THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE Volume XIII: English THE VICTORIAN AGE Part One The Nineteenth Century, II Edited by A. W. Ward & A. R. Waller

CONTENTS
Prefatory Note
Table of Principal Dates
Chapter I.	Carlyle
	By J. G. ROBERTSON, M.A., B.Sc. (Glasgow), Ph.D. (Leipzig), Professor of German Language and Literature in the University of London Goethe on Carlyle Carlyle’s early years Life of Schiller Carlyle’s marriage His relation to Goethe Sartor Resartus The French Revolution On Heroes Chartism Past and Present Latter-Day Pamphlets Oliver Cromwell John Sterling Frederick the Great Carlyle as a moral force BIBLIOGRAPHY
II.	The Tennysons
	By HERBERT J. C. GRIERSON, M.A., Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature in the University of Edinburgh Tennyson’s early poems The Princess In Memoriam Maud Idylls of the King Enoch Arden and dialect ballads Dramas and later poems and ballads His metres Summary Charles Tennyson Frederick Tennyson BIBLIOGRAPHY
III.	Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
	By Sir HENRY JONES, M.A., F.B.A., Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Glasgow Robert Browning’s early years The influence upon him of Byron and Shelley Pauline Paracelsus Strafford Sordello Bells and Pomegranates The dramatic element in Browning’s work Elizabeth Barrett’s Poems Sonnets from the Portuguese Casa Guidi Windows Aurora Leigh Christmas Eve and Easter Day The Ring and the Book Later poems BIBLIOGRAPHY
IV.	Matthew Arnold, Arthur Hugh Clough, James Thomson
	By W. LEWIS JONES, M.A., sometime Scholar of Queen’s College, Professor of English Language and Literature at the University College of North Wales, Bangor Arnold’s early poems The Strayed Reveller Arnold’s “theory of poetry” Sohrab and Rustum His later poems The qualities of his poetry His prose; Essays in Criticism The Study of Celtic Literature Culture and Anarchy Arthur Hugh Clough; His hexameters The Bothie James Thomson The City of Dreadful Night BIBLIOGRAPHY
V.	The Rossettis, William Morris, Swinburne AND OTHERS
	By A. HAMILTON THOMPSON, M.A., F.S.A., St. John’s College The pre-Raphaelites; The Germ The Blessed Damozel The House of Life The Earthly Paradise Sigurd the Volsung Morris’s prose narratives Swinburne’s early years Atalanta in Calydon Poems and Ballads Tristram of Lyonesse Swinburne’s prose Christina Rossetti Arthur O’Shaughnessy Edward FitzGerald BIBLIOGRAPHY
VI.	Lesser Poets of the Middle and Later Nineteenth Century
	By GEORGE SAINTSBURY, M.A., Merton College, Oxford, LL.D., D.Litt., F.B.A. Macaulay’s Lays of Ancient Rome Tupper’s Proverbial Philosophy Bailey’s Festus Ernest Jones Ebenezer Jones Alexander Smith Sydney Dobell Aytoun’s Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers Bon Gaultier Ballads Percival Leigh; W. J. Prowse; Mortimer Collin Edward Lear Frederick Locker C. S. Calverley H. D. Traill J. K. Stephen Lewis Carroll Keble Newman Isaac Williams; Faber Neale Trench W. M. Wilks Call; T. T. Lynch Translations Caroline Archer Clive Sarah Flower Adams; Fanny Kemble Adelaide Anne Procter Isa Craig; Jean Ingelow Harriet Eleanor Hamilton-King; Augusta Webster Margaret Veley Mathilde Blind; Michael Field; Constance Naden; Amy Levy Mary E. Coleridge Lord Houghton; T. Gordon Hake Sir F. H. Doyle Alfred Domett; W. J. Linton; W. B. Scott Aubrey de Vere; Thomas Westwood; Charles Mackay Coventry Patmore George Macdonald F. T. Palgrave William Johnson (Cory) T. E. Brown R. W. Dixon Sebastian Evans “Owen Meredith” Edwin Arnold Lewis Morris Sir Alfred Lyall Alfred Austin Roden Noel Lord de Tabley Thomas Ashe John Addington Symonds Robert Buchanan Frederic Myers Andrew Lang French forms of verse W. E. Henley Philip Bourke Marston; Robert Louis Stevenson H. E. Clarke E. C. Lefroy John Davidson Francis Thompson Ernest Dowson Richard Middleton Summary BIBLIOGRAPHY
VII.	The Prosody of the Nineteenth Century
	By GEORGE SAINTSBURY Ossian; Percy’s Religues Chatterton; Blake Anti-Bysshism Coleridge’s Christabel Southey Scott Moore Byron Shelley Keats Warner’s Metronariston Guest Victorian prosody The hexameter controversy Later prosodists Summary BIBLIOGRAPHY
VIII.	Nineteenth-Century Drama
	By HAROLD CHILD, sometime Scholar of Brasenose College, Oxford The drama a popular amusement in the nineteenth century Richard Lalor Sheil Charles Robert Maturin H. H. Milman Sheridan Knowles; R. H. Horne J. Westland Marston Melodrama Black-ey’d Susan Dion Boucicault Tom Taylor W. G. Wills Douglas Jerrold John Poole; Box and Cox; J. R. Planché; Shirley Brooks; H. J. Byron T. W. Robertson W. S. Gilbert BIBLIOGRAPHY
IX.	Thackeray
	By A. HAMILTON THOMPSON Early life The Yellowplush Correspondence Michael Angelo Titmarsh; Barry Lyndon The Sketch Books Thackeray’s contributions to Punch The Book of Snobs Vanity Fair Pendennis Esmond The Newcomes The Virginians Philip Summary BIBLIOGRAPHY
X.	Dickens
	By GEORGE SAINTSBURY Early life Sketches The Pickwick Papers Oliver Twist Nicholas Nickleby The Old Curiosity Shop Barnaby Rudge Martin Chuzzlewit Christmas Books Dombey and Son David Copperfield Bleak House Hard Times Little Dorrit A Tale of Two Cities Great Expectations Summary BIBLIOGRAPHY
XI.	The Political and Social Novel DISRAELI, CHARLES KINGSLEY, MRS. GASKELL, “GEORGE ELIOT”
	By Sir A. W. WARD, Litt.D., F.B.A., Master of Peterhouse The reaction against Romanticism Harriet Martineau Benjamin Disraeli Charles Kingsley The Saint’s Tragedy Yeast Alton Locke Hypatia Westward Ho! Two Years Ago Kingsley’s lectures and essays Thomas Hughes; Tom Brown’s School Days Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Mary Barton North and South Cranford Mrs. Gaskell’s Life of Charlotte Brontë Sylvia’s Lovers Cousin Phillis Wives and Daughters “George Eliot”; Her early years George Henry Lewes Scenes of Clerical Life Adam Bede The Mill on the Floss Silas Marner Romola Felix Holt The Spanish Gypsy Middlemarch Daniel Deronda “George Eliot’s” poems Summary BIBLIOGRAPHY
XII.	The Brontës
	By A. A. JACK, M.A., Peterhouse, Chalmers Professor of English Literature in the University of Aberdeen The Brontë family Jane Eyre Shirley Villette Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë’s poems Appendix BIBLIOGRAPHY
XIII.	Lesser Novelists
	By W. T. YOUNG, M.A. Sometime Lecturer in English Language and Literature at the University of London, Goldsmiths’ College Lord Lytton; Pelham Criminal biography; Paul Clifford and Eugene Aram Historical romances Tales of the occult The Caxtons Summary Anthony Trollope; The Barchester series His Autobiography Charles Reade Novels based on “documents” The Cloister and the Hearth Mary Russell Mitford; Our Village Mrs. Henry Wood Mrs. Oliphant George Macdonald William Black Henry Kingsley George Du Maurier Lorna Doone; John Inglesant G. A. Lawrence and “Ouida” Wilkie Collins “Mark Rutherford” BIBLIOGRAPHY
XIV.	George Meredith, Samuel Butler, George Gissing
	By W. T. YOUNG, M.A. Meredith His poems The comic spirit His characterisation Style in prose and in verse Metrical experiments Butler His scientific controversies Erewhon Erewhon and Gulliver’s Travels Erewhon Revisited The Way of all Flesh; The Pontifex cell Gissing Gissing’s work transitional A comparison with Zola The delineation of poverty; Realism and pessimism Novels of the middle classes: problems discussed in New Grub Street, Born in Exile and The Odd Women The classical world; By the Ionian Sea; Veranilda The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft Structure and style BIBLIOGRAPHY