Absalom and Achitophel, 270.
Abt Vogler, Browning's, 526.
Adam Bede, 463, 465, 466.

INDEX

Addison, Joseph, 281, 285, 288; life,
290–292, 297; writings, 292, 295-
297.

Adonais, Shelley's, 426, 428.-
Advancement of Learning, 149.
Elfric's Homilies, 27, 35.

Aids to Reflection, Coleridge's, 388.-
Albion's England, Warner's, 131.
Alchemist, The, Jonson's, 209.
Alexander's Feast, 271.

Arnold, Dr. Thomas, 505.
Arnold, Matthew, 502-505;

eritic,
503; preacher of culture, 504; edu-
cator, 505; poet, 509-510; on
Shelley, 424; on Keats, 437; al-
lusions to, 258, 284, 338, 383, 423.
Ars Poetica, Horace's, 265, 304.
Arthur, King, 2, 37, 38.
Arthurian romances, 47, 92.
Ascham, Roger, 102.
Astræa Redux, Dryden's, 267.
Astrophel and Stella, 127, 129.
As You Like It, 187, 194.

Alfred, King, 6, 24-27, 34; his Proverbs, Atalanta in Calydon, 537.

35.

Allegory, mediæval, 44, 57, 58, 68, 87;
in Piers Plowman, 57; of Faerie
Queene, 122; Bunyan's, 240.
All for Love, Dryden's, 269.
All's Well that Ends Well, 189.
Amelia, Fielding's, 319, 323,
Amoretti, Spenser's, 124.
Anatomy of Melancholy, 223.
Ancient Mariner, The, 372, 386, 388.
Ancren Riwle, The, 42,
Andrea del Sarto, 525.
Andreas, 22.

Angles, 4, 5.

Anglo-Saxon, use of the name, 5;
language, 15; versification, 15;
characteristics of the literature, 29.
Annus Mirabilis, Dryden's, 267.
Antony and Cleopatra, 202, 203, 269.
Apologia pro Vita Sua, 501.
Apologie for Poetrie, Sidney's, 126.
Appreciations, Pater's, 500.
Arcadia, Sidney's, 126, 138.
Areopagitica, 151, 222, 254.

Argument against Abolishing Christian-
ity, 285.

At a Solemn Music, 246.
Aucassin and Nicolete, 62.
Augustine at Canterbury, 16.
Aurora Leigh, 528, 530.
Austen, Jane, 324, 392–394, 450.
Authorized Version of the Bible, 220.

Bacon, Francis, 143-150; relations
with Essex, 144; his fall, 144; char-
acter, 145; philosophical works,
148; indifference to literature, 149;
allusions to, 102, 139, 167, 219, 220,
246, 264.

Bæda, or Bede, 17, 25, 26, 35, 37.
Ballads, 89-91; revival of, 350.
Barbour's Bruce, 86.

Barchester Towers, Trollope's, 471.
Barnfield, Richard, 131.
Barrack-Room Ballads, 481.
Barrie, James M., 549.

Bartholomew Fair, Jonson's, 209.
Battle of Brunanburh, The, 24, 28.
Battle of Maldon, The, 24.
Battle of the Books, The, 283.
Beattie, James, 349.
Beaumont, Francis, 211.