A History of English Literature

the damage done to poetry in general by the overuse of Romantic nature lyrics in primary school. It is still rumoured that Words ...

Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is: What if my leaves are falling like its own! The tumult of thy mighty harmonies Will tak ...

helped him devise the stanzas used in his Odes. In the couplets ofEndymion and the blank-verse of the unfinished Hyperion, his f ...

Solution sweet: meantime the frost-wind blows Like Love’s alarum pattering the sharp sleet Against the window-panes; St. Agnes’ ...

Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was hear ...

world / Are misery, and will not let them rest.’ This fragment has a maturity which suggests that Keats might have equalled Word ...

William Hazlitt A humorous phrase was not the highest ambition of the lifelong radical William Hazlitt(1778–1830).His literary a ...

Fiction Thomas Love Peacock Thomas Love Peacock(1785–1864), who worked beside Lamb in the East India Office under John Mill, was ...

tale taken from facts and from the manners of the Irish squires before the year 1782,it purports to be an edited oral memoir of ...

Sir Walter Scott The Quarterly Review, founded by Scott, greeted the anonymous Waverley (1814) as ‘a Scotch Castle Rackrent’ but ...

novels he sought to make the differing versions of Scottish history mutually intelli- gible to their inheritors, using a new rel ...

the novel of feminine sensibility, and in Northanger Abbey, begun in 1798, the silli- ness of Gothic.Catherine Morland reflects: ...

the serious Mansfield Park, the classical Emma and the autumnal Persuasion. It is hard to choose between these.Mansfield Park is ...

the chances of a most uncertain profession [the navy], and no connexions to secure even his farther rise in that profession ...’ ...

theme. (Her novels offered ‘an admirable copy of life’, but lacked imagination, according to Wordsworth, who lacked the kind of ...

throne, the warning voices of Keble and Carlyle were audible. Among the young writers were Tennyson, the Brownings, Thackeray an ...

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Victorian Literature to 1880 PART 4 ...

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Overview Victoria’s long reign saw a growth in literature, especially in fiction, practised notably by Dickens, Thackeray, the B ...