English Literature

APPENDIX

Garnett and Gosse’s Illustrated History of English Litera-
ture, 4 vols.(Macmillan).

Morley’s English Writers, 11 vols. (Cassell), extends
through Elizabethanliterature. It is rather complex and not
up to date, but has manyquotations from authors studied.

Taine’s English Literature (many editions), is brilliant and
interesting,but unreliable.

LITERARY CRITICISM^213

Lowell’s Literary Essays.
Hazlitt’s Lectures on the English Poets.
Mackail’s The Springs of Helicon (a study of English poetry
from Chaucer to Milton).

Dowden’s Studies in Literature, and Dowden’s Transcripts
and Studies.

Minto’s Characteristics of English Poets.

Matthew Arnold’s Essays in Criticism.

Stevenson’s Familiar Studies in Men and Books.

Leslie Stephen’s Hours in a Library.

Birrell’s Obiter Dicta.

Hales’s Folia Litteraria.

Pater’s Appreciations.

TEXTS AND HELPS (INEXPENSIVE SCHOOL EDI-

TIONS)^214

(^213) Special works on criticism, the drama, the novel, etc., will be foundin the
Bibliographies on pp. 9, 181, etc.
(^214) We have included in this list all the editions of which we haveany personal
knowledge, but there are doubtless others that have escaped attention. For the
best biographies of individual writers, see the Bibliographies at the ends of the
preceding chapters.