Victorian Literature: Sixty Years of Books and BookmenShorter, Clement King
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Victorian Literature: Sixty Years of Books and Bookmen
Shorter, Clement King
English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Browning, Robert. Friendship with Tennyson; social traits, 11;
superb characterisation; charge of obscurity; half his work
not obscure; 'The Ring and the Book'; 'Men and Women'; and
'Dramatic Idyls' are exciting stories; 'Luria'; 'In a
Balcony'; and 'A Blot in the 'Scutcheon' as readable as
railway novels; his small audience, 12;
'Pauline'; hard fight for recognition; Elizabeth Barrett's
appreciation; marriage, 13-14.
Bryce, James. 'The Holy Roman Empire'; parliamentary life, 104.
Buckland, Frank. Author of books on 'Natural History,' 153.
Buckland, William. Author of 'Geology and Mineralogy considered
with reference to Natural Theology,' 153.
Buckle, Henry Thomas. 'History of Civilization in England';
defects of, 103.
Burney, Fanny, 49.
Burton, John Hill. 'History of Scotland,' 96.
'By Proxy,' 189.
Byron, death of, 5;
attitude towards Wordsworth, 8.
Caird, Edward. 'Philosophy of Kant'; 'Essays on Literature
and Philosophy'; 'The Evolution of Religion,' 170.
Cairnes, John Elliott, 143.
'Calendar of Letters and Papers of the Reign of Henry VIII.,
A,' 88.
'Calendar of Spanish State Papers of Elizabeth,' 89.
'Called to be Saints,' 22.
'Callista,' 111.
Calverley, Charles Stuart. One of the most famous successors of
Hood and Barham; wrote 'Fly Leaves' and 'Verses and
Translations,' 30.
Campbell, James Dykes. Biographer of Coleridge, 178.
Campbell, Lewis, 163.
Carleton, William. 'Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry';
'Tales of Ireland'; 'Fardorougha the Miser'; 'Black Prophet,' 66.
Carlyle, Thomas. Birth; education; his father's influence, 112;
as tutor; biographer; Madame de Staël's influence, 113;
veneration for Goethe, 113-114, 120-121;
'Wilhelm Meister'; 'Life of Schiller,' 113;
marriage; Richter's influence, 114;
personal character, 115-120;
domestic relations, 115-120;
Froude's 'Letters' and Reminiscences, 115-116;
his influence, 118-119, 128;
intentions respecting 'Reminiscences,' 119-120;
'Sartor Resartus'; _Fraser's Magazine_, 121;
influence of his teaching on younger minds, 122-123;
'Past and Present'; 'Latter-day Pamphlets'; John Stuart Mill;
Governor Eyre and Jamaica riots, 123;
'Heroes and Hero-Worship'; 'French Revolution'; 'Cromwell';
'Frederick II. of Prussia'; his place in literature; 'Schiller'
criticised; 'Life of John Sterling,' 124;
Mill on the 'French Revolution,' 125;
Carlyle's judgments endorsed by John Morley; his 'Cromwell';
his 'Frederick II.,' 126-7;
his enormous personality, 127-8;
_Edinburgh Cyclopædia_, 150;
contempt for Darwinian hypothesis, 156.
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