APPENDIX.

CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF ENGLISH LITERATURE

From 1770 to 1870.

1770.-Chatterton died. Wordsworth born. Letters of Junius. Thoughts on the Present Discontents.

Berlichingen.' Bürger's 'Lenore.')

1771.-Gray died, Scott born.

1772.-Coleridge born. (Lessing's 'Emilia Galotti.')

Burke

(Goethe's 'Götz von

1773. Ferguson's poems. Goldsmith's 'She Stoops to Conquer.' 1774. -Southey born. (Goethe's 'Werther.') Goldsmith died. Berkeley's

1777.-Campbell born. Henry Hallam born.

1778.-Hazlitt born. Cowper's Olney Hymns composed.

1779.-Moore born.

Garrick died. Sheridan's 'Critic.'

1780.-Johnson's 'Lives of the Poets.'

1781.-Crabbe's 'Library.' Darwin's 'Botanic Garden.' (Kant's 'Kritik

der Reinen Vernunft.')

1782.-Cowper's first volume of poems.

1783.-Crabbe's 'Village.' Blake's 'Poetical Sketches.'

1784.-Johnson died. Leigh Hunt born.

1785.-De Quincey born. Peacock born. Cowper's 'Task.'

1786.-Burns' first poems.

1787.-Burns' poems; second issue.

1788.-Byron born. The Times newspaper.

1789.-Blake's 'Songs of Innocence.' Bowles' 'Sonnets.' Darwin's 'Loves

of the Plants.'

1790.-(French Revolution.)

1791.-Boswell's 'Life of Johnson.'

1792. Shelley born. Paine's 'Age of Reason.'

1793.-Wordsworth's 'Descriptive Sketches.' Godwin's 'Political Justice.' Roger's Pleasures of Memory.'

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1794.-Southey's 'Wat Tyler.' Blake's 'Songs of Experience.' 1795. Keats born. Carlyle born. Landor's first poems.

1796.--Burns died. Hartley Coleridge born. Burke's Letters on a Regicide Peace.'

1797.-Southey's poems. Coleridge's Annus Mirabilis.'

1798.-Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge. Landor's 'Gebir.' 1799.-Hood born. Campbell's 'Pleasures of Hope.'

1800.-Cowper died. Macaulay born. Coleridge's 'Translation of

Schiller.'

1801.-Southey's 'Thalaba.' Moore's 'Anacreon.' Newman born. 1802.-Scott's 'Border Minstrelsy.' Edinburgh Review. (Victor Hugo born.)

1803. Mrs Heman's first poems.

1804.-(Bonaparte, Emperor. Kant died.)

1805.-Scott's 'Lay of the Last Minstrel.' Southey's 'Madoc.'

1806.-Coleridge's 'Christabel.' Peacock's 'Palmyra.' (Goethe's 'Faust.') 1807.--Byron's 'Hours of Idleness.' Moore's 'Irish Melodies.' Crabbe's

Parish Register.'

1808. Scott's 'Marmion.' Quarterly Review established.

1809.-Alfred Tennyson born. E. B. Browning born. Charles Darwin

born.

1810.-Crabbe's 'Borough.' Southey's 'Curse of Kehama.' Scott's 'Lady of the Lake.'

1811.-Thackeray born. Shelley's 'Necessity of Atheism.' J. Austen's 'Sense and Sensibility.'

1812. -Dickens born. Browning born. Byron's 'Childe Harold,' 1 and 2

cantos.

1813. Shelley's 'Queen Mab.' Scott's 'Rokeby.' Hogg's 'Queen's

Wake.'

1814.-Scott's Waverley.'

Wordsworth's 'Excursion.' Southey's

'Roderick.' Byron's 'Corsair and Lara.' Cary's 'Translation

of Dante.

1815. Scott's 'Lord of the Isles' and 'Guy Mannering.'

'Hebrew Melodies.'

Byron's

1816.-Byron left England. 'Childe Harold,' 3 canto, and 'Prisoner of

Chillon.' Shelley's 'Alastor.'

1817.-Keats' first poems. Moore's 'Lalla Rookh.' Byron's 'Manfred.' 1818.-Keats' 'Endymion.' Shelley's 'Revolt of Islam.'

1819.-John Ruskin born. Charles Kingsley born. George Eliot born. Byron's 'Don Juan.' Crabbe's 'Tales of the Hall.'

1820.-Shelley's 'Prometheus' and 'Cenci.' (Accession of George IV.)

1821. Keats died. Shelley's 'Adonais.' Southey's 'Vision of Judgment.'

1822.--Shelley died. Matthew Arnold born.

De Quincey's 'Confessions.'

1823.-Lamb's Essays of Elia.' Elliott's poems. Moore's 'Loves of the

Angels.'

1824,-Byron died. Landor's 'Imaginary Conversations.'

1825.-Coleridge's 'Aids to Reflection.' T. Huxley born.

1826.-Carlyle's 'Life of Schiller.'

1827.-Blake died.

'Poems by Two Brothers.'

1828.-D. G. Rossetti born. G. Meredith born.

established.

Keble's 'Christian Year.'
Athenæum and Spectator

1829.--Milman's History of the Jews.' Mill's Analysis of the Human

Mind.'

1830.-Tennyson's first poems. Hazlitt died. (Accession of William IV.) 1831.-Landor's 'Count Julian.' Lytton's Eugene Aram.' Poe's 'Raven.' 1832. Scott died. (Goethe died.) Crabbe died. Leigh Hunt's Poetical

Works.

1833. Coleridge died. Charles Lamb died. 1834.-A. H. Hallam died. W. Morris born. 1835.-Hogg died. Browning's 'Paracelsus.'

Carlyle's 'Sartor Resartus.'

'Tracts for the Times.'

Alfred Austin born.

1836.-Dickens'' Pickwick.' Landor's 'Pericles and Aspasia.'

1837.-Browning's 'Strafford.' A. C. Swinburne born. (Accession of Victoria.) Carlyle's 'French Revolution.'

1838.-Lecky born. Mrs Browning's 'Seraphim,' and other poems. Carlyle's 'Sartor Resartus.' Dickens' 'Nicholas Nickleby.'

1839.-Praed died. Carlyle's 'Chartism.'

1840.-Browning's 'Sordello.' Lever's 'Charles O'Malley.'

1841.-Browning's 'Bells and Pomegranates, 'Pippa Passes.' Carlyle's 'Heroes and Hero Worship.'

1842.-Browning's 'Dramatic Lyrics.' Macaulay's 'Lays of Ancient

Rome.'

1843.-Southey died. Wordsworth became Poet Laureate. Macaulay's 'Lays of Ancient Rome.' Carlyle's 'Past and Present.' Ruskin's Modern Painters.'

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1844.-Campbell died.

1845.-Hogg died. Lewes' 'History of Philosophy.'

1846.-Hookham Frere died. Carlyle's 'Oliver Cromwell.' Poems by C. E. and A. Brontë.

1847.-Landor's 'Hellenics.' Longfellow's 'Evangeline.' Thackeray's 'Vanity Fair.' L. Hunt's 'Honey from Mt. Hybla.' Tennyson's Princess,'

Dickens' 'David Copperfield.

1849.-Matthew Arnold's first poems.

Ruskin's 'Seven Lamps of Architecture.'

1850.-Wordsworth died. Bowles died. Tennyson's 'In Memoriam.' 1851. Mrs Browning's 'Casa Guidi Windows.' Carlyle's 'Life of Sterling.' 1852.-Moore died. Thackeray's 'Esmond.' Ruskin's 'Stones of Venice.' 1853.-Landor's 'Last Fruit off an Old Tree.'

1854.-Thackeray's 'Four Georges.' Newman's 'Idea of a University.' 1855.-Rogers died. Tennyson's 'Maud.' Kingsley's 'Westward Ho!' 1856. Mrs Browning's 'Aurora Leigh.'

1857.-Matthew Arnold, Professor of Poetry at Oxford. (Béranger died. Comte died.)

1858.-Morris' 'Defence of Guenevere.' Longfellow's 'Miles Standish.' 1859. De Quincey died. Macaulay died. Leigh Hunt died. Darwin's 'Origin of Species.' George Eliot's 'Adam Bede.'

1860.-George Eliot's 'Mill on the Floss.' Emerson's 'Conduct of Life.' Tyndall's 'Glaciers of the Alps.'

1861.-Mrs Browning died. A. H. Clough died. Mill's 'Representative Government.'

1862. Spencer's 'First Principles.'

1863.-Thackeray died. George Eliot's 'Romola.'

1864.-Landor died. Tennyson's 'Enoch Arden.' Browning's' Dramatis Personæ.' Swinburne's 'Atalanta in Calydon.'

1865.-William Morris' 'Life and Death of Jason.' Lecky's 'History of Rationalism.'

1866.-Swinburne's Poems and Ballads. George Eliot's 'Felix Holt.' 1867.-Carlyle's 'Shooting Niagara-and After?' (Renan's 'St Paul.') 1868.-Browning's 'Ring and the Book.'

1869.-Morris' 'Earthly Paradise.'

(Sainte-Beuve died.

'Philosophy of the Unconscious.')

Hartmann's

1870.-D. G. Rossetti's Poems. Newman's 'Grammar of Assent.' Arnold's

'St Paul and Protestantism.'

Huxley's 'Lay Sermons.'

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