FOR FURTHER READING AND STUDY. Lockhart, "Life of Robert Burns," Chambers, "Life and Works of Robert Burns," Shairp, "Life of Burns (English Men of Letters), Blackie, "Life of Robert Burns (Great Writers Series), Carlyle, "Essay on Burns." A critique of "Man was Made to Mourn." The new spirit of poetry, as related to nature and man, in Burns. An Outline of the "Tale of Tam o' Shanter." A review of the "Epistle to a Young Friend." A critique of his Address to the Deil" and Address to the Unco' Guid." The significance of the poem "The Two Dogs." Burns's qualities as a song writer as illustrated in "Mary Morison," "To Mary in Heaven," "John Anderson, My Jo," "Highland Mary," Ye Banks and Braes o' Bonnie Doon," "Flow Gently, Sweet Afton," and "O Wert Thou in the Cauld Blast." Scotch life as reflected in the poetry of Burns. 99 66 "The Cotter's Saturday Night," "To a Mouse," and "To a Mountain Daisy" are given among the selections of Part II. AGE OF SCOTT. CRITICISM. Francis Jeffrey (1773-1850). Lawyer and critic, editor of the Edinburgh Review (1802-1829), and brilliant writer on literature, politics, and ethics. (See text.) William Hazlitt (1778–1830). Critic and author of Character of Shakespeare's Plays" (1817), "A View of the English Stage" (1818), "Lectures on the English Poets" (1818), "Lectures on the English Comic Writers" (1819), "Lectures of the Elizabethan Age" (1821), "Table-Talk" (1824), The Spirit of the Age" (1825). 66 Charles Lamb (1775-1834). Critic and essayist. Author of "Rosamond Gray" (1798), "Tales from Shakespeare" (1805), and Essays of Elia" (1822-1824). 66 John Wilson (1785-1854). Critic and essayist, whose nom de plume was Christopher North." Author of "Noctes Ambro sianæ," etc. John Gibson Lockhart (1794-1854). Critic, novelist, biographer; author of "Adam Blair" (1822), "Life of Burns" (1825)," Life of Scott" (1837), etc. Leigh Hunt (1784-1859). Author of "Juvenilia" (1802), "Classic Tales" (1807), "The Story of Rimini" (1816), etc. HISTORY. - Henry Hallam (1778-1859). Author of "Views of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages" (1818), "Constitutional History of England" (1827), and “Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries" (1838). (See Text). William Mitford (1744-1827). Author of a "History of Greece" (1784-1818), “History and Doctrine of Christianity" (1823), etc. (See Text). FEMALE NOVELISTS AND POETS. - Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823). Novelist of Romantic School, and author of "The Romance of the Forest" (1791), "The Mysteries of Udolpho" (1794), and several others. (See Text). Maria Edgeworth (1767-1849). Novelist of Irish life; author of "Castle Rackrent" (1801), "Moral Tales (1801), "Tales of a Fashionable Life" (1811), etc. 66 Jane Austen (1775-1817). Novelist of social life; author of 'Sense and Sensibility" (1811), "Pride and Prejudice" (1812), "Emma" (1816), etc. Jane Porter (1776-1850). Novelist of the Romantic type; author of "Thaddeus of Warsaw" (1803), "The Scottish Chiefs (1810), etc. Anna Letitia Barbauld (1743-1825). Poet and prose writer; author of "Lessons for Children (1808), etc. Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1794-1835). Poet and author of “The Vespers of Palermo" (1823), a tragedy, "The Forest Sanctuary" (1827), "Songs of the Affections" (1830), etc. Several of her shorter poems The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers," "The Homes of England," "The Hour of Death" — will always remain popular. 66 Hannah More (1745-1833). Poet, novelist, dramatist, and moral essayist; author of "Percy," a drama written for Garrick, which was acted with success in 1777, "Sacred Dramas" (1782), Cœlebs in Search of a Wife" (1809), "Character of St. Paul" (1815), 'Moral Sketches" (1818), etc. 66 Joanna Baillie (1762-1851). Poet and dramatist; author of 'Plays of the Passions" (1812), etc. POETRY.-Thomas Campbell (1777-1844). Author of "The Pleasures of Hope (1799), “Poems” (1803), “Gertrude of Wyoming" (1809). (See Text). John Keats (1795-1821). Author of "Poems" (1817), "Endymion (1818), "Hyperion" (1820). (See Text). Robert Southey (1774-1843). Poet and historian; author of "Joan of Arc" (1796), "Thalaba, the Destroyer" (1801), “The Curse of Kehama" (1810), "A History of Brazil,' "Life of Nelson," and a hundred other volumes. (See Text). Thomas Moore (1779–1852). Poet and biographer; author of "Epistles" (1806), "Lalla Rookh" (1817), "Life of Byron" (1830), "Irish Melodies (1834), etc. (See Text). Thomas Hood (1798-1845). Poet, editor, humorist; author of 'Whims and Oddities" (1826), "Up the Rhine" (1839), a de lightful piece of humor, and editor of Hood's Magazine, and other periodicals. Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864). Poet and prose writer; author of "Gebir” (1798), “Count Julian” (1812), “Imaginary Conversations" (1824-1846), etc. John Keble (1792-1866). Poet, clergyman, and Oxford professor; author of "The Christian Year" (1827), a series of poems for the Sundays and holidays of the church year. Samuel Rogers (1763-1855). Author of the "Pleasures of Memory" (1792), “Columbus" (1812), “Human Life," etc. As a man of wealth he entertained many literary celebrities, his breakfasts being more famous than his poems. Percy Bysche Shelley (1792-1822). A poet of rich gifts. Author of "Queen Mab," "Alastor," "The Revolt of Islam," " Prometheus Unbound," and several superb odes, among which are the "Ode to Liberty,” “To a Skylark,” and “The Cloud." (See Text). 66 Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834). A poet and philosopher of wide influence. His best known poem is The Ancient Mariner (1798). Author of the tragedy Remorse" (1813), "Biographia Literaria" (1817), consisting of sketches of his literary life and opinions, and “Aids to Reflection" (1825). (See Text). GREAT REPRESENTATIVE WRITERS. SIR WALTER SCOTT. LORD BYRON. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. |