r's English Reprints (Macmillan).
New Mediaeval Library (Duffield).
Arthurian Romances Series (Nutt).
Morley's Universal Library (Routledge).
Cassell's National Library (Cassell).
Bohn Libraries (Macmillan).
Temple Dramatists (Macmillan).
Mermaid Series of English Dramatists (Scribner).
NOTE. We have included in the above list all the editions of which we have
any personal knowledge, but there are doubtless others that have escaped
attention.
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Biography
Dictionary of National Biography, 63 vols. (Macmillan), is the standard.
English Men of Letters Series (Macmillan).
Great Writers Series (Scribner).
Beacon Biographies (Houghton, Mifflin).
Westminster Biographies (Small, Maynard).
Hinchman and Gummere's Lives of Great English Writers (Houghton, Mifflin)
is a good single volume, containing thirty-eight biographies.
NOTE. For the best biographies of individual writers, see the
Bibliographies at the ends of the preceding chapters.
_SELECTIONS_
Manly's English Poetry and Manly's English Prose (Ginn and Company) are the
best single-volume collections, covering the whole field of English
literature.
Pancoast's Standard English Poetry, and Pancoast's Standard English Prose
(Holt).
Oxford Book of English Verse, and Oxford Treasury of English Literature, 3
vols. (Clarendon Press).
Page's British Poets of the Nineteenth Century (Sanborn).
Stedman's Victorian Anthology (Houghton, Mifflin).
Ward's English Poets, 4 vols.; Craik's English Prose Selections, 5 vols.;
Chambers's Encyclopedia of English Literature, etc.
_MISCELLANEOUS_
The Classic Myths in English Literature (Ginn and Company).
Adams's Dictionary of English Literature.
Ryland's Chronological Outlines of English Literature.
Brewer's Reader's Handbook.
Botta's Handbook of Universal Literature.
Ploetz's Epitome of Universal History.
Hutton's Literary Landmarks of London.
Heydrick's How to Study Literature.
For works on the English language see Bibliography of the Norman period, p.
65.
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INDEX
KEY TO PRONUNCIATION
[=a], as in fate; [)a], as in fat; ae, as in arm; [a:], as in all; [a.], as
in what; a, as in care
[=e], as in mete; [)e], as in met; e, as in there
[=i], as in ice; [)i], as in it; i, as in machine
[=o], as in old; [)o], as in not; [o:], as in move; [.o], as in son; o, as
in horse; [=o
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