Neff, E. E. Carlyle and Mill, 1924. A careful comparison of the two great antagonists. RUSKIN Roe, F. W. The Social Philosophy of Carlyle and Ruskin, 1921. ARNOLD Dawson, W: H. Matthew Arnold and his Relation to the Thought of his Time, 1904. Gates, Lewis. Selections (Holt) with a scholarly introduction. Essays by Brownell, Woodberry, Harrison, Stanley Williams (Studies in Victorian Literature, 1923). NEWMAN Life by W. Ward, 1921. Church, R. H. The Oxford Movement, 1833-1845, 1891. PATER Essays by More, R. Shafer (Science and Progress). DICKENS Life by John Forster, 2v. Chesterton, G. K. Charles Dickens, a Critical Study, 1911. Gissing, G. R. Charles Dickens, a Critical Study, 1898. Both of these are suggestive books. Philip, A. J. A Dickens Dictionary, 1909. Barlow, G. The Genius of Dickens, 1909. THACKERAY Life by Lewis Melville, 2v., 1910. Essays by Harrison, Brownell. The last is a remarkable appre ciation. GEORGE ELIOT Life by J. W. Cross, 3v., 1885. Essays by Harrison, Brownell, Hutton. THE BRONTËS Life of Charlotte Brontë, by Mrs. Gaskell. TROLLOPE Henry James in Partial Portraits. KINGSLEY Essays by Harrison, Stephen. MEREDITH Trevelyan, G. M. Poetry and Philosophy of George Meredith, 1906. Symons, Arthur. George Meredith as Poet, 1915. Beach, J. W. The Comic Spirit in George Meredith, 1911. Essays by Brownell, More. HARDY Hedgcock, F. A. Thomas Hardy, Penseur et Artiste. Abercrombie, Lascelles. Thomas Hardy, a Critical Study, 1912. STEVENSON Rice, R. A. Robert Louis Stevenson, How to Know Him, 1916. TENNYSON Tennyson, Hallam. Life and Letters of Lord Tennyson, 1905. Tennyson and his Friends, 1911. The memoir by his son is the best account of the poet. van Dyke, Henry. The Poetry of Tennyson, 1905. Brooke, S. A. Tennyson and his Relation to Modern Life, 1894. The best introductory study. Masterman, C. F. G. Tennyson as a Religious Teacher, 1900. Essays by Harrison, More. Pyre, J. F. A. Selections (Modern Students Library). BROWNING Life by Chesterton (E. M. L.) Brilliant commentary. Corson, Hiram. Introduction to the Study of Browning. the Tennyson, an excellent approach to the poet. Orr, Mrs. Sunderland. A Handbook to the Works of Browning. ROSSETTI, MORRIS Cary, Elizabeth. The Rossettis, 1907. Life of Morris by J. W. Mackail, 2v., 1911. Brock, A. Clutton. William Morris: His Work and Influence (Home University Library). Essays by Brooke, Saintsbury, More. Life by E. Gosse, 1917. SWINBURNE Essays by Lowell, Saintsbury. CHAPTER IX BOOKS OF GENERAL REFERENCE Cunliffe, J. W. English Literature During the Last Half Century, 1919. Van Doren, Carl and Mark. American and British Literature Since 1890, 1925. Jackson, Holbrook. The Eighteen Nineties, 1913. THE DRAMA Henderson, Archibald, George Bernard Shaw: his Life and Works, 1912. Chesterton, G. K. George Bernard Shaw, 1919. Life of Galsworthy by Sheila Kaye-Smith in Writers of Today, 1916. Boyd, E. A. Ireland's Literary Renaissance, 1916. Bickley, F. L. J. M. Synge and the Irish Dramatic Movement, 1912. Weygandt, Cornelius. Irish Plays and Playwrights, 1913. Hale's Dramatists of Today, Chandler's Aspects of Modern Drama, Huneker's Iconoclasts, Duke's Modern Drama, and Lewisohn's The Modern Drama contain critical material upon the revival of the English drama. FICTION Le Gallienne, Richard. Rudyard Kipling, a Criticism, 1900. Life of Kipling by John Palmer in Writers of Today, 1915. Life of George Moore by Susan L. Mitchell in Irishmen of Today, 1916. Curle, Richard, Joseph Conrad, a Study, 1914. Wilson Follett, Joseph Conrad, a Study, 1916. Life of Conrad, by Hugh Walpole, in Writers of Today, 1915. Beresford, J. D. H. G. Wells, a Biography and a Critical Estimate of his Work, 1915. Brooks, Van Wyck, The World of H. G. Wells, 1915. Crawfurd, A. H. The Religion of H. G. Wells, 1909. Phelps, W. L. Advance of the English Novel, 1915. POETRY Archer, William. Poets of the Younger Generation, 1902. Morris L. R. Celtic Dawn, 1917. Modern British Poetry, selected by Louis Untermeyer, 1920. |