., play of, extract from, 144.
Richardson, Samuel, account of, 299;
novels of Pamela and Clarissa Har-
lowe, 299; extracts from novels,
300; Sir Charles Grandison, 302.
Robert Mannyng, of Brunne, 56.
Robert of Gloucester, 56.
Robin Hood, ballads upon, 50-54.
Roger of Wendover, 56.
Rogers, Samuel, extracts from poems,
Roister Doister, early comedy, 122.
Roland, Song of, 44.
Rolf, Danish chief, 41; descendants
in Normandy, 42.
Rollo. See Rolf.
Romance language, in France, 41;
spoken in Normandy, 44.
Romances of Round Table, 46, 47, 82.
Romans, invade Britain, 21; introduce
letters into England, 25.
Rou. See Rolf.
Roundheads, character of, 186.
Rowley, Thomas, poems ascribed to,
230.
Rowena, first English queen in Brit-
ain, 22.
Runes, ancient writing of Teutons, 23.
SACKVILLE, THOMAS, first tragedy
writer in English, 122.
Sagaman, early Scandinavian story-
teller, 24.
Samson Agonistes, extract from, 199.
Saxons, their position in Europe, 18.
Scald, Scandinavian minstrel, 24.
Scandinavians, colonize Iceland, 21;
their minstrels, 24; alliteration in
poetry, 33; adventurous spirit of, 41.
Schoolmistress, The, poem of, extracts
from, 291.
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Shakespeare, 95; quoted, 96; life, 136;
education, 138; extracts from son-
nets, 138; first edition of plays, 140;
doubtful plays, 141; extracts from
Richard II., 144; extract from Ham-
let, 146; extract from The Tempest,
149; songs of, 169.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, character of,
384; poems, 385; extracts from,
386-392; death, 393; lament for
Keats, 393.
Shenstone, William, account of, 290.
Shepherd's Calendar, The, 98.
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, comedy
writer, 319.
Shirley, James, play-writer, 168; song
by, 168.
Sidney, Sir Philip, quoted, 19; friend-
ship for Spenser, 98; life, 108;
works, 109; extracts from, 109.
Silent Woman, The, comedy by Jon-
son, described, 155.
Skelton, John, court poet of Henry
VIII., 88; extracts from poetry, 88.
Smollett, Tobias, novels of, 304.
Solomon, Song of, quoted, 26.
South, Robert, eminent divine, 220.
Southey, Robert, belongs among Lake
poets, 362; poem quoted, 362.
Spain, Arabs in, 42.
Spectator, The, published, 266; ex-
tracts from, 267, 270, 272.
Spenserian stanza, 100.
Spenser, Edmund, life of, 97; poems
of, 98; Fairy Queen, 102; extracts
from, 101-107.
Sterne, Laurence, 304.
Steele, Sir Richard, life of, 264; pub-
lishes The Spectator, 266; extract
from his essays, 267.
Stillingfleet, Edward, eminent divine,
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works, 178; a loyalist, 180; play-
writer, 228.
Swift, Jonathan, life, 274; works of,
275; extracts from Gulliver's Trav-
els, 276, 277.
TAILLEFER, Norman minstrel, 44.
Tamburlaine, play of, extract from,
131.
Tatler, The, published by Steele, 265.
Taylor, Jeremy, eminent divine, 221.
Tempest, The, play of, extract from,
149.
Teutons, of Aryan race, 20; tribes of,
22; migrations in Europe, 28.
Thomson, James, 288.
Tillotson, eminent divine, 220.
Travels in Palestine, extracts from,
67.
Trelawney, Captain, friend of Shelley
and Byron, 393.
Tristram and Isoud, 47.
Tristram Shandy, 304.
Troubadours in France, 44.
Trouveres in France, 44.
Troynovant, mythical name of Lon-
don, 47.
Tyndale, William, translates the Scrip-
tures, 85.
UDALL, NICHOLAS, early comedy
writer, 122.
Utopia, extracts from, 86.
VANBRUGH, SIR JOHN, comedy wri-
ter, 286.
Vicar of Wakefield, extracts from,
315, 316.
Vision of Piers Ploughman, poem of,
62; extract from, 63.
Vortigern, British king, 22.
Voyages, first written in English, 38;
to the New World, 84.
WACE, Anglo-Norman trouvere, 48.
Wales, Britons inhabit, 22.
Waller, Edmund, life and works, 181;
a Royalist, 181.
Walton, Izaak, writings of, 219.
Waverley Novels, account of, 412;
quoted, 49, 414, 419.
Webster, John, plays of, 163.
Welsh people, account of, 22.
Westminster Abbey, Poet's Corner,
70; Caxton's printing-office, 81;
Spenser buried there, 99.
Wilfrid, biography of, 36.
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