English Literature Part 43

CHRONOLOGY _Nineteenth Century_ ============================================================================ HISTORY | LITERATURE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 1825. Macaulay's Essay on Milton | 1826. Mrs. Browning's early poems 1830. William IV | 1830. Tennyson's Poems, Chiefly Lyrical 1832. Reform Bill | | 1833. Browning's Pauline | 1833-1834. Carlyle's Sartor Resartus | 1836-1865. d.i.c.kens's novels 1837. Victoria (_d_. 1901) | 1837. Carlyle's French Revolution | 1843. Macaulay's essays 1844. Morse's Telegraph | 1843-1860. Ruskin's Modern Painters 1846. Repeal of Corn Laws | | 1847-1859. Thackeray's important novels | 1847-1857. Charlotte Bronte's novels | 1848-1861. Macaulay's History | 1853. Kingsley's Hypatia | Mrs. Gaskell's Cranford 1854. Crimean War | | 1853-1855. Matthew Arnold's poems | 1856. Mrs. Browning's Aurora Leigh 1857. Indian Mutiny | | 1858-1876. George Eliot's novels | 1859-1888. Tennyson's Idylls of the King | 1859. Darwin's Origin of Species | 1864. Newman's Apologia | Tennyson's Enoch Arden | 1865-1888. Arnold's Essays in Criticism 1867. Dominion of Canada | established | 1868. Browning's Ring and the Book | 1869. Blackmore's Lorna Doone 1870. Government schools | established | | 1879. Meredith's The Egoist 1880. Gladstone prime minister | | 1883. Stevenson's Treasure Island | 1885. Ruskin's Praeterita begun 1887. Queen's jubilee | | 1889. Browning's last work, Asolando | 1892. Death of Tennyson 1901. Edward VII | ============================================================================

GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY

Every chapter in this book includes two lists, one of selected readings, the other of special works treating of the history and literature of the period under consideration. The following lists include the books most useful for general reference work and for supplementary reading.

A knowledge of history is of great advantage in the study of literature. In each of the preceding chapters we have given a brief summary of historical events and social conditions, but the student should do more than simply read these summaries. He should review rapidly the whole history of each period by means of a good textbook. Montgomery's _English History_ and Cheyney's _Short History of England_ are recommended, but any other reliable text-book will serve the purpose.

For literary texts and selections for reading a few general collections, such as are given below, are useful; but the important works of each author may now be obtained in excellent and inexpensive school editions. At the beginning of the course the teacher, or the home student, should write for the latest catalogue of such publications as the Standard English Cla.s.sics, Everyman's Library, etc., which offer a very wide range of reading at small cost. Nearly every publis.h.i.+ng house issues a series of good English books for school use, and the list is constantly increasing.

_HISTORY_

_Text-books:_ Montgomery's English History; Cheyney's Short History of England (Ginn and Company).

_General Works:_ Green's Short History of the English People, 1 vol., or A History of the English People, 4 vols. (American Book Co.).

Traill's Social England, 6 vols. (Putnam).

Bright's History, of England, 5 vols., and Gardiner's Students' History of England (Longmans).

Gibbins's Industrial History of England, and Mitch.e.l.l's English Lands, Letters, and Kings, 5 vols. (Scribner).

Oxford Manuals of English History, Handbooks of English History, and Kendall's Source Book of English History (Macmillan).

Lingard's History of England until 1688 (revised, 10 vols., 1855) is the standard Catholic history.

Other histories of England are by Knight, Froude, Macaulay, etc. Special works on the history of each period are recommended in the preceding chapters.

_HISTORY OF LITERATURE_

Jusserand's Literary History of the English People, 2 vols. (Putnam).

Ten Brink's Early English Literature, 3 vols. (Holt).

Courthope's History of English Poetry (Macmillan).

The Cambridge History of English Literature, many vols., incomplete (Putnam).

Handbooks of English Literature, 9 vols. (Macmillan).

Garnett and Gosse's Ill.u.s.trated History of English Literature, 4 vols.

(Macmillan).

Morley's English Writers, 11 vols. (Ca.s.sell), extends through Elizabethan literature. It is rather complex and not up to date, but has many quotations from authors studied.

Taine's English Literature (many editions), is brilliant and interesting, but unreliable.

_LITERARY CRITICISM_

Lowell's Literary Essays.

Hazlitt's Lectures on the English Poets.

Mackail's The Springs of Helicon (a study of English poetry from Chaucer to Milton).

Dowden's Studies in Literature, and Dowden's Transcripts and Studies.

Minto's Characteristics of English Poets.

Matthew Arnold's Essays in Criticism.

Stevenson's Familiar Studies in Men and Books.

Leslie Stephen's Hours in a Library.

Birrell's Obiter Dicta.

Hales's Folia Litteraria.

Pater's Appreciations.

NOTE. Special works on criticism, the drama, the novel, etc., will be found in the Bibliographies on pp. 9, 181, etc.

_TEXTS AND HELPS_ (inexpensive school editions).

Standard English Cla.s.sics, and Athenaeum Press Series (Ginn and Company).

Everyman's Library (Dutton).

Pocket Cla.s.sics, Golden Treasury Series, etc. (Macmillan).

Belles Lettres Series (Heath).

English Readings Series (Holt).

Riverside Literature Series (Houghton, Mifflin).

Canterbury Cla.s.sics (Rand, McNally).

Academy Cla.s.sics (Allyn & Bacon).

Cambridge Literature Series (Sanborn).