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MARK AKENSIDE

EDITIONS. Poetical Works, ed. by A. Dyce (Bell, 1835; Aldine ed.; out of print). Poetical Works (Boston, 1854; Houghton; British Poets ed., with Beattie).

JAMES BEATTIE

EDITIONS. Poetical works, ed. by A. Dyce (Bell, 1836; Aldine ed.; out of print). Poetical Works (Boston, 1854; Houghton; British Poets ed., with Akenside).

ROBERT BLAIR

EDITIONS. Poetical Works, ed. by J. Gilfillan (Cassell, 1879; with Beattie and Falconer; out of print). The Grave, illustrated by twelve etchings by L. Schiavonetti from the original inventions of William Blake (Methuen, 1903; Appleton; founded on the Cromek ed. of 1808).

WILLIAM BLAKE

EDITIONS. Poetical Works, ed. by J. Sampson (Oxford University Press, 1905). Works, Poetic, Symbolic, Critical, 3 vols., ed. by E. J. Ellis and W. B. Yeats (Quaritch, 1893). Poetical Works, 2 vols., ed. and annotated by E. J. Ellis (Chatto, 1906). Poems, ed. by W. B. Yeats (Lawrence, 1893; Routledge, 1905; Dutton; Muses' Library ed.). Poetical Works, ed. by W. M. Rossetti (Bell, 1874; Macmillan; Aldine ed.). Poems and Specimens from the Prose Writings, ed. by J. Skipsey (Scott, 1885; Canterbury Poets ed.). Letters, ed. by A. G. B. Russell (Methuen, 1906; Scribner). Etchings from His Works, by W. B. Scott (Chatto, 1906; reprint).

BIOGRAPHY. E. J. Ellis: The Real Blake (McClure, 1907). A. Gilchrist: Life of William Blake, 2 vols. (Macmillan. 1863).

CRITICISM. A. C. Benson: Essays (Heineman, 1895; Dutton). P. E. More: Shelburne Essays, fourth series (Putnam, 1906). A. C. Swinburne: William Blake, a Critical Essay (Chatto, 1868; Dutton). A. Symons: William Blake (Dutton, 1907). J. Thomson: Biographical and Critical Studies (Reeves, 1896).

ROBERT BURNS

EDITIONS. Poetry, 4 vols., ed. by W. E. Henley and T. F. Henderson (Jack, 1896–97; Houghton). Complete Poetical Works (Houghton, 1897; Cambridge ed.; text of Henley and Henderson's ed., with Henley's biographical and critical essay). Complete Poems, ed. by J. L. Robertson (Oxford University Press, 1906; Oxford ed.). Poems, Songs, and Letters, ed. by A. Smith (Macmillan, 1868, Globe ed.). Complete Writings, 6 vols., ed. W. S. Douglas (Simpkin, 1877-79; Paterson, 1883). Life and Works, 4 vols., ed. by R. Chambers, rev. by W. Wallace (Chambers, 1896-97). Poetical Works, 3 vols., ed. by H. Nicholas, rev. by G. A. Aitken (Bell, 1892-93; Macmillan; Aldine ed.). Robert Burns and Mrs. Dunlop; Correspondence Now Published in Full for the First Time, 2 vols., ed. by W. Wallace (Dodd, 1898). Selections from the Poems, ed. by J. G. Dow (Ginn, 1898; Athenaeum Press ed.; appendices on pronunciation and grammar of Scotch). Songs, Now First Printed with the Melodies for Which They Were Written, ed. by J. C. Dick (Oxford University Press, 1907). Tam O'Shanter: a reduced facsimile of the original manuscript (Stokes, 1907)

BIOGRAPHY. J. S. Blackie: Life of Robert Burns (Scott, 1888; Great Writers series). Harper's New Monthly Magazine, July, 1879: Land of Burns. N. Hawthorne: Our Old Home (Some of the Haunts of Burns) (Houghton; this essay, in the Atlantic Monthly, October, 1860). G. Setoun: Robert Burns (Oliphant, 1896; Famous Scots series). J. C. Shairp: Burns (Macmillan, 1879; English Men of Letters series).

CRITICISM. J. S. Blackie: Scottish Song (W. Blackwood, 1889). S. A. Brooke: Theology in the English Poets (London, 1874). T. Carlyle: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (Chap

man; Lippincott; this essay, in the Edinburgh Review, December, 1828). W. A. Cragie: Primer of Burns (Jack, 1896). G. W. Curtis: Orations and Addresses, Vol. 3 (Harper, 1894). R. W. Emerson: Miscellanies (Speech at the Burns Centenary, Boston, 1859). W. Hazlitt: Lectures on the English Poets (1818) (Dent, 1902-4; Macmillan. Bohn ed.). F. Jeffrey: Edinburgh Review, January, 1809. Charles Kingsley: Littell's Living Age, December 20, 1851. A. Lang: Letters to Dead Authors (Longmans, 1886; Scribner). Nineteenth Century, March, 1880: Burns and Béranger. North American Review, January, 1836. A. T. Quiller-Couch: Adventures in Criticism (Scott and Burns) (Scribner, 1896). Revue des Deux Mondes, Vol. 9 (1837). Walter Scott: Quarterly Review, February, 1809. J. C. Shairp: Aspects of Poetry (Scottish Song and Burns) (Oxford University Press, 1881). R. L. Stevenson: Familiar Studies of Men and Books (Chatto, 1882; Scribner).

CONCORDANCE. By J. B. Reid (Kerr, 1889).

BIBLIOGRAPHY. By J. P. Anderson, in Blackie's Life of Burns.

SAMUEL BUTLER

EDITIONS. Hudibras, Characters and Other Prose Works, 2 vols., ed. by A. R. Waller (Cambridge University Press, 1905-7; Putnam; Cambridge English Classics ed.). Poetical Works, 2 vols., ed. by R. B. Johnson (Bell, 1893; Macmillan; Aldine ed.). Hudibras (Macmillan, 1881; Bohn ed.).

THOMAS CHATTERTON

EDITIONS. Poems, 2 vols., ed. by H. D. Roberts (Routledge, 1906; Dutton; Muses' Library ed.). Poetical Works, 2 vols., ed. by W. W. Skeat (Bell, 1875; Macmillan; Aldine ed.). Poetical Works, 2 vols. (Boston, 1857; Houghton; British Poets ed.). Poems, ed. by J. Richmond (Scott, 1885; Canterbury Poets ed.). Rowley Poems (Long, 1898).

BIOGRAPHY. D. Masson: Thomas Chatterton (Long, 1889; Dodd) D Wilson: Chatterton (Macmillan, 1869).

CRITICISM. Blackwood's Magazine, April, 1870. Critic, Vol. 7, p. 301. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, July, 1883. W. Hazlitt: Lectures on the English Poets (1818) (Dent, 1902-4; Macmillan, Bohn ed.). W. Scott: Edinburgh Review, April, 1804.

CHARLES CHURCHILL

EDITIONS. Poetical Works, 2 vols., ed by Tooke, rev. by J. Hannay (Bell, 1871; Aldine ed.). The Rosciad and The Apology, ed by. R W. Lowe (Lawrence, 1891). Poetical Works (Boston, 1854; Houghton; British Poets ed., with Parnell and Tickell).

WILLIAM COLLINS

EDITIONS. Poems, ed. by W. C. Bronson (Ginn, 1898; Athenaeum Press ed.). Poems (Newnes, 1905; Scribner; Pocket Classics ed., with Gray). Poems, ed. by M. Ward (Routledge, 1905; Dutton; Muses' Library ed., with Johnson, Goldsmith, and Gray). Poetical Works, ed., by W. M. Thomas (Bell, 1871; Macmillan; Aldine ed.).

CRITICISM. Athenaeum, January 5, 1856. Atlantic Monthly, December, 1880. W. Hazlitt: Lectures on the English Poets (1818) (Dent, 1902-4; Macmillan, Bohn ed.). E. Montégut: Heures de lecture d'un critique (Paris, 1891). A. C. Swinburne: Miscellanies. (Chatto, 1886; Scribner).

WILLIAM COWPER

EDITIONS. Works, 15 vols., ed. by R. Southey (London, 1836-37). Poems, ed. by H. S. Milford (Oxford University Press, 1906; Oxford ed.). Poetical Works, 3 vols., ed. by J. Bruce (Bell, 1865; Macmillan; Aldine ed.). Poetical Works, ed. by W. Benham (Macmillan, 1870; Globe ed.). Poems, 2 vols., ed. by H. T. Griffith (Oxford University

Press, 1874). Unpublished and Uncollected Poems, ed. by T. Wright (Unwin, 1900). Correspondence, 4 vols., ed. by T. Wright (Hodder, 1904). Letters, ed. by E. V. Lucas (Oxford University Press, 1907). Letters, ed. by W. Benham (Macmillan, 1884; Golden Treasury ed.).

BIOGRAPHY. G. Smith: Cowper (Macmillan, 1880; English Men of Letters series). CRITICISM. W. Bagehot: Literary Studies, Vol. 1 (Longmans, 1879; this essay, 1855). A. Birrell: Res Judicatae (Stock, 1892; Scribner). S. A. Brooke: Theology in the English Poets (London, 1874). W. Hazlitt: Lectures on the English Poets (1818) (Dent, 1902–4; Macmillan, Bohn ed.). F. Jeffrey: Edinburgh Review, April, 1803. P. E. More: Shelburne Essays, third series (Correspondence of Cowper) (Putnam, 1906). North American Review, January, 1836. C.-A. Sainte-Beuve: Causeries du Lundi, Vol. 11 (Paris, 1854); translated by K. P. Wormeley in Portraits of the Eighteenth Century (Putnam, 1905) and by E. Lee in Essays of Sainte-Beuve (Scott, 1892; Camelot series). L. Stephen: Hours in a Library, Vol. 2 (Smith, 1874-79; Putnam, 1892, new ed.). G. E. Woodberry: Makers of Literature (Three Men of Piety) (Macmillan, 1900).

CONCORDANCE. By J. Neve (Low, 1887).

GEORGE CRABBE

EDITIONS. Poetical Works, with His Letters and Journals, and His Life, 8 vols., ed. by his son (Murray, 1834). Poems, 3 vols., ed. by A. W. Ward (Cambridge University Press, 1905-7; Putnam; Cambridge English Classics ed.).

BIOGRAPHY. A. Ainger: Crabbe (Macmillan, 1903; English Men of Letters series). R. Huchon: George Crabbe and His Times; translation from the French, by F. Clarke (Dutton, 1907). T. E. Kebbel: Life of George Crabbe (Scott, 1888; Great Writers series).

CRITICISM. J. C. Collins: Fortnightly Review, October, 1907. W. Gifford: Quarterly Review, November, 1810. W. Hazlitt: Lectures on the English Poets (1818); The Spirit of the Age (1825) (Dent, 1902-4). F. Jeffrey: Edinburgh Review, April, 1808; April, 1810; November, 1812; July, 1819. J G. Lockhart: Quarterly Review, January, 1834. L. Stephen: Hours in a Library, Vol. 2 (Smith, 1874-79; Putnam, 1892, new ed.). G. Saintsbury: Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860, first series (Percival, 1890; this essay, in Macmillan's Magazine, June, 1889). C. E. Woodberry: Makers of Literature (Macmillan, 1900; this essay, in the Atlantic Monthly, May, 1880: A Neglected Poet). BIBLIOGRAPHY. By J P. Anderson, in Kebbel's Life of Crabbe.

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JOHN DRYDEN

EDITIONS. Works, 18 vols., ed. by W. Scott, rev. by G. Saintsbury (Paterson, 1882-
Poetical Works, ed. by W. D. Christie (Macmillan, 1870; Globe ed.). Poetical Works,

5 vols. (Bell, 1832-33, Macmillan; Aldine ed.). Essays, 2 vols., selected and ed. by W. P. Ker (Oxford University Press, 1900) Essays on the Drama, ed. by W. Strunk, Jr. (Holt, 1898; An Essay of Dramatic Poesy, A Defence of an Essay of Dramatic Poesy, Of Heroic Plays).

BIOGRAPHY. Samuel Johnson: Life of Dryden, ed. by A. Milnes (Oxford University Press, 1886; with Johnson's Life of Pope). G. Saintsbury: Dryden (Macmillan, 1881; English Men of Letters series).

CRITICISM. J. C. Collins: Essays and Studies (Macmillan, 1895). W. Hazlitt: Lectures on the English Poets (1818) (Dent, 1902-4; Macmillan, Bohn ed.). J. R. Lowell: Literary Essays, Vol. 3 (Houghton; this essay, 1868). T. B. Macaulay: Essays (Harper; this essay, in the Edinburgh Review, January, 1828). D. Masson: Three Devils and Other Essays (Macmillan, 1874; this essay, 1854). A. C. Swinburne: Miscellanies (A Century of English Poetry) (Chatto, 1886; Scribner).

JOHN DYER

EDITIONS. Poems, ed. by E. Thomas (Unwin, 1903).

WILLIAM FALCONER

EDITIONS. The Shipwreck (Nelson, 1887). Poetical Works (Boston, 1854; Houghton; British Poets ed., with Campbell).

ROBERT FERGUSSON

EDITIONS. Poetical Works, ed. by R. Ford (A. Gardner, 1905). Scots Poems (W. Blackwood, 1898).

BIOGRAPHY. A. B. Grosart: Robert Fergusson (W. Blackwood, 1898).

JOHN GAY

EDITIONS. Poetical Works, 2 vols., ed. by J. Underhill (Routledge, 1893; Dutton; Muses' Library ed.). Poetical Works (Boston, 1854; Houghton; British Poets ed.).

CRITICISM. A. Birrell: Essays about Men, Women, and Books (Stock, 1892; Scrib cer). A. Dobson; Miscellanies (Dodd, 1898). W. Hazlitt: Lectures on the English Poets (1818) (Dent, 1902-4; Macmillan, Bohn ed.). W. E. Henley: Views and Reviews (Scribner, 1890). W. M. Thackeray: English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century (1853) (Holt, 1900).

OLIVER GOLDSMITH

EDITIONS. Works, 4 vols., ed. by P. Cunningham (London, 1854; Harper). Miscellaneous Works, ed. by D. Masson (Macmillan, 1869; Globe ed.). Poems and Plays, 2 vols., ed. by A. Dobson (Dent, 1889; Temple Classics ed.). Poetical Works, ed. by A. Dobson (Bell, 1895; Macmillan; Aldine ed.). Poetical Works, ed. by A. Dobson (Oxford University Press, 1906; Oxford ed.). Miscellaneous Works (Nimmo, 1897; poems, plays, essays, Vicar of Wakefield). Select Works (Macmillan, 1901; poems, plays, Vicar of Wakefield). Miscellaneous Works (Newnes, 1905; Thin Paper Classics ed.). Poems and Plays (Methuen, 1905; Methuen Standard Library ed.).

BIOGRAPHY. W. Black: Goldsmith (Macmillan, 1878; English Men of Letters series). A. Dobson: Life of Oliver Goldsmith (Scott, 1887; Great Writers series). J. Forster: Life and Times of Oliver Goldsmith (London, 1848; Ward, 1889). L. Hutton: Literary Landmarks of London (London, 1885; Harper). W. Irving: Life of Oliver Goldsmith (New York, 1844; Bell, 1889, Bohn ed.).

CRITICISM. Edward Bulwer, Lord Lytton: Edinburgh Review, July, 1848. T. DeQuincey: Works, Vol. 4 (Black, 1889-90; Masson's new ed.; this article, 1848). A. Dobson: Eighteenth Century Vignettes, first series (Goldsmith's Library) (Dodd, 1892); Miscellanies (Dodd, 1898). Harper's New Monthly Magazine, April, 1874. T. B. Macau. lay: Essays (Harper; this essay, in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1856). North American Review, July, 1837. W. M. Thackeray: English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century (1853) (Holt, 1900). BIBLIOGRAPHY. By J. P. Anderson, in Dobson's Life of Goldsmith.

THOMAS GRAY

EDITIONS. Works, 4 vols., ed. by E. Gosse (Macmillan, 1884). Poetical Works, ed. by J. Bradshaw (Bell, 1891; Macmillan; Aldine ed.). English Poems, ed. by D. C. Tovey (Cambridge University Press, 1898). Poems (Newnes, 1905; Pocket Classics ed., with Collins; Scribner). Selections from the Poetry and Prose, ed. by W. L. Phelps (Ginn, 1894; Athenaeum Press ed.; practically all the poems). Letters, 2 vols., ed. by D. C. Tovey (Bell, 1000-4; Macmillan; Bohn ed.).

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BIOGRAPHY. E. Gosse: Gray (Macmillan, 1882; English Men of Letters series). C. E. Norton: The Poet Gray as a Naturalist (Goodspeed, Boston, 1903). D. C. Tovey; Gray and His Friends (Cambridge University Press, 1890).

CRITICISM. M. Arnold: Essays in Criticism, second series (Macmillan, 1888; this essay, 1880). Atlantic Monthly, December, 1880. A. C. Benson: Essays (Routledge, 1895: Dutton). Edward Bulwer, Lord Lytton: Miscellaneous Prose Works, Vol. 1 (Harper, 1868; this essay, in the London and Westminster Review, July, 1837). Austin Dobson: Eighteenth Century Vignettes, first series (Gray's Library) (Dodd, 1892). J. R. Lowell: Latest Literary Essays (Houghton; this essay, in the New Princeton Review, 1880). L. Stephen: Hours in a Library, Vol. 3 (Smith, 1874-79; Putnam, 1892, new ed.).

SAMUEL JOHNSON

EDITIONS. Poems, ed. by M. Ward (Routledge, 1905; Dutton; Muses' Library ed., with Goldsmith, Collins, and Gray). Essays, selected and ed. by S. J. Reid (Scott, 1888; Camelot ed.). Miscellanies, 2 vols., ed. by G. B. Hill (Oxford University Press, 1897). Lives of the English Poets, ed. by W. E. Henley (Methuen, 1896). Lives of the English Poets, 3 vols., ed. by G. B. Hill (Oxford University Press, 1905).

BIOGRAPHY. J. Boswell: Life of Samuel Johnson (London, 1791; with the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, ed. by G. B. Hill, 6 vols., Macmillan, 1887). J. Boswell: Life of Samuel Johnson (Macmillan, 1893; Globe ed.); the same, 6 vols. (Dent, 1898; Temple Classics ed.). F. Grant: Life of Samuel Johnson (Scott, 1887; Great Writers series). L. Hutton: Literary Landmarks of London (London, 1885; Harper). L. Stephen: Johnson (Macmillan, 1878; English Men of Letters series).

CRITICISM. E. Gosse: Fortnightly Review, December, 1884. T. B. Macaulay: Essays (Harper; this essay, in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1856). W. Raleigh: Samuel Johnson (Oxford University Press, 1907).

BIBLIOGRAPHY. By J. P. Anderson, in Grant's Life of Johnson.

THOMAS PARNELL

EDITIONS. Poetical Works, ed. by G. A. Aitken (Bell, 1894; Macmillan; Aldine ed.). Poetical Works (Boston, 1854; Houghton; British Poets ed., with Churchill and Tickell).

ALEXANDER POPE

EDITIONS. Works, 10 vols., ed. by W. Elwin and W. J. Courthope (Murray, 1871-89). Complete Poems, ed. by H. W. Boynton (Houghton, 1903; Cambridge ed.; includes translation of Homer). Poetical Works, 3 vols., ed. by A. Dyce (Bell, 1866; Macmillan; Aldine ed.; rev. by G. R. Dennis, 1891). Poetical Works, ed. by A. W. Ward (Macmillan, 1869; rev., 1896; Globe ed.). Selections, ed. by K. Deighton (Bell, 1893; Macmillan; Essay on Criticism, Rape of the Lock, Temple of Fame, Windsor Forest). Selections, ed. by E. B. Reed (Holt, 1901). Essay on Criticism, ed. by A. S. West (Cambridge University Press, 1896; Putnam); ed. by J. C. Collins (Macmillan, 1896); ed. by B. M. Wantilove (Dent, 1902; Dutton). Rape of the Lock, and other poems, ed. by T. M. Parrott (Ginn, 1906). Iliad of Homer, ed. by A. J. Church (Cassell, 1906). Essay on Man, ed. by E. E. Morris (Macmillan, 1895); ed. by F. Ryland (Bell, 1898; Macmillan).

BIOGRAPHY. Samuel Johnson: Life of Pope (Oxford University Press, 1886, with Johnson's Life of Dryden; Bell, 1894; Harper, 1897). J. Spence: Anecdotes, Observations, and Characters, of Books and Men, Collected from the Conversation of Mr. Pope and Other Eminent Persons of His Time (London, 1820) (Scott, 1886; Camelot ed.; selections). L. Stephen: Alexander Pope (Macmillan, 1880; English Men of Letters series). CRITICISM. A. Birrell: Obiter Dicta, second series (Scribner, 1887). G. K. Chester

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