APPENDIX V NOTES ON AUTHORS REFERRED TO OR QUOTED IN THIS BOOK Joseph Addison, famous English writer of essays (and a few poems). 18th c. (1672-1719). The Spectator Papers (1711–1714). Louisa M. Alcott, American story writer. Daughter of Bronson Alcott, a friend of Emerson. 19th c. (1831-1888). Little Women (1867). James Lane Allen, American novelist (1849 ). The Choir Invisible. Francis Bacon, great English lawyer, statesman, philosopher, and essayist. 17th c. (1561-1626). Novum Organum, in Latin, 1620; Essays, in English (1597-1625). Ballads, old narrative poems by unknown bards. Some manuscripts date back to the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. A good convenient and interesting collection of them has been prepared by Professor F. B. Gummere, and published by Ginn & Co., Boston. The standard collection is that of Professor Child, 10 vols., Houghton, Mifflin & Co. George Bancroft, American historian. 19th c. (1800-1891). History of the United States, 12 vols. (1854-1882). William Black, English novelist (1841-1898). A Princess of Thule, Madcap Violet, etc. R. D. Blackmore, English novelist. 19th c. (1825-1900). Lorna Doone. James Boswell, famous for his Life of Samuel Johnson. 18th c. (1740-1795). Charles Brockden Brown, the earliest American novelist. Late 18th c. (1771-1810). Wieland (1798); Arthur Mervyn (1800). Robert Browning, great English poet. 19th c. (1812-1890). Plays, for example, A Blot in the 'Scutcheon; Colombe's Birthday; Pippa Passes. Long poems: The Ring and the Book; Sordello. Many much-loved short poems. John Bunyan, English writer, famous for his Pilgrim's Progress. 17th c. (1628-1688). Edmund Burke, great Irish orator and writer. 18th c. (17301797). Speech on Conciliation with the American Colonies (1774); Inquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful (1756). Lord Byron, English poet. Early 19th c. (1788-1824). Tragedies. Narrative and descriptive poems: Childe Harold; The Prisoner of Chillon. Lyric poems. Thomas Campbell, Scottish poet. Early 19th c. (1777-1844). The Pleasures of Hope (1798), and narrative poems. Cervantes, famous Spanish novelist. 16th c. (1547-1616). Don Quixote. Geoffrey Chaucer, the first great English poet. 14th c. (13401400). The Canterbury Tales; The Flower and the Leaf; The House of Fame. Samuel T. Coleridge, English poet and reflective writer. Early 19th c. (1772-1834). The Ancient Mariner (1798); several other fine poems; many prose works. James Fenimore Cooper, American romance writer. (1789-1851). Sea Tales: The Red Rover, etc. 19th c. Indian Tales: The Pathfinder; The Last of the Mohicans, etc. William Cowper, English poet. 18th c. (1731-1800). Most of his poems didactic. John Gilpin (1785) not in his usual manner. Richard Henry Dana, Jr., American writer. 19th c. (18151882). Two Years before the Mast. Charles Darwin, English scientist, one of the originators of the theory of evolution. 19th c. (1809-1882). The Origin of Species (1859); The Descent of Man; Movements of Plants; etc. Richard Harding Davis, American story writer (1864 Van Bibber and Other Stories. ). Leonardo da Vinci, great Italian painter, architect, and scientist. 15th c. (1452-1519). Daniel Defoe, English imaginative writer. Early 18th c. (16611731). Journal of the Plague; Robinson Crusoe (1719). Thomas Dekker, minor dramatist of Shakspere's time. Early 17th c. (1570-1637?). Charles Dickens, one of the most popular of English novelists. 19th c. (1812-1870). Pickwick Papers (1837); Nicholas Nickleby; Oliver Twist; Old Curiosity Shop; Dombey and Son; David Copperfield; Bleak House; Christmas Stories. Edward Eggleston, American story writer and historian (1837). The Circuit Rider; The Hoosier Schoolmaster; A History of the United States. "George Eliot" (Mary Ann Evans, Mrs. Lewes, Mrs. Cross), the greatest English woman novelist. 19th c. (1819–1880). Scenes of Clerical Life; Adam Bede (1859); The Mill on the Floss; Silas Marner (1861); Romola; Felix Holt; Middlemarch; Daniel Deronda (1876); also essays and poems. The standard biography of George Eliot is by her husband, J. W. Cross. Ralph Waldo Emerson, American reflective writer and poet. 19th c. (1803-1882). Nature (1836). Essays (1841–1844); Representative Men; English Traits; Conduct of Life. Poems: Concord Hymn; Woodnotes; May Day; The Problem. Canon F. W. Farrar, English divine, and author of several theological and historical works (1831– ). Hamlin Garland, American story writer (1860 mostly western.) Main Traveled Roads. ). (Subjects Oliver Goldsmith, English writer of poems, prose, and plays. 18th c. (1728-1774). The Deserted Village; The Traveler; The Vicar of Wakefield; She Stoops to Conquer. Nathaniel Hawthorne, greatest American romance writer. 19th c. (1804–1864). Twice-Told Tales (1837); The Scarlet Letter (1850); Mosses from an Old Manse; The House of the Seven Gables; The Blithedale Romance; Wonder Book for Boys and Girls; American Note Book; The Marble Faun. William Hazlitt, English essayist and critic. Early 19th c. (1778-1830). Oliver Wendell Holmes, American essayist, novelist, and poet. 19th c. (1809-1894). The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858); The Professor at the Breakfast Table; The Poet at the Breakfast Table; Over the Teacups; One Hundred Days in Europe. Novels: Elsie Venner; The Guardian Angel. Among his poems: The Chambered Nautilus; Old Ironsides; The One Hoss Shay. Victor Hugo, great French romance writer and poet. 19th c. (1802-1885). Les Miserables; Ninety-Three. Washington Irving, perhaps the most classical of American writers. 19th c. (1783-1859). Knickerbocker's History of New York (1809); The Sketch Book; Bracebridge Hall; Tales of a Traveler; The Conquest of Granada; The Alhambra; Lives of Columbus, Mahomet, Goldsmith, and (1855) Washington. G. P. R. James, English novelist. 19th c. (1801-1860). Plain Tales from the Hills (stories of life in India); Charles Lamb, one of the most gentle and delightful of English essayists. 19th c. (1775-1834). Essays of Elia. With his sister Mary he wrote Tales from Shakspere. Henry W. Longfellow, the most popular of American poets. 19th c. (1807-1882). Two or three prose romances; Evangeline (1847); Golden Legend; Song of Hiawatha (1855); Courtship of Miles Standish; Tales of a Wayside Inn; Birds of Passage; many favorite short poems; Translation of Dante's Divina Commedia (1867). James Russell Lowell, prominent American essayist, critic, and poet. 19th c. (1819-1891). Prose: Among my Books; My Study Windows; Fireside Travels; political and literary essays and addresses. Poems: The Biglow Papers (1848 and 1866); The Vision of Sir Launfal, (1848); Commemoration Ode (1865); Under the Willows; The Cathedral (1869). Some excellent short poems. Thomas Babington Macaulay, famous English essayist, historian, and poet. 19th c. (1800-1859). Historical and literary essays; History of England, five vols., Lays of Ancient Rome, and other poems. John Milton, one of the greatest of English poets and prose writers. 17th c. (1608-1674). I. Early Poems: Hymn on the Nativity; Comus; Lycidas; L'Allegro; Il Penseroso. II. Prose works: Of Reformation; Of Education; On Divorce; Defense of the English People; Areopagitica. III. Later poems: Paradise Lost; Paradise Regained; Samson Agonistes; Sonnets. Donald Grant Mitchell ("Ik Marvel "), an American imaginative writer and essayist (1822- ). Reveries of a Bachelor; Dream Life; English Lands and Letters; American Lands and Letters. Agnes Repplier, an American essayist (1855 ). Varia, and other volumes of brief critical essays. Dante Gabriel Rossetti, English painter and poet. 19th c. (1828-1882). Poems (1871), including The Blessed Damozel, Sister Helen, etc.; The Early Italian Poets (1873). His life and letters, edited by his brother, Wm. M. Rossetti, appeared in 1895. John Ruskin, eloquent and influential writer (English) on art, |