Readings in English prose of the nineteenth century
Raymond Macdonald Alden (Editor)
x, 695 pages ; 23 cm
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Part I. From Coleridge to Macaulay
Biographia literaria [selections] / Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1817)
Shakespeare lectures. Shakespeare's judgement equal to his genius ; Characteristics of Shakespeare's dramas ; Hamlet / Samuel Taylor Coleridge
On the tragedies of Shakespeare / Charles Lamb (1812)
Christ's Hospital five and thirty years ago / Charles Lamb (1820)
Mackery end, in Herfordshire / Charles Lamb (1821)
Dream-children: a reverie / Charles Lamb (1822)
On the artificial comedy of the last century / Charles Lamb (1822)
The praise of chimney-sweepers / Charles Lamb (1822)
Detached thoughts on books and reading / Charles Lamb (1822)
A dissertation upon roast pig / Charles Lamb (1822)
Preface by a friend of the late Elia / Charles Lamb (1823)
Old China / Charles Lamb (1823)
The superannuated man / Charles Lamb (1825)
Sanity of true genius / Charles Lamb (1826)
Characters of Shakespeare. Hamlet ; Midsummer night's dream ; Henry IV / William Hazlitt (1817)
The nonconformists / William Hazlitt (1818)
A letter for William Gifford, Esq. / William Hazlitt (1819)
The fight / William Hazlitt (1822)
On the fear of death / William Hazlitt (1822)
My first acquaintance with poets / William Hazlitt (1823)
Sir Walter Scott / William Hazlitt (1825)
Of persons one would wish to have seen / William Hazlitt (1826)
Imaginary conversations. Bossuet and the Duchess of Fontagnes ; Lucullus and Cæsar ; The Empress Catharine and Princess Dashkof ; Andrew Marvell and Bishop Parker ; Southey and Landor / Walter Savage Landor (1828-46)
Pericles and Aspasia [selections] / Walter Savage Landor (1836)
The dreams of Boccaccio and Petrarch / Walter Savage Landor (1837)
The pleasures of opium / Thomas De Quincey (1821)
On the knocking at the gate in "Macbeth" / Thomas De Quincey (1823)
Levana and our ladies of sorrow / Thomas De Quincey (1845)
Joan of Arc / Thomas De Quincey (1847)
Literature of knowledge and literature of power / Thomas De Quincey (1848)
Introduction to the world of strife / Thomas De Quincey (1851)
Milton and the Puritans / Thomas Babington Macaulay (1825)
History / Thomas Babington Macaulay (1828)
Correctness and classicism / Thomas Babington Macaulay (1831)
Boswell's life of Johnson / Thomas Babington Macaulay (1831)
The comedy of the Restoration / Thomas Babington Macaulay (1841)
Scott's "Lady of the Lake" / by Francis Jeffrey (The Edinburgh review, 1810)
Wordsworth's "Excursion" / by Francis Jeffrey (The Edinburgh review, 1814)
Coleridge's "Biographia literaria" (Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine, 1817)
The Cockney school of poetry (Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine, 1817-18)
Keats's "Endymion / by John Wilson Croker (The quarterly review, 1818)
Tennyson's poems / by John Wilson Croker (The quarterly review, 1833). Part II. From Carlyle to Stevenson
Boswell's life of Johnson / Thomas Carlyle (1832)
Sartor Resartus. The world out of clothes ; The everlasting no ; The everlasting yea ; Natural supernaturalism / Thomas Carlyle (1833-34)
The hero as a divinity / Thomas Carlyle (1841)
Labour; reward / Thomas Carlyle (1843)
The present time / Thomas Carlyle (1850)
Coleridge at Highgate / Thomas Carlyle (1851)
Knowledge and faith / John Henry Newman (1841)
Knowledge, learning, and professional skill / John Henry Newman (1852)
Literature / John Henry Newman (1858)
The infallible church / John Henry Newman (1864)
The lamp of memory / John Ruskin (1849)
The stones of Venice. St. Mark's Cathedral ; Servile and free workmen / John Ruskin (1853)
Of the pathetic fallacy / John Ruskin (1856)
Preface to The crown of wild olive / John Ruskin (1866)
Fors Clavigera, letter 5 / John Ruskin (1871)
The function of criticism at the present time / Matthew Arnold (1864)
Preface to Essays in criticism / Matthew Arnold (1865)
Sweetness and light / Matthew Arnold (1867)
Poetry a criticism of life / Matthew Arnold (1879)
The study of poetry / Matthew Arnold (1880)
Literature and science / Matthew Arnold (1882)
On the physical basis of life / Thomas Henry Huxley (1868)
A liberal education / Thomas Henry Huxley (1868)
Science and culture / Thomas Henry Huxley (1880)
Autobiography / Thomas Henry Huxley (1889)
Success in life / Walter Pater (1873)
Romanticism / Walter Pater (1876)
The child in the house / Walter Pater (1878)
Divine service / Walter Pater (1885)
Æs triplex / Robert Louis Stevenson (1878)
Travels with a donkey in the Cévennes [selections] / Robert Louis Stevenson (1879)
A gossip on romance / Robert Louis Stevenson (1882)
Pulvis et umbra / Robert Louis Stevenson (1888)