RANDALL, JAMES RYDER.-An American jour- nalist and poet, born in Maryland, 1839. His spirit- ed lyric, "My Maryland," written in 1861, was very popular in the South during the civil war. Arlington. Maryland.. READ, THOMAS BUCHANAN.-An American poet, born in Pennsylvania in 1822. His poems, "Sher- idan's Ride" and "The Wagoner of the Alleghan- ies," have achieved wide popularity. Died 1872. A Glimpse of Love................... Passing the Iceburgs...... The Wayside Spring........
Human Life.....
Marco Griffoni......
ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA GEORGINA. - An English poet, sister of Dante Gabriel, born in 1830. written "Goblin Market," "The Prince's Pro- gress," "A Pageant," and other poems.
The Milking Maid.................................................................. Up Hill.......
ROSSETTI, DANTE GABRIEL.-An English paint- er and poet, born about 1828. He was the leader of the movement called Pre-Raphaelitism, an at- tempt to revive the style of the Italian painters who preceded Raphael. He published several volumes of poems. Died 1862.
From "The Blessed Damozel "................645 RUSKIN, JOHN.-An able, original and copious author, great English art critic and writer, born in London, 1819. His works have had a profound in- fluence on the age, exciting admiration by their impassioned eloquence and elevating the standard of morals by their lofty teachings. Besides "The Seven Lamps of Architecture" and "The Stones of Venice," he has written many other volumes on artistic subjects, and is the champion of Pre- Raphaelitism and Gothic architecture. Flowers.......
Misused Art........ Simplicity.......
SCHILLER, JOHANN FRIEDRICH VON. - One of the most illustrious of German poets, born in Wurtemberg, 1759. His tragedy of "The Rob- bers," written in his 22d year, raised him at once to the foremost rank among the dramatists of his country, while his "Ballads" are reckoned among the finest in any language. Among the works which have immortalized his name are 66 Wallen- stein," "Mary Stuart," "Joan of Arc," and "Wil- liam Tell."
The Poetry of Life....... ....... 590 SCOTT, SIR WALTER.-A celebrated novelist and poet, born at Edinburgh, 1771. His poems are characterized by richness of imagination and brilliancy of coloring, while as a novelist he has attained the highest rank. Sir Walter Scott, says a writer in Blackwood, "did for literature what Shakspere did for the drama,-provided a long and gorgeous gallery of great, noble and sublime char- acters, that live in all memories, and become, though they are fictitious, as real as if we all of us had actually seen and conversed with them." Died
Song: Blow, blow, thou winter wind......... 73 Song: Hark! hark! the lark at heaven's
gate sings......... Song: It was a lover and his lass.....183 Song: Sigh.no more, ladies, sigh no more.. 188 Song: Take, oh take those lips away. ........156 Song: Tell me, where is Fancy bred ?........154 Song: When daffodils begin to peer........315 Song: Where the bee sucks, there suck L...667 .439 Song: Who is Silvia? What is she?.. Sonnet: Let me not to the marriage of .139 true minds..... Sonnet: The forward violet thus did I chide 154 Sonnet: When to the sessions of sweet
The Balcony Scene in "Romeo and Juliet" 161 The Dream of Clarence....
A Stormy Sunset by the Seaside.
The Ingratitude of Republics...
The Old Minstrel..........
The Poet's Mourners.. Time.....
Twilight on the Battle-field..
.281 SHAKSPERE, WILLIAM.-The greatest dramatic genius that ever lived, born at Stratford-upon-Avon in 1564. He seems to have enjoyed a large measure of the favor of his sovereigns, Queen Elizabeth and King James I. Has written thirty-seven plays and 154 sonnets, besides other poems. Died 1616.
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SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE.-One of the best of English poets, born in 1792. Noted for his exquis- ite imagery and wonderful imagination. Shelley was early distinguished for his romantic and specula- tive turn of mind, as well as for a remarkable facil- ity in the acquisition of every kind of knowledge. Of singnlar and eccentric habits, he yet possessed noble traits of character. Among the most exquis- ite of his poetical creations are: "The Cloud," "To a Skylark," and "The Sensitive Plant." His "Pro- metheus Unbound," and "Adonais," an elegy on the death of John Keats, are well-known. Died 1822.
Death of Ophelia .........................
Henry V. to His Soldiers...
Hotspur's Death........
Imagination.
Juliet Taking the Opiate....... Katharine and Petruchio. Katharine's Defense.
SHENSTONE, WILLIAM. An English pastoral poet, born 1714. The "Schoolmistress" is his best 74 known work. Died in 1763.
The Schoolmistress........
SHERIDAN, RICHARD BRINSLEY.- An English dramatist and statesman, born at Dublin, 1751. His .530 dramas, "The Rivals" and "School for Scandal,"
.........................................................................................................................................381 gained for him the highest reputation as a comic
SOUTHEY, CAROLINE ANNE BOWLES. An En- glish author of wide repute, born 1787. Wrote, be- sides other works, "Ellen Fitz-Arthur," a poem, and "The Widow's Tale, and other Poems. In 1839 was married to Robert Southey. Died 1854. The Pauper's Death-bed.......... ........250
SOUTHEY, ROBERT.-An English poet and mis- cellaneous writer, and a poet laureate of England, born 1774. He was an able and laborious writer, and his works were voluminous and covered a wide range of topics. His "Common-place Book," a posthumous publication in four volumes, is a mar- velous monument of his reading and research. Died 1843. Birds of a Feather Flock Together........... 680 Love.........
Stanzas. The Days of Infancy are all a Dream.........592 The Holly Tree......
SPENCER, HON. WILLIAM ROBERT.-A distin- guished English writer, son of Lord Charles Spen- cer, was born 1770. Died in 1834.
To the Lady Anne Hamilton....................188 SPENSER, EDMUND.-One of the most illustrious of English poets, born in London about 1553. His first poem, "The Shepherd's Calendar," he dedica- ted to Sir Philip Sidney, who became his patron, and introduced him at court. But his chief poem, "The Faerie Queene," forms one of the treasures of our language. Died 1598. Spenser is one of the most purely poetic of all poets. May...
The Seasons........... Una
STERLING, JOHN.-A British poet and miscellane- ous writer, born 1806. Was the author of “Arthur Coningsby," "Strafford, a Tragedy," and others. His biography has been written by Carlyle. Died 1844. The Husbandman..... ..........411
STOWE, HARRIET BEECHER-Daughter of Dr. Lyman Beecher, born in Connecticut, 1812. Has obtained a world-wide reputation as the author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," a book that has gone through hundreds of editions and been republished and translated into all the principal languages of
.........396 SUCKLING, SIR JOHN.-An English poet, born about 1608, and celebrated as a wit at the court of Charles I. His reputation rests chiefly on his lyric poems, but he also wrote several dramas and satires. Died about 1642.
A Ballad upon a Wedding. Send Back My Heart.....
Song: Why so pale and wan, fond lover?....173 SURREY, HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF.-A cele- brated English poet, born about 1516. He excelled in the accomplishments of a scholar, courtier and soldier, and cultivated as well as patronized the fine arts. Surrey is the first who used blank verse in our language, and is considered the first English classical poet. He translated the second book of the Eneid, and wrote numerous sonnets and songs. Was exe- cuted in 1547.
Sonnet: The soote seson that bud and bloom forth brings........ ..317 SWAIN, CHARLES.-An English writer and en- graver, known as "The Manchester Poet," born in that city in 1803. His "Dryburgh Abbey," an elegy on Sir Walter Scott, is particularly admired.
Died 1874.
Home Happiness. The Coquette.....
What It Is to Love........
SWINBURNE, CHARLES ALGERNON.-An English poet, born 1887. His first publications were the following poetical dramas: "The Queen Mother and Rosamond," "Atalanta in Calydon," and "Chastel- ard." Has since written a great number of other works.
A Contented Mind. TANNAHILL, ROBERT.-A Scottish poet, born 1774. His songs and ballads are remarkable for their grace, simplicity and pathos. Died 1810.
The Flower of Dumblane......... ........129 TAYLOR, BENJAMIN F.-A brilliant American journalist and poet. Born in New York, 1822. Has written "Pictures in Camp and Field," "The World on Wheels," and "Songs of Yesterday." The Burning of Chicago.......... TAYLOR, (JAMES) BAYARD. - A distinguished American poet, novelist, journalist and traveler. Born in Pennsylvania in 1825. He wrote "Views Afoot; or Europe seen with Knapsack and Staff," "El Dorado," "Life and Landscapes from Egypt,” and many other books, records of his travels and explorations. Was appointed minister to Germany in 1878, and died at Berlin the same year. From "The Song of the Camp". Proposal.
The Phantom....
The Press.
TENNYSON, ALFRED, LORD, D. C. L. and F. R. S., raised to the peerage in 1883 as Baron Ten- nyson d'Eyncourt of Aldworth. Poet-laureate of England. Born in 1809. He is the representative poet of the recent era. In his poetry the thought and words are exquisitely adjusted to each other, producing almost the perfection of poetic form. "The Princess, A Medley," "In Memoriam,” "Maud" and the "Idylls of the King" are among the best known of his longer poems.
Annie's Dream.......
Break, Break, Break.......
Bugle Song......
Charge of the Light Brigade..
Selections from "In Memoriam".
Chorus from "Atalanta in Calydon”...........590 Etude Realiste...........
.166 from Eastern Sources," are well-known. The Spilt Pearls.........
Come Into the Garden, Maud..................................... Song from "The Princess"....................... 53 Song of the Brook...................................................................... ......................... .481 The Days that are No More................. TENNYSON, FREDERICK.
Some Murmur When Their Sky is Clear... 35 TROLLOPE, ANTHONY.-An English novelist, born 1815. Has written a great many books, among them "Orley Farm," "The Warden," "South Af rica," and "Life of Cicero." Died 1882.
..........560 TUCKERMAN, HENRY THEODORE.-An American critic and miscellaneous writer, born in Boston, 1813. Occupies a high rank among the art critics of America. Died 1871.
A Defense of Enthusiasm............ Sonnet, on the Proposition of the N. Y.
Historical Society.....
.485 To the "Eve" of Powers.......................... 55 TYCHBORN, CHIDIOCK.-An English poet, who shared in Babington's conspiracy and was executed with him in 1586. He was a very young man at the time. His "Lines Written by One in the Tower" is the best known of his productions.
Lines Written by One in the Tower.......... 73 VAUGHAN, HENRY.-A British poet and physic- ian, born in 1621, and called "The Silurist," be- cause a native of Siluria, or South Wales. Was the author of devotional poems and other works. Died 1695.
VEDDER, DAVID.-A Scottish poet, born in 1790. Published a number of volumes of prose and verse. Died 1854.
................234 The Temple of Nature.......... WALLER, EDMUND.-An eminent English poet, born 1605; was a cousin-german of the celebrated John Hampden. His principal poems are "Pane- gyric on Cromwell," "On the Death of the Lord Protector," and an ode to Charles II., entitled "To the King upon his Majesty's Most Happy Return " Died 1687.
WASTEL, SIMON.-An English poet and school- master, born about 1566. Is chiefly remembered ..382 for his "True Christian's Daily Delight."
The Symphony of Spring.......... Trout-fishing...........
THOREAU, HENRY DAVID.-An American au- thor and naturalist, born in Mass., 1817, of very eccentric habits. He lived two years as a hermit in a small frame house on the shore of Walden Pond, near Concord, in studious retirement, and publish- ed an account of this portion of his life in a book entitled "Walden." Died 1862.
Man's Mortality.........
WEATHERLY, George.
Good News or Bad?.............
Sunlight and Shade ......................................................................................... WEBSTER, AUGUSTA.-An English poet, born 1840. Among her writings are "Prometheus Bound," after Eschylus, " Medea," after Euripides, and other volumes of verse besides prose works. Some of her books are published under the name of "Cecil Horne." One of the most thoughtful
writers of the modern school.
At Sorrento........ The Gift.........
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WEBSTER, DANIEL. A celebrated American statesman, jurist, and by many considered "the greatest orator that ever lived in the Western Hem- isphere," was born in New Hampshire in 1782. He was the master-spirit in legislative debate during his life-time. His reply to Hayne of South Caro-
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