359

83

Bad Man, The, 286

ballad, the, 23, 24, 25, 43, 61; lit-
erary ballads, 42, 43, 45, 55, 66
Ballad of the Oysterman, The,
(Holmes), quoted, 113
ballade, 22

Barefoot Boy, The (Whittier), 88
Barrie, Sir James M., 70, 71, 207,
241, 270, 275, 288, 289, 302, 311,
312, 325, 330
Barrymore, John, 272, 275
Barrymore, Lionel, 275

Bride of Abydos, The (Byron), 51
Bristowe Tragedy (Chatterton), 45
Brontë, Charlotte, 63, 65
Brontë, Emily, 64, 65
Browne, Sir Thomas, 30, 353;
quoted, 357

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 57,
61, 64

Browning, Robert, 57, 58, 59, 60,
64, 92, 138, 140, 287, quoted, 59,
95, 101, 131, 154.

Bryant, William Cullen, 152

Battle of Otterburn, The, 23

275, 294, 309, 331

Beaumont and Fletcher, 34

Beerbohm, Max, 363

a play, 293

Belloc, Hilaire, 363

Bells, The (Poe), 363
Bennett, Arnold, 68
Beowulf, 2, 20, 24

Bible, the, 122; quoted, 80, 147
biography, 53, 56, 366; difficulties
of writing, 367; methods of
writing, 368; exercise in, 368
Bion, 15

Birches (Frost), quoted, 74
Birth of a Nation, The, 286
Birthmark, The, 218
Björnson, Björnsterne, 288
Black Cat, The, 218

Black Tulip, The (Dumas), 231, 237
Blackmore, Richard, 279
Blake, William, 42, 45, 47, 49
blank verse, 140-142, 1601, 167
Blue Bird, The (Maeterlinck), 288,
312

Blue Island Intersection (Sand-
burg), quoted, 73

Bob, Son of Battle (Ollivant), 241,
245, 246, 254
Boccaccio, 23
Booth, Edwin, 275
Boswell, James, 43, 46

Burbage, Richard, 275
Burke, Edmund, 43
Burney, Fanny, 44, 46, 220
Burns, Robert, 42, 45, 47, 49, 101,
130; quoted, 82, 94, 102, 103, 116
Byron, Lord, 51, 52, 55, 56, 138,
155, 162, 163, 287; quoted, 120,
121, 151, 163

Cain (Byron), 54

Caleb Williams (Godwin), 44
Call of the Wild, The (London), 237
Candida (Shaw), 70

Canterbury Tales (Chaucer), 23
Carewe, Thomas, quoted, 92
caricatures, 235

Carlyle, Thomas, 61, 62, 64, 81,
356, 362; quoted, 152, 358
Carmen, 274

Carmina, of Horace, 17
Cask of Amontillado, The (Poe), 212
Castle of Otranto (Walpole), 44, 46
Cat and the Canary, The, 286
Cataract of Lodore, The (Southey),
133

catastrophe in the drama, 292
Catiline (Jonson), 32

Cavalier Tunes (Browning), 58

Cellini, Benevenuto, 367
Cenci, The (Shelley), 55
Cervantes, 372

cesuras, 141-142, 143

153

Chaney, Lon, 279
Chaplin, Charlie, 276

Chapter on Ears, A (Lamb), 53
characters in drama, 306, 331; in
Shakespeare, 306, 312; in A Mid-
summer Night's Dream, 306; in
The Merchant of Venice, 306-7;
in Twelfth Night, 307; in As You
Like It, 307; in Much Ado About
Nothing, 307; number and range
of, 315; "stock characters," 315
characters in fiction, 214; in the
short story, 213; characters and
the plot, 229, 236; principal
and subordinate characters, 230;
static and kinetic, 234; carica-
tures, 235; setting and charac-
ters, 237; influence on one an-
other, 237; ways of revealing,
238; motives and reactions, 240;
characters to illustrate theme,

248

Characters in Shakespeare's Plays
(Hazlitt), 353
Chartless (Dickinson), 153; quoted,

149

Chatterton, Thomas, 45
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 22, 25; quoted,
107

Cherry Orchard, The (Tchekov),
302

Chesterfield, Lord, 372
Chesterton, G. K., 67, 71, 363
Childe Harold (Byron), 52, 162;
quoted, 163

Child's Garden of Verses, A (Ste-
venson), 66, 79
Chimes (Rosetti), 139
Christabel (Coleridge), 51, 91
chronicle plays, 25, 287

chronological method of narration,

221

Cicero, 17, 19, 371
Cinderella story, the, 297
Clarence (Tarkington), 330

(Reade), 209, 221, 223, 225, 228,
229, 232, 237, 244, 249; quoted,

222

closet drama, 287

Clough, Arthur Hugh, 58
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 46, 47,
49, 51, 52, 55, 61, 78, 91; quoted,
78, 139, 361

Collins, William, 42, 45, 47
comedy, 14, 15, 19, 31, 32, 45, 46,
70; Greek comedy, 14; of man-
ners, 37; definition of, 284; fan-
tastic, 278

Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare),
17, 32, 285, 318
Compleint of Chaucer, 23
Complete Angler, The, (Walton),
30, 33

complicating elements in plot, 296,
297, 298, 299

Comus (Milton), 33, 34, 38, 287
Confessions of an English Opium
Eater (De Quincey), 54
Congo, The (Lindsay), 132
Congreve, William, 37, 41
Coningsby (Disraeli), 64
connotation, 107-110
Conquest of Granada, The (Dry-
den), 37, 41

Conrad, Joseph, 69, 222
Constable, Henry, quoted, 92
contrast, 303; in Macbeth, 304; in
Julius Caesar, A Winter's Tale,
and The Merchant of Venice, 304
conventional epithets, 24
Copperhead, The, 270, 273, 275, 325
Coquelin, 274

Country House, The (Galsworthy),
69

couplet, the, 39, 40, 160, 161
Cowl, Jane, 275

Cowley, Abraham, 28, 33
Cowper, William, 41
Crabbe, George, 42, 45
Cranford (Gaskell), 244

Craven's The First Year, 330

crises in the novel, 224, 228; in the
drama, 299

Crossing the Bar (Tennyson), 59,
79, 143

Crothers, Rachel, 275
Crothers, Samuel McChord, 363
Cruel Brother, The, 23
Culture and Anarchy (Arnold), 62
Cunningham, Alan, quoted, 94
Cymbeline (Shakespeare), quoted,
131

Cyrano de Bergerac (Rostand), 274,
331

dactyl, 156; dactylic tetrameter,
158

Daily Bread (Gibson), 66
Dante, 12, 22, 163, 372; quoted, 82
Daudet, 372

David Copperfield (Dickens), 1,
63, 212, 218, 227, 230, 233,
235

De Arte Poetica, 17, 25.
De Foe, Daniel, 36, 40, 41
De Quincey, Thomas, 53, 55, 56,
353; quoted, 362

Dear Brutus (Barrie), 288, 325
Decline and Fall of the Roman Em-
pire, The (Gibbon), 43
Demosthenes, 371
denotation, 106-110
dénouement, 292, 293, 301
Descent into the Maelstrom, A
(Poe), 242

description to reveal character,
238; to indicate scene in Shake-
speare, 283

descriptive poetry, 29, 39, 40, 41,
42, 45, 55

Deserted Village, The (Goldsmith),
41

Destruction of Sennacherib, The
(Byron), quoted, 120
diagram of the Shakespearean
play, 293

dialogue in fiction: to reveal char-
acter, 239; truth of, 250; in The
Scarlet Letter, 250; in Ivanhoe,
250; in The House of the Seven
Gables, 250; in Jane Eyre, 251
dialogue in the drama, 294, 320,

325; in Shakespeare, 251, 321;
realistic, 324; in Ibsen, 324
diaries, 372

Dickens, Charles, 1, 63, 65, 69, 208,
209, 212, 231, 235, 236, 243, 248;
quoted, 230, 231

Dickinson, Emily, 153; quoted, 149
Disraeli, 287

Disraeli, Benjamin, 64, 65
Dissertation
(Lamb), 53
Divine Comedy, The (Dante), 13,
22, 38

on Roast Pig, A

Doll's House, A (Ibsen), 288, 302,
331, 332

Dolly Dialogues, The (Hope), 223
Don Juan (Byron), 52, 163
Don Quixote, 21

Donne, John, 26, 33
Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall, 279
Dover Beach (Arnold), 59, 158, 167;
quoted, 141, 144

drama, 16, 19, 23, 25, 30, 31, 37,
45, 46, 54, 56, 70, 71, 72; lyrical,
55, 56; dramatic monologue, 60;
dramatic poetry, 12, 14; problem
plays, 70, 71; plays of social crit-
icism, 70, 71; plays of character
analysis, 70, 71; fantasies, 70,
71; closet drama, 287
drama, nature of, 269; difficult to
read, 269; difficult to write, 273;
kinds of, 284; as literature, 329;
value of, 330-332; exercises in,
334

dramatic contrast, 303; emphasis,
303, 324; gesture, 272
dramatic moments in the novel,
228; in the drama, 299
Dream Children (Lamb), 53
Drinkwater, John, 270, 277, 287,
328

Dryden, John, 35, 37, 39, 40, 41,
161; age of, 35

Dulcy, 270, 309, 330, 331
Dumas, Alexander, 237, 279
Dunciad, The (Pope), 40
Dunsany, Lord, 289

Eclogues (Virgil), 17
Edward, 23

Egoist, The (Meredith), 68
elegy, the, 28, 33, 55, 58, 64, 72;
elegiac poetry, 42, 50, 58
Elegy Written in a Country Church-
yard, 42

Eliot, George, 63, 64, 207, 209,
212, 217, 228, 234, 236, 238, 241,
242, 253

Elizabethan age, 35

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 352, 354,
356

Eminent Victorians (Strachey), 367
Emperor Jones, The (O'Neil), 273,
277, 309, 331
Enchanted Cottage, The, 288
Encyclopedia Britannica, 354
ending of a story, 228; of a play,
312

English Bards and Scotch Re-
viewers (Byron), 52
Enoch Arden (Tennyson), 60
Enter Madame, 309

entrances and exits, 310, 311
epic, 12, 13, 18, 20, 38, 40, 42, 44,
72; mock epic, 38, 40; reflective
epic, 53, 55
epigram, 123

episode in narration, 222, 223
Epithalamion (Spenser), 28
Ervine, St. John, 288

Essais of Montaigne, 30, 348, 350
essay, the, 30, 33, 36, 37, 40, 43, 45,
53, 55, 61, 66, 71, 72; history of
348; influence of Montaigne on,
350; personal note in, 350, 351;
subject matter of, 350; nature
of, 353; freedom of, 356; as a
reflection of its age, 359; in the
17th century, 359; in the 18th
century, 360; in the 19th cen-
tury, 361; in the 20th century,
362; exercises in, 363; versified,
39, 40

Essay of Dramatic Poesy (Dryden)
36, 41

Essay on Burns (Macaulay), 61
Essay on Criticism (Pope), 40
Essays of Bacon, 30, 33
Essays of Elia (Lamb), 53, 350
essential setting, 244
Euripides, 14, 15, 19, 329

fabliau, 22, 23, 25

Faerie Queen, The, 29, 33, 162
Fairbanks, Douglas, 279
Fall of the House of Usher, The
(Poe), quoted, 213, 244

falling action, the, 293, 300, 301; of
Macbeth, 300; of Hamlet, Julius
Casar, As You Like It, Othello,
301

Familiar Studies of Men and Books
(Stevenson), 67
fantastic comedy, 288
fantasy, 70, 71

farce, 25, 32, 45, 285
Far from the Madding Crowd
(Hardy), 68

fiction, 71; chapter on, 206; see
under prose fiction
Fielding, Henry, 44, 46
Fighting American, The, 286
figures of speech, 110-123
Fires (Gibson), 66
First Year, The, 330
Fitch, Clyde, 270, 272, 275, 294,
328

Fletcher, John Gould, 73
Flower in the crannied wall (Ten-

nyson), quoted, 147

Flower of Old Japan (Noyes), 66
foot in poetry, 155-159

foreshadowing in the novel, 226;
in the drama, 305

Forest of Wild Thyme, The (Noyes),
66
Forms in literature, summaries;

Greece and Rome, 18; in Eng-
lish literature before 1550, 24;
1550-1660, 33; 1660-1740, 40;
1740-1798, 45; 1798-1832, 55;
1832-1880, 64; 1880-1914, 71
Fortune, 23

Fra Lippo Lippi (Browning), 60
Fraternity (Galsworthy), 69
"Free verse," 73, 158, 159, 165-167
French Revolution (Carlyle), 62
Frogs, The (Aristophanes), 330
Frost at Midnight (Coleridge), 49
Frost, Robert, 73, 115; quoted, 74
Frost To-night (Thomas), quoted,

146

Galsworthy, John, 69, 70, 71, 271,
288, 289, 302, 330, 332

Garden, Mary, 275

Garrick, David, 45

Hamlet, 3, 32, 34, 104, 109, 275,
277, 278, 283, 385, 290, 291, 292,
295, 297, 310, 312, 327, 330;
331, 361; falling action of, 301;
ending of, 302; characterization
in, 308; dialogue of, 323; quoted,
119, 275, 314, 323, 333
Hampden, Walter, 225
Hard Times (Dickens), 63
Hardy, Thomas, 68, 209, 243
Harte, Bret, 207

Hauptmann, Gerhardt, 289, 291
Have you seen but a bright lily (Jon-
son), quoted, 108

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 82, 208,

209, 219, 241, 253; see also under
The House of the Seven Gables
Hazlitt, William, 53, 55, 353, 362;
quoted, 361

Hearts of the World, 286

(Lindsay), 132
Georgics (Virgil), 17

Gerould, Katherine Fullerton, 363
Gibbon, Edward, 43, 46
Gibson, W. W., 66, 71
Gift of the Magi, The, 218
Gilliflower of Gold, The (Morris),
142

Godwin, William, 44, 46
Goethe, 372

Goldsmith, Oliver, 41, 45, 46
Gorboduc or Ferrex and Porrex, 34
Gossip on Romance (Stevenson),
quoted, 246

Gray, Thomas, 28, 42, 45, 47
Great Divide, The (Moody), 325
Great Expectations (Dickens), 63,

230

Greek Anthology, The 15, 19
Greek poetry, 158; definition of, 11
Gregory, Lady, 289
Guedalla, Philip, 367
Guitry, Sacha, 287

Gulliver's Travels (Swift), 36, 41
Guy Mannering (Scott), 54

Hakluyt's Voyages, 33
Half Hours (Barrie), 270
Hame, Hame, Hame (Cunning-
ham), quoted, 93

Henley, William E., quoted, 93
Henry IV (Shakespeare), 287;
quoted, 314, 315

Henry V (Shakespeare), 32, 34, 287
Henry Esmond (Thackeray), 63,
218, 231, 241, 243, 246
Her Words (Branch), quoted, 83
Heretics (Chesterton), 67
Hero and Leander (Marlowe) 33
Herodotus, 19

heroic couplet, 39, 40, 161
heroic play, 37, 41
Herrick, Robert, 26, 33
Hervé Riel (Browning), 60
Heywood, Thomas, 32, 34
High Tide on the Coast on Lincoln-
shire, quoted, 109, 121; also in
exercises

Highwayman, The (Noyes), quoted,
125

Hind and the Panther, The (Dry-
den), 40

history, 19, 33, 34, 54, 62, 64, 362,
369; difficulties of writing, 370;
Greek definition of, 11; history
plays, 32, 33, 34; historical
novels, 54

History of England (Macaulay),

62

Hood, Thomas, quoted, 154