A Brief Handbook of English Authors Part 24

=Plumptre, Edward Hayes.= 182 Poet and translator. Author Lazarus and other Poems, etc., Byways of Scripture, etc., and translation of Sophocles and aeschylus. His verse is didactic in character. _Pub. Dut. Mac. Rou._

=Pole, Reginald, Cardinal.= 1500-1558. Theological writer.

=Pollock, Frederick.= 184 Jurist. Author Principles of Contract, Digest of Law of Partners.h.i.+p, Spinoza: his Life and Philosophy, and The Land Laws in Macmillan's Eng. Citizen Series. _Pub. Mac. Th._

=Pollock, Robert.= 1799-1827. Scotch poet. Author of The Course of Time, a heavy, didactic, blank-verse poem, once very popular. _Pub.

Apl. Ca. Clx._

=Pomfret, John.= 1667-1703. Poet. Author of The Choice. _See Life, by Dr. Johnson._

=Poole, John.= 1786-1872. Dramatist and humorist. Author of the comedy, Paul Pry, Little Pedlington, a vol. of witty sketches, The Comic Sketch-Book, etc.

=Poole, Matthew.= 1624-1679. Biblical Commentator. _Pub. Ca._

=Pope, Alexander.= 1688-1744. A correct, polished poet whose verse lacks sentiment and feeling. The heroic couplet is his usual measure.

His translation of Homer, though a fine effort, lacks the freshness and spontaneity of its original. His chief poems are Essay on Man, Moral Essays, The Dunciad, a talented but terrible satire, and The Rape of the Lock, a brilliant, glittering piece of literary trifling.

_See editions of, by A. W. Ward, Cowden-Clarke, and Rossetti._ _See Lowell's My Study Windows; also Leslie Stephen's Pope in Eng. Men of Letters._ _Pub. Apl. Le. Mac. Rou._

=Porson, Richard.= 1759-1808. Cla.s.sical scholar and writer of note.

_See Watson's Life of, 1861._

=Porter, Anna Maria.= 1781-1832. Novelist. Don Sebastian is perhaps the best of her numerous novels.

=Porter, Jane.= 1776-1850. Novelist. Sister to A. M. P. The famous romances Thaddeus of Warsaw and Scottish Chiefs are her chief works.

_Pub. Apl. Le. Lip. Por._

=Powell, Baden.= 1796-1860. Philosopher. Author Hist. Nat. Philosophy, Spirit of Inductive Philosophy, Study and Evidence of Christianity, etc.

=Poynter, E. Frances.= 18-- ----. Novelist. Author My Little Lady, Ersilia, Among the Hills, etc. _Pub. Ho._

=Praed [pr[=a]d], Winthrop Mackworth.= 1802-1839. Poet. A writer of pleasing verse, of which the Belle of the Ball is a good example. _See Complete Works, edited by Sir Geo. Young._ _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 4._ _Pub. Arm._

=Price, Bonamy.= 180 Political economist. Author Practical Political Economy, Currency and Banking, Principles of Currency, etc.

_Pub. Apl._

=Prideaux [pr[)i]d'o, or pr[)i]d-[)u]x], Humphrey.= 1648-1724.

Theologian. Noted for his Connection of the Old and New Testaments.

_Pub. Har. Mac._

=Priestley, Joseph.= 1733-1804. Theologian and scientist. Author of over 300 books on chemistry, theology, metaphysics, etc. _See Works of, 1824, 26 vols._ _See Life of, by Corry._

=Pringle, Thomas.= 1789-1834. Scotch poet. His best poem is the spirited Afar in the Desert. _See Grant Wilson's Poets of Scotland._

=Prior, Matthew.= 1664-1721. Poet. A sprightly writer whose light and airy style is seen to best advantage in his comic narrative poems.

_See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 3._ _Pub. Hou._

=Procter, Adelaide Anne.= 1825-1864. Poet. Dau. to B. W. P. Author Legends and Lyrics. _See Stedman's Victorian Poets._ _Pub. Hou._

=Procter, Bryan Waller, "Barry Cornwall."= 1790-1874. Poet. A writer of somewhat over-praised lyric verse. The tragedy of Mirandola is his finest dramatic effort. _See Autobiography. Compare Stedman's Victorian Poets and Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 4._

=Proctor Richard Anthony.= 183 Astronomer. Author Other Worlds than Ours, Our Place Among the Infinities, etc. _Pub. Apl. Arm. Lip.

Put._

=Prout, Father.= See Mahoney, Francis.

=Prynne, Wm.= 1600-1669. Political and antiquarian writer.

=Pugin [p[=u]-jin], Augustus.= 1792-1832. Architectural writer of note.

=Pugin, Augustin Welby Northmore.= 1812-1852. Architect. Son to A. P.

Author Examples of Gothic Architecture, Glossary of Eccl. Ornament, etc. _See Ferrey's Recollections of A. W. N. Pugin and Augustus Pugin, 1861._

=Purchas, Samuel.= 1577-1628. Chronicler and compiler of travels.

=Pusey [p[=u]'z[)i]], Edward Bouverie.= 1800-1882. Theologian. Author Hist. Councils of the Church, Doctrine of the Real Presence, etc, and many of the Tracts for the Times. The earlier Ritualists were named Puseyites. His influence greatly deepened the religious feeling of the Anglican Church. _See Life, by Liddon._ _Pub. Apl._

=Pusey, Philip Edward.= 18-- 1880. Theological writer. Son to E. B. P.

=Puttenham, George.= 1530-c. 1600. Author of The Art of Eng. Poesie.

=Pye, Henry James.= 1745-1813. Poet. Author of very indifferent verse.

=Quarles, Francis.= 1592-1644. Poet. An ingenious versifier, very popular in his own day, and now chiefly known by his Divine Emblems and a vol. of prose maxims ent.i.tled Enchiridion.

=Quarles, John.= 1624-1665. Poet. Son to F. Q. Author Divine Meditations, etc. His verse is marked by the same fantastic, labored conceits as that of his father.

=Quincey, Thos. de.= See De Quincey.

=Radcliffe, Mrs. Ann [Ward].= 1764-1823. Novelist. A writer of powerful sensational romances, the best known of which are The Mysteries of Udolpho and Romance of the Forest. _See Memoir of, by Talfourd, and Memoir of, by Miss Rossetti._ _Pub. Clx. Rou._

=Raleigh [raw'l[)i]], Sir Walter.= 1532-1618. His chief work, The Hist. of the World, has great literary merit. _See Lives, by Whitehead, Oldys, Birch, Cayley, Thomson, Tytler, Napier, St. John, and Edwards. See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 1._

=Ramsay [r[)a]m'z[)i]], Allan.= 1685-1758. Scotch poet. Author of the pastoral poem The Gentle Shepherd. _See edition 1800, with Life; also Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 3._

=Ramsay, Edward Bannerman.= 1793-1872. Author of the famous Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character, Sermons, Pulpit Table-Talk, etc. _See 23d edition of the Reminiscences, 1874, and Memorials and Recollections, by C. Rogers._

=Randolph, Thos.= 1605-1634. Poet and dramatist. His works are inferior in quality. The Jealous Lover is one of his plays. _See Works of, edited by Carew Hazlitt, 1875, and Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 2._

=Rankine, Wm. John Macquorn.= 1820-1872. Writer on mechanics. Author Applied Mechanics, The Steam Engine, Songs and Fables, etc. _See Memoir, by P. G. Tait._ _Pub. Apl. Mac._

=Rawlinson, George Henry.= 181 Historian. Author The Five Great Monarchies of the Eastern World, Manual of Ancient Hist., The Seventh Great Oriental Monarchy, etc. _Pub. Apl. Do. Est. Har. Mac._