_2._ THE DRAMA.--The one region in which romanticism failed. Note prevalence of farce and “commercial” comedy, the vogue of Kotzebue and the German drama, and of melodrama, and the failure of romantic poetic drama. _Comedy_: O’Keefe. Colman, _Junr._ Inchbald. Holcroft, Tobin. Reynolds and Morton. _Melodrama:_ Lewis. Maturin. _Poetic Drama_: Wordsworth. Coleridge. Baillie. Knowles. Shelley. Beddoes. Byron. _3._ FICTION.--(_a_) _Novel of Manners_: Edgworth. Lady Morgan. Austen. Mitford. _Scotch_--Galt. Ferrier. Moir. Picken. Wilson. _Irish_--The Banims. Griffin. Croker. Carleton. (_b_) _The Picaresque Romance_: T. Hope. Morier. _The New Fashionable Novel_--Bulwer. Disraeli. Lister. _Satire_--Peacock. (_c_) _The Romance of Terror_: Lewis. Maturin. M. W. Shelley. (_d_) _The Revolutionary Romance_: Godwin. Mrs. Opie. Hannah More. (_e_) _Historical Novel_: The Porters. Miss Lees. M. W. Shelley. Scott. _4._ ESSAYISTS AND CRITICS.--(_a_) _The Johnsonian Tradition_: Jeffrey. S. Smith. Gifford. Lockhart. (_b_) _The Romantic School._: Lamb. De Quincey. Wilson, Hazlitt. Hunt. Coleridge. Wordsworth. Carlyle. _5._ LETTER WRITERS.--Keats. Byron. Lamb. _6._ SATIRE.--Frere. Gifford. Canning and light parody. Byron. Peacock. Shelley. More. J. and H. Smith. _7._ STUDY AND RESEARCH.--(_a_) _Science and Philosophy_: The Herschels. Brewster. Davy. W. Smith. Bell. Stewart and Brown, and the “commonsense” school. The “association” school. (_b_) _Politics and Sociology_: Godwin, Cobbett, and the “democratic reformers.” Mill, Ricardo, and the “philosophical radicals.” Malthus. Mackintosh. Coleridge. (_c_) _Theology_: (_i_) _The Liberals and Evangelicals_--Hall. Chalmers. Coleridge. Erskine. Irving. (_ii_) _The Conservatives_--Whately. Thirlwall. (_d_) _Historians_: (_i_) _Hume’s Followers_--Mitford. Coxe. Roscoe. (_ii_) _Gibbon’s Followers_--Sharon Turner. Lingard. Hallam. (_iii_) _Military History_--Southey. Napier. (_e_) _Explorers and Travellers_: Malcolm. Park. Burckhardt. Parry. Hall. (_f_) _Biography_: Southey. Moore. Lockhart. _8._ CHILDREN’S WRITERS.--Edgeworth. Lamb. J. Porter. Mrs. Sherwood. The Taylors. Mrs. Pilkington. TEST PAPER. (_1745-1832_). _1._ Describe briefly the successive phases of the novel from Richardson to Scott. _2._ What were the characteristics of the new romantic poetry from _1740-1780_; who were the chief writers? _3._ What reasons can you offer for the poor position of the drama during the period _1740-1830_? _4._ Trace the development of literary criticism from Johnson to Hazlitt. _5._ “During this period the writing of history was greatly advanced.” Discuss this statement. _6._ Write a brief essay on any one of the following: Austen, Burns, Johnson, Crabbe, Blake. _7._ Contrast Shelley with Byron, _or_ Keats with Wordsworth. _8._ Who wrote the following and when:--“Rasselas,” “Political Justice,” “Tam-o’-Shanter,” “The Task,” “Lyrical Ballads,” “Mrs. Battle on Whist,” “A Vision of Judgment”?