AGE OF SCOTT. PRINCIPAL WRITERS. CRITICISM. — Francis Jeffrey (1773-1850). Lawyer and critic, editor of the Edinburgh Review (1802–1829), and brilliant writer on literature, politics, and ethics. (See text.) William Hazlitt (1778-1830). Critic and author of Character of Shakespeare's Plays" (1817), "A View of the English Stage" (1818), “Lectures on the English Poets" (1818), “Lectures on the English Comic Writers" (1819), "Lectures of the Elizabethan Age" (1821), "Table-Talk" (1824), "The Spirit of the Age" (1825). 36 66 Charles Lamb (1775-1834). Critic and essayist. Author of Rosamond Gray" (1798), "Tales from Shakespeare" (1805), and 'Essays of Elia" (1822-1824). John Wilson (1785-1854). Critic and essayist, whose nom de plume was Christopher North." Author of "Noctes Ambro sianæ," etc. 66 John Gibson Lockhart (1794-1854). Critic, novelist, biographer; author of “Adam Blair" (1822), “Life of Burns" (1825),“ Life of Scott" (1837), etc. 66 Leigh Hunt (1784-1859). Author of "Juvenilia" (1802), Classic Tales" (1807), "The Story of Rimini" (1816), etc. HISTORY. Henry Hallam (1778–1859). Author of "Views of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages" (1818), "Constitutional History of England" (1827), and “Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries (1838). (See Text). William Mitford (1744-1827). Author of a "History of Greece' (1784-1818), "History and Doctrine of Christianity" (1823), etc. (See Text). FEMALE NOVELISTS AND POETS. Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823). Novelist of Romantic School, and author of The Romance of the Forest" (1791), "The Mysteries of Udolpho" (1794), and several others. (See Text). Maria Edgeworth (1767-1849). Novelist of Irish life; author of "Castle Rackrent " (1801), "Moral Tales" (1801), "Tales of a Fashionable Life" (1811), etc. Jane Austen (1775-1817). Novelist of social life; author of "Sense and Sensibility" (1811), "Pride and Prejudice" (1812), "Emma" (1816), etc. Janc Porter (1776-1850). Novelist of the Romantic type; author of Thaddeus of Warsaw" (1803), "The Scottish Chiefs" (1810), etc. 66 Anna Letitia Barbauld (1743-1825). Poet and prose writer; author of "Lessons for Children" (1808), .etc. 66 Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1794-1835). Poet and author of "The Vespers of Palermo" (1823), a tragedy, "The Forest Sanctuary” (1827), Songs of the Affections" (1830), etc. Several of her shorter poems-"The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers," "The Homes of England," "The Hour of Death”. popular. - will always remain Hannah More (1745-1833). Poet, novelist, dramatist, and moral essayist; author of Percy," a drama written for Garrick, which was acted with success in 1777, "Sacred Dramas" (1782), " Cœlebs in Search of a Wife" (1809), "Character of St. Paul" (1815), Moral Sketches" (1818), etc. 66 Joanna Baillie (1762-1851). Poet and dramatist; author of 'Plays of the Passions" (1812), etc. POETRY.-Thomas Campbell (1777-1844). Author of "The Pleasures of Hope" (1799), "Poems" (1803), “Gertrude of Wyoming" (1809). (See Text). John Keats (1795-1821). Author of "Poems (1817), "Endymion (1818), "Hyperion" (1820). (See Text). Robert Southey (1774-1843). Poet and historian; author of "Joan of Arc" (1796), “Thalaba, the Destroyer" (1801), “The Curse of Kehama" (1810), "A History of Brazil,' "Life of Nelson," and a hundred other volumes. (See Text). Thomas Moore (1779-1852). Poet and biographer; author of "Epistles" (1806), "Lalla Rookh' (1817), "Life of Byron" (1830), "Irish Melodies" (1834), etc. (See Text). Thomas Hood (1798-1845). Poet, editor, humorist; author of "Whims and Oddities" (1826), "Up the Rhine" (1839), a de lightful piece of humor, and editor of Hood's Magazine, and other periodicals. Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864). Poet and prose writer; author of "Gebir" (1798), “Count Julian" (1812), "Imaginary Conversations (1824-1846), etc. John Keble (1792-1866). Poet, clergyman, and Oxford professor; author of "The Christian Year" (1827), a series of poems for the Sundays and holidays of the church year. Samuel Rogers (1763-1855). Author of the "Pleasures of Memory" (1792), “Columbus” (1812), “Human Life,” etc. As a man of wealth he entertained many literary celebrities, his breakfasts being more famous than his poems. Percy Bysche Shelley (1792-1822). A poet of rich gifts. Author of "Queen Mab," "Alastor," "The Revolt of Islam," "Prometheus Unbound," and several superb odes, among which are the "Ode to Liberty," "To a Skylark," and "The Cloud." (See Text). Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834). A poet and philosopher of wide influence. His best known poem is "The Ancient Mariner" (1798). Author of the tragedy "Remorse" (1813), "Biographia Literaria” (1817), consisting of sketches of his literary life and opinions, and "Aids to Reflection" (1825). (See Text). GREAT REPRESENTATIVE WRITERS. SIR WALTER SCOTT. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. VII. AGE OF SCOTT. (1800-1832.) 328. Favorable Conditions.- The political condition of England during this period was not unfavorable to literature. In 1800 the "Emerald Isle" was joined to England under the title of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. The Napoleonic wars increased England's prestige as a world-power. She came into possession of the colonies of Spain, of Holland, and of France. Waterloo finally ended her long struggle with the French. Her victories at Copenhagen and Trafalgar made her the undisputed mistress of the seas. The population largely increased. Agriculture became more flourishing, and the inventions of Watt and Arkwright helped to build up prosperous cities in northern England and to increase the national wealth. In 1815 London was lighted with gas; and a few years later an effective police force was organized for the city, which had then reached a population of a million and a half. Though the transition from hand labor to machinery imposed great hardships on the working classes for a time, and thus created much social discontent and suffering, it laid the foundation of the subsequent supremacy of England as a manufacturing and commercial nation. 329. Growth of Democratic Spirit.- Though the influence of the government was generally against the democratic tendencies of the times, the new sense of human right and freedom could not be extinguished. Though held in check for a time, it achieved later notable triumphs in Parliament. In 1828 the Test Act, by which Dissenters and Roman Catholics were excluded from government office, was repealed, and the follow |