Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10: The Guide

Name: Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10: The Guide
Author: Sylvester, Charles Herbert

Sylvester, Charles Herbert

Children's literature; Literature -- Collections

III. The Modern English Period. From the death of Pope to the present
        time.
        1. The Beginnings. From the death of Pope to 1780.
             Samuel Richardson, 1689-1761.
             Henry Fielding, 1707-1754.
             Dr. Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784.
             David Hume, 1711-1776.
             Laurence Sterne, 1713-1768.
             Thomas Gray, 1716-1771.
             Tobias George Smollett, 1721-1771.
             OLIVER GOLDSMITH, 1728-1774.
             Edmund Burke, 1729-1797.
             Edward Gibbon, 1737-1794.

        2. The Romantic School. From 1780 to 1837,
           the Accession of Queen Victoria.
             William Cowper, 1731-1800.
             Robert Burns, 1759-1796.
             WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, 1770-1850.
             SIR WALTER SCOTT, 1771-1832.
             Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772-1834.
             Robert Southey, 1774-1843.
             Charles Lamb, 1775-1834.
             Lord Byron, 1788-1824.
             Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1792-1822.
             John Keats, 1795-1821.

        3. The Victorian Age. From the Accession of Victoria to the
           present time.
             Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881.
             Thomas Macaulay, 1800-1859.
             Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1806-1861.
             ALFRED TENNYSON, 1809-1892.
             William Makepeace Thackeray, 1811-1863.
             Charles Dickens, 1812-1870.
             Robert Browning, 1812-1889.
             John Ruskin, 1819-1900.
             GEORGE ELIOT, 1819-1880.
             Matthew Arnold, 1822-1888.
             Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850-1894.




HANDY TABLE OF AMERICAN WRITERS

  A. The Colonial Period. The seventeenth and eighteenth century writers.
       Anne Bradstreet, 1612-1672.
       Cotton Mather, 1663-1728.
       BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, 1706-1790.

  B. The National Period. The nineteenth century writers.
      I. The Earlier Group.
           William Ellery Channing, 1780-1842.
           WASHINGTON IRVING, 1783-1859.
           James Fenimore Cooper, 1789-1851.
           William Cullen Bryant, 1794-1878.
           William Hickling Prescott, 1796-1859.
           Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849.

     II. The Civil War Group.
           George Bancroft, 1800-1891.
           RALPH WALDO EMERSON, 1803-1882.
           NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, 1804-1864.
           HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, 1807-1882.
           JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER, 1807-1892.
           OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, 1809-1894.
           John Lothrop Motley, 1814-1877.
           Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862.
           JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, 1819-1891.
           Francis Parkman, 1823-1893.

    III. Later Writers.
           Walt Whitman, 1819-1892.
           Richard Henry Stoddard, 1825-1903.
           Bayard Taylor, 1825-1878.
           Edmund Clarence Stedman, 1833-1908.
           Mark Twain, 1835-1910.
           Eugene Field, 1850-1895.




GENERAL INDEX


  A

  _Abou Ben Adhem_: IX, 11.

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Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10: The GuideSylvester, Charles Herbert

General

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10: The Guide

Sylvester, Charles Herbert

Children's literature; Literature -- Collections

III. The Modern English Period. From the death of Pope to the present
        time.
        1. The Beginnings. From the death of Pope to 1780.
             Samuel Richardson, 1689-1761.
             Henry Fielding, 1707-1754.
             Dr. Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784.
             David Hume, 1711-1776.
             Laurence Sterne, 1713-1768.
             Thomas Gray, 1716-1771.
             Tobias George Smollett, 1721-1771.
             OLIVER GOLDSMITH, 1728-1774.
             Edmund Burke, 1729-1797.
             Edward Gibbon, 1737-1794.

        2. The Romantic School. From 1780 to 1837,
           the Accession of Queen Victoria.
             William Cowper, 1731-1800.
             Robert Burns, 1759-1796.
             WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, 1770-1850.
             SIR WALTER SCOTT, 1771-1832.
             Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772-1834.
             Robert Southey, 1774-1843.
             Charles Lamb, 1775-1834.
             Lord Byron, 1788-1824.
             Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1792-1822.
             John Keats, 1795-1821.

        3. The Victorian Age. From the Accession of Victoria to the
           present time.
             Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881.
             Thomas Macaulay, 1800-1859.
             Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1806-1861.
             ALFRED TENNYSON, 1809-1892.
             William Makepeace Thackeray, 1811-1863.
             Charles Dickens, 1812-1870.
             Robert Browning, 1812-1889.
             John Ruskin, 1819-1900.
             GEORGE ELIOT, 1819-1880.
             Matthew Arnold, 1822-1888.
             Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850-1894.




HANDY TABLE OF AMERICAN WRITERS

  A. The Colonial Period. The seventeenth and eighteenth century writers.
       Anne Bradstreet, 1612-1672.
       Cotton Mather, 1663-1728.
       BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, 1706-1790.

  B. The National Period. The nineteenth century writers.
      I. The Earlier Group.
           William Ellery Channing, 1780-1842.
           WASHINGTON IRVING, 1783-1859.
           James Fenimore Cooper, 1789-1851.
           William Cullen Bryant, 1794-1878.
           William Hickling Prescott, 1796-1859.
           Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849.

     II. The Civil War Group.
           George Bancroft, 1800-1891.
           RALPH WALDO EMERSON, 1803-1882.
           NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, 1804-1864.
           HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, 1807-1882.
           JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER, 1807-1892.
           OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, 1809-1894.
           John Lothrop Motley, 1814-1877.
           Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862.
           JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, 1819-1891.
           Francis Parkman, 1823-1893.

    III. Later Writers.
           Walt Whitman, 1819-1892.
           Richard Henry Stoddard, 1825-1903.
           Bayard Taylor, 1825-1878.
           Edmund Clarence Stedman, 1833-1908.
           Mark Twain, 1835-1910.
           Eugene Field, 1850-1895.




GENERAL INDEX


  A

  _Abou Ben Adhem_: IX, 11.

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Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10: The Guide

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10: The Guide

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