Halleck's New English Literature. Reuben Post Halleck
at Bayfordbury). 67. John Milton, AEt. 10. 68. Milton's Visit to Galileo in 1638. (From the painting by T. Lessi). 69. Facsimile of Milton's Signature. 1663. 70. Title Page to Comus, 1637. 71. Milton's Motto from Comus, with Autograph, 1639. 72. Milton Dictating Paradise Lost to his Daughter. (From the painting by Munkacsy). 73. Samuel Butler. 74. John Dryden. (From the painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller, National Portrait Gallery). 75. Birthplace of Dryden. (From a print). 76. Daniel Defoe. (From a print by Vandergucht). 77. Jonathan Swift. (From the painting by C. Jervas, National Portrait Gallery). 78. Moor Park. (From a drawing). 79. Swift and Stella. (From the painting by Dicksee). 80. Joseph Addison. (From the painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller, National Portrait Gallery.) 81. Birthplace of Addison. 82. Richard Steele. 83. Sir Roger de Coverley in Church. (From a drawing by B. Westmacott). 84. Alexander Pope. (From the portrait by William Hoare). 85. Pope's Villa at Twickenham. (From an old print). 86. Rape of the Lock. (From a drawing by B. Westmacott). 87. Alexander Pope. (From a contemporary portrait). 88. Horace Walpole. 89. Thomas Gray. 90. Stoke Poges Churchyard. 91. A Blind Beggar Robbed of his Drink. (From a British Museum MS.) 92. Samuel Richardson. (From an original drawing). 93. Henry Fielding. (From the drawing by Hogarth). 94. Laurence Sterne. 95. Uncle Toby and Corporal Trim. (From a drawing by B. Westmacott). 96. Tobias Smollett. 97. Edward Gibbon. (From the painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds). 98. Edmund Burke. (From the painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds, National Portrait Gallery). 99. Oliver Goldsmith. (From the painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds, National Portrait Gallery). 100. Goldsmith and Dr. Johnson. (From a drawing by B. Westmacott). 101. Goldsmith's Lodgings, Canonbury Tower, London. 102. Dr. Primrose and his Family. (From a drawing by G. Patrick Nelson). 103. Samuel Johnson. (From the painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds). 104. Samuel Johnson's Birthplace. (From an old print). 105. James Boswell. 106. Cheshire Cheese Inn To-day. 107. Robert Southey. 108. Charles Lamb. (From a drawing by Maclise). 109. Bo-Bo and Roast Pig. (From a drawing by B. Westmacott). 110. William Cowper. (From the portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence). 111. Cowper's cottage at Weston. 112. John Gilpin's Ride. (From a drawing by R. Caldecott). 113. Robert Burns. (From the painting by Nasmyth National Portrait Gallery). 114. Birthplace of Burns. 115. Burns and Highland Mary. (From the painting by James Archer). 116. Sir Walter Scott. (From the painting by William Nicholson). 117. Abbotsford, Home of Sir Walter Scott. 118. Scott's Grave in Dryburgh Abbey. 119. Loch Katrine and Ellen's Isle. 120. Walter Scott. (From a life sketch by Maclise). 121. Scott's Desk and "Elbow Chair" at Abbotsford. 122. Jane Austen. (From an original family portrait). 123. Jane Austen's Desk. 124. William Wordsworth. (From the portrait by B.R. Haydon). 125. Boy of Winander. (From the painting by H.O. Walker, Congressional Library). 126. Wordsworth's Home at Grasmere—Dove Cottage. 127. Grasmere Lake. 128. William Wordsworth. (From a sketch in Fraser's Magazine). 129. Rydal Mount near Ambleside. 130. Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (From a pencil sketch by C.R. Leslie). 131. Coleridge's Cottage at Nether-Stowey. 132. Coleridge as a Young Man. (From a sketch made in Germany). 133. Lord Byron. (From a portrait by Kramer). 134. Byron at Seventeen. (From a painting). 135. Newstead Abbey, Byron's Home. 136. Castle of Chillon. 137. Byron's Home at Pisa. 138. Percy Bysshe Shelley. (From the portrait by Amelia Curran, National Portrait Gallery). 139. Shelley's Birthplace, Field Place. 140. Grave of Shelley, Protestant Cemetery, Rome. 141. Facsimile of Stanza from To a Skylark. 142. John Keats. (From the painting by Hilton, National Portrait Gallery). 143. Keats's Home, Wentworth Place. 144. Grave of Keats, Rome. 145. Facsimile of Original MS. of Endymion. 146. Endymion. (From the painting by H.O. Walker, Congressional Library). 147. Thomas de Quincy. (From the painting by Sir J.W. Gordon, National Portrait Gallery). 148. Room in Dove Cottage. 149. Charles Darwin. 150. John Tyndall. 151. Thomas Huxley. (From the painting by John Collier, National Portrait Gallery). 152. Dante Gabriel Rossetti. (From the drawing by himself, National Portrait Gallery). 153. Thomas Babington Macaulay. (From the painting by Sir. F. Grant, National Portrait Gallery). 154. Cardinal Newman. (From the painting by Emmeline Deane). 155. Thomas Carlyle. (From the painting by James McNeill Whistler). 156. Craigenputtock. 157. Mrs. Carlyle. (From a miniature portrait). 158. John Ruskin. (From a photograph). 159. Charles Dickens. (From a photograph taken in America, 1868). 160. Dicken's Home, Gads Hill. 161. Facsimile of MS. of A Christmas Carol. 162. William Makepeace Thackeray. (From the painting by Samuel Laurence, National Portrait Gallery). 163. Caricature of Thackeray by Himself. 164. Thackeray's Home where Vanity Fair was Written. 165. George Eliot. (From a drawing by Sir F.W. Burton, National Portrait Gallery). 166. George Eliot's Birthplace. 167. Robert Louis Stevenson. (From a photograph). 168. Stevenson as a Boy. 169. Edinburgh Memorial of Robert Louis Stevenson. (By St. Gaudens). 170. George Meredith. (From the painting by G.F. Watts, National Portrait Gallery). 171. Thomas Hardy. (From the painting by Winifred Thompson). 172. Max Gate. (The Home of Hardy). 173. Matthew Arnold. (From the painting by G.F. Watts, National Portrait Gallery). 174. Robert Browning. (From the painting by G.F. Watts, National Portrait Gallery). 175. Elizabeth Barrett Browning. (From the painting by Field Talfourd, National Portrait Gallery). 176. Facsimile of MS. from Pippa Passes. 177. Alfred Tennyson. (From a photograph by Mayall). 178. Farringford. 179. Facsimile of MS. of Crossing the Bar. 180. Algernon Charles Swinburne. (From the painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti). 181. Rudyard Kipling. (From the painting by John Collier). 182. Mowgli and his Brothers. (From The Jungle Book). 183. The Cat That Walked. (From Kipling's drawing for Just-So Stories). 184. Joseph Conrad. 185. Arnold Bennett. 186. John Galsworthy. 187. Herbert George Wells. 188. William Butler Yeats. 189. John Masefield. 190. Alfred Noyes. 191. Henry Arthur Jones. 192. Arthur Wing Pinero. 193. George Bernard Shaw. (From the bust by Rodin). 194. James Matthew Barrie. 195. Stephen Phillips. 196. Lady Gregory. 197. John Synge.
[Illustration: LITERARY MAP OF ENGLAND]
[Illustration: LITERARY MAP OF ENGLAND]
NEW ENGLISH LITERATURE
INTRODUCTION
LITERARY ENGLAND
Some knowledge of the homes and haunts of English authors is necessary for an understanding of their work. We feel in much closer touch with Shakespeare after merely reading about Stratford-on-Avon; but we seem to share his experiences when we actually walk from Stratford-on-Avon to Shottery and Warwick. The scenery and life of the Lake Country are reflected in Wordsworth's poetry. Ayr and the surrounding country throw a flood of light on the work of Burns. The streets of London are a commentary on the novels of Dickens. A journey to Canterbury aids us in recreating the life of Chaucer's Pilgrims.
Much may be learned from a study of literary England. Whether one does or does not travel, such study is necessary. Those who hope at some time to visit England should acquire in advance as much knowledge as possible about the literary associations of the places to be visited; for when the opportunity for the trip finally comes, there is usually insufficient time for such preparation as will enable the traveler to derive the greatest enjoyment from a visit to the literary centers in which Great Britain abounds.
Whenever an author is studied, his birthplace should be located on the literary map. Baedeker's Great Britain will be indispensable in making an itinerary. The Reference List for Literary England is sufficiently comprehensive to enable any one to plan an enjoyable literary pilgrimage through Great Britain and to learn the most important facts about the places connected with English authors.
The following suggestions from the author's experience are intended to serve merely as an illustration of how to begin an itinerary. The majority of east-bound steamships call at Plymouth, a good place to disembark for a literary trip. From Plymouth, the traveler may go to Exeter (a quaint old town with a fine cathedral, the home of Exeter Book,) thence by rail to Camelford in Cornwall and by coach four miles to the fascinating Tintagel (King Arthur), where, as Tennyson says in his Idylls of the King:—
"All down the thundering shores of Bude and Bos,
There came a day as still as heaven, and then
They found a naked child upon the sands
Of dark Tintagil by the Cornish sea,
And that was Arthur."
Next, the traveler may go by coach to Bude (of which Tennyson remarked, "I hear that there are larger waves at Bude than at any other place. I must go thither and be alone with God") and to unique Clovelly and Bideford (Kingsley), by rail to Ilfracombe,