LITERATURE.  General Works.  Garnett and Gosse, Taine. Special Works.  Harrison’s Early Victorian Literature; Saintsbury’s A History of Nineteenth Century Literature; Walker’s The Age of Tennyson; same author’s The Greater Victorian Poets; Morley’s Literature of the Age of Victoria; Stedman’s Victorian Poets; Mrs. Oliphant’s Literary History of England in the Nineteenth Century; Beers’s English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century; Dowden’s Victorian Literature, in Transcripts and Studies; Brownell’s Victorian Prose Masters.

Tennyson.  Texts:  Cabinet edition (London, 1897) is the standard.  Various good editions, Globe, Cambridge Poets, etc.  Selections in Athenaeum Press (Ginn and Company).

Life:  Alfred Lord Tennyson, a Memoir by his son, is the standard; by Lyall (in English Men of Letters); by Horton; by Waugh.  See also Anne T. Ritchie’s Tennyson and His Friends; Napier’s The Homes and Haunts of Tennyson; Rawnsley’s Memories of the Tennysons.

Criticism:  Brooke’s Tennyson, his Art and his Relation to Modern Life; A.
Lang’s Alfred Tennyson; Van Dyke’s The Poetry of Tennyson; Sneath’s The
Mind of Tennyson; Gwynn’s A Critical Study of Tennyson’s Works; Luce’s
Handbook to Tennyson’s Works; Dixon’s A Tennyson Primer; Masterman’s
Tennyson as a Religious Teacher; Collins’s The Early Poems of Tennyson;
Macallum’s Tennyson’s Idylls of the King and the Arthurian Story; Bradley’s
Commentary on In Memoriam; Bagehot’s Literary Studies, vol. 2; Brightwell’s
Concordance; Shepherd’s Bibliography.

Essays:  By F. Harrison, in Tennyson, Ruskin, Mill, and Other Literary Estimates; by Stedman, in Victorian Poets; by Hutton, in Literary Essays; by Dowden, in Studies in Literature; by Gates, in Studies and Appreciations; by Forster, in Great Teachers; by Forman, in Our Living Poets.  See also Myers’s Science and a Future Life.

Browning.  Texts:  Cambridge and Globe editions, etc.  Various editions of selections. (See Selections for Reading, above.)

Life:  by W. Sharp (Great Writers); by Chesterton (English Men of Letters); Life and Letters, by Mrs. Sutherland Orr; by Waugh, in Westminster Biographies (Small & Maynard).

Criticism:  Symons’s An Introduction to the Study of Browning; same title, by Corson; Mrs. Orr’s Handbook to the Works of Browning; Nettleship’s Robert Browning; Brooke’s The Poetry of Robert Browning; Cooke’s Browning Guide Book; Revell’s Browning’s Criticism of Life; Berdoe’s Browning’s Message to his Times; Berdoe’s Browning Cyclopedia.

Essays:  by Hutton, Stedman, Dowden, Forster (for titles, see Tennyson, above); by Jacobs, in Literary Studies; by Chapman, in Emerson and Other Essays; by Cooke, in Poets and Problems; by Birrell, in Obiter Dicta.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning.  Texts:  Globe and Cambridge editions, etc.; various editions of selections.  Life:  by J. H. Ingram; see also Bayne’s Two Great Englishmen.  Kenyon’s Letters of E. B. Browning.