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Norman Conquest 7, 15 28, 35, 36, 37

North, Sir Thomas (?1536–?1600)

91, 126

Northumbria, Anglo-Saxon 17, 18,

22, 26

see also Bede, St

Norton, Thomas (1532–1584) 91

O

O’Brian, Patrick (1914–1999) 429

O’Casey, Sean (1880–1964) 343, 377,

378, 385

Old English 13, 15, 17, 22, 35

Old English verse 22

Orléans, Charles d’ (1394–1465) 71

Orosius 27

Orton, Joe (1933–1967) 390

Orwell, George (Eric Blair,

1904–1950) 326,368, 370

Osborne, Dorothy (1627–1695) 175

Osbor ne,John (1929–1994) 380,

382, 384–5

Otway, Thomas (1652–1685) 167,

168, 169

Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso; 43 BC–AD

18) 40, 55, 57, 91, 104, 122, 126,

135, 143, 164, 165

Owen, Wilfred (1893–1918) 339,

340,343, 368, 421

Owl and the Nightingale, The 46–8

Oxford (or Tractarian) Movement

254, 265, 269, 270

P

Paine, Thomas (1737–1809) 183,

212, 230

‘Passionate Man’s Pilgrimage, The’

102

Paston Letters 50

Pater, Walter (1839–1894) 272, 287,

311, 312–13

Peacock, Thomas Love (1785–1856)

238, 241, 245, 246, 247

Pembroke, Mary, Countess of

(1561–1621) 91, 93, 95, 101

Pepys, Samuel (1633–1703) 167, 175

Percy, Bishop Thomas (1729–1811)

224, 236

Peterborough Chronicle 49

Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca,

1304–1374) 40, 80, 84, 85, 86,

94, 97

Philips, Katherine (1631–1664) 151,

167, 177

Pico della Mirandola (1463–1494) 79,

81

Pinero, Sir Arthur (1855–1935) 316

Pinter, Harold (1930–2008) 363,

379,380, 382, 385–6

Plato (424–347 BC) 3, 82, 89

Plautus (c.254–184 BC) 90, 121

Plutarch (c.50–c.125) 91, 126

Pope, Alexander (1688–1744) 6, 37,

149, 164, 171, 182–3, 184, 185,

186, 188, 189–96, 197, 200, 205,

206, 207, 209, 216, 225, 229, 235,

238, 394, 427

The Dunciad 170, 195–6

Epistle to a Lady 194–5

Essay on Criticism 190, 191, 195

Iliad 191–2

Ofthe Use of Riches 195

The Rape of the Lock 192–4

To Miss Blount,on her Leaving the

Town, after the Coronation

191

Post-colonial 423–4

Post-modernism 414

Potter, Dennis (1935–1997) 386

Pound, Ezra (1884–1972) 33, 53,

267, 278, 312, 321, 328, 329, 335,

337, 338, 339, 343, 349–50, 351,

352, 353, 356, 364, 373, 403, 408

Powell, Anthony (1905–2000) 365,

370, 371–2, 373

Prayer Book seeBook of Common

Prayer

Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood 261,

280–1,314,335, 355

press 330–1

printing, introduction of 36, 37, 38,

70–1

Pugin, A.W. (1812–1852) 260, 266,

267

Pullman, Philip (1946– ) 402, 432

Pym, Barbara (1913–1980) 389

Q

Quintilian (c.35–c.100) 89, 355

R

Radcliffe, Ann (1764–1823) 204,

251, 288

Ralegh, Sir Walter (c.1552–1618) 92,

97,98, 99, 100, 101–3, 107, 124

Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio, 1483–1520)

78

Rastell, John (?1470–1536) 90

Rattigan, Terence (1911–1977) 373,

377,378, 405, 406

Read, Piers Paul (1941– ) 391

Reformation, the 8, 36, 80–1, 86

religious lyric 67

Renaissance, the 77–9, 86, 140

Restoration, the 161–4

Restoration comedy 168–9

Rhys, Jean (1890–1979) 361–2, 365,

380, 388

Richard II (1367–1400; King 1377–99)

51, 116

Richardson, Samuel (1689–1761) 7,

44, 61, 95, 182, 183, 200–1, 202,

204, 205, 288, 296

riddles 24, 27

Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of

(1647–1680) 165–6, 167, 169

Rolle,Richard (c.1300–1349) 48–9

romances 42–3, 54, 68–70, 93,

133–6, 236–7, 238, 249–50, 286,

310, 320, 375–6, 434

Roper, William (1498–1578) 89

Rosenberg, I saac (1890–1918) 336,

339

Rossetti, Christina (1830–1894) 3,

264,273, 286–1

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828–1882)

273, 286–1

Rowley, William (?1585–1626) 142

Rowling, J. K. (1965– ) 376, 387,

402, 432–4

Royal Society of London 146, 174,

175

Rushdie, Salman (1947– ) 3, 381,

411

Ruskin,John (1819–1900) 229, 261,

263, 264, 265, 266, 267–9, 291,

311, 312

Ruthwell Cross 22–4

S

Sackville,Thomas (1536–1608) 91

Saintsbury, George (1845–1933)

236

Sassoon, Siegfried (1886–1967) 328,

335, 329, 339, 343, 365

Scholasticism 44–5, 145

Scott, Paul (1920–1978) 380–1, 388,

422

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