(3) The Rowley Poems, including the controversial literature
as to their authorship
Poems supposed to have been written at Bristol by Thomas Rowley and others
in the 15th century.
as to their authorship
Poems supposed to have been written at Bristol by Thomas Rowley and others
in the 15th century.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v10
Rptd in Miscellaneous Writings.
1880.
Mangin, E. An Essay on Light Reading. 1808. (Contains, at pp. 136-50,
the letter from Strean referred to, p. 195, ante. )
The Parlour Window. References to Goldsmith, pp. 2, 4, 26.
Mason, W. 8. A Statistical Account. . . of Ireland. 1814-49. 3 vols. (Vol. 111,
pp. 356-66. ) (Contains particulars of the Goldsmith family. )
Minto, W. Manual of English Prose Literature. 1886. (Goldsmith:
pp. 461-73. )
Monthly Review. 1757. (Nos. from April to September contain Goldsmith's
review work for Ralph Griffiths. )
Moore, F. Frankfort. Goldsmith, 1910.
Nichols, J. Literary Anecdotes, 1812-15, and Illustrations, etc. 1817-58.
Northcote, J. Memoirs of Reynolds, 1813. (Many references to Goldsmith. )
Prior, Sir James. Life of Oliver Goldsmith. 1837. 2 vols.
Taine, H. A. Histoire de la Littérature Anglaise. 1863-4. 4 vols. (Vol. III,
pp. 330-6. )
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484
Bibliography
Thackeray, W. M. English Humourists, 1853. Pp. 269-322. Bptd in
Centenary Biographical Edn, 1912, vol. XI.
Thrale, H. L. Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson, 1786; and Autobio-
graphy, edited by Hayward, A. 2nd edn. 1861. 2 vols.
Welsh, C. A Bookseller of the Last Century (John Newbery). 1885.
Pp. 54-62.
CHAPTER X
THE LITERARY INFLUENCE OF THE MIDDLE AGES
I. GENERAL WORKS
Addison, J. On Chevy Chase, Spectator 70 (21 May 1711) and 74 (25 May
1711).
Beers, H. A. History of English Romanticism in the 18th century. [Adds
items to Phelps's treatment of Norse influences. ] 1899.
(Drummond, W. ] Polemo-Middinia inter Vitarvam et Nebernam. Acc.
Jacobi id nominis quinti, Regis Scotorum, cantilena rustica vulgo
inscripta Christs Kirk on the Green. Recensuit notisque illustravit
E. G[ibson). Oxford, 1691.
Dryden, John. Miscellany Poems. Part vi. 2nd edn. 1716.
Contains Hervor at Angantyr's Grave, rptd from Hickes's Thesaurus.
Farley, F. E. Scandinavian Influences on the English Romantic Movement.
Harvard Studies in Philology, no. 9. Cambridge, Mass. 1903.
[Extremely valuable for the bibliography of translations from the
Scandinavian and of original poetic treatment of Scandinavian subjects
to the end of the 18th century. ]
Herzfeld, G. Bemerkungen über die nordischen Stoffe in der englischen
Poesie des vorigen Jahrhunderts. Appendix to William Taylor von
Norwich. Eine Studie. Halle, 1897.
Hickes, G. Institutiones grammaticae Anglo-Saxonicae Moso-Gothicae,
etc. Oxford, 1689.
Linguarum vett. septentrionalium thesaurus grammatico-criticus et
archaeologicus. 2 vols. Oxford, 1703-5.
Hurd, R. Letters on Chivalry and Romance, 1762. Ed. Morley, E. J.
1911.
Metcalfe, F. The Englishman and the Scandinavian. 1880.
Nordby, C. H. The influence of old Norse literature upon English literature.
Columbia, 1901. [Briefly reviews some of the authors discussed in Farley's
dissertation, but is for the most part concerned with a later period. ]
Phelps, W. L. The beginnings of the English Romantic movement. Boston,
1893.
Temple, Sir William. On the Death-Song of Ragnar Lodbrok, etc. Essays
Upon Heroick Virtue; Upon Poetry. Miscellanea. Pt. II. 1690.
II. PARTICULAR WRITERS
Michael Bruce (1746—1767)
Poems on several occasions. [Including two Danish Odes. ] 1770. Rptd in
Works. Ed. Grosart, A. B. Edinburgh, 1865.
## p. 485 (#511) ############################################
Chapter X
485
Thomas Chatterton
(1) Collected Editions
Miscellanies in prose and verse. (Ed. Broughton, J. ) With supplement.
1778-84.
Walpole, H. Letter to the editor of the Miscellanies of Thomas
Chatterton. Strawberry Hill. 1779.
Works. Edd. Southey, R. and Cottle, J. With Life by Gregory, G. 3 vols.
1803.
Poetical Works. Ed. Willcox, C. B. 2 vols. Cambridge, 1842.
Poetical Works, with an essay on the Rowley poems by Skeat, W. W. and
a memoir by Bell, E. 2 vols. 1871. 2 vols. 1875 (Aldine Poets).
Complete Poetical Works. Ed. with a biographical introduction, notes,
glossary, and bibliography by Roberts, H. D. 2 vols. 1906.
Poetical Works. With an introduction by Lee, Sir S. 2 vols. 1906-9.
Chatterton's writings were translated into French by Pagnon, J. , with a
memoir by Callet, A. 2 vols. 1839.
(2) Separate Works
An elegy on the much lamented death of William Beckford, Esq. 1770.
The Execution of Sir Charles Bawdin. (Ed. by Eagles, T. ) 1772.
The Revenge: a burletta. With additional songs. 1795.
(3) The Rowley Poems, including the controversial literature
as to their authorship
Poems supposed to have been written at Bristol by Thomas Rowley and others
in the 15th century. Ed. Tyrwhitt, T. 1777; 2nd edn, 1777; 3rd edn,
1778 (with Appendix). Ed. Milles, J. 1782. Ed. Sharpe, L. Cambridge,
1794. Ed. Steele, R. 1898. Ed. Hare, M. E. Oxford, 1911. (A reprint
of Tyrwhitt's third edn with a useful bibliography. )
[? Dampier, H. ] Remarks upon the eighth section of the second volume of
Mr Warton's History of English Poetry. (1779. ]
[Warton had included an account of the Rowley Poems in his History;
but he viewed them with suspicion. ]
Bryant, J. Observations upon the Poems of T. Rowley, in which the authen-
ticity of those poems is ascertained. 1781.
An Examination of the Poems attributed to Thomas Rowley and William
Canynge, with a defence of the opinion of Mr Warton. Sherborne.
(1782. ]
Greene, E. B. Strictures upon a pamphlet [by Malone, E. ] entitled Cursory
observations, etc. With a postscript on Mr Thomas Warton's Inquiry
into the same subject. 1782.
Hickford, R. Observations on the Poems attributed to Rowley, tending to
prove that they were really written by him and other ancient authors.
With Remarks on the Appendix of the editor (Tyrwhitt, T. ] of Rowley's
Poems. [1782. ]
Malone, E. Cursory observations on the Poems attributed to Thomas Rowley.
1782.
Tyrwhitt, T. A Vindication of the appendix to the Poems called Rowley
in reply to the answers of the Dean of Exeter [Milles], Jacob Bryant
and a third anonymous writer. 1782.
## p. 486 (#512) ############################################
486
Bibliography
Warton, T. An Inquiry into the authenticity of the Poems attributed to
Thomas Rowley. In which the arguments of the Dean of Exeter [Milles]
and Mr Bryant are examined. 1782.
Mathias, T. J. An essay on the evidence, external and internal, relating to
the poems attributed to T. Rowley. 1783.
Sherwen, J. The introduction to an examination of some part of the internal
evidence respecting the authenticity of certain publications said to have
been found in manuscripts at Bristol. Bath, 1809.
For various satires in prose and verse dealing with the Rowley controversy,
see Lowndes's Bibliographer's Manual, ed. Bohn, H. G. , part viii, 1864, and
the Catalogue of Printed Books in the British Museum.
(4) Biography and Criticism
Britton, J. The Life, Character, and Writings of Chatterton. In his
Historical and architectural essay relating to Redcliffe Church, Bristol.
1813.
Croft, Sir H. Love and Madness. A story too true, in a series of letters
between parties whose names would perhaps be mentioned, were they less
known or less lamented. 1780. 4th edn. 1780.
Love and Madness: in a series of letters, one of which contains the
original account of Chatterton. New edn. 1786.
Love Letters of Mr Hackman and Miss Reay, 1775–1779. Ed. by Burgess,
G. 1895. [A re-issue of Love and Madness. ]
Chatterton and Love and Madness: a letter from Sir Herbert Croft
to Mr Nichols. 1800.
Davis, J. The Life and Letters of Thomas Chatterton. 1806.
Gregory, G. The life of Thomas Chatterton, with criticisms on his genius
and writings. 1789. Republished in Southey and Cottle's edn of Chat-
terton's Works, 1803.
Ingram, J. H. The True Chatterton. A new study from original documents.
1910.
Lacy, Ernest. Chatterton. (Tragedy. ) In Plays and Sonnets. Philadelphia,
1900.
Maitland, S. R. Chatterton. An essay. 1857.
Masson, D. Chatterton. A story of 1770. In Essays biographical and critical.
1856. Re-issued 1874. New edn. 1899.
Pryce, G. Memorials of the Canynges' family and their times. To which is
added inedited memoranda (42 pp. ) relating to Chatterton. Bristol,
1854.
Puettmann, H. Chatterton. Leben des Dichters und Dichtungen. 2 vols.
Barmen, 1840.
Richter, H. Thomas Chatterton. Schipper's Wiener Beiträge. Vienna,
1900.
Ross, J. [formerly J. Dix). The life of Thomas Chatterton; including his
unpublished poems and correspondence. 1837. 1851.
Russell, C. E. Thomas Chatterton, the marvellous boy. The story of a strange
life, 1752-1770. 1909.
Vigny, A. de. Chatterton. Drame. 1835.
Watts-Dunton, T. Thomas Chatterton. Prefixed to the selection from his
poems in T. H. Ward's English Poets. Vol. III. 1880.
Wilson, D. Thomas Chatterton. A biographical study. 1869.
## p. 487 (#513) ############################################
Chapter X
487
Amos Simon Cottle (1768? -1800)
Icelandic Poetry, or the Edda of Sæmund translated into English verse.
Bristol, 1797.
George Ellis (1753–1815)
Specimens of the early English poets. 1790. New edn. 1801.
Vol. 1 of the 1801 edn contains John Hookham Frere's translation of
Brunanburh, with the following note by the editor: ‘This was written
several years ago during the controversy occasioned by the poems
attributed to Rowley, and was intended as an imitation of the style and
language of the fourteenth century. The reader will probably hear with
some surprise that this singular instance of critical ingenuity was the
composition of an Eton school-boy. '
Specimens of early English Metrical Romances chiefly written during the
early part of the fourteenth century; to which is prefixed an historical
introduction. 1805.
Evan Evans (1731–1789)
Some Specimens of the poetry of the antient Welsh Bards. 1764.
Thomas Gray
See bibliography to chap. vi, ante.
David Herd (1732-1810)
See vol. ix, chap. xiv, bibliography.
Richard Hole (1746–1803)
Arthur, or the Northern Enchantment. A poetical romance in seven books.
1789.
Edward Jerningham (1727–1812)
The Rise and Progress of the Scandinavian Poetry. 1784.
James Macpherson
(1) Poetical Works
The Poems of Ossian, containing the poetical works of James Macpherson
in prose and rhyme. Ed. by Laing, M. 2 vols. Edinburgh, 1805.
A. Ossianic Poetry.
A good bibliography of Macpherson's Ossian, and of the literature of the
Ossianic controversy, will be found in Lowndes's Bibliographer's Manual,
ed. Bohn, H. G. , part vi. 1861.
Fragments of Ancient Poetry collected in the Highlands of Scotland, and
translated from the Galic or Erse language. Edinburgh, 1760.
Fingal. An ancient epic poem. In six books. With several other poems
translated from the Galic language by James Macpherson. 1762.
Temora.
Mangin, E. An Essay on Light Reading. 1808. (Contains, at pp. 136-50,
the letter from Strean referred to, p. 195, ante. )
The Parlour Window. References to Goldsmith, pp. 2, 4, 26.
Mason, W. 8. A Statistical Account. . . of Ireland. 1814-49. 3 vols. (Vol. 111,
pp. 356-66. ) (Contains particulars of the Goldsmith family. )
Minto, W. Manual of English Prose Literature. 1886. (Goldsmith:
pp. 461-73. )
Monthly Review. 1757. (Nos. from April to September contain Goldsmith's
review work for Ralph Griffiths. )
Moore, F. Frankfort. Goldsmith, 1910.
Nichols, J. Literary Anecdotes, 1812-15, and Illustrations, etc. 1817-58.
Northcote, J. Memoirs of Reynolds, 1813. (Many references to Goldsmith. )
Prior, Sir James. Life of Oliver Goldsmith. 1837. 2 vols.
Taine, H. A. Histoire de la Littérature Anglaise. 1863-4. 4 vols. (Vol. III,
pp. 330-6. )
31-2
## p. 484 (#510) ############################################
484
Bibliography
Thackeray, W. M. English Humourists, 1853. Pp. 269-322. Bptd in
Centenary Biographical Edn, 1912, vol. XI.
Thrale, H. L. Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson, 1786; and Autobio-
graphy, edited by Hayward, A. 2nd edn. 1861. 2 vols.
Welsh, C. A Bookseller of the Last Century (John Newbery). 1885.
Pp. 54-62.
CHAPTER X
THE LITERARY INFLUENCE OF THE MIDDLE AGES
I. GENERAL WORKS
Addison, J. On Chevy Chase, Spectator 70 (21 May 1711) and 74 (25 May
1711).
Beers, H. A. History of English Romanticism in the 18th century. [Adds
items to Phelps's treatment of Norse influences. ] 1899.
(Drummond, W. ] Polemo-Middinia inter Vitarvam et Nebernam. Acc.
Jacobi id nominis quinti, Regis Scotorum, cantilena rustica vulgo
inscripta Christs Kirk on the Green. Recensuit notisque illustravit
E. G[ibson). Oxford, 1691.
Dryden, John. Miscellany Poems. Part vi. 2nd edn. 1716.
Contains Hervor at Angantyr's Grave, rptd from Hickes's Thesaurus.
Farley, F. E. Scandinavian Influences on the English Romantic Movement.
Harvard Studies in Philology, no. 9. Cambridge, Mass. 1903.
[Extremely valuable for the bibliography of translations from the
Scandinavian and of original poetic treatment of Scandinavian subjects
to the end of the 18th century. ]
Herzfeld, G. Bemerkungen über die nordischen Stoffe in der englischen
Poesie des vorigen Jahrhunderts. Appendix to William Taylor von
Norwich. Eine Studie. Halle, 1897.
Hickes, G. Institutiones grammaticae Anglo-Saxonicae Moso-Gothicae,
etc. Oxford, 1689.
Linguarum vett. septentrionalium thesaurus grammatico-criticus et
archaeologicus. 2 vols. Oxford, 1703-5.
Hurd, R. Letters on Chivalry and Romance, 1762. Ed. Morley, E. J.
1911.
Metcalfe, F. The Englishman and the Scandinavian. 1880.
Nordby, C. H. The influence of old Norse literature upon English literature.
Columbia, 1901. [Briefly reviews some of the authors discussed in Farley's
dissertation, but is for the most part concerned with a later period. ]
Phelps, W. L. The beginnings of the English Romantic movement. Boston,
1893.
Temple, Sir William. On the Death-Song of Ragnar Lodbrok, etc. Essays
Upon Heroick Virtue; Upon Poetry. Miscellanea. Pt. II. 1690.
II. PARTICULAR WRITERS
Michael Bruce (1746—1767)
Poems on several occasions. [Including two Danish Odes. ] 1770. Rptd in
Works. Ed. Grosart, A. B. Edinburgh, 1865.
## p. 485 (#511) ############################################
Chapter X
485
Thomas Chatterton
(1) Collected Editions
Miscellanies in prose and verse. (Ed. Broughton, J. ) With supplement.
1778-84.
Walpole, H. Letter to the editor of the Miscellanies of Thomas
Chatterton. Strawberry Hill. 1779.
Works. Edd. Southey, R. and Cottle, J. With Life by Gregory, G. 3 vols.
1803.
Poetical Works. Ed. Willcox, C. B. 2 vols. Cambridge, 1842.
Poetical Works, with an essay on the Rowley poems by Skeat, W. W. and
a memoir by Bell, E. 2 vols. 1871. 2 vols. 1875 (Aldine Poets).
Complete Poetical Works. Ed. with a biographical introduction, notes,
glossary, and bibliography by Roberts, H. D. 2 vols. 1906.
Poetical Works. With an introduction by Lee, Sir S. 2 vols. 1906-9.
Chatterton's writings were translated into French by Pagnon, J. , with a
memoir by Callet, A. 2 vols. 1839.
(2) Separate Works
An elegy on the much lamented death of William Beckford, Esq. 1770.
The Execution of Sir Charles Bawdin. (Ed. by Eagles, T. ) 1772.
The Revenge: a burletta. With additional songs. 1795.
(3) The Rowley Poems, including the controversial literature
as to their authorship
Poems supposed to have been written at Bristol by Thomas Rowley and others
in the 15th century. Ed. Tyrwhitt, T. 1777; 2nd edn, 1777; 3rd edn,
1778 (with Appendix). Ed. Milles, J. 1782. Ed. Sharpe, L. Cambridge,
1794. Ed. Steele, R. 1898. Ed. Hare, M. E. Oxford, 1911. (A reprint
of Tyrwhitt's third edn with a useful bibliography. )
[? Dampier, H. ] Remarks upon the eighth section of the second volume of
Mr Warton's History of English Poetry. (1779. ]
[Warton had included an account of the Rowley Poems in his History;
but he viewed them with suspicion. ]
Bryant, J. Observations upon the Poems of T. Rowley, in which the authen-
ticity of those poems is ascertained. 1781.
An Examination of the Poems attributed to Thomas Rowley and William
Canynge, with a defence of the opinion of Mr Warton. Sherborne.
(1782. ]
Greene, E. B. Strictures upon a pamphlet [by Malone, E. ] entitled Cursory
observations, etc. With a postscript on Mr Thomas Warton's Inquiry
into the same subject. 1782.
Hickford, R. Observations on the Poems attributed to Rowley, tending to
prove that they were really written by him and other ancient authors.
With Remarks on the Appendix of the editor (Tyrwhitt, T. ] of Rowley's
Poems. [1782. ]
Malone, E. Cursory observations on the Poems attributed to Thomas Rowley.
1782.
Tyrwhitt, T. A Vindication of the appendix to the Poems called Rowley
in reply to the answers of the Dean of Exeter [Milles], Jacob Bryant
and a third anonymous writer. 1782.
## p. 486 (#512) ############################################
486
Bibliography
Warton, T. An Inquiry into the authenticity of the Poems attributed to
Thomas Rowley. In which the arguments of the Dean of Exeter [Milles]
and Mr Bryant are examined. 1782.
Mathias, T. J. An essay on the evidence, external and internal, relating to
the poems attributed to T. Rowley. 1783.
Sherwen, J. The introduction to an examination of some part of the internal
evidence respecting the authenticity of certain publications said to have
been found in manuscripts at Bristol. Bath, 1809.
For various satires in prose and verse dealing with the Rowley controversy,
see Lowndes's Bibliographer's Manual, ed. Bohn, H. G. , part viii, 1864, and
the Catalogue of Printed Books in the British Museum.
(4) Biography and Criticism
Britton, J. The Life, Character, and Writings of Chatterton. In his
Historical and architectural essay relating to Redcliffe Church, Bristol.
1813.
Croft, Sir H. Love and Madness. A story too true, in a series of letters
between parties whose names would perhaps be mentioned, were they less
known or less lamented. 1780. 4th edn. 1780.
Love and Madness: in a series of letters, one of which contains the
original account of Chatterton. New edn. 1786.
Love Letters of Mr Hackman and Miss Reay, 1775–1779. Ed. by Burgess,
G. 1895. [A re-issue of Love and Madness. ]
Chatterton and Love and Madness: a letter from Sir Herbert Croft
to Mr Nichols. 1800.
Davis, J. The Life and Letters of Thomas Chatterton. 1806.
Gregory, G. The life of Thomas Chatterton, with criticisms on his genius
and writings. 1789. Republished in Southey and Cottle's edn of Chat-
terton's Works, 1803.
Ingram, J. H. The True Chatterton. A new study from original documents.
1910.
Lacy, Ernest. Chatterton. (Tragedy. ) In Plays and Sonnets. Philadelphia,
1900.
Maitland, S. R. Chatterton. An essay. 1857.
Masson, D. Chatterton. A story of 1770. In Essays biographical and critical.
1856. Re-issued 1874. New edn. 1899.
Pryce, G. Memorials of the Canynges' family and their times. To which is
added inedited memoranda (42 pp. ) relating to Chatterton. Bristol,
1854.
Puettmann, H. Chatterton. Leben des Dichters und Dichtungen. 2 vols.
Barmen, 1840.
Richter, H. Thomas Chatterton. Schipper's Wiener Beiträge. Vienna,
1900.
Ross, J. [formerly J. Dix). The life of Thomas Chatterton; including his
unpublished poems and correspondence. 1837. 1851.
Russell, C. E. Thomas Chatterton, the marvellous boy. The story of a strange
life, 1752-1770. 1909.
Vigny, A. de. Chatterton. Drame. 1835.
Watts-Dunton, T. Thomas Chatterton. Prefixed to the selection from his
poems in T. H. Ward's English Poets. Vol. III. 1880.
Wilson, D. Thomas Chatterton. A biographical study. 1869.
## p. 487 (#513) ############################################
Chapter X
487
Amos Simon Cottle (1768? -1800)
Icelandic Poetry, or the Edda of Sæmund translated into English verse.
Bristol, 1797.
George Ellis (1753–1815)
Specimens of the early English poets. 1790. New edn. 1801.
Vol. 1 of the 1801 edn contains John Hookham Frere's translation of
Brunanburh, with the following note by the editor: ‘This was written
several years ago during the controversy occasioned by the poems
attributed to Rowley, and was intended as an imitation of the style and
language of the fourteenth century. The reader will probably hear with
some surprise that this singular instance of critical ingenuity was the
composition of an Eton school-boy. '
Specimens of early English Metrical Romances chiefly written during the
early part of the fourteenth century; to which is prefixed an historical
introduction. 1805.
Evan Evans (1731–1789)
Some Specimens of the poetry of the antient Welsh Bards. 1764.
Thomas Gray
See bibliography to chap. vi, ante.
David Herd (1732-1810)
See vol. ix, chap. xiv, bibliography.
Richard Hole (1746–1803)
Arthur, or the Northern Enchantment. A poetical romance in seven books.
1789.
Edward Jerningham (1727–1812)
The Rise and Progress of the Scandinavian Poetry. 1784.
James Macpherson
(1) Poetical Works
The Poems of Ossian, containing the poetical works of James Macpherson
in prose and rhyme. Ed. by Laing, M. 2 vols. Edinburgh, 1805.
A. Ossianic Poetry.
A good bibliography of Macpherson's Ossian, and of the literature of the
Ossianic controversy, will be found in Lowndes's Bibliographer's Manual,
ed. Bohn, H. G. , part vi. 1861.
Fragments of Ancient Poetry collected in the Highlands of Scotland, and
translated from the Galic or Erse language. Edinburgh, 1760.
Fingal. An ancient epic poem. In six books. With several other poems
translated from the Galic language by James Macpherson. 1762.
Temora.
