A Brief Handbook of English Authors Part 35

Biography, etc.

=Wordsworth, Christopher.= 180 Bp. Lincoln. Son to preceding.

Author Hist. Church in Ireland, Memoirs Wm. Wordsworth, etc. _Pub.

Dut._

=Wordsworth, Wm.= 1770-1850. His poems number in all 485, including the long poems, The Excursion, Peter Bell, White Doe, and the Prelude.

The best of his verse is contained in the Ode on Immortality, Tintern Abbey, Ode to Duty, Laodamia, The Cuckoo, Lucy, and a few of the Sonnets, some of which are nearly perfect of their kind. Much of his verse contains little of real interest, but his best is poetry of the very highest type. _See Grosart's complete edition, 1875._ _See Lives, by Bp. Wordsworth, Phillips, and Paxton Hood; also, Myers's Wordsworth, in Eng. Men of Letters, Ma.s.son's Essays, and Shairp's Studies in Poetry._ _Pub. Hou. Mac. Por. Rou._

=Worsley, Philip Stanhope.= ---- 1866. Poet. Translator of the Iliad.

=Wotton, Sir Henry.= 1586-1639. Poet and miscellaneous writer. His most familiar poem is the one beginning, "How happy is he born and taught." _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 2._

=Wotton, Wm.= 1666-1726. Author of the Reflections upon Ancient and Modern Learning, one of the original sources of the Boyle and Bentley controversy.

=Wrangham, Francis.= 1769-1843. Poet and translator from the cla.s.sics.

=Wraxall, Sir Fred'k Chas. Lascelles.= 1828-1865. Novelist. Author Wild Oats, Camp Life, Memoirs Queen Hortense, etc.

=Wraxall, Sir Nathaniel.= 1751-1831. Historical writer. Author Memoirs Kings of France, Hist. France, Historical Memoirs of my own Time, etc.

=Wright, Thomas.= 181 Archaeologist. Author Domestic Manners in England in the Middle Ages, Wanderings of an Antiquary, Hist. of Caricature and the Grotesque, Womankind in Western Europe, etc. _Pub.

Apl._

=Wright, Wm. Aldis.= 183 Shakespearean scholar. Co-editor with Clark of the Cambridge Shakespeare, 9 vols., 1866, and of the Globe Shakespeare.

=Wyatt, Sir Thomas.= 1503-1542. Poet. Author of love lyrics, one of the finest being Forget not yet the Tried Intent. _See Poems with Memoir, 1831._ _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 1._ _Pub. Hou._

=Wycherley [w[)i]tch-[e)]r-l[)i]], Wm.= 1640-1715. Dramatist. The Country Wife and The Plain Dealer are the best of his plays, all of which are witty, sprightly, and immoral. _See edition of 1831, with Congreve, Farquhar, and Vanbrugh._ _Pub. Ron._

=Wyckliffe.= See Wiclif, John.

=Wynter, Andrew.= 1819-1876. Miscellaneous writer. Author Our Social Bees, Curiosities of Civilization, Borderlands of Insanity, etc. _Pub.

Put._

=Yates, Edmund Hodgson.= 183 Novelist. Author Black Sheep, The Yellow Flag, Kissing the Rod, Wrecked in Port, etc. _Pub. Apl. Har.

Rou._

=Yonge [y[)u]ng], Charles Duke.= 181 Historian. Author Hist.

British Navy, Hist. Eng. Revolution of 1688, Hist. France Under the Bourbons, Three Centuries of Modern Hist., etc. _Pub. Apl. Har._

=Yonge, Charlotte Mary.= 182 Novelist. Cousin to C. D. Y. An industrious writer, of whose 50 vols. more than 30 are fictions. The Heir of Redclyffe is her most noted book; others are Heartsease, Hopes and Fears, and The Daisy Chain. Her work is all careful, well intentioned, and strongly High Church in character. _Pub. Apl. Dut.

Est. Har. Ho. Lip. Lo. Mac. Phi. Rob_.

=Youatt [yoo'[a)]t], Wm.= 1777-1847. Veterinary writer. Author of The Horse, Cattle, Sheep, The Pig, and other similar standard works. _Pub.

Ju. Lip. Por. Rou._

=Young, Arthur.= 1741-1820. Agricultural writer of note. Author Rural Economy, Six Months' Tour through North of England, etc. _See Allibone's Dict. and Donaldson's Agricultural Biography._

=Young, Edward.= 1684-1765. Poet. Author Night Thoughts, etc. Style strained and affected. _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 3._ _Pub. Apl. Ca.

Hou._

=Young, Thomas.= 1773-1829. Scientific writer of eminence. _See Peac.o.c.k's Life of._

=Zouch, Richard.= c. 1590-1660. A voluminous legal writer.

=Zouch, Thomas.= 1737-1815. Miscellaneous writer. Author Memoirs Sir Philip Sidney, Izaak Walton, etc.

ADDENDA.

=Bain, Alexander.= 181 Philosopher. Author The Senses and the Intellect, The Emotions and the Will, Study of Character, Mental and Moral Science, Logic, Mind and Body, Education as a Science, Life of John Stuart Mill, etc. _Pub. Apl. Ho._

=Barnes, Wm.= 181 Poet and philologist. Author of Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect, Grammar of the Dorset Dialect, etc. _Pub.

Rob._

=Bastian, Henry Charlton.= 183 Physician. Author The Beginnings of Life, Evolution and the Origin of Life, Common Forms of Paralysis from Brain Disease, etc. _Pub. Apl. Mac._

=Blackburn, Henry.= 183 Traveler. Author Travelling in Spain, Normandy Picturesque, The Pyrenees, Artists and Arabs, Art in the Mountains, etc. _Pub. Os._

=Browning, Oscar.= 183 Litterateur. Author of Hist. Educational Theories. Modern England, 1820-1874, Modern France, 1815-1880, etc., and articles in Encyc. Brit. on Caesar, Carthage, Dante, Goethe, etc.

_Pub. Har._

=Buxton, Mrs. B. H. [Bee].= 184 Dramatic novelist. Author of Jennie of the Prince's, Great Grenfell Gardens, Nell: on and off the Stage, From the Wings, etc. _See the Biograph, Aug. 1880._ _Pub. Har.

Rou._

=Clark, Wm. George.= 1821-1878. Shakespearean scholar. Co-editor with Wm. Aldis Wright, of the Cambridge and Globe editions of Shakespeare.

=Coleridge, Derwent.= 1800-1883. Miscellaneous writer. Son to S. T.

Coleridge. Author Scriptural Character of the English Church, Memoir of Hartley Coleridge, Life of Praed, etc.

=Cook, Dutton.= 1832-1883. Novelist and dramatic critic. Author of Young Mr. Nightingale, Art in England, The Book of the Play, etc.

=Craik, Georgiana Marion.= 183 Novelist. Author of Faith Unwin's Ordeal, Mildred, Sylvia's Choice, Dorcas, Two Women, Winnifred's Wooing, Only a b.u.t.terfly, The Cousin from India, Anne Warwick, Miss Moore, etc. _Pub. Har. Rou._

=Crosland, Mrs. Camilla [Toulmin].= 181 Miscellaneous writer.

Author Hubert Freeth's Prosperity, The Island of the Rainbow, Hildred the Daughter, Stratagems, etc. _Pub. Lip. Rou._

=Crosland, Mrs. Newton.= See Crosland, Mrs. Camilla.

=Geikie, Alexander.= 183 Geologist. Author The Story of a Boulder, Phenomena of the Glacial Drift of Scotland, etc.