Books Treating All, or a Large Part of, the History of English Literature, Including the Historical and Social Background.

Cambridge History of English Literature, ed. by A. W. Ward and A. R. Waller, 15 vols.-New York and London, G. P. Putnam, 1907-1927. (Comprehensive. Bibliographies for each

chapter, and an index of the whole) Dictionary of National Biography, 66 vols. Two supplements

Encyclopedia Britannica, 31 vols.

BOYNTON, PERCY H. London in English Literature-Chicago, University of Chicago Press,

1914

BRINK, BERNHARD A. K. TEN History of English Literature, 2 vols.-New York, Holt, 1889-96 BROOKE, STOPFORD A. English Literature-New York, Macmillan, 1901

CHEYNEY, EDWARD POTTS A Short History of

England, Rev. Ed.-Boston, Ginn & Co., 1919 COULTON, G. G. Chaucer and His EnglandLondon, Methuen, 1908

COURTHOPE, W. J. A History of English Poetry, 6 vols. New York, Macmillan, 1895-1910 COUSIN, JOHN W. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature (Everyman's Library)-London, J. M. Dent, 1910 GARNETT, R. AND GOSSE, SIR E. English Literature, an Illustrated Record, 4 vols.-New York, Macmillan, 1903-04

GAUTIER, LEON

ledge, 1891

Chivalry-New York, G. Rout

GOSSE, SIR EDMUND WILLIAM A Short History of Modern English Literature-New York, D. Appleton, 1900

GREEN, J. R. A Short History of the English

People-New York, American Book Co., 1919 GREENOUGH, JAMES B. and KITTREDGE, G. L. Words and their Ways in English SpeechNew York, Macmillan, 1901 GRIERSON, H. J. C. The Background of English Literature-New York, Holt, 1926

HALL, HUBERT Court Life Under the Plantagenets -London, S. Sonnenschein & Co., 1890 HAUGHTON, THOMAS The Student's Summary of the Principal Events in English History with Notes-London Bell, 1897

HULME, EDWARD MASLIN A History of the British People-New York, The Century Co.,

1924

JUSSERAND, J. J. English Wayfaring Life in the Middle Ages-London, T. F. Unwin, 1890

Histoire Littéraire du Peuple Anglais, 3 vols. -London, T. F. Unwin, 1906-09 MITCHELL, DONALD GRANT English Lands, Letters, and Kings-New York, Scribner, 1907

MONTGOMERY, DAVID HENRY The Leading Facts of English History-Boston, Ginn, 1912; revised 1917

MOODY, W. V. and LOVETT, R. M. History of English Literature-New York, Scribner, 1902 MORLEY, HENRY English Writers; an Attempt Toward a History of English Literature, 11 vols.-New York, Cassell & Co., 1887-95 RYLAND, FREDERICK Chronological Outlines of English Literature-London, Macmillan, 1903 SAINTSBURY, GEORGE E. A Short History of English Literature-New York, Macmillan, 1898

SCUDDER, VIDA D. Social Ideals in English Letters-Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1898 STOW, JOHN The Survey of London-New York, E. P. Dutton & Co., 1912

TAINE, H. A. History of English Literature, Translated by H. Van Laun, 4 vols.-New York, Henry Holt, 1900

TRAILL, HENRY DUFF Social England, 6 vols.New York, Putnam, 1894-1902

THE EARLY PERIOD

BROOKE, STOPFORD A. A History of Early English Literature to King Alfred, 2 vols.-London, Macmillan, 1892 CHAMBERS, E. K., ed. Early English LyricsLondon, Sidgwick and Jackson, 1911 GUMMERE, F. B.

The Old English BalladsAthenaeum Press Series, 1911 HENDERSON, T. F. The Ballad in LiteratureNew York, Putnam, 1912

KITTREDGE, G. L. and SARGENT, HELEN C. English and Scotch Popular Ballads, 1 vol.-Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1904

PANCOAST, HENRY S. and SPAETH, J. D., ed. Early English Poems-New York, Holt, 1911 POUND, LOUISE Poetic Origins and the BalladNew York, Macmillan, 1921

SNELL, FREDERICK JOHN The Age of Transition, 1400-1580-London, G. Bell, 1905

SPENCE, LEWIS A Dictionary of Medieval Romance and Romance Writers-London, G. Routledge, 1913

THE FIFTEENTH AND SIXTEENTH CENTURIES

AULT, NORMAN Elizabethan Lyrics - London, Longmans, Green & Co., 1925

BERDAN, JOHN M. Early Tudor Poetry, 14851547. Studies in Tudor Literature - New York, Macmillan, 1920

CARPENTER, F. I. English Lyric Poetry, 15001700-London, Blackie and Son, 1897 CHAMBERS, E. K. The Elizabethan Stage, 4 vols.Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1923

LEE, SIR SIDNEY Great Englishmen of the Sixteenth Century-New York, Scribner, 1904

MATTHEWS, BRANDER Development of the Drama
-New York, Scribner, 1903
PADELFORD, F. M. Early Sixteenth Century Lyrics
-New York, D. C. Heath, 1907
POLLARD, ALFRED W. English Miracle Plays, Mo-
ralities, and Interludes - Oxford, Clarendon
Press, 1923

SAINTSBURY, GEORGE E. The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory-New York, Scribner, 1897

SCHELLING, F. E. English Drama-London, J.M. Dent, 1914

The English Lyric-Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1913

A Book of Elizabethan Lyrics - Boston, Ginn, 1893

Elizabethan Drama, 1558-1642, 2 vols.-Boston, Houghton, 1908-10

STOBART, JOHN C. The Age of Spenser-London, E. Arnold, 1906

[Various Writers] Shakespeare's England; An Ac

count of the Life and Manners of Shakespeare's Age, 2 vols.-London, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1916

STEPHEN, SIR LESLIE English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century - London, Duckworth, 1904

STEPHEN, SIR LESLIE History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century-London, Smith, Elder & Co., 3d ed., 1902

SYMONS, ARTHUR The Romantic Movement in English Poetry-New York, E. P. Dutton & Co., 1907

TINKER, C. B. The Salon and English LettersNew York, Macmillan, 1915 [Society and literature of the age of Johnson]

TUCKERMAN, BAYARD History of Prose Fiction From Sir T. Malory to George Eliot-New York, Putnam, 1899

WALPOLE, HORACE Letters [Several editions]

THE NINETEENTH CENTURY BAGEHOT, W. Physics and Politics-New York, Appleton, 1904

BEERS, HENRY A. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century-New York, Holt, 1918

CHESTERTON, G. K. The Victorian Age in Literature-London, Williams and Norgate, 1927 CUNLIFFE, J. W. English Literature During the Last Half Century-New York, Macmillan,

1918

ELTON, OLIVER A Survey of English Literature, 1830-1880, 2 vols.-London, Arnold, 1920 FYVIE, JOHN Some Literary Eccentricities-London, Constable, 1906

HERFORD, C. H. The Age of Wordsworth-London, Bell, 1897

MILES, ALFRED HENRY The Poets and Poetry of the Nineteenth Century, 12 vols.-New York, Dutton, 1905-7

MAAR, HARKO GERRIT DE A History of Modern English Romanticism, vol. I—London, Milford,

1924

SAINTSBURY, GEORGE A History of Nineteenth Century Literature-London, Macmillan, 1896 WALKER, HUGH The Age of Tennyson-London, Bell, 1904

The Literature of the Victorian Era, Cambridge, The University Press, 1910 WILLIAMS, STANLEY T. Studies in Victorian Literature-New York, Dutton, 1923

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY CANBY, H. S. The Short Story in English-New York, Holt, 1909

The Study of the Short Story-New York, Holt, 1913

DICKINSON, THOMAS H. The Contemporary Drama of England-Boston, Little Brown,

1917

GUEDALLA, PHILIP A Gallery-New York, Putnam, 1924

HARRIS, FRANK Contemporary Portraits - New York, Kennerley, 1915

MANLY, J. M. and RICKERT, EDITH Contemporary British Literature-New York, Harcourt, 1921 [Bibliographies and study outlines] SHERMAN, STUART P. On Contemporary Literature-New York, Holt, 1917

VAN DOREN, C. and VAN DOREN, M. American and British Literature since 1890-New York, Century Co., 1925

WILKINSON, MARGUERITE Contemporary Poetry -New York, Macmillan, 1924

WILLIAMS, HAROLD Modern English WritersNew York, Knopf, 1919

COLLECTIONS

ARBER, EDWARD, ed. British Anthologies [Ten volumes to the nineteenth century]-New York,

H. Frowde, 1899-1901

BRONSON, W. C. English Poems, 4 vols.-Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1907-10 CHALMERS, ALEXANDER, ed. The Works of the English Poets from Chaucer to Cowper— 21 vols., London, J. Johnson, 1810 CRAIK, SIR HENRY English Prose Selections, 5 vols., New York, Macmillan, 1893, 1900 PALGRAVE, FRANCIS T., ed. The Golden Treasury; selected from the best songs and lyrical poems -New York, Macmillan, 1901 QUILLER-COUCH, SIR ARTHUR T., ed. The Oxford Book of Ballads, 1910 The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1912 The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse, 1913 The Oxford Book of English Prose, 1925-Oxford, The University Press SMITH, D. N. The Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse-Oxford, The University Press, 1926 STEDMAN, EDMUND C., ed. A Victorian Anthology, 1837-1895-Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1895

STEVENSON, BURTON E., ed. The Home Book of

Verse, American and English, 1923 The Home Book of Modern Verse, 1925-New York, Holt WARD, THOMAS H., ed. The English Poets, 5 vols.-New York, Macmillan, 1902-20 WOODS, GEORGE B., ed. English Poetry and Prose of the Romantic Movement-Chicago, Scott Foresman, 1916

Great Writers Series

London, W. Scott, contains biographies of:

Browning

Bunyan

Burns

Ed. by E. S. Robertson

(W. Sharp)

(E. Venables)

(J. S. Blackie)

Age of Alfred, 664-1154 (Snell)

Age of Chaucer, 1346-1400 (Snell)

Age of Transition, 1400-1580, 2 vols. (Snell)
Age of Shakespeare, 1579-1631, 2 vols. (Th.
Seccombe and J. W. Allen)

Age of Milton, 1632-1660 (J. H. B. Master-
man)

Age of Dryden, 1660-1700 (R. Garnett)
Age of Pope, 1700-1774 (John Dennis)

Age of Johnson, 1748-1798 (Thomas Sec-
combe)

Age of Wordsworth, 1798-1832 (C. H. Herford)

Age of Tennyson, 1830-1870 (Hugh Walker) How to Know the Authors Series Ed. Will. D. Howe Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill Co.

Shakespeare

Milton
Goldsmith
Scott

IMPORTANT PERIODICALS

The Atlantic Monthly Boston

The Bookman New York

The Century Magazine, New York
The Dial New York

Harpers Magazine New York
The Living Age Boston

The Nation New York

The New Republic, New York

The New York Times Book Review New York
The Nineteenth Century London

The North American Review New York
Poetry Chicago

The Saturday Review of Literature ed. H. S.
Canby, New York

The Saturday Review of Literature, Politics, Sci-
ence, and Art London
Scribner's Magazine, New York
The Yale Review New Haven

THE STUDY OF POETRY

ALDEN, R. M. Introduction to Poetry-New York, Holt, 1909

English Verse-New York, Holt, 1903 AUSLANDER, JOSEPH, and HILL, FRANK E. The Winged Horse; The Story of the Poets and their Poetry-New York, Doubleday, 1927 GUMMERE, F. B. A Handbook of Poetics-Boston, Ginn, 1885

JOHNSON, C. F. Forms of English Poetry-New York, Am. Book Co., 1904