THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE

An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes

Volume XI: English THE PERIOD OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

Edited by A. W. Ward & A. R. Waller

Chapter I.	Edmund Burke
	By HERBERT J. C. GRIERSON, M.A., LL.D., Chalmers Professor of English Literature in the University of Aberdeen Early Life and Work A Vindication of Natural Society; The Sublime and Beautiful Political Career Writings on Public Affairs; Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents The American Controversy Writings on Ireland Indian Speeches Warren Hastings The French Revolution Burke’s Political Philosophy His Temperament His Prose The Speech on Economical Reform A Letter to a Noble Lord Burke as an Orator BIBLIOGRAPHY

II.	Political Writers and Speakers
	By C. W. PREVITÉ-ORTON, M.A., Fellow of St. John’s College Light, Short, Satiric Verse The Rolliad John Wolcot (Peter Pindar) George Canning; The Anti-Jacobin George Ellis; John Hookham Frere; William Gifford; The Baviad; The Maeviad The Needy Knife-grinder Richard Payne Knight; Erasmus Darwin The Rovers The New Morality William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft; Political Justice; Caleb Williams; St. Leon; Vindication of the Rights of Woman Thomas Paine: The Rights of Man; The Age of Reason William Cobbett; Weekly Political Register Rural Rides Orators Charles James Fox The Younger Pitt Richard Brinsley Sheridan Henry Grattan BIBLIOGRAPHY

III.	Bentham and the Early Utilitarians
	By W. R. SORLEY, Litt.D., F.B.A., Fellow of King’s College, Knightbridge Professor of Moral Philosophy Jeremy Bentham His Friends; Étienne Dumont, James Mill The Westminster Review A Fragment on Government; Sir William Blackstone’s Commentaries The Principle of Utility; Beccaria’s Crimes and Punishments An Introduction to the Principle of Morals and Legislation The Hedonic Calculus Natural Rights Arthur Young; Travels in France Thomas Robert Malthus; An Essay on the Principle of Population Dugald Stewart BIBLIOGRAPHY

IV.	William Cowper
	By HAROLD CHILD, sometime Scholar of Brasenose College, Oxford Cowper’s Early Years His Friendship with the Unwins; John Newton Olney Hymns Satires Lady Austen; The Task John Gilpin; On the Receipt of my Mother’s Picture Translations Letters BIBLIOGRAPHY

V.	William Wordsworth
	By ÉMILE LEGOUIS, Professor of English Language and Literature at the Sorbonne The Influence of Rousseau Wordsworth’s Childhood His Wanderings The French Revolution Dorothy Wordsworth Friendship with Coleridge Lyrical Ballads Wordsworth’s Marriage Ode to Duty The Excursion The White Doe of Rylstone Laodamia Sonnets; Later Years The Ruined Cottage His poetry of Nature There was a Boy Wordsworth and Shelley Michael The Lucy poems His Description of the Moral Emotions BIBLIOGRAPHY

VI.	Coleridge
	By C. E. VAUGHAN, M.A., Balliol College, Oxford Early Years The French Revolution Coleridge’s Friendship with Wordsworth The Opium habit The Friend; Biographia Literaria Influence of Wordsworth Kubla Khan The Ancient Mariner Christabel The Poetry of Nature; Anima Poetœ The Hour of Romance Coleridge’s Theory of Criticism Coleridge as Philosopher BIBLIOGRAPHY

VII.	George Crabbe
	By HAROLD CHILD Early Life The Library The Village The Newspaper The Parish Register Sir Eustace Grey The Borough Tales Tales of the Hall The Change in English Poetry during Crabbe’s Lifetime Crabbe’s Couplets Summary BIBLIOGRAPHY

VIII.	Southey Lesser Poets of the Eighteenth Century
	By GEORGE SAINTSBURY, M.A., Merton College, Oxford, LL.D., D.Litt., F.B.A., Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature in the University of Edinburgh SOUTHEY Details of Southey’s Life His Politics Wat Tyler; Joan of Arc; Southey’s Blank Verse Holly Tree; My Days among the Dead are passed Ballads Thalaba Madoc Southey as Historian and Reviewer Commonplace Books The Curse of Kehama The Life of Nelson Roderick the last of the Goths The Life of John Wesley Miscellaneous Prose; The Lives of the Admirals The Doctor Southey’s Letters Southey and Dryden LESSER POETS OF THE LATER EIGHTEENTH CENTURY Anstey; The New Bath Guide Hanbury Williams John Hall Stevenson; Crazy Tales Erasmus Darwin; The Botanic Garden; The Loves of the Plants William Hayley; The Triumph of Temper The Della Cruscans William Lisle Bowles Frank Sayers Sir William Jones BIBLIOGRAPHY

IX.	Blake
	By J. P. R. WALLIS, M.A., Assistant Lecturer in English Literature in the University of Liverpool Early Career Poetical Sketches An Island in the Moon Beginnings of Mysticism; Songs of Innocence and Thel Tiriel; Revolutionary writings The Marriage of Heaven and Hell and the earlier “Prophecies” The later Lambeth books Songs of Experience Europe and The Song of Los The Urizen group The crisis in Blake’s spiritual development The Four Zoas His mystical Christianity Milton and Jerusalem His Theory of Imagination Lesser Verse and Prose Blake and the Romantic Revival BIBLIOGRAPHY

X.	Burns Lesser Scottish Verse
	By T. F. HENDERSON BURNS The Old School of Scottish Verse Burns’s Indebtedness to his Predecessors The Kilmarnock volume The Cotter’s Saturday Night Burns’s “English” poems His six-line stave Death and Doctor Hornbook; The Address to the Deil Holy Willie’s Prayer The Auld Farmer’s New Year Salutation to his Mare Maggie The Christis Kirk stave The Holy Fair Halloween The Cherrie and the Slae stave The Jolly Beggars; Tam o’ Shanter Burns at Edinburgh His Songs and Adaptations LESSER SCOTTISH VERSE Joanna Baillie Lady Anne Lindsay of Balcarres; Susanna Blamire; Mrs. Grant of Carron; Mrs. Grant of Laggan; Elizabeth Hamilton; Mrs. John Hunter; Mrs. Maclehose (“Clarinda”) Caroline Oliphant, Lady Nairne Dr. Blacklock; Richard Gall; John Hamilton; John Lapraik; John Lowe Hector MacNeil James Tytler John Mayne Sir Alexander Boswell Robert Tannahill; Alexander Wilson; William Motherwell James Hogg The Queen’s Wake John Leyden Allan Cunningham Thomas Mounsey Cunningham William Tennant John Hyslop; Robert Gilfillan; William Nicholson; William Glen; William Watt Michael Bruce and John Logan; The Cuckoo; James Grahame Robert Pollok BIBLIOGRAPHY

XI.	The Prosody of the Eighteenth Century
	By GEORGE SAINTSBURY, M.A. Changes in the Heroic Couplet of Dryden The Octosyllabic Couplet The Spenserian Stanza Blank Verse Lyric Poetry of the Eighteenth Century Edward Bysshe’s Art of Poetry Eighteenth Century Prosodists Joshua Steele Young Shenstone; Gray; Johnson John Mason Mitford Cowper Summary BIBLIOGRAPHY

XII.	The Georgian Drama
	By HAROLD V. ROUTH, M.A., Peterhouse, Lecturer in English Literature at Goldsmiths’ College, London The Decay of the Drama and the Advance of the Actor The Theatre in the Eighteenth Century and its Audiences Richard Cumberland; The Brothers; The West Indian Lesser Playwrights Oliver Goldsmith: She Stoops to Conquer Richard Brinsley Sheridan: The Rivals A Trip to Scarborough The School for Scandal Hannah More; Percy Hannah Cowley General Burgoyne: The Heiress Thomas Holcroft: The Road to Ruin; The Deserted Daughter Elizabeth Inchbald George Colman the Younger: Inkle and Yarico Thomas Morton and others Cumberland’s Jew Realism and the Drama BIBLIOGRAPHY

XIII.	The Growth of the Later Novel
	By GEORGE SAINTSBURY Thomas Amory: John Buncle Memoirs of Several Ladies William Beckford Vathek William Godwin Caleb Williams; St. Leon Thomas Holcroft: Autobiography, Novels Mrs. Inchbald: A Simple Story, Nature and Art Robert Bage: Hermsprong Maria Edgeworth Belinda The Absentee; Ormond Tales for the Young Charlotte Smith; Regina Maria Roche; Eaton Stannard Barrett Clara Reeve Ann Radcliffe The Mysteries of Udolpho and other works Matthew Gregory Lewis: The Monk Charles Robert Maturin: Melmoth the Wanderer Jane and Anna Maria Porter: Thaddeus of Warsaw; The Scottish Chiefs Thomas Hope: Anastasius Thomas Love Peacock BIBLIOGRAPHY

XIV.	Book Production and Distribution, 1625–1800
	By H. G. ALDIS, M.A., Peterhouse, Secretary of the University Library Attempts at State Control under Charles I. and the Commonwealth The Censorship of L’Estrange Lapse of the Licensing Laws Copyright before 1709 The first Copyright Act The battle for Perpetual Copyright The relations between Author and Publisher in the Seventeenth Century Milton, Baxter Earnings of playwrights Literature becomes a Profession Increase of the Reading Classes Patrons and Dedications The Publisher as Patron and Employer Leading Publishers in Commonwealth and Restoration times The Eighteenth Century Tonson, Lintot, Dodsley, Millar Trade books Society for Encouragement of Learning Bell’s Poets and Johnson’s Poets; Paternoster Row Numbers Booksellers’ Clubs Cadell, Strahan Literary Booksellers Curll and Grub Street “The Trade” in London Little Britain Scot, Bateman, the Ballards Other Localities; Westminster Hall Literary Coffee-houses Payne, Davies Popular Literature Practical Divinity, Chapbooks The Retail Bookseller Sale by auction Printed Catalogues; James Lackington Circulating Libraries and Book Clubs Trade Lists of Current Publications Trade sales The Provincial Trade Scotland and Ireland BIBLIOGRAPHY

XV.	The Bluestockings
	By MRS. H. G. ALDIS The term “Bluestocking” Conversation parties; Mrs. Vesey Mrs. Montagu Her share in Lord Lyttelton’s Dialogues of the Dead Her Essay on Shakespeare; Mrs. Montagu and Voltaire Mrs. Elizabeth Carter Her Translation of Epictetus Hannah More Her friendship with Horace Walpole Mrs. Chapone BIBLIOGRAPHY

XVI.	Children’s Books
	By F. J. HARVEY DARTON, sometime Scholar of St. John’s College, Oxford Schoolbooks The Hornbook Books of Courtesy Hell-fire tales “Exemplary” Compilations Bunyan’s Divine Emblems Watts’s Divine Songs The Chapbook Fairy Tales Nursery Rimes John Newbery Dorothy Kilner Sarah Trimmer Mrs. Sherwood Maria Edgeworth Thomas Day’s Sandford and Merton The Moral Tale in Verse Ann and Jane Taylor’s Original Poems Miss Turner’s Cautionary Stories Charles and Mary Lamb Later Writings for Children BIBLIOGRAPHY

THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE

An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes

Volume XI: English THE PERIOD OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

Contents

Get the App