DEVELOPMENT

OF

ENGLISH LITERATURE

AND

LANGUAGE

BY

ALFRED H. WELSH, A.M.

MEMBER OF VICTORIA INSTITUTE, THE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN AUTHOR OF "ESSENTIALS OF ENGLISH,' ETC.

VOLUME II

Books are a real world, both pure and good,

Round which, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood,
Our pastime and our happiness may grow.-WORDSWORTH

FIFTH EDITION

CHICAGO

S. C. GRIGGS AND COMPANY

1885

COPYRIGHT 1882

Br S. C. GRIGGS AND COMPANY

TRESS OF

KNIGHT & LEONARD

CONTENTS OF VOLUME II.

CHAPTER I.

FIRST TRANSITION PERIOD.

Politics. Constitutional Reform. Society-Laxity, Violence. Rude-

ness of Living. Religion. Intolerance. Incredulity. Sects. . 1

Poetry. Society Verse. Extravagance. The Epic. Satire Drama.

Coarseness. Lewdness. Etherege. Wycherley. Congreve. Van-

brugh. Farquhar. Tragedy. Dryden. Otway.
. 10

Prose. Ease and Finish. Temple. The Preachers. Walton. Evelyn.
Pepys. Baxter. History. Clarendon. Burnet. Theology. Scep-
ticism and Denial. Deism. Ethics. Hobbes. Utilitarianism.
Science. Newton. Physics. Philosophy. Materialism. Locke

Representative Authors:

BUNYAN

DRYDEN

23

45

54

CHAPTER II.

CRITICAL PERIOD - FIRST PHASE.

Political Armistice. Social Depravity. Religion. Loss of Enthusiasm 70

Poetry. Polish. Drama. Artifice

73

Prose. The Periodical. The Novel. Theology. Polemics. Science.

The Royal Society

74

CHAPTER III.

CRITICAL PERIOD SECOND PHASE.

Politics. Whig Supremacy. Social Corruption. Religion. Fashion-

able Infidelity. Dead Orthodoxy. Rise of Methodism. Wesley.

Whitefield.

.

Poetry. Method and Form. Thomson. Young. Akenside. Gray.
The Drama. Gay. Garrick
Prose. Magazines and Reviews. The Novel. Richardson. Fielding.
History. Hume. Theology. Deistical Writers. Bolingbroke.
Middleton. Hume. The Apologists. Butler. The Seer.
Law.
Science. Ethics. The Intuitional and Utilitarian Schools. Phi-
losophy. Realism. Materialism. Idealism

Representative Authors:

RICHARDSON

126

. 132

. 136

FIELDING

HUME

JOHNSON

Politics. Faction. Strife. Society. Gradual Emergence. Religion.

Theology. Sleep of Deism. Natural Theology. Paley. Science.

Physiology. Hunter. Geology. Hutton. Ethics. Philosophy.

Political Science. Adam Smith. Orators- The Galaxy

182

Representative Authors:

GIBBON

GOLDSMITH

BURNS

COWPER

CHAPTER V.

SECOND CREATIVE PERIOD.

Politics. Rise of Democracy. Reform. Industrial Progress. The

Humanities. Cisatlantic Society. Religion. The Letter and the

Spirit.

195

203

221

241

257

Poetry. The New Impulse. Literary Forgeries of Macpherson and

Chatterton. Crabbe. Campbell. Moore. Coleridge. Keats.

Shelley. The Drama. Knowles

Prose. The Periodical. Essayists. Jeffrey. Sidney Smith. De Quin-

cey. Irving. The Novel. Cooper. History. Arnold. Grote.

Macaulay. Hallam. Prescott. Theology. Deism Changes Its

Attack. Paine. Owen. Rationalism. Ethics. Science. Lyell.

Development. Philosophy. Hamilton .

Representative Authors:

SCOTT

269

294

WORDSWORTH

BYRON.

CHAPTER VI.

321

330

339

Politics.

DIFFUSIVE Period.

The Victories of Peace. Society. The Onward Battle.

Religion. Expansion. Diffusion

Poetry. Modern Aspects. Hunt. Hood. Landor. The Brownings.

Lytton. Arnold. Swinburne. Dana. Percival. Halleck. Willis.

Poe. Bryant. Holmes. Lowell. Whittier. The Drama. Its

Decline

. 356

365

Prose. Increase of the Periodical. Sway of the Essay. Criticism.

Arnold. Froude. Ruskin. Whipple. Thoreau. The Novel.

Bulwer. Thackeray. Mrs. Stowe. History. Froude. Buckle.

Lecky. Bancroft. Motley. Draper. Theology. Scepticism. Mill.

Lecky. Emerson. Earnest Unbelief. Tolerant Faith. Ethics.

Prevalence of Utilitarianism. Science - Experimental. Evolution.

Darwin. Tyndall. Bain. Huxley. Philosophy-Empirical. . 399

Representative Authors: