ONTINUED).

Robert Burns--His Poems--His Career--George Crabbe--Thomas
Campbell--Samuel Rogers--P. B. Shelley--John Keats--Other Writers

CHAPTER XXXVII.

WORDSWORTH, AND THE LAKE SCHOOL.

The New School--William Wordsworth--Poetical Canons--The Excursion and
Sonnets--An Estimate--Robert Southey--His Writings--Historical
Value--S. T. Coleridge--Early Life--His Helplessness--Hartley and H. N.
Coleridge

CHAPTER XXXVIII.

THE REACTION IN POETRY.

Alfred Tennyson--Early Works--The Princess--Idyls of the
King--Elizabeth B. Browning--Aurora Leigh--Her Faults--Robert
Browning--Other Poets

CHAPTER XXXIX.

THE LATER HISTORIANS.

New Materials--George Grote--History of Greece--Lord Macaulay--History
of England--Its Faults--Thomas Carlyle--Life of Frederick II.--Other
Historians

CHAPTER XL.

THE LATER NOVELISTS AS SOCIAL REFORMERS.

Bulwer--Changes in Writers--Dickens's Novels--American Notes--His
Varied Powers--Second Visit to America--Thackeray--Vanity Fair--Henry
Esmond--The Newcomes--The Georges--Estimate of his Powers

CHAPTER XLI.

THE LATER WRITERS.

Charles Lamb--Thomas Hood--Thomas de Quincey--Other Novelists--Writers
on Science and Philosophy

CHAPTER XLII.

ENGLISH JOURNALISM.

Roman News Letters--The Gazette--The Civil War--Later Divisions--The
Reviews--The Monthlies--The Dailies--The London Times--Other Newspapers

Alphabetical Index of Authors

CHAPTER I.

THE HISTORICAL SCOPE OF THE SUBJECT.

Literature and Science. English Literature. General Principle. Celts
and Cymry. Roman Conquest. Coming of the Saxons. Danish Invasions. The
Norman Conquest. Changes in Language.

LITERATURE AND SCIENCE.

There are two words in the English language which are now used to express
the two great divisions of mental production--_Science_ and _Literature_;
and yet, from their etymology, they have so much in common, that it has
been necessary to attach to each a technical meaning, in order that we may
employ them without confusion.

_Science_, from the participle _sciens_, of _scio, scire_, to know, would
seem to comprise all that can be known--what the Latins called the _omne
scibile_, or all-knowable.

_Literature_ is from _litera_, a letter, and probably at one remove from
_lino, litum_, to anoint or besmear, because in the earlier times a tablet
was smeared with wax, and letters were traced upon it