Live With Me - (1997)
Christopher Marlowe and Sir Walter Raleigh (last verse), quoted by William Shakespeare
for low or medium voice and piano
The Rose in English Poetry (16th-18th century)
The rose is one of the most widely used symbolic devices in English literature. It stands primarily for love, for love’s passion and beauty, for its constancy and simultaneously its perishability.
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Napoleon's Josephine: A Rose by Any Other Name
Napoleon's greatest love would come from the Caribbean island of Martinique. Napoleon never went there, but this woman's father, Joseph Gaspard Tascher de la Pagerie, owned a sugar plantation, complete with slaves, on the island. The family had significant wealth and power, and the children led a very comfortable life in an idyllic location.
"Marie Josèphe Rose Tascher de la Pagerie" was born on June 23, 1763. If you noticed that there is no "Josephine" in her name, you may wonder how that name came about. Her friends and family had always called her "Rose", but Napoleon, never content to just go with the flow, called her "Josephine" (from "Josèphe"), and that is how she will be forever known.
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- Debora Elizabeth Hill: A Wizard by Any Other Name
- Future Sound Of London: By Any Other Name
- James G. Abernathy: By Any Other Name: Exposing the Deception, Mythology, and Tragedy...
- John Carter: A Rose By Any Other Name
- Jozef Van Wissem: A Rose By Any Other Name
- Lester Alison: Rose by Any Other Name
- Lisa Coppola: Rose By Any Other Name
- Madonna: A Rose by Any Other Name
- Maureen McCarthy: Rose by Any Other Name
- Nancy Gift: A Weed by Any Other Name:
- Neil McGaughey: A Corpse by Any Other Name
- Penelope Dyan: A Nose by Any Other Name Is Still a Nose!
- Ronnie Milsap: A Rose By Any Other Name
- Rose In The Heather: By Any Other Name
A rose by any other name: Losing something in translation?
One of the things that makes us the human beings we are is a powerfully-developed pattern-matching facility. Momentarily spot a profile in half light and the person is instantly recognised; listen to someone at a crowded party and we can usually “join up the dots” between half-heard snatches of speech and turn it into a meaningful statement. But sometimes this superb ability tries hard to make sense of something that is too alien for it and nonsense results.
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- Gallant Soldiers
- Jerusalem artichoke
- pennyroyal
- avocado
- aubergine
The Shakespeare Glossary
Below is a glossary of old and unusual words used in Shakespeare's plays. I am currently working on a glossary and annotations for each play. The glossary for Macbeth can be found here.
Shakespeare's Influence
The English language owes a great debt to Shakespeare. He invented over 1700 of our common words byBelow is a list of a few of the words Shakespeare coined, hyperlinked to the play and scene from which it comes. When the word appears in multiple plays, the link will take you to the play in which it first appears.
- changing nouns into verbs,
- changing verbs into adjectives,
- connecting words never before used together,
- adding prefixes and suffixes,
- and devising words wholly original.
academe | accused | addiction | advertising | amazement | arouse | assassination | backing | bandit | bedroom | beached | besmirch | birthplace | blanket | bloodstained | barefaced | blushing | bet | bump | buzzer | caked | cater | champion | circumstantial | cold-blooded | compromise | courtship | countless | critic | dauntless | dawn | deafening | discontent | dishearten | drugged | dwindle | epileptic | equivocal | elbow | excitement | exposure | eyeball | fashionable | fixture | flawed | frugal | generous | gloomy | gossip | green-eyed | gust | hint | hobnob | hurried | impede | impartial | invulnerable | jaded | label | lackluster | laughable | lonely | lower | luggage | lustrous | madcap | majestic | marketable | metamorphize | mimic | monumental | moonbeam | mountaineer | negotiate | noiseless | obscene | obsequiously | ode | olympian | outbreak | panders | pedant | premeditated | puking | radiance | rant | remorseless | savagery | scuffle | secure | skim | milk | submerge | summit | swagger | torture | tranquil | undress | unreal | varied | vaulting | worthless
Essentials
- Study Guides to Plays/Sonnets
- Shakespeare Quotations
- Soliloquy Analysis
- Shakespeare Glossary
- Shakespeare Timeline
Plays | Sonnets | Poems | Quotes | Summaries | Essays | Glossary | Links
Absolute Shakespeare, the essential resource for William Shakespeare's plays, sonnets, poems, quotes, biography and the legendary Globe Theatre.
- William Shakespeare: Shakespeare is renowned as the English playwright and poet whose body of works is considered the greatest in history of English literature.
- Shakespeare Plays: All the plays from 'All's Well That Ends Well' to 'Twelfth Night' in the complete original texts with summaries. Divided into comedies, histories and tragedies.
- Sonnets: All of the Bard's 154 sonnets including the much acclaimed sonnet 18: "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day..."
- Pictures: Engraving of paintings of William Shakespeare and those inspired by his famous plays. Indexed by play and accompanied by the text inspiring the painting.
- Bard Facts: Trivia about the world's most famous bard from words coined by the bard to his marriage.
- Biography: Everything you would ever want to know about the immortal Bard's life and more.
- Authorship Debate: The controversial debate on who really wrote the complete works continues to rages unabated to this very day.
- Quiz: Test your knowledge of the bard by taking our gruelling quiz, answers included.
- Summaries: Shakespeare summaries provide a quick and easy guide to Shakespeare's most famous plays. Divided by act, the summaries make an ideal introduction.
- Poems: The complete collection of the Bard's poetry in the original text including A lover's complaint and Venus and Adonis.
- Quotes: Over 130 of the most famous quotes from the Bard's complete works indexed by play.
- Globe Theatre: The story of how the Bard created one of the greatest theatres of all time, the playhouse is also where he first performed many of his greatest plays.
- Films: The ultimate list of all film adaptations of the complete works, there are well over 250 movies to date.
- Bibliography: The complete list of the plays, poems and sonnets attributed as written by the Bard.
- Timeline: Describes the many chapters in the immortal Bard's colorful life from birth, his disappearance, marriage, his death and ending in the printing of the First Folio in 1623.
- Study Guides: Hamlet | Julius Caesar | King Henry IV | King Lear | Macbeth | Merchant of Venice | Othello | Romeo and Juliet | The Tempest | Twelfth Night
- Trivia: Authorship | Bard Facts | Bibliography | Biography | FAQ | Films | Globe Theatre | Pictures | Quiz | Timeline
"Alice in Wonderland syndrome" ("AIWS"), or "micropsia", is a disorienting neurological condition which affects perception by the human eye.
Sufferers perceive objects (including animals and other humans, or parts of humans, animals, or objects) as appearing substantially smaller than in reality. Generally, the object appears far away at the same time. For example, a family pet, such as a dog, may appear the size of a mouse, or a normal car may look shrunk to scale.
This leads to another name for the condition, namely, "Lilliput sight". The condition is in terms of perception only; the mechanics of the eye are not affected, only the brain's interpretation of information passed from the eyes.
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The disorder is named after Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", where the title character experiences many situations similar to those of micropsia and macropsia. Since it is known that Carroll suffered from migraines, there is some speculation that he might have written that work from direct experience.
Harvard Classics, Vol. 4
The Complete Poems of John Milton
Written in English
John Milton
Paradise Lost and Regained—among the greatest epic poems of any age—combined with the full array of Milton’s English works secure his eternal place among the poet laureate pantheon.
CONTENTS
Bibliographic Record
NEW YORK: P.F. COLLIER & SON COMPANY, 1909–14
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2001
Contents
- Index to Titles
- Index to First Lines
John Milton. (1608–1674). Complete Poems.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.
Contents
Introductory Note
Poems Written at School and at College, 1624–1632Poems Written at Horton, 1632–1638
- On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity
- A Paraphrase on Psalm CXIV
- Psalm CXXXVI
- On the Death of a Fair Infant Dying of a Cough
- At a Vacation Exercise in the College, Part Latin, Part English
- The Passion
- On Shakespeare
- On the University Carrier
- Another on the Same
- An Epitaph on the marchioness of Winchester
- On His Being Arrived to the Age of Twenty-Three
Poems Written During the Civil War and the Protectorate, 1642–1658
- L’Allegro
- Il Penseroso
- Sonnet to the Nightingale
- Song on May Morning
- On Time
- At a Solemn Music
- Upon the Circumcision
- Arcades
- Comus, a Mask
- Lycidas
Paradise Lost, 1658–1663
- When the Assault was Intended to the City
- To a Virtuous Young Lady
- To the Lady Margaret Ley
- On the Detraction which Followed upon my Writing Certain Treatises
- On the Same
- On the New Forcers of Conscience under the Long Parliament
- To Mr. H. Lawes on His Airs
- On the Religious Memory of Mrs. Catherine Thomson, my Christian Friend, deceased Dec. 16, 1646
- On the Lord General Fairfax at the Siege of Colchester
- To the Lord General Cromwell, on the Proposals of Certain Ministers at the Committee for the Propagation of the Gospel
- To Sir Henry Vane the Younger
- On the Late Massacre in Piemont
- On His Blindness
- To Mr. Lawrence
- To Cyriack Skinner
- To the Same
- On his Deceased Wife
The Verse | The First Book | ... | The Twelfth Book
Paradise Regained, 1665–1667
The First Book | ... | The Fourth Book
Samson Agonistes, 1667–1671
Milton’s Introduction
Lines 1–249 | ... | Lines 1500–1761
John Milton. (1608–1674). Complete Poems.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.
Index to Titles
- An Epitaph on the marchioness of Winchester
- Another on the Same
- A Paraphrase on Psalm CXIV
- Arcades
- At a Solemn Music
- At a Vacation Exercise in the College, Part Latin, Part English
- Comus, a Mask
- Il Penseroso
- L’Allegro
- Lycidas
- On His Being Arrived to the Age of Twenty-Three
- On His Blindness
- On his Deceased Wife
- On Shakespeare
- On the Death of a Fair Infant Dying of a Cough
- On the Detraction which Followed upon my Writing Certain Treatises
- On the Late Massacre in Piemont
- On the Lord General Fairfax at the Siege of Colchester
- On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity
- On the New Forcers of Conscience under the Long Parliament
- On the Religious Memory of Mrs. Catherine Thomson, my Christian Friend, deceased Dec. 16, 1646
- On the Same
- On the University Carrier
- On Time
- Paradise Lost
- Paradise Regained
- Psalm CXXXVI
- Samson Agonistes
- Song on May Morning
- Sonnet to the Nightingale
- The Passion
- To a Virtuous Young Lady
- To Cyriack Skinner
- To Mr. H. Lawes on His Airs
- To Mr. Lawrence
- To Sir Henry Vane the Younger
- To the Lady Margaret Ley
- To the Lord General Cromwell, on the Proposals of Certain Ministers at the Committee for the Propagation of the Gospel
- To the Same
- Upon the Circumcision
- When the Assault was Intended to the City
John Milton. (1608–1674). Complete Poems.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.
Index to First Lines
- A book was writ of late called Tetrachordon
- A little onward lend thy guiding hand
- All night the dreadless Angel, unpursued
- As one who, in his journey, bates at noon,
- Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered Saints, whose bones
- Because you have thrown off your Prelate Lord
- Before the starry threshold of Jove’s court
- Blest pair of Sirens, pledges of Heaven’s joy
- Captain, or colonel, or knight in arms
- Cromwell, our chief of men, who through a cloud
- Cyriack, this three years’ day these eyes, though clear
- Cyriack, whose grandsire on the royal bench
- Daughter to that good Earl, one President
- Descend from Heaven, Urania, by that name
- Erewhile of music, and ethereal mirth
- Fairfax, whose name in arms through Europe rings
- Fly, envious Time, till thou run out thy race
- Hail, holy Light, offspring of Heaven first-born!
- Hail, Native Language, that by sinews weak
- Harry, whose tuneful and well-measured song
- Hence, loathèd Melancholy
- Hence, vain deluding Joys
- Here lies old Hobson. Death hath broke his girt
- Here lieth one who did most truly prove
- High on a throne of royal state, which far
- How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth
- I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs
- I, who erewhile the happy Garden sung
- Lady! that in the prime of earliest youth
- Lawrence, of virtuous father virtuous son
- Let us with a gladsome mind
- Look, Nymphs and Shepherds, look!
- Meanwhile the hainous and despiteful act
- Meanwhile the new-baptized, who yet remained
- Methought I saw my late espoused saint
- No more of talk where God or Angel Guest
- Now Morn, her rosy steps in the eastern clime
- Now the bright morning-star, Day’s harbinger
- O fairest Flower, no sooner blown but blasted
- O for that warning voice, which he who saw
- Of Man’s first disobedience, and the fruit first disobedience, and the fruit
- O Nightingale that on yon blooming spray
- Perplexed and troubled at his bad success
- So spake the Son of God; and Satan stood
- The Angel ended, and in Adam’s ear
- This is the month, and this the happy morn
- This rich marble doth inter
- Thus they, in lowliest, plight, repentant stood
- Vane, young in years, but in sage counsel old
- What needs my Shakespeare, for his honoured bones
- When Faith and Love, which parted from thee never
- When I consider how my light is spent
- When the blest seed of Terah’s faithful Son
- Ye flaming Powers, and wingèd Warriors bright
- Yet once more, O ye Laurels, and once more
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Harvard Classics, Vol. 6
The Poems and Songs of Robert Burns
Robert Burns
The most lauded poet of Scotland, Burns had a love of his nation’s songs, like Auld Lang Syne, which has been infectious ever since the world over. The musical highland dialect in the 557 works is translated in a glossary of over 1,900 words and phrases.
CONTENTS
Bibliographic Record
NEW YORK: P.F. COLLIER & SON COMPANY, 1909–14
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2001
- Contents
- Index to Titles
- Index to First Lines
Robert Burns. (1759–1796). Poems and Songs.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.
Contents
- Introductory Note
- 1773–1779: Song—Handsome Nell | Song—O Tibbie, I hae seen the day | Song—I dream’d I lay | Song—In the Character of a Ruined Farmer | Tragic Fragment — All villain as I am | The Tarbolton Lasses | Ah, woe is me, my Mother dear | Song—Montgomerie’s Peggy | The Ploughman’s Life
- 1780: The Ronalds of the Bennals | Song—Here’s to thy health, my bonie lass | Song—The Lass of Cessnock Banks | Song—Bonie Peggy Alison | Song—Mary Morison
- 1781: Winter: A Dirge | A Prayer under the Pressure of Violent Anguish | Paraphrase of the First Psalm | The First Six Verses of the Ninetieth Psalm versified | A Prayer in the Prospect of Death | Stanzas, on the same Occasion
- 1782: Fickle Fortune: A Fragment | Song—Raging Fortune: A Fragment | I’ll go and be a Sodger | Song—No Churchman am I | My Father was a Farmer: A Ballad | John Barleycorn: A Ballad
- 1783: The Death and Dying Words of Poor Mailie | Poor Mailie’s Elegy | Song—The Rigs o’ Barley | Song—Composed in August | Song—My Nanie, O! | Song—Green Grow the Rashes | Song—“Indeed will I,” quo’ Findlay
- 1784: Remorse: A Fragment | Epitaph on William Hood, Senior | Epitaph on James Grieve | Epitaph on William Muir | Epitaph on my Ever Honoured Father | Ballad on the American War | Reply to an Announcement by J. Rankine | Epistle to John Rankine | A Poet’s Welcome to his Love-Begotten Daughter | Song—O Leave Novels! | The Mauchline Lady: A Fragment | My Girl she’s Airy: A Fragment | The Belles of Mauchline | Epitaph on a Noisy Polemic | Epitaph on a Henpecked Squire | Epigram on the said Occasion | Another on the said Occasion | On Tam the Chapman | Epitaph on John Rankine | Lines on the Author’s Death | Man was made to Mourn: A Dirge | The Twa Herds; or, The Holy Tulyie
- 1785: Epistle to Davie, A Brother Poet | Holy Willie’s Prayer | Epitaph on Holy Willie | Death and Dr. Hornbook | Epistle on J. Lapraik | Second Epistle to J. Lapraik | Epistle to William Simson | One Night as I did Wander | | Song—Rantin, Rovin Robin | Elegy on the Death of Robert Ruisseaux | Epistle to John Goldie, in Kilmarnock | The Holy Fair | Third Epistle to J. Lapraik | Epistle to the Rev. John M’Math | Second Epistle to Davie | Song—Young Peggy Blooms | Song—Farewell to Ballochmyle | Halloween | To a Mouse | Epitaph on John Dove, Innkeeper | Epitaph for James Smith | Adam Armour’s Prayer | The Jolly Beggars: A Cantata | Song—For a’ that | Song—Kissing my Katie | The Cotter’s Saturday Night | Address to the Deil | Scotch Drink
- 1786: The Auld Farmer's New-Year-Morning Salutation to his Auld Mare, Maggie | The Twa Dogs | The Author's Earnest Cry and Prayer | The Ordination | Epistle to James Smith | The Vision | Suppressed Stanzas of "The Vision" | The Rantin Dog, the Daddie o't | Here's his Health in Water | Address to the Unco Guid | The Inventory | To John Kennedy, Dumfries House | To Mr. M'Adam, of Craigen-Gillan | To a Louse | Inscribed on a Work of Hannah More's | Song-Composed in Spring | To a Mountain Daisy | To Ruin | The Lament | Despondency: An Ode | To Gavin Hamilton, Esq., Mauchline, recommending a Boy | Versified Reply to an Invitation | Song-Will ye go to the Indies, my Mary? | My Highland Lassie, O | Epistle to a Young Friend | Address to Beelzebub | A Dream | A Dedication to Gavin Hamilton, Esq. | Versified Note to Dr. Mackenzie, Mauchline | The Farewell to the Brethren of St. James's Lodge, Tarbolton | On a Scotch Bard, gone to the West Indies | Song-Farewell to Eliza | A Bard's Epitaph | Epitaph for Robert Aiken, Esq. | Epitaph for Gavin Hamilton, Esq. | Epitaph on "Wee Johnnie" | The Lass o' Ballochmyle | Lines to an Old Sweetheart | Motto prefixed to the Author's first Publication | Lines to Mr. John Kennedy | Lines written on a Bank-note | Stanzas on Naething | The Farewell | The Calf | Nature's Law: A Poem | Song-Willie Chalmers | Reply to a Trimming Epistle, received from a Tailor | The Brigs of Ayr | Epigram on Rough Roads | Prayer-O Thou Dread Power | Song-Farewell to the Banks of Ayr | Address to the Toothache | Lines on Meeting with Lord Daer | Masonic Song-Ye Sons of Old Killie | Tam Samson's Elegy | Epistle to Major Logan | A Winter Night | Song-Yon Wild Mossy Mountains | Address to Edinburgh | Address to a Haggis
- 1787: To Miss Logan, with Beattie's Poems | Mr. William Smellie: A Sketch | Song-Rattlin, Roarin Willie | Song-Bonie Dundee: A Fragment | Extempore in the Court of Session | Inscription for the Headstone of Fergusson the Poet | Lines Inscribed under Fergusson's Portrait | Epistle to Mrs. Scott of Wauchope House | Verses inscribed under a Noble Earl's Picture | Prologue, spoken by Mr. Woods at Edinburgh | Song-The Bonie Moor-hen | Song-My Lord a-Hunting he is gane | Epigram at RoslinInn | Epigram Addressed to an Artist | The Bookworms | On Elphinstone's Translation of Martial's Epigrams | Song-A Bottle and Friend | Lines Written under the Picture of Miss Burns | Epitaph for William Nicol, High School, Edinburgh | Epitaph for Mr. William Michie, Schoolmaster | Boat Song-Hey, Ca' Thro' | Address to Wm. Tytler, Esq., of Woodhouselee | Epigram to Miss Ainslie in Church | Burlesque Lament fo Wm. Creech's Absence | Note to Mr. Renton of Lamerton | Elegy on Stella | The Bard at Inverary | Epigram to Miss Jean Scott | On the Death of John M'Leod, Esq. | Elegy on the Death of Sir James Hunter Blair | Impromptu on Carron Iron Works | To Miss Ferrier, enclosing Elegy on Sir J. H. Blair | Written by Somebody on the Window of an Inn at Stirling | Reply to the Threat of a Censorious Critic | The Libeller's Self-reproof | Verses Written with a Pencil at the Inn at Kenmore | Song-The Birks of Aberfeldy | Lines on the Fall of Fyers | Epigram on Parting with a kind Host in the Highlands | Song-Strathallan's Lament | Verses on Castle Gordon | Song-Lady Onlie, Honest Luckie | Song-Theniel Menzies' Bonie Mary | Song-The Bonie Lass of Albany | On Scaring some Water-Fowl in Lock Turit | Song-Blythe was She | Song-A Rose-bud by my Early Walk | Epitaph for Mr. W. Cruickshank | Song-The Banks of the Devon | Song-Braving Angry Winer's Storms | Song-My Peggy's Charms | Song-The Young Highland Rover | Birthday Ode for 31st December, 1787 | On the Death of Robert Dundas, Esq., of Arniston
- 1788: Song-Love in the Guise of Friendship | Song-Go on, Sweet Bird, and Soothe my Care | Song-I'm O'er Young to Marry yet | Song-To the Weaver's gin ye go | Song-M'Pherson's Farewell | Song-Stay my Charmer | Song-My Hoggie | Song-Raving Winds Around her Blowing | Song-Up in the Morning Early | Song-How Long and Dreary is the Night | Song-Hey, the Dusty Miller | Song-Duncan Davison | Song-The Lad they ca' Jumpin John | Song-Talk of him that's Far Awa | Song-To Daunton Me | Song-The Winter it is Past | Song-The Bonie Lad that's Far Awa | Song-The Chevalier's Lament | Epistle to Hugh Parker | Song-Of a' the Airts the Wind can Blaw | Song-I hae a Wife o' my Ain | Verses on Friars' Carse Hermitage (First Version) | To Alex. Cunningham, Esq., Writer, Edinburgh | Song-Anna, thy Charms | The Fête Champêtre | Epistle to Robert Graham, Esq., of Fintry | Song-The Day Returns | Song-O were I on Parnassus Hill | A Mother's Lament for her Son's Death | Song-The Fall of the Leaf | Song-I Reign in Jeanie's Bosom | Song-It is na, Jean, thy Bonie Face | Song-Auld Lang Syne | Song-My Bonie Mary | Verses on a Parting Kiss | Written in Friars' Carse Hermitage (Second Version) | The Poet's Progress | Elegy on the Year 1788 | The Henpecked Husband | Versicles on Sign-Posts
- 1789: Song-Robin Shure in Hairst | Ode, Sacred to the Memory of Mrs. Oswald of Auchencruive | Pegasus at Wanlockhead | Sappho Redivivus: A Fragment | Song-She's Fair and Fause | Impromptu Lines to Captain Riddell | Lines to John M'Murdo of Drumlanrig | Rhyming Reply to a Note from Captain Riddell | Caledonia: A Ballad | Verses to Miss Cruickshank | Song-Beware o' Bonie Ann | Ode on the Departed Regency Bill | Epistle to James Tennant of Glenconner | A New Psalm for the Chapel of Kilmarnock | Sketch in Verse, inscribed to the Right Hon. C. J. Fox | The Wounded Hare | Delia: An Ode | Song-The Gardener wi' his Paidle | Song-On a Bank of Flowers | Song-Young Jockie was the Blythest Lad | Song-The Banks of Nith | Song-Jamie, Come Try Me | Song-I Love my Love in Secret | Song-Sweet Tibbie Dunbar | Song-The Captain's Lady | Song-John Anderson, My Jo | Song-My Love she's but a Lassie yet | Song-Tam Glen | Song-Carle, an' the King come | Song-The Laddie's dear sel' | Song-Whistle o'er the lave o't | Song-My Eppie Adair | On the late Captain Grose's Peregrinations | Epigram on Francis Grose the Antiquary | The Kirk of Scotland's Alarm: A Ballad | Sonnet to R. Graham, Esq., on Receiving a Favour | Extemporaneous Effusion on being appointed to an Excise Division | Song-Willie brew'd a Peck o' Maut | Song-Ca' the Yowes to the Knowes (older set) | Song-I Gaed a Waefu' Gate Yestreen | Song-Highland Harry back again | Song-The Battle of Sherramuir | Song-The Braes o' Killiecrankie | Song-Awa', Whigs, Awa' | Song-A Waukrife Minnie | Song-The Captive Ribband | Song-Farewell to the Highlands | The Whistle: A Ballad | Song-To Mary in Heaven | Epistle to Dr. Blacklock | The Five Carlins: An Election Ballad | Election Ballad for Westerha' | Prologue spoken at the Theatre of Dumfries
- 1790: Sketch-New Year's Day, 1790 | Scots Prologue for Mr. Sutherland | Lines to a Gentleman who sent a Newspaper | Elegy on Willie Nicol's Mare | Song-The Gowden Locks of Anna | Song-I Murder hate | Song-Gudewife, count the lawin | Election Ballad at close of Contest for representing the Dumfries Burghs, 1790 | Elegy on Captain Matthew Henderson | The Epitaph on Captain Matthew Henderson | Verses on Captain Grose | Tam o' Shanter: A Tale | On the Birth of a Posthumous Child | Elegy on the late Miss Burnet of Monboddo
- 1791: Lament of Mary, Queen of Scots | Song-There'll never be Peace till Jamie comes hame | Song-Out over the Forth | Song-The Banks o' Doon (First Version) | Song-The Banks o' Doon (Second Version) | Song-The Banks o' Doon (Third Version) | Lament for James, Earl of Glencairn | Lines to Sir John Whitefoord, Bart | Song-Craigieburn Wood | Song-The Bonie Wee Thing | Epigram on Miss Davies | Song-The Charms of Lovely Davies | Song-What can a Young Lassie do wi' an Auld Man? | Song-The Posie | On Glenriddell's Fox breaking his chain: A Fragment | Poem on Pastoral Poetry | Verses on the destruction of the Woods near Drumlanrig | Song-The Gallant Weaver | Epigram at Brownhill Inn | Song-You're welcome, Willie Stewart | Song-Lovely Polly Stewart | Song-Fragment-Damon and Sylvia | Song-Fragment-Johnie lad, Cock up your Beaver | Song-My Eppie Macnab | Song-Fragment-Altho' he has left me | Song-My Tocher's the Jewel | Song-O for ane an' twenty, Tam | Song-Thou Fair Eliza | Song-My Bonie Bell | Song-Sweet Afton | Address to the shade of Thomson | Song-Nithdale's Welcome Hame | Song-Frae the friends and land I love | Song-Such a parcel of Rogues in a Nation | Song-Ye Jacobites by Name | Song-I hae been at Crookieden | Song-Kenmure's on and awa, Willie | Epistle to John Maxwell, Esq., of Terraughty | Second Epistle to Robert Graham, Esq., of Fintry | The Song of Death | Poem on Sensibility | Epigram-The Toad-eater | Epigram-Divine Service at Lamington | Epigram-The Keekin Glass | A Grace before Dinner | A Grace after Dinner | Song-O May, thy Morn | Song-Ae fond Kiss | Song-Behold the Hour, the Boat, arrive | Song-Thou Gloomy December | Song-My Native Land sae far awa
- 1792: Song-I do confess thou art sae fair | Lines on Fergusson, the Poet | Song-The weary Pund o' Tow | Song-When she cam ben she bobbed | Song-Scroggam, my dearie | Song-My Collier Laddie | Song-Sic a Wife as Willie had | Song-Lady Mary Ann | Song-Kellyburn Braes | Song-The Slave's Lament | Song-O can ye Labour Lea? | Song-The Deuks dang o'er my Daddie | Song-The Deil's awa wi' the Exciseman | Song-The Country Lass | Song-Bessy and her Spinnin Wheel | Song-Fragment-Love for love | Song-Saw ye Bonie Lesley | Song-Fragment-No cold approach | Song-I'll meet thee on the Lea Rig | Song-My Wife's a winsome wee thing | Song-Highland Mary | Song-Auld Rob Morris | The Rights of Women-Spoken by Miss Fontenelle | Epigram on Miss Fontenelle | Extempore on some commemorations of Thomson | Song-Duncan Gray | Song-A Health to them that's awa | A Tippling Ballad-When Princes and Prelates, etc.
- 1793: Song-Poortith cauld and restless love | Epigram on Politics | Song-Braw Lads o' Gala Water | Sonnet on the Author's Birthday | Song-Wandering Willie | Song-Wandering Willie (Revised Version) | Lord Gregory: A Ballad | Song-Open the door to me, oh | Song-Lovely young Jessie | Song-Meg o' the Mill | Song-Meg o' the Mill (Another Version) | The Soldier's Return: A Ballad | Epigram-The True Loyal Natives | Epigram-Commissary Goldie's Brains | Lines Inscribed in a Lady's Pocket Almanack | Epigram-Thanks for a National Victory | Commemoration of Rodney's Victory | Epigram-The Raptures of Folly | Epigram-Kirk and State Excisemen | Extempore Reply to an Invitation | A Grace after Meat | Grace before and after Meat | Song-The last time I cam o'er the Moor | Song-Logan Braes | Song-Blythe hae I been on yon hill | Song-O were my love you lilac fair | Bonie Jean: A Ballad | Lines of John M'Murdo, Esq. | Epitaph on a Lap-dog | Epigrams against the Earl of Galloway | Epigram on the Laird of Laggan | Song-Phillis the Fair | Song-Had I a cave | Song-By Allan Stream | Song-Whistle and I'll come to you | Song-Phillis the Queen o' the fair | Song-Come let me take thee to my breast | Song-Dainty Davie | Song-Robert Bruce's March to Bannockburn | Song-Behold the hour, etc. (Second Version) | Song-Down the Burn, Davie love | Song-Thou hast left me ever, jamie | Song-Where are the Joys I have met | Song-Deluded swain, the pleasure | Song-Thine am I, my faithful Fair | Impromptu on Mrs. Riddell's Birthday | Song-My Spouse Nancy | Address spoken by Miss Fontenelle | Complimentary Epigram to Mrs. Riddell
- 1794: Remorseful Apology | Song-Wilt thou be my Dearie | Song-A Fiddler in the North | The Minstel at Lincluden | A Vision | Song-A red, red Rose | Song-Young Jamie, pride of a' the plain | Song-The Flowery banks of Cree | Monody on a Lady, famed for her Caprice | Epitaph on the same | Epigram pinned to Mrs. Riddell's carriage | Epitaph for Mr. Walter Riddell | Epistle from Esopus to Maria | Epitaph on a noted coxcomb | Epitaph on Captain Lascelles | Epitaph on Wm. Graham, Esq., of Mossknowe | Epitaph on John Busby, Esq., Tinwald Downs | Sonnet on the Death of Robert Riddell | Song-The Lovely Lass o' Inverness | Song-Charlie, he's my Darling | Song-The Bannocks o' Bear Meal | Song-The Highland Balou | The Highland Widow's Lament | Song-It was a' for our rightfu' King | Ode for General Washington's Birthday | Inscription to Miss Graham of Fintry | Song-On the Seas and far away | Song-Ca' the Yowes to the Knowes | Song-She says she loes me best of a' | Epigram on Jessy Staig's recovery | To the beautiful Miss Eliza J--n, on her principles of Liberty and Eqality | On Chloris requesting a sprig of blossom'd thorn | On seeing Mrs. Kemble in Yarico | Epigram on a Country Laird (Cardoness) | Epigram on the same Laird's Country Seat | Epigram on Dr. Babington's looks | Epigram on a Suicide | Epigram on a Swearing Coxcomb | Epigram on an Innkeeper ("The Marquis") | Epigram on Andrew Turner | Song-Pretty Peg, my dearie | Esteem for Chloris | Song-Saw you my dear, my Philly | Song-How lang and dreary is the night | Song-Inconstancy in love | The Lover's Morning Salute to his Mistress | Song-The Winter of Life | Song-Behold, my love, how green the groves | Song-The charming month of May | Song-Lassie wi' the Lint-white Locks | Dialogue Song-Philly and Willy | Song-Contented wi' little, and cantie wi' mair | Song-Farewell thou stream that winding flows | Song-Canst thou leave me thus, my Katie | Song-My Nanie's awa | Song-The Tear-drop-"Wae is my heart" | Song-For the sake o' Somebody
- 1795: Song-A Man's a Man for a' that | Song-Craigieburn Wood (Second Version) | The Solemn League and Covenant | Lines to John Syme, Esq., with a dozen of Porter | inscription on Mr. Syme's crystal goblet | Apology to Mr. Syme for not dining with him | Epitaph for Mr. Gabriel Richardson, Brewer | Epigram on Mr. James Gracie | Song-Bonie Peg-a-Ramsay | Inscription at Friars' Carse Hermitage | Song-Fragment-There was a Bonie Lass | Song-Fragment-Wee Willie Gray | Song-O aye my wife she dang me | Song-Guid ale keeps the heart aboon | Song-Steer her up and haud her gaun | Song-The Lass o' Ecclefechan | Song-O let me in this ae night | Song-I'll aye ca' in by yon town | Song-O wat ye wha's in yon town | Ballad on Mr. Heron's Election-No. 1 | Ballad on Mr. Heron's Election-No. 2 | Ballad on Mr. Heron's Election-No. 3 | Inscription for an Alter of Independence | Song-The Cardin o't, the Spinning o't | Song-The Cooper o' Cuddy | Song-The lass that made the bed to me | Song-Had I the wyte, she bade me | Song-The Dumfries Volunteers | Song-Address to the Woodlark | Song-On Chloris being ill | Song-How cruel are the parents | Song-Yonder pomp of costly fashion | Song-'Twas na her bonie blue e'e | Song-Their groves o' sweet myrtle | Song-Forlorn, my love, no comfort here | Song-Fragment-Why tell the lover | Song-The Braw Wooer | Song-This is no my ain lassie | Song-O bonie was yon rosy Brier | Song-Now Spring has clad the grove in green | Song-O that's the lassie o' my heart | Inscription to Chloris | Song-Fragment-Leezie Lindsay | Song-Fragment-the Wren's Nest | Song-News, lassies, news | Song-Crowdie ever mair | Song-Mally's meek, Mally's sweet | Song-Jockie's taen the parting Kiss | Verses to Collector Mitchell
- 1796: The Dean of Faculty: A new Ballad | Epistle to Colonel de Peyster | Song-A Lass wi' a Tocher | Ballad on Mr. Heron's Election-No. 4 | Complimentary versicles to Jessie Lewars | Song-O lay thy loof in mine, lass | Song-A Health to ane I loe dear | Song-O wert thou in the cauld blast | Inscription to Jessie Lewars | Song-Fairest Maid on Devon's Banks
- Glossary
Robert Burns. (1759–1796). Poems and Songs.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.
Index to Titles
- A Bard's Epitaph | A Bottle and Friend | Adam Armour's Prayer | Address spoken by Miss Fontenelle | Address to a Haggis | Address to Beelzebub | Address to Edinburgh | Address to the Deil | Address to the shade of Thomson | Address to the Toothache | Address to the Unco Guid | Address to the Woodlark | Address to Wm. Tytler, Esq., of Woodhouselee | A Dedication to Gavin Hamilton, Esq. | A Dream | Ae fond Kiss | A Fiddler in the North | A Grace after Dinner | A Grace after Meat | A Grace before Dinner | A Health to ane I loe dear | A Health to them that's awa | Ah, woe is me, my Mother dear | A Lass wi' a Tocher | A Man's a Man for a' that | A Mother's Lament for her Son's Death | A New Psalm for the Chapel of Kilmarnock | Anna, thy Charms | Another on the said Occasion | A Poet's Welcome to his Love-Begotten Daughter | Apology to Mr. Syme for not dining with him | A Prayer in the Prospect of Death | A Prayer under the Pressure of Violent Anguish | A red, red Rose | A Rose-bud by my Early Walk | A Tippling Ballad-When Princes and Prelates, etc. | Auld Lang Syne | Auld Rob Morris | A Vision | A Waukrife Minnie | Awa', Whigs, Awa' | A Winter Night
- Ballad on Mr. Heron's Election-No. 1 | Ballad on Mr. Heron's Election-No. 2 | Ballad on Mr. Heron's Election-No. 3 | Ballad on Mr. Heron's Election-No. 4 | Ballad on the American War | Behold, my love, how green the groves | Behold the hour, etc. (Second Version) | Behold the Hour, the Boat, arrive | Bessy and her Spinnin Wheel | Beware o' Bonie Ann | Birthday Ode for 31st December, 1787 | Blythe hae I been on yon hill | Blythe was She | Boat Hey, Ca' Thro' | Bonie Dundee: A Fragment | Bonie Jean: A Ballad | Bonie Peg-a-Ramsay | Bonie Peggy Alison | Braving Angry Winer's Storms | Braw Lads o' Gala Water | Burlesque Lament fo Wm. Creech's Absence | By Allan Stream
- Caledonia: A Ballad | Canst thou leave me thus, my Katie | Carle, an' the King come | Ca' the Yowes to the Knowes | Ca' the Yowes to the Knowes (older set) | Charlie, he's my Darling | Come let me take thee to my breast | Commemoration of Rodney's Victory | Complimentary Epigram to Mrs. Riddell | Complimentary versicles to Jessie Lewars | Composed in August | Composed in Spring | Contented wi' little, and cantie wi' mair | Craigieburn Wood | Craigieburn Wood (Second Version) | Crowdie ever mair
- Dainty Davie | Death and Dr. Hornbook | Delia: An Ode | Deluded swain, the pleasure | Despondency: An Ode | Dialogue Philly and Willy | Down the Burn, Davie love | Duncan Davison | Duncan Gray
- Election Ballad at close of Contest for representing the Dumfries Burghs, 1790 | Election Ballad for Westerha' | Elegy on Captain Matthew Henderson | Elegy on Stella | Elegy on the Death of Robert Ruisseaux | Elegy on the Death of Sir James Hunter Blair | Elegy on the late Miss Burnet of Monboddo | Elegy on the Year 1788 | Elegy on Willie Nicol's Mare | Epigram Addressed to an Artist | Epigram at Brownhill Inn | Epigram at RoslinInn | Epigram-Commissary Goldie's Brains | Epigram-Divine Service at Lamington | Epigram-Kirk and State Excisemen | Epigram on a Country Laird (Cardoness) | Epigram on Andrew Turner | Epigram on an Innkeeper ("The Marquis") | Epigram on a Suicide | Epigram on a Swearing Coxcomb | Epigram on Dr. Babington's looks | Epigram on Francis Grose the Antiquary | Epigram on Jessy Staig's recovery | Epigram on Miss Davies | Epigram on Miss Fontenelle | Epigram on Mr. James Gracie | Epigram on Parting with a kind Host in the Highlands | Epigram on Politics | Epigram on Rough Roads | Epigram on the Laird of Laggan | Epigram on the said Occasion | Epigram on the same Laird's Country Seat | Epigram pinned to Mrs. Riddell's carriage | Epigrams against the Earl of Galloway | Epigram-Thanks for a National Victory | Epigram-The Keekin Glass | Epigram-The Raptures of Folly | Epigram-The Toad-eater | Epigram-The True Loyal Natives | Epigram to Miss Ainslie in Church | Epigram to Miss Jean Scott | Epistle from Esopus to Maria | Epistle on J. Lapraik | Epistle to a Young Friend | Epistle to Colonel de Peyster | Epistle to Davie, A Brother Poet | Epistle to Dr. Blacklock | Epistle to Hugh Parker | Epistle to James Smith | Epistle to James Tennant of Glenconner | Epistle to John Goldie, in Kilmarnock | Epistle to John Maxwell, Esq., of Terraughty | Epistle to John Rankine | Epistle to Major Logan | Epistle to Mrs. Scott of Wauchope House | Epistle to Robert Graham, Esq., of Fintry | Epistle to the Rev. John M'Math | Epistle to William Simson | Epitaph for Gavin Hamilton, Esq. | Epitaph for James Smith | Epitaph for Mr. Gabriel Richardson, Brewer | Epitaph for Mr. Walter Riddell | Epitaph for Mr. W. Cruickshank | Epitaph for Mr. William Michie, Schoolmaster | Epitaph for Robert Aiken, Esq. | Epitaph for William Nicol, High School, Edinburgh | Epitaph on a Henpecked Squire | Epitaph on a Lap-dog | Epitaph on a Noisy Polemic | Epitaph on a noted coxcomb | Epitaph on Captain Lascelles | Epitaph on Holy Willie | Epitaph on James Grieve | Epitaph on John Busby, Esq., Tinwald Downs | Epitaph on John Dove, Innkeeper | Epitaph on John Rankine | Epitaph on my Ever Honoured Father | Epitaph on the same | Epitaph on "Wee Johnnie" | Epitaph on William Hood, Senior | Epitaph on William Muir | Epitaph on Wm. Graham, Esq., of Mossknowe | Esteem for Chloris | Extemporaneous Effusion on being appointed to an Excise Division | Extempore in the Court of Session | Extempore on some commemorations of Thomson | Extempore Reply to an Invitation
- Fairest Maid on Devon's Banks | Farewell thou stream that winding flows | Farewell to Ballochmyle | Farewell to Eliza | Farewell to the Banks of Ayr | Farewell to the Highlands | Fickle Fortune: A Fragment | For a' that | Forlorn, my love, no comfort here | For the sake o' Somebody | Frae the friends and land I love
- Go on, Sweet Bird, and Soothe my Care | Grace before and after Meat | Green Grow the Rashes | Gudewife, count the lawin | Guid ale keeps the heart aboon
- Had I a cave | Had I the wyte, she bade me | Halloween | Handsome Nell | Here's his Health in Water | Here's to thy health, my bonie lass | Hey, the Dusty Miller | Highland Harry back again | Highland Mary | Holy Willie's Prayer | How cruel are the parents | How lang and dreary is the night | How Long and Dreary is the Night
- I do confess thou art sae fair | I dream'd I lay | I Gaed a Waefu' Gate Yestreen | I hae a Wife o' my Ain | I hae been at Crookieden | I'll aye ca' in by yon town | I'll go and be a Sodger | I'll meet thee on the Lea Rig | I Love my Love in Secret | I'm O'er Young to Marry yet | Impromptu Lines to Captain Riddell | Impromptu on Carron Iron Works | Impromptu on Mrs. Riddell's Birthday | I Murder hate | Inconstancy in love | "Indeed will I," quo' Findlay | Inscribed on a Work of Hannah More's | Inscription at Friars' Carse Hermitage | Inscription for an Alter of Independence | Inscription for the Headstone of Fergusson the Poet | inscription on Mr. Syme's crystal goblet | Inscription to Chloris | Inscription to Jessie Lewars | Inscription to Miss Graham of Fintry | In the Character of a Ruined Farmer | I Reign in Jeanie's Bosom | It is na, Jean, thy Bonie Face | It was a' for our rightfu' King
- Jamie, Come Try Me | Jockie's taen the parting Kiss | John Anderson, My Jo | John Barleycorn: A Ballad
- Kellyburn Braes | Kenmure's on and awa, Willie | Kissing my Katie
- Lady Mary Ann | Lady Onlie, Honest Luckie | Lament for James, Earl of Glencairn | Lament of Mary, Queen of Scots | Lassie wi' the Lint-white Locks | Lines Inscribed in a Lady's Pocket Almanack | Lines Inscribed under Fergusson's Portrait | Lines of John M'Murdo, Esq. | Lines on Fergusson, the Poet | Lines on Meeting with Lord Daer | Lines on the Author's Death | Lines on the Fall of Fyers | Lines to a Gentleman who sent a Newspaper | Lines to an Old Sweetheart | Lines to John M'Murdo of Drumlanrig | Lines to John Syme, Esq., with a dozen of Porter | Lines to Mr. John Kennedy | Lines to Sir John Whitefoord, Bart | Lines written on a Bank-note | Lines Written under the Picture of Miss Burns | Logan Braes | Lord Gregory: A Ballad | Love in the Guise of Friendship | Lovely Polly Stewart | Lovely young Jessie
- Mally's meek, Mally's sweet | Man was made to Mourn: A Dirge | Mary Morison | Masonic Ye Sons of Old Killie | Meg o' the Mill | Meg o' the Mill (Another Version) | Monody on a Lady, famed for her Caprice | Montgomerie's Peggy | Motto prefixed to the Author's first Publication | M'Pherson's Farewell | Mr. William Smellie: A Sketch | My Bonie Bell | My Bonie Mary | My Collier Laddie | My Eppie Adair | My Eppie Macnab | My Father was a Farmer: A Ballad | My Girl she's Airy: A Fragment | My Highland Lassie, O | My Hoggie | My Lord a-Hunting he is gane | My Love she's but a Lassie yet | My Nanie, O! | My Nanie's awa | My Native Land sae far awa | My Peggy's Charms | My Spouse Nancy | My Tocher's the Jewel | My Wife's a winsome wee thing
- Nature's Law: A Poem | News, lassies, news | Nithdale's Welcome Hame | No Churchman am I | Note to Mr. Renton of Lamerton | Now Spring has clad the grove in green
- O aye my wife she dang me | O bonie was yon rosy Brier | O can ye Labour Lea? | Ode for General Washington's Birthday | Ode on the Departed Regency Bill | Ode, Sacred to the Memory of Mrs. Oswald of Auchencruive | Of a' the Airts the Wind can Blaw | O for ane an' twenty, Tam | O lay thy loof in mine, lass | O Leave Novels! | O let me in this ae night | O May, thy Morn | On a Bank of Flowers | On a Scotch Bard, gone to the West Indies | On Chloris being ill | On Chloris requesting a sprig of blossom'd thorn | On Elphinstone's Translation of Martial's Epigrams | One Night as I did Wander | On Glenriddell's Fox breaking his chain: A Fragment | On Scaring some Water-Fowl in Lock Turit | On seeing Mrs. Kemble in Yarico | On Tam the Chapman | On the Birth of a Posthumous Child | On the Death of John M'Leod, Esq. | On the Death of Robert Dundas, Esq., of Arniston | On the late Captain Grose's Peregrinations | On the Seas and far away | Open the door to me, oh | O that's the lassie o' my heart | O Tibbie, I hae seen the day | Out over the Forth | O wat ye wha's in yon town | O were I on Parnassus Hill | O were my love you lilac fair | O wert thou in the cauld blast
- Paraphrase of the First Psalm | Pegasus at Wanlockhead | Phillis the Fair | Phillis the Queen o' the fair | Poem on Pastoral Poetry | Poem on Sensibility | Poor Mailie's Elegy | Poortith cauld and restless love | Prayer-O Thou Dread Power | Pretty Peg, my dearie | Prologue spoken at the Theatre of Dumfries | Prologue, spoken by Mr. Woods at Edinburgh
- Raging Fortune: A Fragment | Rantin, Rovin Robin | Rattlin, Roarin Willie | Raving Winds Around her Blowing | Remorse: A Fragment | Remorseful Apology | Reply to an Announcement by J. Rankine | Reply to a Trimming Epistle, received from a Tailor | Reply to the Threat of a Censorious Critic | Rhyming Reply to a Note from Captain Riddell | Robert Bruce's March to Bannockburn | Robin Shure in Hairst
- Sappho Redivivus: A Fragment | Saw ye Bonie Lesley | Saw you my dear, my Philly | Scotch Drink | Scots Prologue for Mr. Sutherland | Scroggam, my dearie | Second Epistle to Davie | Second Epistle to J. Lapraik | Second Epistle to Robert Graham, Esq., of Fintry | She says she loes me best of a' | She's Fair and Fause | Sic a Wife as Willie had | Sketch in Verse, inscribed to the Right Hon. C. J. Fox | Sketch-New Year's Day, 1790 | Sonnet on the Author's Birthday | Sonnet on the Death of Robert Riddell | Sonnet to R. Graham, Esq., on Receiving a Favour | Stanzas on Naething | Stanzas, on the same Occasion | Stay my Charmer | Steer her up and haud her gaun | Strathallan's Lament | Such a parcel of Rogues in a Nation | Suppressed Stanzas of "The Vision" | Sweet Afton | Sweet Tibbie Dunbar |
- Talk of him that's Far Awa | Tam Glen | Tam o' Shanter: A Tale | Tam Samson's Elegy | The Auld Farmer's New-Year-Morning Salutation to his Auld Mare, Maggie | The Author's Earnest Cry and Prayer | The Banks o' Doon (First Version) | The Banks o' Doon (Second Version) | The Banks o' Doon (Third Version) | The Banks of Nith | The Banks of the Devon | The Bannocks o' Bear Meal | The Bard at Inverary | The Battle of Sherramuir | The Belles of Mauchline | The Birks of Aberfeldy | The Bonie Lad that's Far Awa | The Bonie Lass of Albany | The Bonie Moor-hen | The Bonie Wee Thing | The Bookworms | The Braes o' Killiecrankie | The Braw Wooer | The Brigs of Ayr | The Calf | The Captain's Lady | The Captive Ribband | The Cardin o't, the Spinning o't | The charming month of May | The Charms of Lovely Davies | The Chevalier's Lament | The Cooper o' Cuddy | The Cotter's Saturday Night | The Country Lass | The Day Returns | The Dean of Faculty: A new Ballad | The Death and Dying Words of Poor Mailie | The Deil's awa wi' the Exciseman | The Deuks dang o'er my Daddie | The Dumfries Volunteers | The Epitaph on Captain Matthew Henderson | The Fête Champêtre | The Fall of the Leaf | The Farewell | The Farewell to the Brethren of St. James's Lodge, Tarbolton | The First Six Verses of the Ninetieth Psalm versified | The Five Carlins: An Election Ballad | The Flowery banks of Cree | The Gallant Weaver | The Gardener wi' his Paidle | The Gowden Locks of Anna | The Henpecked Husband | The Highland Balou | The Highland Widow's Lament | The Holy Fair | The Inventory | Their groves o' sweet myrtle | The Jolly Beggars: A Cantata | The Kirk of Scotland's Alarm: A Ballad | The Laddie's dear sel' | The Lad they ca' Jumpin John | The Lament | The Lass o' Ballochmyle | The Lass o' Ecclefechan | The Lass of Cessnock Banks | The lass that made the bed to me | The last time I cam o'er the Moor | The Libeller's Self-reproof | The Lovely Lass o' Inverness | The Lover's Morning Salute to his Mistress | The Mauchline Lady: A Fragment | The Minstel at Lincluden | Theniel Menzies' Bonie Mary | The Ordination | The Ploughman's Life | The Poet's Progress | The Posie | The Rantin Dog, the Daddie o't | There'll never be Peace till Jamie comes hame | The Rights of Women-Spoken by Miss Fontenelle | The Rigs o' Barley | The Ronalds of the Bennals | The Slave's Lament | The Soldier's Return: A Ballad | The Solemn League and Covenant | The Song of Death | The Tarbolton Lasses | The Tear-drop-"Wae is my heart" | The Twa Dogs | The Twa Herds; or, The Holy Tulyie | The Vision | The weary Pund o' Tow | The Whistle: A Ballad | The Winter it is Past | The Winter of Life | The Wounded Hare | The Young Highland Rover | Thine am I, my faithful Fair | Third Epistle to J. Lapraik | This is no my ain lassie | Thou Fair Eliza | Thou Gloomy December | Thou hast left me ever, jamie | To Alex. Cunningham, Esq., Writer, Edinburgh | To a Louse | To a Mountain Daisy | To a Mouse | To Daunton Me | To Gavin Hamilton, Esq., Mauchline, recommending a Boy | To John Kennedy, Dumfries House | To Mary in Heaven | To Miss Ferrier, enclosing Elegy on Sir J. H. Blair | To Miss Logan, with Beattie's Poems | To Mr. M'Adam, of Craigen-Gillan | To Ruin | To the beautiful Miss Eliza J--n, on her principles of Liberty and Eqality | To the Weaver's gin ye go | Tragic Fragment-All villain as I am | 'Twas na her bonie blue e'e
- Up in the Morning Early
- Verses inscribed under a Noble Earl's Picture | Verses on a Parting Kiss | Verses on Captain Grose | Verses on Castle Gordon | Verses on Friars' Carse Hermitage (First Version) | Verses on the destruction of the Woods near Drumlanrig | Verses to Collector Mitchell | Verses to Miss Cruickshank | Verses Written with a Pencil at the Inn at Kenmore | Versicles on Sign-Posts | Versified Note to Dr. Mackenzie, Mauchline | Versified Reply to an Invitation
- Wandering Willie | Wandering Willie (Revised Version) | What can a Young Lassie do wi' an Auld Man? | When she cam ben she bobbed | Where are the Joys I have met | Whistle and I'll come to you | Whistle o'er the lave o't | Willie brew'd a Peck o' Maut | Willie Chalmers | Will ye go to the Indies, my Mary? | Wilt thou be my Dearie | Winter: A Dirge | Written by Somebody on the Window of an Inn at Stirling | Written in Friars' Carse Hermitage (Second Version)
- Ye Jacobites by Name | Yonder pomp of costly fashion | Yon Wild Mossy Mountains | Young Jamie, pride of a' the plain | Young Jockie was the Blythest Lad | Young Peggy Blooms | You're welcome, Willie Stewart
Robert Burns. (1759–1796). Poems and Songs.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.
Index to First Lines
- Adieu! a heart-warm fond adieu | Admiring Nature in her wildest grace | Adown winding Nith I did wander | Ae day, as Death, that gruesome carl | Ae fond kiss, and then we sever | Afar the illustrious Exile roams | Again rejoicing Nature sees | Again the silent wheels of time | A guid New-year I wish thee, Maggie! | Ah, Chloris, since it may not be | Ah, woe is me, my mother dear! | All hail! inexorable lord! | All villain as I am-a damnèd wretch | Altho' he has left me for greed o' the siller | Altho' my back be at the wa' | Altho' my bed were in yon muir | Altho' thou maun never be mine | Amang the trees, where humming bees | Among the heathy hills and ragged woods | Ance mair I hail thee, thou gloomy December! | An honest man here lies at rest | Anna, thy charms my bosom fire | An somebody were come again | A rose-bud by my early walk | As cauld a wind as ever blew | As down the burn they took their way | As father Adam first was fool'd | As I cam by Crochallan | As I gaed down the water-side | As I gaed up by yon gate-end | As I stood by yon roofless tower | As I stood by yon roofless tower | As I was a-wand'ring ae morning in spring | As I was walking up the street | Ask why God made the gem so small? | A slave to Love's unbounded sway | As Mailie, an' her lambs thegither | As on the banks o' wandering Nith | As Tam the chapman on a day | At Brownhill we always get dainty good cheer | A' the lads o' Thorniebank | Auld chuckie Reekie's sair distrest | Auld comrade dear, and brither sinner | Awa' wi' your witchcraft o' Beauty's alarms | A' ye wha live by sowps o' drink
- Beauteous Rosebud, young and gay | Behind yon hills where Lugar flows | Behold, my love, how green the groves | Behold the hour, the boat, arrive! | Behold the hour, the boat arrive | Below thir stanes lie Jamie's banes | Bless Jesus Christ, O Cardonessp | Blest be M'Murdo to his latest day! | Blythe hae I been on yon hill | Braw, braw lads on Yarrow-braes | But lately seen in gladsome green | But warily tent when ye come to court me | By Allan stream I chanc'd to rove | By all I lov'd, neglected and forgot | By love, and by beauty, by law, and by duty | By Oughtertyre grows the aik | By yon Castle wa', at the close of the day
- Can I cease to care? | Cauld blaws the wind frae east to west | Cauld is the e'enin blast | Cease, ye prudes, your envious railing | Come, bumpers high, express your joy | Come, let me take thee to my breast | Contented wi' little, and cantie wi' mair | Curs'd be the man, the poorest wretch in life | Curse on ungrateful man, that can be pleased | Daughter of Chaos' doting years | Dear ---, I'll gie ye some advice | Dear Myra, the captive ribband's mine | Dear Sir, at ony time or tide | Dear Smith, the slee'st, pawkie thief | Deluded swain, the pleasure | Dire was the hate at old Harlaw | Does haughty Gaul invasion threat? | Dost thou not rise, indignant shade | Duncan Gray cam' here to woo | Dweller in yon dungeon dark
- Earth'd up, here lies an imp o' hell | Edina! Scotia's darling seat! | Expect na, sir, in this narration
- Fair Empress of the Poet's soul | Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face | Fair maid, you need not take the hint | Fair the face of orient day | Fareweel to a' our Scottish fame | Farewell, dear friend! may guid luck hit you | Farewell, old Scotia's bleak domains | Farewell, thou fair day, thou green earth, and ye skies | Farewell, thou stream that winding flows | Farewell to the Highlands, farewell to the North | Farewell, ye dungeons dark and strong | Fate gave the word, the arrow sped | Fill me with the rosy wine | Fintry, my stay in wordly strife | First when Maggie was my care | Flow gently, sweet Afton! amang thy green braes | For lords or kings I dinna mourn | Forlorn, my Love, no comfort near | For thee is laughing Nature gay | Frae the friends and land I love | Friday first's the day appointed | Friend of the Poet, tried and leal | From thee, Eliza, I must go | From the white-blossom'd sloe my dear Chloris requested | From those drear solitudes and frowsy cells | Full well thou know'st I love thee dear | Fy, let us a' to Kirkcudbright
- Gane is the day, and mirk's the night | Gat ye me, O gat ye me | Go, fetch to me a pint o' wine | Gracie, thou art a man of worth | Grant me, indulgent Heaven, that I may live | Gude pity me, because I'm little! | Guid-mornin' to our Majesty! | Guid speed and furder to you, Johnie
- Had I a cave on some wild distant shore | Had I the wyte, had I the wyte | Hail, Poesie! thou Nymph reserv'd! | Hail, thairm-inspirin', rattlin' Willie! | Hark the mavis' e'ening sang | Has auld Kilmarnock seen the deil? | Ha! whaur ye gaun, ye crowlin ferlie? | Health to the Maxwell's veteran Chief! | Hear, Land o' Cakes, and brither Scots | He clenched his pamphlet in his fist | Hee balou, my sweet wee Donald | Her daddie forbad, her minnie forbad | Here awa, there awa, wandering Willie | Here awa, there awa, wandering Willie | Here Brewer Gabriel's fire's extinct | Here cursing, swearing Burton lies | Here Holy Willie's sair worn clay | Here is the glen, and here the bower | Here lies a mock Marquis, whose titles were shamm'd | Here lies Boghead amang the dead | Here lies John Bushby-honest man | Here lies Johnie Pigeon | Here lies, now a prey to insulting neglect | Here lie Willie Michie's banes | Here's a bottle and an honest friend! | Here's a health to them that's awa | Here Souter Hood in death does sleep | Here's to thy health, my bonie lass | Here Stuarts once in glory reigned | Here, where the Scottish Muse immortal lives | Her flowing locks, the raven's wing | He who of Rankine sang, lies stiff and dead | Hey, the dusty Miller | His face with smile eternal drest | Honest Will to Heaven's away | How can my poor heart be glad | How cold is that bosom which folly once fired | How cruel are the parents | How daur ye ca' me "Howlet-face"? | How lang and dreary is the night | How, Liberty! girl, can it be by thee nam'd? | How long and dreary is the night | How pleasant the banks of the clear winding Devon | How wisdom and Folly meet, mix, and unite | Humid seal of soft affections | "Husband, husband, cease your strife
- I am a keeper of the law | I am my mammny's ae bairn | I bought my wife a stane o' lint | I call no Goddess to inspire my strains | I coft a stane o' haslock woo' | I do confess thou art sae fair | I dream'd I lay where flowers were springing | I fee'd a man at Michaelmas | If thou should ask my love | If ye gae up to yon hill-tap | If you rattle along like your Mistress' tongue | I gaed a waefu' gate yestreen | I gaed up to Dunse | I gat your letter, winsome Willie | I had sax owsen in a pleugh | I hae a wife of my ain | I hae been at Crookieden | I hold it, sir, my bounden duty | I lang hae thought, my youthfu' friend | Ilk care and fear, when thou art near | Ill-fated genius! Heaven-taught Fergusson! | I mind it weel in early date | I'm now arrived-thanks to the gods! | I'm three times doubly o'er your debtor | I murder hate by flood or field | In comin by the brig o' Dye | I never saw a fairer | Inhuman man! curse on thy barb'rous art | In Mauchline there dwells six proper young belles | In Politics if thou would'st mix | In se'enteen hunder'n forty-nine | In simmer, when the hay was mawn | Instead of a Song, boy's, I'll give you a Toast | In Tarbolton, ye ken, there are proper young men | In this strange land, this uncouth clime | I see a form, I see a face | I sing of a Whistle, a Whistle of worth | Is there a whim-inspirèd fool | Is there for honest Poverty | Is this thy plighted, fond regard | Ithers seek they ken na what | It is na, Jean, thy bonie face | It was a' for our rightfu' King | It was in sweet Senegal that my foes did me enthral | It was the charming month of May | It was upon a Lammas night
- Jockey's taen the parting kiss | John Anderson, my jo, John
- Kemble, thou cur'st my unbelief | Ken ye aught o' Captain Grose? | Kilmarnock wabsters, fidge an' claw | Kind Sir, I've read your paper through | Know thou, O stranger to the fame
- Lament him, Mauchline husbands a' | Lament in rhyme, lament in prose | Last May, a braw wooer cam doun the lang glen | Late crippl'd of an arm, and now a leg | Let not Woman e'er complain | Let other heroes boast their scars | Let other poets raise a fracas | Life ne'er exulted in so rich a prize | Light lay the earth on Billy's breast | Lone on the bleaky hills the straying flocks | Long life, my Lord, an' health be yours | Lord, to account who dares thee call | Lord, we thank, and thee adore | Loud blaw the frosty breezes | Louis, what reck I by thee
- Mark yonder pomp of costly fashion | Maxwell, if merit here you crave | Musing on the roaring ocean | My blessings on ye, honest wife! | My blessin's upon thy sweet wee lippie! | My curse upon your venom'd stang | My father was a farmer upon the Carrick border, O | My girl she's airy, she's buxom and gay | My godlike friend-nay, do not stare | My Harry was a gallant gay | My heart is a-breaking, dear Tittie | My heart is sair-I dare na tell | My heart is wae, and unco wae | My heart was ance as blithe and free | My honor'd Colonel, deep I feel | My lord a-hunting he is gone | My lord, I know your noble ear | My lov'd, my honour'd, much respected friend! | My love, she's but a lassie yet | My Peggy's face, my Peggy's form | My Sandy gied to me a ring
- Nae gentle dames, tho' e'er sae fair | Nae heathen name shall I prefix | No churchman am I for to rail and to write | No cold approach, no altered mien | No more of your guests, be they titled or not | No sculptured marble here, nor pompous lay | No song nor dance I bring from yon great city | No Spartan tube, no Attic shell | Now haply down yon gay green shaw | Now in her green mantle blythe Nature arrays | Now, Kennedy, if foot or horse | Now Nature cleeds the flowery lea | Now Nature hangs her mantle green | Now Robin lies in his last lair | Now rosy May comes in wi' flowers | Now Simmer blinks on flowery braes | Now spring has clad the grove in green | Now westlin winds and slaught'ring guns
- O a' ye pious godly flocks | O bonie was yon rosy brier | O cam ye here the fight to shun | O could I give thee India's wealth | O Death, had'st thou but spar'd his life | O Death! thou tyrant fell and bloody! | Of all the numerous ills that hurt our peace | Of a' the airts the wind can blaw | Of Lordly acquaintance you boast | O Gowdie, terror o' the whigs | O had each Scot of ancient times | O had the malt thy strength of mind | Oh I am come to the low Countrie | Oh, open the door, some pity to shew | O how can I be blythe and glad | O how shall I, unskilfu', try | O Kenmure's on and awa, Willie | O ken ye what Meg o' the Mill has gotten | O ken ye what Meg o' the Mill has gotten | O lady Mary Ann looks o'er the Castle wa' | O lassie, are ye sleepin yet | Old Winter, with his frosty beard | O leave novels, ye Mauchline belles | O leeze me on my spinnin' wheel | O Logan, sweetly didst thou glide | O Lord, when hunger pinches sore | O luve will venture in where it daur na weel be seen | O Mary, at thy window be | O may, thy morn was ne'er so sweet | O meikle thinks my luve o' my beauty | O merry hae I been teethin' a heckle | O mirk, mirk is this midnight hour | O my Luve's like a red, red rose | On a bank of flowers, in a summer day | Once fondly lov'd, and still remember'd dear | On Cessnock banks a lassie dwells | One night as I did wander | One Queen Artemisia, as old stories tell | On peace an' rest my mind was bent | O once I lov'd a bonie lass | O Philly, happy be that day | O poortith cauld, and restless love | Oppress'd with grief, oppress'd with care | O raging Fortune's withering blast | O rough, rude, ready-witted Rankine | Orthodox! orthodox, who believe in John Knox | O sad and heavy, should I part | O saw ye bonie Lesley | O saw ye my dearie, my Eppie Macnab? | O saw ye my Dear, my Philly? | O sing a new song to the Lord | O steer her up, an' haud her gaun | O that I had ne'er been married | O Thou dread Power, who reign'st above | O Thou Great Being! what Thou art | O thou, in whom we live and move | O thou pale orb that silent shines | O Thou, the first, the greatest friend | O Thou unknown, Almighty Cause | O Thou! whatever title suit thee | O Thou, who in the heavens does dwell | O thou who kindly dost provide | O Thou whom Poetry abhors | Our thrissles flourish'd fresh and fair | Out over the Forth, I look to the North | O wat ye wha that lo'es me | O, were I on Parnassus hill | O were my love yon Lilac fair | O wert thou in the cauld blast | O wha my babie-clouts will buy? | O wha will to Saint Stephen's House | O when she cam' ben she bobbed fu' law | O why the deuce should I repine | O Willie brew'd a peck o' maut | O wilt thou go wi' me, sweet Tibbie Dunbar? | O ye wha are sae guid yoursel' | O ye whose cheek the tear of pity stains
- Peg Nicholson was a good bay mare | "Praise Woman still," his lordship roars
- Rash mortal, and slanderous poet, thy name | Raving winds around her blowing | Revered defender of beauteous Stuart | Right, sir! your text I'll prove it true | Rusticity's ungainly form
- Sad thy tale, thou idle page | Sae flaxen were her ringlets | Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled | Searching auld wives' barrels | Sensibility, how charming | She's fair and fause that causes my smart | Should auld acquaintance be forgot | Shrewd Willie Smellie to Crochallan came | Sic a reptile was Wat, sic a miscreant slave | Sing on, sweet thrush, upon the leafless bough | Sir, as your mandate did request | Sir, o'er a gill I gat your card | Sleep'st thou, or wak'st thou, fairest creature? | Some books are lies frae end to end | Stay my charmer, can you leave me? | Still anxious to secure your partial favour | Stop, passenger! my story's brief | "Stop thief!" dame Nature call'd to Death | Strait is the spot and green the sod | Streams that glide in orient plains | Sweet are the banks-the banks o' Doon | Sweet closes the ev'ning on Craigieburn Wood | Sweet fa's the eve on Craigieburn | Sweet flow'ret, pledge o' meikle love | Sweet naïveté of feature
- That there is a falsehood in his looks | The bairns gat out wi' an unco shout | The blude-red rose at Yule may blaw | The Catrine woods were yellow seen | The Cooper o' Cuddy came here awa | The day returns, my bosom burns | The deil cam fiddlin' thro' the town | The Devil got notice that Grose was a-dying | The flower it blaws, it fades, it fa's | The friend whom, wild from Wisdom's way | The gloomy night is gath'ring fast | The heather was blooming, the meadows were mawn | Their groves o' sweet myrtle let Foreign Lands reckon | The King's most humble servant, I | The Laddies by the banks o' Nith | The lamp of day, with-ill presaging glare | The last time I came o'er the moor | The lazy mist hangs from the brow of the hill | The lovely lass o' Inverness | The man, in life wherever plac'd | The night was still, and o'er the hill | The noble Maxwells and their powers | The poor man weeps-here Gavin sleeps | There lived a carl in Kellyburn Braes | There's Auld Rob Morris that wons in yon glen | There's a youth in this city, it were a great pity | There's Death in the cup, so beware! | There's nane sall ken, there's nane can guess | There's news, lassies, news | There's nought but care on ev'ry han' | There was a bonie lass, and a bonie, bonie lass | There was a lad was born in Kyle | There was a lass, and she was fair | There was a lass, they ca'd her Meg | There was a wife wonn'd in Cockpen | There was five Carlins in the South | There was once a day, but old Time wasythen young | There was three kings into the east | The Robin to the Wren's nest | The simple Bard, rough at the rustic plough | The simple Bard, unbroke by rules of art | The small birds rejoice in the green leaves returning | The smiling Spring comes in rejoicing | The Solemn League and Covenant | The sun had clos'd the winter day | The sun he is sunk in the west | The Thames flows proudly to the sea | The wind blew hollow frae the hills | The winter it is past, and the summer comes at last | The wintry west extends his blast | They snool me sair, and haud me down | Thickest night, o'erhang my dwelling! | Thine am I, my faithful Fair | Thine be the volumes, Jessy fair | This day, Time winds th' exhausted chain | This wot ye all whom it concerns | Tho' cruel fate should bid us part | Thou flatt'ring mark of friendship kind | Though fickle Fortune has deceived me | Thou greybeard, old Wisdom! may boast of thy treasures | Thou hast left me ever, Jamie | Thou, Liberty, thou art my theme | Thou ling'ring star, with lessening ray | Thou, Nature, partial Nature, I arraign | Thou of an independent mind | Thou's welcome, wean; mishanter fa' me | Thou whom chance may hither lead | Thou whom chance may hither lead | Thou, who thy honour as thy God rever'st | Tho' women's minds, like winter winds | Through and through th' inspir'd leaves | 'Tis Friendship's pledge, my young, fair Friend | To Riddell, much lamented man | To you, sir, this summons I've sent | True hearted was he, the sad swain o' the Yarrow | Turn again, thou fair Eliza! | 'Twas even-the dewy fields were green | 'Twas in that place o' Scotland's isle | 'Twas in the seventeen hunder year | 'Twas na her bonie blue e'e was my ruin | 'Twas on a Monday morning
- Upon a simmer Sunday morn | Upon that night, when fairies light | Up wi' the carls o' Dysart
- Wae is my heart, and the tear's in my e'e | Wae worth thy power, thou cursed leaf! | We cam na here to view your warks | Wee, modest crimson-tippèd flow'r | Wee, sleekit, cow'rin, tim'rous beastie | Wee Willie Gray, and his leather wallet | We grant they're thine, those beauties all | Wha, in a brulyie, will | Wha is that at my bower-door? | Whare are you gaun, my bonie lass | Whare live ye, my bonie lass? | What ails ye now, ye lousie bitch | What can a young lassie, what shall a young lassie | What dost thou in that mansion fair? | What needs this din about the town o' Lon'on | What will I do gin my Hoggie die? | Wha will buy my troggin, fine election ware | When biting Boreas, fell and dour | When, by a generous Public's kind acclaim | When chapman billies leave the street | When chill November's surly blast | When Death's dark stream I ferry o'er | When first I came to Stewart Kyle | When first my brave Johnie lad came to this town | When Guilford good our pilot stood | When Januar' wind was blawing cauld | When Lascelles thought fit from this world to depart | When lyart leaves bestrow the yird | When Morine, deceas'd, to the Devil went down | When Nature her great master-piece design'd | When o'er the hill the eastern star | When Princes and Prelates | When rosy May comes in wi' flowers | When the drums do beat, and the cannons rattle | When wild war's deadly blast was blawn | Where are the joys I have met in the morning | Where, braving angry winter's storms | Where Cart rins rowin' to the sea | Where hae ye been sae braw, lad? | While at the stook the shearers cow'r | While briers an' woodbines budding green | While Europe's eye is fix'd on mighty things | While larks, with little wing | While new-ca'd kye rowte at the stake | While virgin Spring by Eden's flood | While winds frae aff Ben-Lomond blaw | Whoe'er he be that sojourns here | Whoe'er thou art, O reader, know | Whom will you send to London town | Whose is that noble, dauntless brow? | Why am I loth to leave this earthly scene? | Why, why tell thy lover | Why, ye tenants of the lake | Wi' braw new branks in mickle pride | Willie Wastle dwalt on Tweed | Will ye go to the Hielands, Leezie Lindsay | Will ye go to the Indies, my Mary | Wilt thou be my Dearie? | Wishfully I look and languish | With Esop's lion, Burns says: Sore I feel | With Pegasus upon a day | With secret throes I marked that earth | Wow, but your letter made me vauntie!
- Ye banks, and braes, and streams around | Ye banks and braes o' bonie Doon | Ye flowery banks o' bonie Doon | Ye gallants bright, I rede you right | Ye hypocrites! are these your pranks? | Ye Irish lords, ye knights an' squires | Ye Jacobites by name, give an ear, give an ear | Ye maggots, feed on Nicol's brain | Ye men of wit and wealth, why all this sneering | Ye sons of old Killie, assembled by Willie | Yestreen I had a pint o' wine | Yestreen I met you on the moor | Ye true "Loyal Natives" attend to my song | Yon wandering rill that marks the hill | Yon wild mossy mountains sae lofty and wide | Young Jamie, pride of a' the plain | Young Jockie was the blythest lad | Young Peggy blooms our boniest lass | Your billet, Sir, I grant receipt | You're welcome to Despots, Dumourier | Your friendship much can make me blest | Your News and Review, sir. | Yours this moment I unseal
Robert Burns (1759–1796). Poems and Songs.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.
Glossary
- A', all. | A-back, behind, away. | Abiegh, aloof, off. | Ablins, v. aiblins. | Aboon, above up. | Abread, abroad. | Abreed, in breadth. | Ae, one. | Aff, off. | Aff-hand, at once. | Aff-loof, offhand. | A-fiel, afield. | Afore, before. | Aft, oft. | Aften, often. | Agley, awry. | Ahin, behind. | Aiblins, perhaps. | Aidle, foul water. | Aik, oak. | Aiken, oaken. | Ain, own. | Air, early. | Airle, earnest money. | Airn, iron. | Airt, direction. | Airt, to direct. | Aith, oath. | Aits, oats. | Aiver, an old horse. | Aizle, a cinder. | A-jee, ajar; to one side. | Alake, alas. | Alane, alone. | Alang, along. | Amaist, almost. | Amang, among. | An, if. | An', and. | Ance, once. | Ane, one. | Aneath, beneath. | Anes, ones. | Anither, another. | Aqua-fontis, spring water. | Aqua-vit&æ, whiskey. | Arle, v. airle. | Ase, ashes. | Asklent, askew, askance. | Aspar, aspread. | Asteer, astir. | A'thegither, altogether. | Athort, athwart. | Atweel, in truth. | Atween, between. | Aught, eight. | Aught, possessed of. | Aughten, eighteen. | Aughtlins, at all. | Auld, old. | Auldfarran, auldfarrant, shrewd, old-fashioned, sagacious. | Auld Reekie, Edinburgh. | Auld-warld, old-world. | Aumous, alms. | Ava, at all. | Awa, away. | Awald, backways and doubled up. | Awauk, awake. | Awauken, awaken. | Awe, owe. | Awkart, awkward. | Awnie, bearded. | Ayont, beyond.
- Ba', a ball. | Backet, bucket, box. | Backit, backed. | Backlins-comin, coming back. | Back-yett, gate at the back. | Bade, endured. | Bade, asked. | Baggie, stomach. | Baig'nets, bayonets. | Baillie, magistrate of a Scots burgh. | Bainie, bony. | Bairn, child. | Bairntime, brood. | Baith, both. | Bakes, biscuits. | Ballats, ballads. | Balou, lullaby.
- Ban, swear. | Ban', band (of the Presbyterian clergyman). | Bane, bone. | Bang, an effort; a blow; a large number. | Bang, to thump. | Banie, v. bainie. | Bannet, bonnet. | Bannock, bonnock, a thick oatmeal cake. | Bardie, dim. of bard. | Barefit, barefooted. | Barket, barked. | Barley-brie, or bree, barley-brew-ale or whiskey. | Barm, yeast. | Barmie, yeasty. | Barn-yard, stackyard. | Bartie, the Devil. | Bashing, abashing. | Batch, a number. | Batts, the botts; the colic. | Bauckie-bird, the bat. | Baudrons, Baudrans, the cat. | Bauk, cross-beam. | Bauk, v. bawk. | Bauk-en', beam-end. | Bauld, bold. | Bauldest, boldest. | Bauldly, boldly. | Baumy, balmy. | Bawbee, a half-penny. | Bawdrons, v. baudrons. | Bawk, a field path. | Baws'nt, white-streaked. | Bear, barley. | Beas', beasts, vermin. | Beastie, dim. of beast. | Beck, a curtsy. | Beet, feed, kindle. | Beild, v. biel. | Belang, belong. | Beld, bald. | Bellum, assault. | Bellys, bellows. | Belyve, by and by. | Ben, a parlor (i. e., the inner apartment); into the parlor. | Benmost, inmost. | Be-north, to the northward of. | Be-south, to the southward of. | Bethankit, grace after meat. | Beuk, a book: devil's pictur'd beuks-playing-cards. | Bicker, a wooden cup. | Bicker, a short run. | Bicker, to flow swiftly and with a slight noise. | Bickerin, noisy contention. | Bickering, hurrying. | Bid, to ask, to wish, to offer. | Bide, abide, endure. | Biel, bield, a shelter; a sheltered spot. | Biel, comfortable. | Bien, comfortable. | Bien, bienly, comfortably. | Big, to build. | Biggin, building. | Bike, v. byke. | Bill, the bull. | Billie, fellow, comrade, brother. | Bings, heaps. | Birdie, dim. of bird; also maidens. | Birk, the birch. | Birken, birchen. | Birkie, a fellow. | Birr, force, vigor. | Birring, whirring. | Birses, bristles. | Birth, berth. | Bit, small (e.g., bit lassie). | Bit, nick of time. | Bitch-fou, completely drunk. | Bizz, a flurry. | Bizz, buzz. | Bizzard, the buzzard. | Bizzie, busy. | Black-bonnet, the Presbyterian elder. | Black-nebbit, black-beaked. | Blad, v. blaud. | Blae, blue, livid. | Blastet, blastit, blasted. | Blastie, a blasted (i. e., damned) creature; a little wretch. | Blate, modest, bashful. | Blather, bladder. | Blaud, a large quantity. | Blaud, to slap, pelt. | Blaw, blow. | Blaw, to brag. | Blawing, blowing. | Blawn, blown. | Bleer, to blear. | Bleer't, bleared. | Bleeze, blaze. | Blellum, a babbler; a railer; a blusterer. | Blether, blethers, nonsense. | Blether, to talk nonsense. | Bletherin', talking nonsense. | Blin', blind. | Blink, a glance, a moment.
- Blink, to glance, to shine. | Blinkers, spies, oglers. | Blinkin, smirking, leering. | Blin't, blinded. | Blitter, the snipe. | Blue-gown, the livery of the licensed beggar. | Bluid, blood. | Bluidy, bloody. | Blume, to bloom. | Bluntie, a stupid. | Blypes, shreds. | Bobbed, curtsied. | Bocked, vomited. | Boddle, a farthing. | Bode, look for. | Bodkin, tailor's needle. | Body, bodie, a person. | Boggie, dim. of bog. | Bogle, a bogie, a hobgoblin. | Bole, a hole, or small recess in the wall. | Bonie, bonnie, pretty, beautiful. | Bonilie, prettily. | Bonnock, v. Bannock. | 'Boon, above. | Boord, board, surface. | Boord-en', board-end. | Boortress, elders. | Boost, must needs. | Boot, payment to the bargain. | Bore, a chink, recess. | Botch, an angry tumor. | Bouk, a human trunk; bulk. | Bountith, bounty. | 'Bout, about. | Bow-hough'd, bandy-thighed. | Bow-kail, cabbage. | Bow't, bent. | Brachens, ferns. | Brae, the slope of a hill. | Braid, broad. | Broad-claith, broad-cloth. | Braik, a harrow. | Braing't, plunged. | Brak, broke. | Brak's, broke his. | Brankie, gay, fine. | Branks, a wooden curb, a bridle. | Bran'y, brandy. | Brash, short attack. | Brats, small pieces, rags. | Brats, small children. | Brattle, a scamper. | Brattle, noisy onset. | Braw, handsome, fine, gaily dressed. | Brawlie, finely, perfectly, heartily. | Braxies, sheep that have died of braxie (a disease). | Breastie, dim. of breast. | Breastit, sprang forward. | Brechan, ferns. | Breeks, breeches. | Breer, brier. | Brent, brand. | Brent, straight, steep (i. e., not sloping from baldness). | Brie, v. barley-brie. | Brief, writ. | Brier, briar. | Brig, bridge. | Brisket, breast. | Brither, brother. | Brock, a badger. | Brogue, a trick. | Broo, soup, broth, water; liquid in which anything is cooked. | Brooses, wedding races from the church to the home of the bride. | Brose, a thick mixture of meal and warm water; also a synonym for porridge. | Browster wives, ale wives. | Brugh, a burgh. | Brulzie, brulyie, a brawl. | Brunstane, brimstone. | Brunt, burned. | Brust, burst. | Buckie, dim. of buck; a smart younker. | Buckle, a curl. | Buckskin, Virginian: the buckskin kye, negroes. | Budget, tinker's bag of tools. | Buff, to bang, to thump. | Bughtin, folding. | Buirdly, stalwart. | Bum, the buttocks. | Bum, to hum. | Bum-clock, beetle, cockchafer, Junebug. | Bummle, a drone, a useless fellow. | Bunker, a seat. | Bunters, harlots. | Burdies, dim. of bird or burd (a lady); maidens. | Bure, bore. | Burn, a rivulet. | Burnewin, the blacksmith (i. e., burn the wind). | Burnie, dim. of burn, a rivulet. | Burr-thistle, spear-thistle. | Busk, to dress; to garb; to dress up; to adorn.
- Buss, a bush. | Bussle, bustle. | But, without. | But, butt, in the kitchen (i. e., the outer apartment). | By, past, aside. | By, beside. | By himsel, beside himself. | Bye attour (i. e., by and attour), beside and at a distance. | Byke, a bees' nest; a hive; a swarm; a crowd. | Byre, a cow-house.
- Ca', call, knock, drive. | Cadger, a hawker (especially of fish). | Cadie, caddie, a fellow. | Caff, chaff. | Caird, a tinker. | Calf-ward, grazing plot for calves (i. e., churchyard). | Callan, callant, a stripling. | Caller, cool, refreshing. | Callet, a trull. | Cam, came. | Canie, cannie, gentle, tractable, quiet, prudent, careful. | Cankrie, crabbed. | Canna, can not. | Canniest, quietest. | Cannilie, cannily, quietly, prudently, cautiously. | Cantie, cheerful, lively, jolly, merry. | Cantraip, magic, witching. | Cants, merry stories, canters or sprees or merry doings. | Cape-stanc, copestone. | Capon, castrate. | Care na by, do not care. | Carl, carle, a man, an old man. | Carl-hemp, male-hemp. | Carlie, a manikin. | Carlin, carline, a middle-aged, or old, woman; a beldam, a witch. | Cartes, playing-cards. | Cartie, dim. of cart. | Catch-the-plack, the hunt for money. | Caudron, a caldron. | Cauf, calf. | Cauf-leather, calf-leather. | Cauk, chalk. | Cauld, cold. | Cauldron, caldron. | Caup, a wooden drinking vessel. | Causey-cleaners, causeway-cleaners. | Cavie, a hen-coop. | Chamer, chaumer, chamber. | Change-house, tavern. | Chanter, bagpipes; the pipe of the bag-pipes which produces the melody; song. | Chap, a fellow, a young fellow. | Chap, to strike. | Chapman, a pedler. | Chaup, chap, a stroke, a blow. | Chear, cheer. | Chearfu', cheerful. | Chearless, cheerless. | Cheary, cheery. | Cheek-for-chow, cheek-by-jowl (i. e., close beside). | Cheep, peep, squeak. | Chiel, chield (i. e., child), a fellow, a young fellow. | Chimla, chimney. | Chittering, shivering. | Chows, chews. | Chuck, a hen, a dear. | Chuckie, dim. of chuck, but usually signifies mother hen, an old dear. | Chuffie, fat-faced. | Chuse, to choose. | Cit, the civet. | Cit, a citizen, a merchant. | Clachan, a small village about a church. | Claeding, clothing. | Claes, claise, clothes. | Claith, cloth. | Claithing, clothing. | Clankie, a severe knock. | Clap, the clapper of a mill. | Clark, a clerk. | Clark, clerkly, scholarly. | Clarkit, clerked, wrote. | Clarty, dirty. | Clash, an idle tale; gossip. | Clash, to tattle. | Clatter, noise, tattle, talk, disputation, babble. | Clatter, to make a noise by striking; to babble; to prattle. | Claught, clutched, seized. | Claughtin, clutching, grasping. | Claut, a clutch, a handful. | Claut, to scrape. | Claver, clover. | Clavers, gossip, nonsense. | Claw, a scratch, a blow. | Claw, to scratch, to strike.
- Clay-cauld, clay-cold. | Claymore, a two-handed Highland sword. | Cleckin, a brood. | Cleed, to clothe. | Cleek, to snatch. | Cleekit, linked arms. | Cleg, gadfly. | Clink, a sharp stroke; jingle. | Clink, money, coin. | Clink, to chink. | Clink, to rhyme. | Clinkin, with a smart motion. | Clinkum, clinkumbell, the beadle, the bellman. | Clips, shears. | Clish-ma-claver, gossip, taletelling; nonsense. | Clockin-time, clucking- (i. e., hatching-) time. | Cloot, the hoof. | Clootie, cloots, hoofie, hoofs (a nickname of the Devil). | Clour, a bump or swelling after a blow. | Clout, a cloth, a patch. | Clout, to patch. | Clud, a cloud. | Clunk, to make a hollow sound. | Coble, a broad and flat boat. | Cock, the mark (in curling). | Cockie, dim. of cock (applied to an old man). | Cocks, fellows, good fellows. | Cod, a pillow. | Coft, bought. | Cog, a wooden drinking vessel, a porridge dish, a corn measure for horses. | Coggie, dim. of cog, a little dish. | Coil, Coila, Kyle (one of the ancient districts of Ayrshire). | Collieshangie, a squabble. | Cood, cud. | Coof, v. cuif. | Cookit, hid. | Coor, cover. | Cooser, a courser, a stallion. | Coost (i. e., cast), looped, threw off, tossed, chucked. | Cootie, a small pail. | Cootie, leg-plumed. | Corbies, ravens, crows. | Core, corps. | Corn mou, corn heap. | Corn't, fed with corn. | Corse, corpse. | Corss, cross. | Cou'dna, couldna, couldn't. | Countra, country. | Coup, to capsize. | Couthie, couthy, loving, affable, cosy, comfortable. | Cowe, to scare, to daunt. | Cowe, to lop. | Crack, tale; a chat; talk. | Crack, to chat, to talk. | Craft, croft. | Craft-rig, croft-ridge. | Craig, the throat. | Craig, a crag. | Craigie, dim. of craig, the throat. | Craigy, craggy. | Craik, the corn-crake, the land-rail. | Crambo-clink, rhyme. | Crambo-jingle, rhyming. | Cran, the support for a pot or kettle. | Crankous, fretful. | Cranks, creakings. | Cranreuch, hoar-frost. | Crap, crop, top. | Craw, crow. | Creel, an osier basket. | Creepie-chair, stool of repentance. | Creeshie, greasy. | Crocks, old ewes. | Cronie, intimate friend. | Crooded, cooed. | Croods, coos. | Croon, moan, low. | Croon, to toll. | Crooning, humming. | Croose, crouse, cocksure, set, proud, cheerful. | Crouchie, hunchbacked. | Crousely, confidently. | Crowdie, meal and cold water, meal and milk, porridge. | Crowdie-time, porridge-time (i. e., breakfast-time). | Crowlin, crawling. | Crummie, a horned cow. | Crummock, cummock, a cudgel, a crooked staff. | Crump, crisp. | Crunt, a blow. | Cuddle, to fondle. | Cuif, coof, a dolt, a ninny; a dastard. | Cummock, v. crummock. | Curch, a kerchief for the head. | Curchie, a curtsy. | Curler, one who plays at curling. | Curmurring, commotion.
- Curpin, the crupper of a horse. | Curple, the crupper (i. e., buttocks). | Cushat, the wood pigeon. | Custock, the pith of the colewort. | Cutes, feet, ankles. | Cutty, short. | Cutty-stools, stools of repentance.
- Dad, daddie, father. | Daez't, dazed. | Daffin, larking, fun. | Daft, mad, foolish. | Dails, planks. | Daimen icker, an odd ear of corn. | Dam, pent-up water, urine. | Damie, dim. of dame. | Dang, pret. of ding. | Danton, v. daunton. | Darena, dare not. | Darg, labor, task, a day's work. | Darklins, in the dark. | Daud, a large piece. | Daud, to pelt. | Daunder, saunter. | Daunton, to daunt. | Daur, dare. | Daurna, dare not. | Daur't, dared. | Daut, dawte, to fondle. | Daviely, spiritless. | Daw, to dawn. | Dawds, lumps. | Dawtingly, prettily, caressingly. | Dead, death. | Dead-sweer, extremely reluctant. | Deave, to deafen. | Deil, devil. | Deil-haet, nothing (Devil have it). | Deil-ma-care, Devil may care. | Deleeret, delirious, mad. | Delvin, digging. | Dern'd, hid. | Descrive, to describe. | Deuk, duck. | Devel, a stunning blow. | Diddle, to move quickly. | Dight, to wipe. | Dight, winnowed, sifted. | Din, dun, muddy of complexion. | Ding, to beat, to surpass. | Dink, trim. | Dinna, do not. | Dirl, to vibrate, to ring. | Diz'n, dizzen, dozen. | Dochter, daughter. | Doited, muddled, doting; stupid, bewildered. | Donsie, vicious, bad-tempered; restive; testy. | Dool, wo, sorrow. | Doolfu', doleful, woful. | Dorty, pettish. | Douce, douse, sedate, sober, prudent. | Douce, doucely, dousely, sedately, prudently. | Doudl'd, dandled. | Dought (pret. of dow), could. | Douked, ducked. | Doup, the bottom. | Doup-skelper, bottom-smacker. | Dour, doure, stubborn, obstinate; cutting. | Dow, dowe, am (is or are) able, can. | Dow, a dove. | Dowf, dowff, dull. | Dowie, drooping, mournful. | Dowilie, drooping. | Downa, can not. | Downa-do (can not do), lack of power. | Doylt, stupid, stupefied. | Doytin, doddering. | Dozen'd, torpid. | Dozin, torpid. | Draigl't, draggled. | Drant, prosing. | Drap, drop. | Draunting, tedious. | Dree, endure, suffer. | Dreigh, v. dreight.
- Dribble, drizzle. | Driddle, to toddle. | Dreigh, tedious, dull. | Droddum, the breech. | Drone, part of the bagpipe. | Droop-rumpl't, short-rumped. | Drouk, to wet, to drench. | Droukit, wetted. | Drouth, thirst. | Drouthy, thirsty. | Druken, drucken, drunken. | Drumlie, muddy, turbid. | Drummock, raw meal and cold water. | Drunt, the huff. | Dry, thirsty. | Dub, puddle, slush. | Duddie, ragged. | Duddies, dim. of duds, rags. | Duds, rags, clothes. | Dung, v. dang. | Dunted, throbbed, beat. | Dunts, blows.
- Durk, dirk. | Dusht, pushed or thrown down violently. | Dwalling, dwelling. | Dwalt, dwelt. | Dyke, a fence (of stone or turf), a wall. | Dyvor, a bankrupt.
- Ear', early. | Earn, eagle. | Eastlin, eastern. | E'e, eye. | E'ebrie, eyebrow. | Een, eyes. | E'en, even. | E'en, evening. | E'enin', evening. | E'er, ever. | Eerie, apprehensive; inspiring ghostly fear. | Eild, eld. | Eke, also. | Elbuck, elbow. | Eldritch, unearthly, haunted, fearsome. | Elekit, elected. | Ell (Scots), thirty-seven inches. | Eller, elder. | En', end. | Eneugh, enough. | Enfauld, infold. | Enow, enough. | Erse, Gaelic. | Ether-stane, adder-stone. | Ettle, aim. | Evermair, evermore. | Ev'n down, downright, positive. | Eydent, diligent.
- Fa', fall. | Fa', lot, portion. | Fa', to get; suit; claim. | Faddom'd, fathomed. | Fae, foe. | Faem, foam. | Faiket, let off, excused. | Fain, fond, glad. | Fainness, fondness. | Fair fa', good befall! welcome. | Fairin., a present from a fair. | Fallow, fellow. | Fa'n, fallen. | Fand, found. | Far-aff, far-off. | Farls, oat-cakes. | Fash, annoyance. | Fash, to trouble; worry. | Fash'd, fash't, bothered; irked. | Fashious, troublesome. | Fasten-e'en, Fasten's Even (the evening before Lent). | Faught, a fight. | Fauld, the sheep-fold. | Fauld, folded. | Faulding, sheep-folding. | Faun, fallen. | Fause, false. | Fause-house, hole in a cornstack. | Faut, fault. | Fautor, transgressor. | Fawsont, seemly, well-doing; good-looking. | Feat, spruce. | Fecht, fight. | Feck, the bulk, the most part. | Feck, value, return. | Fecket, waistcoat; sleeve waistcoat (used by farm-servants as both vest and jacket). | Feckless, weak, pithless, feeble. | Feckly, mostly. | Feg, a fig. | Fegs, faith! | Feide, feud. | Feint, v. fient. | Feirrie, lusty. | Fell, keen, cruel, dreadful, deadly; pungent. | Fell, the cuticle under the skin. | Felly, relentless. | Fen', a shift. | Fen', fend, to look after; to care for; keep off. | Fenceless, defenseless. | Ferlie, ferly, a wonder. | Ferlie, to marvel. | Fetches, catches, gurgles. | Fetch't, stopped suddenly. | Fey, fated to death. | Fidge, to fidget, to wriggle. | Fidgin-fain, tingling-wild. | Fiel, well. | Fient, fiend, a petty oath. | Fient a, not a, devil a. | Fient haet, nothing (fiend have it). | Fient haet o', not one of. | Fient-ma-care, the fiend may care (I don't!). | Fier, fiere, companion. | Fier, sound, active. | Fin', to find. | Fissle, tingle, fidget with delight. | Fit, foot.
- Fittie-lan', the near horse of the hind-most pair in the plough. | Flae, a flea. | Flaffin, flapping. | Flainin, flannen, flannel. | Flang, flung. | Flee, to fly. | Fleech, wheedle. | Fleesh, fleece. | Fleg, scare, blow, jerk. | Fleth'rin, flattering. | Flewit, a sharp lash. | Fley, to scare. | Flichterin, fluttering. | Flinders, shreds, broken pieces. | Flinging, kicking out in dancing; capering. | Flingin-tree, a piece of timber hung by way of partition between two horses in a stable; a flail. | Fliskit, fretted, capered. | Flit, to shift. | Flittering, fluttering. | Flyte, scold. | Fock, focks, folk. | Fodgel, dumpy. | Foor, fared (i. e., went). | Foorsday, Thursday. | Forbears, forebears, forefathers. | Forby, forbye, besides. | Forfairn, worn out; forlorn. | Forfoughten, exhausted. | Forgather, to meet with. | Forgie, to forgive. | Forjesket, jaded. | Forrit, forward. | Fother, fodder. | Fou, fow, full (i. e., drunk). | Foughten, troubled. | Foumart, a polecat. | Foursome, a quartet. | Fouth, fulness, abundance. | Fow, v. fou. | Fow, a bushel. | Frae, from. | Freath, to froth. | Fremit, estranged, hostile. | Fu', full. | Fu'-han't, full-handed. | Fud, a short tail (of a rabbit or hare). | Fuff't, puffed. | Fur, furr, a furrow. | Fur-ahin, the hindmost plough-horse in the furrow. | Furder, success. | Furder, to succeed. | Furm, a wooden form. | Fusionless, pithless, sapless, tasteless. | Fyke, fret. | Fyke, to fuss; fidget. | Fyle, to defile, to foul.
- Gab, the mouth. | Gab, to talk. | Gabs, talk. | Gae, gave. | Gae, to go. | Gaed, went. | Gaen, gone. | Gaets, ways, manners. | Gairs, gores. | Gane, gone. | Gang, to go. | Gangrel, vagrant. | Gar, to cause, to make, to compel. | Garcock, the moorcock. | Garten, garter. | Gash, wise; self-complacent (implying prudence and prosperity); talkative. | Gashing, talking, gabbing. | Gat, got. | Gate, way-road, manner. | Gatty, enervated. | Gaucie, v. Gawsie. | Gaud, a. goad. | Gaudsman, goadsman, driver of the plough-team. | Gau'n, gavin. | Gaun, going. | Gaunted, gaped, yawned. | Gawky, a foolish woman or lad. | Gawky, foolish. | Gawsie, buxom; jolly. | Gaylies, gaily, rather. | Gear, money, wealth; goods; stuff. | Geck, to sport; toss the head. | Ged, a pike. | Gentles, gentry. | Genty, trim and elegant. | Get, issue, offspring, breed. | Ghaist, ghost. | Gie, to give. | Gied, gave. | Gien, given. | Gif, if. | Giftie, dim. of gift. | Giglets, giggling youngsters or maids. | Gillie, dim. of gill (glass of whiskey). | Gilpey, young girl. | Gimmer, a young ewe.
- Gin, if, should, whether; by. | Girdle, plate of metal for firing cakes, bannocks. | Girn, to grin, to twist the face (but from pain or rage, not joy); gapes; snarls. | Gizz, wig. | Glaikit, foolish, thoughtless, giddy. | Glaizie, glossy, shiny. | Glaum'd, grasped. | Gled, a hawk, a kite. | Gleede, a glowing coal. | Gleg, nimble, sharp, keen-witted. | Gleg, smartly. | Glieb, a portion of land. | Glib-gabbet, smooth-tongued. | Glint, sparkle. | Gloamin, twilight; gloamin-shot, sunset. | Glow'r, stare. | Glunch, frown, growl. | Goavin, looking dazedly; mooning. | Gotten, got. | Gowan, the wild, or mountain, daisy. | Gowany, covered with wild daisies. | Gowd, gold. | Gowdie, the head. | Gowff'd, struck, as in the game of golf. | Gowk, the cuckoo, a dolt. | Gowling, lamenting (as a dog in grief). | Graff, a grave, a vault. | Grain'd, groaned. | Graip, a dung-fork. | Graith, implements, gear; furniture; attire. | Graithing, gearing, vestments. | Grane, groan. | Grannie, graunie, grandmother. | Grape, grope. | Grat, wept. | Gree, the prize (degree). | Gree, to agree. | Greet, to weep. | Groanin maut, groaning malt, brewed for a lying-in. | Grozet, a gooseberry. | Grumphie, the pig. | Grun', the ground. | Gruntle, the face. | Gruntle, dim. of grunt. | Grunzie, growing. | Grutten, wept. | Gude, God. | Guid, gude, good. | Guid-e'en, good evening. | Guid-father, father-in-law. | Guid-man, husband. | Guid-wife, mistress of the house. | Guid-willie, hearty, full of good-will. | Gullie, gully, a large knife. | Gulravage, riotous play. | Gumlie, muddy. | Gumption, wisdom. | Gusty, tasty. | Gutcher, goodsire, grandfather.
- Ha', hall. | Ha' folk, the servants. | Haddin, holding, inheritance. | Hae, have. | Haet, a thing. | Haffet, hauffet, the temple, the side of the head. | Haffets, side-locks. | Hafflins, half, partly. | Hag, a moss, a broken bog. | Haggis, a special Scots pudding, made of sheep's lungs, liver and heart, onions and oatmeal, boiled in a sheep's stomach. | Hain, to spare, to save. | Hairst, har'st, harvest. | Haith, faith (an oath). | Haivers, v. havers. | Hal', hald, holding, possession. | Hale, hail, the whole. | Hale, health. | Hale, hail, whole, healthy. | Halesome, wholesome. | Hallan, a partition wall, a porch, outer door. | Halloween, All Saints' Eve (31st of October). | Hallowmas, All Saints' Day (1st of November). | Haly, holy. | Hame, home. | Han', haun, hand. | Han-darg, v. darg. | Hand-wal'd, hand-picked (i. e., choicest). | Hangie, hangman (nickname of the Devil). | Hansel, the first gift; earnest. | Hap, a wrap, a covering against cold. | Hap, to shelter. | Hap, to hop. | Happer, hopper (of a mill). | Hap-step-an'-lowp, hop-step-and-jump. | Harkit, hearkened. | Harn, coarse cloth. | Hash, an oaf. | Haslock woo, the wool on the neck of a sheep.
- Haud, to hold, to keep. | Hauf, half. | Haughs, low-lying rich lands by a river. | Haun, v. han'. | Haurl, to trail. | Hause, cuddle, embrace. | Haveril, hav'rel, one who talks nonsense. | Havers, nonsense. | Havins, manners, conduct. | Hawkie, a white-faced cow; a cow. | Heal, v. hale. | Healsome, v. halesome. | Hecht, to promise; threaten. | Heckle, a flax-comb. | Heels-o'er-gowdie, v. gowdie. | Heeze, to hoist. | Heich, heigh, high. | Hem-shin'd, crooked-shin'd. | Herd, a herd-boy. | Here awa, hereabout. | Herry, to harry. | Herryment, spoliation. | Hersel, herself. | Het, hot. | Heugh, a hollow or pit; a crag, a steep bank. | Heuk, a hook. | Hilch, to hobble. | Hiltie-skiltie, helter-skelter. | Himsel, himself. | Hiney, hinny, honey. | Hing, to hang. | Hirple, to move unevenly; to limp. | Hissels, so many cattle as one person can attend (R. B.). | Histie, bare. | Hizzie, a hussy, a wench. | Hoast, cough. | Hoddin, the motion of a sage countryman riding on a cart-horse (R. B.). | Hoddin-grey, coarse gray woolen. | Hoggie, dim. of hog; a lamb. | Hog-score, a line on the curling rink. | Hog-shouther, a kind of horse-play by jostling with the shoulder; to jostle. | Hoodie-craw, the hooded crow, the carrion crow. | Hoodock, grasping, vulturish. | Hooked, caught. | Hool, the outer case, the sheath. | Hoolie, softly. | Hoord, hoard. | Hoordet, hoarded. | Horn, a horn spoon; a comb of horn. | Hornie, the Devil. | Host, v. hoast. | Hotch'd, jerked. | Houghmagandie, fornication. | Houlet, v. howlet. | Houpe, hope. | Hove, swell. | Howdie, howdy, a midwife. | Howe, hollow. | Howk, to dig. | Howlet, the owl. | Hoyse, a hoist. | Hoy't, urged (R. B.). | Hoyte, to amble crazily (R. B.). | Hughoc, dim. of Hugh. | Hullions, slovens. | Hunder, a hundred. | Hunkers, hams. | Hurcheon, the hedgehog. | Hurchin, urchin. | Hurdies, the loins, the crupper (R. B.) (i. e., the buttocks). | Hurl, to trundle. | Hushion, a footless stocking. | Hyte, furious.
- I', in. | Icker, an ear of corn. | Ier-oe, a great-grandchild. | Ilk, ilka, each, every. | Ill o't, bad at it. | Ill-taen, ill-taken. | Ill-thief, the Devil. | Ill-willie, ill-natured, niggardly. | Indentin, indenturing. | Ingine, genius, ingenuity; wit. | Ingle, the fire, the fireside. | Ingle-cheek, fireside (properly the jamb of the fireplace). | Ingle-lowe, ingle-low, flame of the fire. | I'se, I shall, or will. | Itsel', itself. | Ither, other, another.
- Jad, a jade. | Janwar, January. | Jauk, to trifle, to dally. | Jauner, gabber. | Jauntie, dim. of jaunt. | Jaup, splash. | Jaw, talk, impudence. | Jaw, to throw, to dash. | Jeeg, to jog. | Jillet, a jilt. | Jimp, small, slender. | Jimply, neatly.
- Jimps, stays. | Jink, the slip. | Jink, to frisk, to sport, to dodge. | Jinker, dodger (coquette); a jinker noble; a noble goer. | Jirkinet, bodice. | Jirt, a jerk. | Jiz, a wig. | Jo, a sweetheart. | Jocteleg, a clasp-knife. | Jouk, to duck, to cover, to dodge. | Jow, to jow, a verb which included both the swinging motion and pealing sound of a large bell (R. B.). | Jumpet, jumpit, jumped. | Jundie, to jostle. | Jurr, a servant wench.
- Kae, a jackdaw. | Kail, kale, the colewort; cabbage; Scots' broth. | Kail-blade, the leaf of the colewort. | Kail-gullie, a cabbage knife. | Kail-runt, the stem of the colewort. | Kail-whittle, a cabbage knife. | Kail-yard, a kitchen garden. | Kain, kane, rents in kind. | Kame, a comb. | Kebars, rafters. | Kebbuck, a cheese; a kebbuck heel = the last crust of a cheese. | Keckle, to cackle, to giggle. | Keek, look, glance. | Keekin-glass, the looking-glass. | Keel, red chalk. | Kelpies, river demons. | Ken, to know. | Kenna, know not. | Kennin, a very little (merely as much as can be perceived). | Kep, to catch. | Ket, the fleece on a sheep's body. | Key, quay. | Kiaugh, anxiety. | Kilt, to tuck up. | Kimmer, a wench, a gossip; a wife. | Kin', kind. | King's-hood, the 2d stomach in a ruminant (equivocal for the scrotum). | Kintra, country. | Kirk, church. | Kirn, a churn. | Kirn, harvest home. | Kirsen, to christen. | Kist, chest, counter. | Kitchen, to relish. | Kittle, difficult, ticklish, delicate, fickle. | Kittle, to tickle. | Kittlin, kitten. | Kiutlin, cuddling. | Knaggie, knobby. | Knappin-hammers, hammers for breaking stones. | Knowe, knoll. | Knurl, knurlin, dwarf. | Kye, cows. | Kytes, bellies. | Kythe, to show.
- Laddie, dim. of lad. | Lade, a load. | Lag, backward. | Laggen, the bottom angle of a wooden dish. | Laigh, low. | Laik, lack. | Lair, lore, learning. | Laird, landowner. | Lairing, sticking or sinking in moss or mud. | Laith, loath. | Laithfu', loathful, sheepish. | Lallan, lowland. | Lallans, Scots Lowland vernacular. | Lammie, dim. of lamb. | Lan', land. | Lan'-afore, the foremost horse on the unplowed land side. | Lan'-ahin, the hindmost horse on the unplowed land side. | Lane, lone. | Lang, long. | Lang syne, long since, long ago. | Lap, leapt. | Lave, the rest. | Laverock, lav'rock, the lark. | Lawin, the reckoning. | Lea, grass, untilled land. | Lear, lore, learning. | Leddy, lady. | Lee-lang, live-long. | Leesome, lawful. | Leeze me on, dear is to me; blessings on; commend me to. | Leister, a fish-spear. | Len', to lend. | Leugh, laugh'd. | Leuk, look. | Ley-crap, lea-crop. | Libbet, castrated.
- Licks, a beating. | Lien, lain. | Lieve, lief. | Lift, the sky. | Lift, a load. | Lightly, to disparage, to scorn. | Lilt, to sing. | Limmer, to jade; mistress. | Lin, v. linn. | Linn, a waterfall. | Lint, flax. | Lint-white, flax-colored. | Lintwhite, the linnet. | Lippen'd, trusted. | Lippie, dim. of lip. | Loan, a lane. | Loanin, the private road leading to a farm. | Lo'ed, loved. | Lon'on, London. | Loof (pl. looves), the palm of the hand. | Loon, loun, lown, a fellow, a varlet. | Loosome, lovable. | Loot, let. | Loove, love. | Looves, v. loof. | Losh, a minced oath. | Lough, a pond, a lake. | Loup, lowp, to leap. | Low, lowe, a flame. | Lowin, lowing, flaming, burning. | Lown, v. loon. | Lowp, v. loup. | Lowse, louse, to untie, let loose. | Lucky, a grandmother, an old woman; an ale wife. | Lug, the ear. | Lugget, having ears. | Luggie, a porringer. | Lum, the chimney. | Lume, a loom. | Lunardi, a balloon bonnet. | Lunches, full portions. | Lunt, a column of smoke or steam. | Luntin, smoking. | Luve, love. | Lyart, gray in general; discolored by decay or old age. | Lynin, lining.
- Mae, more. | Mailen, mailin, a farm. | Mailie, Molly. | Mair, more. | Maist. most. | Maist, almost. | Mak, make. | Mak o', make o', to pet, to fondle. | Mall, Mally. | Manteele, a mantle. | Mark, merk, an old Scots coin (13 1-3d. sterling). | Mashlum, of mixed meal. | Maskin-pat, the teapot. | Maukin, a hare. | Maun, must. | Maunna, mustn't. | Maut, malt. | Mavis, the thrush. | Mawin, mowing. | Mawn, mown. | Mawn, a large basket. | Mear, a mare. | Meikle, mickle, muckle, much, great. | Melder, a grinding corn. | Mell, to meddle. | Melvie, to powder with meal-dust. | Men', mend. | Mense, tact, discretion, politeness. | Menseless, unmannerly. | Merle, the blackbird. | Merran, Marian. | Mess John, Mass John, the parish priest, the minister. | Messin, a cur, a mongrel. | Midden, a dunghill. | Midden-creels, manure-baskets. | Midden dub, midden puddle. | Midden-hole, a gutter at the bottom of the dunghill. | Milking shiel, the milking shed. | Mim, prim, affectedly meek. | Mim-mou'd, prim-lipped. | Min', mind, remembrance. | Mind, to remember, to bear in mind. | Minnie, mother. | Mirk, dark. | Misca', to miscall, to abuse. | Mishanter, mishap. | Mislear'd, mischievous, unmannerly. | Mistak, mistake. | Misteuk, mistook. | Mither, mother. | Mixtie-maxtie, confused. | Monie, many. | Mools, crumbling earth, grave. | Moop, to nibble, to keep close company, to meddle. | Mottie, dusty. | Mou', the mouth.
- Moudieworts, moles. | Muckle, v. meikle. | Muslin-kail, beefless broth. | Mutchkin, an English pint.
- Na, nae, no, not. | Naething, naithing, nothing. | Naig, a nag. | Nane, none. | Nappy, ale, liquor. | Natch, a notching implement; abuse. | Neebor, neibor, neighbor. | Needna, needn't. | Neist, next. | Neuk, newk, a nook, a corner. | New-ca'd, newly driven. | Nick (Auld), Nickie-ben, a name of the Devil. | Nick, to sever; to slit; to nail, to seize away. | Nickie-ben, v. Nick. | Nick-nackets, curiosities. | Nicks, cuts; the rings on a cow's horns. | Nieve, the fist. | Nieve-fu', fistful. | Niffer, exchange. | Nit, a nut. | No, not. | Nocht, nothing. | Norland, northern. | Nowt, nowte, cattle.
- O', of. | | Onie, any. | Or, ere, before. | Orra, extra. | O't, of it. | Ought, aught. | Oughtlins, aughtlins, aught in the least; at all. | Ourie, shivering, drooping. | Outler, unhoused. | Owre, over, too. | Owsen, oxen. | Owthor, author. | Oxter'd, held up under the arms.
- Pack an' thick, confidential. | Paidle, to paddle, to wade; to walk with a weak action. | Paidle, nail-bag. | Painch, the paunch. | Paitrick, a partridge; used equivocally of a wanton girl. | Pang, to cram. | Parishen, the parish. | Parritch, porridge. | Parritch-pats, porridge-pots. | Pat, pot. | Pat, put. | Pattle, pettle, a plow-staff. | Paughty, haughty. | Paukie, pauky, pawkie, artful, sly. | Pechan, the stomach. | Pechin, panting, blowing. | Penny-fee, wage in money. | Penny-wheep, small beer. | Pettle, v. pattle. | Philibeg, the Highlander's kilt. | Phraisin, flattering, wheedling. | Phrase, to flatter, to wheedle. | Pickle, a few, a little. | Pint (Scots), three imperial pints. | Pit, put. | Placads, proclamations. | Plack, four pennies (Scots). | Plackless, penniless. | Plaiden, coarse woolen cloth | Plenish'd, stocked. | Pleugh, plew, a plow. | Pliskie, a trick. | Pliver, a plover. | Pock, a poke, a bag, a wallet. | Poind, to seize, to distrain, to impound. | Poortith, poverty. | Pou, to pull. | Pouch, pocket. | Pouk, to poke. | Poupit, pulpit. | Pouse, a push. | Poussie, a hare (also a cat). | Pouther, powther, powder. | Pouts, chicks. | Pow, the poll, the head. | Pownie, a pony. | Pow't, pulled. | Pree'd, pried (proved), tasted. | Preen, a pin. | Prent, print. | Prie, to taste. | Prief, proof. | Priggin, haggling. | Primsie, dim. of prim, precise. | Proveses, provosts. | Pu', to pull. | Puddock-stools, toadstools, mushrooms. | Puir, poor. | Pun', pund, pound.
- Pursie, dim. of purse. | Pussie, a hare. | Pyet, a magpie. | Pyke, to pick. | Pyles, grains.
- Quat, quit, quitted. | Quean, a young woman, a lass. | Queir, choir. | Quey, a young cow. | Quietlin-wise, quietly. | Quo', quod, quoth.
- Rab, rob. | Rade, rode. | Raep, a rope. | Ragweed, ragwort. | Raibles, recites by rote. | Rair, to roar. | Rairin, roaring. | Rair't, roared. | Raise, rase, rose. | Raize, to excite, anger. | Ramfeezl'd, exhausted. | Ramgunshoch, surly. | Ram-stam, headlong. | Randie, lawless, obstreperous. | Randie, randy, a scoundrel, a rascal. | Rant, to rollick, to roister. | Rants, merry meetings; rows. | Rape, v. raep. | Raploch, homespun. | Rash, a rush. | Rash-buss, a clump of rushes. | Rashy, rushy. | Rattan, rattoon, a rat. | Ratton-key, the rat-quay. | Raucle, rough, bitter, sturdy. | Raught, reached. | Raw, a row. | Rax, to stretch, to extend. | Ream, cream, foam. | Ream, to cream, to foam. | Reave, to rob. | Rebute, rebuff. | Red, advised, afraid. | Red, rede, to advise, to counsel. | Red-wat-shod, red-wet-shod. | Red-wud, stark mad. | Reek, smoke. | Reekie, reeky, smoky. | Reestit, scorched. | Reestit, refused to go. | Reif, theiving. | Remead, remedy. | Rickles, small stacks of corn in the fields. | Rief, plunder. | Rig, a ridge. | Riggin, the roof-tree, the roof. | Rigwoodie, lean. | Rin, to run. | Ripp, a handful of corn from the sheaf. | Ripplin-kame, the wool or flax comb. | Riskit, cracked. | Rive, to split, to tear, to tug, to burst. | Rock, a distaff. | Rockin, a social meeting. | Roon, round, shred. | Roose, to praise, to flatter. | Roose, reputation. | Roosty, rusty. | Rottan, a rat. | Roun', round. | Roupet, exhausted in voice. | Routh, v. rowth. | Routhie, well-stocked. | Row, rowe, to roll; to flow, as a river; to wrap. | Rowte, to low, to bellow. | Rowth, plenty, a store. | Rozet, resin. | Run-deils, downright devils. | Rung, a cudgel. | Runkl'd, wrinkled. | Runt, a cabbage or colewort stalk. | Ryke, to reach.
- Sab, to sob. | Sae, so. | Saft, soft. | Sair, sore, hard, severe, strong. | Sair, to serve. | Sair, sairly, sorely. | Sairie, sorrowful, sorry. | Sall, shall. | Sandy, Sannack, dim. of Alexander. | Sark, a shirt. | Saugh, the willow. | Saul, soul. | Saunt, saint. | Saut, salt. | Saut-backets, v. backets. | Saw, to sow. | Sawney, v. sandy. | Sax, six. | Scar, to scare. | Scar, v. scaur. | Scathe, scaith, damage; v. skaith. | Scaud, to scald.
- Scaul, scold. | Scauld, to scold. | Scaur, afraid; apt to be scared. | Scaur, a jutting rock or bank of earth. | Scho, she. | Scone, a soft flour cake. | Sconner, disgust. | Sconner, sicken. | Scraichin, calling hoarsely. | Screed, a rip, a rent. | Screed, to repeat rapidly, to rattle. | Scriechin, screeching. | Scriegh, skriegh, v. skriegh. | Scrievin, careering. | Scrimpit, scanty. | Scroggie, scroggy, scrubby. | Sculdudd'ry, bawdry. | See'd, saw. | Seisins, freehold possessions. | Sel, sel', sell, self. | Sell'd, sell't, sold. | Semple, simple. | Sen', send. | Set, to set off; to start. | Set, sat. | Sets, becomes. | Shachl'd, shapeless. | Shaird, shred, shard. | Shanagan, a cleft stick. | Shanna, shall not. | Shaul, shallow. | Shaver, a funny fellow. | Shavie, trick. | Shaw, a wood. | Shaw, to show. | Shearer, a reaper. | Sheep-shank, a sheep's trotter; nae sheep-shank bane = a person of no small importance. | Sheerly, wholly. | Sheers, scissors. | Sherra-moor, sheriffmuir. | Sheugh, a ditch, a furrow; gutter. | Sheuk, shook. | Shiel, a shed, cottage. | Shill, shrill. | Shog, a shake. | Shool, a shovel. | Shoon, shoes. | Shore, to offer, to threaten. | Short syne, a little while ago. | Shouldna, should not. | Shouther, showther, shoulder. | Shure, shore (did shear). | Sic, such. | Siccan, such a. | Sicker, steady, certain; sicker score = strict conditions. | Sidelins, sideways. | Siller, silver; money in general. | Simmer, summer. | Sin, son. | Sin', since. | Sindry, sundry. | Singet, singed, shriveled. | Sinn, the sun. | Sinny, sunny. | Skaith, damage. | Skeigh, skiegh, skittish. | Skellum, a good-for-nothing. | Skelp, a slap, a smack. | Skelp, to spank; skelpin at it = driving at it. | Skelpie-limmer's-face, a technical term in female scolding (R. B.). | Skelvy, shelvy. | Skiegh, v. skeigh. | Skinking, watery. | Skinklin, glittering. | Skirl, to cry or sound shrilly. | Sklent, a slant, a turn. | Sklent, to slant, to squint, to cheat. | Skouth, scope. | Skriech, a scream. | Skriegh, to scream, to whinny. | Skyrin, flaring. | Skyte, squirt, lash. | Slade, slid. | Slae, the sloe. | Slap, a breach in a fence; a gate. | Slaw, slow. | Slee, sly, ingenious. | Sleekit, sleek, crafty. | Slidd'ry, slippery. | Sloken, to slake. | Slypet, slipped. | Sma', small. | Smeddum, a powder. | Smeek, smoke. | Smiddy, smithy. | Smoor'd, smothered. | Smoutie, smutty. | Smytrie, a small collection; a litter. | Snakin, sneering. | Snap, smart. | Snapper, to stumble. | Snash, abuse. | Snaw, snow. | Snaw-broo, snow-brew (melted snow). | Sned, to lop, to prune.
- Sneeshin mill, a snuff-box. | Snell, bitter, biting. | Snick, a latch; snick-drawing = scheming; he weel a snick can draw = he is good at cheating. | Snirtle, to snigger. | Snoods, fillets worn by maids. | Snool, to cringe, to snub. | Snoove, to go slowly. | Snowkit, snuffed. | Sodger, soger, a soldier. | Sonsie, sonsy, pleasant, good-natured, jolly. | Soom, to swim. | Soor, sour. | Sough, v. sugh. | Souk, suck. | Soupe, sup, liquid. | Souple, supple. | Souter, cobbler. | Sowens, porridge of oat flour. | Sowps, sups. | Sowth, to hum or whistle in a low tune. | Sowther, to solder. | Spae, to foretell. | Spails, chips. | Spairge, to splash; to spatter. | Spak, spoke. | Spates, floods. | Spavie, the spavin. | Spavit, spavined. | Spean, to wean. | Speat, a flood. | Speel, to climb. | Speer, spier, to ask. | Speet, to spit. | Spence, the parlor. | Spier, v. speer. | Spleuchan, pouch. | Splore, a frolic; a carousal. | Sprachl'd, clambered. | Sprattle, scramble. | Spreckled, speckled. | Spring, a quick tune; a dance. | Sprittie, full of roots or sprouts (a kind of rush). | Sprush, spruce. | Spunk, a match; a spark; fire, spirit. | Spunkie, full of spirit. | Spunkie, liquor, spirits. | Spunkies, jack-o'-lanterns, will-o'-wisps. | Spurtle-blade, the pot-stick. | Squatter, to flap. | Squattle, to squat; to settle. | Stacher, to totter. | Staggie, dim. of staig. | Staig, a young horse. | Stan', stand. | Stane, stone. | Stan't, stood. | Stang, sting. | Stank, a moat; a pond. | Stap, to stop. | Stapple, a stopper. | Stark, strong. | Starnies, dim. of starn, star. | Starns, stars. | Startle, to course. | Staumrel, half-witted. | Staw, a stall. | Staw, to surfeit; to sicken. | Staw, stole. | Stechin, cramming. | Steek, a stitch. | Steek, to shut; to close. | Steek, to shut; to touch, meddle with. | Steeve, compact. | Stell, a still. | Sten, a leap; a spring. | Sten't, sprang. | Stented, erected; set on high. | Stents, assessments, dues. | Steyest, steepest. | Stibble, stubble. | Stibble-rig, chief reaper. | Stick-an-stowe, completely. | Stilt, limp (with the aid of stilts). | Stimpart, a quarter peck. | Stirk, a young bullock. | Stock, a plant of cabbage; colewort. | Stoited, stumbled. | Stoiter'd, staggered. | Stoor, harsh, stern. | Stoun', pang, throb. | Stoure, dust. | Stourie, dusty. | Stown, stolen. | Stownlins, by stealth. | Stoyte, to stagger. | Strae death, death in bed. (i. e., on straw). | Staik, to stroke. | Strak, struck. | Strang, strong. | Straught, straight. | Straught, to stretch. | Streekit, stretched. | Striddle, to straddle. | Stron't, lanted. | Strunt, liquor. | Strunt, to swagger.
- Studdie, an anvil. | Stumpie, dim. of stump; a worn quill. | Sturt, worry, trouble. | Sturt, to fret; to vex. | Sturtin, frighted, staggered. | Styme, the faintest trace. | Sucker, sugar. | Sud, should. | Sugh, sough, sigh, moan, wail, swish. | Sumph, churl. | Sune, soon. | Suthron, southern. | Swaird, sward. | Swall'd, swelled. | Swank, limber. | Swankies, strapping fellows. | Swap, exchange. | Swapped, swopped, exchanged. | Swarf, to swoon. | Swat, sweated. | Swatch, sample. | Swats, new ale. | Sweer, v. dead-sweer. | Swirl, curl. | Swirlie, twisted, knaggy. | Swith, haste; off and away. | Swither, doubt, hesitation. | Swoom, swim. | Swoor, swore. | Sybow, a young union. | Syne, since, then.
- Tack, possession, lease. | Tacket, shoe-nail. | Tae, to. | Tae, toe. | Tae'd, toed. | Taed, toad. | Taen, taken. | Taet, small quantity. | Tairge, to target. | Tak, take. | Tald, told. | Tane, one in contrast to other. | Tangs, tongs. | Tap, top. | Tapetless, senseless. | Tapmost, topmost. | Tappet-hen, a crested hen-shaped bottle holding three quarts of claret. | Tap-pickle, the grain at the top of the stalk. | Topsalteerie, topsy-turvy. | Targe, to examine. | Tarrow, to tarry; to be reluctant, to murmur; to weary. | Tassie, a goblet. | Tauk, talk. | Tauld, told. | Tawie, tractable. | Tawpie, a foolish woman. | Tawted, matted. | Teats, small quantities. | Teen, vexation. | Tell'd, told. | Temper-pin, a fiddle-peg; the regulating pin of the spinning-wheel. | Tent, heed. | Tent, to tend; to heed; to observe. | Tentie, watchful, careful, heedful. | Tentier, more watchful. | Tentless, careless. | Tester, an old silver coin about sixpence in value. | Teugh, tough. | Teuk, took. | Thack, thatch; thack and rape = the covering of a house, and so, home necessities. | Thae, those. | Thairm, small guts; catgut (a fiddle-string). | Theckit, thatched. | Thegither, together. | Thick, v. pack an' thick. | Thieveless, forbidding, spiteful. | Thiggin, begging. | Thir, these. | Thirl'd, thrilled. | Thole, to endure; to suffer. | Thou'se, thou shalt. | Thowe, thaw. | Thowless, lazy, useless. | Thrang, busy; thronging in crowds. | Thrang, a throng. | Thrapple, the windpipe. | Thrave, twenty-four sheaves of corn. | Thraw, a twist. | Thraw, to twist; to turn; to thwart. | Thraws, throes. | Threap, maintain, argue. | Threesome, trio. | Thretteen, thirteen. | Thretty, thirty. | Thrissle, thistle. | Thristed, thirsted. | Through, mak to through = make good. | Throu'ther (through other), pell-mell. | Thummart, polecat. | Thy lane, alone.
- Tight, girt, prepared. | Till, to. | Till't, to it. | Timmer, timber, material. | Tine, to lose; to be lost. | Tinkler, tinker. | Tint, lost | Tippence, twopence. | Tip, v. toop. | Tirl, to strip. | Tirl, to knock for entrance. | Tither, the other. | Tittlin, whispering. | Tocher, dowry. | Tocher, to give a dowry. | Tocher-gude, marriage portion. | Tod, the fox. | To-fa', the fall. | Toom, empty. | Toop, tup, ram. | Toss, the toast. | Toun, town; farm steading. | Tousie, shaggy. | Tout, blast. | Tow, flax, a rope. | Towmond, towmont, a twelvemonth. | Towsing, rumpling (equivocal). | Toyte, to totter. | Tozie, flushed with drink. | Trams, shafts. | Transmogrify, change. | Trashtrie, small trash. | Trews, trousers. | Trig, neat, trim. | Trinklin, flowing. | Trin'le, the wheel of a barrow. | Trogger, packman. | Troggin, wares. | Troke, to barter. | Trouse, trousers. | Trowth, in truth. | Trump, a jew's harp. | Tryste, a fair; a cattle-market. | Trysted, appointed. | Trysting, meeting. | Tulyie, tulzie, a squabble; a tussle. | Twa, two. | Twafauld, twofold, double. | Twal, twelve; the twal = twelve at night. | Twalpennie worth, a penny worth (English money). | Twang, twinge. | Twa-three, two or three. | Tway, two. | Twin, twine, to rob; to deprive; bereave. | Twistle, a twist; a sprain. | Tyke, a dog. | Tyne, v. tine. | Tysday, Tuesday.
- Ulzie, oil. | Unchancy, dangerous. | Unco, remarkably, uncommonly, excessively. | Unco, remarkable, uncommon, terrible (sarcastic). | Uncos, news, strange things, wonders. | Unkend, unknown. | Unsicker, uncertain. | Unskaithed, unhurt. | Usquabae, usquebae, whisky.
- Vauntie, proud. | Vera, very. | Virls, rings. | Vittle, victual, grain, food. | Vogie, vain.
- Wa', waw, a wall. | Wab, a web. | Wabster, a weaver. | Wad, to wager. | Wad, to wed. | Wad, would, would have. | Wad'a, would have. | Wadna, would not. | Wadset, a mortgage. | Wae, woful, sorrowful. | Wae, wo; wae's me = wo is to me. | Waesucks, alas! | Wae worth, wo befall. | Wair, v. ware. | Wale, to choose. | Wale, choice. | Walie, wawlie, choice, ample, large. | Wallop, to kick; to dangle; to gallop; to dance. | Waly fa', ill befall! | Wame, the belly. | Wamefou, bellyful. | Wan, won. | Wanchancie, dangerous. | Wanrestfu', restless. | Ware, wair, to spend; bestow. | Ware, worn. | Wark, work. | Wark-lume, tool. | Warl', warld, world. | Warlock, a wizard | Warl'y, warldly, worldly.
- Warran, warrant. | Warse, worse. | Warsle, warstle, wrestle. | Wast, west. | Wastrie, waste. | Wat, wet. | Wat, wot, know. | Water-fit, water-foot (the river's mouth). | Water-kelpies, v. kelpies. | Wauble, to wobble. | Waught, a draft. | Wauk, to awake. | Wauken, to awaken. | Waukin, awake. | Waukit (with toil), horny. | Waukrife, wakeful. | Waulie, jolly. | Waur, worse. | Waur, to worst. | Waur't, worsted, beat. | Wean (wee one), a child. | Weanies, babies. | Weason, weasand. | Wecht, a measure for corn. | Wee, a little; a wee = a short space or time. | Wee things, children. | Weel, well. | Weel-faured, well-favored. | Weel-gaun, well-going. | Weel-hain'd, well-saved. | Weepers, mournings (on the steeve or hat). | Werena, were not. | We'se, we shall. | Westlin, western. | Wha, who. | Whaizle, wheeze. | Whalpet, whelped. | Wham, whom. | Whan, when. | Whang, a shive. | Whang, flog. | Whar, whare, where. | Wha's, whose. | Wha's, who is. | Whase, whose. | What for, whatfore, wherefore. | Whatna, what. | What reck, what matter; nevertheless. | Whatt, whittled. | Whaup, the curlew. | Whaur, where. | Wheep, v. penny-wheep. | Wheep, jerk. | Whid, a fib. | Whiddin, scudding. | Whids, gambols. | Whigmeleeries, crotches. | Whingin, whining. | Whins, furze. | Whirlygigums, flourishes. | Whist, silence. | Whissle, whistle. | Whitter, a draft. | Whittle, a knife. | Wi', with. | Wick a bore, hit a curling-stone obliquely and send it through an opening. | Wi's, with his. | Wi't, with it. | Widdifu', gallows-worthy. | Widdle, wriggle. | Wiel, eddy. | Wight, strong, stout. | Wighter, more influential. | Willcat, wildcat. | Willyart, disordered. | Wimple, to meander. | Win, won. | Winn, to winnow. | Winna, will not. | Winnin, winding. | Winnock, window. | Winnock-bunker, v. bunker. | Win't, did wind. | Wintle, a somersault. | Wintle, to stagger; to swing; to wriggle. | Winze, a curse. | Wiss, wish. | Won, to dwell. | Wonner, a wonder. | Woo', wool. | Woodie, woody, a rope (originally of withes); a gallows rope. | Woodies, twigs, withes. | Wooer-babs, love-knots. | Wordy, worthy. | Worset, worsted. | Worth, v. wae worth. | Wraith, ghost. | Wrang, wrong. | Wud, wild, mad. | Wumble, wimble. | Wyliecoat, undervest. | Wyte (weight), blame. | Wyte, to blame; to reproach.
- Yard, a garden; a stackyard. | Yaud, an old mare.
- Yealings, coevals. | Yell, dry (milkless). | Yerd, earth. | Yerkit, jerked. | Yerl, earl. | Ye'se, ye shall. | Yestreen, last night. | Yett, a gate. | Yeuk, to itch. | Yill, ale. | Yill-Caup, ale-stoup. | Yird, yearth, earth. | Yokin, yoking; a spell; a day's work. | Yon, yonder. | 'Yont, beyond. | Yowe, ewe. | Yowie, dim. of ewe; a pet ewe. | Yule, Christmas.
Index of First Lines
- Accuse me thus: that I have scanted all
- Against my love shall be, as I am now
- Against that time, if ever that time come
- Ah! wherefore with infection should he live
- Alack! what poverty my Muse brings forth
- Alas! ’tis true I have gone here and there
- As a decrepit father takes delight
- As an unperfect actor on the stage
- As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou grow’st
- As it fell upon a day
- A woman’s face with Nature’s own hand painted
- Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good
- Being your slave, what should I do but tend
- Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan
- Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took
- Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press
- But be contented: when that fell arrest
- But do thy worst to steal thyself away
- But wherefore do not you a mightier way
- Canst thou, O cruel! say I love thee not
- Crabbed age and youth cannot live together
- Cupid laid by his brand and fell asleep
- Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion’s paws
- Did not the heavenly rhetoric of thine eye
- Even as the sun with purple-colour’d face
- Fair is my love, but not so fair as fickle
- Fair was the morn when the fair queen of love
- Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing
- For shame! deny that thou bear’st love to any
- From fairest creatures we desire increase
- From off a hill whose concave womb re-worded
- From the besieged Ardea all in post
- From you have I been absent in the spring
- Full many a glorious morning have I seen
- Good night, good rest. Ah! neither be my share
- How can I then return in happy plight
- How can my Muse want subject to invent
- How careful was I when I took my way
- How heavy do I journey on the way
- How like a winter hath my absence been
- How oft when thou, my music, music play’st
- How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame
- If love make me forsworn, how shall I swear to love?
- If music and sweet poetry agree
- If my dear love were but the child of state
- If the dull substance of my flesh were thought
- If there be nothing new, but that which is
- If thou survive my well-contented day
- If thy soul check thee that I come so near
- I grant thou wert not married to my Muse
- I never saw that you did painting need
- In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes
- In loving thee thou know’st I am forsworn
- In the old age black was not counted fair
- Is it for fear to wet a widow’s eye
- Is it thy will thy image should keep open
- It was a lording’s daughter, the fairest one of three
- Let me confess that we two must be twain
- Let me not to the marriage of true minds
- Let not my love be call’d idolatry
- Let the bird of loudest lay
- Let those who are in favour with their stars
- Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore
- Like as, to make our appetites more keen
- Live with me, and be my love
- Lo, as a careful housewife runs to catch
- Lo! in the orient when the gracious light
- Look in thy glass, and tell the face thou viewest
- Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage
- Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate
- Love is too young to know what conscience is
- Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war
- Mine eye hath play’d the painter and hath stell’d
- Music to hear, why hear’st thou music sadly?
- My flocks feed not
- My glass shall not persuade me I am old
- My love is as a fever, longing still
- My love is strengthen’d, though more weak in seeming
- My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun
- My tongue-tied Muse in manners holds her still
- No longer mourn for me when I am dead
- No more be griev’d at that which thou hast done
- Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck
- No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change
- Not marble, nor the gilded monuments
- Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul
- O! call not me to justify the wrong
- O! for my sake do you with Fortune chide
- O! from what power hast thou this powerful might
- O! how I faint when I of you do write
- O! how much more doth beauty beauteous seem
- O! how thy worth with manners may I sing
- O! lest the world should task you to recite
- O me! what eyes hath Love put in my head
- On a day, alack the day!
- O! never say that I was false of heart
- Or I shall live your epitaph to make\
- Or whether doth my mind, being crown’d with you
- O! that you were yourself; but, love you are
- O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power
- O truant Muse, what shall be thy amends
- Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth
- Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault
- Scarce had the sun dried up the dewy morn
- Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
- Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea
- Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind
- Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye
- So am I as the rich, whose blessed key
- So are you to my thoughts as food to life
- So is it not with me as with that Muse
- Some glory in their birth, some in their skill
- Some say thy fault is youth, some wantonness
- So, now I have confess’d that he is thine
- So oft have I invok’d thee for my Muse
- So shall I live, supposing thou art true
- Sweet Cytherea, sitting by a brook
- Sweet love, renew thy force; be it not said
- Sweet rose, fair flower, untimely pluck’d, soon vaded
- Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all
- That god forbid that made me first your slave
- That thou art blam’d shall not be thy defect
- That thou hast her, it is not all my grief
- That time of year thou mayst in me behold
- That you were once unkind befriends me now
- The expense of spirit in a waste of shame
- The forward violet thus did I chide
- The little Love-god lying once asleep
- Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now
- Then let not winter’s ragged hand deface
- The other two, slight air and purging fire
- They that have power to hurt and will do none
- Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me
- Those hours, that with gentle work did frame
- Those lines that I before have writ do lie
- Those lips that Love’s own hand did make
- Those parts of thee that the world’s eye doth view
- Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits
- Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art
- Thou blind fool, Love, what dost thou to mine eyes
- Thus can my love excuse the slow offence
- Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn
- Thy bosom is endeared with all hearts
- Thy gift, thy tables, are within my brain
- Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear
- Tir’d with all these, for restful death I cry
- ’Tis better to be vile than vile esteem’d
- To me, fair friend, you never can be old
- Two loves I have of comfort and despair
- Two loves I have of comfort and despair
- Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend
- Venus, with young Adonis sitting by her
- Was it the proud full sail of his great verse
- Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed
- Were ’t aught to me I bore the canopy
- What is your substance, whereof are you made
- What potions have I drunk of Siren tears
- What ’s in the brain, that ink may character
- Whenas thine eye hath chose the dame
- When forty winters shall besiege thy brow
- When I consider every thing that grows
- When I do count the clock that tells the time
- When I have seen by Time’s fell hand defac’d
- When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes
- When in the chronicle of wasted time
- When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see
- When my love swears that she is made of truth
- When my love swears that she is made of truth
- When thou shalt be dispos’d to set me light
- When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
- Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget’st so long
- Whilst I alone did call upon thy aid
- Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy Will
- Who is it that says most? which can say more
- Who will believe my verse in time to come
- Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day
- Why is my verse so barren of new pride
- Your love and pity doth the impression fill
THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE
An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes
Volume I: English FROM THE BEGINNINGS TO THE CYCLES OF ROMANCE
Edited by A. W. Ward & A. R. Waller
Bibliographic Record
CONTENTS: Preface | Table of Principal Dates
- Chapter I. The Beginnings - By A. R. WALLER, M.A., Peterhouse
- Characteristics of the earliest Poetry | The Gleemen | Theodore and Hadrian | National Strife | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- II. Runes and Manuscripts - By A. C. PAUES, Ph.D., Upsala, Newnham College
- The National Germanic Alphabet | Runes in Scandinavian and Old English Literature | The Ruthwell Cross | The Franks Casket | The Roman Alphabet | The Irish School of Writing | Tablets, parchment, vellum, paper, pens, ink, and binding | Scribes and scriptoria | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- III. Early National Poetry - By H. MUNRO CHADWICK, M.A., Fellow of Clare College
- Early National Poems the work of Minstrels | Teutonic Epic Poetry | Beowulf: Scandinavian Traditions; Personality of the Hero; Origin and Antiquity of the Poem; the Religious Element | Finnsburh | The Waldhere Fragments | Widsith | Deor | The Wanderer | The Seafarer | The Wife’s Complaint | The Husband’s Message | The Ruin | Religious Poetry of Heathen Times | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- IV. Old English Christian Poetry - By M. BENTINCK SMITH, M.A., Headmistress of St. Leonard’s School, St. Andrews
- Celtic Christianity | Changes wrought by the New Spirit | Caedmon’s Hymn | Genesis, Exodus, Daniel | Crist and Satan | Cynewulf: His Personality | Crist, Juliana, The Fates of the Apostles, Elene | Andreas | The Dream of the Rood | Guthlac, The Phoenix, Physiologus, Riddles | Minor Christian Poems | The Riming Poem, Proverbs, The Runic Poem, Salomon and Saturn | The Schools of Caedmon and Cynewulf | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- V. Latin Writings in England to the Time of Alfred - By MONTAGUE RHODES JAMES, Litt.D., Provost of King’s College
- Gildas and The History of the Britons | “Hisperic” Latin | Nennius and Historia Brittonum | The Roman Mission to Kent and its results | Aldhelm and his School | Bede’s Ecclesiastical History | Bede’s Letter to Egbert of York | Alcuin | Lives of Saints; Visions; Minor writings | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- VI. Alfred and the Old English Prose of his Reign - By P. G. THOMAS, M.A., Professor of English Language and Literature at Bedford College, University of London
- Asser’s Life of Alfred | The Handbook and Pastoral Care | Translations of Orosius and Bede | Codes of Law | De Consolatione Philosophiae | The metres in Alfred’s Boethius | Augustine’s Soliloquies | The Chronicle | Gregory’s Dialogues | Works attributed to Alfred | His Literary Achievement | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- VII. From Alfred to the Conquest - By JOHN S. WESTLAKE, M.A., Trinity College
- The Chronicle | The Monastic Reform | Blickling Homilies | The Works of Aelfric | Wulfstan | Byrhtferth | Lindisfarne, Rushworth, and West Saxon Glosses | Legends of the Holy Rood | Legends of the East | Quasi-scientific works | The Ballads and Poems in The Chronicle | Judith | The Battle of Maldon or Byrhtnoth’s Death | Menologium | Be Domes Daege | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- VIII. The Norman Conquest - By A. R. WALLER
- Dunstan | The Coming Change | The Wisdom of the East | Lanfranc | Anselm | Norman Gifts | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- IX. Latin Chroniclers from the Eleventh to the Thirteenth Centuries - By W. LEWIS JONES, M.A., Professor of English Language and Literature at the University College of North Wales
- England and Normandy | Characteristics of the Chroniclers | The Northumbrian School of English Medieval History; Simeon of Durham | Florence of Worcester | Eadmer and Ordericus Vitalis | William of Malmesbury | Henry of Huntingdon | Gesta Stephani | Geoffrey of Monmouth | William of Newburgh | Benedict of Peterborough | Richard Fitz-Neale | Roger of Hoveden | Ralph of Diceto | Jocelin of Brakelond | Giraldus Cambrensis | Walter Map | Matthew Paris | Minor Chroniclers | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- X. English Scholars of Paris and Franciscans of Oxford - LATIN LITERATURE OF ENGLAND FROM JOHN OF SALISBURY TO RICHARD OF BURY - By J. E. SANDYS, Litt.D., Fellow of St. John’s College and Public Orator of the University of Cambridge
- The University of Paris | English Scholars of Paris: John of Salisbury | Peter of Blois | Walter Map | Other Writers of Latin | Gervase | Nigel Wireker | Jean de Hauteville; Alain de Lille | Geoffrey de Vinsauf; Alexander Neckam | Joannes de Garlandia | Giraldus Cambrensis | Michael Scot | Franciscans and Dominicans | Franciscans of Oxford | Alexander of Hales | Robert Grosseteste and the Franciscans | Adam Marsh | Roger Bacon | Duns Scotus | William of Ockham | Walter Burleigh | Scholars of Oxford: John Baconthorpe | Thomas Bradwardine | Richard of Bury | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XI. Early Transition English - By J. W. H. ATKINS, M.A., Professor of English Language and Literature at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, Fellow of St. John’s College
- The Proverbs of Alfred | Poema Morale | Literary Revolt of the 13th Century | Ormulum | Genesis and Exodus | Hortatory Verse and Prose | The Bestiary; An Bispel; Sawles Warde | Hali Meidenhad; Lives of the Saints | Ancren Riwle | The Virgin Cult and Erotic Mysticism | The Luve Ron | Layamon’s Brut | The Owl and Nightingale | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XII. The Arthurian Legend - By W. LEWIS JONES, M.A., Professor of English Language and Literature at the University College of North Wales, Bangor, formerly Scholar of Queens’ College
- Early Welsh Tradition | Nennius and Gildas | Early Welsh Poetry | The Mabinogion | Kulhwch and Olwen | Geoffrey of Monmouth | Caradoc of Llancarvan | The French Romances | Wace | Layamon | Subsidiary Legends | Merlin | Gawain | Lancelot and Guinevere | The Holy Grail | Tristram and Iseult | Celtic Literature | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XIII. Metrical Romances, 1200–1500: I - By W. P. KER, M.A., Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, Professor of English Literature, University College, London
- French Influences | Benoit de Ste. More and Chrétien de Troyes | Translators’ difficulties | History of the English Romances | Matter and Form | The “matter of France,” “of Britain,” and “of Rome” | Sources and Subjects | Forms of Verse | Traditional Plots | Breton Lays | Fairy Tales | Sir Gawayne and Sir Tristrem | The Tale of Gamelyn and The Tale of Beryn | Relation of Romances to Ballads | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XIV. Metrical Romances, 1200–1500: II - By J. W. H. ATKINS
- The Carolingian Element | English Romances: Havelok, Horn, Guy of Warwick, Beves of Hamtoun | The literature of Antiquity: Troy, King Alisaunder, Richard Cœur de Lion | Oriental Fable: Flores and Blancheflour, The Seven Sages of Rome | Celtic Romances | The Gawain Cycle | Ipomedon, Amis and Amiloun, Sir Cleges, Sir Isumbras, The Squire of Low Degree | William of Palerne, etc. | Anonymity of the work embodied in the Romances | Qualities and Defects | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XV. “Pearl,” “Cleanness,” “Patience” and “Sir Gawayne” - By I. GOLLANCZ, Litt.D., Christ’s College, Professor of English Language and Literature, King’s College, London, Secretary of the British Academy
- Sources and Metre of Pearl | Cleanness and Patience | Sir Gawayne and the Grene Knight | Sources of Sir Gawayne | The Question of Authorship | Hypothetical Biography of the Poet | Ralph Strode | Huchoun of the Awle Ryale | Erkenwald, etc. | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XVI. Later Transition English - LEGENDARIES AND CHRONICLERS - By CLARA L. THOMSON
- Thomas Bek | The South English Legendary | Northern Homilies and Legends | The Northern Psalter | Cursor Mundi | Robert Mannyng of Brunne’s Handlyng Synne | Characteristics of Mannyng’s style | Mannyng’s Debt to Wadington | Mannyng’s Chronicle | The Medytacyuns | William of Shoreham | The Ayenbite of Inwyt | Adam Davy | Laurence Minot | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XVII. Later Transition English - SECULAR LYRICS; TALES; SOCIAL SATIRE (Further chapters on Fugitive Social Literature of the 14th and 15th centuries will be found in Vol. II.) - By A. R. WALLER
- Middle English Lyrics | The Proverbs of Hendyng | The Deeds of Hereward | The Land of Cokaygne | Dame Siriz | The Fox and the Wolf | The Turnament of Totenham | The Tale of Gamelyn | Gesta Romanorum; John de Bromyarde; The Childhood of Jesus | Political verses | Songs of the Soil | John Ball | The Black Death | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XVIII. The Prosody of Old and Middle English - By GEORGE SAINTSBURY, M.A., Merton College, Oxford, Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature in the University of Edinburgh
- Old English Verse | The Transition | Foreign Influence | The Alliterative Revival | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XIX. Changes in the Language to the Days of Chaucer - By HENRY BRADLEY, M.A., (Oxon.)
- Continuity of the English Language | “English” and “Saxon”; Periods of English | Changes in Grammar | Old English Grammar; Changes in Declension | Conjugation in Middle English | Influence of the Norman Conquest | Pronunciation and Spelling | Middle English Spelling | Development of Sounds | Changes in Vocabulary | Words adopted from French | Scandinavian Words in English | Loss of Native Words | The Poetical Vocabulary | English Dialects in the Fourteenth Century | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XX. The Anglo-French Law Language - By the late F. W. MAITLAND, LL.D., Downing Professor of the Laws of England. (By permission of the Council of the Selden Society.)
- Retention of French in the Courts and the Making of Legal Terms
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An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes
Volume II: English - THE END OF THE MIDDLE AGES
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CONTENTS: Preface | Table of Principal Dates
- Chapter I. “Piers the Plowman” and its Sequence - By JOHN MATTHEWS MANLY, A.M., Ph.D., Professor of English Literature in the University of Chicago
- The Vision of William concerning Piers the Plowman | Form of the Poems | Theories concerning Authorship; The Three Texts | The Crowd in the Valley | The Tower of Truth | Holy Church | The Court at Westminster | Meed | Reason | The First Vision | The Second Vision | The Way to Truth | Piers and his Pilgrims at Work | Piers’s Pardon | The Scene in the Ale-house | The Third Vision | The Search for Do-well, Do-better and Do-best | John But | B-text | B’s Continuation of the Poems | The Merits of B’s Work | The Author of the C-text | Conclusion assumed that the Poems are Not the Work of a Single Author; Differences in the Three Texts | Parallel Passages | William Langland | John But | Mum, Sothsegger | Wynnere and Wastoure; The Parlement of the Thre Ages | Letters of the Insurgents of 1381 | Peres the Ploughmans Crede | The Ploughman’s Tale | Jacke Upland | The Crowned King | Death and Liffe | The Scotish Feilde | The Fourteenth Century | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- II. Religious Movements in the Fourteenth Century - RICHARD ROLLE. WYCLIF. THE LOLLARDS - By the Rev. J. P. WHITNEY, B.D., King’s College
- Richard Rolle of Hamploe | Rolle’s Mysticism | William Nassyngton; Rolle and Religion | The Pricke of Conscience | Wyclif’s Early Life | Wyclif and Scholasticism | Wyclif’s Earlier Writings | Attack on Wyclif | The Papal Schism | The Poor Priests | The Bible in English | Nicholas Hereford and John Purvey | Wyclif and Popular Movements | Wyclif’s Views on the Eucharist | Wyclif’s Later Works | Wyclif’s Later Life | The Lollards; Wyclif’s Personality | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- III. The Beginnings of English Prose - TREVISA. THE MANDEVILLE TRANSLATORS - By ALICE D. GREENWOOD
- Early English Prose | Early Translations | John Trevisa | Polychronicon | Bartholomaeus | The Travels of Sir John Mandeville | Jean d’Outremeuse | Mandeville Manuscripts | Mandeville’s Style | Mandeville’s Detail | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- IV. The Scottish Language - EARLY AND MIDDLE SCOTS - By G. GREGORY SMITH, M.A., Balliol College, Oxford, Professor of English Literature in Queen’s College, Belfast
- “Scots” and “Ynglis” | Early Scots | Middle Scots | Southern Influence on Middle Scots | Latin and French Elements in Middle Scots | Alleged Celtic Contribution | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- V. The Earliest Scottish Literature - BARBOUR, BLIND HARRY, HUCHOUN, WYNTOUN, HOLLAND - By PETER GILES, M.A., Hon. LL.D., Aberdeen, Follow of Emmanuel College and Reader in Comparative Philology
- Early Fragments | John Barbour; The Bruce | Blind Harry’s Wallace | Holland’s Howlat | Huchoun of the Awle Ryale | Morte Arthure | The Epistill of Suete Susane | The Awntyrs of Arthure | Golagros and Gawane | Rauf Coil\??\ear | Colkelbie’s Sow | Lives of the Saints | Gray’s Scalacronica | Fordun and Bower’s Scotichronicon | Andrew of Wyntoun’s Orygynale Cronykil | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- VI. John Gower - By G. C. MACAULAY, M.A., Trinity College, Lecturer in English
- His Life | His Political Opinions | His Literary Work | The French Speculum Meditantis (Mirour de l’Omme) | The Latin Vox Clamantis | The English Confessio Amantis | His Latest Works | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- VII. Chaucer - By GEORGE SAINTSBURY, M.A., Merton College, Oxford, Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature in the University of Edinburgh
- Chaucer’s Life | Canon of Works | Early Editions | Tyrwhitt’s Recension | Later Rearrangements | The Romaunt of the Rose | Early Poems | Troilus and Criseyde | The House of Fame | The Legend of Good Women | The Canterbury Tales | Prose; The Astrolabe | Boethius | Minor Verse | Chaucer’s Learning | His Humour | His Poetical Quality | The Tale of Gamelyn | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- VIII. The English Chaucerians - By GEORGE SAINTSBURY, M.A.
- Lydgate | Occleve | Burgh | George Ashby | Henry Bradshaw | George Ripley | Thomas Norton | Osbern Bokenam | The Chaucerian Apocrypha | The Tale of Beryn or The Second Merchant’s Tale | La Belle Dame sans Merci | The Cuckoo and the Nightingale | The Assembly of Ladies | The Flower and Leaf | The Court of Love | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- IX. Stephen Hawes - By WILLIAM MURISON, M.A., Aberdeen
- The Passetyme of Pleasure | The Conversion of Swearers | A Joyful Meditation to all England of the Coronation of Henry the Eighth | The Example of Virtue | Hawes’s Learning and Models | His Medievalism | His Relation to Spenser | His Metre | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- X. The Scottish Chaucerians - By G. GREGORY SMITH, M.A.
- James I | The Kingis Quair | The Influence of Chaucer | Robert Henryson | The Morall Fabillis of Esope | The Testament of Cresseid | Henryson’s Shorter Poems | William Dunbar | His Allegories | The Grotesque in Dunbar | His Prosodic Range | Gavin Douglas | The Palice of Honour | King Hart | The Aenied | Douglas’s Medievalism | Walter Kennedy | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XI. The Middle Scots Anthologies: Anonymous Verse and Early Prose - By G. GREGORY SMITH, M.A.
- Early Anthologists | The Native Elements | Peblis to the Play; Christis Kirk on the Greene | Sym and his Brudir | The Wyf of Auchtirmuchty | The Wowing of Jok and Jynny | Gyre Carling | King Berdok | Burlesque Poems | Convivial Verse | Fabliaux | Historical and Patriotic Verse | Love Poetry; Tayis Bank | The Murning Maiden | Didactic and Religious Verse | Early Scottish Prose | Sir Gilbert Hay | Nisbet’s Version of Purvey | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XII. English Prose in the Fifteenth Century, I - PECOCK. FORTESCUE. THE PASTON LETTERS - By ALICE D. GREENWOOD
- The Master of Game | John Capgrave | Reginald Pecock | The Repressor of Overmuch Blaming of Clergy; The Repressor and the Lollards | Pecock’s Minor Works | His Style and Vocabulary | Sir John Fortescue | Walter Hylton | Juliana of Norwich | Gesta Romanorum | Secreta Secretorum | William Gregory’s Note-book | The Paston Letters | Copyists and Booksellers | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XIII. The Introduction of Printing into England and the Early Work of the Press - By E. GORDON DUFF, M.A., Oxon., sometime Sandars Reader in Bibliography in the University of Cambridge
- The First Products of the New Art | William Caxton | The First Book printed in English—The Recuyell of the Histories of Troy | The First Dated Book issued in England—The Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers | The Golden Legend | Malory’s Morte d’Arthur | Caxton’s Views on the English Language | Provincial Presses | The Book of St. Albans | William de Machlinia | English Books printed Abroad | Arnold’s Chronicle | Richard Pynson | Berners’s Froissart | Wynkyn de Worde | Minor Printers | Antoine Verard and John of Doesborch | The Book Trade | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XIV. English Prose in the Fifteenth Century, II - CAXTON. MALORY. BERNERS - By ALICE D. GREENWOOD
- Caxton as Editor | The Golden Legend | Malory’s Morte d’Arthur | Style of the Morte d’Arthur | Sir John Bourchier, Lord Berners | The Chronicles of Froissart | Huon of Bordeaux | The Golden Book of Marcus Aurelius | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XV. English and Scottish Education. Universities and Public Schools to the Time of Colet - By the Rev. T. A. WALKER, M.A., LL.D., Fellow of Peterhouse
- Paris and Oxford | Beginnings of Oxford and Cambridge | Town and Gown | University and Bishop | The Coming of the Friars | The Schoolmen | The Fall of the Friars | Poor Students | Walter de Merton | Hugo de Balsham | The Beginnings of the Colleges; The Black Death | William of Wykeham, Winchester and New College | Henry VI, Eton and King’s College | Queen Margaret | Medieval Studies; The Grammer School | University Studies; The Higher Faculties | Peterhouse Library and Catalogue; The Library of the Medieval Student | The Education of a Young Scholar in the Middle Ages | The Hour before the Renascence | St. Andrews University | Glasgow and Aberdeen | Scottish University Studies | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XVI. Transition English Song Collections - By FREDERICK MORGAN PADELFORD, Ph.D., Professor of the English Language and Literature in the University of Washington
- Characteristics of Folk-poetry | Minstrels’ Songs | Carols, Sacred and Secular | Spiritual Lullabies | Didactic Songs | Satires against Women | Drinking Songs | Love Songs | Pre-Christian Festivals and May Poems | Miscellaneous Songs | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XVII. Ballads - By FRANCIS B. GUMMERE, Ph.D., Professor of English in Haverford College
- Definition of the Subject | The Canute Song | Outlaw Ballads and Political Songs | The Ballad Question | Tradition | Robin Hood | Babylon | The Maid Freed from the Gallows; The Making of Ballads; General Outlines of Ballad Progress | Sources of Ballads | Riddle Ballads | The Epic Tendency | Balladry in Rags | Ballads of Domestic Tragedy; Child Waters | The Historical Ballad | The Greenwood | Sources and Aesthetic Values of Ballads as a Whole | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XVIII. Political and Religious Verse to the Close of the Fifteenth Century—Final Words - By A. R. WALLER, M.A., Peterhouse
- Anglo-Norman Writings | L’Histoire de Guillaume le Maréchal | The Vows of the Heron | The Lollards | The Libel of English Policy | Jack Napes’ Soul | Lyrics and Carols; The Religious Plays | Didactic Literature | Robin Hood | The Fifteenth Century | BIBLIOGRAPHY
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An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes
Volume III: English - RENASCENCE AND REFORMATION
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CONTENTS: Preface | Table of Principal Dates
- Chapter I. Englishmen and the Classical Renascence - By the Rev. T. M. LINDSAY, D.D., Principal of the Glasgow College of the United Free Church of Scotland
- The birth of the classical renascence | Erasmus | His first visit to England | Thomas Linacre | William Grocyn | English students at Paris | John Colet | William Lily | John Fisher | Sir Thomas More | The spread of the classical renascence | Sir Thomas Elyot | Thomas Wilson | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- II. Reformation Literature in England - By the Rev. J. P. WHITNEY, B.D., King’s College, Cambridge; Professor of Ecclesiastical History, King’s College, London
- Simon Fish | Erasmus and Cambridge | Aspects of the reformation | The Book of Common Prayer | Evolution of the prayer-book | Thomas Cranmer | His influence | The Homilies | Hugh Latimer | His sermons | William Tindale | The Bible in English | Miles Coverdale | The Great Bible | The Scots New Testament | Hymns | Sternhold and Hopkins | Results of the reformation period | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- III. The Dissolution of the Religious Houses - By the Rev. R. H. BENSON, M.A., Trinity College
- Destruction of books and of opportunities for study | Decrease of scholarship | New methods of thought | New channels of intercourse | Antiquarian study | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- IV. Barclay and Skelton - EARLY GERMAN IINFLUENCES ON ENGLISH LITERATURE - By ARTHUR KOELBING, Ph.D., Freiburg im Breisgau
- Alexander Barclay | Sebastian Brant’s Narrenschiff | Barclay’s additions to Brant | The influence of The Ship of Fools | Barclay’s Eclogues | John Skelton | Phyllyp Sparowe | The Bowge of Courte | Colyn Clout | Speke, Parrot | Why come ye nat to courte? | Magnyfycence | Characteristics of Skelton | German influence on English literature | English protestant dialogues | Grobianus | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- V. The Progress of Social Literature in Tudor Times - By HAROLD V. ROUTH, M.A., Peterhouse, Professor of Latin in Trinity College, Toronto
- Cocke Lorell’s bote | Mock testaments | Fraternities, orders and dances of death | The boke of Mayd Emlyn | Widow Edith | Satires and disquisitions on women | The Schole-house of women | The Proude Wyves Paternoster | Jest-books | Transition of society | The Complaynt of Roderyck Mors | Robert Crowley | The Hye Way to the Spyttel Hous | Awdeley’s Fraternitye of vacabones | Harman’s Caveat | Cosmopolitanism | Andrew Boorde | William Bullein | A Dialogue against the Fever Pestilence | Superstition in the sixteenth century | Scot’s Discoverie of Witchcraft | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- VI. Sir David Lyndsay (and the Later Scottish “Makaris”) - By T. F. HENDERSON
- The Dreme | The Testament and Complaynt of our Soverane Lordis Papyngo | Ane Pleasant Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis | Minor poets | Sir Richard Maitland | Alexander Scott | Alexander Montgomerie | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- VII. Reformation and Renascence in Scotland - By P. HUME BROWN, M.A., LL.D., Scottish Historiographer Royal; Professor of Ancient (Scottish) History and Palaeography in the University of Edinburgh
- The reformation in Scotland | Patrick Hamilton | Alexander Alane | Plays | The Gude and Godlie Ballatis | John Knox | Historie of the reformation in Scotland | Robert Lindesay of Pitscottie | The Diary of Mr. James Melville | Historians | Political ballads | John Major | The Complaynt of Scotland | Ninian Winzet | John Leslie | Hector Boece | George Buchanan | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- VIII. The New English Poetry - By HAROLD H. CHILD, sometime Scholar of Brasenose College, Oxford
- Tottel’s Miscellany | Sir Thomas Wyatt | Wyatt’s sonnets | Wyatt’s treatment of love | Wyatt’s epigrams, satires and devotional pieces | Henry Howard, earl of Surrey | “Poulter’s measure” | Surrey’s translations from Vergil and blank verse | Thomas lord Vaux | Nicholas Grimald | “Uncertain” authors in Tottel’s Miscellany | Thomas Churchyard | Thomas Tusser | Barnabe Googe | George Tubervile | Thomas Howell | Humfrey Gifford | Miscellanies: The Paradyse of Daynty Devises | A Gorgious Gallery of Gallant Inventions | A Handefull of pleasant delites | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- IX. “A Mirror for Magistrates” - By JOHN W. CUNLIFFE, D.Lit. (London), Professor of English in the University of Wisconsin, U. S. A.
- The original design | Contents of the parts | Its popularity and influence | Sackville
- X. George Gascoigne - By JOHN W. CUNLIFFE
- His life | The Posies | His later works | His achievements | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XI. The Poetry of Spenser - By W. J. COURTHOPE, C.B., D.Litt., LL.D., New College, Oxford
- Spenser’s family | Gabriel Harvey | Platonism in Spenser’s love poems | Spenser and Ficino | Spenser and Harvey | The Shepheards Calender | Spenser’s literary obligations to Mantuan, Vergil and Marot | Vocabulary of The Shepheards Calender | The Faerie Queene | Its design | Orlando Furioso | Allegory in The Faerie Queene | The knight in the social organism | Spenser as a word-painter and as a metrical musician | His Complaints | Colin Clout’s Come Home Again | The later Hymnes | Summary view of Spenser’s genius | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XII. The Elizabethan Sonnet - By SIDNEY LEE, D.Litt., Oxford
- The model of construction | French influences: Marot, Ronsard, Du Bellay | Spenser and his French masters | The influence of Petrarch | Thomas Watson | Sir Philip Sidney’s Astorphel and Stella | Spenser’s Amoretti | The sonneteering conceit of immorality | Constable’s Diana | Daniel | Lodge | Drayton | Richard Barnfield | Barnabe Barnes | Giles Fletcher | Sir William Alexander; Drummond of Hawthornden | Elizabethan critics of the sonnet | The sonnet of compliment | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XIII. Prosody from Chaucer to Spenser - By GEORGE SAINTSBURY, M.A., Merton College, Oxford, Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature in the University of Edinburgh
- The prosody of the fourteenth century | Piers Plowman | The staple of English poetry | Chaucer and his successors | “Doggerel” | The influence of music | Wyatt and Surrey | Sackville | The drama | The Shepheards Calender | Spenser’s mission | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XIV. Elizabethan Criticism - By GEORGE SAINTSBURY
- Caxton’s prefaces | Ascham | The Spenser and Harvey letters | Stanyhurst | Gascoigne’s Notes of Instruction | Sir Philip Sidney’s Apologie for Poetrie | William Webbe’s Discourse of English Poetrie | The Arte of English Poesie | Sir John Harington | The Harvey Nashe controversy | Campion | Daniel | Summary | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XV. Chroniclers and Antiquaries - By CHARLES WHIBLEY, Jesus College
- Edward Hall | Raphael Holinshed | Harrison’s Description of England | John Stow | John Speed | William Camden | John Leland | Sir Thomas Smith | John Foxe | The history of King Richard the thirde | George Cavendish | Sir John Hayward | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XVI. Elizabethan Prose Fiction - By J. W. H. ATKINS, M.A., Fellow of St. John’s College, Professor of English Language and Literature, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth
- Earlier native types | The influence of translators | John Lyly | Euphues | Euphuism | Lyly’s influence | Robert Greene | Sir Philip Sidney | Arcadia | Its style and influence | Greene’s romances | Thomas Lodge | Rosalynde | Emanuel Ford | Nicholas Breton | Anthony Munday | Greene’s autobiographical and realistic work | Thomas Nashe | The Unfortunate Traveller | Its literary qualities | Characteristics of Nashe’s prose | Thomas Deloney | Thomas of Reading | Jack of Newbury | The Gentle Craft | Delaney’s literary characteristics | General summary | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XVII. The Marprelate Controversy - By J. DOVER WILSON, M.A., Gonville and Caius College, Lector in English in the University of Helsingsfors, Finland
- The origin of the controversy | Penry’s Aequity and Udall’s Diotrephes | The story of the press | The style and character of the tracts | The Epistle and The Epitome | The Minerall Conclusions | Hay any worke for Cooper? | Martin Junior | Martin Senior | The Protestation | The authorship of the tracts | The theological reply to Martin | The dramatic and literary replies | The pamphlets of the Harveys | The Harvey Nashe Greene controversy | Martin’s literary influence | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XVIII. “Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity” - By the Rev. F. J. FOAKES-JACKSON, D.D., Fellow and Assistant Tutor of Jesus College
- The Elizabethan settlement | Calvin | The Admonition to Parliament | The puritan position | Richard Hooker | The preface to the Polity | Varieties of law | Hooker’s literary power | His place in the reformation | The position of his book in literature | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XIX. English Universities, Schools and Scholarship in the Sixteenth Century - By W. H. WOODWARD, Christ Church, Oxford, sometime Professor of Education in the University of Liverpool
- Universities under Edward VI and Mary | The accession of Elizabeth | Civil law at the universities | English learning in the sixteenth century | Edinburgh University, Trinity College, Dublin, and Gresham College | English schools under Elizabeth | The school curriculum | John Cheke | Thomas Wilson | The Arte of Rhetorique | Roger Ascham | Richard Mulcaster | Il Cortegiano of Castiglione | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XX. The Language from Chaucer to Shakespeare - By J. W. H. ATKINS
- Fifteenth century changes in vocabulary | Elizabethan English | Growing importance of the vernacular | Conservation and reform | Classical influence | Influence of Romance languages | Literary influence on the vocabulary | Results of loss of inflections | Influences on Elizabethan idiom | Elizabethan pronunciation | Elizabethan English as a literary medium | Its musical resources | Elizabethan and modern English | BIBLIOGRAPHY
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An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes
Volume IV: English - PROSE AND POETRY - SIR THOMAS NORTH TO MICHAEL DRAYTON
Edited by A. W. Ward & A. R. Waller
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CONTENTS: Note | Table of Principal Dates
- Chapter I. Translators - By CHARLES WHIBLEY, Jesus College
- The Craft of Translation | Translations of the Classics | Painter and Fenton | Machiavelli’s Prince | The Diall of Princes | Sir Thomas North’s Plutarch | Philemon Holland | Florio’s Montaigne | Stanyhurst’s Vergil | Phaer’s Vergil | Golding’s Ovid | Chapman’s Homer | Sylvester, Fairfax, Harington | The Charge of Plagiarism | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- II. The “Authorised Version” and its Influence - By ALBERT S. COOK, L.H.D., LL.D., Professor of the English Language and Literature in Yale University
- The Authorised Version the first English classic | Character of the Bible, its constitution and qualities | The Nature of the Hebrew language, poetry and prose | Jerome, of the Latin Vulgate | Old English Versions | The Wyclifite versions | Tindale and the Authorised Version | Coverdale’s Version | The position of the Bible in English Literature | The English of the Bible | The Influence of the Authorised Version upon English Literature | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- III. Sir Walter Ralegh - By LOUISE CREIGHTON
- Cynthia and other poems | Prose Writings | The story of The Revenge | Guiana | The History of the World | Political Writings | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- IV. The Literature of the Sea - FROM THE ORIGINS TO HAKLUYT - By Commander CHARLES N. ROBINSON, R.N., and JOHN LEYLAND
- Early Writers | John Cabot | The Impulse from Abroad | Richard Eden | Sir Hugh Willoughby; Sebastian Cabot | Sir John Hawkins | Sir Humphrey Gilbert | Martin Frobisher | Richard Willes | John Davys | Sir Richard Hawkins | The Spirit of Travel in English Literature | Richard Hakluyt | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- V. Seafaring and Travel - THE GROWTH OF PROFESSIONAL TEXT-BOOKS AND GEOGRAPHICAL LITERATURE - By Commander CHARLES N. ROBINSON, R.N., and JOHN LEYLAND
- Richard Knolles’s Compilations | Coryats Crudities | Samuel Purchas | Captain John Smith | The Spirit of Imperialism | Lancaster’s Expedition | William Adams in Japan | Australia and Madagascar | Sir William Monson | Books for the use of Seamen; Smith’s Accidence | Thomas James and Luke Fox | Theory and Practice | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- VI. The Song-Books and Miscellanies - By HAROLD H. CHILD, sometime Scholar of Brasenose College, Oxford
- Music and Poetry | William Byrd; Musical Composers | Lyric Poetry in the Drama | The Phoenix Nest; Nicholas Breton; Thomas Lodge | England’s Helicon; “Ignoto” | Anthony Munday | John Wotton; Richard Barnfield | Pastoral Poems | A Poetical Rapsody; Francis Davison; “A.W.”; Sir Edward Dyer | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- VII. Robert Southwell. Samuel Daniel - By HAROLD H. CHILD
- Robert Southwell | John Davies of Hereford | Abraham Fraunce | Samuel Daniel | Delia; The Complaynt of Rosamond; Musophilus | Warner’s Albion’s England | Daniel’s Civil Wars | His Diction | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- VIII. Thomas Campion - By S. PERCIVAL VIVIAN, sometime Scholar of St. John’s College, Oxford
- His Life | His Works | His Prosody | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- IX. The Successors of Spenser - By HUGH DE SÉLINCOURT, University College, Oxford
- Drummond of Hawthornden | George Wither | William Browne | Fulke Greville | Sir John Davies | Sir Henry Wotton | Giles and Phineas Fletcher | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- X. Michael Drayton - By HAROLD H. CHILD
- Drayton’s Boyhood | The Harmonie of the Church | Idea | The Identity of “Idea” | Legends | Ideas Mirrour | Endimion and Phœbe | Mortimeriados | Englands Heroicall Epistles | His Satires and Odes | Poly-Olbion | Nimphidia | The Muses Elizium | His “divine” poems | His Achievement | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XI. John Donne - By HERBERT J. C. GRIERSON, M.A., Chalmers Professor of English Literature in the University of Aberdeen
- Donne’s Relation to Petrarch | His Life | The History of his Poems | His Satires | Songs and Sonets | Elegies | His Love Poetry | His “Wit” | The Progresse of the Soule | Religious Verses | Paradoxes, Problems and other Prose Writings | Sermons | Letters | His Position and Influence | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XII. The English Pulpit from Fisher to Donne - By the Rev. F. E. HUTCHINSON, M.A., Trinity College, Oxford; Chaplain of King’s College, Cambridge
- Revival of Preaching in the Sixteenth Century | The Printing of Sermons in the Vernacular | Fisher’s Sense of Style | Colet and Longland | Latimer’s directness, story-telling and denunciation of social wrongs | The second generation of Reformation Preachers: Lever, Bradford and Gilpin | Literary Preaching: Jewel, Sandys; Hooker | “The Silver-tongued preacher” | Roman Catholic devotional literature | Puritan exaltation of the Sermon | Andrewes and Donne compared | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XIII. Robert Burton, John Barclay and John Owen - By EDWARD BENSLY, M.A., Trinity College; Professor of Latin, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth
- Robert Burton | The Anatomy of Melancholy | His Reading and Methods of Quotation | Influence of The Anatomy | John Barclay | Euphormionis Satyricon | Argenis | Medieval and Modern Latin Verse | John Owen’s Epigrams | His Influence | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XIV. The Beginnings of English Philosophy - By W. R. SORLEY, Litt.D., LL.D., F.B.A., Fellow of King’s College, and Knightbridge Professor of Moral Philosophy
- The Language of Philosophy | English Contributions to Medieval Philosophy | Johannes Scotus Erigena | The Attitude to Scholasticism of Duns Scotus and of Ockham | Roger Bacon and the Method of Science | Philosophy in English universities; Revival of Aristotelianism in the 16th Century; Everard Digby | William Temple and the Ramists | William Gilbert and Experimental Science | Francis Bacon | The Great Instauration | The Interpretation of Nature and the New Method | The Value of the Method | Herbert of Cherbury | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XV. Early Writings on Politics and Economics - By the Ven. Archdeacon CUNNINGHAM, D.D., F.B.A., Fellow of Trinity College
- National Life as Reflected in Literature | Elements in the Rise of Nationalities—Patriotic Sentiment, Democratic Self-Government, National Resources as the means of gratifying National Ambitions | Patriotic Pride in a well-ordered monarchy as reflected in English Literature; suspicion of the pursuit of private interests, as inimical to public welfare | Ecclesiastical Character of the demand for Individual Independence in Scotland, and for Democratic Institutions | English Constitutionalism | Medieval Works on Estates Management | Descriptions of the Realm | Prescriptions for improving its resources | Writings on the administration of particular offices, and on Companies for Commerce and for Colonisation | Treatises on Usury | The Problem of Pauperism | The Mercantile System | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XVI. London and the Development of Popular Literature - CHARACTER WRITING. SATIRE. THE ESSAY - By HAROLD V. ROUTH, M.A., Peterhouse; Professor of Latin in Trinity College, Toronto
- London in the times of Elizabeth and James | Lodge on Usury | Nashe’s Anatomie of Absurditie | Robert Greene’s Social Pamphlets | Nashe | Rise of Formal Satire | Joseph Hall: Virgidemiarum | Marston’s Satires | “Humours” | Epigrams and Character Sketch | Theophrastus | Hall’s Characters | The Man in the Moone | Sir Thomas Overbury | John Stephens | John Earle | Origins of the Essay | Sir William Cornwallis | Robert Johnson | Bacon’s Essays | Ben Jonson’s Timber | Tobacco-pamphlets | Discoverie of the Knights of the Poste | Thomas Dekker | Grobianism | Samuel Rowlands | Burlesques | Jest Books | Wagering Journeys | Pimlyco | Broadsides and Street Ballads | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XVII. Writers on Country Pursuits and Pastimes - GERVASE MARKHAM - By H. G. ALDIS, M.A., Peterhouse; Secretary of the University Library
- Gervase Markham | His Predecessors | Leonard Mascall | Barnabe Googe | Sir Hugh Plat | Topsell | Herbals | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XVIII. The Book-Trade, 1557–1625 - By H. G. ALDIS
- The Incorporation of the Stationers’ Company | Star Chamber Decrees; The Stationers’ Registers | Censors | Trade Discipline | Printing Monopolies | Apprentices | The Beginnings of a Business | | Ballad Writers | Patrons | Copyright | John Taylor, the Thames waterman | Pirates; The Shakespeare Stationers | Edward Blount | George Wither’s evidence | Richard Grafton | William Copland | John Day | William Ponsonby; Christopher and Robert Barker | St. Paul’s Churchyard | London Bridge | English Printing | Illustrations | Foreign presses | Book Fairs | Early Catalogues | Bookbindings | Prices | Provincial Stationers | Cambridge University Press | Oxford University Press | The Scottish Press: Chepman and Myllar | Gourlaw’s Inventory | Printing in Ireland | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XIX. The Foundation of Libraries - By J. BASS MULLINGER, M.A., Formerly Librarian of St. John’s College
- A retrospect | Monastic libraries | Cathedral libraries | Cambridge College libraries | Oxford College libraries | Thomas Bodley | Cambridge University Library | The Chetham Library, Manchester | Sion College, London | Trinity College, Dublin | Drummond’s books, Edinburgh | BIBLIOGRAPHY
THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE
An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes
Volume V: English - THE DRAMA TO 1642 - Part One
Edited by A. W. Ward & A. R. Waller
Bibliographic Record
CONTENTS: Preface | Table of Principal Dates
- Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY - The Origins of English Drama - By A. W. WARD, Litt.D., F.B.A., Master of Peterhouse
- Earliest traces of English drama | Estrifs | The Normans and their Minstrels | Faint influence of the Classical Drama | The English Monastic Literary Drama | Popular survivals | Festival Plays | Ridings and Mummings | Liturgical Drama | Opposition of the Clergy to secular entertainments | Importance of the Corpus Christi Festival | Cornish Miracle-plays | Variety in dialect and metre in the English Mysteries and Miracle-plays | Origin of the Moralities | English love of Allegory | Evolution of Tragedy and Comedy | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- II. Secular Influences on the Early English Drama - MINSTRELS. VILLAGE FESTIVALS. FOLK-PLAYS - By HAROLD H. CHILD, sometime Scholar of Brasenose College, Oxford
- Strolling Performers: the Latin mimus and the Teutonic scop | Influence of English Minstrels on Religious Plays | Beginnings of the Interlude | The Minstrels’ Guild | Influence of Folk-lore | Cantilenae | Folk-dance and play | The Hock-Tuesday Play | Sword-dance | Plough Monday performances | Development of the Mummers’ Play | Transformation of the May-game into the Robin Hood Plays | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- III. The Early Religious Drama - MIRACLE-PLAYS AND MORALITIES - By W. CREIZENACH, Professor of German Language and Literature in the University of Cracow
- Concordia Regularis | School Dramas of Hilarius | Religious Plays in London | The vernacular in Medieval Drama | Jacob and Esau | Miracles of Mary | Evidence of the popularity of the Religious Drama | The Harrowing of Hell | Mysteries and their sources: traditional and original elements; mingling of comic with tragic incidents | Costliness of production | Corpus Christi Plays | York Mysteries | Towneley Mysteries | Chester Plays | Ludus Coventriae | Saints’ Plays | Object and value of the production of Mysteries | Early Moralities | The Castle of Perseverance | Mankynd | Mind, Will and Understanding | Everyman | Tendency towards the introduction of comic elements | Progress in aim and treatment | Distinctive character of the Moralities | Effects of Humanism on Mysteries and Moralities | Interlude of the Nature of the Four Elements | Treatment of educational, political, and ecclesiastical questions in the Morality | Vicissitudes in the reigns of the Tudor sovereigns | The last of the Moralities | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- IV. Early English Tragedy - By JOHN W. CUNLIFFE, D.Lit. (London), Professor of English in the University of Wisconsin, U. S. A.
- Study, imitation and reproduction of Senecan tragedy | Classical influence in the Italian Drammi Mescidati | Giraldi Cinthio’s Orbecche | Early English Tragicomedies | Historic importance of stage directions | Horestes | Kynge Johan | Gorboduc and its political significance: its advance on Senecan Tragedy and early Tragicomedy | Introduction of intermedii | Jocasta | Gismond of Salerne and its sources: motives of its authors | Advance in the treatment of Romance | The Gray’s inn Entertainment; The Misfortunes of Arthur: extent of its debt to Seneca | Popular translation of the Ten Tragedies of Seneca | Renewed interest in English history and the beginnings of English Historical Drama | The Chronicle Histories: The Famous Victories of Henry the fifth | The Troublesome Raigne of King John | The True Chronicle History of King Leir | The relations between Locrine and Selimus | Diminishing attention paid to classical models and increasing appeal to popular sentiment and national tradition; the legacy of the Classics in Tragedy | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- V. Early English Comedy - By F. S. BOAS, M.A., Balliol College, Oxford, LL.D. (St. Andrews), late Professor of English Literature in Queen’s College, Belfast, and late Clark Lecturer in Trinity College
- John Heywood | His relationship to Sir Thomas More | Period of his dramatic activity | Probability of French influence | His interludes: Witty and Witless; Love; Wether; The Foure P. P. | His narrative power | Doubtful plays: The Pardoner and the Frere and Johan Johan | The collision of romantic and didactic tendencies in Tudor Drama | Calisto and Melebea | Lucrece | Continental Humanist Drama | Performances of Latin plays in the schools and at the Universities | Nicholas Udall | Ralph Roister Doister | Jacke Jugeler | English adaptations of Textor’s Neo-classic Plays | Prodigal son plays | Misogonus | Jacob and Esau | The Glasse of Governement | Supposes | The Bugbears | Influence of the Southern Stage | Strength of the native dramatic instinct | Tom Tyler | Damon and Pithias | Promos and Cassandra | Edwards’s and Whetstone’s theory of the function of Comedy | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- VI. The Plays of the University Wits - By G. P. BAKER, Professor of English in Harvard University, U. S. A.
- The University standard of judgment | John Lyly | His position in the group of University Wits | His material, method and style | His models | Authorship of the songs in Lyly’s plays | Introduction to the English stage of High Comedy: its essential features | Lyly’s refining and intellectual influence on English Literature and Drama | George Peele | Variety in theme and treatment | Beginnings of dramatic criticism | Peele’s poetry | Robert Greene | His literary career; his Novels and Pamphlets | His Repentance | Early dramatic work | Plays attributed to Greene | His sources and handling of plot | Development of the Love story | Thomas Lodge: sequence of his work | His ill-success and retirement from Drama | Thomas Nashe: popular form of his work | Characteristics of the group of University Wits | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- VII. Marlowe and Kyd - CHRONICLE HISTORIES - By G. GREGORY SMITH, M.A., Balliol College, Oxford, Professor of English Literature in the University of Belfast
- The forerunners of Shakespeare | Marlowe’s life and early literary work | Tamburlaine the Great | Dr. Faustus | The Jew of Malta | Edward II, the Massacre at Paris and Dido Queene of Carthage | Marlowe’s share in other Plays | Association with Shakespeare | Marlowe’s non-dramatic writings | Poetic quality of his work | Characteristics of his style | His treatment of the Chronicle Play | His forerunners | Edward II | Creation of Blank Verse as a dramatic instrument | Thomas Kyd’s early work | The Spanish Tragedie | Kyd and the early Hamlet | Doubtful authorship of The First Part of Jeronimo and of Solimon and Perseda | Criticism of Kyd’s work and comparison with Marlowe; Kyd’s place in English Drama | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- VIII. Shakespeare: Life and Plays - By GEORGE SAINTSBURY, M.A., Merton College, Oxford, LL.D., Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature in the University of Edinburgh
- Character of our knowledge about Shakespeare | His Family and Education | His Marriage and relations with his Wife | His Company | Biographical aspects of the Sonnets | Evidence as to Order of Plays | Value of the Meres list | Earliest group: The Comedy of Errors, Love’s Labour’s Lost and Titus Andronicus | Second group: The Two Gentlemen of Verona, All’s Well that Ends Well and The Taming of the Shrew | Remaining Meres Plays: Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Merchant of Venice | Early Chronicle Plays: Richard II, King John, Richard III | Shakespeare’s share in Henry VI, Henry IV | Plays not mentioned by Meres: Pericles, The Merry Wives, Measure for Measure, Much Ado about Nothing, As You Like It and Twelfth Night | Remaining Historical Plays: Henry V and Henry VIII | Classical Plays: Troilus and Cressida, Timon of Athens, Julius Caesar, Coriolanus and Antony and Cleopatra | Tragicomedies: Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth and King Lear | Last group: Cymbeline, The Winter’s Tale and The Tempest | Shakespeare’s Censors | His special gifts: poetic phrasing, dramatic construction and character-drawing | His justice and tolerance | Universality of his style | His progress in versification | Shakespearean Blank Verse: management of metre, pause, trisyllabic substitution and the redundant syllable | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- IX. Shakespeare: Poems - By GEORGE SAINTSBURY, M.A., LL.D.
- Dates of Composition and First Editions | Dedication of the Sonnets | Venus and Adonis | Lucrece | The Sonnets: the problem of their interpretation | Futility of attempts to find biographical details in them | Dramatic elements | Peculiarities of versification | Lesser Poems: A Lover’s Complaint, The Passionate Pilgrim, The Phoenix and the Turtle | Shakespeare’s metrical mastery in the Lyric | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- X. Plays of Uncertain Authorship Attributed to Shakespeare - By F. W. MOORMAN, B.A. (London), Ph.D. (Strassburg), Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature in the University of Leeds
- Classification of extant Plays | Locrine: points of resemblance to The Spanish Tragedie | Arden of Feversham: deliberate bluntness of the story and unattractiveness of the hero | A Yorkshire Tragedy | Edward III | Cromwell | Sir Thomas More: its scholarly character and political tone | The Birth of Merlin: its probable authors | Faire Em | The Merry Devill of Edmonton | Mucedorus | The London Prodigall | The Puritane | The Two Noble Kinsmen: wealth of its sources and qualities | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XI. The Text of Shakespeare - By the Rev. ERNEST WALDER, M.A., Gonville and Caius College, Headmaster of Ockbrook School, Derby
- Reasons for reluctance of authors and companies to publish | Origin of the Quartos | Duplicate, Variant and Doublet Quartos | Discrepancies in Texts: curtailment or omission for stage purposes or for want of actors; political expediency | Carelessness of Players and Printers | Lack of evidence making Shakespeare responsible for Corrections or Additions | Value of the first Folio | The later Folios | Subsequent history of the Text of Shakespeare | Rowe’s edition | Conjectures and restorations of Pope | His controversy with Theobald, and its effects on Theobald’s edition | Hanmer’s edition | Warburton’s ignorance of the old Text and of Shakespeare’s language | Johnson’s edition | Scientific criticism of Capell | Johnson and Steevens’s Text | Malone’s edition | Nineteenth century Editors: Singer; Hudson; Collier; Halliwell-Phillipps; Delius; Staunton; Grant White; Dyce | The Cambridge Shakespeare | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XII. Shakespeare on the Continent - 1660–1700 - By J. G. ROBERTSON, M.A., B.Sc. (Glasgow), Ph.D. (Leipzig), Professor of German Language and Literature in the University of London
- Channels by which Shakespeare reached the Continent | His influence on German and Dutch Seventeenth Century Drama | Awakening of interest in the man | Literary importance of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes | Voltaire’s attitude towards Shakespeare | His adaptations from Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Othello, and Macbeth | Abbé Prévost and contemporary French admirers of Shakespeare | Influence of Voltaire’s opinions in Italy | Early Seventeenth Century indications of appreciation of Shakespeare in Germany | Strength of Classicism | The Translations of La Place, and their effect on Voltaire and French Criticism | Sébastien Mercier | Le Tourneur | Voltaire’s last Attacks | Popularity of the Adaptations of Ducis | German interest in Shakespeare aroused by Lessing | Wieland’s Prose Translation | The new attitude of the Sturm und Drang; Gerstenberg’s and Herder’s Criticism | Shakespeare included in the répertoire of the German stage; Schröder | The Romantic School: A. W. Schlegel and his Fellow Workers | Shakespeare’s influence on German Eighteenth Century Literature: on the French Romantic School | German Shakespearean Scholarship in the Nineteenth Century | Influence of Hegelianism | Shakespeare and the Modern German Theatre | The Meiningen Reforms | Introduction of Shakespeare into other lands, chiefly through French or German Translations | Value of recent American Criticism | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XIII. Lesser Elizabethan Dramatists - By the Rev. RONALD BAYNE, M.A., University College, Oxford
- General characteristics of Lesser Elizabethan Dramatists | Their names according to Henslowe’s Diary and Meres’s list | Antony Munday’s career (1553–1633) and industry as a writer | Translations of Fedele and Fortunio: The Weakest goeth to the Wall | His extant Plays founded on Ballads and Folk-lore | Henry Chettle’s early life: his Tragedies: The Tragedy of Hoffman | Haughton’s Comedies: Girm the Collier of Croyden and English-Men For my Money | Porter’s Two angry women of Abington | Hathwaye; Robert Wilson; Wentworth Smith | Michael Drayton’s dramatic work | John Day’s early work | Samuel Rowley’s When you see me, You know me | English imitation of French Senecan Drama | Fulke Greville’s Mustapha and Alaham | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XIV. Some Political and Social Aspects of the Later Elizabethan and Earlier Stewart Period - By A. W. WARD, Litt.D., F.B.A.
- Main features of the English Renascence at its height | Contrast between the beginning and the end of the age | Literary significance of the later years of Elizabeth’s reign | Strength of the Tudor Monarchy and Popular Sentiment | Dramatists and the Divine Right of Kings | Question of the Queen’s Marriage | Her attitude towards the Religious Problem | Struggle for the English Throne | Elizabeth’s Ministers before and after the crisis | Vigour and activity of the New Generation | Elizabeth’s Court | Education of the Courtier | Contrast between Court and Country | Gradual change in social conditions; amalgamation of New and Old Nobility | Rise of Prices and advance of Trade and Industry | Horticulture | Drinking | Tobacco | The Army and Navy in Elizabeth’s time | Position of the Clergy and causes of their disrepute | Changes in the Universities, jobbery in Schools and Universities and in the Church | Puritanism and the Dramatists | Growth of London and its causes | Increase of Litigation and its effects on the Legal Profession | The Medical Profession | Authors and their troubles | Attention paid to the Fine Arts | Social conditions of the Trading and Yeoman Classes | Depression of the Labouring Class | Servingmen | Treatment of the Poor, Vagabonds and Criminals | General unrest and high spirit | The Women of the age | BIBLIOGRAPHY
THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE
An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes
Volume VI: English - THE DRAMA TO 1642 - Part Two
Edited by A. W. Ward & A. R. Waller
Bibliographic Record
CONTENTS: Table of Principal Dates
- Chapter I. Ben Jonson - By ASHLEY H. THORNDIKE, M.A., Ph.D. (Harvard), Professor of English in Columbia University, New York
- Ben Jonson’s character and friendships | Early life | Production of Every Man in His Humour | Maturity; Prosperity | Later years | Eminence in letters | Epigrams; The Forest | Underwoods | The Sad Shepherd | Early Plays | His Programme of Reform; Every Man in His Humour | Every Man out of His Humour | His Tragedies | Volpone; Epicoene | The Alchemist | Bartholomew Fayre | His later Comedies | His place in Literature | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- II. Chapman, Marston, Dekker - By W. MACNEILE DIXON, M.A. (Dublin), Litt.D. (Glasgow), Professor of English Language and Literature in the University of Glasgow
- Chapman’s life | Shakespeare and the “Rival Poet” | Didactic nature of Chapman’s Poetry | His Comedies | His Historic Tragedies; Bussy D’Ambois; The Revenge | Chapman’s Homer | Marston’s life | His prominence in the War of the Theatres | Quarrel with Jonson: Assaults and Counter-assaults | End of the quarrel | Marston’s Tragedies; Antonio and Mellida | The Malcontent | Eastward Hoe | The Fawne | His other Plays; Withdrawal from theatrical life | Dekker’s early activities; Value of his work; His Comedies: The Shomakers Holiday; Old Fortunatus; The Honest Whore | His Collaborators | His place as a Dramatist | Importance of his prose work | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- III. Middleton and Rowley - By ARTHUR SYMONS
- Biographical details | Middleton’s non-dramatic work | His first Plays: The Mayor of Quinborough | The Old Law | Blurt Master-Constable | His farcical Comedies: their character and material | His realism | Fluency and naturalness of his work | His Collaborators | Plays by Rowley alone; their sincerity and nobility of aim | Rowley’s influence on Middleton | A Faire Quarrell | The World tost at Tennis | The Changeling | Later Plays by Middleton | His dramatic genius | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- IV. Thomas Heywood - By A. W. WARD, Litt.D., F.B.A., Master of Peterhouse
- Thomas Heywood as the servant of public taste | His special work in Domestic Drama | His life: London and Court associations | His point of view as a Playwright | His non-dramatic works | The Apology for Actors | His Plays | A Woman Kilde with Kindnesse | Elizabethan Domestic Drama | Early attempts at realistic treatment | The Murder Plays | Changes in the social system and their effect on the Drama | Heywood’s picture of English country life | The Royall King, and The Loyall Subject | The Fair Maid Of The West | Other Plays | His work in collaboration with others | His qualities as a Dramatist | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- V. Beaumont and Fletcher - By G. C. MACAULAY, M.A., late Fellow of Trinity College, University Lecturer in English
- New influences on the Drama | Abandonment of Tragedy for Tragi-comedy; Lowering of moral standards | Contemporary appreciation of Beaumont and Fletcher’s work | Biographies and early intimacy of the two Dramatists; Individual characteristics | Evidence as to authorship | Fletcher’s Metrical Style: comparison with that of Shakespeare | Features assignable to Beaumont | Massinger’s collaboration with Fletcher | Excellence of Fletcher’s stage effects | His weakness in characterisation | Sources of his plays | Rapidity of production; Classification of the Plays | Tragedies; Romantic Dramas | Comedies | Qualities of language and style in Beaumont and Fletcher’s plays | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- VI. Philip Massinger - By EMIL KOEPPEL, Professor of English Philology in the University of Strassburg
- Massinger’s life | Biographical value of his Dedications | His relations with the Herberts | Literary friends | Joint workmanship with Fletcher and others | His independent Dramas | Some Political Dramas of the time | Massinger’s political opinions | His religious sympathies | His literary models: Shakespeare, Fletcher, Jonson | His constructive art | Typical situations | His women | His lovers | His villains | His comical figures | His style: preponderance of the rhetorical element | His repetitions | Contemporary and posthumous reputation | Massinger in Germany | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- VII. Tourneur and Webster - By C. E. VAUGHAN, M.A., Balliol College, Oxford, Professor of English Literature in the University of Leeds
- Meagreness of biographical details | Tourneur’s two Tragedies | John Webster: periods of his literary activity | Collaboration with Dekker and Marston | West-Ward Hoe and North-Ward Hoe | Webster’s original work | The White Divel: question of its sources; possibility of originality in the plot | Advance on his earlier work | The theme of Revenge as handled by Elizabethan Dramatists | The Dutchesse Of Malfy: its source and date; advance in representation and motif | The last period | Appius and Virginia | The Devils Law-case: influence of Fletcher | Secret of Webster’s genius: his profound knowledge of human character and sense of tragic issues | His imagination and poetic power | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- VIII. Ford and Shirley - By W. A. NEILSON, M.A. (Edinburgh), Ph.D. (Harvard), Professor of English in Harvard University
- Commencement of the literary period of English Drama | Ford’s life and early work | Romantic character of his non-dramatic work | His collaboration with Dekker | His independent Dramas | His lost Plays | Ford as typical of the period of decadence | His merits | Shirley’s life and career | His Poems | His Tragedies | His Comedies of Manners and Romantic Comedies | His Entertainments | Originality of his plots | Conventionality of his style | Comparison of Shirley with Ford | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- IX. Lesser Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists - By the Rev. RONALD BAYNE, M.A., University College, Oxford
- General characteristics of the Jacobean and Caroline Drama; the central position of Jonson | Belated Elizabethans: John Day’s later comedies; The Ile of Guls; evolution of The Parliament of Bees; its merits and characteristics | Armin’s Two Maids of More-clacke | Sharpham’s two Plays; The single Plays of Barry, Cooke and Tailor | The Pupils of Jonson: Nathaniel Field: his life and training | A Woman is a Weather-cocke | Field’s debt to Jonson; his romantic tendency and collaboration with Massinger | Richard Brome’s life and training: his fifteen extant Plays | The Northern Lasse | Brome’s debt to Dekker; The Sparagus Garden | The City Witt; its briskness and humour | A Joviall Crew, Brome’s best Play | His romantic experiments; partial success of The Queen and Concubine | Thomas Randolph’s University training; His Aristippus and The Conceited Pedler | Aristotle’s Ethics dramatised in The Muses Looking-Glasse | Originality of Randolph | May’s Comedies; The anonymous Nero | Davenport’s Revisions of older Plays | Thomas Nabbes’s virtuous heroines | Comedies of Cartwright, and Mayne | Sir John Suckling’s Plays: Aglaura, The Goblins, Brennoralt | Marmion’s The Antiquary | Tragicomedy as exemplified in the Plays of Lodowick Carlell, Henry Glapthorne and Sir William D’Avenant | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- X. The Elizabethan Theatre - By HAROLD CHILD, sometime Scholar of Brasenose College, Oxford
- Early Companies of Players | Triumph of the Professional Actor and Patronised Company over the Stroller | Grounds of objection to the Drama | Royal patronage and its effect | Increasing control of the production of Plays by the Master of the Revels | The Chamberlain’s Company | The Queen’s and Admiral’s Companies | Places of performance | Site and architectural features of the Theater | The Curtain | The Newington Butts Playhouse | The Rose | The Globe | The Blackfriars | The Swan | Other Playhouses | Differences between the Elizabethan and the Modern Stage | Value of John de Witt’s drawing of the Swan | The Alternation Theory | Differences in Construction | Stage Appliances and Properties | Performances at private Playhouses and at Court | Costumes | The Audience | The Author and his Company | Financial arrangements | Social position of the Actor | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XI. The Children of the Chapel Royal and their Masters - By J. M. MANLY, M.A., Ph.D. (Harvard), Professor of English in the University of Chicago
- Early history of the Chapel Children | Early Masters: John Plummer, Henry Abyndon, William Newark, William Cornish and others | Histrionic activity of the Children; Dramatic work of the Masters | Plays of the University Wits acted by the Children | The Children at the Blackfriars: profitable nature of the undertaking | The Child-actors | Causes of their success | Royal patronage | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XII. University Plays - By F. S. BOAS, M.A., Balliol College, Oxford, LL.D. (St. Andrews), late Professor of English Literature in Queen’s College, Belfast, and late Clark Lecturer, Trinity College
- Medieval Drama at the Universities | The Senecan School of dramatists; Grimald’s Christus Redivivus and Archipropheta | Kirchmayer’s Pammachius | Gammer Gurtons Nedle | Effect of Queen Elizabeth’s visits to the Universities | Halliwell’s Dido and Udall’s Ezechias | Edwards’s Palamon and Arcyte | Rickets’s Byrsa Basilica; Legge’s Richardus Tertius | Perfidus Hetruscus | Gager’s Meleager and Dido | Fraunce’s Victoria; Academic Comedies | Hymenaeus; Laelia | Pedantius | Attack on Academic Personages and on the Civic Authorities | Club-Law | The Parnassus Trilogy | Tomkin’s Lingua | Narcissus | King James at Oxford | Daniel’s The Queenes Arcadia | Thomas Tucker, the Christmas Prince | King James at Cambridge; Ruggle’s Ignoramus | Barten Holiday’s Technogamia; Allegorical and satirical character of the later Plays | King Charles at Cambridge and Oxford | Influence of the University Drama | BIBLIOGRAPHY |
- XIII. Masque and Pastoral - By the Rev. RONALD BAYNE, M.A.
- Popularity of the Masque in the age of Elizabeth | Its early history | Mummings and Disguisings: development of these into the Masque | The Masque in Spenser | Ben Jonson’s Masques | Introduction of the Antimasque | Development of the Presenter | Campion’s Masques | Chapman and Beaumont as Masque-writers | Rapid increase of dramatic elements in Jonson’s Masques | Jonson’s later work in this field | Pastoral Poetry: its history and development | Pastoral drama of the University Wits | Daniel’s Pastorals | Fletcher’s The Faithful Shepheardesse | Ben Jonson’s The Sad Shepherd | Randolph’s Amyntas | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XIV. The Puritan Attack upon the Stage - By J. DOVER WILSON, M.A., Gonville and Caius College, Lecturer in English Literature at the Goldsmiths’ College, University of London
- The attitude of the Reformers towards the Stage | Theological and moral objections | Beginnings of Puritan opposition in England | Attitude of the Civic Authorities in London | Systematic persecution of Actors | Royal Patronage | Attacks on the Stage from the Pulpit | Work of Pamphleteers | Gosson’s Schoole of Abuse | Lodge’s Defence | Stubbes’s Anatomie of Abuses | Waning interest in the struggle | The Controversy at the Universities | Effects of changes introduced under the Stewarts | Heywood’s Apology for Actors | Prynne’s Histriomastix | General aspects of the Controversy | BIBLIOGRAPHY
THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE
An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes
Volume VII: English - CAVALIER AND PURITAN
Edited by A. W. Ward & A. R. Waller
Bibliographic Record
CONTENTS: Table of Principal Dates
- Chapter I. Cavalier Lyrists - By F. W. MOORMAN, B.A. (Lond.), Ph.D. (Strassburg), Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature in the University of Leeds
- The Caroline lyric | Decline of the sonnet | The classical lyric | Influence of Jonson | Robert Herrick | Hesperides | Herrick’s epigrams | Noble Numbers | Thomas Carew | Sir John Suckling | Richard Lovelace | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- II. The Sacred Poets - By the REV. F. E. HUTCHINSON, M.A., Trinity College, Oxford, Chaplain of King’s College
- The sacred poets a group with personal links, not a new school of poetry | George Herbert’s personality and divided aims reflected in his poems | His constructive ability | The metaphysical fashion | Crashaw’s relation to Herbert | His knowledge of Spanish and Italian literature | A large proportion of his work translation | The secular and the sacred poems compared | His defective powers of self-criticism | Henry Vaughan’s secular poetry | His conversion | His debt to Herbert, spiritual and literary | His links with Wordsworth | The re-discovery of Traherne’s poetry and prose-writings | Habington’s Castara | Quarles and emblem poetry | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- III. Writers of the Couplet - By A. HAMILTON THOMPSON, M.A., St. John’s College, Cambridge
- The revolution in English verse | Sir John Beaumont | George Sandys | Edmund Waller | Sir John Denham | Cooper’s Hill | Abraham Cowley | The Mistress | Pindarique Odes | Davideis | Cowley’s influence | Sir William D’Avenant; Gondibert | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- IV. Lesser Caroline Poets - By GEORGE SAINTSBURY, M.A., Merton College, Oxford, LL.D., D.Litt., Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature in the University of Edinburgh
- William Chamberlayne; Pharonnida | “Jo. Chalkhill”; Thealma and Clearchus | Shakerley Marmion; Cupid and Psyche | Sir Francis Kynaston; Leoline and Sydanis | Patrick Hannay; Sheretine and Mariana | William Bosworth or Boxworth; The Chaste and Lost Lovers or Arcadius and Sepha | Nathaniel Whiting; Albino and Bellama | Leonard Lawrence; Arnalte and Lucenda | Henry King | Thomas Stanley | John Hall | Sidney Godolphin | Sir Edward Sherborne | Katherine Philips | Patrick Cary; William Hammond; Robert Heath; Thomas Beedome; Richard Flecknoe; Henry Hawkins; Thomas Flatman; Philip Ayres; Robert Baron | Edward Benlowes | Theophila or Love’s Sacrifice | John Cleiveland | Summary | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- V. Milton - By GEORGE SAINTSBURY, M.A.
- Milton’s life at Cambridge and Horton | His continental tour | His first marriage; Mary Powell | His life during the commonwealth | His second marriage; Catherine Woodcock | His third marriage; Elizabeth Minshull | His later years | His temperament | The growth of his reputation | The early poems | On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity | L’Allegro; Il Penseroso; Arcades; Comus | Lycidas | Sonnets | Paradise Lost | Milton’s “plagiarism” | Paradise Regained | Samson Agonistes | Milton’s prose works | His Latin writings | Milton’s literary form | His versification and style | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- VI. Caroline Divines - By the REV. W. H. HUTTON, B.D., St. John’s College, Oxford
- Augustin Baker; Sancta Sophia | Thomas Traherne; Centuries of Meditations | Puritan literature of the days of Charles I | Richard Baxter | The Saints’ Everlasting Rest | The sermons at Paul’s cross | Henry Hammond | James Ussher | Robert Sanderson | Gilbert Sheldon | William Chillingworth | John Hales | The Ferrars and Little Gidding | Lettice (Morison), lady Falkland | George Herbert | A Priest to the Temple | William Laud | Richard Mountague | Joseph Hall | William Juxon; William Sancroft | Lesser Laudians | John Gauden | Eikon Basilike | Jeremy Taylor | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- VII. John Bunyan. Andrew Marvell - By the REV. JOHN BROWN, D.D.
- John Bunyan | The influence which moulded him | Grace Abounding | Bunyan’s language | The Pilgrim’s Progress | Its influence | The Holy War | The Life and Death of Mr. Badman | Andrew Marvell | His poems, satires and prose works | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- VIII. Historical and Political Writings, I - STATE PAPERS AND LETTERS - By A. W. WARD, Litt.D., F.B.A., Master of Peterhouse
- Rushworth’s Collections | Thurloe’s State Papers | Letters of Henrietta Maria and of Oliver Cromwell | Sir Dudley Digges; The Compleat Ambassador | Sir Henry Wotton | “Intelligencers”; Private letters | The Earl of Strafford’s Letters | The Fairfax Correspondence | The Verney Letters | Correspondence of the Family of Hatton | James Howell’s Epistolae Ho-Elianae | Howell’s other writings | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- IX. Historical and Political Writings, II - HISTORIES AND MEMOIRS - By A. W. WARD, Litt.D., F.B.A.
- Bacon’s Henry the Seventh | Lord Herbert of Cherbury | Edmund Bolton | Sir Edward Walker | William Lilly | Peter Heylyn | Scottish records | Archbishop Spottiswoode | David Calderwood | Irish history | Spenser’s Veue of the Present State of Ireland | Pacata Hibernia | Other works | Clarendon | The History of the Rebellion | Clarendon’s skill in character drawing | Robert Carey’s Memoirs; Sir Robert Naunton’s Fragmata Regalia; John Manningham’s Diary | Sir Kenelm Digby’s Private Memoirs | Nehemiah Wallington | Sir Simonds d’Ewes’s Autobiography and Correspondence | John Rous’s Diary | Edmund Ludlow’s Memoirs | The Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson | The Life of William Cavendish, duke of Newcastle | Bulstrode Whitelocke | Robert Munro | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- X. Antiquaries - SIR THOMAS BROWNE. THOMAS FULLER. IZAAK WALTON. SIR THOMAS URQUHART - By GEORGE SAINTSBURY, M.A.
- Sir Thomas Browne | Religio Medici | Browne’s style and vocabulary | Pseudodoxia Epidemica | Browne’s “scepticism” | Hydriotaphia; The Garden of Cyrus | A Letter to a Friend | Christian Morals | Browne’s letters | Thomas Fuller | His “wit” and style | Izaak Walton | The Compleat Angler | Sir Thomas Urquhart | Summary | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XI. Jacobean and Caroline Criticism - By J. E. SPINGARN, Professor of Comparative Literature, Columbia University, New York
- Bacon | Ben Jonson | Minor forms of criticism | The new theory of translation | Reynolds’s Mythomystes | Milton | The aesthetics of Hobbes | D’Avenant and Cowley | The growth of literary characterisation and “appreciation” | The Elizabethan “roll-call” | Jonson’s literary “portraits” | The commendatory verses | The framework of Boccalini | The final stage in Dryden | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XII. Hobbes and Contemporary Philosophy - By W. R. SORLEY, Litt.D., LL.D., F.B.A., Fellow of King’s College, Knightbridge Professor of Moral Philosophy
- Logical writings | Religious philosophy | Robert Greville, lord Brooke | Culverwel | The Casuists | Selden | Thomas Hobbes; His life and character | Fundamental conception, system of philosophy and controversies | Literary style and method of work | Leviathan | Theory of human nature and of sovereignty | | Filmer | The critics of Hobbes | Joseph Glanvill | Richard Cumberland | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XIII. Scholars and Scholarship, 1600–60 - By FOSTER WATSON, M.A., Professor of Education in the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth
- English scholarship and learning in the seventeenth century | Close relations between English and continental scholars | Influence of French and Dutch scholars | Roman Catholic scholarship | Baronius’s Annales | Isaac Casaubon | The spread of patristic learning in England | Latin and Greek scholarship | Hebrew scholarship | University studies | Biblical culture | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XIV. English Grammar Schools - By J. BASS MULLINGER, M.A., formerly librarian of St. John’s College
- The transition from the scholastic to the humanistic theory of education | Winchester | Eton | Henry Savile | Sedbergh | The Edwardian grammar schools | St. Paul’s school | Westminster | The Merchant Taylor’s school | Harrow | Shrewsbury | Christ’s Hospital | Charterhouse | John Harvard | Oakham and Uppingham | Summary | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XV. The Beginnings of English Journalism - By J. B. WILLIAMS
- Gainsford and the Corantos | Samuel Pecke, patriarch of the Press | Berkenhead, Dillingham, Audley, Nedham, Smith, Rushworth and Border | Walker, the ironmonger, and his literary frauds | Martin Parker, Sheppard, Wharton, Hall, Frost, Harris and Mabbott | John Crouch, Oliver Williams and Canne | Henry Muddiman and The Gazette | Muddiman’s newsletters | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XVI. The Advent of Modern Thought in Popular Literature - THE WITCH CONTROVERSY, PAMPHLETEERS - By HAROLD V. ROUTH, M.A., Peterhouse, Professor of Latin, Trinity College, Toronto
- Demonology in the Middle Ages | Belief in witchcraft | George Gifford’s Dialogues of Witches | King James’s Daemonologie | William Perkin’s Art of Witch craft | Witch-hunting | Astrological treatises | Rosicrucianism | The history of the broadside | The street ballad and other forms of popular literature | Cavalier and Roundhead satires | Social pamphlets | Coffee-houses | Letter writing | Romances of chivalry | The essay | Humanists | John Wagstaffe’s Question of Witchcraft | BIBLIOGRAPHY
THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE
An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes
Volume VIII: English - THE AGE OF DRYDEN
Edited by A. W. Ward & A. R. Waller
Bibliographic Record
CONTENTS: Prefatory Note | Table of Principal Dates
- Chapter I. Dryden - By A. W. WARD, Litt.D., P.B.A., Master of Peterhouse
- Dryden and his Age | His Parentage and Education | Heroick Stanzas on Cromwell | Astraea Redux and other Panegyrics | Annus Mirabilis | Dryden’s Productivity as a Dramatist | Influence of French Tragicomedy and Romance | The Wild Gallant and other Comedies: The Spanish Fryar | The Heroic Couplet in Drama | Dryden and the Heroic Play: The Conquest of Granada | The Satire of The Rehearsal | Essay Of Heroick Plays | Aureng-Zebe | Dryden’s Adaptation of Shakespearean Plays and Themes | The Grounds of Criticism in Tragedy | His Later Plays: Don Sebastian and Cleomenes | Dryden’s Work as a Dramatist | Prologues and Epilogues | Dryden Poet Laureate | The “Rose-alley ambuscade” | Political Satire: Absalom and Achitophel, Part I | The Medal | Mac Flecknoe | Absalom and Achitophel, Part II | Didactic Poetry: Religio Laici | Death of Charles II and Accession of James II: Threnodia Augustalis and Britannia Rediviva | Conversion to the Church of Rome | The Hind and the Panther | Various Later Work in Verse and Prose: Miscellanies | Translations: Fables Ancient and Modern | Preface to the Fables | Odes, Songs and Hymns | Dryden’s Enemies and Younger Literary Friends | His Great Qualities as a Writer of Verse and Prose | His Excellence in Various Literary Species | His Originality that of Treatment | The Eminence of his Genius | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- II. Samuel Butler - By WILLIAM FRANCIS SMITH, M.A., Fellow of St. John’s College
- Ancient and Modern Satire | Influence of Le Roman de la Rose, The Ship of Fools, Erasmus and Rabelais | Butler’s Life before and after the Restoration | Butler in the Employ of Sir Samuel Luke and the Earl of Carbery | Penury of his Later Days | His Learning in Letters and Law | Imitations of his Prose and Verse: The Posthumous Works | Contents of The Genuine Remains: Characters | Hudibras and its Models | Course of Part I | Course of Part II | Difference of Treatment in Part III | The Methods in the Composition of the Work | Metre of Hudibras | Main Purpose of the Satire | Butler’s Gifts and Powers | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- III. Political and Ecclesiastical Satire - By C. W. PREVITÉ-ORTON, M.A., Fellow of St. John’s College
- Causes of the New Development of Satirical Literature on Political Subjects in the Period following the Restoration | Denham and Marvell | The Popish Plot Panic: Oldham | His Satyrs Upon the Jesuits | His Powers and Influence as a Satirist | Lesser Satires of this and the Following Period: Poems on Affairs of State | Advices to a Painter | The Ghost and Last Will Motives | Dialogues | Ballads | Litanies | D’Urfey | Lilliburlero | Prose Satires: The Rehearsal Transpros’d | Satirical Narratives and Dialogues | Low Literary Quality of these Satires as a Whole | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- IV. The Early Quakers - By EDWARD GRUBB, M.A.
- George Fox and the Rise of the Quaker Movement in England | The Purpose of Early Quaker Writings not Literary | George Fox’s Journal | Thomas Ellwood’s History of his Life | Other Quaker Journals and Memoirs | William Penn, and his No Cross No Crown | Isaac and Mary Penington | James Nayler | Early Attacks upon the Quakers, and their Replies | Samuel Fisher | Barclay’s Apology | More purely Literary Efforts: Penn’s Some Fruits of Solitude | Ellwood’s Collection of Poems on Various Subjects | Mary Mollineux’s Fruits of Retirement | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- V. The Restoration Drama, I - By Professor FELIX E. SCHELLING, University of Pennsylvania
- Players and Plays after the Closing of the Theatres | Drolls | Relaxation of the Laws against Dramatic Entertainments towards the Close of Oliver Cromwell’s Protectorate; Sir William D’Avenant’s Entertainments: The Siege of Rhodes | Dramatic Companies Formed immediately before the Restoration | The King’s and the Duke of York’s Companies “Created” after it | Thomas Killigrew’s and Sir William D’Avenant’s Later Plays | Old Masterpieces Revived | Comedies reflecting the Political Reaction: The Rump and Cutter of Coleman Street | Tatham | John Wilson | Stapylton | The Duke of Newcastle | Early Spanish Influences in English Drama | Spanish Personages in English Plays | The Indebtedness of Beaumont and Fletcher, and of other Dramatists, before and after the Restoration, to Spanish Novels, and to Spanish Plays, Examined and Summarised | Influence of French Literature on the Restoration Drama | Molière and Restoration Comedy | Influence of French Opera | Etherege and his Place in the History of Restoration Drama | Sir Charles Sedley | Lacy | Aphra Behn | Wycherley | The Plain Dealer | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- VI. The Restoration Drama, II. - CONGREVE, VANBRUGH, FARQUHAR, ETC. - By CHARLES WHIBLEY, Jesus College
- Congreve | The Old Bachelor | The Double-Dealer | Love for Love | The Mourning Bride | The Way of the World | Congreve and the Comedy of Manners | His Comic Art | His Diction | His Friends and Way of Life | Vanbrugh’s Life and Character | The Relapse | The Provok’d Wife | The Confederacy | Earlier Attacks in this Period on the Stage: Rymer’s Short View of Tragedy | Jeremy Collier’s Short View | Its Invective and its Fallacies | Replies to Collier by Vanbrugh, Farquhar, Dryden, D’Urfey and Dennis | Farquhar as a Comic Dramatist | Love and a Bottle; The Constant Couple; The Recruiting Officer; the Beaux’ Stratagem | Shadwell | D’Urfey | Colley Cibber’s Earlier Plays | His Apology for his Life | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- VII. The Restoration Drama, III. - TRAGIC POETS - By A. T. BARTHOLOMEW, M. A., Peterhouse, and of the University Library
- Characteristics of Lesser Restoration Tragedy | Public Interest in Acting | The Operatic Element | The Heroic Play | French Influence on Restoration Tragedy | Translations of Corneille | Influence of Racine | Revived Influence of Earlier English Work | Otway and his Career as a Dramatist | The Orphan and Venice Preserv’d | Their Enduring Popularity | Nathaniel Lee | Characteristics of his Plays | The Rival Queens | Crowne | Sir Courtly Nice | His Tragedies | Southerne | The Fatal Marriage and Oroonoko | Settle | Dennis | Banks | Hughes | Lansdowne | Ravenscroft | Nicholas Rowe as a Link between the Later Restoration Drama and that of the Augustan Age | The Fair Penitent | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- VIII. The Court Poets - By CHARLES WHIBLEY
- The Lives and Writings of the Court Poets as a Protest against the Puritan Domination | The Circle of Whitehall | The Pranks of the Wits | The Court Poets as Men of Action: Rochester, Buckhurst and Mulgrave | The Mark of the Amateur on their Writings | Dryden’s Flattery of them | Rochester’s Life and Character | His Quarrel with Mulgrave and Dryden | Rochester as a Satirist: The Satire against Mankind | Sir Charles Sedley | His Songs | Buckhurst: To all you Ladies now at Land | Mulgrave’s Essay upon Poetry | Roscommon’s Essay on Translated Verse | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- IX. The Prosody of the Seventeenth Century - By GEORGE SAINTSBURY, M.A., F.B.A., LL.D., D.Litt., Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature in the University of Edinburgh
- The Spenserian Era of English Versification | Loss of Elasticity and Diversity | Variations of the Iambic Line | Insufficient Understanding as to Equivalence in Feet | Decline of Blank Verse; the Redundant Syllable and other Means of Varying the Measure | “The Battle of the Couplets”: Waller and Cowley | Miscellaneous Metric: Jonson and Others | Milton’s Metrical Development | The Anapaest as the Chief Base-foot of Metre | The Octosyllabic Couplet | The “Pindaric” of Cowley and his Followers | Dryden and the Heroic Couplet | Perceptive Prosody: Jonson and Dryden | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- X. Memoir and Letter Writers - By HENRY B. WHEATLEY, F.S.A.
- OTHER WRITERS OF MEMOIRS AND LETTERS
- Anthony Hamilton’s Mémoires de la Vie du Comte de Gramont | Question of the trustworthiness of these Memoirs | The writer and his work | Memoirs of Sir John Reresby
- By A. W. WARD, Litt.D.
- Letters and Memoirs of Sir Richard Bulstrode | Diary of Henry Sidney (Earl of Romney) | Diary of Lady Warwick | Her Occasional Meditations | Memoirs of Lady Fanshawe | Letters of Rachel Lady Russell | Memoirs of Queen Mary II | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XI. Platonists and Latitudinarians - By J. BASS MULLINGER, M.A., formerly librarian of St. John’s College
- Distinction between the Cambridge Platonists and the Latitudinarians | Benjamin Whichcote | His Position as Defined by Himself | His Aphorisms and Sermons | Whichcote not a Platonist | Henry More | His Life and Habits | Cudworth and his Treatise concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality | More’s Song of the Soul | Joseph Beaumont’s Psyche | More’s Immortality of the Soul, Grand Mystery of Godliness and Mystery of Iniquity | His Divine Dialogues | Cudworth’s True Intellectual Systems of the Universe; More and Cudworth Compared | John Smith’s Select Discourses | John Smith and Henry More Contrasted | Culverwel’s Light of Nature | George Rust (Bishop of Dromore) | Glanvill’s Lux Orientalis | His Controversy with Henry Stubbs | Richard Cumberland (Bishop of Peterborough) and other Contributors to the Latitudinarian Movement | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XII. Divines of the Church of England - 1660–1700 - By the Ven. W. H. HUTTON, B.D., Archdeacon of Northampton, Canon of Peterborough and Fellow of St. John’s College, Oxford
- Old and New Influences on the Style of the English Pulpit in the Period Following the Restoration | Gradual Transition | Herbert Thorndike, John Cosin and George Morley | Isaac Barrow: his Sermons and his Treatise On the Pope’s Supremacy | Pearson’s Exposition of the Creed | John Wilkins as a Link with the Later Generation | Robert Leighton and his Preaching | Burnet as a Theologian | His Exposition of the Thirty-Nine Articles and Pastoral Care | Stillingfleet and Patrick | Fashionable Preachers of the Age | Extempore Preaching begins to be Popular | Tillotson | South and the Controversial Style | Sherlock | Samuel Parker’s Discourse of Ecclesiastical Polity | Henry Compton’s Episcopalia | George Bull | Sancroft’s Fur Praedestinatus | Henry Wharton | Non-jurors: Ken, Kettlewell, Dodwell and Hickes | Robert Nelson’s Companion for the Festivals and Fasts | Influence of Foreign, and especially of French, Culture upon English Divines | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XIII. Legal Literature - By F. J. C. HEARNSHAW, M.A., LL.D., formerly scholar of Peterhouse, Professor of Modern History in Armstrong College, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, University of Durham
- The Beginnings of English Legal Literature | The Laws of Ethelbert of Kent and other Early Kings | The Era of the Capitularies | Complications Introduced by the Norman Conquest | English Common Law in the Twelfth Century | New Type of Legal Writings: Tractatus de Legibus et Consuetudinibus R. Angliae, called by the Name of Ranulf de Glanvil | Bracton’s Treatise Bearing the Same Title | Fleta and Britton | The Year Books and their Value | Fortescue’s De Laudibus Legum Angliae and Littleton’s Tenures | Early Printed Law Books | Law Reports | Equity and Common Law: Bacon and Cowell; Coke | Selden and his Legal Works | English as the Language of the Law | Sir Matthew Hale | Revival of the Common Law, and of the Use of Latin and French | Sir William Dugdale and William Prynne | Hobbes and the Advent of a New Era
- SELDEN’S Table-Talk - By A. W. WARD, Litt.D.
- Predecessors of Selden’s Table-Talk | Authenticity of the Book | Scanty References to Personal Experiences | Chief Political and Religious Topics | Selden’s Wit and Wisdom | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XIV. John Locke - By W. R. SORLEY, Litt.D., F.B.A., Fellow of King’s College, Knightbridge Professor of Moral Philosophy
- Locke the Most Important Figure in English Philosophy | His Personal and Literary Life | Controversy with Stillingfleet | The “New Way of Ideas” Opened by Locke | Plan of An Essay concerning Human Understanding | Locke’s Doctrine of Knowledge | Its Nature and Extent | “The Twilight of Probability.” Two Treatises of Government | Economic Writings | Economists Contemporary with Locke: Sir William Petty | Letters concerning Toleration | Earlier Pleas | Locke’s Views on Church and State | Thoughts concerning Education; Locke’s Theory | His Critics and Followers | Richard Burthogge | John Norris and his Ideal World | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XV. The Progress of Science - By A. E. SHIPLEY, Sc.D., F.R.S., Master of Christ’s College
- Lateness of the Scientific Reawakening | Outburst of Scientific Enquiry in the Seventeenth Century and its Causes | The Heritage of Bacon | Milton and Scientific Enquiry | Lord Herbert of Cherbury | His Knowledge of Medicine and Allied Subjects | Witches, Astrologers and Alchemists | Intelligence of the Stewarts in Matters Scientific: Charles II and Prince Rupert | The Marquis of Worcester | Sir Kenelm Digby | Mathematics: John Wallis and Seth Ward; Newton | Harvey and the Circulation of the Blood | Other Great Physiologists and Physicians: Sir Theodore de Mayerne; John Mayow; Thomas Sydenham; Francis Glisson | Robert Boyle | Origin and Beginnings of the Royal Society | Contemporary Poets and Scientific Research: Cowley, Donne, Butler | Political Economists of the Seventeenth Century: Sir William Petty and Locke | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XVI. The Essay and the Beginning of Modern English Prose - By A. A. TILLEY, M.A., Fellow of King’s College
- The New Prose and its Causes | Interest in Science and Demand for Clearness of Style | Growing Plainness and Simplicity of Pulpit Oratory | The Style of Dryden and its Conversational Character | Early Beginnings of French Influence on English Literature; its Increase under Charles I; English Exiles in France: D’Avenant, Cowley and Others | French Influence through Translations; Heroic Romances | Urquhart’s Rabelais; Pascal; Descartes; Corneille, Racine and Molière | Boileau | Influence of French Criticism: Chapelain, Le Bossu and Dacier | Evidence of Dryden, Rapin and Rymer | Saint-Evremond and the Renewal of the Popularity of Montaigne in England | Francis Osborne | Cowley’s Essays | Sir William Temple, Dorothy Osborne and Lady Giffard | Temple’s Letters and Memoirs | His Miscellaneous Works: Essays | Influence of Montaigne | Halifax’s Miscellanies: The Character of a Trimmer; A Letter to a Dissenter | Clarendon’s Essays | Dryden’s Influence on English Style; the Preface to the Fables | BIBLIOGRAPHY
THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE
An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes
Volume IX: English - FROM STEELE AND ADDISON TO POPE AND SWIFT
Edited by A. W. Ward & A. R. Waller
Bibliographic Record
CONTENTS: Preface | Table of Principal Dates
- Chapter I. Defoe—The Newspaper and the Novel - By W. P. TRENT, LL.D., D.C.L., Professor of English Literature in Columbia University, New York
- Beginnings of the English Newspaper | The Oxford, afterwards The London, Gazette | Roger L’Estrange | His activity as a pamphleteer before and after the Restoration | The Observator | L’Estrange’s late troubles and literary work | Henry Care | John Dunton | The Flying Post and The Post Boy | John Tutchin | Defoe’s early and business life | An Essay upon Projects | The True-Born Englishman | The Shortest Way with the Dissenters | Defoe in the pillory | The Review | Defoe and Harley | Mercator and commercial pamphlets | The Secret History of the White Staff and An Appeal to Honour and Justice | Discreditable later tracts | Defoe’s evolution as a Novelist | Robinson Crusoe and its sequel | Miscellaneous later writings: Life and Adventures of Mr. Duncan Campbell, A Journal of the Plague Year, Captain Singleton, Moll Flanders, Colonel Jacque, Roxana, Memoirs of Captain George Carleton, The Complete English Tradesman | Defoe’s last years | His posthumous reputation | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- II. Steele and Addison - By HAROLD ROUTH, M.A., Peterhouse, Lecturer in English Literature in the Goldsmith’s College, University of London
- The New Civilisation in England and London | Steele’s Christian Hero | His Comedies | Influence of the Coffeehouses | Literature and Clubland | Beginnings of The Tattler | The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff | The Tatler on Middle-class Life and Women | The “Short Story” in germ | Varied topics | Collaboration of Addison | His early Classical Training | The Campaign | Character of his contributions to The Tatler | His style as an Essay-writer | The Spectator and its Character-types | The Coverly Group | The Spectator and The Tatler compared | The Spectator’s Correspondence | Its Literary Criticism: Addison on Paradise Lost, and On the Pleasures of the Imagination | Addison on Religion | Cato | The Guardian; Steele’s last Comedy | Steele, Addison and the Essay | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- III. Pope - By EDWARD BENSLY, M.A., Trinity College, Professor of Latin, University College of Wales, Aberstwyth
- Pope’s Literary Consciousness, and his attitude towards Contemporary Literature | His early Life and Studies | His literary beginnings | Pastorals | Windsor Forest | An Essay on Criticism | The Rape of the Lock | Eliosa to Abelard and Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady | Epistles | Pope’s Workmanship and Style | His Homer | His edition of Shakespeare | Pope’s literary success and quarrels | The Dunciad | Influence of Bolingbroke | Moral Essays | An Essay on Man | Imitations of Horace | Other Satires | The new Dunciad and Colley Cibber | Influence of Warburton | Pope’s Genius and Influence upon Literature | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- IV. Swift - By GEORGE ATHERTON AITKEN, M.V.O.
- Swift’s parentage and descent | Residences with Sir William Temple | Esther Johnson (Stella) | The Phalaris Controversy | Swift Vicar of Laracor | Swift in London; Association with Addison and the Whigs | Intimacy with Harley and St. John | Swift and The Examiner; The Conduct of the Allies and Some Remarks on the Barrier Treaty | The Brothers’ Club | Swift retires to Dublin | Stella and Vanessa | Irish Politics | Swift’s Irish popularity | His despondency and death | His chief Satires: A Tale of a Tub; The Battle of the Books; Gulliver’s Travels | Inception, contributory sources and original features of Gulliver | Genteel Conversation, Directions to Servants, Argument against abolishing Christianity, and other Pamphlets | Swift’s Religious and Political Writings | Pamphlets on Irish affairs: Drapier’s Letters | Swift’s Verse | Baucis and Philemon; The Grand Question Debated; Cadenus and Vanessa; Later savage Satirical Verse: The Legion Club | Swift On the Death of Dr. Swift | The Journal to Stella | Character of Swift’s life and work | Swift a Master of Style and of Satire | What he lacks | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- V. Arbuthnot and Lesser Prose Writers - By G. A. AITKEN, M.V.O.
- Arbuthnot’s early life and scientific work | His association with Harley and the Court of Queen Anne | His Tory pamphlets: The History of John Bull series; The Art of Political Lying | Arbuthnot, the Tory Wits, and The Memoirs of Scriblerus | His pamphlets after the crisis | William King | Literary criticism of the age: Rymer; Langbaine; Gildon | John Dennis | Colley Cibber’s Apology | Hughes; Rowe; Edwards; Heath; Upton; Zachary Grey | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- VI. Lesser Verse Writers, I - By THOMAS SECCOMBE, M.A., Balliol College, Oxford
- Prior’s personal and literary beginnings | The Country and the City Mouse | His early official Life and Verse: Carmen Seculare | Prior under Queen Anne | His last years | His lyrical verse: Henry and Emma | Alma and Solomon | His light Satirical Verse and its excellence | His Versification | His productions in Prose: Essays, and Dialogues of the Dead | John Gay and his early literary efforts; Rural Sports; The Shepherd’s Week; The What D’ ye Call it; Trivia; Gay and the Queensberrys | The Beggar’s Opera and Polly | Gay’s love of ease; His Friends | Ambrose Philips and his Pastorals; His “Namby-Pamby” poems | Thomas Parnell | His Homeric Scholarship; The Hermit | Lady Winchilsea | John Pomfret | Thomas Tickell | His attachment to Addison
- Lesser Verse Writers, II - By GEORGE SAINTSBURY, LL.D., D.Litt., F.B.A., Merton College, Oxford, Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature in the University of Edinburgh
- Minor Versifiers of the Age | Younger Contemporaries of Dryden: George Granville (Lord Lansdowne); William Walsh | Duke, Stepney Yalden and William King | Older contemporaries of Pope: Isaac Watts and his “Hymns.” Sir Samuel Garth | The Dispensary: Significance of its Versification and Diction | Sir Richard Blackmore: Creation | The Spectator Group: John Philips; Broome and Fenton; Edmund (“Rag”) Smith; Hughes | Henry Brooke’s poetry | David Mallet | Richard Savage | Stephen Duck; Aaron Hill | Other Lesser Verse Writers of the Age | Robert Dodsley and his Collection | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- VII. Historical and Political Writers, I - BURNET - By A. W. WARD, Litt.D., P.B.A., Master of Peterhouse
- Burnet’s Historical and Political Writings during his residence in Scotland | Thoughts on Education | Memoires of the Hamiltons | Burnet in London | The History of the Reformation of the Church of England | Attacks upon it and Replies | The Life and Death of Sir Matthew Hale | Burnet in Exile | Beginnings of Memoirs; and various Political Pamphlets | A Memorial for the Electress Sophia | The History of My Own Time and its genesis | Characteristics of the Work | Its pervading Purpose | Historians Contemporary with Burnet: Strype | Jeremy Collier | His Ecclesiastical History of Great Britain | Neal’s History of the Puritans | Letters to Sir Joseph Williamson | Memoirs of James II | Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun; His Political Career and Discourses | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- VIII. Historical and Political Writers, II - BOLINGBROKE - By A. W. WARD, Litt. D., P.B.A.
- Henry St. John’s Earlier Life and Letters | His Contributions to The Examiner | A Letter to Sir William Wyndham | Bolingbroke in France | His political activity after his return home | The Craftsman and its Contributors | Bolingbroke’s Remarks upon the History of England | Dissertation upon Parties | Letters on the Study and Use of History | Letter on the Spirit of Patriotism | Idea of a Patriot King | His last Political Pamphlets | Qualities of his Style | Historical and Political Writers contemporary with Bolingbroke: White Kennett; Echard; Rapin; Lediard; Tindal; Boyer; Oldmixon | Roger North’s Lives of the Norths | Merits of these Biographies | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- IX. Memoir-Writers, 1715–60 - By THOMAS SECCOMBE, M.A.
- English Society under the First Two Georges | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu; The Story of her Life | Her Turkish Letters | Her other writings in Verse and Prose | Lady Cowper’s Diary; Correspondence of Lady Suffolk | Lord Hervey and Lady Mary | His Political Career | His Memoirs and their Character | Memoirs of Lord Waldegrave and Melcombe (George Bubb Dodington) | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- X. Writers of Burlesque and Translators - By CHARLES WHIBLEY, M.A., Hon. Fellow of Jesus College
- The Underworld of Letters and its Vagabond Inhabitants | Their love of Burlesque and Indebtedness to Scarron | His Imitators in France and in England | Charles Cotton’s, Monsey’s and John Phillips’s Travesties of Vergil, Scudamore’s of Homer and Alexander Radcliffe’s of Ovid | Hudibras and Hudibrastic Verse | Ned Ward’s Hudibras Redivivus, Vulgus Britannicus and London Spy | Tom Brown’s Amusements for the Meridian of London | The New Art of Translation | Versions of Petronius | John Phillips’s Literary Career | His Don Quixote | Motteux and his Translation of Rabelais | Roger L’Estrange as a Translator | His Selection of Originals | His Aesop | Charles Cotton and his Montaigne | John Stevens and his Services to English knowledge of Spanish Literature | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XI. Berkeley and Contemporary Philosophy - By W. R. SORLEY, Litt.D., F.B.A., Fellow of King’s College, Knightbridge Professor of Moral Philosophy
- English Thought in the Period after the Death of Locke | METAPHYSICIANS | Berkeley’s Life and Authorship before and after his sojourn in America | Alciphron, or the Minute Philosopher; Essay towards a New Theory of Vision | The Merits of the Essay as a work of Psychological Analysis | Treatise concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge | Berkeley’s Idealism | His place in the History of Thought | His Common-place Book | Arthur Collier
- DEISTS
- The Deistical Controversy in English Theology; Charles Blount; Charles Leslie as Champion of Orthodoxy | Toland’s Christianity not Mysterious; His Literary Career and Philosophical Development: Letters to Serena; Pantheisticon | Anthony Collins’s Discourse of Free-thinking | Tindal’s Christianity as Old as the Creation | Other Deistical Writers: Woolston; Chubb; Morgan; Henry Dodwell the younger | Influence of Deism; Bolingbroke; Whiston’s Primitive Christianity Revived | Opponents of the Deists: William Warburton
- MORALISTS
- Samuel Clarke and Rational Ethics | Shaftesbury; his Characteristics of Men and Manners | Hutcheson | Mandeville’s Fable of the Bees | Bishop Butler’s Fifteen Sermons and Analogy; Exhaustiveness of Butler’s Reasonings | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XII. William Law and the Mystics - By CAROLINE F. E. SPURGEON, Dr. of the University of Paris, Fellow of King’s College for Women and Lecturer in English Literature at Bedford College, University of London
- Undercurrent of Mystical Thought in England in the Earlier Half of the Eighteenth Century | Mysticism in the Seventeenth Century; “Children of Light” in Holland | The “Behmenites” and the Founders of the Society of Friends | Life and Writings of William Law | Law’s Controversial Writings against Hoadly, Mandeville and Tindal | Christian Perfection and A Serious Call | Influence of Malebranche, the earlier German Mystics and the Seventeenth Century Quietists upon Law | Jacob Boehme and the Essence of his Mysticism | Boehme and Law | An Appeal to all who Doubt and The Way to Divine Knowledge | Character of Law’s Prose: Law and Mandeville; The Spirit of Prayer; A Serious Call | Law’s Followers: John Byrom; Henry Brooke | Later influence of Boehme on English Thought | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XIII. Scholars and Antiquaries - I. BENTLEY AND CLASSICAL SCHOLARSHIP - By JAMES DUFF DUFF, M.A., Fellow and Lecturer in Classics of Trinity College
- Learning in England at the Time of Bentley’s Birth: Pearson; Fell; William Lloyd; Henry Dodwell; John Moore | Bentley’s Earlier Life and Labours | Epistola ad Millium | His Lectures against Atheism | The Phalaris Controversy: Bentley and his Adversaries | Bentley Master of Trinity; The Troubles of his Mastership | His Reforms at Cambridge | Phileleutherus Lipsiensis | Bentley’s Horace | Remarks upon a late Discourse of Free-Thinking | Editions of Terence and Manilius | Bentley and Paradise Lost | His Death | Joseph Wasse; Conyers Middleton; Jeremiah Markland; John Taylor; Richard Dawes
- II. ANTIQUARIES - By H. G. ALDIS, M.A., Peterhouse; Secretary of the University Library
- Oxford and the Bodleian | Dugdale and Dodsworth; The Antiquities of Warwickshire and Monasticon Anglicanum | Dugdale’s Other Labours | Anthony Wood and Athenae Oxonienses | Thomas Hearne | John Tanner | John Aubrey | Local History and Topography: Burton; Plot; Stukeley; Gordon | Chamberlayne’s Angliae Notitia and its Sequel | Gibson’s Edition of Camden’s Britannia | Ashmole and other County Antiquaries | Baker’s collections: his History of St. John’s College, Cambridge | Writers on Monastic and Cathedral Antiquities | Old English Studies: Sir Henry Spelman | Diplomatic: Thomas Madox; Heraldry; Ames’s Typographical Antiquities | The Cottonian and the Harleian Libraries | Osborne and Oldys | Revival of the Society of Antiquaries | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XIV. Scottish Popular Poetry before Burns - By T. F. HENDERSON
- The long Blight on Scottish Secular Verse; Exceptional popularity of Lyndsay | Survival of Songs in the Puritan Period | Peculiarity of the relation between English and Scottish Song in the Seventeenth Century | Ane Compendious Booke of Godly and Spirituall Songs | Original Scots Songs in The Tea-Table Miscellany: Lady Grizel Baillie, lady Wardlaw and William Hamilton of Gilbertfield | Robert Sempill and The Life and Death of Habbie Simson | Watson’s Choice Collection | Allan Ramsay | His earlier productions and The Gentle Shepherd | Difficulty of estimating his Originality; His treatment of the Old Songs; The Tea-Table Miscellany and The Evergreen | Alexander Pennecuick | Robert Crawford | William Hamilton of Bangour | Sir John Clerk and George Halkett | Alexander Ross | Alexander Geddes | Douglas Graham | Mrs. Cockburn; Jane and Sir Gilbert Elliot | Anonymous Songs | Songs from David Herd’s Manuscript and other Collections | Jacobite Songs in Hogg’s Jacobite Relics of Scotland; Hogg’s editorial methods | Literary value of the Jacobite Songs | Robert Fergusson: his personality and poetic qualities | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XV. Education - By J. W. ADAMSON, Fellow of King’s College, London, and Professor of Education in the University of London
- The Seventeenth Century Curriculum | Henry Wotton’s Essay on the Education of Children | Proposed supersession of Oxford and Cambridge under the Commonwealth: Milton; Harrington; Hobbes | Seth Ward’s Vindiciae Academiarum | The Long Parliament and Education | Projected Reforms of Schools | Influence of John Amos Comenius | Hartlib, Petty and Dury | Educational Projects after the Restoration: Cowley’s Proposition | The Ancients v. Moderns Controversy: Temple and Bentley | Dissenting Academies: Secker’s Experience | Courtly and Private Education: Comments of Clarendon, Peacham, Francis Osborne and others | Cavils of Swift and Defoe | Locke’s Thoughts on Education and Essay concerning Human Understanding | Influence of the Essay on subsequent Educational Theory | Education of Girls: Swift, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and others | Elementary Education | Private Schools | Charity Schools: Mandeville | The Public Schools: Eton and Westminster | Subjects of Teaching | The Universities | Examinations at Cambridge | The Oxford Tutorial System | Foundation of the Royal Society | Bentley’s Range of Studies | Extension of University Learning | New Chairs at Cambridge | Gibbon’s Charges against the Oxford System; Difficulties in the way of Reform | BIBLIOGRAPHY
THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE
An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes
Volume X: English - THE AGE OF JOHNSON
Edited by A. W. Ward & A. R. Waller
Bibliographic Record
CONTENTS: Prefatory Note | Table of Principal Dates
- Chapter I. Richardson - By L. CAZAMIAN, Maître de Conférences at the Sorbonne, Paris
- Antecedents of the change introduced by Richardson into the history of the English Novel | Richardson’s life before 1741 | Pamela: its qualities and extraordinary success | Continuation, Stage adaptation and Parody; Fielding and Richardson | Clarissa: its unique place among its author’s works; its Sentimentalism | Sir Charles Grandison: its shortcomings and its psychological value | Richardson’s later years and death | Decline of his popularity; Limitations of his art | His momentous influence upon English and European Literature | His literary descendants | His influence upon French Literature and national sentiment: Prévost, Voltaire, Diderot; Richardson and Rousseau | His influence in Germany: Gellert, Wieland, Klopstock and Goethe; Dutch and Italian reproductions | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- II. Fielding and Smollett - By HAROLD CHILD, sometime Scholar of Brasenose College, Oxford
- Fielding and Smollett compared | Fielding’s descent and earlier life | His first and subsequent Plays | His Farces and cognate Dramatic Pieces | His marriage | Pasquin and The Historical Register; Journalistic work: The Champion | Joseph Andrews and Pamela; The character of Parson Adams | Fielding and Cervantes | Miscellanies | Jonathan Wild | Political Journalism: The True Patriot and The Jacobite’s Journal | Magisterial work and humane efforts | Tom Jones | The morality and the realism of the book: the author’s openness of soul | Further pamphlets on social reform | Amelia: its distinctive charm | The Covent Garden Journal | Fielding seriously ill | His journey to Lisbon, and his posthumous account of it; His death | Smollett’s parentage and early training as a surgeon; His arrival in London, with The Regicide in his pocket; His stay in the West Indies; Satirical and other verse | Roderick Random and the Picaresque Novel | Ferdinand Count Fathom | The Critical Review; Historical and Miscellaneous work | Sir Launcelot Greaves | Travels through France and Italy | Humphrey Clinker; Smollett’s last journey and death | Final comparison between the literary achievements and influence of Fielding and Smollett | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- III. Sterne, and the Novel of His Times - By C. E. VAUGHAN, M.A., Balliol College, Oxford, Professor of English Literature in the University of Leeds
- New elements in the English Novel of the period from 1760 to 1780: Personality, Emotion and Sentiment | Pre-eminence of Sterne | His life | Tristram Shandy and its success; Fiction as the vehicle of the Novelist’s idiosyncrasy | Sterne as the Liberator of the Novel; His Humour the groundwork of his Characters | Tristram Shandy and Don Quixote | Sterne’s artificiality and pruriency | Nature of his Sentimentalism | Henry Mackenzie: The Man of Feeling; The Man of the World; Julia de Roubigné | Henry Brooke: The Fool of Quality | Horace Walpole’s Castle of Otranto and Clara Reeve’s Old English Baron | Fanny Burney as a Novelist: Evelina; Cecilia; Camilla; The Wanderer | Spontaneity a leading characteristic of these Novels; Proof of this in the Diary of Mme. d’Arblay | Her best qualities as surviving in her later stories | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- IV. The Drama and the Stage - By GEORGE HENRY NETTLETON, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of English in Yale University
- Significance of the term “The Eighteenth Century English Drama”; Queen Anne’s reign a period of transition in English Dramatic History; Cibber, Steele and Rowe | Sentimental Comedy in England and on the Continent | French Classical and Native influences upon English Eighteenth Century Drama | New developments: Pantomime and Ballad Opera: John Rich | The Beggar’s Opera | Mrs. Centlivre | Young, Hughes and Thomson | Lillo and Prose Domestic Tragedy: George Barnwell | Lillo’s Morality | Fatal Curiosity | Other works by Lillo | His influence upon French and German Dramatic Literature; Diderot and Lessing | Edward Moore’s Gamester | Voltaire and the English Drama | English versions of his Plays; Voltaire and Shakespeare | Fielding and Burlesque | Stage Political Satire and the Licensing Act of 1737 | The Novel and the Theatre | Garrick and Shakespeare | Other Plays of the Garrick Era; Whitehead | Home’s Douglas | Foote’s Comic Mimicry; His Farces | Murphy and Bickerstaff | George Colman the Elder: The Jealous Wife and The Clandestine Marriage | Kelly | The Reaction against Sentimental Comedy | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- V. Thomson and Natural Description in Poetry - By A. HAMILTON THOMPSON, M.A., F.S.A., St. John’s College
- Relations of Thomson’s Poetry to the tendencies of the age; His life and literary career | The Seasons | Influence of Milton | Thomson’s interest in Nature | Nature pictures in The Seasons, and the Human Element in these pictures | Thomson’s objective attitude towards Nature | His frequent vagueness of Description, and striking Incidental Digressions | Patriotic Reflections: Britannia and Liberty | The Castle of Indolence, its points of contact with Spenser, and the commonplace character of its Allegory | Thomson’s Dramatic Work, from Sophonisba to Coriolanus | Influence of Thomson on the younger generation of poets | Somervile’s Chace and other Poems | Jago’s Edge-Hill | Lyttelton’s Dialogues of the Dead and other Writings | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- VI. Gray - By the late Rev. DUNCAN C. TOVEY, M.A., Trinity College
- Gray’s family and life | His friends at Eton and Cambridge; His vacations at Burnham | His continental tour with Horace Walpole | Their quarrel | Gray’s return and Correspondence with West; The Agrippina Fragment | Lyrics written at Stoke | Gray again in residence at Peterhouse | Reconciliation with Walpole | An Elegy in a Country Churchyard | Characteristics of the Elegy | The Progress of Poesy; Vicissitude and The Bard | Studies from the Norse | Gray quits Peterhouse for Pembroke | Researches in the British Museum and tour in Yorkshire and Derbyshire; Gray appointed Professor of Modern History | The Installation Ode | Visit to the Lake country | Gray and Bonstetten | Gray’s death | His Letters, their value and their charm | Friendship with Mason: projected joint History of English Poetry | Concluding summary | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- VII. Young, Collins and Lesser Poets of the Age of Johnson - By GEORGE SAINTSBURY, M.A., LL.D., D.Litt., F.B.A., Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature in the University of Edinburgh
- Reasons of the relative familiarity of readers with this group of English Verse-writers | Young’s life and literary career | Night Thoughts and its long-enduring popularity | His other Writings: The Complaint | Collins’s Odes and Eclogues | Contrast between his individual inspiration and the influences of his age | How Sleep the Brave and The Ode to Evening | Dyer’s Grongar Hill | Matthew Green | Blair’s Grave | Conscious or half-conscious Burlesque Verse; John Armstrong; His Art of Preserving Health | Glover’s Ballad Admiral Hosier’s Ghost; Mannerisms in his Blank Verse | Shenstone’s Poetical Works and their characteristics | His Schoolmistress and Miscellaneous Poems | Attractiveness and shortcomings of his Verse | Akenside’s Pleasures of Imagination | Smart’s A Song to David | Beattie’s Minstrel | His treatment of the Spenserian Stanza | Falconer’s Shipwreck | Concluding remarks | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- VIII. Johnson and Boswell - By DAVID NICHOL SMITH, M.A., Goldsmiths’ Reader in English, University of Oxford
- Boswell’s Johnson the Johnson familiarly known to us; His personality and his Works | Johnson’s early life: Lichfield, Oxford and Birmingham | His first writings and his Translation of A Voyage to Abyssinia | Foreshadowings of Johnson’s style | His school at Edial and migration to London | Irene and its subsequent production on the Stage | His work on The Gentleman’s Magazine his real start as a man of letters | Reports of Debates in Parliament | Other Contributions to the Magazine | The Life of Savage | Greater Schemes | Johnson’s Earlier Verse | London and The Vanity of Human Wishes | The Rambler and the Revival of the Periodical Essay | Openly didactic purpose of The Rambler; success of the Collected Edition | A Dictionary of the English Language; new features of its design; distinctive merits of the work: the Definitions | Lesser work | Dedications | Journalistic projects and labours | The Idler | Rasselas and its lesson | Johnson’s Edition of Shakespeare: value of its Text and Notes | Political Pamphlets | A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland | The Lives of the Poets: their original plan and distinctive features | Equipoise of biography and criticism | Influence of personal feeling | Johnson’s last years and death | His literary growth, and advance in ease of style | The weight of his words carried by the strength of his thought | Ill success of his Parodists | Effect of Johnson’s death; Mrs. Piozzi’s Anecdotes and Sir John Hawkins’s Life | Boswell’s earlier experiences and Writings | An Account of Corsica; His later life and labours; His death, and his posthumously published Letters | His Life of Johnson, with the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, his enduring title to fame | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- IX. Oliver Goldsmith - By HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON, LL.D.
- Goldsmith’s early life and the uncertainties surrounding it | Childhood at Lissoy and schooldays at Elphin | The Old House, a New Inn | College life at Trinity, Dublin | Goldsmith, B.A | Wanderings at home and abroad | Sojourn at Leyden | Medical and literary efforts in London: the parting of the ways | Contributions to The Monthly Review | Translation of Marteilhe’s Memoirs | An Enquiry into the Present State of Polite Learning in Europe and its Reception | The Bee, and its Verse and Prose | Contributions to The British Magazine and The Public Ledger, the Chinese Letters (reprinted as The Citizen of the World) | Goldsmith in Wine Office Court; his friendship with Johnson | The History of England in Letters | The Traveller and its success | The Vicar of Wakefield: the History of the Book | More Compilation | The Good-Natur’d Man | The Temple and Islington | The Deserted Village | The Haunch of Venison | She Stoops to Conquer | Closing years and death | Goldsmith’s personality and literary genius | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- X. The Literary Influence of the Middle Ages - MACPHERSON’S OSSIAN. CHATTERTON. PERCY AND THE WARTONS. - By W. P. KER, M.A., F.B.A., Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, Professor of English Literature, University College, London
- Limited Influence of the Middle Ages upon Modern Literature | Influence of Architecture | The Literary Gothic Terror or Wonder | Dryden’s, Pope’s and Addison’s estimates of Medieval Poetic masterpieces | Temple and The Death-Song of Ragnar | Northern Studies: Hickes’s Thesaurus | Percy’s Five Runic Pieces | Translations from the Icelandic: Gray | The Movement in favour of Ballads and Border Songs | Ossian and Macpherson | Literary career of Macpherson | Gaelic Elements in Fingal and Temora | Macpherson’s Literary Talent | Percy’s Reliques | Their direct influence upon Modern Poetry | Chatterton and his indebtedness to Spenser | The Rowley Imposture | The Wartons | Thomas Warton the Younger and his Poems | His History of English Poetry | Hurd | Tyrwhitt, the Restorer of Chaucer | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XI. Letter-Writers - By HENRY B. WHEATLEY, F.S.A.
- Horace Walpole as “the Prince of Letter-Writers”; His personal character vindicated | His earlier life | Strawberry Hill | His Letters and their qualities | Mann and other Correspondents | Walpole as a Critic | His Anecdotes of Painting in England, Castle of Otranto and Historic Doubts on Richard III | Chesterfield: His personality and public services; His wit | His genius for friendship | His Letters to his Son and to his Godson; Their actual nature | Fanny Burney (Mme. d’ Arblay): her Early Diary, and her Diary and Letters | Mrs. Elizabeth Montagu as a literary hostess | Garrick and his Correspondents | Sir Joshua Reynolds’s Discourses | Hannah More as a Letter-Writer in youth and middle age | Gilbert White’s Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne
- THE WARWICKSHIRE COTERIE - By the Ven. W. H. HUTTON, B.D., Archdeacon of Northampton, Canon of Peterborough and Fellow of St. John’s College, Oxford
- The Warwickshire Circle and its connecting Links | Somerville | Lady Luxborough and the Literary Society at Barrels: Shenstone | The Correspondence between the Countesses of Hertford and Pomfret | Jago | Richard Graves and his literary work | The Spiritual Quixote and Columella | Literature at Bath | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XII. Historians, I - HUME AND MODERN HISTORIANS - By the Rev. WILLIAM HUNT, D.Litt., Trinity College, Oxford
- Cause of late development of good Historical Writing; Rymer’s Foedera | Ockley’s History of the Saracens | The Scottish School, influences on its character | David Hume: Influences on his Historical work | Hume’s History of England: its character and literary style; its Toryism | William Robertson and his Histories; their value | His literary style | Robert Henry’s History of England | Historical works of Sir David Dalrymple (Lord Hailes) | Sir John Dalrymple’s Memoirs of Great Britain, etc | Watson’s Philip II | Horace Walpole’s Historic Doubts; William Guthrie | Lord Lyttelton’s Henry II; Archibald Bower’s History of the Popes | Smollett’s Compleat History and Continuation; Oliver Goldsmith’s History of England | Leland’s History of Ireland; Orme’s Military Transactions in Indostan; William Russell’s Modern Europe | Adam Ferguson’s History of Civil Society; Delolme’s Constitution of England | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XIII. Historians, II - GIBBON - By Sir A. W. WARD, Litt.D., F.B.A., Master of Peterhouse
- Gibbon’s mind a type of the Literary mind; Completeness of his Historical achievement | Lord Sheffield’s Memoirs | Gibbon’s earlier life | His residence at Lausanne | Essai sur l’Étude de la Littérature | Militia experience | Choice of a Theme | The original conception of The Decline and Fall | Gibbon establishes himself in London and enters Parliament | Publication of Vol. 1 of The Decline and Fall | Attacks and Criticisms | Gibbon’s return to Lausanne; Publication of the concluding Volumes; Other Historical Writings; Gibbon’s death | Estimate of The Decline and Fall: greatness of the Theme and adequacy of the treatment | Substantial accuracy | Lucidity of style | Faults and shortcomings of the work | Middleton’s Life of Cicero | Adam Ferguson’s Progress and Termination of the Roman Republic | Mitford’s History of Greece | Whitaker’s History of Manchester | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XIV. Philosophers - By W. R. SORLEY, Litt. D., F.B.A., Fellow of King’s College, Knightbridge Professor of Moral Philosophy
- DAVID HUME | Hume’s literary ambition | His life and literary career | His posthumous Autobiography | His disclaimer of his earliest and greatest work, A Treatise of Human Nature | Hume’s “New Medium” | His analysis of “Philosophical Relations” | The Problem of Causation | Hume’s Theory of Belief | His sceptical solution | His Theological Writings: “Of Miracles”; Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion | Political and Economical Essays
- ADAM SMITH | Life and Writings | The Theory of Moral Sentiments | The Wealth of Nations; Its relation to Sir James Steuart’s Inquiry into the Principles of Political Economy | Adam Smith’s Scientific Treatment of Economic Facts | The System of Natural Liberty: Free Trade
- OTHER PHILOSOPHICAL WRITERS
- David Hartley | Abraham Tucker | Richard Price and Joseph Priestley | Paley and his Theological Utilitarianism | Reid, Campbell and Beattie | The Principles of “Common Sense” | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XV. Divines - By the Ven. Archdeacon W. H. HUTTON, B.D.
- General character of the English Theological Literature of the Period; Its abhorrence of Enthusiasm; Earlier Writers distinguished by power or outspokenness: Samuel Johnson | Atterbury and his career | Smalridge | The Convocation Controversy: Wake | Hoadly and the Bangorian Controversy | The later Nonjurors: the Wagstaffes; Deacon; Henry Dodwell; Bonwicke | Robert Forbes; Bingham | Thomas Sherlock | Butler, Wilson and Waterland: A Review of the Doctrine of the Eucharist | Butler’s Analogy | Herring and Secker | The Methodist Movement: Whitefield | James Hervey | Fletcher of Madeley | John and Charles Wesley | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XVI. The Literature of Dissent, 1660–1760 - By W. A. SHAW, Litt.D. Vict., Public Record Office
- The Historical Evolution of Dissent reflected in its Literature | The principle of Liberty of Conscience and the struggle for Toleration | The Literature of Dissent from Defoe to Watts | Michaijah Towgood | Controversial Literature on Church Polity and Dogma | The “Happy Union,” and the Disruption between Independents and Presbyterians | The spread of Arianism and the First Socinian Controversy | The Arian Controversy proper: Peirce and Hallett | The Salters’ Hall Synod and the question of Subscription: John Taylor and Samuel Bourn | The Free Thought effect of the Unitarian Movement; Conservative contributions by Dissenters to the Deistic Controversy | The Nonconformist Academy System | Hymns and Devotional Literature | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XVII. Political Literature, 1755–75 - By C. W. PREVITÉ-ORTON, M.A., Fellow of St. John’s College
- Revival of Controversy after the death of Henry Pelham | The Monitor; John Shebbeare and Arthur Murphy | Accession of George III; Loyal Tory Pamphleteers | Smollett and The Briton | Wilkes and The North Briton | Wilkes’s literary triumph | Antipathy to the Scots | Churchill: his earlier life | His beginnings as a Satirist; The Rosciad | Night | The Prophecy of Famine | The Epistle to William Hogarth; The Duellist | Gotham; The Conference and its personal confession | Churchill’s Later Satires | Force of his invective | Political Pamphlets in Prose | Candor in The Public Advertiser | Woodfall’s editorship of the Advertiser | The Letter-Writers | Junius: His literary personality and antecedents | The Letters of Junius proper | Their substance and characteristics | Their supremacy in slanderous polemic | The Mystery of Junius | The Franciscan claim | Junius the culmination of a notable series of Political Writings | BIBLIOGRAPHY
THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE
An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes
Volume XI: English - THE PERIOD OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
Edited by A. W. Ward & A. R. Waller
Bibliographic Record
CONTENTS: Prefatory Note | Table of Principal Dates
- Chapter I. Edmund Burke - By HERBERT J. C. GRIERSON, M.A., LL.D., Chalmers Professor of English Literature in the University of Aberdeen
- Early Life and Work | A Vindication of Natural Society; The Sublime and Beautiful | Political Career | Writings on Public Affairs; Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents | The American Controversy | Writings on Ireland | Indian Speeches | Warren Hastings | The French Revolution | Burke’s Political Philosophy | His Temperament | His Prose | The Speech on Economical Reform | A Letter to a Noble Lord | Burke as an Orator | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- II. Political Writers and Speakers - By C. W. PREVITÉ-ORTON, M.A., Fellow of St. John’s College
- Light, Short, Satiric Verse | The Rolliad | John Wolcot (Peter Pindar) | George Canning; The Anti-Jacobin | George Ellis; John Hookham Frere; William Gifford; The Baviad; The Maeviad | The Needy Knife-grinder | Richard Payne Knight; Erasmus Darwin | The Rovers | The New Morality | William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft; Political Justice; Caleb Williams; St. Leon; Vindication of the Rights of Woman | Thomas Paine: The Rights of Man; The Age of Reason | William Cobbett; Weekly Political Register | Rural Rides | Orators | Charles James Fox | The Younger Pitt | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | Henry Grattan | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- III. Bentham and the Early Utilitarians - By W. R. SORLEY, Litt.D., F.B.A., Fellow of King’s College, Knightbridge Professor of Moral Philosophy
- Jeremy Bentham | His Friends; Étienne Dumont, James Mill | The Westminster Review | A Fragment on Government; Sir William Blackstone’s Commentaries | The Principle of Utility; Beccaria’s Crimes and Punishments | An Introduction to the Principle of Morals and Legislation | The Hedonic Calculus | Natural Rights | Arthur Young; Travels in France | Thomas Robert Malthus; An Essay on the Principle of Population | Dugald Stewart | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- IV. William Cowper - By HAROLD CHILD, sometime Scholar of Brasenose College, Oxford
- Cowper’s Early Years | His Friendship with the Unwins; John Newton | Olney Hymns | Satires | Lady Austen; The Task | John Gilpin; On the Receipt of my Mother’s Picture | Translations | Letters | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- V. William Wordsworth - By ÉMILE LEGOUIS, Professor of English Language and Literature at the Sorbonne
- The Influence of Rousseau | Wordsworth’s Childhood | His Wanderings | The French Revolution | Dorothy Wordsworth | Friendship with Coleridge | Lyrical Ballads | Wordsworth’s Marriage | Ode to Duty | The Excursion | The White Doe of Rylstone | Laodamia | Sonnets; Later Years | The Ruined Cottage | His poetry of Nature | There was a Boy | Wordsworth and Shelley | Michael | The Lucy poems | His Description of the Moral Emotions | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- VI. Coleridge - By C. E. VAUGHAN, M.A., Balliol College, Oxford
- Early Years | The French Revolution | Coleridge’s Friendship with Wordsworth | The Opium habit | The Friend; Biographia Literaria | Influence of Wordsworth | Kubla Khan | The Ancient Mariner | Christabel | The Poetry of Nature; Anima Poetœ | The Hour of Romance | Coleridge’s Theory of Criticism | Coleridge as Philosopher | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- VII. George Crabbe - By HAROLD CHILD
- Early Life | The Library | The Village | The Newspaper | The Parish Register | Sir Eustace Grey | The Borough | Tales | Tales of the Hall | The Change in English Poetry during Crabbe’s Lifetime | Crabbe’s Couplets | Summary | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- VIII. Southey - Lesser Poets of the Eighteenth Century - By GEORGE SAINTSBURY, M.A., Merton College, Oxford, LL.D., D.Litt., F.B.A., Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature in the University of Edinburgh
- SOUTHEY | Details of Southey’s Life | His Politics | Wat Tyler; Joan of Arc; Southey’s Blank Verse | Holly Tree; My Days among the Dead are passed | Ballads | Thalaba | Madoc | Southey as Historian and Reviewer | Commonplace Books | The Curse of Kehama | The Life of Nelson | Roderick the last of the Goths | The Life of John Wesley | Miscellaneous Prose; The Lives of the Admirals | The Doctor | Southey’s Letters | Southey and Dryden
- LESSER POETS OF THE LATER EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
- Anstey; The New Bath Guide | Hanbury Williams | John Hall Stevenson; Crazy Tales | Erasmus Darwin; The Botanic Garden; The Loves of the Plants | William Hayley; The Triumph of Temper | The Della Cruscans | William Lisle Bowles | Frank Sayers | Sir William Jones | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- IX. Blake - By J. P. R. WALLIS, M.A., Assistant Lecturer in English Literature in the University of Liverpool
- Early Career | Poetical Sketches | An Island in the Moon | Beginnings of Mysticism; Songs of Innocence and Thel | Tiriel; Revolutionary writings | The Marriage of Heaven and Hell and the earlier “Prophecies” | The later Lambeth books | Songs of Experience | Europe and The Song of Los | The Urizen group | The crisis in Blake’s spiritual development | The Four Zoas | His mystical Christianity | Milton and Jerusalem | His Theory of Imagination | Lesser Verse and Prose | Blake and the Romantic Revival | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- X. Burns - Lesser Scottish Verse - By T. F. HENDERSON
- BURNS | The Old School of Scottish Verse | Burns’s Indebtedness to his Predecessors | The Kilmarnock volume | The Cotter’s Saturday Night | Burns’s “English” poems | His six-line stave | Death and Doctor Hornbook; The Address to the Deil | Holy Willie’s Prayer | The Auld Farmer’s New Year Salutation to his Mare Maggie | The Christis Kirk stave | The Holy Fair | Halloween | The Cherrie and the Slae stave | The Jolly Beggars; Tam o’ Shanter | Burns at Edinburgh | His Songs and Adaptations
- LESSER SCOTTISH VERSE
- Joanna Baillie | Caroline Oliphant, Lady Nairne | Dr. Blacklock; Richard Gall; John Hamilton; John Lapraik; John Lowe | Hector MacNeil | James Tytler | John Mayne | Sir Alexander Boswell | Robert Tannahill; Alexander Wilson; William Motherwell | James Hogg | The Queen’s Wake | John Leyden | Allan Cunningham | Thomas Mounsey Cunningham | William Tennant | John Hyslop; Robert Gilfillan; William Nicholson; William Glen; William Watt | Michael Bruce and John Logan; The Cuckoo; James Grahame | Robert Pollok | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XI. The Prosody of the Eighteenth Century - By GEORGE SAINTSBURY, M.A.
- Changes in the Heroic Couplet of Dryden | The Octosyllabic Couplet | The Spenserian Stanza | Blank Verse | Lyric Poetry of the Eighteenth Century | Edward Bysshe’s Art of Poetry | Eighteenth Century Prosodists | Joshua Steele | Young | Shenstone; Gray; Johnson | John Mason | Mitford | Cowper | Summary | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XII. The Georgian Drama - By HAROLD V. ROUTH, M.A., Peterhouse, Lecturer in English Literature at Goldsmiths’ College, London
- The Decay of the Drama and the Advance of the Actor | The Theatre in the Eighteenth Century and its Audiences | Richard Cumberland; The Brothers; The West Indian | Lesser Playwrights | Oliver Goldsmith: She Stoops to Conquer | Richard Brinsley Sheridan: The Rivals | A Trip to Scarborough | The School for Scandal | Hannah More; Percy | Hannah Cowley | General Burgoyne: The Heiress | Thomas Holcroft: The Road to Ruin; The Deserted Daughter | Elizabeth Inchbald | George Colman the Younger: Inkle and Yarico | Thomas Morton and others | Cumberland’s Jew | Realism and the Drama | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XIII. The Growth of the Later Novel - By GEORGE SAINTSBURY
- Thomas Amory: John Buncle | Memoirs of Several Ladies | William Beckford | Vathek | William Godwin | Caleb Williams; St. Leon | Thomas Holcroft: Autobiography, Novels | Mrs. Inchbald: A Simple Story, Nature and Art | Robert Bage: Hermsprong | Maria Edgeworth | Belinda | The Absentee; Ormond | Tales for the Young | Charlotte Smith; Regina Maria Roche; Eaton Stannard Barrett | Clara Reeve | Ann Radcliffe | The Mysteries of Udolpho and other works | Matthew Gregory Lewis: The Monk | Charles Robert Maturin: Melmoth the Wanderer | Jane and Anna Maria Porter: Thaddeus of Warsaw; The Scottish Chiefs | Thomas Hope: Anastasius | Thomas Love Peacock | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XIV. Book Production and Distribution, 1625–1800 - By H. G. ALDIS, M.A., Peterhouse, Secretary of the University Library
- Attempts at State Control under Charles I. and the Commonwealth | The Censorship of L’Estrange | Lapse of the Licensing Laws | Copyright before 1709 | The first Copyright Act | The battle for Perpetual Copyright | The relations between Author and Publisher in the Seventeenth Century | Milton, Baxter | Earnings of playwrights | Literature becomes a Profession | Increase of the Reading Classes | Patrons and Dedications | The Publisher as Patron and Employer | Leading Publishers in Commonwealth and Restoration times | The Eighteenth Century | Tonson, Lintot, Dodsley, Millar | Trade books | Society for Encouragement of Learning | Bell’s Poets and Johnson’s Poets; Paternoster Row Numbers | Booksellers’ Clubs | Cadell, Strahan | Literary Booksellers | Curll and Grub Street | “The Trade” in London | Little Britain | Scot, Bateman, the Ballards | Other Localities; Westminster Hall | Literary Coffee-houses | Payne, Davies | Popular Literature | Practical Divinity, Chapbooks | The Retail Bookseller | Sale by auction | Printed Catalogues; James Lackington | Circulating Libraries and Book Clubs | Trade Lists of Current Publications | Trade sales | The Provincial Trade | Scotland and Ireland | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XV. The Bluestockings - By MRS. H. G. ALDIS
- The term “Bluestocking” | Conversation parties; Mrs. Vesey | Mrs. Montagu | Her share in Lord Lyttelton’s Dialogues of the Dead | Her Essay on Shakespeare; Mrs. Montagu and Voltaire | Mrs. Elizabeth Carter | Her Translation of Epictetus | Hannah More | Her friendship with Horace Walpole | Mrs. Chapone | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XVI. Children’s Books - By F. J. HARVEY DARTON, sometime Scholar of St. John’s College, Oxford
- Schoolbooks | The Hornbook | Books of Courtesy | Hell-fire tales | “Exemplary” Compilations | Bunyan’s Divine Emblems | Watts’s Divine Songs | The Chapbook | Fairy Tales | Nursery Rimes | John Newbery | Dorothy Kilner | Sarah Trimmer | Mrs. Sherwood | Maria Edgeworth | Thomas Day’s Sandford and Merton | The Moral Tale in Verse | Ann and Jane Taylor’s Original Poems | Miss Turner’s Cautionary Stories | Charles and Mary Lamb | Later Writings for Children | BIBLIOGRAPHY
THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE
An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes
Volume XII: English - THE ROMANTIC REVIVAL - The Nineteenth Century, I
Edited by A. W. Ward & A. R. Waller
Bibliographic Record
CONTENTS: Preface | Table of Principal Dates
- Chapter I. Sir Walter Scott - By T. F. HENDERSON, LL.D., St. Andrews
- The Scottish literary revival of the eighteenth century | Scott’s relations with the past | His early years | His German studies; Ballad poetry | Minstrelsy of the Scottish-Border | The Lay of the Last Minstrel | Marmion | The Lady of the Lake | Rokeby | Scott’s lyrics | Scott and Byron | Border Antiquities | Scenic arrangement | The sweep and compass of his narrative; The Waverley Novels | The characters in his novels | His treatment of love | His humour | His historical inaccuracies | His style | The influence of his work | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- II. Byron - By F. W. MOORMAN, B.A. (Lond.), Ph.D. (Strassburg), Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature in the University of Leeds
- Early years | Departure from England | Life at Venice and Ravenna | The Liberal | Life at Pisa and Genoa | Death at Mesolonghi | Hours of Idleness | English Bards and Scotch Reviewers | Childe Harold | The Verse-tales | Dramatic works | Lyrics | Beppo | The Vision of Judgment | Don Juan | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- III. Shelley - By C. H. HERFORD, Litt.D., Trinity College, Professor of English Literature in the University of Manchester
- Queen Mab; Alastor | Laon and Cythna | Prometheus Unbound | The Cenci | Peter Bell the Third | Odes | Epipsychidion; Adonais | The Defence of Poetry | The Triumph of Life | Summary | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- IV. Keats - By C. H. HERFORD
- Early years | Endymion | Isabella; Letters | Hyperion | The Eve of St. Agnes | La Belle Dame Sans Merci | Lamia | Odes | Sonnets | Summary | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- V. Lesser Poets, 1790–1837 - ROGERS, CAMPBELL, MOORE AND OTHERS - By GEORGE SAINTSBURY, M.A., Merton College, Oxford, LL.D., D.Litt., F.B.A., Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature in the University of Edinburgh
- Rogers | Campbell | The Pleasures of Hope | Moore | Irish Melodies; Lalla Rookh | Hartley Coleridge | Thomas Hood | The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies | Winthrop Mackworth Praed | Sir Henry Taylor; Philip van Artevelde | George Darley | Thomas Lovell Beddoes | Death’s Jest Book | Charles Jeremiah Wells; Joseph and his Brethren | Richard H. Horne | Charles Whitehead | Thomas Wade | James and Horace Smith; Rejected Addresses | Richard Harris Barham; The Ingoldsby Legends | Poetesses | Joanna Baillie | Mrs. Hemans; L.E.L. | Sara Coleridge | Henry James Pye | William Sotheby; John Abraham Heraud; Robert Pollok; Robert Montgomery | Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) | Thomas Haynes Bayly | Robert Bloomfield; John Clare | John Bampfylde | John Leyden | Robert Stephen Hawker | William Barnes | Bernard Barton | James Montgomery | Ebenezer Elliott | Henry Kirke White | Francis Cary | Charles Wolfe | Reginald Heber | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- VI. Reviews and Magazines in the Early Years of the Nineteenth Century - By the Hon. ARTHUR R. D. ELLIOT, M.A., Trinity College, Hon. D.C.L. (Durham), sometime editor of The Edinburgh Review
- The Edinburgh Review | Jeffrey | Brougham | The Quarterly Review | Gifford; Scott; Lockhart; Croker | Blackwood’s Magazine | Lockhart; Wilson; Hogg; Maginn | Noctes Ambrosianœ | The London Magazine; De Quincey’s Opium Eater; Lamb’s Roast Pig | The New Monthly Magazine | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- VII. Hazlitt - By W. D. HOWE, Professor of English in the University of Indiana, U. S. A.
- Hazlitt’s early years | His later life | His work as a critic | His dramatic criticism | His writings on art | His quotations | His influence | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- VIII. Lamb - By A. HAMILTON THOMPSON, M.A., F.S.A., St. John’s College
- Lamb’s early days and friendships | Mary Lamb | Charles Lloyd | Tales from Shakespear | Specimens of English Dramatic Poets | Contributions to periodicals | The Essays of Elia | Letters | His later life | Summary | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- IX. The Landors, Leigh Hunt, De Quincey - By GEORGE SAINTSBURY
- Walter Savage Landor’s prose and verse | His classicism | Gebir | Count Julian | Hellenics | Imaginary Conversations | Landor as a critic | Leigh Hunt’s influence | His merits and defects | De Quincey’s mastery in ornate prose | Robert Eyres Landor | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- X. Jane Austen - By HAROLD CHILD, sometime Scholar of Brasenose College, Oxford
- Early tales | Pride and Prejudice | Northanger Abbey | Sense and Sensibility | Mansfield Park | Emma | Persuasion | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XI. Lesser Novelists - By HAROLD CHILD
- Susan Edmonstone Ferrier | Catherine Grace Gore | Thomas Henry Lister | Catherine Crowe: The Night Side of Nature | George Croly | G. P. R. James | W. H. Ainsworth | Marryat | Theodore Hook | John Galt | Moir’s Mansie Wauch | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XII. The Oxford Movement - By the Ven. W. H. HUTTON, B.D., Archdeacon of Northampton, Canon of Peterborough and Fellow of St. John’s College, Oxford
- Keble | R. H. Froude | Tracts for the Times | Newman at St. Mary’s | Tract 90 | Ward’s The Ideal of a Christian Church | Newman joins the Roman Catholic Church | Pusey | Keble’s Christian Year | Isaac Williams | Newman’s Apologia pro vita sua | The Dream of Gerontius | His later works | Dean Church; Trench | Liddon | Neale; The Mozleys | Hook; The Wilberforces | Wiseman; Manning; Pollen; Faber; Dalgairns; W. G. Ward; de Lisle | Dolben | F. E. Paget | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XIII. The Growth of Liberal Theology - By the Rev. F. E. HUTCHINSON, M.A., Trinity College, Oxford, formerly Chaplain of King’s College
- The Evangelicals | The Clapham sect | The influence of Coleridge | Erskine of Linlathen | The noetics | Whately | Hampden | Thomas Arnold | Frederick Denison Maurice | Robertson of Brighton | The Broad Churchmen | Jowett | Stanley | Essays and Reviews | Robertson Smith | Ecce Homo | Westcott and Hort; Lightfoot | T. H. Green; Martineau | Father Tyrrell | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XIV. Historians - WRITERS ON ANCIENT AND EARLY ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY - By Sir A. W. WARD, Litt.D., F.B.A., Master of Peterhouse
- The influence of Niebuhr | Arnold’s Roman History | Merivale’s Romans under the Empire | Long’s Decline of the Roman Republic | Thirlwall and Grote | Finlay’s History of Greece | Freeman | George Rawlinson | Smith’s Dictionaries | Milman’s Latin Christianity | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley | William Bright | Hodgkin’s Italy and her Invaders | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XV. Scholars, Antiquaries and Bibliographers - By Sir JOHN EDWIN SANDYS, Litt.D., F.B.A., Fellow of St. John’s College and Public Orator in the University of Cambridge
- Greek Scholars | Latin Scholars | Classical Archæologists | Oriental Scholars | English Scholars | Archæological Antiquaries | Literary Antiquaries | Bibliographers | BIBLIOGRAPHY
THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE
An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes
Volume XIII: English - THE VICTORIAN AGE - Part One - The Nineteenth Century, II
Edited by A. W. Ward & A. R. Waller
Bibliographic Record
CONTENTS: Prefatory Note | Table of Principal Dates
- Chapter I. Carlyle - By J. G. ROBERTSON, M.A., B.Sc. (Glasgow), Ph.D. (Leipzig), Professor of German Language and Literature in the University of London
- Goethe on Carlyle | Carlyle’s early years | Life of Schiller | Carlyle’s marriage | His relation to Goethe | Sartor Resartus | The French Revolution | On Heroes | Chartism | Past and Present | Latter-Day Pamphlets | Oliver Cromwell | John Sterling | Frederick the Great | Carlyle as a moral force | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- II. The Tennysons - By HERBERT J. C. GRIERSON, M.A., Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature in the University of Edinburgh
- Tennyson’s early poems | The Princess | In Memoriam | Maud | Idylls of the King | Enoch Arden and dialect ballads | Dramas and later poems and ballads | His metres | Summary | Charles Tennyson | Frederick Tennyson | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- III. Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning - By Sir HENRY JONES, M.A., F.B.A., Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Glasgow
- Robert Browning’s early years | The influence upon him of Byron and Shelley | Pauline | Paracelsus | Strafford | Sordello | Bells and Pomegranates | The dramatic element in Browning’s work | Elizabeth Barrett’s Poems | Sonnets from the Portuguese | Casa Guidi Windows | Aurora Leigh | Christmas Eve and Easter Day | The Ring and the Book | Later poems | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- IV. Matthew Arnold, Arthur Hugh Clough, James Thomson - By W. LEWIS JONES, M.A., sometime Scholar of Queen’s College, Professor of English Language and Literature at the University College of North Wales, Bangor
- Arnold’s early poems | The Strayed Reveller | Arnold’s “theory of poetry” | Sohrab and Rustum | His later poems | The qualities of his poetry | His prose; Essays in Criticism | The Study of Celtic Literature | Culture and Anarchy | Arthur Hugh Clough; His hexameters | The Bothie | James Thomson | The City of Dreadful Night | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- V. The Rossettis, William Morris, Swinburne - AND OTHERS - By A. HAMILTON THOMPSON, M.A., F.S.A., St. John’s College
- The pre-Raphaelites; The Germ | The Blessed Damozel | The House of Life | The Earthly Paradise | Sigurd the Volsung | Morris’s prose narratives | Swinburne’s early years | Atalanta in Calydon | Poems and Ballads | Tristram of Lyonesse | Swinburne’s prose | Christina Rossetti | Arthur O’Shaughnessy | Edward FitzGerald | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- VI. Lesser Poets of the Middle and Later Nineteenth Century - By GEORGE SAINTSBURY, M.A., Merton College, Oxford, LL.D., D.Litt., F.B.A.
- Macaulay’s Lays of Ancient Rome | Tupper’s Proverbial Philosophy | Bailey’s Festus | Ernest Jones | Ebenezer Jones | Alexander Smith | Sydney Dobell | Aytoun’s Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers | Bon Gaultier Ballads | Percival Leigh; W. J. Prowse; Mortimer Collin | Edward Lear | Frederick Locker | C. S. Calverley | H. D. Traill | J. K. Stephen | Lewis Carroll | Keble | Newman | Isaac Williams; Faber | Neale | Trench | W. M. Wilks Call; T. T. Lynch | Translations | Caroline Archer Clive | Sarah Flower Adams; Fanny Kemble | Adelaide Anne Procter | Isa Craig; Jean Ingelow | Harriet Eleanor Hamilton-King; Augusta Webster | Margaret Veley | Mathilde Blind; Michael Field; Constance Naden; Amy Levy | Mary E. Coleridge | Lord Houghton; T. Gordon Hake | Sir F. H. Doyle | Alfred Domett; W. J. Linton; W. B. Scott | Aubrey de Vere; Thomas Westwood; Charles Mackay | Coventry Patmore | George Macdonald | F. T. Palgrave | William Johnson (Cory) | T. E. Brown | R. W. Dixon | Sebastian Evans | “Owen Meredith” | Edwin Arnold | Lewis Morris | Sir Alfred Lyall | Alfred Austin | Roden Noel | Lord de Tabley | Thomas Ashe | John Addington Symonds | Robert Buchanan | Frederic Myers | Andrew Lang | French forms of verse | W. E. Henley | Philip Bourke Marston; Robert Louis Stevenson | H. E. Clarke | E. C. Lefroy | John Davidson | Francis Thompson | Ernest Dowson | Richard Middleton | Summary | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- VII. The Prosody of the Nineteenth Century - By GEORGE SAINTSBURY
- Ossian; Percy’s Religues | Chatterton; Blake | Anti-Bysshism | Coleridge’s Christabel | Southey | Scott | Moore | Byron | Shelley | Keats | Warner’s Metronariston | Guest | Victorian prosody | The hexameter controversy | Later prosodists | Summary | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- VIII. Nineteenth-Century Drama - By HAROLD CHILD, sometime Scholar of Brasenose College, Oxford
- The drama a popular amusement in the nineteenth century | Richard Lalor Sheil | Charles Robert Maturin | H. H. Milman | Sheridan Knowles; R. H. Horne | J. Westland Marston | Melodrama | Black-ey’d Susan | Dion Boucicault | Tom Taylor | W. G. Wills | Douglas Jerrold | John Poole; Box and Cox; J. R. Planché; Shirley Brooks; H. J. Byron | T. W. Robertson | W. S. Gilbert | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- IX. Thackeray - By A. HAMILTON THOMPSON
- Early life | The Yellowplush Correspondence | Michael Angelo Titmarsh; Barry Lyndon | The Sketch Books | Thackeray’s contributions to Punch | The Book of Snobs | Vanity Fair | Pendennis | Esmond | The Newcomes | The Virginians | Philip | Summary | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- X. Dickens - By GEORGE SAINTSBURY
- Early life | Sketches | The Pickwick Papers | Oliver Twist | Nicholas Nickleby | The Old Curiosity Shop | Barnaby Rudge | Martin Chuzzlewit | Christmas Books | Dombey and Son | David Copperfield | Bleak House | Hard Times | Little Dorrit | A Tale of Two Cities | Great Expectations | Summary | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XI. The Political and Social Novel - DISRAELI, CHARLES KINGSLEY, MRS. GASKELL, “GEORGE ELIOT” - By Sir A. W. WARD, Litt.D., F.B.A., Master of Peterhouse
- The reaction against Romanticism | Harriet Martineau | Benjamin Disraeli | Charles Kingsley | The Saint’s Tragedy | Yeast | Alton Locke | Hypatia | Westward Ho! | Two Years Ago | Kingsley’s lectures and essays | Thomas Hughes; Tom Brown’s School Days | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Mary Barton | North and South | Cranford | Mrs. Gaskell’s Life of Charlotte Brontë | Sylvia’s Lovers | Cousin Phillis | Wives and Daughters | “George Eliot”; Her early years | George Henry Lewes | Scenes of Clerical Life | Adam Bede | The Mill on the Floss | Silas Marner | Romola | Felix Holt | The Spanish Gypsy | Middlemarch | Daniel Deronda | “George Eliot’s” poems | Summary | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XII. The Brontës - By A. A. JACK, M.A., Peterhouse, Chalmers Professor of English Literature in the University of Aberdeen
- The Brontë family | Jane Eyre | Shirley | Villette | Wuthering Heights | Emily Brontë’s poems | Appendix | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XIII. Lesser Novelists - By W. T. YOUNG, M.A. Sometime Lecturer in English Language and Literature at the University of London, Goldsmiths’ College
- Lord Lytton; Pelham | Criminal biography; Paul Clifford and Eugene Aram | Historical romances | Tales of the occult | The Caxtons | Summary | Anthony Trollope; The Barchester series | His Autobiography | Charles Reade | Novels based on “documents” | The Cloister and the Hearth | Mary Russell Mitford; Our Village | Mrs. Henry Wood | Mrs. Oliphant | George Macdonald | William Black | Henry Kingsley | George Du Maurier | Lorna Doone; John Inglesant | G. A. Lawrence and “Ouida” | Wilkie Collins | “Mark Rutherford” | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XIV. George Meredith, Samuel Butler, George Gissing - By W. T. YOUNG, M.A.
- Meredith | His poems | The comic spirit | His characterisation | Style in prose and in verse | Metrical experiments | Butler | His scientific controversies | Erewhon | Erewhon and Gulliver’s Travels | Erewhon Revisited | | Gissing | Gissing’s work transitional | A comparison with Zola | Novels of the middle classes: problems discussed in New Grub Street, Born in Exile and The Odd Women | The classical world; By the Ionian Sea; Veranilda | The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft | Structure and style | BIBLIOGRAPHY
THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE
An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes
Volume XIV: English - THE VICTORIAN AGE - Part Two - The Nineteenth Century, III
Edited by A. W. Ward & A. R. Waller
Bibliographic Record
CONTENTS: Prefatory Note | Table of Principal Dates
- Chapter I. Philosophers - By W. R. SORLEY, Litt.D., F.B.A., Fellow of King’s College, Knightbridge Professor of Moral Philosophy
- The economics of Ricardo | James Mill | Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind | Thomas Brown | Sir William Hamilton | Mansel | John Stuart Mill | System of Logic | Utilitarianism | On Liberty | Political Economy | Jevons | George Grote; Alexander Bain | George Croom Robertson | The influence of Comte | Rational and Religious Philosophers; John Grote | Frederick Denison Maurice; Newman’s Grammar of Assent; William George Ward | Martineau | Herbert Spencer and the Philosophy of Evolution | Darwin | George Henry Lewes | Huxley | William Kingdon Clifford | Leslie Stephen | Maine’s Ancient Law | Bagehot | Henry Sidgwick; The Methods of Ethics | Shadworth Hodgson | Idealists | Ferrier’s Institutes of Metaphysic | Stirling’s Secret of Hegel | Thomas Hill Green | Prolegomena to Ethics | William Wallace | John Caird and Edward Caird | Francis Herbert Bradley | Alexander Campbell Fraser | Robert Adamson | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- II. Historians, Biographers and Political Orators - By Sir A. W. WARD, Litt.D., F.B.A., Master of Peterhouse
- Sharon Turner | Lingard | Henry Hallam | Sir James Mackintosh | Macaulay | Lays of Ancient Rome | Essays | History of England | Sir Archibald Alison | Sir Francis Palgrave | John Mitchell Kemble | Freeman | The History of the Norman Conquest | Stubbs | The Constitutional History of England | John Richard Green | A Short History of the English People | Sir Henry Maine | J. E. Thorold Rogers | Frederic Seebohm | Frederic William Maitland | Mary Bateson | J. S. Brewer | James Gairdner | Froude | History of England | Samuel Rawson Gardiner | Coxe | Earl Stanhope | Goldwin Smith | Sir J. R. Seeley | Harriet Martineau | W. N. Molesworth | Kinglake’s Invasion of the Crimea | P. F. Tytler | John Hill Burton | Andrew Lang | J. P. Prendergast | Sir J. T. Gilbert | C. L. Falkiner | James Mill’s History of India | Sir A. C. Lyall | J. A. Doyle; E. J. Payne | Creighton; History of the Papacy | W. E. Collins; J. H. Overton; W. R. Stephens; T. G. Law | T. McCrie | Buckle’s History of Civilization | Lecky; History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe; The History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne | A History of England in the Eighteenth Century | Biographers and Memoir-Writers; Lockhart | Scott | Moore | Southey | Roscoe | Mark Pattison | Sir James Stephen | Agnes and Elizabeth Strickland | Mrs. M. A. Everett Green | Sir Theodore Martin | Masson’s Life of Milton | John Forster | The Greville Memoirs | The Croker Papers | The Creevey Papers | N. W. Senior | Lord Acton | Political Orators and Writers of Pamphlets; William Wilberforce | Windham | Whitbread | Erskine | Tierney | Canning | Brougham | Orators of the Reform Bill period | Palmerston | Plunket | Daniel O’Connell | Richard Lalor Sheil | Sir Robert Peel | Edward Stanley, fourteenth earl of Derby | Benjamin Disraeli | Richard Cobden; John Bright | Gladstone | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- III. Critical and Miscellaneous Prose - JOHN RUSKIN AND OTHERS - By HUGH WALKER, LL.D., Professor of English at St. David’s College, Lampeter
- Abraham Hayward | John Doran | George Brimley; E. S. Dallas; The Gay Science | James Hannay | Richard Holt Hutton | Bagehot | Sir Leslie Stephen | Watts-Dunton | Borrow | Traill | Dowden | Henley | Ruskin; Modern Painters | Haydon | Mrs. Jameson | J. Addington Symonds | Walter Pater | Oscar Wilde | Hugh Miller; W. and R. Chambers | John Brown; Rab and his Friends | Alexander Smith | A. K. H. Boyd; John Skelton | R. L. Stevenson | W. B. Rands; Sir Arthur Helps; W. R. Greg | Andrew Lang | Laurence Oliphant | Lafcadio Hearn | Richard Jefferies | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- IV. The Growth of Journalism - By J. S. R. PHILLIPS, Editor of The Yorkshire Post, Leeds
- Eighteenth Century Newspapers | Literary and Art Criticism; The Drama | Politics | The War Correspondent | Progress of journalism in the Victorian era | Jerdan | The Times; The Walters | Delane | The Stuarts and The Morning Post | James Perry and The Morning Chronicle | The Standard | The Morning Advertiser | The Daily News | The Daily Telegraph | The Halfpenny morning press | The Penny evening papers | Weekly illustrated papers | The Hour | The Press | The Examiner | The Spectator | The Saturday Review | The Scots Observer | The Guardian | The Athenaeum | Illustrated papers | The Observer | The Pilot; The Tribune | The “Provincial” Press | The Manchester Guardian | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- V. University Journalism - By VERNON HORACE RENDALL, sometime Scholar of Trinity College
- Calverley | A. C. Hilton | The Cambridge Review | The Granta | The Oxford Magazine | The Isis | Scottish and Irish University Journals | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- VI. Caricature and the Literature of Sport - “PUNCH” - By HAROLD CHILD, sometime Scholar of Brasenose College, Oxford
- Hogarth | Gillray | Boydell | Ackermann; Bunbury; Rowlandson | Combe | Dr. Syntax | Gilpin | The Microcosm of London | Pierce Egan; Life in London | The English Spy | James Catnach | The Newgate Calendar | The Literature of Pugilism and Hunting | “Nimrod” | Surtees | Bewick | Punch | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- VII. The Literature of Travel, 1700–1900 - By F. A. KIRKPATRICK, M.A., Trinity College
- William Dampier | Woodes Rogers | Anson | Cook | James Bruce | Clarke | Barrow | Waterton; Darwin; Wallace | Richard Ford | Borrow | Warburton; Eothen | Curzon’s Monasteries of the Levant | Sir Richard Burton | W. G. Palgrave | A. H. Layard | Speke | Winwood Reade; Mary Kingsley | Peaks, passes and glaciers | Dilke’s Greater Britain | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- VIII. The Literature of Science - PHYSICS AND MATHEMATICS
- By W. W. ROUSE BALL, M.A., Fellow of Trinity College | Cambridge mathematicians | The British Association | Whewell’s History of the Inductive Sciences | Michael Faraday | De Morgan | Sir William Rowan Hamilton | J. J. Sylvester | John Couch Adams | Cayley | H. J. S. Smith | Sir George Darwin | George Green | Sir George Stokes | Lord Kelvin | James Clerk Maxwell
- CHEMISTRY - By M. M. PATTISON MUIR, M.A., Fellow of Gonville and Caius College
- The study of material changes | Four main lines of advance in chemistry since the later years of the eighteenth century | Priestley and Cavendish | Black | The Atomic Theory and Dalton | Williamson | Frankland | Sir Humphry Davy; Electricity and Chemical Affinity | Thomas Graham | Faraday
- BIOLOGY - By A. E. SHIPLEY, Sc.D., F.R.S., Master of Christ’s College
- The Royal Society | Nehemiah Grew | Ray and Willughby | Robert Hooke | Stephen Hales | Museums | Botanic Gardens | Learned Societies | Scientific Journals | Exploration: Sir Joseph Banks; Robert Brown | J. S. Henslow | Lindley | Berkeley | James Hutton | John Playfair | William Smith | Adam Sedgwick | Scrope | de la Beche | Lyell | Sorby | Murchison | Buckland | Richard Owen | Edward Forbes | The voyage of “The Challenger” | Central America | Darwin | Wallace | The Origin of Species | Sir Joseph Hooker | Research after Darwin; Huxley | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- IX. Anglo-Irish Literature - By ALFRED PERCEVAL GRAVES, M.A.
- Gaelic and Classical Literature | Gaelic Poetry | Translations | Irish influence on English Literature | Geoffrey Keating | James Ussher | The Sheridans | Le Fanu | National Folk-ballads and other writings | Maginn | Lever | Lover | Crofton Croker | Carleton | Patrick Kennedy | Mahony | The Banims | Thomas Osborne Davis | McGee | Sir Samuel Ferguson | Griffin | National Songs | Women writers | Later writers | Synge | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- X. Anglo-Indian Literature - By EDWARD FARLEY OATEN, M.A., LL.B., Indian Educational Service, Professor of History at the Presidency College, Calcutta
- Early historians | William Browne Hockley; Philip Meadows Taylor; The mutiny | The later historians | Sir Edwin Arnold; Sir Alfred Lyall | Bankin Chandra Chatterji | Torulata Dutt | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XI. English-Canadian Literature - By PELHAM EDGAR, Ph.D., F.R.S.C., Professor of English Literature in Victoria College, University of Toronto
- Haliburton | Isabella Valancy Crawford | Archibald Lampman | William Henry Drummond | Lesser Poets | Historians | Novelists | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XII. The Literature of Australia and New Zealand - By HAROLD CHILD
- Charles Harpur | Henry Clarence Kendall | Adam Lindsay Gordon | James Brunton Stephens | Henry Kingsley and William Howitt; Marcus Clarke: “Rolf Boldrewood” | Historians | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XIII. South African Poetry - By Sir T. HERBERT WARREN, K.C.V.O., President of Magdalen College, Oxford
- Thomas Pringle | Afar in the Desert | The Bechuana Boy | Anthologies | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XIV. Education - By J. W. ADAMSON, Fellow of King’s College, London, and Professor of Education in the University of London
- The industrial revolution | French and German education | The universities | Nonconformist academies | Public schools | Education of girls | Elementary education | Chesterfield’s Letters | The Edgeworths | Wordsworth | Priestley | Study of English | Thomas Sheridan | The Scottish School of Rhetoric | Education and the state | Mrs. Trimmer | Bell and Lancaster | Robert Owen | Brougham and The Edinburgh Review | Mechanics’ institutes | Adult education | English and Scottish universities | The university of London | Tutors versus professors | Public School reform | William Ellis | Ruskin | Newman | The state assumes responsibility for elementary education; The revised code | Spencer | Royal Commissions | Arnold and secondary education | John Stuart Mill | Essays on a liberal education | Edward Thring | The Education Act of 1870 | Alexander Bain | The education of women | Universities and research | The new universities | The legislation of 1902 | BIBLIOGRAPHY
- XV. Changes in the Language since Shakespeare’s Time - By W. MURISON, M.A., Aberdeen
- The world-wide expansion of the English language | Changes in pronunciation | Changes in spelling | Changes in grammar | Vocabulary | Methods of word-making | Influx of foreign words | Plain and ornate style | Afterword | BIBLIOGRAPHY
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The Complete Literary Works of William Shakespeare
SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616), the supreme English poet and playwright, universally recognized as the greatest of all dramatists.
A complete, authoritative account of Shakespeare's life is lacking; much supposition surrounds relatively few facts. His day of birth is traditionally held to be April 23; it is known he was baptized on April 24, 1564, in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. The third of eight children, he was the eldest son of John Shakespeare (d. 1601), a locally prominent merchant, and Mary Arden (d. 1608), daughter of a Roman Catholic member of the landed gentry. He was probably educated at the local grammar school. As the eldest son, Shakespeare ordinarily would have been...
William Shakespeare Plays and Poetry
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- The Sonnets 1609
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- Venus and Adonis 1593
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- The Two Gentlemen of Verona c. 1594
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- Much Adoe About Nothing c. 1599
- Loues Labour's lost c. 1594
- A Midsommer Nights Dreame c. 1595
- The Merchant of Venice c. 1596
- As you Like it c. 1599
- The Taming of the Shrew c. 1593
- All's Well, that Ends Well c. 1602
- Twelfe Night c. 1600
- The Winters Tale c. 1610
- The life and death of King John c. 1595
- The life and death of King Richard the Second c. 1595
- The First Part of Henry the Fourth c. 1597
- The Second Part of Henry the Fourth c. 1597
- The Life of Henry the Fift c. 1598
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- The second Part of Henry the Sixt c. 1590-92
- The third Part of Henry the Sixt c. 1590-92
- The Tragedie of Richard the Third c. 1593
- The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight c. 1613
- The Tragedie of Coriolanus c. 1608
- The Tragedie of Titus Andronicus c. 1594
- The Tragedie of Romeo and Juliet c. 1595
- The Life of Timon of Athens c. 1608
- The Tragedie of Julius Caesar c. 1599
- The Tragedie of Macbeth c. 1606
- The Tragedie of Hamlet c. 1601
- The Tragedie of King Lear c. 1605
- The Tragedie of Othello c. 1604
- The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra c. 1606
- The Tragedie of Cymbeline c. 1610
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In der Dissertation geht es um die Prosadialoge, die im England der henricianischen Zeit entstanden. Behandelt werden die Autoren Thomas Morus, Thomas Starkey, Roger Ascham und Thomas Elyot. Die Dialoge sind, wie in der Arbeit gezeigt wird, zwar thematisch unterschiedlich gelagert (Politik, Philosophie, Religion und Erziehung/Sport), weisen aber strukturell allesamt auf die Funktion von Verständigung und sprachlicher Vermittlung hin. Für diese Funktion erweist sich die Dialogform in dieser politisch bewegten Zeit als ideal geeignet.
Die Prosadialoge der englischen Renaissance (1528-1545): Erscheinungsformen und Strukturen
Dissertation zur Erlangung des akademischen Grades Doctor philosophiae (Dr. phil.)
vorgelegt dem Rat der Philosophischen Fakultät der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
von Oliver Schöll
Inhalt
- 1. Einleitung 1
- 1.1 Einführung in den Gegenstand 1
- 1.2 Der Prosadialog im Europa der Renaissance 4
- 1.3 Der Prosadialog in England 17
- 1.4 Forschungsabriss 24
- 1.5 Methodische Vorbemerkungen 27
- 2. Thomas More: A Dialogue concerning heresies 34
- 2.1 Ausgangssituation 34
- 2.2 Charakterisierung der Figuren und Ausgestaltung des Figurenverhältnisses 40
- 2.3 Gesprächs- und Argumentationsverlauf 51
- 2.4 Gesprächsende 76
- 2.5 Die „Offenheit“ des Dialogs 79
- 3. Thomas Elyot: Of the Knowledge Which Maketh A Wise Man 82
- 3.1 Ausgangssituation 82
- 3.2 Charakterisierung der Figuren und Ausgestaltung des Figurenverhältnisses 94
- 3.3 Gesprächs- und Argumentationsverlauf 101
- 3.4 Gesprächsende 113
- 3.5 Die „Offenheit“ des Dialogs 116
- 4. Thomas Starkey: A Dialogue between Pole and Lupset 120
- 4.1 Ausgangssituation 120
- 4.2 Charakterisierung der Figuren und Ausgestaltung des Figurenverhältnisses 126
- 4.3 Gesprächs- und Argumentationsverlauf 130
- 4.4 Gesprächsende 147
- 4.5 Die „Offenheit“ des Dialogs 150
- 5. Roger Ascham: Toxophilus 158
- 5.1 Ausgangssituation 158
- 5.2 Charakterisierung der Figuren und Ausgestaltung des Figurenverhältnisses 165
- 5.3 Gesprächs- und Argumentationsverlauf 174
- 5.4 Gesprächsende 192
- 5.5 Die „Offenheit“ des Dialogs 195
- 6. Zusammenfassung 200
- Literaturverzeichnis 209
- Erklärung
- Lebenslauf
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P.M. Fragen & Antworten 01/2007
Gab es ihn wirklich? - Frankenstein - Ist er eine Erfindung oder gab es ihn wirklich? Weiter>>
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"Frankenstein" has even morphed into other words; for instance genetically modified crops are sometimes called "frankenfood" with the idea that we don’t really know what the knock on effects of creating these organisms are. In 1816 a 19 year old Mary Shelly had eloped with her husband the poet Percy Shelly and was hanging around with another notable of the time, Lord Byron. It was Lord Byron who suggested as a sort of game that each of them should write a ghost story.
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- Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility, 1811 (auch als PDF-File)
- John Bartlett - Familiar Quotations, 5th ed. 1868 (1870)
- Douay-Rheims Bible 1609, 1582 (auch als PDF-File)
- Parallel Editions, 1609, 1582, 1611
- William Blake - Songs of Innocence and Experience, 1789-1794 (auch als PDF-File)
- Richard Braithwait - Drunken Barnaby's Four Journeys to the North of England, 1638 (1716)
- Robert Browning - The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works
- The Cambrudge Edition of the Poets
- Thomas Carlyle - Sartor Resartus, 1831 (auch als PDF-File)
- Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1865 (auch als PDF-File)
- Lewis Carroll - Through the Looking Glass, 1871 (auch als PDF-File)
- Geoffrey Chaucer - Troilus and Criseyde, c 1385 - a 1400 (auch als PDF-File)
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Complete Poems, 1787-1833 (auch als PDF-File)
- Richard Henry Dana - Two Years Before the Mast, 1840 (auch als PDF-File)
- Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe, 1719 (auch als PDF-File)
- Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol, 1844 (auch als PDF-File)
- Charles Dickens - The Chimes, 1844 (auch als PDF-File)
- Charles Dickens - The Pickwick Papers, 1837 (auch als PDF-File)
- John Donne - Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, 1624 (auch als PDF-File)
- John Donne - Death's Duel, 1630 (auch als PDF-File)
- John Donne - Elegies, a 1631 (auch als PDF-File)
- John Donne - Songs and Sonnets, a 1631 (auch als PDF-File)
- John Donne - Holy Sonnets, a 1631 (auch als PDF-File)
- Arthur Conan Doyle - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 1891-92 (auch als PDF-File)
- George Eliot - Middlemarch, 1872 (auch als PDF-File)
- George Eliot - Silas Marner, 1861 (auch als PDF-File)
- Thomas Hardy - Far From the Madding Crowd, 1874 (auch als PDF-File)
- Thomas Hardy - Tess of the d'Urbervilles, 1891 (auch als PDF-File)
- Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter, 1850 (auch als PDF-File)
- Oliver Wendell Holmes - The Poetical Works
- Alfred Edward Housman - A Shropshire Lad, 1896 (auch als PDF-File)
- Henry James - The Bostonians, 1886 (auch als PDF-File)
- Henry James - The Golden Bowl, 1904 (auch als PDF-File)
- Henry James - The Portrait of a Lady, 1881 (auch als PDF-File)
- John Keats - The Complete Poetical Works and Letters, 1816-1821
- David Herbert Lawrence - Women in Love, 1920 (auch als PDF-File)
- Jack London - The Call of the Wild, 1903 (auch als PDF-File)
- Jack London - The Sea Wolf, 1904 (auch als PDF-File)
- Jack London - To Build a Fire and Other Stories, 1899-1918 (auch als PDF-File)
- Jack London - White Fang, 1906 (auch als PDF-File)
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - The Complete Poetical Works
- James Russell Lowell - The Poetical Works
- Herman Melville - Moby-Dick, 1851 (auch als PDF-File)
- John Milton - The Complete Poetical Works
- John Milton - Areopagitica, 1644 (auch als PDF-File)
- John Milton - Paradise Lost, 1667 (auch als PDF-File)
- John Milton - Paradise Regained, 1671 (auch als PDF-File)
- John Milton - Samson Agonistes, 1671 (auch als PDF-File)
- William Allan Neilson, ed. - The Chief Elizabethan Dramatists, 1911
- John Lyly - Endymion, the Man in the Moon,
- George Peele - The Old Wives Tale,
- Robert Greene - Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay,
- Christopher Marlowe - Tamburlaine, Part I,
- Christopher Marlowe - Doctor Faustus,
- Christopher Marlowe - The Jew of Malta,
- Christopher Marlowe - Edward the Second,
- Thomas Kyd - The Spanish Tragedy,
- George Chapman - Bussy D'Ambois,
- Ben Jonson - Every Man in his Humour,
- Ben Jonson - Sejanus, His Fall,
- Ben Jonson - Volpone; or, The Fox,
- Ben Jonson - The Alchemist,
- Thomas Dekker - The Shoemakers' Holiday,
- Thomas Dekker - The Honest Whore, Part I,
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- Marston & ster - The Malcontent,
- Thomas Heywood - A Woman Killed with Kindness,
- Beaumont & Fletcher - The Knight of the Burning Pestle,
- Beaumont & Fletcher - Philaster; or, Love Lies a-Bleeding,
- Beaumont & Fletcher - The Maid's Tragedy,
- John Fletcher - The Faithful Shepherdess,
- John Fletcher - The Wild-Goose Chase,
- John ster - The Duchess of Malfi,
- Thomas Middleton - A Trick to Catch the Old One,
- Middleton & Rowley - The Changeling,
- Philip Massinger - A New Way to Pay Old Debts,
- John Ford - The Broken Heart,
- James Shirley - The Lady of Pleasure,
- James Shirley - The Cardinal,
- Alexander Pope - The Complete Poetical Works
- William Shakespeare The Illustrated Shakespeare Verplanck Edition, 1847
- William Shakespeare First Folio, 1623
- Shakespeare - Anthony and Cleopatra, 1623 (auch als PDF-File)
- Shakespeare - All's Well That Ends Well, 1623 (auch als PDF-File)
- Shakespeare - As You Like It, 1623 (auch als PDF-File)
- Shakespeare - Julius Cæsar, 1623 (auch als PDF-File)
- Shakespeare - Coriolanus, 1623 (auch als PDF-File)
- Shakespeare - Cymbaline, 1623 (auch als PDF-File)
- Shakespeare - Comedy of Errors, 1623 (auch als PDF-File)
- Shakespeare - Henry the Fourth, Part 1, 1623 (auch als PDF-File)
- Shakespeare - Henry the Fourth, Part 2, 1623 (auch als PDF-File)
- Shakespeare - Henry the Fifth, 1623 (auch als PDF-File)
- Shakespeare - Henry the Sixth, Part 1, 1623 (auch als PDF-File)
- Shakespeare - Henry the Sixth, Part 2, 1623 (auch als PDF-File)
- Shakespeare - Henry the Sixth, Part 3, 1623 (auch als PDF-File)
- Shakespeare - Henry the Eighth, 1623 (auch als PDF-File)
- Shakespeare - Hamlet, 1623 (auch als PDF-File)
- Shakespeare - King John, 1623 (auch als PDF-File)
- Shakespeare - King Lear, 1623 (auch als PDF-File)
- Shakespeare - Loves Labour's Lost, 1623 (auch als PDF-File)
- Shakespeare - Macbeth, 1623 (auch als PDF-File)
- Shakespeare - Measure for Measure, 1623 (auch als PDF-File)
- Shakespeare - The Merchant of Venice, 1623 (auch als PDF-File)
- Shakespeare - The Merry Wives of Windsor, 1623 (auch als PDF-File)
- Shakespeare - A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1623 (auch als PDF-File)
- Shakespeare - Much Ado About Nothing, 1623 (auch als PDF-File)
- Shakespeare - Othello, 1623 (auch als PDF-File)
- Shakespeare - Richard the Second, 1623 (auch als PDF-File)
- Shakespeare - Richard the Third, 1623 (auch als PDF-File)
- Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet, 1623 (auch als PDF-File)
- Shakespeare - The Taming of the Shrew, 1623 (auch als PDF-File)
- Shakespeare - The Tempest, 1623 (auch als PDF-File)
- Shakespeare - Timon of Athens, 1623 (auch als PDF-File)
- Shakespeare - Titus Andronicus, 1623 (auch als PDF-File)
- Shakespeare - Troylus and Cressida, 1623 (auch als PDF-File)
- Shakespeare - Twelfth Night, 1623 (auch als PDF-File)
- Shakespeare - Two Gentlemen of Verona, 1623 (auch als PDF-File)
- Shakespeare - Winters Tale, 1623 (auch als PDF-File)
- Shakespeare - Sonnets, 1609 (auch als PDF-File)
- Edmund Spenser - The Complete Poetical Works,
- Alfred Tennyson - The Poetic and Dramatic Works
- Alfred Tennyson - In Memoriam, 1850 (auch als PDF-File)
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Slang can be limited in the community of speakers who use it. Particular activities can give rise to such a special community. Surfers use terms like "gnarly" and "rad", racegoers use expressions like "bet London to a brick", and "mudlark".
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"GNARLER". A little dog that by his barking alarms the family when any person is breaking into the house.
Ein engl. "gnarler" ist also eine "Knurrer".
Last Saturday was the 75th birthday of Popeye, a gnarly, one-eyed cartoon character who butchered the English language. The Popeye comic strip contributed several words to our language - as best I can tell, more words than any other strip except Li'l Abner.
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"Gnarly", by the way, comes from surfing and originally referred to something dangerous or treacherous (probably something like a grizzly bear or a gun; just kidding - of course it referred to waves as you suggested, Patrick). It was soon picked up by non-surfers with that meaning but then, as is sometimes wont to happen in English, it did a 180 degree turn and came to mean something at the opposite end of the spectrum: "cool".
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"Gnarly" is a synonym of "gnarled". It's also a slang term that can mean "difficult", "nasty", or "cool". Drew Barrymore recently used the "nasty" sense when she spoke of someone who had "some pretty gnarly karma coming".
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The word "malapropism" comes from the fictitious character of "Mrs. Malaprop". Find out more about Mrs. Malaprop and her original malapropisms.
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In his 1775 Restoration comedy, The Rivals, Richard Sheridan introduced a humorous character by the name of "Mrs. Malaprop". The name is derived from the French "mal à propos", which means "inappropriate" (we also have the word "malapropos" in English), and describes the manner in which she used many words in her speech.
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"Mlle Malaprop" ist eine Proxyserverin, die unter einer Demenz vom Alzheimer Typ [s.u.] »leidet«. Sie zeigt das Symptom, das typischerweise in der schleichenden Entwicklung von Alzheimer mit als erstes auffällt: Aphasie; das heißt leichte bis mittelschwere Störungen des Sprachgebrauchs, die dadurch entstehen, dass Wörter - insbesondere spät gelernte, »junge« Wörter - vergessen worden sind.
"Mlle Malaprop" ist sehr alt. Sie spricht Deutsch und nur Deutsch. Und sie hat alle Wörter »vergessen«, die sie nach 1900 »gelernt« hatte. Um diese für sie unvorteilhafte kommunikative Schräglage auszugleichen, ersetzt sie - in Anlehnung an "Mrs. Malaprop" - jedes Wort, das sie nicht »kennt«, durch ein Wort aus ihrem »Gedächtnis«, das diesem Wort sehr ähnlich klingt.
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Grundlage für das aphasische »Wortgedächtnis« der "Mlle Malaprop" ist die Erstauflage des Vollständigen orthographischen Wörterbuchs der deutschen Sprache von Konrad Duden, die 1880 erschienen ist. Alle Wörter, die nicht darin vorkommern, hat "Mlle Malaprop" »vergessen«. Ihre malapropistisch anachronistische Methode, die Lücken ihres »mentalen Lexikons« zu füllen, wird durch einen Algorithmus realisiert, der in den Texten aufgerufener Websites jedes Wort, das nicht im Duden des Jahres 1880 steht, durch eines ersetzt, das darin steht und ihm in orthographischer, phonetischer oder morphologischer Hinsicht nahe kommt.
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"Mrs. Malaprop"
Die englische Salondame "Mrs. Malaprop" ist das literarische Vorbild unserer deutschen Proxyserverin "Mlle Malaprop". Sie stammt aus dem Theaterstück "The Rivals - A Comedy" (1775) von Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Ihr sprechender Name, "Malaprop", ist hergeleitet aus dem französischen Ausdruck "mal à propos"; zu Deutsch: "unpassend"; zu Konrad Dudens Zeiten auch: "malpropre".
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"Mrs. Malaprop" hat dem Fachbegriff "Malapropismus", für den unpassenden Gebrauch von Wörtern, ihren Namen gegeben.
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Der klassische "Malapropismus", der, wie bei "Mrs. Malaprop", bei dem Versuch entsteht, sich einen höheren Bildungsstand anzubluffen, als man hat, bzw. irgendwo mitzureden, wo man nicht mitreden kann, scheint jedoch mittlerweile literaturwissenschaftlich ernsthaft in Vergessenheit zu geraten.
Aktueller ist ein bedeutungsmäßig leicht gewandeltes Verständnis des "Malapropismus" in der Psycho- und Psychopatholinguistik. Dort wird er als Störung des menschlichen Sprachproduktionsapparates aufgefasst und als formale Paraphasie beschrieben.
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Our "isms" are generally categorised as "malapropisms", "mixed metaphors", the occasional "spoonerism" and attempts at using foreign phrases, but many are just downright nonsense that sound correct, if said with conviction, until analysed by trained professionals like us at the ISMS.
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- 055544 05/12/02 07:42 75 Re: A funny Hoosier mangling
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- 053773 05/09/14 20:36 30 Bush Inaugural Malapropism
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- 049182 05/05/05 22:01 36 Re: dog-eat-dog (1872)
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- 038986 04/06/26 11:10 148 the thin line between error and mere variation
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- Paronym is element of the relation
- figura etymologica is a (kind of)
Paronomasie is cross-related with Malapropismus
Superordinates
is a (kind of) Wortspiel
Concept data
Definition: A malapropism is the inappropriate use of a word which is similar in sound to the appropriate word.
Term data
Designation Standard Language
- malapropism is std English
- Malapropismus is std German
- paronímia is std Portuguese
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Jennifer Vernon
for National Geographic News
April 22, 2004
While William Shakespeare died 388 years ago this week, the English playwright and poet lives on not only through his writings, but through the words and sayings attributed to him that still color the English language today.
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"fashionable" | "sanctimonious" | Eaten out of house and home" | "Pomp and circumstance" | "Foregone conclusion" | "Full circle" | "The makings of" | "Method in the madness" | "Neither rhyme nor reason" | "One fell swoop" | "Seen better days" | "It smells to heaven" | "A sorry sight" | "A spotless reputation" | "Strange bedfellows" | "The world's (my) oyster" | "sweets to the sweet" | "fool in good clothes" | "in my heart of hearts"
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Perhaps the true brilliance of Shakespeare's wordplay lies in his alternate uses of existing words, such as using a noun as verb. ..., for example, Shakespeare's transformation of "lace", a noun borrowed from French, into the verb "lac'd" ("laced").
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The Bard also invented "new" words through the creative use of prefixes or suffixes (as in "reword"), and by joining two familiar words to create an unfamiliar phrase, like "fier [fire] new," notes Hope.
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According to Macrone in Brush Up Your Shakespeare, the Oxford English Dictionary credits Shakespeare as the first to use these words, among others: "arch-villain", "bedazzle", "cheap" (as in vulgar or flimsy), "dauntless", "embrace" (as a noun), "fashionable", "go-between", "honey-tongued", "inauspicious", "lustrous", "nimble-footed", "outbreak", "pander", "sanctimonious", "time-honored", "unearthly", "vulnerable", and "well-bred".
"Faux Shakespeare"
Of course, with such a wide linguistic influence attributed to Shakespeare, it is not all that surprising that the playwright has some notable phrases incorrectly assigned to him as well.
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To help prevent embarrassment, Macrone kindly provides a list of "faux Shakespeare" for his readers, including the following familiar sayings:
"All that glisters (glistens) is not gold" | "To knit one's brow" | "Cold comfort" | "(To) give the devil his due" | "To play fast and loose" | "Till the last gasp" | "Laughing stock" | "Fool's paradise" | "In a pickle" | "Out of the question" | "The long and the short of it" | "It's Greek to me" | "It's high time" | "The naked truth"
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While Shakespeare probably made these phrases better known, writes Macrone, they all have earlier documented references.
Regardless of such technicalities, Shakespeare's influence on everyday speech survived the subsequent shifts in language that resulted in the English spoken today. So, to use a familiar Shakespeare phrase, it seems that "all's well that ends well".
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Barry Manilow may claim to write the songs, but it was William Shakespeare who coined the phrases. He contributed more phrases and sayings to the English language than any other individual - and most of them are still in daily use.
Here's a collection of well-known quotations that are associated with Shakespeare. Most of these were the Bard's own work, but he wasn't averse to stealing a good line occasionally and a few of these were 'popularised by' rather than 'coined by' Shakespeare.
- A countenance more in sorrow than in anger
- A Daniel come to judgement
- A dish fit for the gods
- A fool's paradise
- A foregone conclusion
- A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse
- A ministering angel shall my sister be
- A plague on both your houses
- A rose by any other name would smell as sweet
- A sea change
- A sorry sight
- Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety
- Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio
- All corners of the world
- All one to me
- All that glitters is not gold / All that glisters is not gold
- All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players
- All's well that ends well
- An ill-favoured thing sir, but mine own
- And shining morning face, creeping like a snail unwillingly to school
- And thereby hangs a tale
- As cold as any stone
- As dead as a doornail
- As good luck would have it
- As merry as the day is long
- As pure as the driven snow
- At one fell swoop
- Bag and baggage
- Beast with two backs
- Beware the ides of March
- Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks
- Brevity is the soul of wit
- But screw your courage to the sticking-place
- But, for my own part, it was Greek to me
- Come the three corners of the world in arms
- Come what come may
- Comparisons are odorous
- Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war
- Discretion is the better part of valour
- Double, double toil and trouble, fire burn, and cauldron bubble
- Eaten out of house and home
- Et tu, Brute
- Even at the turning of the tide
- Exceedingly well read
- Eye of newt and toe of frog, wool of bat and tongue of dog
- Fair play
- Fancy free
- Fie, foh, and fum, I smell the blood of a British man
- Fight fire with fire
- For ever and a day
- Frailty, thy name is woman
- Foul play
- Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears
- Good men and true
- Good riddance
- Green eyed monster
- Hark, hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings
- He will give the Devil his due
- Heart's content
- High time
- His beard was as white as snow
- Hoist by your own petard
- How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child
- I bear a charmed life
- I have not slept one wink
- I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips
- I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
- If music be the food of love, play on
- In a pickle
- In my mind's eye, Horatio
- In stitches
- In the twinkling of an eye
- Is this a dagger which I see before me?
- It beggar'd all description
- It is meat and drink to me
- Lay it on with a trowel
- Lie low
- Like the Dickens
- Love is blind
- Make your hair stand on end
- Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water
- Milk of human kindness
- Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows
- More fool you
- More honoured in the breach than in the observance
- Much Ado about Nothing
- Mum's the word
- My salad days
- Neither a borrower nor a lender be
- Night owl
- No more cakes and ale?
- Now is the winter of our discontent
- O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo
- Off with his head
- Oh, that way madness lies
- Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more
- Out of the jaws of death
- Pound of flesh
- Primrose path
- Rhyme nor reason
- Salad days
- Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything
- Screw your courage to the sticking place
- Send him packing
- Set your teeth on edge
- Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
- Short shrift
- Shuffle off this mortal coil
- Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep
- Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em
- Something is rotten in the state of Denmark
- Star crossed lovers
- Stiffen the sinews
- Stony hearted
- Such stuff as dreams are made on
- The course of true love never did run smooth
- The crack of doom
- The Devil incarnate
- The game is afoot
- The game is up
- The quality of mercy is not strained
- The Queen's English
- The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
- The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on
- There's method in my madness
- Thereby hangs a tale
- This is the short and the long of it
- This is very midsummer madness
- This precious stone set in the silver sea, this sceptered isle
- Though this be madness, yet there is method in it
- Thus far into the bowels of the land
- To be or not to be, that is the question
- To gild refined gold, to paint the lily
- To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub
- Too much of a good thing
- Truth will out
- Under the greenwood tree
- Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown
- Vanish into thin air
- We few, we happy few, we band of brothers
- We have seen better days
- Wear your heart on your sleeve
- What a piece of work is man
- What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet
- When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions
- Where the bee sucks, there suck I
- While you live, tell truth and shame the Devil!
- Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure
- Wild goose chase
- Woe is me
The term "plagiarism" is used to describe a wide range of acts (Oliphant, 2002). One well-accepted definition in literature is "the presentation of another's words or ideas as your own" (Babbie, 1998).
The term, deriving from the Latin root "Plagiarius", which means "a kidnapper", was first used by Martial, a Roman poet in the first century A.D. (Kolich, 1983). Traditionally, literary theft was compared to stealing a child or a slave, highlighting the powerful relationship between artistic and biological creations (Greenacre, 1978). Since the 18 century, the term "plagiarism" is restricted excusively to literary theft (Garfield, 1980).
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- Isaac Reed's Advertisement to the 1785 edition of the Johnson-Steevens-Reed text.
- Samuel Weller Singer's Preface (1826).
- Henry N. Hudson's Preface to "The Harvard Edition" of 1881.
- Charles and Mary Lamb's Tales From Shakespeare.
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Thomas Morus - Utopia (1516)
Übersetzung: Ignaz Emanuel Wessely, 1896.
I. Vorrede | 1. Geleitbrief an Petrus Ägidius | 2. Voraussetzungen und Schwierigkeiten der Abfassung des Werkes | 3. Zweifel an der Genauigkeit des Berichtes | 4. Befürchtungen hinsichtlich der Aufnahme des Werkes | II. Bericht über die beste Staatsverfassung | 1. Die Gesandtschaft nach Flandern | 2. Der Weltreisende: Raphael Hythlodeus | 3. Der Reisebericht | 4. Der Philosoph als Fürstendiener | 5. Erfahrungen in England | - Kardinal John Morton | - Kritik des englischen Strafrechts | - Die Herkunft der Diebe | - Die Landsknechtsplage | - Schafzucht und Einhegungen | - Teuerung | - Notwendigkeit der Änderung | - Erwiderungen und Gegenargumente | - Das Beispiel der Polyleriten | - Möglichkeit der Nachahmung in England | - Der Streit mit dem Mönch | - Schluß des Berichts über das Gespräch bei John Morton | 6. Der Philosoph als Staatsmann | - Kritik der üblichen Außenpolitik | - Das Beispiel der Achorier | - Kritik der üblichen Finanzpolitik | - Das Beispiel der Makarenser | - "Theoretische" und "praktische" Philosophie | - Ein Philosoph kann weder Staatsmann noch Fürstendiener sein | 7. Das Privateigentum als Hindernis gerechter Politik | 8. Preis der Utopier | III. Erzählung von der Verfassung der Insel Utopia | 1. Die Lage der Insel | 2. Städte, Land und Landwirtschaft | 3. Die Stadt Amaurotum | 4. Die Behörden | 5. Die Gewerbe | 6. Der Tageslauf der Utopier | 7. Arbeitsverteilung, Kleidung und Wohlstand | 8. Sozialordnung und Bevölkerungspölitik | 9. Versorgung der Bevölkerung | 10. Die Mahlzeiten | 11. Der Reiseverkehr | 12. Handel und Zahlungsausgleich | 13. Einstellung der Utopier zu Geld und Geldeswert | 14. Die Gesandtschaft der Anemolier | 15. Nichtigkeit des Besitzes | 16. Unterricht und Wissenschaft | 17. Sittenlehre | - Tugend und Glückseligkeit | - Die Lehre von der Lust | 18. Körperbau und allgemeine Lebensweise der Utopier | 19. Aufnahme der humanistischen Wissenschaft, Buchdruck | 20. Fremde und Sklaven | 21. Krankenpflege | 22. Geschlechtsmoral und Ehegesetze | 23. Rechtsprechung | 24. Narren, Krüppel, natürliche Schönheit | 25. Ehrungen, Umgangsformen | 26. Gesetze und Gerichte | 27. Zeitweilige Überlassung von Beamten an Nachbarn | 28. Bündnisse | 29. Das Kriegswesen | - Kriegsgründe | - Eigene Truppen und Söldner | - Oberbefehl und Rekrutierung | - Einsatz von Frauen, Kampfmoral | - Kampftaktik, Verhalten nach dem Sieg | - Lagerbau und Waffen | - Behandlung der Besiegten, Nachkriegspolitik | 30. Die Religion der Utopier | - Liberaler Deismus | - Verhältnis zum Christentum | - Religiöse Toleranz | - Bestattung der Toten | - Aberglaube, Wunder, Sekten | - Die Priester | - Feste, Feiern und Gottesdienste | 31. Lob der utopischen Staatsverfassung | 32. Kritik der bestehenden Staaten | 33. Beschluss ohne Einwände
"Ulysses" ist auch der Name einer europäisch-amerikanischen Raumsonde, die erstmals die Pole der Sonne überflogen hat. Ulysses hat unerwartet lang durchgehalten: Während eines kompletten Sonnenfleckenzyklus hat die Sonde Daten gesammelt, zum Beispiel über den Sonnenwind und das Magnetfeld der Sonne. Nach über 17 Jahren endet die Ulysses-Mission am 1. Juli 2008.
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- 4. The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco
- 5. The Closing of the American Mind, Allan Bloom
- 6. Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak
- 7. Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
- 8. The Bell Curve, Charles Murray and Richard Herrnstein
- 9. The End of History, Francis Fukuyama
- 10. Beowulf, Seamus Heaney (trans.)
Harvard Classics, Vol. 36, Part 3
Utopia
Sir Thomas More
More describes the ideal commonwealth, where all work is for the common good: highlighting the abuses of power at the time and slyly suggesting necessary reforms.
- Dedication
- The First Book
- The Second Book
- 1.Of the Cities, and namely of Amaurote
- 2.Of the Magistrates
- 3.Of Sciences, Crafts, and Occupation
- 4.Of their living and mutual conversation together
- 5.Of their journeying or travelling abroad, with divers other matters cunningly reasoned, and wittily discussed
- 6.Of Bondmen, Sick Persons, Wedlock, and divers other matters
- 7.Of Warfare
- 8.Of the Religions in Utopia
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Dieses griechische Wort heißt "nirgendwo" oder "ohne Ort". Wir gebrauchen es in unserer Sprache als Bezeichnung für etwas, das eigentlich niemals wahr werden kann.
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In dem Roman "Utopia" beschreibt der Autor Thomas Morus (1478-1535) einen solchen perfekten Staat. Er war es auch, der dieses Wort zum ersten Male gebrauchte.
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- "vanity case" - a small handbag or case used by women for carrying cosmetics or toiletries
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But one strange statement did catch my eye. "Walrus" he says is a "classic example of an extremely ancient word." Well, "walrus" is cited first from 1655, so it's older than briefs or knickers, but in language terms it is modern.
The Old English word for the beast, "horschwael", is to be found in the interpolation on northern seas in King Alfred's translation of Orosius' Historiae contra Paganos. Orosius had, I presume, never seen a walrus, being a native of Spain, and living mostly in North Africa.
Mr Winchester mentions that the etymology in the OED was written by J.R.R. Tolkien and his notes on the subject exist in a book in the Bodleian library; I wish he’d said more about them. The history of the words for the "walrus" is pretty complicated and dogged by folk etymologising. There seems, Tolkien suggests, to have been a confusion between the Old Norse "hrosshvalr", a kind of whale, and "rosmhvalr", the "walrus". Then Tolkien discounts other scholars' derivations of "rosm-", and he conjectures a non-Teutonic origin, as with "morse", another word for the creature, which might come from Finnish. (Finnish lay behind Tolkien’s invention of the language Quenya.) So "walrus" is not a "classic example" in the sense of being typical.
As a diversion, I noticed that the word "rewel" means "walrus ivory", and Tolkien’s third name was "Reuel". I very excitedly wondered if Tolkien were named after a tusk, but the Oxford Names Companion tells me that "Reuel" is a Hebrew name meaning "friend of God". It is to be found in 1 Chronicles 9:8 (though the Companion erroneously says 2 Chronicles). It was not so much a walrus as a red herring. (The Spectator)
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Before dictionaries existed, English words were spelt in various ways. "Shakespeare" even spelt his own name several different ways. "The name Shakespeare is extremely widespread," says Linda Alchin, of William Shakespeare Info, "and is spelt in an astonishing variety of ways including "Shakspere", "Shakespere", "Shakkespere", "Shaxpere", "Shakstaff", "Sakspere", "Shagspere", "Shakeshafte" and even "Chacsper" as can be seen via details of possible ancestors."
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Shakespeare's writings greatly influenced the entire English language. Prior to and during Shakespeare's time, the grammar and rules of English were not fixed. But once Shakespeare's plays became popular in the late seventeenth and eighteenth century, they helped contribute to the standardization of the English language, with many Shakespearean words and phrases becoming embedded in the English language, particularly through projects such as Samuel Johnson's Dictionary which quoted Shakespeare more than any other writer. He expanded the scope of English literature by introducing new words and phrases, experimenting with blank verse, and also introducing new poetic and grammatical structures.
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Using the New Penguin Shakespeare as their text, the editors, linguist David Crystal and his actor son Ben Crystal, first collected all of the "problem" words flagged by the Penguin editors and then scoured the plays and sonnets for additional "difficult" words - especially words that are no longer current or that have developed a different sense since Shakespeare's time. After a few further additions, their entries totaled 21,263 under 13,626 headwords.
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Die originalsprachige Edition präsentiert auf über 170.000 Seiten das literarische Schaffen von 94 Autoren der englischen und amerikanischen Literatur aus dem Zeitraum vom späten 14. Jahrhundert bis ins erste Drittel des 20. Jahrhunderts - je nach Umfang und welt- bzw. nationalliterarischem Rang teils nahezu erschöpfend, teils in repräsentativer Auswahl.
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English and American Literature. "Querschnitt durch die englischsprachige Literatur von Byron bis Wilde" (Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten). Über 172.000 Seiten mit Werken von 94 Autoren der englischen und amerikanischen Literatur vom späten 14. bis ins frühe 20. Jahrhundert im englischen Original: Jane Austen, Lord Byron, John F. Cooper, Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Jack London, Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, William Shakespeare, Robert L. Stevenson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Jonathan Swift, Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde u.v.a. Zum Textbestand gehören die bedeutendsten Dramen, Romane und Erzählungen der klassisch gewordenen englischsprachigen Literatur, das Werk der namhaftesten Lyriker und eine Auswahl von Essays und autobiografischen Schriften. Abgerundet wird die Edition durch illustrierte, ebenfalls in englischer Sprache abgefasste Biografien und bibliografische Notizen zu jedem einzelnen Werk.
»Shakespeare und kein Ende«: Wie kaum ein zweiter Dichter hat William Shakespeare die Entwicklung der Weltliteratur geprägt und bis in die Gegenwart hinein beeinflußt. Auch über den Abstand von vier Jahrhunderten hinweg hat sein Werk nichts von seiner Strahlkraft und Wirkungsmacht verloren. Hamlet und Ophelia, Othello und Macbeth, Romeo und Julia, Shylock und Falstaff, Caliban und Prospero sind zu festen Bestandteilen des kulturellen Gedächtnisses der Menschheit geworden.
Die CD-ROM macht das Gesamtwerk des größten englischen Dichters auf vier verschiedenen Ebenen zugänglich: Sie enthält eine moderne, wissenschaftlichen Kriterien genügende Edition seiner Dramen und Gedichte in der Originalsprache sowie die bis heute am weitesten verbreitete Übersetzung in deutscher Sprache von August Wilhelm Schlegel, Dorothea Tieck, Ludwig Tieck und Wolf Graf Baudissin. Speziellen Interessen dienen das vollständige elektronische Faksimile der »First Folio«-Ausgabe von 1623 sowie deren komplette Transkription. Alle vier »Fassungen« der jeweiligen Werke sind szenenweise miteinander verknüpft, so daß unkomplizierte Textvergleiche möglich werden.
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Im Original und in deutscher Übersetzung: Alle 60 Fälle von Sherlock Holmes.
Wohl kaum ein anderer Detektiv der Literaturgeschichte hat eine ähnliche Bekanntheit und Beliebtheit erlangt wie der Pfeife rauchende Exzentriker aus der Londoner Baker Street 221b. Zusammen mit seinem Freund Dr. Watson löste Sherlock Holmes seit 1887 auf brilliante Weise jene Rätsel, »die von der Polizei als hoffnungslos aufgegeben worden waren.« In insgesamt 56 Erzählungen sowie vier großen Romanen setzte Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) dem Meisterdetektiv ein unvergängliches Denkmal.
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Die CD-ROM »100 englische Klassiker« erschließt auf über 45000 Bildschirmseiten - von den »Canterbury Tales« bis »Lady Chatterley's Lover« - die Meilensteine der englischen Literatur. In englischer Sprache, original und ungekürzt.
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154 S. Taschenbuch
Universitätsverlag Winter GmbH, Heidelberg 1995
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A fun collection of the bard's well-turned barbs, arranged by play, with short sections providing insults for particular occasions and a handy listing for abusive name-calling.
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Gathers more than four thousand insults from name calling to scornful quotations.
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I wasn't all that sure until I read "Brush Up On Your Shakespeare" by Michael Macrone. Did you know that "Such stuff as dreams are made on" is from The Tempest, spoken by Prospero? Or "Wild goose chase" was said by Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet? Well, now you do! This guide to William Shakespeare's most famous words and classic phrases are now in one entertaining guide. Listed by the phrases themselves, with in-depth explanations as to its original meaning and how it was used back in its time. Macrone also includes in the back, some "Household Words" coined by the famous Bard and "Faux Shakespeare: Phrases Often Misattributed to Shakespeare".
People have used these expressions in everyday interactions as well as in the media. The book is even sprinkled with delightful illustrations by Tom Lulevitch. This guide is an easy way to learn a bit more about Shakespeare, for just about anyone.
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This wide-ranging and erudite exploration of the topic of reading is suffused with the spirit of Manguel's fellow Argentinian Jorge Luis Borges. Manguel takes us through the history of reading as if leading us room by room through the infinite library Borges constructed in one of his famous stories. Manguel's approach is not chronological, but thematic. His chapter topics jump from attempts to censor reading to the physical surroundings favored by readers, from the limitations of translations to the esotericism of books written for a restricted readership. Throughout he moves easily through time and geography to quote anecdotes and examples from diverse sources. Manguel's enthusiasm, and the impressive breadth of his reading, will make his readers eager to rush to the nearest library.
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From "assassination" to "zany", entries explain the source of each word, their modern history, and their precise location within Shakespeare's works. Quizzes interspersed throughout test bardophiles on their knowledge of first lines and other trivia. Many of the Bard's verbal gems have been compiled in this book.
A little Shakespeare dictionary, 24. März 2000
This little book (from Merriam Webster, the big dictionary people) is definitely fun. It is part of a series about how words have been used in different times and places. This volume concentrates on the words "invented" by Shakespeare - the authors estimate that there are in the vicinity of 1,500 such words and this book probably includes a couple hundred examples. Admittedly, there is lots of room for judgement here and sometimes the authors note that, but many times they state theories as fact. This tendency keeps my rating below five stars. The book is organized with a chapter for each letter of the alphabet - and a Shakespeare trivia quiz at the end of each chapter. Again, fun, but beware of theories - on the other hand, maybe one of these questions will make it to "Do You Want To Be A Millionaire?". It is not a book for reading straight through, but it is perfect to fill short periods here and there that keep you waiting. You will be amazed at the words included such as "ADVERTISING", "ALLIGATOR", "INVESTMENT", "OBSCENE", "PUKE", "PUPPY DOG" and "ZANY". There are also some examples that you probably won't recognize. The text gives sites for the usage in Shakespeare's plays. If you are interested enough in this subject to have made it to the end of this review, then buy it, its worth the price.
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One aspect of Shakespeare’s inventive abilities that makes him such a force in the development of English was his ability to create phrases that stick in the memory and which have become an integral and enduring part of the language. There are dozens in common use which can be traced back to his plays: "not budge an inch", "green-eye