Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1853, by CHARLES D. CLEVELAND, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. STEREOTYPED BY L. JOHNSON AND CO. PRINTED BY T. K. & P. G. COLLINS. LENOX LIBRARY PREFACE. ENCOURAGED by the favorable manner in which the first edition of the "English Literature of the Nineteenth Century" was received, I felt it to be no less a duty than a pleasure to do all I could to improve it when it should be published in a permanent form. Accordingly, since the first appearance of the work, I have given not only the chief portion of my own time, aside from my schoolduties, to further reading and investigations in relation to the subject, but have been much benefited by the counsels of a few literary friends, whose kindness I would hereby gratefully acknowledge. If they see that I have not in all cases adopted their suggestions, I am sure they will be quite ready to concede to me that independence of thought and action which they would claim for themselves. I have also courteously received from many of the living authors directions where I could obtain fuller information concerning their own lives and publications, and thus have corrected a few errors in the first edition. Twenty-seven new authors will be found in the present edition; namely, Thomas Haynes Bayly, Thomas Carlyle, Hartley Coleridge, George Croly, Allan Cunningham, Sir Humphry Davy, Thomas De Quincey, Thomas Dick, Maria Edgeworth, Augustus Hare, Charles Julius Hare, James Hogg, Leigh Hunt, John Keble, Walter Savage Landor, Charles Mackay, Richard Monckton Milnes, David Macbeth Moir, John Moultrie, Mungo Park, Bryan Waller Proctor, James Smith, Caroline Anne Southey, Jane Taylor, Alfred Tennyson, Alaric Watts, John Wolcot. As in the former, so in this edition, some may not find a favorite author noticed, nor favorite pieces of many whose names do appear; but they who can best estimate the nature of such a labor, and the embarrassment which must have been constantly felt from the very richness and variety of the materials, will be the most ready to make all allowance for any errors of omission or of commission. But one thing I can truly say,-I have endeavored to represent the views and feelings of every author inserted, fairly and honestly; and where any one has shown that his heart was particularly and deeply interested in any one great subject, I have felt it my duty, without fear or favor, to let his views on that subject appear. In conclusion, I have only to say that I can wish no greater favor shown to this work than the "Compendium" has received; and having taken every pains to make it as perfect as I could,not to please any clique or sect, or to favor any particular latitude or special market, but to promote the cause of sound learning and education in harmony with pure Christian morals, the best interests of humanity, and the cause of universal truth, I now commit it to the judgment of an intelligent public. CHARLES D. CLEVELAND. PHILADELPHIA, July 4, 1853. ALPHABETICAL LIST OF AUTHORS. ALISON, ARCHIBALD PAGE BAILLIE, JOANNA............................................... 545 PAGE 632 .... 356 CROLY, George.............. ....... 386 CUMBERLAND, RICHARD......... 90 CUNNINGHAM, ALLAN................................ 399 DAVY, SIR HUMPHRY............. 201 DE QUINCEY, THOMAS............ 748 DICK, THOMAS........................................... 575 40 DRAKE, NATHAN......... ....... 338 29 DYMOND, JONATHAN.............. 195 EDGEWORTH, MARIA............. 486 ELLIOTT, EBENEZER.............. 502 ERSKINE, THOMAS................ 143 FOSTER, JOHN........ ...... 419 GRAHAME, JAMES................. 96 GURNEY, JOSEPH JOHN.......... 470 HALL, ROBERT....... ........... 212 HARE, AUGUSTUS................. 706 HARE, CHARLES JULIUS......... 706 HAZLITT, WILLIAM......................................... 205 661 HEBER, REGINALD............... 180 BLOOMFIELD, ROBERT............ 137 RETT............. 115 670 BRYDGES, SIR EGERTON......... 345 CARPENTER, LANT................ 379 HEMANS, FELICIA................. 326 CARTER, ELIZABETH.............. 57 HOGG, JAMES......................... CHALMERS, THOMAS.............. 464 HOOD, THOMAS...... 35 HOWITT, MARY..... CHAPONE, HESTER............ COLERIDGE, SAMUEL TAYLOR... 292 CRABBE, GEORGE........ 321 440 753 HowITT, WILLIAM............... 760 691 HUNTER, Anne..................................................... 123 383 SCOTT, WALTER......... .. 228 SEWARD, ANNA......... 311 .... 78 ........ 101 JEFFREY, FRANCIS................ 509 PROCTOR, BRYAN W.............. 743 MACKAY, CHARLES............... 701 MACKENZIE, HENRY.......... 220 MACKINTOSH, JAMES............. 263 MACLEAN, LETITIA ELIZABETH 360 MANT, RICHARD.................. 478 MILMAN, HENRY HART......... 627 MILNES, RICHARD M............ 724 MITCHELL, THOMAS...................................... 436 MOIR, DAVID M..................................................... 552 MONTAGU, ELIZABETH......... 24 MONTGOMERY, JAMES............. 593 MOORE, THOMAS........................................... 564 MORE, HANNAH................................................... 271 MOULTRIE, JOHN.................. 688 NORTON, CAROLINE ELIZABETH 656 OPIE, AMELIA................ ........... 614 ......... 480 ..... 373 149 649 86 SHARP, GRANVILLE........... ..... 17 732 PALEY, WILLIAM...................... 50 WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM........ 532 |