Literary man; historian; reviewer; poet; poet-laureate. _Joan of Arc_ (1793); _Thalaba the Destroyer_; the _Curse of Kehama_; Life of Nelson. Firm, clear, and sensible prose. Wrote more than a hundred volumes. CHARLES LAMB, 1775-1835. Clerk in the East India House; essayist and humorist. Essays of Elia (1820-25), which are quaint and familiar, and full of kindly wit and grotesque humour. SIR WALTER SCOTT, 1771-1832. Advocate; poet: novelist. _Border Minstrelsy_--a collection of old Border ballads (1802); _Lay of the Last Minstrel_ (1805); _Marmion_ (1808); the _Lady of the Lake_ (1810); Waverley (1814)--the first of that remarkable series, the Waverley Novels. In verse, he is the ‘Homer of Scotland;’ and he was a master of most fluent, bright, flowing narrative prose. THOMAS CAMPBELL, 1777-1844. Poet; literary man. _Pleasures of Hope_ (1799); _Minor Poems_--such as _Hohenlinden_, _Battle of the Baltic_, _Ye Mariners of England_, _Gertrude of Wyoming_ (1809). His prose consists chiefly of the Introductions to his _Specimens of the British Poets_. THOMAS MOORE, 1779-1852. Poet; biographer; historian. _Odes and Epistles_ (1806); _Lalla Rookh_ (1817); Life of Byron (1830); _Irish Melodies_ (1834); History of Ireland (1836). LORD BYRON, 1788-1824. (George Gordon). Peer; poet. _English Bards and Scotch Reviewers_ (1808); _Childe Harold_ (1812); the _Bride of Abydos_ (1814); and many _Plays_. His prose--which is full of vigour, fire, and eloquence--consists chiefly of letters. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, 1792-1822. Poet. _Queen Mab_ (1813); _Revolt of Islam_; _Prometheus Unbound_ (1819)--a tragedy; _Odes_ (_The Cloud_, _To the Skylark_, etc.), and many minor poems. His prose consists chiefly of letters. HENRY HALLAM, 1778-1859. Historian; literary man; Trustee of the British Museum. View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages (1818); Constitutional History of England (1827); Literature of Europe (1837); History of the Middle Ages (1848). A clear and impartial writer. THOMAS DE QUINCEY, 1785-1859. Literary man. Confessions of an English Opium-eater (1821); Essays on subjects in almost every department of History, Philosophy, and Literature. His style is eloquent, musical, and elaborate. In his own way, he was the finest prose-writer of the nineteenth century. JOHN KEATS, 1795-1821. Poet. _Endymion_ (1818); _Hyperion_; _Eve of St Agnes_; _Odes_. His poems are full of beauty and rich and picturesque imagery. THOMAS CARLYLE, 1795-1881. Mathematician; literary man; reviewer; historian.