Two Essays on Don Quixote and on the
Politics
of Burns.
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EDITED BY
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AND
A. R. WALLER, M. A. , Peterhouse
VOLUME XI
THE PERIOD OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY
OF ENGLISH LITERATURE
VOLUME XI. THE PERIOD OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
Second Impression, 1922, Corrections and Additions
8
The errata mentioned in volumes of the History published later than the first
edition of this volume have been corrected in the prescut impression. In addition,
some misprints noticed later have been corrected, and a few alterations made of which
the only one which need be mentioned here is as follows:
p. 280, 1. 11 for Addison's read Steele's.
footnote 2 for Addison read Steele.
Addenda to the present (2nd) impression
The following should be added to the bibliographies:
pp. 391 ff. chapter 11. Political Writers and Speakers.
Roussin, Henri. William Godwin. Paris, 1913.
Williams, A. F. Basil. The Life of William Pitt Earl of Chatham. 2 vols, 1913.
pp. 405 ff. chapter v. William Wordsworth.
Wordsworth's Tract on the Convention of Cintra with two letters of Wordsworth
written in the year 1811 now republished. With an introduction by Dicey, A. V.
Oxford, 1916.
Harper, G. M'L. William Wordsworth. His Life, Works and Influence. 2 vols.
1916.
Ruskin, John. Fiction, Fair and Foul. (Wordsworth. ) The Nineteenth Century,
August 1880 and November 1880. Rptd in On the Old Road, 1885.
Sélincourt, E. de. English Poets and the National Ideal. Four lootures on
Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth and English Poetry since 1815. Oxford, 1915.
pp. 412 ff. chapter vi. Coleridge.
Towle, Eleanor A. A Poet's Children. Hartley and Sara Coleridge. 1912.
pp. 418 fi. chapter vi. George Crabbe.
George Crabbe's Poetical Works. Life by Cunningham, A. C. , and illustrations. 1852.
Deane, A. C. In my stı y. 1913.
pp. 420 ff. chapter vi. Southey. Losser Poets of the Later Eighteenth Century.
Barbean, A. Life and Letters at Bath in the eighteenth century. With a preface by
Dobson, Austin. 1904.
Koszul, A. Anthologie de la Littérature anglaise (1) des Origines au xvintº siècle;
(u) xvin et XII° siècles. Paris (n. d. ).
pp. 431 ff. chapter 11. Blake.
Berger, P. William Blake; Mysticisme et Poésie. Paris, 1907. English trans, by
Conner, D. 8. 1914.
pp. 435 ff. chapter x. Burns. Lesser Scottish Verso.
Ker, W. P. Two Essays on Don Quixote and on the Politics of Burns. 1918.
Lockhart's Life of Burns. Ed. Raleigh, W. Liverpool, 1914.
Neilson, W. A. Robert Burns: how to know him. Indianapolis, 1917.
Hogg, James. Memorials. By bis daughter Mrs Garden. Paisley (1884).
Smith, G. Gregory. Scottish Literature. Character and Influence. 1919.
pp. 447 il. chapter XII. The Georgian Drama.
Cornwall, Barry. Life of Edmund Kean. 2 vols. 1835.
Nettleton, G. H. English Drama of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century (1642-
1780). 1914.
Williams, 8. T. Richard Cumberland, His Life and Dramatic Works. Yale and
Oxford, ? 1917.
pp. 458 ff. chapter XIII. The Growth of the Later Novel.
Two Essays on Don Quixote and on the Politics of Burns. 1918.
Lockhart's Life of Burns. Ed. Raleigh, W. Liverpool, 1914.
Neilson, W. A. Robert Burns: how to know him. Indianapolis, 1917.
Hogg, James. Memorials. By bis daughter Mrs Garden. Paisley (1884).
Smith, G. Gregory. Scottish Literature. Character and Influence. 1919.
pp. 447 il. chapter XII. The Georgian Drama.
Cornwall, Barry. Life of Edmund Kean. 2 vols. 1835.
Nettleton, G. H. English Drama of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century (1642-
1780). 1914.
Williams, 8. T. Richard Cumberland, His Life and Dramatic Works. Yale and
Oxford, ? 1917.
pp. 458 ff. chapter XIII. The Growth of the Later Novel.
Gregory, A. The French Revolution and the English Novel (Godwin, Holcroft, Mrs
Wollstonecraft). 1915.
Sarah Fielding (1710-1768)
The Adventures of David Simple in search of a Faithful Friend. 1744.
Under Thomas Love Peacock:
Novels, 5 vols. , in Macmillan's Illustrated Standard Novels, with introductions by
Reintsbury,, G. , . . ations by T. -n-and, F. H, and Millar, H. R.
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PREFATORY NOTE
OUR thanks are due to Mr A. T. Bartholomew, Mr G. A. Brown
and Mr H. V. Routh for specific assistance in respect of the
bibliographies to which their several initials are appended, and to
Mr Bartholomew for bibliographical help in other directions.
The twelfth volume, dealing with the earlier years of the
nineteenth century, is in the press; the concluding volumes
(XIII and xiv), dealing with the Victorian age, will be published
together, as in the case of the two volumes which were concerned
with the Elizabethan drama.
A. W. W.
A. R. W.
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CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
EDMUND BURKE
. کر
PAGE
By HERBERT J. C. GRIERSON, M. A. , LL. D. , Chalmers Pro-
creare
fessor of English Literature in the University of
2
Aberdeen
iteer? !
Early Life and Work. A Vindication of Natural Society. The
Sublime and Beautiful. Political Career. Writings on Public
Affairs. Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents.
The American Controversy. Writings on Ireland. Indian
Speeches. Warren Hastings. The French Revolution. Burke's
Political Philosophy. His Temperament. His Prose. The
Speech on Economical Reform. A Letter to a Noble Lord.
Burke as an Orator
1
CHAPTER II
POLITICAL WRITERS AND SPEAKERS
By C. W. PREVITÉ-ORTON, M. A. , Fellow of St John's
College
Light, Short, Satiric Verse. The Rolliad. John Wolcot (Peter
Pindar). George Canning. The Anti-Jacobin. George Ellis.
John Hookham Frere. William Gifford. The Baviad. The
Maeviad. The Needy Knife-grinder. Richard Payne Knight.
Erasmus Darwin. The Rovers. The New Morality. William
Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft. Political Justice. Caleb
Williams. St LeonVindication of the Rights of Woman.
Thomas Paine. The Rights of Man. The Age of Reason.
William Cobbett. Weekly Political Register. Rural Rides.
Orators. Charles James Fox. The Younger Pitt. Richard
Brinsley Sheridan. Henry Grattan.
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CHAPTER III
BENTHAM AND THE EARLY UTILITARIANS
By W. R. SORLEY, Litt. D. , F. B. A. , Fellow of King's College,
Knightbridge Professor of Moral Philosophy
PAGE
Jeremy Bentham. His Friends. Étienne Dumont, James Mill. The
Westminster Review. A Fragment on Government. Sir William
Blackstone's Commentaries. The Principle of Utility. Beccaria's
Crimes and Punishments. An Introduction to the Principle of
Morals and Legislation. The Hedonic Calculus. Natural Rights.
Arthur Young. Travels in France. Thomas Robert Malthus.
An Essay on the Principle of Population. Dugald Stewart
57
CHAPTER IV
WILLIAM COW PER
By HAROLD CHILD, sometime Scholar of Brasenose
College, Oxford
Cowper's Early Years. His Friendship with the Unwing. John
Newton. Olney Hymns. Satires. Lady Austen. The Task.
John Gilpin. On the Receipt of my Mother's Picture. Trans-
lations. Letters
77
CHAPTER V
WILLIAM WORDS WORTH
By ÉMILE LEGOUIS, Professor of English Language and
Literature at the Sorbonne
The Influence of Rousseau. Wordsworth's Childhood. His Wander-
ings. The French Revolution. Dorothy Wordsworth. Friendship
with Coleridge. Lyrical Ballads. Wordsworth's Marriage. Ode
to Duty. The Excursion. The White Doe of Rylstone.
Laodamia. Sonnets. Later Years. The Ruined Cottage. His
poetry of Nature. There was a Boy. Wordsworth and Shelley.
Michael, The Lucy poems. His Description of the Moral
Emotions
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CHAPTER VI
COLERIDGE
By C. E. VAUGHAN, M. A. , Balliol College, Oxford
PAGE
Early Years. The French Revolution. Coleridge's Friendship with
Wordsworth. The Opium habit. The Friend. Biographia
Literaria. Influence of Wordsworth. Kubla Khan. The Ancient
Mariner. Christabel. The Poetry of Nature. Anima Poetæ.
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THE
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OF
ENGLISH LITERATURE
EDITED BY
Sir A. W. WARD, Litt. D. , F. B. A. , Master of Peterhouse
AND
A. R. WALLER, M. A. , Peterhouse
VOLUME XI
THE PERIOD OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
HANSLUCEM
ALMA
MATER
CANTA
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CAMBRIDGE:
at the University Press
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THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY
OF ENGLISH LITERATURE
VOLUME XI. THE PERIOD OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
Second Impression, 1922, Corrections and Additions
8
The errata mentioned in volumes of the History published later than the first
edition of this volume have been corrected in the prescut impression. In addition,
some misprints noticed later have been corrected, and a few alterations made of which
the only one which need be mentioned here is as follows:
p. 280, 1. 11 for Addison's read Steele's.
footnote 2 for Addison read Steele.
Addenda to the present (2nd) impression
The following should be added to the bibliographies:
pp. 391 ff. chapter 11. Political Writers and Speakers.
Roussin, Henri. William Godwin. Paris, 1913.
Williams, A. F. Basil. The Life of William Pitt Earl of Chatham. 2 vols, 1913.
pp. 405 ff. chapter v. William Wordsworth.
Wordsworth's Tract on the Convention of Cintra with two letters of Wordsworth
written in the year 1811 now republished. With an introduction by Dicey, A. V.
Oxford, 1916.
Harper, G. M'L. William Wordsworth. His Life, Works and Influence. 2 vols.
1916.
Ruskin, John. Fiction, Fair and Foul. (Wordsworth. ) The Nineteenth Century,
August 1880 and November 1880. Rptd in On the Old Road, 1885.
Sélincourt, E. de. English Poets and the National Ideal. Four lootures on
Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth and English Poetry since 1815. Oxford, 1915.
pp. 412 ff. chapter vi. Coleridge.
Towle, Eleanor A. A Poet's Children. Hartley and Sara Coleridge. 1912.
pp. 418 fi. chapter vi. George Crabbe.
George Crabbe's Poetical Works. Life by Cunningham, A. C. , and illustrations. 1852.
Deane, A. C. In my stı y. 1913.
pp. 420 ff. chapter vi. Southey. Losser Poets of the Later Eighteenth Century.
Barbean, A. Life and Letters at Bath in the eighteenth century. With a preface by
Dobson, Austin. 1904.
Koszul, A. Anthologie de la Littérature anglaise (1) des Origines au xvintº siècle;
(u) xvin et XII° siècles. Paris (n. d. ).
pp. 431 ff. chapter 11. Blake.
Berger, P. William Blake; Mysticisme et Poésie. Paris, 1907. English trans, by
Conner, D. 8. 1914.
pp. 435 ff. chapter x. Burns. Lesser Scottish Verso.
Ker, W. P. Two Essays on Don Quixote and on the Politics of Burns. 1918.
Lockhart's Life of Burns. Ed. Raleigh, W. Liverpool, 1914.
Neilson, W. A. Robert Burns: how to know him. Indianapolis, 1917.
Hogg, James. Memorials. By bis daughter Mrs Garden. Paisley (1884).
Smith, G. Gregory. Scottish Literature. Character and Influence. 1919.
pp. 447 il. chapter XII. The Georgian Drama.
Cornwall, Barry. Life of Edmund Kean. 2 vols. 1835.
Nettleton, G. H. English Drama of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century (1642-
1780). 1914.
Williams, 8. T. Richard Cumberland, His Life and Dramatic Works. Yale and
Oxford, ? 1917.
pp. 458 ff. chapter XIII. The Growth of the Later Novel.
Two Essays on Don Quixote and on the Politics of Burns. 1918.
Lockhart's Life of Burns. Ed. Raleigh, W. Liverpool, 1914.
Neilson, W. A. Robert Burns: how to know him. Indianapolis, 1917.
Hogg, James. Memorials. By bis daughter Mrs Garden. Paisley (1884).
Smith, G. Gregory. Scottish Literature. Character and Influence. 1919.
pp. 447 il. chapter XII. The Georgian Drama.
Cornwall, Barry. Life of Edmund Kean. 2 vols. 1835.
Nettleton, G. H. English Drama of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century (1642-
1780). 1914.
Williams, 8. T. Richard Cumberland, His Life and Dramatic Works. Yale and
Oxford, ? 1917.
pp. 458 ff. chapter XIII. The Growth of the Later Novel.
Gregory, A. The French Revolution and the English Novel (Godwin, Holcroft, Mrs
Wollstonecraft). 1915.
Sarah Fielding (1710-1768)
The Adventures of David Simple in search of a Faithful Friend. 1744.
Under Thomas Love Peacock:
Novels, 5 vols. , in Macmillan's Illustrated Standard Novels, with introductions by
Reintsbury,, G. , . . ations by T. -n-and, F. H, and Millar, H. R.
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PREFATORY NOTE
OUR thanks are due to Mr A. T. Bartholomew, Mr G. A. Brown
and Mr H. V. Routh for specific assistance in respect of the
bibliographies to which their several initials are appended, and to
Mr Bartholomew for bibliographical help in other directions.
The twelfth volume, dealing with the earlier years of the
nineteenth century, is in the press; the concluding volumes
(XIII and xiv), dealing with the Victorian age, will be published
together, as in the case of the two volumes which were concerned
with the Elizabethan drama.
A. W. W.
A. R. W.
18 June 1914
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CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
EDMUND BURKE
. کر
PAGE
By HERBERT J. C. GRIERSON, M. A. , LL. D. , Chalmers Pro-
creare
fessor of English Literature in the University of
2
Aberdeen
iteer? !
Early Life and Work. A Vindication of Natural Society. The
Sublime and Beautiful. Political Career. Writings on Public
Affairs. Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents.
The American Controversy. Writings on Ireland. Indian
Speeches. Warren Hastings. The French Revolution. Burke's
Political Philosophy. His Temperament. His Prose. The
Speech on Economical Reform. A Letter to a Noble Lord.
Burke as an Orator
1
CHAPTER II
POLITICAL WRITERS AND SPEAKERS
By C. W. PREVITÉ-ORTON, M. A. , Fellow of St John's
College
Light, Short, Satiric Verse. The Rolliad. John Wolcot (Peter
Pindar). George Canning. The Anti-Jacobin. George Ellis.
John Hookham Frere. William Gifford. The Baviad. The
Maeviad. The Needy Knife-grinder. Richard Payne Knight.
Erasmus Darwin. The Rovers. The New Morality. William
Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft. Political Justice. Caleb
Williams. St LeonVindication of the Rights of Woman.
Thomas Paine. The Rights of Man. The Age of Reason.
William Cobbett. Weekly Political Register. Rural Rides.
Orators. Charles James Fox. The Younger Pitt. Richard
Brinsley Sheridan. Henry Grattan.
33
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Contents
CHAPTER III
BENTHAM AND THE EARLY UTILITARIANS
By W. R. SORLEY, Litt. D. , F. B. A. , Fellow of King's College,
Knightbridge Professor of Moral Philosophy
PAGE
Jeremy Bentham. His Friends. Étienne Dumont, James Mill. The
Westminster Review. A Fragment on Government. Sir William
Blackstone's Commentaries. The Principle of Utility. Beccaria's
Crimes and Punishments. An Introduction to the Principle of
Morals and Legislation. The Hedonic Calculus. Natural Rights.
Arthur Young. Travels in France. Thomas Robert Malthus.
An Essay on the Principle of Population. Dugald Stewart
57
CHAPTER IV
WILLIAM COW PER
By HAROLD CHILD, sometime Scholar of Brasenose
College, Oxford
Cowper's Early Years. His Friendship with the Unwing. John
Newton. Olney Hymns. Satires. Lady Austen. The Task.
John Gilpin. On the Receipt of my Mother's Picture. Trans-
lations. Letters
77
CHAPTER V
WILLIAM WORDS WORTH
By ÉMILE LEGOUIS, Professor of English Language and
Literature at the Sorbonne
The Influence of Rousseau. Wordsworth's Childhood. His Wander-
ings. The French Revolution. Dorothy Wordsworth. Friendship
with Coleridge. Lyrical Ballads. Wordsworth's Marriage. Ode
to Duty. The Excursion. The White Doe of Rylstone.
Laodamia. Sonnets. Later Years. The Ruined Cottage. His
poetry of Nature. There was a Boy. Wordsworth and Shelley.
Michael, The Lucy poems. His Description of the Moral
Emotions
93
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Contents
ix
CHAPTER VI
COLERIDGE
By C. E. VAUGHAN, M. A. , Balliol College, Oxford
PAGE
Early Years. The French Revolution. Coleridge's Friendship with
Wordsworth. The Opium habit. The Friend. Biographia
Literaria. Influence of Wordsworth. Kubla Khan. The Ancient
Mariner. Christabel. The Poetry of Nature. Anima Poetæ.
