=Burns, Robert.= 1759-1796. Scotch poet. A singer of love songs. His verse shows a gentle, tender spirit, and a sympathy for all created things, new to the poetry of his day. Tam O'Shanter, Twa Dogs, and The Jolly Beggars, show the humorous side of his nature. The Cotter's Saturday Night, Auld Lang Syne, A Man's a Man for a' That, are universally known, and some of his lyrics will last as long as the language. _See Carlyle's Misc. Essays; Craik's Eng. Lit. vol. 2; also Burns, by Shairp, in Eng. Men of Letters._ _Pub. Apl. Har. Hou. Por._ =Burton, John Hill.= 1809-1881. Scotch historian. Author Life and Correspondence of David Hume, Hist. Reign of Q. Anne, Hist. Scotland, etc. =Burton, Robert.= 1576-1640. Author of Anatomy of Melancholy. Style fantastic, original, and diffuse. _Pub. Apl. Clx. Dut._ =Butler, Alban.= 1710-1773. Author Lives of the Fathers, Saints, etc., Letters on the Hist. of the Popes, etc. _See edition of the Lives, 1812, with Life of A. Butler by Chas. Butler._ =Butler, Charles.= 1750-1832. Neph. to A. B. Author Horæ Biblicæ, continuation of the Lives of the Saints, etc. _See Alibone's Dict._ =Butler, Joseph.= 1692-1752. Bp. Bristol. Theologian. His great work, Analogy between Natural and Revealed Religion, is much studied and admired. _See edition of his works, 1867._ _Pub. Har._ =Butler, Samuel.= 1612-1680. Satirical poet. His Hudibras, written in ridicule of the Puritans, is witty and spirited, but too long for the taste of modern readers. _See edition of his works by Gilfillan, 1854._ _Pub. Apl._ =Butler, Wm. Archer.= 1814-1848. Author Lect. on Hist. of Ancient Philosophy, etc. _See Woodward's Life of._ _Pub. Ca. Mac._ =Byrd, Wm.= 1540-1623. Poet. Author of the famous lines beginning, "My mind to me a kingdom is." =Byrom, John.= 1691-1763. Pastoral poet. =Byron, Henry James.= 183 Dramatist. Author Babes in the Wood, Our Boys, Not such a Fool as he Looks, Good News, etc. =Byron, Lord.= See Gordon, George. =Cædmon [k[=a]d´m[o)]n].= ---- c. 680. Anglo-Saxon poet. A monk of Whitby, who wrote about 670 a metrical paraphrase of the Scriptures. It is accented and alliterative, like all Anglo-Saxon poetry, and marks the beginning of Eng. poetry. _See Thorpe's edition of, London, 1832._ =Calamy, Edmund.= 1600-1666. Theological writer. =Calamy, Edmund.= 1671-1732. Grandson to preceding. Author of the Nonconformists' Memorial, Defence of Moderate Nonconformity, etc. _See his history of his Life and Times, edited by Rutt, 1829._ =Calverley, Chas. Stuart.= 183 Poet. Author of Fly-Leaves, translation of Theocritus, etc. _Pub. Ho._ =Camden, Wm.= 1551-1623. Antiquary. Author of Britannia, a Latin description of Britain, etc. =Campbell, George.= 1709-1796. Scotch theologian. Author Dissertations on Miracles, Philosophy of Rhetoric, Lect. on Eccl. Hist., etc. _Pub. Har._ =Campbell, John.= 1708-1775. Historical and political writer.