| Introduction: Knowledge Is Power |
| Samuel Parr (1747–1825) |
| Anna Letitia Barbauld (1743–1825) |
| Lucretia Maria Davidson (1808–1825) |
| Lady Anne (Lindsay) Barnard (1750–1825) |
| Auld Robin Gray |
| George Chalmers (1742–1825) |
| William Knox (1789–1825) |
| William Gifford (1756–1826) |
| Reginald Heber (1783–1826) |
| Hymns |
| Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) |
| Statesman |
| Declaration of Independence, 1776 |
| John Adams (1735–1826) |
| Statesman |
| Lindley Murray (1745–1826) |
| English Grammar, 1795 |
| William Blake (1757–1827) |
| Poetry |
| George Canning (1770–1827) |
| Statesman |
| William Mitford (1744–1827) |
| History of Greece, 1784–1818 |
| Robert Pollok (c. 1798–1827) |
| The Course of Time, 1827 |
| Helen Maria Williams (1762–1827) |
| Dugald Stewart (1753–1828) |
| Philosophical Essays, 1810 |
| First Preliminary Dissertation, 1815–21 |
| Lady Caroline Lamb (1785–1828) |
| John Gardiner Calkins Brainard (1795–1828) |
| Edward Coate Pinkney (1802–1828) |
| Thomas Young (1773–1829) |
| Sir Humphry Davy (1778–1829) |
| John Jay (1745–1829) |
| William Hazlitt (1778–1830) |
| Liber Amoris, 1823 |
| Robert Hall (1764–1831) |
| Henry Mackenzie (1745–1831) |
| The Man of Feeling, 1771 |
| The Man of the World, 1773 |
| Julia de Roubigné, 1777 |
| William Roscoe (1753–1831) |
| Life of Lorenzo de’ Medici, 1795 |
| Works of Alexander Pope, 1824 |
| John Trumbull (1750–1831) |
| Progress of Dullness, 1772 |
| M’Fingal, 1782 |
| James Monroe (1758–1831) |
| Hannah Adams (1755–1831) |
| Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) |
| Poetry |
| Lay of the Last Minstrel, 1805 |
| Marmion, 1808 |
| Lady of the Lake, 1810 |
| Novels |
| Waverley, 1814 |
| Guy Mannering, 1815 |
| The Antiquary, 1816 |
| Old Mortality, 1816 |
| Rob Roy, 1818 |
| Heart of Mid-Lothian, 1818 |
| The Bride of Lammermoor, 1819 |
| Ivanhoe, 1819 |
| Kenilworth, 1821 |
| The Pirate, 1821 |
| The Fortunes of Nigel, 1822 |
| St. Ronan’s Well, 1824 |
| Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, 1827 |
| Fair Maid of Perth, 1828 |
| General |
| Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) |
| George Crabbe (1754–1832) |
| Sir James Mackintosh (1765–1832) |
| Adam Clarke (c. 1762–1832) |
| Philip Freneau (1752–1832) |
| Sir John Leslie (1766–1832) |
| Hannah More (1745–1833) |
| Cœlebs in Search of a Wife, 1808 |
| John O’Keeffe (1747–1833) |
| Arthur Henry Hallam (1811–1833) |
| William Wilberforce (1759–1833) |
| Practical View of Christianity, 1797 |
| William Sotheby (1757–1833) |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) |
| Poetry |
| The Ancient Mariner, 1798 |
| Christabel, 1805–16 |
| Kubla Khan, 1816 |
| Aids to Reflection, 1825 |
| General |
| Charles Lamb (1775–1834) |
| Poetry |
| Rosamund Gray, 1798 |
| Letters |
| Edward Irving (1792–1834) |
| Thomas Robert Malthus (1766–1834) |
| Essay on the Principle of Population, 1798–1803–17 |
| Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1793–1835) |
| James Hogg (1770–1835) |
| The Queen’s Wake, 1813 |
| William Cobbett (1763–1835) |
| William Motherwell (1797–1835) |
| Michael Scott (1789–1835) |
| John Marshall (1755–1835) |
| Chief Justice |
| The Life of George Washington, 1804–07 |
| Michael Thomas Sadler (1780–1835) |
| The Law of Population, 1830 |
| Thomas James Mathias (1754?–1835) |
| Pursuits of Literature, 1794–98 |
| William Henry Ireland (1777–1835) |
| Forgeries |
| Thomas Taylor (1758–1835) |
| William Godwin (1756–1836) |
| Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, 1793 |
| Caleb Williams, 1794 |
| St. Leon, 1799 |
| Life of Geoffrey Chaucer, 1803 |
| Fleetwood, 1805 |
| Mandeville, 1817 |
| James Mill (1773–1836) |
| History of British India, 1817 |
| Philosophy |
| James Madison (1751–1836) |
| Statesman |
| George Colman the Younger (1762–1836) |
| William Taylor (1765–1836) |
| Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (1762–1837) |
| Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) |
| Anne Grant (M’Vicar) of Laggan (1755–1838) |
| Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1802–1839) |
| John Galt (1779–1839) |
| James Smith (1775–1839) |
| Thomas Haynes Bayly (1797–1839) |
| Archibald Alison (1757–1839) |
| Frances (Fanny) Burney (Madame d’Arblay) (1752–1840) |
| Evelina, 1778 |
| Cecilia, 1782 |
| Camilla, 1796 |
| The Wanderer, 1814 |
| Diary and Letters |
| Gerald Griffin (1803–1840) |
| Theodore Edward Hook (1788–1841) |
| Joseph Blanco White (1775–1841) |
| James Abraham Hillhouse (1789–1841) |
| William Ellery Channing (1780–1842) |
| Thomas Arnold (1795–1842) |
| Educator |
| History of Rome, 1838–43 |
| Allan Cunningham (1784–1842) |
| William Maginn (1794–1842) |
| John Banim (1798–1842) |
| William Hone (1780–1842) |
| Thomas Hamilton (1789–1842) |
| Robert Southey (1774–1843) |
| Poems |
| Joan of Arc, 1796 |
| Thalaba the Destroyer, 1801 |
| Madoc, 1805 |
| The Curse of Kehama, 1810 |
| Roderick, 1814 |
| Wat Tyler, 1817 |
| A Vision of Judgment, 1821 |
| Life of Nelson, 1813 |
| Life of John Wesley, 1820 |
| History of the Peninsular War, 1823–32 |
| The Doctor, 1834–37 |
| Life of Cowper, 1836 |
| General |
| Washington Allston (1779–1843) |
| Art |
| John Foster (1770–1843) |
| Noah Webster (1758–1843) |
| Spelling Book |
| American Dictionary, 1828–41 |
| Henry Ware, Jr. (1794–1843) |
| Thomas Campbell (1777–1844) |
| Pleasures of Hope, 1799 |
| Gertrude of Wyoming, 1809 |
| Specimens of the British Poets, 1819 |
| Theodric, 1824 |
| William Beckford (1760–1844) |
| Vathek |
| John Sterling (1806–1844) |
| Poetry |
| Henry Francis Cary (1772–1844) |
| Basil Hall (1788–1844) |
| Thomas Hood (1799–1845) |
| Sydney Smith (1771–1845) |
| Richard Harris Barham (Thomas Ingoldsby) (1788–1845) |
| Ingoldsby Legends, 1840–47 |
| Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne (1766–1845) |
| Laman Blanchard (1803–1845) |
| Joseph Story (1779–1845) |
| John Hookham Frere (1769–1846) |
| Thomas Chalmers (1780–1847) |
| Sharon Turner (1768–1847) |
| Henry Francis Lyte (1793–1847) |
| James Kent (1763–1847) |
| Decisions |
| Commentaries upon American Law, 1826–32 |
| Richard Henry Wilde (1789–1847) |
| Grace Aguilar (1816–1847) |
| Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1776–1847) |
| Mary Lamb (1764–1847) |
| Isaac Disraeli (1766–1848) |
| John Quincy Adams (1767–1848) |
| Emily Brontë (1818–1848) |
| Wuthering Heights, 1847 |
| Poems |
| William Tennant (1784–1848) |
| Anster Fair, 1812 |
| Sarah Flower Adams (1805–1848) |
| Frederick Marryat (1792–1848) |
| Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) |
| Poetry |
| The Bells |
| Ulalume |
| The Raven |
| Tales |
| Criticisms |
| General |
| Maria Edgeworth (1768–1849) |
| Practical Education, 1798 |
| Castle Rackrent, 1800 |
| Belinda, 1801 |
| Tales of Fashionable Life, 1809–12 |
| Helen, 1834 |
| Hartley Coleridge (1796–1849) |
| Sonnets |
| Ebenezer Elliott (1781–1849) |
| Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803–1849) |
| The Bride’s Tragedy, 1822 |
| Death’s Jest Book, 1850 |
| Lady Marguerite Blessington (1789–1849) |
| Bernard Barton (1784–1849) |
| Horace Smith (1779–1849) |
| Anne Brontë (1820–1849) |
| James Clarence Mangan (1803–1849) |
| William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
| Descriptive Sketches in Verse, 1793 |
| The Borderers, 1795–96–1842 |
| Lyrical Ballads, 1798–1800 |
| Peter Bell, 1798–1819 |
| Intimations of Immortality, 1803–06 |
| The White Doe of Rylstone, 1807–10–15 |
| The Excursion, 1814 |
| The Prelude, 1850 |
| Sonnets |
| General |
| Francis Jeffrey (1773–1850) |
| William Lisle Bowles (1762–1850) |
| Sonnets |
| Pope Controversy |
| Margaret Fuller (1810–1850) |
| Woman in the Nineteenth Century |
| Jane Porter (1776–1850) |
| John Caldwell Calhoun (1782–1850) |
| Oratory |
| Frances Sargent Osgood (1811–1850) |
| James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851) |
| The Spy, 1821 |
| The Pilot, 1824 |
| Joanna Baillie (1762–1851) |
| John James Audubon (1785–1851) |
| Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797–1851) |
| Frankenstein, 1818 |
| David Macbeth Moir (1798–1851) |
| Thomas Moore (1779–1852) |
| Odes of Anacreon, 1800 |
| Irish Melodies, 1807–34 |
| Lalla Rookh, 1817 |
| Life of Lord Byron, 1830 |
| History of Ireland, 1835–46 |
| Daniel Webster (1782–1852) |
| Orations |
| Henry Clay (1777–1852) |
| Oratory |
| Sara Coleridge (1802–1852) |
| John Howard Payne (1791–1852) |
| Frederick William Robertson (1816–1853) |
| Amelia Opie (1769–1853) |
| John Wilson (Christopher North) (1785–1854) |
| Noctes Ambrosianæ |
| Novels |
| Poetry |
| Criticism |
| John Gibson Lockhart (1794–1854) |
| Peter’s Letters to His Kinsfolk, 1819 |
| Valerius, 1821 |
| Adam Blair, 1822 |
| Ancient Spanish Ballads, 1828 |
| Life of Sir Walter Scott, 1836–38 |
| Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1795–1854) |
| Ion, 1835 |
| Caroline Bowles Southey (1786–1854) |
| Susan Edmonstone Ferrier (1782–1854) |
| Marriage, 1818 |
| Inheritance, 1824 |
| Destiny, 1831 |
| James Montgomery (1771–1854) |
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