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Evening. This poem obtained the Chancellor's medal in 1821. Lays of Ancient Rome.

Horatius.

The Battle of Lake Regillus.
Virginia.

The Prophecy of Capys.
Epitaph on Henry Martyn.
Lines to the Memory of Pitt.
A Radical War Song.
Ivry.

The Battle of Moncontour.

Songs of the Civil War.

Sermon in a Churchyard.

Translations from A. V. Arnault.

Dies Irae.

The Marriage of Tirzah and Ahirad.

The Country Gentleman's Trip to Cambridge.
Song.

The Deliverance of Vienna.

The Armada.

Inscription on the Statue of Lord Bentinck.

Epitaph on Sir Benjamin Heath Malkin.

The Last Buccaneer.

Epitaph on a Jacobite.

Epitaph on Lord Metcalfe.

Translations from Plautus.

Valentine.

Paraphrase of a Passage in the Chronicle of the Monk of
St. Gall.

Lines Written on the Night of the 30th of July, 1847.
Rosamond.

Battle of Naseby.

CONTEMPORANEOUS HISTORY

WARREN HASTINGS IN INDIA, 1750-1785

GEORGE II., 1727-1760

Frederick the Great, Emperor of Germany, 1740–1788. Clive takes Arcot, 1751.

Seven Years' War with France, 1756.

French and Indian War in America, 1755-1760.

"The Black Hole" of Calcutta, 1756.

Clive wins battle of Plassey, 1757.

Victory of Quebec (England gains Canada), 1759.

GEORGE III., 1760-1820

Catherine II., Russia, 1762.

Stamp Act, 1765 (repealed 1766).

Letters of "Junius," 1769.

Conquest of Corsica, 1769.

Napoleon and Wellington born, 1769.

Debates in Parliament regularly reported, 1771.

Pressing to death abolished, 1772.

"The Boston Tea Party," 1773.

The American Revolution begins, 1775.
Free trade granted to Ireland, 1776.

Lord George Gordon riots, 1780.

Defeat of Cornwallis at Yorktown, 1781.

Treaties of Paris and Versailles, 1783.

MACAULAY, 1800-1859

ENGLISH MEN OF LETTERS

Sir Walter Scott.

Lady of the Lake.

Lay of the Last Minstrel.

Ivanhoe, Waverley.

John Wilson (Christopher North).

Noctes Ambrosianæ.

Hannah More.

Search after Happiness.

Practical Piety.

Frances Burney (Madame d'Arblay).

Evelina.

George Gordon (Lord Byron).

Childe Harold.

Prisoner of Chillon.

Thomas Moore.

Lalla Rookh.

Percy Bysshe Shelley.

The Cloud.

To the Skylark.
To the Nightingale.

John Keats.

Eve of St. Agnes.

William Wordsworth.

The Excursion.

Ode to Immortality.

Samuel T. Coleridge.

Ancient Mariner.

Lectures on Shakespeare.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan.

The Rivals.

The School for Scandal.

Henry Hallam.

Constitutional History of England. Thomas Arnold (Master at Rugby). Thomas Carlyle.

The French Revolution.

Sartor Resartus.

Frederick the Great.

On the Choice of Books.

Harriet Martineau.

History of England, 1816-1846.

William Ewart Gladstone.

Studies in Homer.

James A. Froude.

Short Studies on Great Subjects.

James Mill.

History of British India.

John Stuart Mill.

System of Logic.

John Ruskin.

Lessons on Architecture and Painting.

Sesame and Lilies.

Herbert Spencer.

First Principles, Biology.

Sir John Herschel.

Outlines of Astronomy.

Charles Darwin.

Origin of Species.

Francis Jeffrey, Reviewer.

Edited the Edinburgh Review, 1802-1809.

Charles Lamb.

Essays of Elia.

Thomas De Quincey.

Flight of a Tartar Tribe.

Confessions of an English Opium Eater.

Matthew Arnold.

Critical and Political Essays.

Tristram and Iseult.

Jane Austen.

Sense and Sensibility.

Pride and Prejudice.
William M. Thackeray.
The Newcomes.
Henry Esmond.
Charles Dickens.

Pickwick Papers.
David Copperfield.

George Eliot.

Silas Marner.

Mill on the Floss.

Middlemarch.

Romola.

Elizabeth B. Browning.
A Vision of Poets.

A Musical Instrument.

Alfred Tennyson.

Idyls of the King.

In Memoriam.

Robert Browning.

Saul.

Ring and the Book.

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