Index

A

Absolom and Achitophel 156, 163-4 Ackroyd, Peter (1949-) 378

Adam Bede 286-7 ‘Adam lay y-bounden’ 65

Addison, Joseph (1672-1719) 176-7,197

Advent Lyrics see Christ

Ælfric (c.955--c.1020) 25, 32 Aeropagus 90

Aestheticism 296-7, 305 Alamanni 82, 83

A³chemist, The 130-31 Aldhelm (c.640-709) 15, 18

Aldington, Richard (1895-1962) 321, 331

Alfred (d.899), King of Wessex (871-99) 15, 25-7 allegory 44, 96

Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury 33 ‘Alysoun’ 44-5

Amis, Kingsley (1922-93) 368, 370

Ancrene Riwle (Ancrene Wisse) 46 Andreas 23

Andrewes, Lancelot (1555-1628) 139, 141

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, The 25, 26, 27, 31, 32, 33, 35 Ariosto, Ludovico (1474-1535) 89, 94, 95, 96 Aristotle (384-322 BC) 123, 159-60

Armitage, Simon (1963-) 381

Arnold, Matthew (1822-88) 182, 211, 222, 259-60, 266-7, 273, 296-7

Arthurian writings 39-40, 41, 66-8,94-5

Ascension see Christ

Ascham, Roger 78, 86-7

Astell, Mary (1666-1731) 168, 189 Aubrey, John (1626-97) 167 Auchinleck manuscript (c.1330) 41

Auden, W. H. (1907-73) 262, 346-8, 356 Augustanism 156, 164, 176

Augustine (of Hippo), St (354-430) 85

Soliloquies 26

Austen, Jane (1775-1817) 156, 240-43 Emma 241-3

Mansfield Park 242 Northanger Abbey 241 Persuasion 243

Pride and Prejudice 241 Authority (in medieval writing) 43-4 Ayckbourn, Alan (1939-) 365

B

Bacon, Sir Francis (1561-1626) 77, 100, 139

Barbour, John (c.1325-95) 69

Barnes, William (1801-86) 319

Barrie, J. M. (1860-1937) 312

Battle of Brunanburh 31-2

Battle of Maldon 31, 32

Baxter, Richard (1615-91) 159

Beardsley, Aubrey (1872-98) 296

Beaumont, Sir Francis (1584-1616) 134

Beckett, Samuel (1906-89) 5, 324,360-63

Beckford, William (1759-1844) 202

Bede, St (676-735) 12, 14, 15, 18-19, 25-6

Beerbohm, Max (1872-1956) 299

Behn, Aphra (1640-89) 161, 169

Benedictine Revival 25, 27, 32 Bennett, Alan (1934-) 365 Bennett, Arnold (1867-1931) 313 Benoît de Sainte-Maure 40

Bentham, Jeremy (1748-1832 ) 232, 254 Beowulf 25, 27-30, 85

Berkeley, Bishop (1685-1753) 203 Bernart de Ventadorn (fl.c.1150-80) 38 Betjeman, John (1906-84) 354-5

Bible translations 24, 48, 84-6 Authorized Version 36, 84-5

Blair, Eric see Orwell, George Blair, Robert (1699-1746) 198, 200

Blake, William (1757-1827) 3, 11-12, 218-19

Bleak House 278-9 Bloomsbury Group 317, 340

Blunden, Edmund (1896-1974) 321 Boethius (c.480-524) 26, 59

Book of Common Prayer 36, 85

Book of the Order of Chivalry, The 69

Boswell, James (1740-95) 208-9, 211 Boucicault, Dion (1829-90) 300 Bowen, Elizabeth (1899-1973) 352-4 Bradbury, Malcolm (1932-) 377 Bradstreet, Anne (c.1612-72) 168 Brecht, Bertold (1898-1956) 356 Brittain, Vera (1893-1970) 321 Brontë, Anne (1820-49) 273, 274 Brontë, Charlotte (1816-55) 272, 273-4

Brontë, Emily (1818-48) 272, 273, 274-5 Brooke, Rupert (1887-1915) 321

Browne, Sir Thomas (1605-82) 139, 141-2

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (1806-61) 265 Browning, Robert (1812-89) 265-6

Brunanburh, Battle of 31-2 Bunting, Basil (1900-85) 339

Bunyan, John (1628-88) 149, 155, 158-9 Burbage, James (c.1530-97) 108 Burgess, Anthony (1917-94) 378

Burke, Edmund (1729-97) 201, 210-11

Burney, Fanny (1752-1840) 192, 212 Burns, Robert (1759-96) 215-17 Burton, Robert (1577-1640) 139, 141 Butler, Samuel (1613-80) 157 Butler, Samuel (1835-1902) 304 Byatt, A. S. (1936-) 369

Byrhtferth of Ramsey (late 10th century) 32

Byron, George Gordon, 6th baron (1788-1824) 227-9,237

C

Cædmon (f1.670) 15, 18-19, 23 Camden, William (1551-1623) 129 Campion, Thomas (1567-1620) 101-2

Canterbury Tales, The 40, 54, 59-62, 64-5, 69 Carew, Thomas (1594-1640) 134, 143, 144 Carey, Peter (1943-) 369

Carlyle, Thomas (1795-1881) 251, 253, 253-4

Carroll, Lewis (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, 1832-98) 291- 2

Carter, Angela (1940-92) 379-80 Castiglione, Baldassare (1478-1529) 80-81

Castle of Perseveraunce, The 65 Caxton, William (?1422-91) 53, 67, 68-9

Chanson de Roland 39

Charles I (1600-49), King of Great Britain and Ireland (1625-49) 132,139

Charles II (1630-85), King of Great Britain and Ireland (1660-85) 132, 134,154, 156, 157

Chatterton, Thomas (1753-70) 200, 201-2

Chaucer, Geoffrey (c.1342-1400) 36, 38, 49, 53-4, 55-62, 84, 89

Book of the Duchess 55-6, 57

The Canterbury Tales 40, 54, 59-62, 64-5, 69

The House of Fame 56

The Legend of Good Women 57-8 The Parlement of Fowls 56-7 The Romance of the Rose 55

Troilus and Criseyde 37-8, 43, 57, 58-9, 82, 121 Cheke, John (1514-57) 86

Chekhov, Anton (1860-1904) 300, 355-6 Chrétien de Troyes (fl.1170-90) 41

Christ 24

Church (medieval) 42, 43, 46 see also Mystery plays Churchill, Caryl (1938-) 365

Churchill, Sir Winston (1874-1965) 4, 355 Cicero (106-43 BC) 86

Clare, John (1793-1864) 261

Cloud of Unknowing, The 47

Clough, Arthur Hugh (1819-61) 267, 268

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1835) 222-3, 225-7, 233- 4, 236

Colet, John (1466-1519) 79-80 Collier, Rev Jeremy (1650-1726) 169 Collins, Wilkie (1824-89) 304 Collins, William (1721-59) 200, 201

Columbus, Christopher (c.1445-1506) 77

Compton-Burnett, Ivy . (1884-1969) 351 Comte, Auguste (1789-1857) 286

Comus 149

Conan Doyle, Arthur (1859-1930) 304

Congreve, William (1670-1729) 161, 164, 169-70 Conrad, Joseph (Josef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski,

1857-1924) 314-16, 317 Coverdale, Miles (1488-1568) 85 Cowley, Abraham (1618-67) 145

Cowper, William (1731-1800) 200, 214-15

Crabbe, Rev George (1754-1832) 200, 212 Cranmer, Archbishop Thomas (1489-1556) 78, 79 Crashaw, Richard (1613-49) 145

Cynewulf (9th century) 18, 24

D

Daniel Deronda 290-91

Darwin, Charles (1809-82) 259

Davenant, Sir William (1608-68) 159

David Copperfield 276, 278

Davidson, John (1857-1909) 305, 306

Day-Lewis, Cecil (1904-72) 346

De Quincey, Thomas (1785-1859) 237

Defoe, Daniel (1660-1731) 174, 178, 189-91

Dekker, Thomas (? 1570-1634) 134

Deloney, Thomas (? 1560-1600) 134

Denham, Sir John (1615-69) 197

Dennis, John (1657-1734) 184

Deor 22

Dickens, Charles (1812-70) 272, 275-81

Bleak House 278-9

David Copperfield 276, 278

Great Expectations 280-81 Hard Times 279-80

Oliver Twist 277

Our Mutual Friend 279 The Pickwick Papers 276-7

Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge see Carroll, Lewis

Donne, Dr John (1572-1631) 100, 133, 136-9, 143, 149 Doolittle, Hilda (1886-1961) 331

Doomsday see Christ

Douglas, Gavin (? 1475-1522) 69-70, 71-2, 84 Dowson, Ernest (1867-1900) 305

Dream of the Rood, The 20-22, 23, 24, 85

Dryden, John (1631-1700) 143, 155, 159, 160, 161-6

Absalom and Achitophel 156, 163-4 Aeneid 164-5

Mac Flecknoe 163, 187 Religio Laici 162

The State of Innocence 133, 162

Sylvae 164, 165

Dubliners 328

Duffy, Carol-Ann (1955-) 380, 381

Dunbar, Rev William (?1460-1513) 69-70, 70-71

Dunciad, The 163, 187-8 Dunn, Douglas (1942-) 346

Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury (c.910-88) 27 Dyer, Edward (1543-1607) 90

E

Edgeworth, Maria (1768-1849) 238-9, 243 Eleanor of Aquitaine (1122-1204) 38

Eliot, George (Mary Ann Evans, 1819-80) 248, 253, 28591, 295

Adam Bede 286-7 Daniel Deronda 290-91

Felix Holt, the Radical 288 Middlemarch 288-90

The Mill on the Floss 285, 286, 287 Romola 288

Silas Marner 288

The Spanish Gypsy 288

Eliot, T. S. (1887-1965) 235, 295, 316, 332-7, 356

The Family Reunion 336 Four Quartets 336-7

The Love Song of J. Alf red Prufrock 333 Murder in the Cathedral 335-6

Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats 332-3

The Waste Land 59, 314, 320, 331, 333-5, 345, 361 Elizabeth I (1533-1603), Queen of England and Ireland

(1558-1603) 78, 79, 87, 90, 93-4, 95, 98, 113 Elyot, Sir Thomas 78, 86

Emma 242-3

English language 5, 15-17, 35-7, 48

English Review, The 317-18 Enlightenment 174-5

Erasmus, Desiderius (1466-1536) 79, 80, 140

Essex, Robert Devereux, 2nd earl of (1566-1601) 113 Etherege, Sir George (?1634-?91) 160

Evans, Marym Ann see Eliot, George Evelyn, John (1620-1706) 159, 167

Everyman 65, 113

Exeter Book 25, 27, 30-31

F

Faber Book o f Modern Verse 348-9

Fabian Society 295

Faerie Queene, The 94, 95-7

Farquhar, George (?1677-1707) 161, 170 Fenton, James (1949-) 380, 381

Fielding, Henry (1705-54) 192, 193-4,197

Finch, Anne, Countess of Winchilsea (1661-1720) 145, 168

Finnegans Wake 331 Finnsburh 22, 31

Fletcher, John (1579-1625) 134

Florio, John (c.1533-1625) 140

Ford, Ford Madox (1873-1939) 314, 317-18, 320, 321 Ford, John (1586-after 1639) 134

Forster, Edward Morgan (1879-1970) 316-17,340

Four Quartets 336-7 Fowles, John (1926-) 369 Foxe, John (1516-87) 87 Franks Casket 22, 23 French language 38 friars 42, 66

Friel, Brian (1929-) 365 Froissart, Jean (d.1410) 67

Fry, Christopher (1907-) 343, 356

G

Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) 77 Galsworthy, John (1867-1933) 313, 314 Gama, Vasco da (? 1469-1524) 77

Ganner Gurton’s Needle 88 Gascoigne, George (1539-78) 89 Gaskell, Elizabeth (1810-65) 273, 275 Gautier, Théophile (1811-72) 296 Gay, John (1685-1732) 188-9 Geoffrey of Monmouth (d. 1155) 39-40

Georgian Poetry 319

Gibbon, Edward (1737-94) 175, 209-10 Gilbert, W. S. (1836-1911) 297, 299 Gissing, George (1857-1903) 304-5 Globe Theatre, London 109

Godric, St 46, 49

Godwin, William (1756-1836) 219, 230

Golden Treasury 319

Golding, Arthur (?1536-?1605) 89, 100

Golding, Sir William (1911-93) 366-8 Goldsmith, Oliver (1730-74) 181, 211-12 Gosson, Stephen (1554-1624) 92

Gothic fiction 202, 274 Gothic poems 97

Gower, John (?1330-1408) 38, 49, 53-4, 62 Graves, Robert (1895-1985) 321, 337 Gray, John (1866-1934) 305

Gray, Thomas (1711-71) 6-7, 197, 198-200, 201, 220

Great Expectations 280-81

Green, Henry (Henry Yorke, 1905-73) 351 Greene, Graham (1904-91) 350-51 Greene, Robert (1558-92) 109-10 Gregory the Great, St (c.540-604) 26 Greville, Fulke (1554-1628) 90

Grey, Lady Jane 87

Grieve, C. M. see MacDiarmid, Hugh Grimestone see John of Grimestone Gwynn, Nell (1650-87) 159, 169

H

Hall, Edward (d.1547) 89 Hamlet 77, 81, 123-4

Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928) 125, 295, 301-4, 319-20 Harley Manuscript 44-5

Harrison, Tony (1937-) 370, 373-4 Hartley, L. P. (1895-1972) 351 Harvey, Gabriel (c.1550-1631) 103 Hazlitt, William (1778-1830) 236-7

Heaney, Seamus (1939-) 5-6, 374-5, 381 Henley, W. E. (1849-1903) 305, 306

Henry IV Parts 1 and 2 114-15, 116 Henry V 115-16

Henry V (1387-1422), King of England, Ireland, Wales and France (1413-22) 38,114

Henry VIII (1491-1547), King of England and Ireland (1509-47) 34, 78, 79, 80, 83, 86, 98

Henryson, Rev Robert (?1424-1506) 69-70 Herbert, Rev George (1593-1633) 141, 144-5

Herbert, Lord Edward, of Cherbury (1582-1648) 140 Herrick, Rev Robert (1591-1674) 143, 144 Heywood, Jasper (1535-98) 88, 136

Heywood, John (c.1497-1580) 87-8

Heywood, Thomas (?1570-1632) 134 Hill, Geoffrey (1932-) 373

Hill, Susan (1942-) 378 Hilton, Walter (d.1379) 47

Hobbes, Thomas (1588-1679) 139, 157 Hoby, Sir Thomas (1530-66) 80, 89 Hoccleve, Thomas (? 1369-1426) 63 Holinshed, Raphael (d.? 1580) 89, 113 Home, John (1722-1808) 177

Homer (8th century BC) 4, 13, 30, 183-4 Hooker, Rev Richard (1554-1600) 103, 141 Hopkins, Gerard (1844-89) 3, 269-71 Horace (65-8 BC) 43, 83, 145, 181, 197, 214 Housman, A. E. (1859-1936) 304, 305-6 Hughes, Ted (1930-99) 370, 372

Humanists 42, 75, 79-80

Hume, David (1711-76) 197, 203

Hunt, Leigh (1784-1859) 232, 237 Hutchinson, Lucy (b.1620) 167

I

‘I syng of a mayden’ 66

Ibsen, Henrik (1828-1906) 300 Imagism 331

‘In the vaile of restles mynd’ 66 Irving, Sir Henry (1838-1905) 299 Isherwood, Christopher (1904-86) 346 Ishiguro, Kasuo (1954-) 379, 380

J

Jacobean plays 134-5

James, Henry (1843-1916) 266, 275, 290, 295

James I (1566-1625), King of Great Britain and Ireland (1603-25) (James VI, King of Scots, 1567-1625) 127, 129,132

James II (1633-1701), King of Great Britain and Ireland (1685-88) 132, 134, 155, 157

Jerome, St (c.342-420) 85 John of Grimestone 66

Johnson, Lionel (1867-1902) 305

Johnson, Dr Samuel (1709-84) 4, 5, 143, 156, 174, 192, 202-9

on Addison 177 and Boswell 208-9

Dictionary 36, 204-5, 206

and Goldsmith 211, 212 on Gray 198, 200, 207 Horace 206

on Milton 152, 207, 214-15 on ‘Ossian’ poems 201

on Pope 183, 184, 207 on Rochester 157

on Shakespeare 124, 125, 129 160, 207-8 on Sheridan 213

on Sterne 197

Jones, David (1895-1974) 321, 339 Jones, Inigo (1573-1652) 134

Jonson, Ben (1572-1637) 97, 107, 129-30, 134, 137, 139, 142-3

The Alchemist 130-31 Volpone 131

Joyce, James (1882-1941) 262, 324, 327-31

Dubliners 328 Finnegans Wake 331

Portrait of the Artistas a Young Man 327-9 Ulysses 329-31

Julian of Norwich, Dame (c.1343-c.1413/27) 39, 47-8 Junius Book 19, 25, 27

K

Katherine texts 46

Keats, John (1795-1821) 97, 129, 184, 232-5, 296 Kempe, Margery (c.1373-c.1439) 47, 49 Killigrew, Anne (1660-85) 168

King, Bishop Henry (1592-1669) 143 King Lear 6, 11, 123, 124-7, 160

Kingis Quair, The 69, 70

Kingsley, Rev Charles (1815-75) 253, 257

Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936) 301, 306-7, 313, 318, 320 Korzeniowski, Josef Teodor Konrad see Conrad, Joseph Kyd, Thomas (1558-94) 110, 123, 134

L

Lamb, Charles (1775-1834) 161, 236 Landor, Walter Savage (1775-1864) 237

Langland, William (?1330-after 1386) 36, 50-52, 62-3

Piers Plowman 50-52

Larkin, Philip (1922-85) 338, 361, 369, 370, 371-2 Law, John (1686-1761) 191-2

Lawrence, D. H. (1885-1930) 318, 324-7 Layamon (fl. late 12th century) 39, 40 Lear, Edward (1812-88) 292

Leavis, F. R. (1895-1978) 295, 317 Lennox, Charlotte (1720-1804) 192, 204 Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) 76 Lessing, Doris (1919-) 370

Lewes, G. H. (1817-87) 286

Lewis, C. S. (1898-1963) 354 Lewis, Matthew (1775-1828) 202 Lindisfarne Gospels 20, 21

Locke, John (1632-1704) 139, 168, 176, 184 Lodge, David (1935-) 377-8

Lodge, Thomas (1558-1625) 109-10 “Lollius Maximus’ 43-4

Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The 333

Lovelace, Sir Richard (1618-58) 145

Love’s Labour’s Lost 116-17

Lowry, Malcolm (1909-57) 368

Lowth, Dr Robert (1710-87) 201

Lycidas 149-50

Lydgate, John (? 1370-1449) 61, 63

Lyly, John (c.1554-1606) 102,109

M

Mac Flecknoe 163, 187

MacDiarmid, Hugh (C. M. Grieve, 1892-1978) 339 Machiavelli, Niccolo (1469-1527) 76-7 Mackenzie, Henry (1745-1831) 216

MacNeice, Louis (1907-63) 346, 347

Macpherson, James ‘Ossian’ (1736-96) 200, 201, 298 Magellan, Ferdinand (?1480-1521) 77

Maldon, Battle of 31, 32

Malory, Sir Thomas (d.1471) 40, 66, 67-8, 86, 87 Mandeville, Bernard de (1670-1733) 175 Mandeville, Sir John (fl. 14th century) 49

Mankind 65

Manley, Delarivière (1663-1724) 168

Mansfield, Katherine (1888-1923) 343

Mansfield Park 242

Manutius, Aldus (1449-1515) 75 Marie de Champagne (f1.1160-90) 41 Marie de France (fl.1160-90) 39, 41

Marlowe, Christopher (1564-93) 65, 76, 97-8, 100-1, 11011, 121

Marston, John (? 1575-1634) 134

Marvell, Andrew (1621-78) 12, 133, 139, 145-7, 154, 162 Marx, Karl (1818-83) 253-4

Mary I (1516-58), Queen of England (1553-58) 79 Massinger, Philip (1583-1649) 134

Medwall, Henry (f1.1486) 87 Meredith, George (1828-1909) 294 Metaphysical poets 143-4

Michelangelo Buonarotti (1475-1564) 76 Middle English 36-7, 39, 43

Middlemarch 288-90

Middleton, Thomas (1580-1627) 134, 135

Midsummer Night’sDream, A 88, 117-19,128 Mill on the Floss, The 285, 286, 287

Mill, John Stuart (1806-73) 226, 254, 262

Milton, John (1608-74) 5, 19, 102, 107, 132-3, 146, 14854, 156

Areopagitica 151 Comus 149 Lycidas 149-50

Ode on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity 148, 149

Paradise Lost 133, 148, 149, 150-3, 162

Paradise Regained 151, 153-4 Il Penseroso 148, 198

The Reason of Church Government 150 Samson Agonistes 151, 154

Molière (1622-73) 84

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley (1689-1762) 189 Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de (1533-92) 140 Moore, George (1852-1933) 304

Morality plays 65, 87

More, Sir Thomas (? 1477-1535) 78, 79-80, 87, 113, 136 Motion, Andrew (1952-) 381

Muldoon, Paul (1951-) 380-81

Murdoch, Iris (1919-99) 368-9

Mystery plays 63-5, 87, 108

N

Nashe, Thomas (1567-1601) 101, 102-3

Newman, Cardinal John Henry (1801-90) 257-9, 275 Norman Conquest 33, 34, 35, 37

North, Thomas (?1536-? 1600) 89, 122 Northumbria 20-22 see also Bede, St Norton, Thomas (1532-84) 88

O

O’Casey, Sean (1880-1964) 356 Old English 13-14, 35

Orléans, Charles d’ ( I 394-1465) 70 Orosius (early 5th century) 26 Orton, Joe (1933-67) 370

Orwell, George (Eric Blair, 1904-50) 350, 352 Osborne, Dorothy (1627-95) 167

Osborne, John (1929-94) 363-4

Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury 33

Otway, Thomas (1652-85) 160

Our Mutual Friend 279

Ovid (43 BC-AD 18) 89, 100, 117,128 Owen, Wilfred (1893-1918) 321, 322

Owl and the Nightingale, The 44

Oxford (Tractarian) Movement 253, 257, 258

P

Paine, Tom (1737-1809) 221

Paradise Lost 133,148, 149, 150-53, 162

Parlement of Fowls, The 56-7 ‘Passionate Man’s Pilgrimage, The’ 99 Paston Letters 49

Paten, Walter (1839-94) 260, 270, 296-7

Peacock, Thomas Love (1785-1856) 231, 235-6, 237 Pembroke, Mary, Countess of 90

Pepys, Samuel (1633-1703) 159, 167 Percy, Bishop Thomas (1729-1811) 227

Persuasion 243

Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca, 1304-74) 43, 75, 82, 83 Philips, Katherine (1631-64) 168

PickwickPapers, The 276-7

Pico della Mirandola (1463-94) 76, 79

Piers Plowman 50-52

Pinero, Sir Arthur (1855-1935) 300 Pinter, Harold (1930-) 364-5

Plath, Sylvia (1932-63) 370, 372, 379 Plautus (c 254-184 BC) 116

Plutarch (c.50-c.125) 89, 122

Pope, Alexander (1688-1744) 35, 170, 174, 176, 177, 178, 181-8, 197,199

Æneid 181-2

The Dunciad 163, 187-8 Epistle to a Lady 186-7

Essay on Criticism 182, 183, 187 Essay on Man 184

Iliad 183-4

The Rape o f the hock 184-6

To Miss Blount, on her Leaving the Town, after the Coronation 182-3

On the Use of Riches 187

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 327-9 Potter, Dennis (1935-97) 365

Pound, Ezra (1884-1972) 31, 305, 317, 320, 331-2, 334, 338, 339

Powell, Anthony (1905-2000) 351-2

Prayer Book see Book of Common Prayer

Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood 268 printing, introduction of 34, 36, 68-9 Pugin, A. W. (1812-52) 255, 256 Pym, Barbara (1913-80) 368

Q

Quintilian (c.35-c.100) 86

R

Radcliffe, Ann (1764-1823) 202

Ralegh, Sir Walter (c.1552-1618) 93, 94, 98-9, 100, 119

Rape of The Lock, The 184-6

Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio, 1483-1520) 76

Rastell, John (? 1470-1536) 87

Rattigan, Terence (1911-77) 356

Reformation 78-9, 83

Renaissance 75-8, 83, 133

Restoration 154-7

Richard II (1367-1400), King of England (1377-99) 49,

113

Richard II 113-14, 116

Richardson, Samuel (1689-1761) 174, 192-3, 273

Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of (1647-80) 157-8,161

Rolle, Rev Richard (c.1300-49) 47

Romances 39-42, 52-3, 66-7

Roper, William (1498-1578) 86, 87

Rosenberg, Isaac (1890-1918) 321

Rossetti, Christina (1830-94) 268-9

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-82) 268

Rowley, William (?1585-1626) 135

Royal Society of London 140, 166-7

Rushdie, Salman (1947-) 379

Ruskin,John(1819-1900) 253, 254-6, 277

Ruthwell Cross 20-21

S

Sackville, Thomas (1536-1608) 88

Samson Agonistes 151, 154 Sassoon, Siegfried (1886-1967) 321 Scholasticism 42-3

Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832) 97, 227, 238, 239-40 Sedley, Sir Charles (?1639-1701) 159, 161

Seneca (c.4 BC-AD 65) 88, 123, 140 Shadwell, Thomas (?1642-92) 163, 164

Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st earl of (162183) 167-8

Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd earl of (16711713) 175

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) 3, 84, 87, 89, 98, 104- 9, 111-29, 130, 134, 159, 174, 299

Hamlet 77, 81, 123-4

Henry IV Parts 1 and 2 114-15, 116 Henry V 115-16

Julius Caesar 122-3

King Lear 6, 11, 123, 124-7, 160

ALover’s Complaint 121-2 Love’s Labours Lost 102, 116-17 Measure for Measure 119

AMidsummer Night’s Dream 88, 117-19, 128 The Rape of Lucrece 121

Richard II 113-14, 116

Richard III 113

Sonnets 77, 120-22

The Taming of the Shrew 89

The Tempest 127-8

Twelfth Night 119-20

Venus and Adonis 121

Shakespeare Jubilee 209

Shaw, George Bernard (1856-1950) 295, 298, 300-301,

355

Shelley, Mary (1797-1851) 219, 230, 237-8

Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) 230-32, 237

Shenstone, William (1714-63) 198

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816) 212-14

Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-86) 88, 89-92, 93, 130

Arcadia 90-91, 92, 93, 95

Astrophil and Stella 91-2

Defence of Poesy 2, 78, 81, 90, 91,92-3

Silas Marner 288

Sillitoe, Alan (1928-) 369

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 35, 36, 52-3, 63

SirOrfeo 41

Skelton, John (1460-1529) 82

Smart, Christopher (1722-71) 200, 201, 214

Smollett, Dr Tobias (1721-71) 194-5

Southey, Robert (1774-1843) 220-21

Spark, Dame Muriel (1918-) 368

Spectator, The 176-7

Spender, Stephen (1909 98) 346, 348-9

Spenser, Edmund (1552-99) 63, 89, 93-7

The Faerie Queene 94, 95-7

The Shepheardes Calender 89-90

Sprat, Dr Thomas (1635-1713) 167

Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729) 176, 177

Sterne, Laurence(1713-68) 195-7, 199

Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-94) 304

Stoppard, Tom (1937-) 365

Strachey, Lytton (1880-1932) 251, 340

Suckling, Sir John (1609-42) 145

Surrey, Henry Howard, Earl of (1517-47) 78, 81-2, 83-4

Swan Theatre, London 108

Swift Graham (1949-) 380

Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) 167, 175, 177-81, 188

Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909) 269

Symons, Arthur (1865-1945) 305

Synge, J. M. (1871-1909) 356

T

Tacitus (55-after 115) 31, 113, 315 Tasso, Torquato (1544-95) 94, 95, 149 Tate, Nahum (1652-1715) 124, 160

Tempest, The 127-8

Tennyson, Alfred Lord (1809-92) 31, 68, 262-5, 296 Thackeray, William Makepeace (1811-63) 158, 281-3 Thomas, Dylan (1914-55) 343, 355

Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) 321, 322

Thomson, James (1700-48) 97, 173, 198, 200, 201, 228 Thomson, James (B.V.) (1834-82) 306

Thrale, Hester (1741-1821) 192, 212 Tolkien, J. R. R. (1892-1973) 354 Tottel, Richard (c.1530-94) 89

Tottel’s Miscellany 83

Tourneur, Cyril (? 1575-1626) 134 Tractarian (Oxford) Movement 253, 257, 258

Traherne, Rev Thomas (1637-74) 145

Trevisa, John (c.1340-1402) 48

Troilus and Criseyde 37-8, 43, 57, 58-9,82,121

Trollope, Anthony (1815-82) 276,283-5

Twelfth Night 119-20

Tyrwhitt, Thomas (1730-86) 89

U

Udall, Nicolas (1504-56) 88, 102

Ulysses 329-31

universities (medieval) 42-3, 69

V

Vanburgh, Sir John (1654-1726) 161

Vaughan, Rev Henry (1621-95) 145

Vegius, Mapheus (fl.1428) 71-2

Vercelli Book 20, 25, 27

Villon, François (1431-after 1463) 43

Virgil (70-19 BC) 183

translations 71-2, 83-4, 164-5,181-2

Volpone 131

Voltaire (1694-1778) 6, 197

W

Wace (c. l10-after 1171) 39

Wain, John (1925-95) 369

Waldere 22, 31

Waller, Edmund (1606-87) 144

Walpole, Horace (1717-97) 175, 197, 201, 202 Walton, Dr Izaak (1593-1683) 138, 145, 167 Warton, Joseph (1722-1800) 200

Warton, Thomas (1728-90) 200

Waste Land, The 333-5, 345, 361

Watts, Dr Isaac (1674-1748) 177, 191, 192

Waugh, Evelyn (1903-66) 345, 349-50, 358 Webster, John (c.1578-c.1632) 134, 135 Wells, H. G. (1866-1946) 313-14

Wesley, John (1703-91) 191

‘Western wind, when will thou blow’ 45 ‘Where beth they beforen us weren’ 65

Widsith 22

Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900) 296, 297-9, 305-6 Wilmot, John see Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of Wilson, Angus (1913-91) 368

Winchilsea, Countess of see Finch, Anne, Countess of Winchilsea

Winterson, Jeannette (1959-) 380 Wodehouse, P. G. (1881-1975) 299, 344-5 Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-97) 219, 237 Woolf, Virginia (1892-1941) 255, 339-43

Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) 97, 182, 219-20, 221-5, 230, 236, 243, 285

Wren, Sir Christopher (1632-1723) 154 Wulfstan (d.1023) 32, 33

Wyatt, Sir Thomas (1503-42) 78, 81-3

Wycherley, William (1641-1715) 161 Wyclif, John (c.1330-84) 48

Y

Yeats, W. B. (1867-1939) 293, 296, 297, 301, 305, 337-9, 347, 348

Yorke, Henry see Green, Henry Young, Edward (1683-1765) 198