Apologie for Poetrie
Arcadia
Areopagitica ([)a]r’=[=e]-[)o]p-[)a]-j[)i]t’[)i]-cae)
Arnold, Matthew;
  life;
  poetry;
  prose works;
  characteristics
Art, definition of
Arthurian romances
Artistic period of drama
Artistic quality of literature
Ascham, Roger
Assonance
Astraea Redux ([)a]s-tr[=e]’ae r[=e]’duks)
Astrophel and Stella ([)a]s’tr[=o]-fel)
Atalanta in Calydon ([)a]t-[)a]-l[)a]n’tae, k[)a]l’[)i]-d[)o]n)
Augustan Age, meaning. See
  Eighteenth-century literature
Aurora Leigh ([a:]-r[=o]’rae l[=e])
Austen, Jane; life;
  novels; Scott’s criticism of

Bacon, Francis; life; works;
  place and influence
Bacon, Roger
Ballad, the
Ballads and Sonnets
Barchester Towers
Bard, The
Bard of the Dimbovitza (dim-bo-vitz’ae),
  Roumanian folk songs
Battle of Agincourt (English, [)a]j’in-k[=o]rt)
Battle of Brunanburh
Battle of the Books
Baxter, Richard
Beaumont, Francis (b[=o]’mont)
Becket
Bede; his history; his account
  of Caedmon
Bells and Pomegranates
Benefit of clergy
Beowulf (b[=a]’[=o]-wulf), the poem;
  history; poetical form;
  manuscript of
Beowulf’s Mount
Bibliographies, study of literature;
  Anglo-Saxon Period; Norman;
  Chaucer; Revival of Learning;
  Elizabethan; Puritan;
  Restoration; Eighteenth
  century; Romanticism;
  Victorian; general
Bickerstaff Almanac
Biographia Literaria
Blackmore, Richard
Blake, William; life; works
Blank verse
Blessed Damozel
Blot in the ’Scutcheon, A
Boethius (b[=o]-[=e]’thi-us)
Boileau (bwa-l[=o]’), French critic
Boke of the Duchesse
Book of Martyrs
Borough, The
Boswell, James. See also Johnson
Boy actors
Breton, Nicholas
Bronte, Charlotte and Emily
Browne, Thomas; works
Browning, Mrs. Elizabeth Barrett
Browning, Robert; life;
  works; obscurity of; as
  a teacher; compared with
  Shakespeare; with Tennyson;
  periods of work; soul
  studies; place and message
Brut, Layamon’s; quotation from
Brutus, alleged founder of Britain
Bulwer Lytton
Bunyan, John; life; works;
  his style
Burke, Edmund; life; works;
  analysis of his orations
Burney, Fanny (Madame D’Arblay)
Burns, Robert; life; poetry;
  Carlyle’s essay on
Burton, Robert
Butler, Samuel
Byron; life; works;
  compared with Scott

Caedmon (k[)a]d’mon), life; works;
  his Paraphrase; school of
Cain
Callista
Calvert, Raisley
Camden, William
Campaign, The
Campion, Thomas
Canterbury Tales; plan of;
  prologue; Dryden’s criticism
  of