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+German Romances+-- a set of Translations (1827); +Sartor Resartus+-- "The Tailor Repatched" (1834); +The French Revolution+ (1837); +Heroes and Hero-Wors.h.i.+p+ (1840); +Past and Present+ (1843); +Cromwell's Letters and Speeches+ (1845); +Life of Frederick the Great+ (1858-65). "With the gift of song, Carlyle would have been the greatest of epic poets since Homer."
War with United States, 1812-14.
Battle of Waterloo,1815.
+1830+
George IV. ascends the throne, 1820.
Greek War of Freedom, 1822-29.
Byron in Greece, 1823-24.
Catholic Emanc.i.p.ation, 1829.
LORD MACAULAY (Thomas Babington). +1800-1859+. Barrister; Edinburgh Reviewer; M.P.; Member of the Supreme Council of India; Cabinet Minister; poet; essayist; historian; peer.
+Milton+ (in the 'Edinburgh Review,' 1825); +Lays of Ancient Rome+ (1842); +History of England+-- unfinished (1849-59). "His pictorial faculty is amazing."
William IV. ascends the throne, 1830.
The Reform Bill, 1832.
Total Abolition of Slavery, 1834.
LORD LYTTON (Edward Bulwer). +1805-1873+. Novelist; poet; dramatist; M.P.; Cabinet Minister; peer.
+Ismael and Other Poems+ (1825); +Eugene Aram+ (1831); +Last Days of Pompeii+ (1834); +The Caxtons+ (1849); +My Novel+ (1853); +Poems+ (1865).
Queen Victoria ascends the throne, 1837.
+1840+
Irish Famine, 1845.
JOHN STUART MILL. +1806-1873+. Clerk in the East India House; philospher; political writer; M.P.; Lord Rector of the University of St Andrews.
+System of Logic+ (1843); +Principles of Political Economy+ (1848); +Essay on Liberty+ (1858); +Autobiography+ (1873); "For judicial calmness, elevation of tone, and freedom from personality, Mill is unrivalled among the writers of his time."
Repeal of the Corn Laws, 1846.
+1850+
Revolution in Paris, 1851.
Death of Wellington, 1852.
HENRY W. LONGFELLOW. +1807-1882+. Professor of Modern Languages and Literature in Harvard University, U.S.; poet; prose-writer.
+Outre-Mer+--a Story (1835); +Hyperion+--a Story (1839); +Voices of the Night+ (1841); +Evangeline+ (1848) +Hiawatha+ (1855); +Aftermath+ (1873). "His tact in the use of language is probably the chief cause of his success."
Napoleon III. Emperor of the French, 1852.
Russian War, 1854-56.
LORD TENNYSON (Alfred Tennyson). +1809----+. Poet; poet-laureate; peer.
+Poems+ (1830) +In Memoriam+ (1850); +Maud+ (1855); +Idylls of the King+ (1859-73); +Queen Mary+--a Drama (1875); +Becket+--a Drama (1884). He is at present our greatest living poet.
Franco-Austrian War, 1859.
+1860+
Emanc.i.p.ation of Russian serfs, 1861.
ELIZABETH B. BARRETT (afterwards Mrs Browning). +1809-1861+. Poet; prose-writer; translator.
+Prometheus Bound+-- translated from the Greek of aeschylus (1833); +Poems+ (1844); +Aurora Leigh+ (1856); and _Essays_ contributed to various magazines.
Austro-Prussian "Seven Weeks' War", 1866.
Suez ca.n.a.l finished, 1869.
+1870+
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY. +1811-1863+. Novelist; writer in 'Punch'; artist.
+The Paris Sketch-Book+ (1840); +Vanity Fair+ (1847); +Esmond+ (1852); +The Newcomes+(1855); +The Virginians+ (1857). The greatest novelist and one of the most perfect stylists of this century. "The cla.s.sical English humorist and satirist of the reign of Queen Victoria."
Franco-Prussian War 1870-71.
Third French Republic, 1870.
William I. of Prussia made Emperor of the Germans at Versailles, 1871.
CHARLES d.i.c.kENS. +1812-1870+. Novelist.
+Sketches by Boz+ (1836); +The Pickwick Papers+ (1837); +Oliver Twist+ (1838); +Nicholas Nickleby+ (1838); and many other novels and works; +Great Expectations+ (1868). The most popular writer that ever lived.
Rome the new capital of Italy, 1871.
Russo-Turkish War 1877-78.
Berlin Congress and Treaty, 1878.
ROBERT BROWNING. +1812----+. Poet.
+Pauline+ (1833); +Paracelsus+ (1836); _Poems_ (1865); +The Ring and the Book+ (1869); and many other volumes of poetry.
Leo XIII. made Pope in 1878.
+1880+
JOHN RUSKIN. +1819----+. Art-critic; essayist; teacher; literary man.
+Modern Painters+ (1843-60); +The Stones of Venice+ (1851-53); +The Queen of the Air+ (1869); +An Autobiography+ (1885); and very many other works. "He has a deep, serious, and almost fanatical reverence for art."
a.s.sa.s.sination of Alexander II., 1881.
Arabi Pasha's Rebellion 1882-83.
War in the Soudan, 1884.
GEORGE ELIOT. +1819-1880+. Novelist; poet; essayist.
+Scenes of Clerical Life+ (1858); +Adam Bede+ (1859); and many other novels down to +Daniel Deronda+ (1876); +Spanish Gypsy+ (1868); +Legend of Jubal+ (1874).
Murder of Gordon, 1884.
New Reform Bill, 1885.
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