Analytical Review
(1788–99),an important literary and radical periodical, published by J. Johnson, which was an early influence in encouraging the growth of Romanticism. It included Gilpin's theories on the ...
Anatomy of Melancholy
By Robert Burton (1621; enlarged 1621–51). In appearance the Anatomy is a medical work, in effect an affectionate satire on the inefficacy of human learning and endeavour. Burton finds melancholy to ...
Anna Brownell Jameson
(b Dublin, 19 May 1794; d Ealing, Middlesex [now in Greater London], 17 Mar. 1860).British writer, daughter of an Irish miniaturist, Denis Brownell Murphy (d 1842), who moved to England in 1798. Her ...
annuals and gift books
Though reviewers and notable contributors disparaged the literary merit of annuals and gift books, Dickens did not escape the vogue for sumptuously bound collections of quality steel engravings and ...
Arcadia
A prose romance by Sir P. Sidney, including poems and pastoral eclogues in a wide variety of verse forms. It exists in two versions: the first, completed by 1581, and much of it written at Wilton, is ...
Arthur Rackham
(1867–1939),children's book illustrator. Amongst his most successful works are Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm (1900), Rip van Winkle (1905), which established him as the fashionable illustrator of ...
Athenaeum
(1828–1921),J. S. Buckingham's literary review. The founder wished the journal to become the resort of thinkers, poets, orators, and other writers. Dilke was editor 1830–46, and the list of ...
Barry Cornwall
(1787–1874),enjoyed success as a writer of songs and lyrics. His works include Dramatic Scenes (1819); Marcian Collona (1820); Mirandola (1821), a dramatic work; and English Songs (1832). He also ...
Charles Cowden Clarke
(1787–1877)The son of John Keats's enlightened schoolmaster John Clarke, and a close friend of the poet. Keats's ‘Epistle to Charles Cowden‐Clarke’ is full of affection and gratitude. Cowden‐Clarke ...
Christ's Hospital
The most famous of the Blue‐Coat or charity schools, was founded in London under a charter of Edward VI as a school for poor children, in buildings that before the ...
comedy of manners
A kind of comedy representing the complex and sophisticated code of behaviour current in fashionable circles of society, where appearances count for more than true moral character. Its plot usually ...
Courier
An evening newspaper published in the early part of the 19th cent., under the management of D. Stuart. Coleridge, Wordsworth, Lamb, and Southey were among its contributors, and Galt was at one time ...
criticism
The reasoned discussion of literary works, an activity which may include some or all of the following procedures, in varying proportions: the defence of literature against moralists and censors, ...
Daniel Stuart
(1766–1846),journalist, and an early press baron, who in 1795 bought the Morning Post and in 1796 the Courier, raising both papers to importance by his management. He employed excellent writers, ...
Dorothy Jordan
(1761–1816),actress, appeared from 1782 to 1815 in many leading roles, and was much praised by Hazlitt, Lamb, Leigh Hunt, etc. She was for long mistress of the duke of Clarence (William IV), and bore ...
East Africa
Bishop Steere's 1867 translation of Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare into Swahili is an early instance of the missionary use of Shakespeare in what became in British East Africa common colonial ...
Edward Moxon
(1801–58),publisher and a close friend of Lamb whose ‘adopted’ daughter, Emma Isola, he married. Among his list of authors were Shelley, Clare, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Lamb, Hunt, Keats, Southey, R. ...
Englishman's Magazine
(1831–3),an original and ambitious literary monthly, edited by E. Moxon. It published the work of the unknown young Tennyson, as well as that of Hood, Lamb, Leigh Hunt, Clare, A. H. Hallam, and ...
essay
A short written composition in prose that discusses a subject or proposes an argument without claiming to be a complete or thorough exposition. A minor literary form, the essay is more relaxed than ...
essayists
The essay as a literary form does not abound in the corpus of writings produced by Latinos and Latinas. The reason for its insufficient presence in the works of Latino ...
