Category: British Literature

A Brief Handbook of English Authors

This brief handbook is intended simply for every-day use, when reference to larger works of the kind may not be convenient. Experience has proved that the small book which can be readily taken up is consulted far more frequently than the ponderous volume that requires great mu...

Chapters

1. Part 1

This brief handbook is intended simply for every-day use, when reference to larger works of the kind may not be convenient. Experience has proved that the small book which can b...

2. Part 2

=Blake, Wm.= 1757-1827. Artist and poet. Author of Poetical Sketches, Songs of Innocence and Experience, etc. A writer of rare simplicity and beauty. An Elizabethan poet of the...

3. Part 3

=Coleridge [k[=o]l'r[)i]j], Hartley.= 1796-1849. Poet. Son to S. T. C. Author of Poems, Essays, Life of Massinger, etc. Style in both prose and verse clear and beautiful. _See W...

4. Part 4

=Evans, Marian=, "George Eliot." 1820-1880. Novelist and poet. A complete list of her works comprises translations of Strauss's Life of Jesus and Feuerbach's Essence of Christia...

5. Part 5

=Hall, Joseph.= 1547-1676. Bp. Norwich. Theologian and satirist. Sometimes styled the founder of Eng. satire. A vivacious and excellent writer. _See edition 1837. See Hannay's S...

6. Part 6

=Kingsley, Charles.= 1819-1875. Novelist and poet. Author of Andromeda, the finest Eng. hexameter poem, and the stories, Alton Locke, Yeast, Westward Ho, Hypatia, At Last, etc....

7. Part 7

=Massinger [m[)a]s's[)i]n-j[)e]r], Philip.= 1584-1640. A writer of much power whose style is clear and flexible. The Virgin Martyr, Fatal Dowry, City Madam, and A New Way to Pay...

8. Part 8

=Peele, George.= 1552-1598. Dramatist and poet. Author Arraignment of Paris, Absalom, Edward I., etc. In places Peele's verse is very musical. _See Lamb's Dramatic Poets; also W...

9. Part 9

=Scrivener, Frederick Henry.= 181 Biblical scholar. Author of a Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, and editor of a Greek Testament, The Cambridge Paragrap...

10. Part 10

=Taylor, Jeremy.= 1613-1667. Bp. Down and Connor. Theologian. His best works are Sermons, The Great Exemplar, and Holy Living and Holy Dying. His warmth of imagination and poeti...

11. Part 11

=Wilson, John=, "Christopher North." 1785-1854. Poet and essayist. Author of the poems The Isle of Palms and The City of the Plague, of the stories Margaret Lyndsay and Lights a...