A History of English Literature

Tyndale, William (?1495–1536), 87, 88,

91

Tyrwhitt, Thomas (1730–1786) 92

U

Udall, Nicolas (1504–1556) 90–1, 105

United Kingdom 5

universities, medieval 44, 71

V

Vanburgh, Sir John (1654–1726)

168,169, 183

Vaughan, Rev. Henry (1621–1695)

150–2

Vegius, Mapheus 74

Vercelli Book 22, 26, 29

vernacular 37

Villon, François (1431–after 1463) 45

Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro,

70–19 BC) 41,164, 190, 191,

195, 274

tr anslations 73–4, 86, 91, 169,

170–3, 189–90, 310, 366, 399

Voltaire (1694–1778) 7, 8, 183, 203,

204, 206, 217, 228

W

Wa c e (c.1110–after 1171) 40, 41, 183

Wain, John (1925–1995) 392

Waller, Edmund (1606–1687) 151,

164, 207

Walpole, Horace (1717–1797) 183,

204, 206, 210–11, 212

Walton, Dr Izaak (1593–1683) 145,

152, 174, 427

Wanderer, The 32, 33, 67

Warner, Sylvia Townsend (1893–1978)

359

Warton, Joseph (1722–1800) 208

Warton, Thomas (1728–90) 208

Watts, Dr Isaac (1674–1748) 183,

185, 200, 205, 228, 306

Waugh, Evelyn (1903–1966) 136,

287, 343, 355, 362, 364–5,

369–71, 373, 379, 380, 410, 420

Webster, John (c.1578–c.1632) 142

Wells, H. G. (1866–1946) 311, 327,

328, 329, 330

Wesley, John (1703–1791) 183, 200,

212

‘Western wind, when wilt thou blow’

47

‘Where beth they beforen us weren’

67

White, Patrick (1912–1990) 6, 363,

423–4, 425

White, T. H. (1906–1964) 362, 380,

432, 433

Wilde, Oscar (1854–1900) 5, 8, 264,

267, 287, 311–16, 322

Wilmot, John seeRochester, John

Wilmot, Earl of

Wilson, Angus (1913–1991) 380,

388, 389

Winchilsea, Countess ofsee Finch,

Anne,Countess of Winchilsea

Winterson, Jeannette (1959– ) 380,

408

Wodehouse, P.G. (1881–1975) 316,

364, 369

Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759–1797)

212,228, 239, 247

Woolf, Virginia (1892–1941) 267,

312, 341–2, 343, 357–60, 354–8,

415, 422, 427

To the Lighthouse343, 359–60

Wordsworth, William (1770–1850)

1, 101, 164, 209, 219, 220, 224,

228, 229–34, 236–46, 261, 269,

271, 288, 300, 301, 304, 307, 338,

395

Wren, Sir Christopher (1632–1723)

140, 146, 162, 175, 177, 184

writing 36

Wulfstan, Archbishop of York (d.1023)

34–5

Wyatt, Sir Thomas (1503–1542) 80,

84–8, 92

Wycherley, William (1641–1715)

168–9

Wyclif, John (c.1330–1384) 50

Y

Yeats, W.B. (1867–1939) 5, 309, 311,

312,317, 321, 328, 329, 337, 340,

342, 343, 349, 355–6, 366, 368,

377, 407

Young, Edward (1683–1765) 206

Yorke, Henry seeGreen,Henry

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