1893-4. The Collected Essays (nine vols.: Macmillan & Co.).

1895. Died June 29.

The standard biography by his son, Leonard Huxley. A good, critical biography (especially valuable in pointing out constructive aspects of Huxley's work) by Mr Edward Clodd (Blackwood & Son. 2s. 6d.).

By way of introduction the article on Huxley in Chambers's Encyclopædia of English Literature may be read.

From the general reader's point of view, who does not wish to study the more technical aspects of Huxley's scientific work, the volumes entitled Science and Education and Evolution and Ethics are the most suggestive.

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770-1850).

1770. Born at Cockermouth, Cumberland, April 7. 1798. Lyrical Ballads.

1843. Poet Laureate.

1850. Died at Rydal Mount.

The best short biographical study by F. W. H. Myers. The best critical study by Prof. Raleigh. The best exposition of his religious philosophy by Rev. Stopford Brooke (Theology in the English Poets). An excellent account of his work and of his "place" among the "Revolutionary" Poets by Prof. C. H. Herford (The Age of Wordsworth). The best selection of his poems by Matthew Arnold, with fine critical introduction. Admirable essay on "the ethics of Wordsworth" by Leslie Stephen (Hours in a Library). An interesting volume of essays entitled (Wordsworthiana). Helpful essays by Mr W. J. Dawson (Makers of Modern Poetry: Hodder & Stoughton). Mr Dawson has published three excellent volumes for the literary student, Makers of Modern Poetry, Makers of Modern Prose, Makers of Modern Fiction.

JOHN KEATS (1795-1821).

1795. Born, Moorfields, London, October 29. 1817. Poems first published.

1821. Died Rome.

An excellent biographical study by Mr Sidney Colvin ("English Men of Letters" Series). One of the best editions of his poems, The Poetical Works of John Keats, edited by H. Buxton Forman (Reeves & Turner). See, for the literary tendencies of his time, The History of Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century, by Prof. Henry A. Beers (Kegan Paul & Co.). Suggestive essays by J. R. Lowell and Matthew

Arnold.

DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI (1828-1882).

1828. Born at London, May 12.

1870. Poems (first volume).

The Life

Best biographical study by Mr E. F. Benson. and Letters, edited by Mr Wm. Rossetti, throws interesting sidelights on his personality. Cheap edition in one volume of his poems, edited by Wm. Rossetti. An excellent appreciation of the poet in Living English Poets by H. Buxton Forman. See also History of Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century for account of the pre-Raphaelite move

ment.

CHARLES DICKENS (1812-1870).

1812. Born, Portsmouth, February 7.

1833. A Dinner at Poplar Walk (first original paper published in Monthly Magazine). 1836. Sketches by Boz.

1838. Oliver Twist.

1839. Nicholas Nickleby.

1840. The Old Curiosity Shop.

1841. Barnaby Rudge.

1842 American Notes.

1843. Martin Chuzzlewit.

The Christmas Carol.

1846. Dombey and Son.

1849. David Copperfield. 1852. Bleak House.

1854. Hard Times.

1855. Little Dorrit.

1859. A Tale of Two Cities.

1861. The Uncommercial Traveller.

1864. Our Mutual Friend.

1870. Mystery of Edwin Drood (unfinished).

Life by John Forster (an abridged edition recently published, but the student is recommended to study the original). Best critical study by George Gissing (Blackwood & Son. 2s. 6d.). Interesting study from French point of view, by Taine, History of English Literature, vol. iv. (translated by Van Laun). Forster's Life may be supplemented by Mr F. Kitton's biography. The Dickens' student should consult The Childhood and Youth of Dickens, by Robert Langton (Hutchison & Co.), and The Real Dickens Land by H. Snowden Ward (Chapman & Hall). There is a useful Dickens' Dictionary in the Daily News Memorial Edition.

WILLIAM HAZLITT (1778-1830).

1778. Born, Maidstone, April 10.

1805. Essays on the Principles of Human Action.

1806. Free Thoughts on Public Affairs.

1817. The Round Table (Essays on Men and Manners).

1817. Characters of Shakespeare.

1818-21. Lectures on the English Poets.

Lectures on Dramatic Literature of Age of
Elizabeth.

1821. Table Talk.

1825. Spirit of the Age (contains some of his finest work). 1828-30. Life of Buonaparte.

Memoirs by William Carew Hazlitt (1867). This is the only authoritative life. See also Four Generations of a Literary Family, by W. Carew Hazlitt (1897: George Redway). A good short monograph by Augustine Birrell. See also excellent essay by Leslie Stephen (Hours in a Library). Perhaps the best introduction to his personality and work is a volume edited by Mr Alexander Ireland, the best (and only complete) edition of his work, published by J. M. Dent & Co.

THOMAS DE QUINCEY (1785-1859).

1785. Born in Manchester, August 15.

1821. Confessions of an Opium Eater (London Magazine). 1828. In Edinburgh. Contributed to Blackwood, The Quarterly, Tait's Magazine, Hogg's Instructor. 1844. The Logic of Political Economy.

1859. Died in Edinburgh, December 8.

Collected edition of his writings, edited by David Masson, in fourteen vols. An excellent little monograph by Mr H. S. Salt ("Bell's Miniature Series of Great Writers"). See also De Quincey, by David Masson (“English Men of Letters" Series). Perhaps the best edition of The Confessions of an Opium Eater is that edited by Dr Richard Garnett (Kegan Paul). An interesting collection of personalia, De Quincey and His Friends, written and collected by James Hogg (1895). See Mr W. J. Dawson's Essay on De Quincey in Makers of Modern Prose (Hodder & Stoughton).

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