REPRE SENTATIVE N'AME S IN THIE HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE BY H. H. MORGAN BOSTO N PUBLISHED BY GINN BROTHERS 1875 Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1875, BY HORACE H. MORGAN, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, Stereotyped by J. F. Loughlin, 14 Post-Office Square, Boston, Mass. DEDICATED TO THOSE WHO FEEL THE NECESSITY FOR A Ei1ber @Xiffusin of fTje 5eulti ttalfer th t tttaent, AND SEEKING THE APPROVAL OF THOSE }WHIO, BY THEIR Acquaintance with Literature, ARE RENDERED COMPETENT TO EXPRESS op:& x fain THE wants of a busy age require some inexpensive book which shall furnish general information, together with a firm grasp of the movement in each field of effort. As auxiliary to our anthologies, dictionaries of authors, bibliographies, and manuals of literature, it has seemed not undesirable to have some "vade mecum " in which should be collected information otherwise accessible only by long and continuous labor. The plan adopted aims at an answer to the various rational questions which might be asked about all author as an author: when did lie live, who were his contemporaries, what was his standpoint, what are his representative works, for what and how far can we trust him, who vouched for his reliability, and what did he do to further the progress of literature? The selection of names has been made with reference to the authors whom the world has accepted as representative of English literature; as minor writers there have been added those whose services have an historical value. Literature has been understood in the strictest sense-the perfect adaptation of the form to the thought expressed; judgment is pronounced from the aesthetic point of view, and not from that of Ethics, Politics, or Commerce; Oratory, Theology, Physics, and Metaphysics have been excluded except when their form has entitled them to literary recognition. The time of any author has been indicated by giving the date of his birth and death, together with the " Era " in which he would be classed. The classification of tWm. Francis Collier is noticeably simple and serviceable, and has been used; it is as follows:Ist Era. From the birth of Chaucer, 1328, to the Introduction of Printing, 1474. iid " " " Introduction of Printing, 1474, to the accession of Elizabeth, 1558. id "' " " Accession of Elizabeth, 1558, to the shutting of the Theatres, 1648. Ivth" " " Shutting of the Theatres, 1648, to the Death of Milton, 1674. vth " "' " Death of Milton, 1674, to the Publication of the Tatler, 1709. vIth" " " Publication of the Tatler, 1709, to the Publication of Pamela, 1740. VIIth Era." " " "c; Pamela, 1740, to the Death of Johnson, 1784. viIIth " " " Death of Johnson, 1784, to the Death of Scott, 1832. ixth " " " " ( Scott, 1832, to the Present Time. In the case of American writers the " Eras " are not used, as contemporaneity is of small consequence; it may be added that less exclusiveness has been thought desirable in the case of those belonging to our own country. The classification of authors and literary forms is believed to be at once simple and exhaustive: if this belief be well-founded, there will be one less want among the many which oppress the earnest scholar. V vi PREFACE. Disregarding the almost valueless distinction of Prose and Verse, (although for convenience prose works are indicated by Italics,) literary forms may be reduced to nine: 1. Letter. 2. Essay. 3. Treatise. Written. 4. Tale. 5. Narration. 6. History. Written or Spoken. 7. Oration. 8. Address. 9. Lecture. Spoken. The Letter, Tale, and Oration agree in their standpoint, which is that of the author, and in their aim, which is to impress. The Essay, Narration, and Address recognize the standpoint of both author and reader, are tentative, and aim to stimulate. The Treatise, History, and Lecture assume the standpoint of the reader, are exhaustive in their mode of treatment, and aim to convince. Authors are classified by their work and not by their personal biographies. Seven phases seem sufficient for the expression of mental differences, and while the complete mall will manifest each one of them, less gifted mortals will be limited to one or to several. 1. Critic, whose treatment of themes is judicial. 2. Satirist, " " "' " recognizes only contradictions. 3. Humorist, " " " " regards simply seeming irrationalities. 4. Sentimentalist, " " " " is based upon the feelings. 5. Rhetorician, " c" " " regards mainly effectiveness of presentation. 6. Metaphysician, " " c" " is speculative. 7. Physicist, " " " " is based upon experiment. He to whom each of these manifestations is but a phase, is alone the master artist, poet, philosopher, or man; such are indeed "not one but all mankind's epitome," and these are the immortal few whose reputation and whose influence is confined to no country, and to no times. Representative Works only have been named. The Characterization consists of criticisms which fairly represent the strength and weakness of the author: and these criticisms have as far as possible been taken from critics whose opinion is known by all to be beyond dispute; as soon as a critic transcends the limit assigned to him by the world at large, his opinion is not presented. Finally, this little book is offered for its serviceableness; if it lacks merit, the author would not care to give it any factitious aid by extended reference to authorities, or by any recital of his own possible fitness for the office which he has undertaken to fill. H. It. M. ST. LOUIS, Jan., 1875. 8 REPRESENTATIVE NAMES IN THE A UTHOR. CLASS.' FORM. REPRESENTA TIVE IVORKIS. 1. ADDISON, JOSEPH Sentimentalist. Letter. Letter to Lord Halifax. 1672-1719. Essay. Essays in The Spectator. Era vI. Tale. Poems. History. Cato. 2. BACON, FRANCIS Physicist. Essay. Essays. 1561-1626. Treatise. Instauratio Magna. III.:r~History. History of Ihenry VII. 3. BROWNING, ELIZABETH B. Sentimentalist. Tale. Portuguese Sonnets. 1809-1861. Casa Guidi Windows. Ix. Narration. Aurora Leigh. Essay. The Greek Christian Poets. 4. BROWNING, ROBERT Metaphysician. Narration. Mv Last Duchess. 1812- 1-istory. Blot on the'Scutcheon. Ix. 5. BUNYAN, JOHN Sentimentalist. Narration. Pilyrim's Progress. 1628-1688. V. 6. BURNS, ROBERT Sentimentalist. Tale. Address to the De'il. John Andersoii. 1759-1796. Satirist. Mouse. Daisy. Bannockburn. VIII. HIumorist. Narration. Cottar's Saturday Night. Tam O'Shanter. 7. BUTLER, SAMUEL Satirist. Narration. IHudibras. 1612-1680. V. 8. BYRON, LORD Rhetorician. Essay., English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. 1788-1824. Satirist. Tale. Prisoner of Chillon. VIII. Narration. Mazeppa. Don Juan. Childe Harold., History. Manfred. 9. BULWER, E DW'D LYTTON Rhetorician. Narration. Pellham. The Caxtons. My# NoAvel 1805-1873. Ix. HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. 9 CIA RA CTERIZA TION,. REMARKS. "To attain a style familiar but not coarse, elegant but not osten- Addison formed Simple Prose Style. The tations, one must give his days and nights to Addison."-Dr. Sam'l subjects treated in the Spectator series are Johnson. mainly Fashions and Follies, although the "A polished shaft in the temple of letters, we are more struck Criticism upon Paradise Lost is the subject with the beauty of workmanship, than with the weight supported."- of several papers. Prof. John Bascom. Addison was a noted " conversationist." " Comprehensiveness of mind and power of condensed thought; Bacon's Essays have furnished the thoughts closest reasoning in the boldest metaphor."-T. B. Shaw. of many books; his place in science has "Most discriminating and refined observations upon human life." not been settled, despite the numerous es-7-Ednund Burke. says upon his claims. "Style rugged and unfinished, often without rhythm. Moral Translator of Prometheus Bound. purpose, deep emotion, high-toned thought and devout spirit. Rises to heights on which man has never stood, and finds depths which he has Aever fathomed." —T. B. Shaw. "'The Blot on the'Scutcheon' is the finest poem of the century." Browning's poetry is distinguished by the — CGhas. Dickens. essential characteristics of the great mas"Constructs character from within; a thinker rather than a singer. ters of "Classical Music." Style abrupt and harsh."-British Quarterly Review, 6-1847. "Style delightful to every reader and invaluable as a study to every person who wishes to obtain a wide command over language, magnificence, pathos, vehement exhortation, subtle disquisition."T. B. Macaulay. "Great humor, pathos, descriptive power, discrimination of char- The first distinguished Scottish poet after the acter."-Francis Jeffrey. separation of English and Scotch as lan"' Wanted everything for completeness; culture, leisure, true effort, guages. length of life itself. Excellence-his indisputable air of truth."Thomas Carlyle. Still the most prominent work in the literature of satire; wit, Butler's minor poems contain much for the ingenuity, style concise and suggestive. His expressions have the the lovers of satire. terse strength of proverbs and open boundless vistas of comic associations."-Geo. S. tHillard. "Unrivalled in description and expression of passion; power Byron's love for inanimate nature and for over the resources of language great, although he is not a careful or liberty was genuine, and hence he reaches accurate writer. Iis poetry abounds in passages of melting tender- his "high-water mark " in these directions. ness and exquisite sweetness, in wit playful and brilliant, in sarcasm Possessed by a spirit of unbelief and yet unvenomLous and blistering. Leading characteristic is energy; never able to attain disbelief, he lacked " themes " tame, in his higher moods his words flash and burn like lightning." real to himself;, falling as he did upon times -(leo. S. Hillard. of transition. " Delineator of the passion of love."-Bauyne. "In the highest qualities required in this branch of composition [the novel] Sir Edward Lytton Bulwer stands pre-eminent, and entitled to a place beside Scott himself, at the very head of the prose writers of works of imagination in our countrly."-Sir A. Alison. 10 REPRESENTATIVE NASMES IN THE A UTHOR. CLASS. FORM. REPRESENTA TIVE WORKS. 10. CAMPBELL, THOMAS Sentimentalist. Tale. Hohenlinden. Ye Mariners ofEngland. 1777-1844. Narration. Gertrude of Wyoming. VIII. 11. CARLYLE, THOMAS Sentimentalist. Essay. Hero and Hero- Worship. Sartor Resar1795- Satirist. tius. IX. History. Frederick the Great. Lfe and Letters of Cromwell. History of the French Revolution. 12. CHAUCER, GEOFFREY Humorist. Tale. A Ballad teaching what is Gentleness. 1328-1400. Sentimentalist. Chaucer's A B C. Legend of Good I. Physicist. Women. Complaint of Venus and Mars. Narration. Canterbury Tales. 13. CHESTERFIELD, EARL OF Rhetorician. Letter. Letters to his Son. 1694-1773. VI. 14. COLERIDGE, SAMUEL T. Metaphysician. Essay. The Friend. 1772-1834. Tale. Ode to France. Chamouni. IX. Lecture. YLectures on Shakespeare. 15. COWLEY, ABRAHAM Metaphysician. Tale. Davideis. Anacreontics. 1618-1667. The Mistress. IV. 16. COWPER, WILLIAM Sentimentalist. Letter. To the Rev. John Newton. 1731-1800. Humorist. Tale. John Gilpin. Boadicea. Oaths. VIII. Narration. The Task. 17. DE FOE, DANIEL Physicist. Treatise. Essay on Projects. 1661-1731. Rhetorician. Narration. Robinson Crusoe. Life of Moll Flanders. V. History. History of the Union (Scottish and Enylish). 18. DICKENS, CHARLES Rhetorician. Essay. Pickwick Papers. 1812-1870. Humorist. Narration. Copperfield. Dombey and Son. Oliver IX. Twist. HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. 11 CHARA CTERIZA TION. REMARIKS. "Talent for the pathetic and sublime; correctness and anima- Compiler of "Specimens of the Blriish tion."-Francis Jffrey. Poets"; perhaps our best anthology. "Assumes to be the reformer and castigator of his age; a re- Carlyle is an iconoclast and fell upon times former in philosophy, politics, and religion, denouncing the mechan- of transition. Of the effectivencss of his ical way of thinking and want of faith, and yet has no distinct work the world bears writness; of its value dogma, creed, or constitution to promulgate; his style is his own, in exciting inquiry there can be no doubt. and combines all possible faults."-Blccckwood's MAcgazine. "His manly cheerfulness is especially delicious to me in my old age."-S. T. Coleridge. "There was wanted some one not only endowed with poetic genius and an intellect cultivated with the best scholarship of the age, but also, in addition to the love of books, familiarity with the human heart gained by intercourse with men in the arena of actual life."-E. P. W/liople. " Lord Chesterfield's ideal of excellence was essentially superficial; An expurgated edition of Lord Chesterfield's his praise of solid acquirement and genuine principles is always Letters has been published by Dr. Trusler. coupled with the assertion of their entire inutility if unaccompanied Chesterfield is still the best authority on by grace, external polish, and an agreeable manifestation.... manners. Rhetoric, in his view, transcends reflective power."-I-. T. Tuckernzan. "Seeks ideal truth; predominant habit, in-looking; irregular imagination, with reflective meditation."-Henr?y Reed. "'Ode to France,' the finest in modern times."-Shelley. "Largest and most spacious intellect, subtlest and most comprehensive of men." —T/homas De Quincey. "Replete with learning and all the ornaments supplied by books." Best of the "Concetti." -Dr. Samuel Johnson. "Language has masculine vigor and idiomatic strength; senti- Restored to poetry the use of simple lang(uage, meats from the heart."-Thomas Campbell. and vindicated the claims of " the poetry "Redeemed poetical language."-iFrancis Jeffey. of ordinary lifc." "Great ingenuity, strong and clear conceptions; language equally Partisan criticism harassed De Foe during perspicuous and forcible."-C. D. Cleveland. life, and after death it, to a great extent, persuaded the world that his sole claim to recollection rested upon Robinson Crusoe. Allibone states De Foe's works to be 210 in number. "Peculiar and original vein of humor; quaint, grotesque, and unexpected combination of ideas. Excels in scenes of sickness or death, and has uncommon skill in the minute representation of scenes of still life. Tone sound and healthy, poetical imagination, hatred of injustice and oppression." —Geo. S. HIillard. 12 REPRESENTATIVE NAMES IN THE A UTIHOR. CLASS. FORM. REPRESENTA TIVE WORKS. 19. DRYDEN, JOHN, Rhetorician. Letter. Epistle to Congreve. 1631-1700. Satirist. Essay. Prefaces. v. Treatise. Essay on Dramatic Poetry. Tale. Ode to St. Cecilia. Narration. Absalom and Achitophel. History. The Indian Emperor. 20. ELIOT, GEORGE MBetaphysician. Tale. Poems. 1820- Narration. Adam Bede. Romola. Mlliddlemarch. IX. 21. FIELDING, HIENRY Humorist. Essay. On Conversation. 1707-1754. Sentimentalist. Narration. Tom Jones. Amelia. VII. Critic. History. Dramas. 22. GIBBON, EDWARD Rhetorician. History. Decline and Fall of the Ronman Empire. 1737-1794. VIII. 23. GOLDSMITH, OLIVER Humorist. Essay. Citizen of tle WTorld. 1728-1774. Sentimentalist. Treatise. Animated N~ature. VII. Rhetorician. Narration. Vicar of;VWakefield. Deserted Village. The Traveller. History. Slhe Stoops to Conquer. 24. GRAY, THOMAS Sentimentalist. Tale. Elegy in a Country Churchyard. 1716-1 771. Rhetorician. Essay. Progress of Poesy. VII. Letter. Letters to West, Walpole, and others. HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. 13 CHAR A CTERIZA TION. REMA RIS. "A writer of a manly and elastic character; strong judgment Dryden gave us the versified letter, the first gives force and direction to a flexible fancy. Lacks intense or lofty specimen of prose style, and the first versensibility; coarse, characters too abstract."-T/homas Campbell. sified personal satire. The Ode to St. Cecilia (popularly called Alexander's Feast) is all that now represents Dryden's work to the general reader. "Style of extraordinary beauty and power, choice English, limpid Marion C. Evans (Mrs. G. H. Lewes). Perphrase, charming simplicity, felicity of expression. Sententious, haps the best review of George Eliot yet fonder of reflection than of narration; narrative weak and common- written is that of W. C. Wilkinson in place; constructive and inventive faculty lacking; weak in plot, but Scribner's, Oct., 1874; the strictures of strong in dialogue. Psychological analysis her strength and joy." "The Nation" may be read as a correct-W. C. Wilkinson. ive for any over-statement. "The prose Homer of human nature."-Lord Byron. "The romance of' Tom Jones,' that exquisite picture of human manners, will outlive the palace of the Escurial and the imperial eagle of Austria."- Gibbon. "Fielding will ever remain the delight of his country, and will always retain his place in the libraries of Europe, notwithstanding the unfortunate grossness,-the mark of an uncultivated taste.".... -Sir James Mackintosh. "Gibbon was not, like Hume, a self-thinking, deep-fathoming Gibbon is oftenest and mostjustly reproached man, who searched into the nature of things, existence, and thought, with his infidelity; and it is after granting.... but had the capacity of quickly making other people's thoughts the justice of the complaints on the part and investigations his own, and of propounding them in an admira- of the Christian, the moralist, the histoble manner."-Schlosser. rian, and the man of taste, that Professor "But the whole is, notwithstanding, such an assemblage of merits, Smyth makes his statement. Allibone's so various, so interesting, so rare, that the History of the Decline article upon Gibbon will guide more exand Fall must always be considered as one of the most extraordinary tended inquiry. monuments that have appeared of the literary powers of a single mind, and its fame can perish only with the civilization of the world."-Prof. Smyth. " Wrote to exalt virtue and to expose vice."- Walter Scott. "Puritv of moral lesson, and interest of story."-C. D. Cleveland. "The delineations of this character [that of the " excellent Wakefield"] on his course of life through joys and sorrows, the everincreasing interest of the story,.... make this novel one of the best that was ever written."-Goethe. "Goldsmith, both in verse and prose, was one of the most delightful writers in the language. His verse flows like a limpid stream." -William Hazlitt. "Energy, splendor, and perfect finish of poetical style." —George Founded the school of "reflective poetry, ocS. Hillard. cupying itself with the feelings and interests of ordinary life." 14 ItEPREiSENTATIVE -NA3ES IN THE A UTIIOR. CLASS. FORM. REPRESENTATIVE WORKtS. 25. GROTE, GEORGE Rhetorician. History. JHistory of Greece. 1794IX. 26. I-IALLAM, HENRY Critic. History. Views of Europe during the Middle Ages. 1778-1859. The Constitutional History of Englland. vIII. Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the 15th, 16th, and 17th Centuries. 27. HAZLITT, WILLIAM Rhetorician. Essay. Characters of Shakespeare's Plays. Es1778-1830. Sentimentalist. says on English Novelists. VIII. History. L~fe of Napoleon. Lecture. Lectures on Authors. 28. HEMANS, FELICIA D. Sentimentalist. Tale. Bernardo del Carpio. 1793-1835. ~ Narration. Tales and hIistoric Scenes. VIII. 29. HERBERT, GEORGE Sentimentalist. Tale. The Temple. 1593-1632. III. 30. HOOD, THOMAS Humorist. Tale. Song of the Shirt. Lady's Dream. 1798-1845. Sentimentalist. Narration. vWhims and Oddities. Briige of Sighs. IX. Tylney Hall. 31. HUME, DAVID Metaphysician. Essay. Essays, M]oral and M4Ietaphysical. 1711-1i771. tHistory. History of England. VII1. HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.. 15 CHA RA CTERIZA TION. REMARKS. "A decided liberal, perhaps even a republican, in politics, Mr. Grote has labored to counteract the influence of Mr. Mitford in Grecian history, and to construct a history of Greece from authentic materials, which should illustrate the animating influence of democratic freedom upon the exertions of the human mind..... He has displayed an extent of learning, a variety of research, a power of combination, which are worthy of the very highest praise, and which have secured for him a lasting place among the historians of modern times."-Sir A. Alison. " Spirit of fairness and impartiality; style dry, austere, uniformly Hallam gave us our first reliable history of clear; sometimes overloaded with ornament."-T. B. Macaulay. literature. " All the subjects glanced at in these earlier lectures [his own] are there [H.'s Middle Ages] thoroughly considered by this author with all the patience of an antiquarian, and the spirit and sagacity of a philosopher."-Prof. Smnzyth. " In extent and variety of learning, and a deep acquaintance with antiquarian lore, the historian of the Middle Ages may deservedly take a place with the most eminent writers in that style that Europe has produced."-Sir A. Alison. " When Mr. Hazlitt's taste and judgment are left to themselves, we think him among the best, if not the very best, of living critics in our national literature;.... he is sometimes the very worst. One would suppose that he had a personal quarrel with all living writers, good, bad, and indifferent..... With him, to be alive is not only a fault, but it includes all other possible faults..... In short, if you want his praise, you must die for it; and when such praise is deserved, and given con amore, it is almost worth dying for." —Christopher North., "Infinitely sweet, tender, and elegant; contemplative rather than Mrs. Hemans is especially the poet of the vehement; exquisite delicacy, evenness of execution, purity and "domestic affections." loftiness of feeling; humble tone of indulgence and piety, diction beautifully harmonious and free."-Francis Jeffrey. "Next to the Scripture poems, there are none so savory to me as Among the few authors of good religious Mr. George Herbert's."-Richard Baxter. lyrics. "Accurate observer of life and manners; wit arises from a profu- First of English humorists in order of time sion of quaint, odd, and unexpected combinations; humor rich and as well as in point of merit. HIis pathetic delicate; without rival as a punster."-George S. Hillard. pieces are the first poetical treatment of the poor and destitute, when such treatment is used as an instrument of reform. "Negligent in the use of the sources of history."-Schlosser. "His aim is to establish a universal skepticism, "As an elegant and spirited composition it merits every commen- and to produce in the reader a complete dation. Hume always inclines to prerogative."-Prof Simyth. distrust in his own faculties..... With the single exception of Bayle, he has carried this skeptical mode of reasoning farther than any modern philosopher." —Dug. Stewart. 16 REPRESENTATIVE NAMES IN TIIE A UTHOOR. CLASS. FORM. REPRESENTA TIVE 1WORfS. 32. JEFFREY, FRANCIS Critic. Essay. Contributions to Edinburgh lReview. 1773-1850. VIII. 33. JERROLD, DOUGLAS Humorist. Essay. Caudle Lectures. Eieads of the People. 1803-1857. History. Black-Eyed Susan. Rent-Day. IX. 34. JOHNSON, SAMUEL Sentimentalist. Tale. iasselas. 1709-1784. Essay. The Iuianbler. VII. Treatise. Lives of the Poets. Narration. London. History. Irene. 35. JONSON, BEN Rhetorician. Tale. Epigrams. Epitaph for Shakespeare. 1573-1637. Humorist. History. Volpone. Catiline. The Alchemist. III. lEvery Man in his Ihnumor. Sejanus. 36. JUNIUS Satirist. Letter. The Letters of Junius. 1769-1772. VII. 37. KEATS, JOHN Rhetorican. Tale. Endymion. IHyperion. Lamia. Isa1796-1820. bella. Eve of St. Agnes. Hymn vIII. to Pan. Ode to a Nightingale. 38. LAMB, CHARLES Humorist. Letter. Letter to a Distant Correspondent. 1775-1834. Sentimentalist. Essay. Essays of Elia. VIII. Tale. Poetry for Children. Narration. Tales fiom the Plays of Shakespeare. History. John Woodvil. HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. 17 CHA PA CTERIZA TIO N. RE-MIARKS. "Thoroughly acquainted with progress and pretensions of modern literature and philosophy; the natural acuteness and discrimination of the logician, with habitual caution and coolness..... His strength consists in a great range of knowledge, an equal familiarity with the principles and with the details of a subject, and in a glancing brilliancy and rapidity of style."- William Hazlitt. " Rare skill, undoubted originality, imperturbable good temper,... a flash of wit at once dazzling and delightful." —London Athenceum.'Pomp and uniformity."- William Hazlitt. Dr. Johnson, as a man and as a moral influ"Style artificial, elaborate, delighting in antithesis and words of ence, is still one of the great names in huLatin origin; frequently pompous and heavy."-George S. Hillard. man history; as a writer, his works have been replaced by others better adapted to the wants of our own time. He was also a noted conversationist, gave us an edition of Shakespeare, and the first English dictionary. "Jonson possessed all the learning that was wanting to Shakespeare, and wanted all the genius which the other possessed."David Hleae. "His works, as the characteristic productions of an individual mind, or as records of the manners of a particular age, cannot be valued too highly; but they have little charm for the more general reader."-t William Hazlitt. " Classic purity of language, extensive information, force -and The authorship of these letters is still unsetperspicuity of argument, fearless and decisive tone, severity of re- tled. For a full discussion of this subject proach, attachment to the principles of the constitution."-J. Ml. see Allibone's Dictionary of Authors. Good. "Power of language, rays of fancy, gleams of genius; unintelligi- Keats began the " scholarly school of poetry "; ble, rugged, diffuse, tiresome, absurd." —Giford. a school which seeks its themes in the glo"Wonderful profusion of figurative language, often exquisitely ries of the past and which, while in the beautiful and luxuriant, but sometimes fantastical and far-fetched. present, is not of the present. Strain of classic imagery, combined with a perception of natural loveliness rich and delicate."-T. B. Shaw. "A true poet, but not a great one."-D. 21I. Moir. Gave us specimens of the English dramatic "Fine humor, taste, penetration, vivacity, delicacy of feeling, and. poets. happiness of expression. Style marked by quaintness and antiqueness."-T. B. Shaw. "I know of no essay-writing comparable to them [the Essays of Elia], so full are tbey of an inimitable blending of' thoughtfulness and playfulness,-that half-serious, half-sportive habit of mind, far more agreeable than wit, described by our word.... humor." -Henry Reed. 18 REPRESENTATIVE NAMES IN THE A UTHIOR. CLASS. FORM'. REPRESENTA TIVE WO7RKS. 39. LOCKE, JOHN Metaphysician. Treatise. Essay on the Li7mits ofthe Iuman Under1632-1704. standing. Treatise on Governrment. v. Thoughts concerning the Education of Children. 40. LOCKHART, J. G. Rhetorician. Essay. Peter's Letters to his ICinsfolk. Contri1794-1854. but ions to London Quarterly. Ix. Narration. Valeriuts; a Czoman Story. Adam Blair. Reginald Dalton. History. Hisfory of the Late War. Lfe of Burns. Life of Napoleon. Life of Scott. 41. MACAULAY, T. B. Rhetorician. Essay. Essays. 1800-1859. Tale. Lays of Ancient Rome. IX. History. History of England. 42. MARLOWE, CHRISTOPHER Rhetorician. Tale. Passionate Shepherd to his Love. 1563-1593. History. Tamburlane the Great. Edward II. III. D1r. Faustus. The Jew of Malta. 43. MASSINGER, PHILIP Rhetorician. History. Duke of Milan. The Virgin Martyr. 1584-1640. The Unnatural Combat. III. 44. MILTON, JOHN Rhetorician. Essay. Controversial Tracts. 1608-1674. Sentimentalist. Treatise. On] Divorce. IV. Tale. On the Morning of Christ's Nativity. Narration. Lycidas. History. Paradise Lost. Paradise Regained. ~Comus. Samson Agonistes. 45. MONTGOMERY, JAMES Sentimentalist. Tale. Hymns. 1771-1854. Narration. Pelican Island. VIII. Treatise. Lectures on Poetry and General Literature. 46. MOORE, TOM Sentimentalist. Tale. Irish Melodies. National Melodies. 1779-1852. Humorist. Narration. Lalla Rookh. Fludg/e Family in Paris. VIII. 47. MORE, HANNAH Sentimentalist. Tale. Tales in Verse. 1745-1833. Essay. On Female Education. Thoughts on the VIII. ]ianners of the Great. Narration. Ccelebs in Search of a Wife. History. Percy. The Inflexible Captive. HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. 19 CHA RA CTERIZA TION. REMARIKS. "In language of all philosophers the most figurative, ambiguous, various, vacillating, and even pontradictory."-Reid. "Solicitous only to convey his ideas with perspicuity and precision, no affectations, no conceits, no daring metaphors, no inverted sentences: clear, easy, natural."-Drake. "In the lighter branches of literature he has deservedly attained Fine translations of ancient Spanish ballads. the very highest eminence. As a moralist, a critic, and a biographer, he has taken a leading place in English literature."-Sir A. Alison. "Brilliant rhetorical power, splendid coloring, affluence of illustration, animation, and cnergy."-George S. Hillard. "It is this partial and one-sided exposition of the truth, accompanied by a generally exaggerated style of composition, more than positive inaccuracy, that we complain of in Mr. Macaulay."-Sir A. Alison. "Fancy rich; feeling, tender; there is no such sweetness of ver- 3Marlowe's is the second great name in drasification and imagery to be found in our blank verse anterior to matic literature. Shakespeare."-Thomas Campbell. " Certainly the best historical plays after "Thle reluctant pangs of abdicating royalty in Edward furnished Shakespeare's." —l:enry Ji:allam. hints which Shakespeare scarcely improved in his Richard II.; and the death-scene of Marlowe's King moves pity and terror beyond any scene, ancient or modern,with which I am acquainted." —Clas. Lamb. "Wit, sprightly dialogue, theatrical effect; beauty of lang'uage, Ianks high among the Elizabethan dramaharmonious swell of numbers, pure and genuine idiom."-I-ieary tists. Hallam. "Classical judgment and regular perfection. The subject of Paradise Lost is the finest that has ever been chosen for heroic poetry; it is also managed by Milton with admirable skill." —Henry Hclllam. "The only blank verse except Shakespeare's."- William Iiazlitt. "Purity of feeling, and gentle, sympathetic spirit; many noble descriptions, but lacks strength for protracted flight; genius essentially lyric."-George S. Hillard. " Vivid fancy, sparkling wit, rich command of poetical expression, love of ornament, sense of music; not careful, and will not bear verbal criticism."- George S. Itillard. "She did, perhaps, as much real good in her generation as any woman that ever held the pen. Style flowing and sparkling with a pleasant humor." —T. B. BSlaw. 20 REPRESENTATIVE NA3MES IN THE A UTHOR. CLASS. FOR0M. REPRESENTA TIVE WORILS. 48. POPE, ALEXANDER Rhetorician. Letter. Eloise toAbelard. Epistles. 1688-1744. Satirist. Essay. Preface to Edlition of Shakespeare. VI. Tale. Rape of the Lock. Narration. The Dunciad. Treatise. On Criticism. On Man. 49. QUINCEY, THOMAS DE Rhetorician. Essay. Miscellaneous Essays. English Poets 1785-1859. and WVriters. Ix. Treatise. The Logic of Political EIconomy. Narration. The Ccesars. History Confessions of an Opium-Eater. Biographical Sketches. 50. ROBERTSON, WILLIAM Rhetorician. History. Histories of America, Scotland, and of 1721-1793. Charles V. VIII. 51. ROGERS, SAMUEL Rhetorician. Tale. Ginevra. 1763-1855. Narration. Pleasures of Memory. Columbus. VIII. Italy. 52. RIUSKIN, JOHN Rhetorician. Essay. Stones of Fenice. Giotto and his Works 1819- Sentimentalist. in Padua. ilodern Painters. Seven Ix. Lamps of Architecture. Lecture. Lectures on Architecture and Painting. 53. RUSSELL, WILLIAM H. Rhetorician. Letter. Clorrespondencefor London Times. 1816IX. 51. SCOTT, SIR WALTER Sentimentalist. Tale. Songs. 1771-1832. Narration. Marnmion. IVaverley. Ivanhoe. KenVIII. ilworth. Lady of the Lak6. Lay of the Last Minstrel. History. Lives of Dryden, Swift, Napoleon. HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.,2 CIIA RA CTERIZA TION. REMARKS. "Compact and pointed diction." —Macaulay. Almost all, of Pope's literary forms became "Strictest melody and tersest expression; pauses have too little new under his management. His translavariety, phrases too antithetical."-Thonzas Campbell. tion of Homer, while not valuable as a "Rhymes defective; uniformly smooth and melodious." — WTilliam translation, is nevertheless one of the most Ilazlitt. beautiful of English poems. "Reasoning without imagination or sentiment." —Sir E. Brydges. "Condensation of thought."-Shenstone.-' Graphic power, accuracy of detail with poetic illustration."London Honthly Review. "Pungency, brevity, force."- i' Culloch. "Acute perception of character, classic elegance of style; lacks narrative power, but has power of picturesque description." —W. H. Prescott. "Master of English composition, critic of uncommon delicacy, unflinching investigator of received opinions, philosophic inquirer second only to Coleridge."-London Quarterly Review. " Uses spoken English."-Burk e. "Good sense and elegance." —Mackintosh. "Robertson is your Livy; his Charles V. is written with truth." -Voltaire. "Careful finish and the grace of patient elaboration."-George S. Hillard. "Lacks logical faculty; style perspicuous and forcible when not inflated."-Edinburgh Review. "Unstable, crotchety, passionate, too intense at times to be just, still they [his works] contain worlds of thought, imagination, and knowledge, such as no other artist can educe. A strong and earnest purpose runs through them all, given to the highest ends."-London Athenreum. Gives us an account of the Crimean War. "Genuine human worth."-Thomas Carlyle. "Secret of popularity and leading characteristic,-common topics, images, and expressions. Aptitude for description of scenes abounding in motion or action of any kind."-Francis Jeffrey. " Most intensely real representation of the living spirit of the chivalrous a-ge. His poetry might make a very coward fearless." —Christopher North. "M' en fashioned of human earth and warm with human sympathies."-T. N. Talfourd. "Versification easy and graceful, thought sometimes careless; style energetic and condensed; pictures glowing and faithful; characters and incidents fresh and startling; battle-scenes rival the pages of Homer." —George S. Hillard. 22 REPRES;ENTATIVE NAMIES IN THE A UTHOR. CLASS. FORML. REPRESENTA TIVE WORKS. 55. SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM Sentimentalist. Tale. Sonnets. 1564-1616. Rhetorician. History. HIamlet. The Tempest. Julius COesar. III. Critic. Macbeth. Lear. Merchant of Venhlumorist. ice. Merry Wives of Windsor. Satirist. Metaphysician. Physicist. 56. SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE Sentimentalist. Tale. The Skylark. 1792-1822. Metaphysician. Narration. Adonais. The Sensitive Plant. VIII. History. Queen Mab. Alastor. Promnetheus Unbound. The Cenci. 57. SHERIDAN, R. B. Humorist. History. The Rivals. School for Scandal. The 1751-1816. Sentimentalist. Critic. viii. Oration. Speech in the Trial of Hastings. 58. SMITH, SYDNEY Humorist. Letter. Letters on the Subject of the Catholics, to 1771-1845. mny Brother Abraham who lives in the vIII. Country. Essay. Contributions to the Edinburgh PReview. 59. SOUTHEY, ROBERT Rhetorician. Letter. Letters writtenfronz Spain and Portuqal. 1774-1843. Essay. Articlesfon M ctagazines and Reviews. Ix. Tale. WVell of St. Keyne. Mary, the Maid of the Inn. Narration. A Tale of Paraguay. History. Madoc. Joan of Are. Thalaba the Destroyer. Biographies. History of Brazil. hListory of the Peninsular War. 60. SPENSER, EDMUND Rhetorician. Tale. Mother Hubbard's Tale. 1553-1599. N\arration. The Faery Queen. Astrophel. III. Treatise. View of the State of Ireland. 61. STERNE, LAURENCE Satirist. Narration. Tristram Shandy. 1713-1768. Rhetorician. VII. HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. 23 CHARA CTERIZA TION. REMARKS. Shakespeare being confessedly the first name in literature, all Allibone gives a full list of Shakespearean characterizations take the form of eulogiums. Perhaps the best works; and since he makes so strong a thing that has been said (not to except Coleridge's epithet) is that statement in regard to "The Authorship "Shakespeare possessed a capacity for universal knowledge without of Shakespeare," it seems not amiss to universal experience."-W. C. Willcinson. call special attention to the work of Judge Holmes. To those asking what and how much was Shakespeare, the best answer will be given by the Lectures of Coleridge, and by a series of articles in "The Journal of Speculative Philosophy." "Some of the metaphysical and ethical theories of Shelley were certainly most absurd and pernicious. No modern poet has possessed in equal degree the highest qualities of the great ancient masters."-Macaulay. "Dramatic star of the first magnitude."- William Hazlitt. "He is universally admitted to have been a great reasoner, and "These (Plymley Letters) perhaps did as the greatest master of ridicule that has appeared among us since much towards promoting Catholic EmanSwift." —Macaulay. cipation as all other publications and speeches together."-S. Austen Allibone. "Of all his chief poems the conception and execution are original: in much faulty, and imperfect in both; but bearing througlhout the impress of original power, and breathing a moral charm in the midst of the wildest and sometimes even extravagant imaginings."-Clhristopher North. " Mr. Southey's prose style can scarcely be too much praised. It is plain, clear, pointed, familiar, perfectly modern in its texture, but with a grave and sparkling admixture of archaisms in its ornaments."- William Ilazlitt. "We must not fear to assert, with the best judges of this and of To the poet, Spenser addresses himself by his former ages, that Spenser is still the third name in the poetical lit- versification and fancy, and hence he has erature of our country, and that he has not been surpassed, except impressed himself upon all the excellent by Dante, in any other." —Henry lallam. poets since his time. To the lover of "His command of imagery is wide, easy, and luxuriant. lIe FLroissart, Spenser will always be dear. threw the soul of harmony into our verse, and made it mo're warmly, "Fluidity'of language and verse, fancy, tenderly, and magnificently descriptive than it ever was before, or, harmony, imagery, cleanliness, and purity, with few exceptions, than it has ever been since. It must certainly -these qualities are undeniably his; but be owned that in description he exhibits nothing of the brief strokes his works, to the general reader, are but and robust power which characterize the very greatest poets."- "the bricks and mortar" of a noble strucThomas Campbell. ture. "Indecency and affectation.. In power of touching the finer feelings of the heart, he has never been excelled."- Voltaire. "The pure essence of English conversational style." —William H.azlitt. 24 REPRESENTATIVE NAMES IN THE A UTHOR. CLASS. FORIM1. REPRESENTA TIVE WORKS, 62. SWIFT, JONATHAN Satirist. Letter. Corresponclence. 1667-1745. Humorist. Essay. Political Pamphlets. VI. Treatise. Drapier Letters. Tale. Tale of a Tub. Poems to Stella. Narration. Gulliver's Travels. 63. TALFOURD, T. N. Rhetorician. Essay. Critical and ifiscellaneous Essays. 1795-1854. Narration. Poems. Ix. History. Ion: a Tragedy. 64. TENNYSON, ALFRED Sentimentalist. Tale. Lady Clara Vere de Vere. 1810- Rhetorician. Narration. Maud. In Memoriam. The Princess. Ix. Idyls of the King. 65. THACKERAY, W. M. Satirist. Essay. Addison. Steele. Goldsmith. 1811-1863. Humorist. Tale. End of the Play. IX. Narration. Vanity Fair. Penzdennis. The New. comes. 66. THOMSON, JAMES Sentimentalist. Narration. The Seasons. Castle of Indolence. 1700-1748. VII. 67. WALLER, EDMUND Sentimentalist. Tale. Go, lovely Rose. 1605-1687. IV. 68. WATTS, ISAAC Sentimentalist. Tale. Hymns. 1674-1748. Tireatise. Imnprovement of th7e 2Mind. VI. HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. 25 CHARA RA CTERIZA T.O N. REMI ARKS. "In humor and irony, in the talent of debasing and defiling what he hated, we join with the world in thinking the Dean of St. Patrick's without rival." —Francis Jeffrey. " His style is, in its kind, one of the models of English composition; it is proper, pure, precise, perspicuous, significant, nervous, deriving a certain dignity from a masterly contempt of puerile ornaments." — Mackcintosh. "Many of Talfourd's critical essays are remarkable for refinement Talfourd's essays are classed with those of of observation and frequent felicitV of phrase, [but] there is hardly the "Modern British Essayists." one of them which is brought to a close without being partially impaired by that flux of words which was his bane." —North British Review. "There is no finer ear, nor more command of language, but he wants a subject."-R. TV. Emersonz. "'In Memoriam' comes more intimately home to English sympathies than Lycidas or Adonais, and may be pointed to, perhaps, as the one special monody to which beauty of form and feeling have given a universal currency."-London Athewceum. " Versification broken and irregular, but inexpressibly charming; sometimes fantastic. Of the living poets of England, Tennyson at this time occupies the highest rank."-Sir A. Alison. "Power-sustained perfection of style."-Edinburgyh Review. "One of the greatest of novelists; model of style and criticism."T. B. Shaw. " It is Thackeray's aim to represent life as it is actually and historically,-men and women as they are, in those situations in which they are -usually placed, with that mixture of good and evil, and of strength and foible, which is to be fbulnd in their characters, and liable only to those incidents which are of ordinary occurrence."-David MLasson. "Every stanza of that charming allegory [Castle of Indo- "First to paint the rolling mystery of the lence], at least the whole of the first part of it, gives out a group year, and to show that all its seasons were of ima'ges from which the mind is reluctant to part, and a flow but the varied God." —Christopher North. of harmony which the ear wishes to hear repeated."-Thomas Campbell. " Thomlson is the best of our descriptive poets."- WYillicam LTazlitt. "Uniform elegance, felicity, and happiness of expression, and One of the best representatives of the poetry exemption from glaring faults." —Henry clallam. of the time of Charles II. "Every Sabbath, in every region of the earth where his native tongue is spoken, thousands and tens of thousands of voices are sending the sacrifices of prayer and praise to God in the strails which he prepared for theml a century ago."-James HIontgomery. 26 REt:RESENTATIVE iNAMES IN THE A UTHOR. CLASS. FORM. IREP2RESENTA TI VE WORKIS. 69. WILSON, JOHN Sentimentalist. Essav. Contributions to Blackwood's. 1785-1854. Narration. Isle of Palms. Lights and Shladows of Ix. Scottish'Life. 70. WOLFE, CHARLES Sentimentalist. Tale. Burial of Sir John Moore. 1791-1823. VIII. 71. WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM Metaphysician. Tale. Ode on Immortality. Skylark. Lib1770-1850. erty. London Early Morning. Ix. Narration. The Excursion. Tintern Abbey. 72. YOUNG, EDWARD Sentimentalist. Narration. Night Thoughts. 1681-1765. VII. HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. 27 CIA RA CTERIZA TION. REMA RKIS. "Ardent and enthusiastic genius whose eloquence is as the rush John Wilson is better known as Christopher of mighty waters."-HIIenry Hallam. North.' The whole literature of England does not contain a more brilliant series of articles than those with which he has enriched the pages of Blackwood's Magazine; and what is rarer still, the generosity of feeling by which they are distinguished equals their critical acuteness and delicacy of taste."-Sir A. Alison. "In the lottery of literature.... Charles Wolfe has been one of the few who have drawn the prize of probable immortality from a casual gleam of inspiration throwIn over a single poem...... But the lyric is indeed full of fervor and fieshness, and his triumph is not to be grudged." —D. Hi. Moir. "An austere purity of language, both grammatically and logically; An acquaintance with Wordsworth should be in short, a perfect appropriateness of the words to the meaning. begun through his minor poems, e. g. To a Secondly, a correspondent weight and sanity of thought and senti- Butterfly, Daisy, Skylark, Liberty, Immorment, won, not from books, but from the poet's own meditations. tality, Milton, Humanity, London Early They are fiesh and have the dew upon them..... Thirdly, the sinewy Morning. His faults lie on the surface, and strength and originality of single lines and paragraphs; the fiequent he has been eulogized by Talfourd, North, curiosafelicitas of his diction. Fourthly, the perfect truth of nature Southey, Hazlitt, Dle Quincey, Sir A. Aliin his images and descriptions..... Fifthly, a meditative pathos, a son, and Macaulay. A good article upon union of deep and subtle thonught with sensibility; a sympathy with his characteristics can be found in Littell's man as man,-the sympathy, indeed, of a contemplator rather than Living Age, 1861, p. 323, or in the Fortof a fellow-sufferer and co-mate,.... but of a contemplator fiom nightly Review. whose view no difference of rank conceals the sameness of the nature.' Lastly and pre-eminently, I chlallenge for this poet the gift of imagination, in the highest and strictest sense of the word."-S. T. Coleridge. "Many splendid and happy conceptions, marred by false wit and overlabored antithesis: remarkably defective in progressive interest and collective effect."-Thonmas Camnpbell. "Incapable of tenderness or passion." —Francis Jefi-ey. 28 RREPRESENTATIVE NAIMES IN THE A UTHOR. WORKS. REASON FOR MENTION. 1. ALISON, SIR ARCHIBALD History of Europe. Leading historian anid critic. 1792IX. 2. BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER The Maid's Tragedy Representative dramatists. 1586-1615. 1576-1625. III. 3. BERKELEY, BISHOP GEO. Theory of Vision. Distinguished English metaphysician. 1684-1754. VI. 4. BOLINGBROKE, LORD Reflections on Exile. Letter to Sir Furnished Pope with philosophy. 1678-1751. TVillianm Windlilam. VI. 5. BOSWELL, JAMES Life of Jolhnson. "First among biographers."-31facau1740-1795. lay. VII. 6. BROUGHAM, LORD Lives ofl Men of Letters. Reign of Distinguished as orator and statesman. 1779-1868. Georye III. IX. 7. BROWNE, SIR THOMAS Religio Mledici. Founded the grandiloquent style. 1605-1682. I~V. 8. BUCKLE, H. T. History of Civilzation in England. Leading English philosopher of civil1823-1862. ization. IX. 9. BURKE, EDMUND Vindication of Natural Society. England's greatest orator, and one of 1731-1797. Reflections on French Revoliu- her most remarkable minds. VIII. tion. Letter to a Noble Lord. 10. CHATTERTON, THOMAS Tragedy of Ella. Battle of Has- Known as the " Marvellous boy," and 1752-1770. tings. - as a literary forger. "No English VII. poet has ever equalled him at the same age." —Campbell. 11. CLARENDON, EARL OF History of the Rebellion. First contemporaneous history. 1608-1674. IV. 12. CROLY, GEORGE Catiline. Salathiel. Favorite delineator of Roman thought 1780-1860., and action. VIII. 13. CONGREVE, WILLIAM The Old Bachelor. RIepresentative dramatist of the time 1670-1729. of Charles II. v HEISTORY OF EN GLISH LITERATURE. 29 A UTHOR. WOR9IS. REASON FOR MEN'TION. 14. DONNE, JOHN Valediction Forbidding Mourn- First of the " Concetti." 1573-1631. ing. III. 15. EVELYN, JOHN Diary (1641-1706). Terra. Sylva. Diary supplies the materials fol a por1620-1706. tion of' history. IV. 16. FORD, JOHN The Broken Heart. Elizabethan dramatist. 1586-1639. III. 17. FROUDE, JAMES A. Short Essays on Gecat Subjects. Well-known modern historian. 1818- Ilistory of England. History of IX. Ireland. 18. GARRICK, DAVID The Lying Valet. Restored Shakespeare to the stage. 1716-1779. VII. 19. HALL, J. BISHOP Occasional Meditations. First reflective essay. 1574-1656. III. - 20. HERRICK, ROBERT Hesperides. "Best writer of the poetry of' kisses." 1591-1674. — enry flallam. III. 21. HEYWOOD, JOHN The English Traveller. First known writer of Interludes. -1565. II. 22. HOBBES, THOMAS Leviathan. Behemoth. First English metaphysician. 1588-1679. III. 23. HOOKER, RICHARD ZLaws of Ecclesiastical Polity. First figurative prose. 1553-1600.'II. 24. HOWELL, JAMES Faimiliar Letters. First letter. 1596-1666. III. 25. LINGARD, JOHN Hiistory of England. Leading Catholic historian. 1771-1851. VIII. 26. MACKINTOSH, SIR JAMES Vindicice Gallice. Contributions One of the B13itish Essayists. "Great 1765-1832. to Edinburqh Review. Ethical labor, ingenuity, brilliancy, and vigVIII. Philosopl. or; too antithetical and dogmatic." - W]iliciam HTazlitt. 30 REEPRESENTATIVE NAMES IN THE A UTHOR. WORtKS. REASON FOR MENTION. 27. MANDEVILLE, JOHN DE Travels. First prose. First book of travels, 1300-1372. 1356. 28. MONTAGU, LADY MARY W. Letters. "Style flowing and flexible; want of 1690-1762. delicacy, refinement of feeling, and vI. pure mornal sentiments. Models of epistolary style."-C. D. Cleveland. 29. MORE, SIR THOMAS Utopia. LJfe of Edward V. First history. 1480-1535. II. 30. NEWTON, SIR ISAAC Pkilosoplhice Naturalis Principia England's first great physicist. 1642-1727. iMathlematica. VI. 31. OTWAY, THOMAS Venice Preserved. Play still on the stage. 1651-1685. V. 32. PEPYS, SAMUEL Pepys' Diary. First literary gossip. 1633-1703. -'' IV. 33. PERCY, BISHOP Reliques of English Poetry. First collector of ballads. 1728-1811. VII. 34. READE, CHARLES Pegy toffngton. Dora. Leading "dramatizer." 1814IX. 35. RICHARDSON, SAMUEL PaFmela. Clarissa Iarlowe. First novelist, 1740. 1689-1761. VII. 36. RUSSELL, LADY Letters. First literary correspondence 1636-1723. V. 37. SACKVILLE, EARL OF Gorboduc. First tragedy, 1561, 1536-1608. II. 38. SIDNEY, SIR PHILIP Defence of Poesie. First literary criticism. 1554-1586. Countess of'pembroke's Arcadia. III. 39. SHIRLEY, JAMES The Maid's Revenge. "The last of a great race."-Charles 1596-1666. Lamb. III. HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. 31 A UTHO.R. WTORKS. REASON.FOR MENTION. 40. SOUTHWELL, ROBERT St. Peter's Complaint. Founder of modern religious poetry. 1560-1595. III. 41. STEELE, SIR RICHARD The ConsciousLovers. Christian Began the Spectator series. 1675-1729. Hero. VI. 42. SURREY, EARL OF Translation of 2d and 4th Books First blank verse and first sonnet. 1516-1547. of Virgil's I.neid. II. 43. TEMPLE, SIR WILLIAIM Essay on Ancient and iModern With Dryden formed prose style. 1628-1698. Learning. V. 44. TURNER, SHARON History of England. "Replete with Anglo-Saxon and other 1768-1847. learning."-Chancellor Kent. VIII. 45. UDALL, NICHOLAS Ralph Royster Doyster. First comedy, 1551. 1506-1557. II. 46. WALPOLE, HORACE Castle of Otranto. First prose romance. 1717-17 97. VII. 47. W'YCHERL EY, WILLIAM] The Way of the World. [Represents the "profligate drama." 1640-1715. V. 48. WYCKLIFFE, JOI-IN DE Translation of thze Bible. First English Bible, 1381. 1324-1384. I. 32 REPRESENTATIVE NA[MES IN THE A UTHOR. CLASS. FORITf. REPRESENTA TIVE IVORIKS. 1. BANCROFT, GEORGE Critic. History. IHistory of the United States. 1800- Tale. Poems. Essay. Contributions to the IN. Am. Review. 2. B3ROWN, CHAS. B3ROCKDEN Rhetorician. Narration. Edgar TEluntley. 1771-1 810. 3. BRYANT, WILLIAM CULLEN Rhetorician. Tale. Thanatopsis. 1794- Nlarration. The Embargo. The Ages. 4. BUTLER, WILLIAM ALLEN Satirist. Essay. Contributions to Democratic Review. 1825- Narration. Nohlling to Wear. Two Millions. 5. CAREY, ALICE Sentimentalist. Tale. Poems. 1820-1871. Narration. Clovernoolc. Hagar: a Story of Today/. 6. CHANNING, WM. ELLERY Metaphysician. Essay. MIilton. Napoleon. 1780-1842. Address. N2ational Literature. 7 CHILD, LYDIA 5A. Sentimentalist. Ilistory. Bioqraphies qf Good Women. 1802- INarration. Hobo)noek. Philothea. 8. COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE Rhetorician. Narration. Deerslayer. Red Skins. Spy. Last 1789-1851. of the Miohecans. History. History qf the Navy qft te U. S. Lives of Amlerican Naval Officers. 9. CURTIS, GEORGE VW. Rhetorician. Essay. Potiphar Papers. 1824- Humorist. Narration. Nile Notes qf a I1owaodji. Howadji in S)yria. Lotos-Eaters. Oration. Dutty of the Alnerican Scholar to Politics and the Times. 10. EDWARDS, JONATHAN Metaphysician. Treatise. The F1reedom of the Will and llMoral 1703-1758. Agency. 11. EMERSON, RALPH WALDO Metaphysician. Tale, Poems. 1803- Essay. Conduct of Life. Represenltative Men. HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. 33 CHIA A CTERIZA TION. REMARKS. "Conscientious reference to authorities, and careful criticism."Heeren. " Liberality, fairness, and research."-Edinburgh Review. " -e disregards rules, and cares little for criticism. But his style is clear and nervous,.... free from affectations, indicating a singular sincerity and depth of feeling." —. IV. Griswold. "In the beautiful the genius of Bryant finds its prime delight."- Translator of Homer. Compiler of " Library Christop~her North. of Poetry and Song." Editor N. Y. Even" Pure high sentiment."- Willard Phillips. ing Post. " Overflows with natural religion."-RIetsrospective Review. " I-Ie has wit and humor, a lively fancy, and a style natural and flexible, abounding in felicities of expression."-R. WV. Griswold. "Simple, natural, truthful; keen sense of pathos and humor."J. G. VWhittier. "The elements of genius are poured forth in her verses with astonishing richness and prodigality."-E. P. VWhipple. "Talent for narration and delineation of character."-William C'ullen Bryant. " Looks through external forms in search of the secret, mysterious principles of thought, action, and being; mind in the abstract is his constant theme." —Alexander H. Everett. " Whatever comes to her from without, whether through the eye or ear, whether in nature or art, is reflected in her writings with a halo of beauty thrown about it by her own fancy." —C. D. Cleveland. "Wrote for mankind at large; hence it is that he has earned a fame wider than any author of modern times. The creations of his genius shall survive through centuries to come, and only perish with our language."-T William Cullen Bryant. "Has left a place in literature not easily supplied."- W. Irving. " Graceful and polished style, pure taste, fine fancy, grace of delivery."-Cleveland. "Vivid feeling and fancy."-Leigh Heunt. "On the arena of metaphysics he stood the highest of all his contemporaries; and we know not what most to admire in him, whether the deep philosophy that issued from his pen, or the humble or childlike piety that issued from his pulpit."-Dr. Chalmers. "Sui generis; vague nobleness and thorough sweetness; conquers minds as well as hearts wherever he goes, and, without convincing anybody's reason of any one thing, exalts their reason, and makes it better worth having."-Ilarriet MAlartineau. 34 REPRESENTATIVE NAMIES IN THE A UTHOR. CLASS. FORM. R1EPRESENTATIVE WORKS. 12. EVERETT, EDWARD Rhetorician. Tale. Dirge of Alaric. 1794-1865. Oration. Phi Beta KIappa Oration. 13. FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN Physicist. Essay. Letters and Papers on Electricity. Es1706-1790. says on General Politics, Econoomy, and Comnmerce. Essays on JReligiwos and Mloral Subjects, and the Ercoomy of Lit. Tracts hlistorical and P-olitical. Letter. Correspondence. History. Autobiographly. 14. GILES, HENRY Sentimentalist. Lecture. Illustrations of Genius in some of its Rie1819- lations to Culture and Society. 15. HALLECK, FITZ-GREENE Sentimentalist. Tale. Fanny. Burns. Marco Bozzaris. 1795-1869. 16. IlAMILTON, ALEXANDER Critic. Essay. The Federalist. Papers by Camillus, 1757-1804. and Pacificus. 17. HAWTHORNE, NATH'L Metaphysician. Tale. Tanllewood Tales. Ml]osses from an Old 1805-1864.' anse. Twice-told Tales. Narration. ]ilouse of the Seven Gables. The Scarlet Letter. M]arble Faun. 18. HIIIDRETH, PICHARD Sentimentalist. History. Contributiotns to Review. 1807-1865. Essay. Theorq of' Politics. History of the United States. 19. HILLARD, GEORGE S. Critic. Essay. Six loaonths in Italy. 1808- Series of Readers. HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. 35 C'HARA CTERIZA TION. REMARKS. "Style rich and glowing, but always under the command of good taste and sound judgment. Inspiration of a generous and comprehensive patriotism."-G'eorqe S. Hillard. "A singular felicity of induction guided all his researches, and by "Poor Richard's Almanac " was one of the very small means he established very grave truths."-Sir HIurtamphrey most influential books that ever issued Davy. from the American press. " -Iis genius ranks him with the Galileos and Newtons of the old world."-Lord Brougham. "Soundness, sagacity, quickness of penetration, and lively imagination. Style has the vigor and conciseness of Swift, without his coarseness." —Francis Jeffiey. "Franklin was the greatest diplomatist of the eighteenth century. He never spoke a word too soon; he never spoke a word too late; he never spoke a word too much; he never failed to speak the right word in the right place."-George Bancroft. "Works of merit."-American Cyclopcedia, 1869'Pervading grace, natural brilliancy of wit, freedom, yet refinement of sentiment, sparkling flow of fancy, power of personification blended with high finish and exquisite nicety of taste." —?. W. Griswold. "Master of metrical harmony."- WV. C. Bryant. "The Federalist derives its weight and power from Hamilton."George T. Curtis. " Superior comprehensiveness, practicalness, and originality; condensed and polished diction." —]. IY. Griswold. " Knows the vital principles and fundamental conditions of government."- Guizot. " Model of eloquence and fascinating orator." —Judge Story.' Style as clear as running water; external form but the representative of internal being."-Losgfellow. "Metaphysical or soulfill; care in style, authenticity, artistic exposition; reliable as the best of Scott; resembles Balzac in analysis of human passion and consciousness; as true to humanity as Dickens." -H. T. Tuck-erman. "Strong and manly style, power of description and narration as an historian. The prominent qualities of his mind are courage and honesty." —C. D. Cleveland. "Immense information, novel and judicious criticisms, thoughts "Hillard's Sixth Reader" is a remarkable and feelings beautifully expressed."-Frazer's Mlagazine. collection of judicious criticisms and char"Taste fastidious; excels in arrangement and condensation; cx- acteristic selections; from being a textpression imraginative."-Rtfus TV7. Griswold. book, its value to the scholar is less likely " Without egotism, personal or patriotic; style pointed and full of to be known. happy expressions and happy images."-London Quarterly Review. 36 REPRESENTATIVE NAMES IN THE 4A UTIIOR. CLASS. FOR I. REPRESENTA TVIE WORKS. 20. HOFFMAN, CHARLES Rhetorician. Tale. Love's Calendar. 1806- Narration. WTild Scenes in the Florest Prairie. 21. HOLLAND, J. G, Sentimentalist. Essay. Timzothy Titcomnb's Letters. 1819- Narration. Marble P'rophecy. Kathrina. BitterSweet. The Bay-Path. 22. HOLMES, O. W'. Humorist. Essay. Thle Autocrat of tlhe Breakfast-Table. 1809- Satirist. MIechanisim of M11orals. Tale. Old Ironsides. The One-Hoss Shay. Narration. Elsie'eznner, 23. HUDSON, HENRY N, Critic. Treatise. Life, Art, and Charactcrs ofSlalcespeare.' 1814- Lectures oa Shalcespeare. 24. IRVING, WASHINGTON Humorist. Essay. SalmCagundi. 1783-1859. Sentimentalist. Tale. Tales of a Traveller. Narration. Knickerbocker. N. Y. Sketch-Bookl. Bracebridfe Iactll. TWolfert's Roost. IIistory. L/fe of Columzbus; of Washington; of Goldsm7nith. 25. KENNEDY, JOHN P. Rhetorician. Essay. Swcallow-Barn. 1795-1860. Narration. hitorseslioe Robinson. History. Mlemnoirs of the Life of William West. 26. LONGFELLOW, H. W. Rhetorician. Narration. hhyperion. Kavanacgh. Oltre-MJler. 1807- Evangeline. Hiawatha. Miles Standish. Tale. Excelsior. Psaln of Life. History. The Divine Tragedy. 27. LOWELL, JAMES RUSSELL Humorist, Narration. Fable of the Critics. Agassiz. The 1819- Critic. Crisis. Bitlow Papers. Essay. Amon1lg My Books. ]Ify Study Winldows. Soize of the Old Poets. 28. MEEK, A. B. Sentimentalist. Tale. Balalklava. 1814-1865. Narration. The RIed Enage. Romantic Scenes in S. tt. Histor?. 29. MITCHELL, D. G. Sentimentalist. Narration. Dreanm Lze. Reveries of a Bachelor. 1822 HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. 37 CHARA CTERIZA TION. REMA RKS. "Graphic delineations of nature, spirited sketches of men and manners, and richness and purity of style."-Raifus W. Griswold. " We mean it as very high praise when we say that Bitter-Sweet is Under the editorial management of Dr. lIolone of the few books that have found the secret of drawing up and land the Springfield Republican made the assimilating the juices of this new world of ours."-Atlantic M3Ionthly. reputation which it has so long and so well deserved. "Most concise, apt, and effective poet of the school of Pope."HI. T. Tulckermnan. "Mr. H-Iudson has enriched the literature of our language with the fruits of his studies, mastering the difficulties of the poet with wonderful ingenuity, seizing the spirit of his characterization with lkindred subtlety, and in a singularly nervous and racy style presenting some of the finest specimens of critical analysis of which any modern writer can boast."-S. Austen Allibone. " Rich and original humor, great refinement of feeling and delicacy of sentiment. Style accurately finished, easy, and transparent. Accurate observer: his descriptions are correct, animated, and beautiful."-Geor/e S. Hillard. " Altogether one of our most genial, lively, and agreeable writers. His style is airy, easy, andc graceful, but various, and always in keepin- with his subject. I-e excels both as a describer and as a raconteur." —R. A. Griswold. "Affluence of imagination."-E. P. TV/ltipple. Poets and Poetry of Europe. Trans!ation " Purity of tone, tenderness, picturesque simplicity."-Janmies Rus- of Dante. sell Louwell. " Ilis poetry expresses a universal sentiment in the simplest and most melodious muanner."-Georqe IV. Curtis. " Beauty of imagination, delicacy of taste, wide sympathy, and mild earnestness."- George Gifillaon. "Conception superior to execution; imagination vivid, and fancy Throughout My Study Windows are scatfruitful; purity and elevation of feeling."-George S. Hillard. ered some of our most judicious ai't criticisms. Mr. Loiwell alwayvs writes effectively, but is sometimes reproached with want of elegance in language and structure. "The poetry of A. B. Meek is marked by exquisite melody of Aleek's poem of Balaklava was published un. versification, great lelicacy of sentiment, and a manliness of feeling der an assumed namle. rarely met with." —Sottt/.Lit. Mess. Dec. 1857. " Prose graphic and musical, poetical in spirit, and characterized by purity as well as tenderness of feeling." —George S. Hillard. 38 REPRESE NTATIVE NAMIES IN THE A UTtIOR. CLASS. FORM. REPRESENTA TIVE WORKS. 30. MORRIS, GEORGE P. Sentimentalist. Tale. Woodman, spare that Tree. 1802-1864. 31..MOTLEY, JOS. LOTHROP Rhetorician. History. History qf the United Netherlands. Rise 1814- qf the Dutch Republic. Life and Times of John Barneveldt. 32. PARKER, THEODORE Sentimentalist. Essay. Critical and liscellaneous 1Writirgs. 1812-1860. Address. Sermons. Tale Poems. 33. PARSONS, T. W. Rhetorician. Tale. Poems. 181934. PAULDING, JAMES K. Humorist. Essay. SanZac/nldi. 1778-1860. Satirist. Narration. John Bull and Brother Jonathan. 35. PHILLIPS, WENDELL Sentimentalist. Oration. Antislavery Orations. 1811- Essay. The Lost Arts. 36. PIERPONT, JOHN Sentimentalist. Tale. Airs of Palestine. 1785-1866. Series of Readers. 37. POE, EDGAR ALLAN Rhetorician. Tale. Annabel Lee. The Raven. Prose 1819-1849. Tales. 38. PRENTICE, GEORGE D. Humorist. Essay. Editorials. Prenticeiana. 1802-1869. Tale. The Tempest. 39. PRESCOTT, WILLIAM H. Rhetorician. Essay. Biographical and Critical M iscellanies. 1796-1859. History. I-rdinand and Isiabella. Conquest of Mlexico; of Peru. Philip II.. HISTORY OF ENGLISHI LITERATURE. 39 CITA RA CTERIZA TION. REMA RIiS. "Best American song-writer."-T. B. Shaw. Together with N. P. Willis, Morris published "The Prose and Poetry of Europe and America." "Style always copious, occasionally familiar, sometimes stilted and declamatory." — Guizot. " Research and accuracy." — T. II. Prescott. " Brilliant style, generous in tone, penetrated with the true philosophy of history."-George S. HIillard. "Fitness to reach the heart of mankind, and to feed its inmost Theodore Parker was an iconoclast, and his longings."-Johun Weiss. services must be judged from this standpoint. " His verses are clear alike to the ear and the brain, and their old- Translator of Dante. fashioned music is in keeping with their vigorous sense, fine hurnor, sharp but not ungenial wit, and delicate though always manly sentiment."-R. TV. Griswold. " Every style of the facetious and satirical; more whimsical than Irving, less refined. Descriptive power, skill in character-writing, natural humor." —Rtfus W. Griswold. "Perfectly easy, quiet, almost conversational style; thoroughly prepared, he speaks as if extemporaneously; most polished sentences, most brilliant epigrams, most withering sarcasms; his intellectual bitterness is coated with honey." " Imagine how many men and women now living first learned to love beautiful prose and finished verse through early familiarity with Pierpont's First Class Book."-II. T. Tuclcerman. "Fictions as matter-of-fact as De Foe; tales as weird and wonderful as Hoffman; amatory strains trembling with passion and suffused with the purple glow of love. Dirges express the dreariest essence of desolation."-George Gifihllan. "Three fifths genius and two fifths fudge."-.James Russelh Lowell. "Heart squeezed out by the mind."-I-del. "The Prenticeiana are famous:.... an instructive and amusing commentary on the management of elections, newspaper literature, and political oratory."-Allibone. "Excellent history."-Henry Hallam. An enduring history."-V-on Iiumbolclt. "A classic in our language."-George S. Hillard. "Faultless lucidity."- Gcorqe Bamcroft. "Talents artistic rather than philosophical; skillful narrative and gracefhl style."-H-. T. Tuckerman. 40 REPRESENTATIVE NAfMAIES IN THE A UTITOR. CLASS. FORMll. REPRESENTA TI VE WORKS. 40. REED, HENRY Sentimentalist. Lecture. Lectures on Eglish Literature. Lectures 1803-1854. on History as illustrated by Shakespear'e. 41. SARGENT, EPES Sentimcntalist. Tale. Songs of the Sea. 1814- 1History. Velasco: a Tragedy. Life and Serviccs of lenry Clay. Series of Reaclers. 42. SAXE, JOHN G. Humorist. Narration. The Money King. The Times. Pro1816- Satirist. gress. Rape of the Lock. Tale. Humorous and Satirical Poems. 43. SEDGEWICK, CATH. M. Sentimentalist. Talc. Stories for Youngq Persons. Tales and 1789-1867. Sketches of Iloioe. Narration. Hope Leslie. Poor Rich 1lan, and Rich Poor 3Ian. 44. SIGOURNEY, LYDIA H. Sentimentalist. Talc. Tales and Essays for Children. 1791-1865. Essay. Mioral Pieces in Prose and Verse. Letters to Young Ladies. 45. SPARKS, JARED Sentimentalist. History. The Diploimatic Correspondence of the 1794-1866. Amnerican Revolution. The VT'itinqs of George Washington. The Library of Anserican Biographzy. Lif of Benjamin Franklizn. 46. STOWE, HARRIET B. Sentimentalist. Essay. Little Foxes. Queer Little People. HIlouse 1812- and ITolme Papers. Narration. Uincle Tom's Cabin. Dred. Oldtown Folks. 3Minister's Wooisng. 47. TAYLOR, BAYARD Rhetorician. Tale. Ximena. Rhymes of Travel. 1825- Narration. Eldorado. Land of the Saracens. Essay. At tomne and Abroad. Visit to China. India and Japan. 48. TICKNOR, GEORGE T. Critic. History. HIistory of Spanish Literature. 1791- Essay. Contributions to North Ani. Review. 49. TUCKERMAN, H. T. Critic. Essay. Italian Sketch Book. Artist Life. 1813-1871. Thoughts on the Poets. Essays Biogralphical and Critical. Characteristics of Literature. 50. TWAIN, MARK Humorist. Narration. Innocents Abroad. Rougyhin It. 1835 I-IISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. 41 CHARA CTERIIZA TION. REMARKS. "A book full of taste, beauty, and learning." —North Am?. Review. Mr. Reed was lost in the "Arctic." His books "The productions of a refined and gentle mind."-Lon. Atheucmz1. are written by a genuine lover of literature and are among the best examples of subjective criticism. " Worthy of the subject both in sentiment and style."-II. T. Tuckernzan. "He has written of the sea with more freshness and graphic power, with more true fahncy and poetic feeling, than Falconer antd many others of a higher reputation." —E. P. Wl/ilppvle. "A writer of sparkling and occasionally pungent vers de socite', who has for many years enjoyed wide popularity in the U. S., aind ought to meet with a similar reception in England."-Lon. Athenreurn. "Writes with uncommon elefgance and purity(?): never commonplace; occasionally diffuse."- -WV. Hillacrd (N /orth Amt. Review, 32). "Great facility in versification, fluent in thoug'ht and language, triteness and irregutlarity at times."-E. P. }Wil)ple. "Marshall and Sparks a'e very accurate." — TVasliyton I1rvi,1g. "Name associated imperishably with our Revolutionary period." -Edward Everett. " Knowledge of human nature, power of description, tone of Christian morality, truthfulness to God and to humanity, richness and beauty of thoug'ht and language." —C. D. Clevelancd. " Highest distinction from his poetly."-Rtfis TV. Griswold. Translation of F'aust. " Hi-s prose is equitable and clear, in the fiowing style; the narration of a genial, healthy observer of the many manners of the world which lie has seen in the most remarkable portions of its four quarters." —Deyckiizlck. "Written with great conscientiousncss, and with singular critical cricuinsl)cction of judgment." —F. WoTf. "One of the most elegant and discriminating of critics." —Rufus W. Griswold. "One of the ablest essayists of any country." — Valpareau. "Sanmuel Langhorne Clemens." 42 REPRESENTATIVE NAM3ES IN THE A UTITOR. CLASS. FORM. REPRESENTA TI VE WORKS. 51. WARE, WILLIAM Narration. Zenobia. Julian. Probus. 1797-1852. 52. WARNER, CHAS. DUDLEY Humorist. Essay. MIky Summer in a Garden. 53. WAYLAND, FRANCIS Metaphysician. Trcatise. Elenlezts ofPoliticalEconomy..Elements 1796-1865. of Moral Science. Address. Duzties of Anmerican Citizenship. 54. WEBSTER, DANIEL Sentimentalist. Oration. Trial of J. F. Knapp. R Ily to Flayne. 1 782-1852. 55. WHIPPLE, E. P. Rhetorician. Essay. Contributior1s to N. Am7. Review. Es1819- says and Reviews. Lectures on Subjects connected with Literature and Life. Character and Characteristic fien. Literature of the Age of Elizabeth. 56. WHITTIER, J. G. Sentimentalist. Tale. Voices of Freedom. In War Times. 1808- Snow-Bound. 57. WINTIHROP, THEODORE Rhetorician. Narration. Cecil Dreeme. John Brent. 1828-1861. Essay. Contributions to Atlantic M3]onlthly. 58. WIRT, WILLIAM Rhetorician. History. Two Principal Aryunents in the Trial of 1772-1834. Aaron Burr. Life of Patrick Henry; of Jefferson. HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. 43 CHA RA CTERIZA TION. REMA RlKIS. " Rivaled Lockhart." — i. T. Tuckerman. "There is not a trace of modern habits or modes of thinking; and if Ware had been possessed by the monomania of Macpherson or Chatterton, it would have rested with himself to produce these letters as a close and literal version of manuscripts of the third century." -Harriet Martinleau. "Clear, exact, judicious."-Vallpareau. "Vigorous, logical mind; writes with clearness and energy; wide range and grasp of thought, power of intellectual construction and analysis." —George S. Hlillard. "Stringent, terse, simple, strong." -Chancellor Kelt. "-High standard of truth; convince him and he cannot reply; he cannot look the truth in the face and oppose it by argument."-John C. Calhoun. " None of our critics is more successful in illustrating truth or in producing a fair and distinct impression of an author."-Rufuts W. Griswold. "Fineness of perception, independence of judgment, and undeviating regard for the true interests of intelligence." —G. Valpareau. "Earnestness of tone, high moral purpose, energy of expression, spirit of a sincere and fearless reformer, themes drawn largely firom the history, traditions, manners, and scenery of New England. Describes natural scenery correctly and beautifully, and has a vein of tenderness."-George S. Ilillard. "Displays a wonderful power of imagination."-Triiabner. Killed at Great Bethel. "I do not think hioghly of his literary merits; abilities more bril- Wirt's " Blind Preacher" has entranced liant than solid, rapid but skillful command of language, prolific but thousands of young people, and is a i.nlsnot chaste or correct fancy; opinions neither new nor striking."- terpiece of descriptive writing. Rtfus TV. Griswold. "' Style polished and forcible."-Triibner. 44 REPRESENTATIVE lNAMES IN THE-IE A UTHOR. WORKS. _ REASON FOR MENTION. 1. ADAMS, JOTHN Works. "The great pillar of support to the D e1735-1826. laration of Independence, and its ablest advocate and champion on the floor of the Hlouse, was John Adamis."- Thoomas Jefierson. 2. ADAMS, J. Q. Eulogies on M1onroe, 31adison, and A statesman of world-wide reputation. 1767-1848. Lfciyette. 3. AGASSIZ, LOUIS J. R. Contributions to Natural HIistory Leading naturalist. 1807-1873. of U. S. 4. ALCOTT, A. BRONSON Tablets. "The Orphic Sage." Celebrated con1799- versationist. 5. ALCOTT, LOUISA M. Little WTomen *The best-known author of juvenile 1833- literature. 6. ANTHON, CHARLES E ditions of the Classics. Known to all American students as a 1797-1867. classical scholar. 7. AUDUBON, JOHN J. Birds qf America. Quadruzpeds Leading ornithologist. 1782-1851. of America. 8. B3EECHER, TI. W. Star-Papers. Perhaps the best known of American 1813- Lectures to Younyg Mlen. pulpit orators. 9. BURRITT, ELIHU Mission of Great Suffering. Known as the " Learned Blacksmith," 1811- and celebrated for the number of languages with which he is acquainted. 10. BUSIINELL, HORACE C. Nature and thl Supernatural, as Celebrated theologian. 1804- toqether constituting the ole Systemn of God. 11. CALIOUN, JOIIHN C. WMorks. Praised by Daniel Webster for the 1782-1850. closeness of his logic; identified with national history for forty years. 12. CAREY, HENRY C. Principles of Social Science. "Among the very first of political econ1793- oniists.""-C. D. Cleveland. 13. CHEEVER, GEORGE B. American Connonzplcace B30ok of "Evinces genius, scholarship, and in1807- Prose. Studies in Poetry, dlustrV in an eminent degree."-C. with Biographical Sketches of D. Cleveland. the Poets. 14. CHOATE, RUFUS Orations. Distinguished advocate. 1799-1859. 15. CLAY, HENRY Speeches. Distinguished orator and statesman. 1777-1852. HTISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. 45 A UTITOR. WORIKS. REASON FOR MENTION. 16. COZZENS, FIRED S. Sparrowgrass Papers. One of the most delicate of our humor1818-1869. ists. 17. DANA, JAMES D. Mineralogy. Geology. Leading physicist. 181318. DANA, R. H., SI. The Buccaneer. Editor of North American Review, and 1787- one of the first to give reputation to its literary criticisms. 19. DANA, R. H., JR. Two Years before the.Mast. Success of the-venture. 181520. DRAPER, JOHN WILLIAM Physioloye. -Intellectual Develop- Leading physiologist. 1811- meert of Europe. 21. DWIGHT, TIMOTI-IY Systeim of Divinity. Well known as a theologian and as 1 752-1847. president of Yale College. 22. EVERETT, ALEXANDER H. Critical and Miscellaneous Essays. Editor of North American Review, and 1790-1847. pronounced by Cleveland " one of the most eminent literary men of our country." 23. FLINT, TIMOTHY Recollections of Ten Years passed " First important contribution to Amer1780-1840. in the Valley of the 3lississippi. ican geography."- C. D. Cleveland. 24.:FULLER, MARGARET WoInan in the Nineteenth Century. Known also as Marchesa d'Ossoli. Cel1810-1850. At I-lome and Abroad. ebrated as a conversationist. Lost at sea. 25. GOODRICH, SAMUEL G. Thirty-Six Voltmes of Tales. "Peter Parley." Published The Token, 1793-1860. our first annual. 26. GRAY, ASA Manual of Botany. Leading botanist. 181027. GRISWOLD, RUFUS WV. Poets and Poetry of America. Represents with Duyckinck our Amer1815-1857. Prose TTriters of Anmerica. ican anthology. Female Poets of America. 28. HEDGE, F. EH. Prose }Writers of Germany. Best collected translations from the 1805- German. 29. HOPKINS, MARK Lectures on the Evidences of Chris- One of the best loved and most esteemed 1802- tianity. The Law of Love, and of college presidents: known throughLove as Law. out America by his teachings. 30. HOPKINSON, FRANCIS The New Roof. Signer of Declaration of Independence; 1737-1791. well known as an agreeable satirist. 46 REPRESENTATIVE NNAMES IN THE A UTHIOR. WORKS. REASON FOR MIENTION. 31. JEFFERSON, THOMAS Manual ofParliamentaryPractice. Influence upon American statesman1743-1826. L)eclaration of Independence. ship. 32. MADISON, JAMES Papers in t1e Federalist. Debates Able statesman of the Revolutionary 1751-1836. in Constitultional Convention. period. 33. MANN, HORACE Speeches and Lectaures on Education. Leader in public education. 1796-1859. 34. MARCH, F. A. Anglo-Saxon Reader and Graml- Eminent philologist. mar. 35. MARSH, GEORGE P. Orijin and IIistory of English Eminent philologist. 1801- Language. Lecttlies on English Langucage and Literature. 36. PORTER, NOAH Thle Iltenan Intellect. XWell known as president of Yale Col. 1811- lege. 37. ROBINSON, EDWARD Palestine, Past and Present.;Founder of the "Bibliotheca Sacra." 1794-1863. 38. SCHOOLCRAFT, HENRY Journal of Travels. Eminent archeologist. 1793-1864. 39. SEWARD, WILLIAM H. Travels around the World. Long identified wvith the political his1801-1872. tory of the U. S. 40. STEPHENS, ALEX. H. H:istory of the WTar between the For the value of the constitutional 1812- States. rd.sum in his first volumne; 41. STORY, JOSEPH Coommentaries on theConstitution of Leading jurist. 1779-1845. U. S. Lectures on Science of Governlment. 45. SUMNER, CHARLES The Scho7ar, Artist, Philanthro- SLucceeded Daniel Webster in the IJ. S. 1811-1874. pist, Jurist. Senate, and distinguished himself as one of the most learned of that body; as representative of the Antislavery movement his name is historical. 43. THOREAU, H. D. A WPeek on Concord and 3errimac Lover of inanimate nature; the Amer1817-1862., Rivers. WFalden. IMaineVWoods. ican Rousseau. 44. VERPLANCK, GULIAN C. Proces Verbal. Editions of Slake- Leading, American Shakespearean 1781-1870. speare. scholar. 45. WEISS, JOHN Lfe and Correspondence of Ttheo- Leading contributor to N. Am. Review. 1818- dore Parker. HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. 47 A UTIOR. WORKS. REASON FOR MENTI10N. 46. WEBSTER, NOAH Spelling Book. Dict/onary. Still the standard lexicographer, al1758-1843. thoug-h the dictionary leaves much to be desired. 47. WHITE, RICHARD GRANT Editionsof Shakespeare. Leading American Shakespearean text1812- ual critic. 48. WILKES, CHARLES Cruise of the U. S. Explorinlg "Does both himself and his country 1805- Expeditioa,. much honor."-Lonldon Athenceum. 49. WITHERSPOON, JOHN Essay on Mozey as a Medium of " One of the most influential statesmen 1722-1794. Comnmerce. and scholars of the Revolutionary period."-C. D. Cleveland. 50. WOOLMAN, JOHN Works. "Get the writings of Woolman bv 1720-1772. heart, and love the early Quakers." -Charles Lamb. 51. WOOLSEY, T. D. Greek Classics. Greeeek scholar, and president of Yale 1801- College for more than a quarter of a century. 52. WOODWORTH, SAMUEL The Old Oaken Bucket. Univcrsally known song. 1785-1812. 53. WORCESTER, J. E. Dictionary. Gazetteer. Divides with Noah Webster popular 1784-1865. suffrage.