WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR. +1775-1864+. Poet; prose-writer. +Gebir+ (1798); +Count Julian+ (1812); +Imaginary Conversations+ (1824-1846); +Dry Sticks Faggoted+ (1858). He wrote books for more than sixty years. His style is full of vigour and sustained eloquence. Alliance of France and America, 1778. THOMAS CAMPBELL. +1777-1844+. Poet; literary man; editor. +The Pleasures of Hope+ (1799); +Poems+ (1803); +Gertrude of Wyoming+, +Battle of the Baltic+, +Hohenlinden+, etc. (1809). He also wrote some _Historical Works_. Encyclopædia Britannica founded in 1778. HENRY HALLAM. +1778-1859+. Historian. +View of Europe during the Middle Ages+ (1818); +Constitutional History of England+ (1827); +Introduction to the Literature of Europe+ (1839). THOMAS MOORE. +1779-1852+. Poet; prose-writer. +Odes and Epistles+ (1806); +Lalla Rookh+ (1817); +History of Ireland+ (1827); +Life of Byron+ (1830); +Irish Melodies+ (1834); and many prose works. +1780+ THOMAS DE QUINCEY. +1785-1859+. Essayist. +Confessions of an English Opium-Eater+ (1821). He wrote also on many subjects-- philosophy, poetry, classics, history, politics. His writings fill twenty volumes. He was one of the finest prose-writers of this century. French Revolution begun in 1789. LORD BYRON (George Gordon). +1788-1824+. Peer; poet; volunteer to Greece. +Hours of Idleness+ (1807); +English Bards and Scotch Reviewers+ (1809); +Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage+ (1812-1818); +Hebrew Melodies+ (1815); and many _Plays_. His prose, which is full of vigour and animal spirits, is to be found chiefly in his Letters. Bastille overthrown, 1789. +1790+ PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY. +1792-1822+. Poet. +Queen Mab+ (1810); +Prometheus Unbound+--a Tragedy (1819); +Ode to the Skylark+, +The Cloud+ (1820); +Adonaïs+ (1821), and many other poems; and several prose works. Cape of Good Hope Hope taken, 1795. Bonaparte in Italy, 1796. Battle of the Nile, 1798. +1800+ JOHN KEATS. +1795-1821+. Poet. +Poems+ (1817); +Endymion+ (1818); +Hyperion+ (1820). “Had Keats lived to the ordinary age of man, he would have been one of the greatest of all poets.” Union of Great Britain and Ireland, 1801. Trafalgar and Nelson, 1805. +1810+ Peninsular War, 1808-14. Napoleon’s Invasion of Russia; Moscow burnt, 1812. +1820+ THOMAS CARLYLE. +1795-1881+. Literary man; poet; translator; essayist; reviewer; political writer; historian. +German Romances+-- a set of Translations (1827); +Sartor Resartus+-- “The Tailor Repatched” (1834); +The French Revolution+ (1837); +Heroes and Hero-Worship+ (1840); +Past and Present+ (1843); +Cromwell’s Letters and Speeches+ (1845); +Life of Frederick the Great+ (1858-65). “With the gift of song, Carlyle would have been the greatest of epic poets since Homer.”