A Brief Handbook of English Authors Part 30

=Street, Geo. Edmund.= 1824-1881. Gothic architect. Author The Brick and Marble in the Middle Ages, Gothic Architecture in Spain, etc. _See The Biograph, Aug. 1880._

=Stretton, Hesba.= See Smith, Sarah.

=Strickland, Agnes.= 1796-1874. Historical writer. Author Lives of the Queens of England, Lives of the Queens of Scotland, Lives of the Seven Bishops, etc. _Pub. Har. La. Lip. Por._

=Strutt, Joseph.= 1742-1802. Antiquarian. Author Sports and Pastimes of the People of England, Biographical Hist. of Engravers, etc. _Pub.

Rou._

=Strype, John.= 1643-1737. Historian. Author Annals of the Reformation, Life of Cranmer, etc.

=Stuart, Gilbert.= 1742-1786. Historian. Author View of Society in Europe, Hist. of Scotland, etc. An accurate but prejudiced writer.

=Stubbs, Wm.= 182 Historian. Author of The Const.i.tutional Hist.

of England, The Early Plantagenets, etc. _Pub. Est. Mac._

=Stukely, Wm.= 1687-1765. Antiquarian writer.

=Suckling, Sir John.= 1609-1641. Of his gay, airy verse, the Ballad upon a Wedding is most widely known. _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 2._

=Sugden, Edward B., Baron St. Leonards.= 1781-1875. Jurist of high rank. Author Handy Book on Property Law, etc. _Pub. Jo._

=Sumner, John Bird.= 1780-1862. Abp. Canterbury. Religious writer.

Author Practical Reflections, etc.

=Surrey, Earl of.= See Howard, Henry.

=Swain, Charles.= 1803-1874. Poet. His verse is pleasing, but has little strength. _Pub. Rob._

=Swift, Jonathan.= 1667-1745. Irish satirist. Author Battle of the Books, Tale of a Tub, Drapier's Letters, Gulliver's Travels, etc.

Style coa.r.s.e, bitterly savage and personal, but of great vigor, keenness, and force. _See Lives, by T. Sheridan and Forster; also, Taine's Eng. Lit., Thackeray's Eng. Humorists, Leslie Stephen's Swift, in Eng. Men of Letters, and Ma.s.son's Novelists._ _Pub. Hou._

=Swinburne, Algernon Charles.= 183 Poet and critic. Author of Atalanta in Calydon, Song of Italy, Chastelard, Mary Stuart, Bothwell, Tristram, etc. Tristram is the finest of his long poems, and A Child's Song in Winter one of the best of the minor ones. His verse shows wonderful melody and perfect mastery of metre even when most obscure, and abounds in vivid and exquisite descriptions. _See Stedman's Victorian Poets and Lowell's My Study Windows._ _Pub. Ho._

=Sylvester, Joshua.= 1563-1618. Poet. Translator of the French poet Du Bartas, and known in his day as Silver-Tongued Sylvester.

=Symonds, John Addington.= 184 Poet and critic. Author Hist. of the Renaissance in Italy, Studies of the Greek Poets, Sketches and Studies in Southern Europe, Italian Byways, etc., and two vols. of poems, ent.i.tled New and Old and Many Moods. _Pub. Har. Ho. Os._

=Tabor, Eliza.= See Stephenson, Mrs.

=Tait, Archibald Campbell.= 1811-1882. Abp. Canterbury. Theologian.

Author Dangers and Safeguards of Modern Theology, etc. _Pub. Mac._

=Talfourd [tawl'furd], Sir Thomas Noon.= 1795-1854. Dramatic poet.

Author of The Athenian Captive, Glencoe, The Castilian, etc., but chiefly known by his fine tragedy Ion, and Final Memorials of Chas.

Lamb.

=Tannahill, Robert.= 1774-1810. Scotch poet. His lyrics possess a sweetness like those of Burns. Braes of Balquither and The Flower of Dumblane are familiar examples. _See Centenary edition, 1874._

=Tate, Nahum.= 1652-1715. a.s.sociate with Brady in a noted metrical version of the Psalms, and author of several plays.

=Tautphoeus, Baroness.= 18-- ----. Novelist. Author of The Initials, Quits, Cyrilla, At Odds, etc. _Pub. Ho. Lip._

=Taylor, Brook.= 1685-1731. Mathematician. Author Methods of Increment and inventor of Taylor's Theorem.

=Taylor, Sir Henry.= 180 Dramatic poet. Author Edwin the Fair, Philip Van Artavelde, Isaac Comnenus, etc. Philip Van Artavelde, his finest work, ranks high in modern dramatic poetry. _See edition 1863._ _See Fortnightly Review, vol. 1, and The Biograph, vol. 2._ _Pub.

Lip._

=Taylor, Isaac.= 1787-1865. Miscellaneous writer. Author Elements of Thought, The Spirit of Hebrew Poetry, The World of Mind, etc. _Pub.

Ca. Dut. Har. Mac._

=Taylor, Jane.= 1783-1824. Moral and religious writer. Sister to I. T.

Author with her sister Ann of Hymns for Infant Minds, etc. _Pub. Ca.

Har. Por. Rou._

=Taylor, Jeremy.= 1613-1667. Bp. Down and Connor. Theologian. His best works are Sermons, The Great Exemplar, and Holy Living and Holy Dying. His warmth of imagination and poetic fervor render his prose both musical and eloquent, while his long, involved sentences are managed with the rarest skill. _See Heber's edition, 15 vols., 1820._ _See Life, by Wilmott, 1847._ _Pub. Ca. Clx. Dut. Lip._

=Taylor, John.= 1580-1654. Poet. Called the Water Poet. A voluminous writer but one of little interest to modern readers.

=Taylor, Robert.= fl. c. 1600. Dramatist. Author of The Hog hath Lost his Pearl, etc.

=Taylor, Thomas.= 1758-1835. Philosophical writer. Known as the Platonist.

=Taylor, Tom.= 1817-1880. Dramatist. Of his many excellent plays, The Ticket-of-Leave Man is the most popular. _See Eclectic Mag. Oct.

1880._

=Taylor, Wm.= 1765-1836. His translations of Goethe, Schiller, and Lessing promoted greatly the study of German literature in England.

=Temple, Frederick.= 182 Bp. Exeter. Theologian of the Broad Church school. Author Sermons in Rugby School, etc. _Pub. Mac._

=Temple, Sir Wm.= 1628-1699. Philosophical essayist. _The best edition of his works is 4 vols. 8vo, London, 1814._

=Tennant, Wm.= 1774-1848. Scotch poet. Author of the humorous, mock-heroic poem, Auster Fair, etc. _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 4._

=Tennent, Sir James.= See Emerson-Tennent.

=Tennyson, Alfred.= 180 Poet Laureate. In Memoriam, Idyls of the King, The Princess, Maud, and Enoch Arden, with the dramas Harold and Queen Mary, comprise his longest poems. Among the finest of the shorter ones are [OE]none, Ulysses, The Talking Oak, Lotus Eaters, Lady of Shalott, The Gardener's Daughter, The Revenge, and Locksley Hall, and of the brief songs, Tears, Idle Tears, and Late, so Late.

The poetry of T., taken as a whole, represents the highest water mark of the non-dramatic poetry of the English-speaking world. In it is united a perfect mastery of words and metre with a widely cultured, thoughtful imagination. _See Hutton's Essays, Stedman's Victorian Poets, Buchanan's Master Spirits, Tavish's Studies in Tennyson, Gatty's Study of In Memoriam, Genung's Study of In Memoriam, Atlantic Monthly, Sept. 1879._ _Pub. Har. Hou. Os._

=Tennyson-Turner, Chas.= 1808?-1881. Poet. Bro. to A. Tennyson. Style delicate and meditative. His Sonnets have been greatly praised. _See Living Age, Dec. 31, 1881._

=Tennyson, Frederick.= 180 Poet. Bro. to two preceding. Author Days and Hours, etc. Style artistic and elegant. The Blackbird is one of his best poems. _See Stedman's Victorian Poets._

=Thackeray-Ritchie, Mrs. Anne Isabella.= 184 Dau. to W. M. T.

Novelist. Author of Miss Angel, Old Kensington, Village on the Cliff, etc. Style quiet, picturesque, and refined. _Pub. Har._

=Thackeray, Wm. Makepeace.= 1811-1863. Novelist. Author of Vanity Fair, Newcomes, Pendennis, Virginians, Henry Esmond, Philip, Denis Duval, Hoggarty Diamond, Barry Lyndon, etc. Of these Esmond must rank highest as a piece of literary art. His style presents a union of the satirical and the humorous, the cynical and the kindly, which perplexes some readers, but is almost always an example of excellent English. The End of the Play and Bouillebaisse are his two best poems.