A Brief Handbook of English Authors Part 8

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=Digby, Sir Kenelm.= 1603-1665. Philosophical writer.

=Digby, Kenelm Henry.= 180 Archaeologist. Author Mores Catholici, The Broad Stone of Honor, etc. An industrious and careful writer.

=Dilke, Chas. Wentworth.= 1789-1864. Critical writer of note.

=Dilke, Sir Chas. Wentworth.= 184 Grandson to preceding.

Traveler and political writer. Author Greater Britain, The Fall of Prince Florestan of Monaco, etc. _Pub. Har. Lip. Mac._

=Dillon, Wentworth.= Earl of Roscommon. 1633-1684. Poet. Essay on Translated Verse is his chief work. Style elegant and cold.

=Disraeli [diz-r[=a]'el-ee], Benj.= 1805-1881. Novelist and statesman.

Son to I. D. A talented and successful writer, possessed of great energy and strength of will. In his novels the leading people of his time are satirized. Vivian Gray, his first novel, and Endymion, his last, appeared fifty-five years apart. Others are Contarini Fleming, Henrietta Temple, Coningsby, Venetia, Tancred, and Lothair, all brilliant and showy productions. _Pub. Apl. Har._

=Disraeli, Isaac.= 1766-1848. An industrious writer of miscellaneous works, the best known being Curiosities of Lit., Calamities of Authors, Quarrels of Authors, etc. _See edition of, by his son, 1850._ _Pub. Arm. Har. Rou._

=Dixon, Wm. Hepworth.= 1821-1879. Historian and biographer. Author Personal Hist. of Lord Bacon, New America, Hist. of Two Queens, Her Majesty's Tower, etc. _Pub. Har. Lip._

=Dobell [d[)o]-bell'], Sydney.= 1824-1874. Poet. A writer who has an honorable place among modern minor poets. Author of The Roman, Balder, etc. _See Stedman's Victorian Poets; Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 4._ _See complete English edition, 1875; also, Life and Letters of, London, 1879._

=Dobson, Austin.= 184 Poet and critic. Author Vignettes in Rhyme, Proverbs in Porcelain, etc. An exceedingly graceful writer, whose poems all show a cultivated imagination and much tenderness of expression. Among the best are After Sedan, The Dead Letter, and The Young Musician. Fielding, in Eng. Men of Letters, is his chief prose work. _Pub. Ho._

=Doddridge, Philip.= 1702-1751. Moralist. Author Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul, Family Expositor, Hymns, etc. Style plain and simple. _See edition of, Leeds, 1802, 10 vols.; also, Life and Correspondence, 5 vols., London, 1831, and Life, by D. A. Harsha._

=Dodsley, Robert.= 1703-1764. Poet and publisher. Author Economy of Human Life, etc. Best known by his Collection of Old Plays. _See edition by W. Carew Hazlitt, 1875._

=Donne [d[)o]n], John.= 1573-1631. Poet and theologian. His versification is rugged, and his style obscure and fantastic, but his poems, both religious and amatory, contain much beauty of thought. His seven Satires are vigorous efforts. _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 1._ _See Dean Alford's 6 vol. edition, 8vo, London, 1838._ _Pub. Hou._

=Doran, John.= 1807-1878. Biographer. Author Lives of Queens of the House of Hanover, Monarchs Retired from Business, Hist. Court Fools, New Pictures and Old Panels, etc. _Pub. Arm._

=Dorset, 6th Earl of.= See Sackville, Geo.

=Dorset, 1st Earl of.= See Sackville, Thos. See Buckhurst, Lord.

=Douglas, Gawain.= 1474-1522. Bp. Dunkeld. Scotch poet. D. was the first metrical translator of Virgil in Gt. Britain. _See Ward's Eng.

Poets, vol. 1._ _See complete Eng. edition by J. Small, 1874._

=Dowden, Edward.= 184 Poet and Shakespearean scholar. Author Shakespeare's Mind and Art, Southey, in Eng. Men of Letters, Poems, etc. _Pub. Har._

=Drayton, Michael.= 1563-1631. Poet. His chief work is the Polyolbion, a poetical description of Britain in 100,000 lines. A far better work is the Nymphidia, an exquisitely graceful, mock heroic fairy poem.

_See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 1._

=Drummond, William= [of Hawthornden]. 1585-1649. Scotch poet. His Sonnets are his best production. _See Memoirs by Ma.s.son, 1863._ _Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 1._

=Dryden, John.= 1631-1700. Poet and dramatist. His verse takes a wide range: in satire we have Absalom and Achitophel, MacFlecknoe, etc.; in theology, Religio Laici, Hind and Panther, etc.; in drama, some thirty plays; in translation, his Virgil; and in lyric poetry, his magnificent Ode for St. Cecilia's Day. D. had great genius, not always worthily employed. His dramas, when not stilted, are licentious, and as a satirist he is bitter, personal, and coa.r.s.e. _See Ma.s.son's Essays, and Lowell's Among My Books; also, Dryden, by Saintsbury, in Eng. Men of Letters._ _Pub. Hou. Har. Rou._

=Dugdale, Sir Wm.= 1605-1685. Antiquary. Author Antiquities of Warwicks.h.i.+re, and other valuable antiquarian works.

=Dunbar, Wm.= 1465-1530. Scotch poet. D. wrote The Thistle and Rose, The Golden Terge, etc. His witty, striking, and original genius is closely akin to that of Burns. _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 1._

=D'Urfey, Thos.= 1650-1723. Dramatist. Witty, but coa.r.s.e and immoral.

=Dutt, Toru.= 1856-1877. Hindu poetess. A writer of much genius.

Ballads of Hindustan, and Sheafs Gleaned from French Fields, a vol. of fine Eng. translations, are her chief works. _See Lit. World, June 17, 1882._

=Dyce, Alexander.= 1798-1869. Scotch Shakespearean scholar of note.

_See his edition of Shakespeare, with Glossary, 1867._

=Dyer, George.= 1755-1841. Author Hist. University of Cambridge, etc.

=Dyer, John.= 1698-1758. Welsh poet. Author Grongar Hill, The Fleece, and Ruins of Rome. His verse is natural and unaffected. _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 3._

=Dyer, Thos. Henry.= 180 Historian. Author Hist. Modern Europe, Ancient Athens, Hist. Kings of Rome, Hist. City of Rome, and Life of Calvin. _Pub. Lit._

=Eadmer [[)e]d'mer].= ---- 1124. Bp. St. Andrews. Wrote a Latin Hist.

of his Own Time.

=Earle, John.= 1601-1655. Bp. Worcester. The reputed author of the Micosmography, a remarkable vol. of studies of character.

=Eastlake, Sir Chas.= 1793-1865. Artist. Author Hist. Gothic Revival, Materials for a Hist. Oil Painting, etc. _See Lady Eastlake's Biography of, 1870._

=Eden [[=e]'den], Sir Fred'k Morton.= 1766-1809. Author of a valuable Hist. of the Laboring Cla.s.ses of England, etc.

=Edgeworth, Maria.= 1767-1849. Novelist. Author Rosamond, Castle Rackrent, Belinda, Helen, etc. Style didactic, but entertaining. Her juvenile tales are numerous and popular. _See Study of Miss Edgeworth, by Mrs. Oliver, 1882._ _Pub. Har. Lip. Rou._

=Edwards, Amelia Blandford.= 183 Novelist and Egyptologist.

Author Barbara's History, Lord Brackenbury, etc. A writer of much talent, whose rank among Eng. novelists is a high one. _See Lit.

World, June 4, 1881._ _Pub. Har. Por. Rou._

=Edwards, Mrs. Annie.= 18-- ----. Novelist. Susan Fielding, Ought We to Visit Her? and Archie Lovell are among the best of her excellent novels. _Pub. Sh._

=Edwards, Matilda Betham.= 183 Novelist. Cousin to A. B. E.

Author Doctor Jacob, Kitty, etc. Style clear and picturesque. _Pub.

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=Edwards, Richard.= 1523-1566. Poet. Princ.i.p.al author of the famous poetical collection of his day, The Paradise of Dainty Devices.

=Eliot, George.= See Evans, Marian.

=Ellicott, Chas. John.= 181 Bp. Gloucester and Bristol.

Theologian. Author The New Testament Commentary, Historical Lect. on the Life of Christ, etc. _Pub. Arm. Dra. Dut._

=Elliott, Ebenezer.= 1781-1849. Poet. Known as the Corn-Law Rhymer.

His verse is earnest and ardent, and shows much feeling. _See Life of, by Searle._ _See Eng. edition, 1876._