WITH A SPECIAL INTRODUCTION BY
J. SCOTT CLARK, A. M.

PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

B

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

GIFT OF

MRS. ODIN ROBERTS

COPYRIGHT, 1900,

BY THE COLONIAL PRESS.

II.-Alexander Pope.-His Education and Mode of Life.......

III.-Eloisa to Abelard.-The Rape of the Lock.-The Dunciad.. ΙΟ

IV.-Pope's Descriptive Talent.-His Didactic Poems...

V.-The Poets Prior, Gay, and Thomson..

VI.-The Beginnings of the Modern Age..

BOOK IV.-MODERN LIFE

CHAPTER FIRST

Ideas and Productions

I. Rise of Democracy

II. Robert Burns

III. Conservative rule in England.-Cowper's Poetry..

IV. The Romantic School......

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V.-Philosophy Enters into Literature.-Wordsworth.-Shelley. 87

CHAPTER SECOND

Lord Byron

I. His Life and Character..

II. The Style of Byron's Poetry..

III.-Byron's Short Poems....

IV.

V. What Byron's Contemporaries Thought of Him.-His

Manfred

Morals

VI.-The Malady of the Age..

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I. The Saxon Invasion.-The Norman Conquest..

II.-Formative Periods

III.-The Broadening of Ideas...

Part II.-The Present

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I.-Effects of the Saxon Invasion and the Norman Conquest... 159

II.-English Commerce and Industry.

165

III.-Agriculture

170

IV. English Society.-Philosophy.-Religion

175

V.-What Forces Have Produced the Present Civilization.

180

I.-Importance of the Imaginative Faculty....

II. Boldness of Dickens's Imagination....

III. His Trivialities.-His Minuteness..

IV.-His Emotions.-His Pathos.-His Humor..

Part II.-The Public

I. The Morality of English Novels..

Part III.-The Characters

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I.-Dickens's Love for Natural Characters...

212

II.—The Hypocrite.-The Positive Man.-The Proud Man........... 213

III. Children

IV. The Ideal Man.

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