A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 — John Stuart Mill — John Shaqi
A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2
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War with United States, 1812-14.
Battle of Waterloo,1815.
+1830+
George IV. ascends the throne, 1820.
Greek War of Freedom, 1822-29.
Byron in Greece, 1823-24.
Catholic Emancipation, 1829.
LORD MACAULAY (Thomas Babington). +1800-1859+. Barrister; Edinburgh
Reviewer; M.P.; Member of the Supreme Council of India; Cabinet
Minister; poet; essayist; historian; peer.
+Milton+ (in the ‘Edinburgh Review,’ 1825); +Lays of Ancient Rome+
(1842); +History of England+-- unfinished (1849-59). “His pictorial
faculty is amazing.”
William IV. ascends the throne, 1830.
The Reform Bill, 1832.
Total Abolition of Slavery, 1834.
LORD LYTTON (Edward Bulwer). +1805-1873+. Novelist; poet; dramatist;
M.P.; Cabinet Minister; peer.
+Ismael and Other Poems+ (1825); +Eugene Aram+ (1831); +Last Days of
Pompeii+ (1834); +The Caxtons+ (1849); +My Novel+ (1853); +Poems+
(1865).
Queen Victoria ascends the throne, 1837.
+1840+
Irish Famine, 1845.
JOHN STUART MILL. +1806-1873+. Clerk in the East India House;
philospher; political writer; M.P.; Lord Rector of the University of
St Andrews.
+System of Logic+ (1843); +Principles of Political Economy+ (1848);
+Essay on Liberty+ (1858); +Autobiography+ (1873); “For judicial
calmness, elevation of tone, and freedom from personality, Mill is
unrivalled among the writers of his time.”
Repeal of the Corn Laws, 1846.
+1850+
Revolution in Paris, 1851.
Death of Wellington, 1852.
HENRY W. LONGFELLOW. +1807-1882+. Professor of Modern Languages and
Literature in Harvard University, U.S.; poet; prose-writer.
+Outre-Mer+--a Story (1835); +Hyperion+--a Story (1839); +Voices
of the Night+ (1841); +Evangeline+ (1848) +Hiawatha+ (1855);
+Aftermath+ (1873). “His tact in the use of language is probably the
chief cause of his success.”
Napoleon III. Emperor of the French, 1852.
Russian War, 1854-56.
LORD TENNYSON (Alfred Tennyson). +1809----+. Poet; poet-laureate;
peer.
+Poems+ (1830) +In Memoriam+ (1850); +Maud+ (1855); +Idylls of the
King+ (1859-73); +Queen Mary+--a Drama (1875); +Becket+--a Drama
(1884). He is at present our greatest living poet.
Franco-Austrian War, 1859.
+1860+
Emancipation of Russian serfs, 1861.
ELIZABETH B. BARRETT (afterwards Mrs Browning). +1809-1861+. Poet;
prose-writer; translator.
+Prometheus Bound+-- translated from the Greek of Æschylus (1833);
+Poems+ (1844); +Aurora Leigh+ (1856); and _Essays_ contributed to
various magazines.
Austro-Prussian “Seven Weeks’ War”, 1866.
Suez canal finished, 1869.
+1870+