1848.-Clough's first poems. Lytton's Caxtons.' Mill's Political Economy.' 1849.-Matthew Arnold's first poems. Dickens' 'David Copperfield. Ruskin's 'Seven Lamps of Architecture.' 1850.-Wordsworth died. Bowles died. Tennyson's 'In Memoriam.' 1851. Mrs Browning's 'Casa Guidi Windows.' Carlyle's 'Life of Sterling.' 1852.-Moore died. Thackeray's Esmond.' Ruskin's 'Stones of Venice.' 1853.-Landor's 'Last Fruit off an Old Tree.' 1854.-Thackeray's 'Four Georges.' Newman's 'Idea of a University.' 1855.-Rogers died. Tennyson's 'Maud.' Kingsley's Westward Ho!' 1856.-Mrs Browning's 'Aurora Leigh.' 1857.-Matthew Arnold, Professor of Poetry at Oxford. (Béranger died. Comte died.) 1858.-Morris' 'Defence of Guenevere.' Longfellow's 'Miles Standish.' 1859. De Quincey died. Macaulay died. Leigh Hunt died. Darwin's 'Origin of Species.' George Eliot's 'Adam Bede.' 1860.-George Eliot's 'Mill on the Floss.' Emerson's 'Conduct of Life.' Tyndall's 'Glaciers of the Alps.' 1861.-Mrs Browning died. A. H. 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