=Blake, Wm.= 1757-1827. Artist and poet. Author of Poetical Sketches, Songs of Innocence and Experience, etc. A writer of rare simplicity and beauty. An Elizabethan poet of the 19th cent. _See editions of his poems by Shepherd and Rossetti, and Life by Gilchrist, 1863 and 1881, also Swinburne's Study of Blake, 1863._ _Pub. Rob._ =Blamire, Susanna.= 1747-1794. Poet. Author of the fine lyrics, The Siller Crown, What Ails this Heart o' Mine, etc. =Blanchard, Edward Laman.= 182 Dramatist and novelist. =Blanchard, Laman.= 1803-1845. Littérateur. _See Bulwer's Memoir of, with Blanchard's Essays and Sketches, 1849._ =Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of.= 1789-1849. Society novelist. _See Life and Correspondence edited by D. R. Madden._ =Bloomfield, Robert.= 1766-1823. Pastoral poet. Author of The Farmer's Boy, Rural Tales, The Horkey, etc. _Pub Por. Rou._ =Blunt, John Henry.= 182 Theologian. Author Hist. Reformation in Ch. of England and editor Dict. Sects and Heresies, etc. _Pub. Dut._ =Blunt, John James.= 1794-1855. Ecclesiologist. Author Hist. Christian Ch. in the first three centuries, etc. _Pub. Ca._ =Bolingbroke, Lord.= See St. John, Henry. =Bonar, Horatius.= 180 Scotch poet. Author Hymns of Faith and Hope, etc. _Pub. Ca._ =Borrow, George.= 1803-1881. Author of Gipsies of Spain, Bible in Spain, Lavengro, The Romany Rye, Romany Word Book, etc. _See Autobiography, 1851._ _Pub. Ca. Har._ =Boswell [boz´well], Alexander.= 1775-1822. Poet. Son to J. B. His song, Jenny Dang the Weaver, is his best known production. =Boswell, James.= 1740-1795. Biographer. His Life of Dr. Samuel Johnson is an incomparable work. _Pub. Ho. Lit. Rou._ =Boswell, James.= 1779-1822. Son to preceding. Shakespearean scholar. =Boucicault [boo-se-ko´], Dion.= 182 Dramatist. Among his very numerous popular plays, London Assurance, Rip Van Winkle, The Corsican Brothers, Led Astray, and the Shaughran are perhaps the best. _See Johnson's Cyc._ =Bowles, Wm. Lisle.= 1762-1850. Poet. Author Fourteen Sonnets, Village Verse Book, etc. A graceful writer, to whom Wordsworth and Coleridge attributed their own poetic inspiration. =Bowring [bour´ing], Sir John.= 1792-1872. Philologist and poet. Best known as a writer of hymns of great beauty, among others, the familiar Watchman, Tell us of the Night. _See Autobiographical Recollections, 1877._ _Pub. Dut._ =Boyd, Andrew Kennedy Hutchinson.= 182 Scotch essayist. Author of Essays by a Country Parson, Graver Thoughts, Autumn Holidays, etc. He signed his essays with his initials A. K. H. B. =Boyle, Chas.= 1676-1731. Famous for his controversy with Bentley concerning the Epistles of Phalaris. See Bentley, Richard. =Boyle, Robert.= 1626-1691. Philosopher. A voluminous writer upon metaphysics and natural sciences. =Braddon, Miss.= See Maxwell, Mrs. Mary E. =Bradley, Edward.= "Cuthbert Bede." 182 Humorist. Author Adventures of Verdant Green, etc. =Bradley, James.= 1692-1762. Astronomical writer.