o] as in food; [)oo], as in foot

[=u], as in use; [)u], as in up; u, as in fur; [:u], as in rule; [.u], as
in pull

[=y], as in fly; [)y], as in baby

c, as in call; c, as in mice; ch, as in child; [-c]h, as in school

g, as in go; [.g], as in cage

s, as in saw; [s=], as in is

th, as in thin; th, as in then

x, as in vex; [x=], as in exact.

NOTE. Titles of books, poems, essays, etc., are in _italics_.

_Absalom and Achitophel_ ([=a]-chit'o-fel)
_Abt Vogler_ (aept v[=o]g'ler)
Actors, in early plays;
Elizabethan
Addison;
life;
works;
hymns;
influence;
style
_Adonais_ (ad-[=o]-n[=a]'is)
Aesc (esk)
Aidan, St. ([=i]'dan)
_Aids to Reflection_
_Alastor_ ([)a]-l[)a]s-tor)
_Alchemist, The_
_Alexander's Feast_
Alfred, King;
life and times;
works
_All for Love_
_Alysoun_, or Alisoun (ael'[)y]-sown or ael'[)y]-zoon), old form of Alice
_Amelia_
_American Taxation_, Burke's speech on
_An Epistle_
_Anatomy of Melancholy_
_Ancren Riwle_ (angk'ren rol)
_Andrea del Sarto_ (aen-dr[=a]'yae del saer't[=o])
_Andreas_
Angeln
Angles, the
Anglo-Norman Period;
literature;
ballads;
lyrics;
summary;
selections for reading;
bibliography;
questions on;
chronology
_Anglo-Saxon Chronicle_
Anglo-Saxon Period;
early poetry;
springs of poetry;
language;
Christian writers;
source books;
summary;
selections for reading;
bibliography;
questions on;
chronology
Anglo-Saxons;
the name;
life;
language;
literature,
_see_ Anglo-Saxon Period.
_Annus Mirabilis_
Anselm
_Apologia_, Newman's
_Apologie for Poetrie_
_Arcadia_
_Areopagitica_ ([)a]r'=[=e]-[)o]p-[)a]-j[)i]t'[)i]-cae)
Arnold, Matthew;
life;
poetry;
prose works;
characteristics
Art, definition of
Arthurian romances
Artistic period of drama
Artistic quality of literature
Ascham, Roger
Assonance
_Astraea Redux_ ([)a]s-tr[=e]'ae r[=e]'duks)
_Astrophel and Stella_ ([)a]s'tr[=o]-fel)
_Atalanta in Calydon_ ([)a]t-[)a]-l[)a]n'tae, k[)a]l'[)i]-d[)o]n)
Augustan Age, meaning. _See_
Eighteenth-century literature
_Aurora Leigh_ ([a:]-r[=o]'rae l[=e])
Austen, Jane; life;
novels; Scott's criticism of

Bacon, Francis; life; works;
place and influence
Bacon, Roger
Ballad, the
_Ballads and Sonnets_
_Barchester Towers_
_Bard, The_
_Bard of the Dimbovitza_ (dim-bo-vitz'ae),
Roumanian folk songs
_Battle of Agincourt_ (English, [)a]j'in-k[=o]rt)
_Battle of Brunanburh_
_Bat