Jane Austen.  Texts:  Works, edited by R. B. Johnson (Dent); various other editions of novels; Letters, edited by Woolsey (Roberts).  Life:  Austen-Leigh’s Memoir of Jane Austen; Hill’s Jane Austen, her Home and her Friends; Mitton’s Jane Austen and her Times.  Life, by Goldwin Smith; by Maiden (Famous Women Series); by O. F. Adams.  Criticism:  Pollock’s Jane Austen; Pellew’s Jane Austen’s Novels; A. A. Jack’s Essay on the Novel as Illustrated by Scott and Miss Austen; H. H. Bonnell’s Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, and Jane Austen; Essay, by Howells, in Heroines of Fiction.

Maria Edgeworth.  Texts:  Tales and Novels, New Langford Edition, 10 vols.  (London, 1893) various editions of novels (Dent, etc.); The Absentee, and Castle Rackrent, in Morley’s Universal Library.  Life:  by Helen Zimmerman; Memoir, by Hare.

Mrs. Anne Radclife.  Romances, with introduction by Scott, in Ballantynes’ Novelists Library (London, 1824); various editions of Udolpho, etc.; Saintsbury’s Tales of Mystery, vol. i.  See Beers’s English Romanticism.

Moore.  Poetical Works, in Canterbury Poets, Chandos Classics, etc.; Selected poems, in Golden Treasury; Gunning’s Thomas Moore, Poet and Patriot; Symington’s Life and Works of Moore.  Essay, by Saintsbury.

Campbell.  Poems, Aldine edition; Selections, in Golden Treasury.  Life, by Hadden.

Hazlitt.  Texts:  Works, edited by Henley, 12 vols. (London, 1902); Selected Essays, in Temple Classics, Camelot Series, etc.  Life:  by Birrell (English Men of Letters); Memoirs, by W. C. Hazlitt.  Essays, by Saintsbury; by L. Stephen.

Leigh Hunt.  Texts:  Selected essays, in Camelot Series, also in Cavendish Library (Warne); Stories from the Italian Poets (Putnam).  Life:  by Monkhouse (Great Writers).  Essays, by Macaulay; by Saintsbury; by Hazlitt.  See also Mrs. Field’s A Shelf of Old Books.

SUGGESTIVE QUESTIONS. (NOTE.  In a period like the Age of Romanticism, the poems and essays chosen for special study vary so widely that only a few general questions on the selections for reading are attempted.)

1.  Why is this period of Romanticism (1789-1837) called the Age of Revolution?  Give some reasons for the influence of the French Revolution on English literature, and illustrate from poems or essays which you have read.  Explain the difference between Classicism and Romanticism.  Which of these two types of literature do you prefer?

2.  What are the general characteristics of the literature of this period?  What two opposing tendencies are illustrated in the novels of Scott and Jane Austen? in the poetry of Byron and Wordsworth?