| J. M. Barrie.
1860–1937. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Courting of T’nowhead’s Bell |
| Jess Left Alone |
| After the Sermon |
| The Mutual Discovery |
| Lost Illusions |
| Sins of Circumstance |
| Frédéric Bastiat.
1801–1850. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Petition of Manufacturers of Artificial Light |
| Stulta and Puera |
| Inapplicable Terms |
| Charles Baudelaire.
1821–1867. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Grace Elizabeth King |
| Meditation |
| The Death of the Poor |
| Music |
| The Broken Bell |
| The Enemy |
| Beauty |
| Death |
| The Painter of Modern Life |
| Modernness |
| From ‘Little Poems in Prose’ |
| From a Journal |
| Lord Beaconsfield.
1804–1881. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Isa Carrington Cabell |
| A Day at Ems |
| The Festa in the “Alhambra” |
| Squibs from ‘The Young Duke’ |
| Lothair in Palestine |
| Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais.
1732–1799. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Brander Matthews |
| Outwitting a Guardian |
| Outwitting a Husband |
| Beaumont and Fletcher. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Ashley Horace Thorndike |
| John Fletcher.
1579–1625. |
The Faithful Shepherdess |
| Song: ‘Care-charming Sleep, thou easer of all woes’ |
| Song: ‘God Lyæus, ever young’ |
| Beaumont and Fletcher |
Aspatia’s Song |
| John Fletcher. |
Leandro’s Song |
| Francis Beaumont.
1584–1616. |
True Beauty |
| John Fletcher. |
Ode to Melancholy |
| Francis Beaumont. |
To my Dear Friend, Master Benjamin Jonson, upon His ‘Fox’ |
| On the Tombs in Westminster |
| Beaumont and Fletcher. |
Arethusa’s Declaration |
| The Story of Bellario |
| Confession of Evadne to Amintor |
| The Death of the Boy Hengo |
| Shakespeare and Fletcher. |
‘Roses, their sharp spines being gone’ |
| William Beckford.
1760–1844. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Incantation and the Sacrifice |
| Vathek and Nouronihar in the Halls of Eblis |
| Henry Ward Beecher.
1813–1887. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Lyman Abbott |
| Book-Stores and Books |
| Selected Paragraphs |
| Sermon: Poverty and the Gospel |
| A New England Sunday |
| Ludwig van Beethoven.
1770–1827. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Edward Irenæus Prime-Stevenson |
| Selected Letters |
| Carl Michael Bellman.
1740–1795. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Olga Flinch |
| To Ulla |
| Cradle-Song for My Son Carl |
| Amaryllis |
| Art and Politics |
| Drink Out thy Glass |
| Arnold Bennett.
1867–1931. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Allan Nevins |
| The Professional Reviewer |
| A Children’s Party |
| The Five Towns |
| Jeremy Bentham.
1748–1832. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Of the Principle of Utility |
| Reminiscences of Childhood |
| Letter from Bowood to George Wilson (1781) |
| Fragment of a Letter to Lord Lansdowne (1790) |
| Pierre Jean de Béranger.
1780–1857. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Alcée Fortier |
| From ‘The Gipsies’ |
| The Gad-Fly |
| Draw it Mild |
| The King of Yvetot |
| Fortune |
| The People’s Reminiscences |
| The Old Tramp |
| Fifty Years |
| The Garret |
| My Tomb |
| From his Preface to his Collected Poems |
| Henri Bergson.
1859–1941. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by William Pepperell Montague |
| From ‘Creative Evolution’ |
| George Berkeley.
1685–1753. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America |
| Essay on Tar-Water |
| Hector Berlioz.
1803–1869. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Italian Race as Musicians and Auditors |
| The Famous “Snuff-Box Treachery” |
| On Gluck |
| On Bach |
| Music as an Aristocratic Art |
| The Beginning of a “Grand Passion” |
| On Theatrical Managers in Relation to Art |
| Saint Bernard of Clairvaux.
1090/1–1153. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Saint Bernard’s Hymn |
| Monastic Luxury |
| From His Sermon on the Death of Gerard |
| Bernard of Cluny.
Twelfth Century. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by William Cowper Prime |
| Brief Life is Here Our Portion |
| Juliana Berners.
b. 1388? |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Here Begynnyth the Treatyse of Fysshynge wyth an Angle |
| Sir Walter Besant.
1836–1901. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Old-Time London |
| The Synagogue |
| Bestiaries and
Lapidaries. |
Critical Introduction by Oscar Kuhns |
| Guillaume le Clerc de Normandie.
Thirteenth Century. |
The Lion |
| The Pelican |
| The Eagle |
| The Phœnix |
| The Ant |
| The Siren |
| The Whale |
| The Crocodile |
| The Turtle-Dove |
| The Mandragora |
| Lapidaries. |
Sapphire |
| Coral |
| Willem Bilderdijk.
1756–1831. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Ode to Beauty |
| From the ‘Ode to Napoleon’ |
| Slighted Love |
| The Village Schoolmaster |
| Bion of Smyrna.
fl. c. 100 B.C. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Threnody |
| Hesper |
| Augustine Birrell.
1850–1933. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Dr. Johnson |
| The Office of Literature |
| Truth-Hunting |
| Benvenuto Cellini |
| On the Alleged Obscurity of Mr. Browning’s Poetry |
| Otto von Bismarck.
1815–1898. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Munroe Smith |
| Letters—To Frau von Arnim |
| Letters—To His Wife, 1851–9 |
| Letters—To His Brother-in-Law, Oscar von Arnim |
| Letters—To His Wife, 1862–70 |
| Personal Characteristics of the Members of the Frankfort Diet |
| From a Speech on the Military Bill |
| Björnstjerne Björnson.
1832–1910. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by William Morton Payne |
| Over the Lofty Mountains |
| The Cloister in the South |
| The Plea of King Magnus |
| Sin and Death |
| The Princess |
| Sigurd Slembe’s Return |
| How the Mountain was Clad |
| The Father |
| William Black.
1841–1898. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The End of Macleod of Dare |
| Sheila in London |
| Richard Doddridge Blackmore.
1825–1900. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| A Desperate Venture |
| A Wedding and a Revenge |
| Landing the Trout |
| A Dane in the Dike |
| William Blake.
1757–1827. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Song: ‘My silks and fine array’ |
| Song: ‘Love and harmony combine’ |
| The Two Songs |
| Night |
| The Piper and the Child |
| Holy Thursday |
| A Cradle Song |
| The Little Black Boy |
| The Tiger |
| Charles Blanc.
1813–1882. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Rembrandt |
| Albert Dürer’s ‘Melancholia’ |
| Ingres |
| Calamatta’s Studio |
| Blanc’s Début as Art Critic |
| Delacroix’s ‘Bark of Dante’ |
| Genesis of the ‘Grammar’ |
| Moral Influence of Art |
| Poussin’s ‘Shepherds of Arcadia’ |
| Landscape |
| Style |
| Law of Proportion in Architecture |
| Steen Steensen Blicher.
1782–1848. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| A Picture |
| The Knitting-Room |
| The Hosier |
| Mathilde Blind.
1841–1896. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| From ‘Love in Exile’ |
| Seeking |
| The Songs of Summer |
| A Parable |
| Love’s Somnambulist |
| The Mystic’s Vision |
| From ‘Tarantella’ |
| ‘O Moon, Large Golden Summer Moon!’ |
| Green Leaves and Sere |
| Giovanni Boccaccio.
1313–1375. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by William James Stillman |
| Frederick of the Alberighi and His Falcon |
| The Jew Converted to Christianity by Going to Rome |
| The Story of Saladin and the Jew Usurer |
| The Story of Griselda |
| Friedrich von Bodenstedt.
1819–1892. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Two |
| Wine |
| Song: ‘Down on the vast deep ocean’ |
| Unchanging |
| The Poetry of Mirza-Schaffy |
| Mirza-Schaffy |
| The School of Wisdom |
| An Excursion into Armenia |
| Mirza-Jussuf |
| Wisdom and Knowledge |
| Johann Jakob Bodmer.
1698–1783. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Kinship of the Arts |
| Poetry and Painting |
| A Tribute to Tobacco |
| Boethius.
d. 524. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Of the Greatest Good |
| Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux.
1636–1711. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Advice to Authors |
| The Pastoral, the Elegy, the Ode, and the Epigram |
| To Molière |
| Gaston Boissier.
1823–1908. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Madame de Sévigné as a Letter-Writer |
| French Society in the Seventeenth Century |
| How Horace Lived at His Country House |
| George Henry Boker.
1823–1890. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Black Regiment |
| The Sword-Bearer |
| Sonnets |
| Saint Bonaventura.
c. 1217–1274. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Thomas Davidson |
| On the Beholding of God in His Footsteps in This Sensible World |
| George Borrow.
1803–1881. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Julian Hawthorne |
| At the Horse-Fair |
| A Meeting |
| Juan Boscán.
d. 1542. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| On the Death of Garcilaso |
| A Picture of Domestic Happiness |
| Jacques Bénigne Bossuet.
1627–1704. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Adolphe Cohn |
| From the Sermon ‘Upon the Unity of the Church’ |
| Opening of the Funeral Oration on Henrietta of France |
| From the ‘Discourse upon Universal History’ |
| Public Spirit in Rome |
| James Boswell.
1740–1795. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Charles Frederick Johnson |
| An Account of Corsica |
| A Tour to Corsica |
| From the ‘Life of Samuel Johnson’ |
| Paul Bourget.
1852–1935. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Pierre Dareutiere de Bâcourt |
| The American Family |
| The Aristocratic Vision of M. Renan |
| The Divorced Mother and her Son |
| A Grand Seigneur |
| Sir John Bowring.
1792–1872. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Cross of Christ |
| Watchman! What of the Night? |
| Hymn: ‘From the recesses of a lowly spirit’ |
| From Luis de Góngora—Not All Nightingales |
| From John Kollar—Sonnet |
| From Bogdanovich (Old Russian)—Song |
| From Bobrov—The Golden Palace |
| From Dmitriev—The Dove and The Stranger |
| From Sarbiewski—Sapphics to a Rose |
| Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen.
1848–1895. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| A Norwegian Dance |
| Mary Elizabeth Braddon.
1835–1915. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Advent of the ‘Hirelings’ |
| “How Bright She Was, How Lovely Did She Show” |
| Georg Brandes.
1842–1927. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by William Morton Payne |
| Björnstjerne Björnson |
| The Historical Movement in Modern Literature |
| Sebastian Brant.
1458–1521. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Universal Shyp |
| Of Hym That Togyder Wyll Serve Two Maysters |
| Of To[o] Moche Spekynge or Bablynge |
| Pierre de Bourdeille, Seigneur de Brantôme.
d. 1614. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Dancing of Royalty |
| The Shadow of a Tomb |
| M. le Constable Anne de Montmorency |
| Two Famous Entertainments |
| Fredrika Bremer.
1801–1865. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| A Home-Coming |
| The Landed Proprietor |
| A Family Picture |
| Clemens Brentano.
1778–1842. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Nurse’s Watch |
| The Castle in Austria |
| Robert Bridges.
1844–1930. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Franklin Henry Giddings |
| The Growth of Love |
| Thou Didst Delight My Eyes |
| Gay Marigold is Frolic |
| Eugène Brieux.
1858–1932. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Clayton Meeker Hamilton |
| A Proposal of Marriage |
| Justice and the Law |
| The Destruction of the Gods |
| The Eternal Hope |
| Love and Necessity |
| John Bright.
1811–1889. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| From the Speech on the Corn Laws (1843) |
| From the Speech on Incendiarism in Ireland (1844) |
| From the Speech on Non-Recognition of the Southern Confederacy (1861) |
| From the Speech on the State of Ireland (1866) |
| From the Speech on the Irish Established Church (1868) |
| Brillat-Savarin.
1755–1826. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| From the ‘Physiology of Taste’ |
| Charlotte Brontë.
and Her Sisters. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Charlotte Brontë.
1816–1855. |
Jane Eyre’s Wedding-Day |
| Madame Beck |
| A Yorkshire Landscape |
| Emily Brontë.
1818–1848. |
The End of Heathcliff |
| Phillips Brooks.
1835–1893. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| O Little Town of Bethlehem |
| Personal Character |
| The Courage of Opinions |
| Literature and Life |
| Charles Brockden Brown.
1771–1810. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Wieland’s Statement |
| Dr. John Brown.
1810–1882. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Marjorie Fleming |
| The Death of Thackeray |
| Sir Thomas Browne.
1605–1682. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Francis Bacon |
| From the ‘Religio Medici’ |
| From ‘Christian Morals’ |
| From ‘Hydriotaphia, or Urn-Burial’ |
| From ‘A Fragment on Mummies’ |
| From ‘A Letter to a Friend’ |
| Some Relations Whose Truth We Fear |
| William Browne.
c. 1590–c. 1645. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Circe’s Charm |
| The Hunted Squirrel |
| As Careful Merchants Do Expecting Stand |
| Song of the Sirens |
| An Epistle on Parting |
| Sonnets to Cælia |
| Henry Howard Brownell.
1820–1872. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Annus Memorabilis |
| Words for the ‘Hallelujah Chorus’ |
| Coming |
| Psychaura |
| Suspiria Noctis |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
1806–1861. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| A Musical Instrument |
| My Heart and I |
| From ‘Catarina to Camoens’ |
| The Sleep |
| The Cry of the Children |
| Mother and Poet |
| A Court Lady |
| The Prospect |
| De Profundis |
| The Cry of the Human |
| Romance of the Swan’s Nest |
| The Best Thing in the World |
| Selected Sonnets from the Portuguese |
| A False Step |
| A Child’s Thought of God |
| Cheerfulness Taught by Reason |
| Robert Browning.
1812–1889. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Edward L. Burlingame |
| Andrea Del Sarto |
| A Toccata of Galuppi’s |
| Confessions |
| Love Among the Ruins |
| A Grammarian’s Funeral |
| My Last Duchess |
| Up at a Villa—Down in the City |
| In Three Days |
| In a Year |
| Evelyn Hope |
| Prospice |
| The Patriot |
| One Word More |
| Orestes Augustus Brownson.
1803–1876. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Saint-Simonism |
| Ferdinand Brunetière.
1849–1906. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Adolphe Cohn |
| Taine and Prince Napoleon |
| The Literatures of France, England, and Germany |
| Giordano Bruno.
1548–1600. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| A Discourse of Poets |
| Canticle of the Shining Ones |
| The Song of the Nine Singers |
| Of Immensity |
| Life Well Lost |
| Parnassus Within |
| Compensation |
| Life for Song |
| William Cullen Bryant.
1794–1878. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by George Parsons Lathrop |
| Thanatopsis |
| The Crowded Street |
| The Death of the Flowers |
| The Conqueror’s Grave |
| The Battle-Field |
| To a Waterfowl |
| Robert of Lincoln |
| June |
| To the Fringed Gentian |
| The Future Life |
| To the Past |
| James Bryce.
1838–1922. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Position of Women in the United States |
| The Ascent of Ararat |
| The Work of the Roman Empire |
| Francis Trevelyan Buckland.
1826–1880. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| A Hunt in a Horse-Pond |
| On Rats |
| Snakes and their Poison |
| My Monkey Jacko |
| Henry Thomas Buckle.
1821–1862. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Moral Versus Intellectual Principles in Human Progress |
| The Mythical Origin of History |
| Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon.
1707–1788. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Spencer Trotter |
| Nature |
| The Humming-Bird |
| Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton.
1803–1873. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Julian Hawthorne |
| The Amphitheatre |
| Kenelm and Lily |
| Henry Cuyler Bunner.
1855–1896. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Triolet |
| The Love-Letters of Smith |
| The Way to Arcady |
| Chant-Royal |
| John Bunyan.
1628–1688. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Edwin Pond Parker |
| The Fight with Apollyon |
| The Delectable Mountains |
| Christiana and Her Companions Enter the Celestial City |
| Gottfried August Bürger.
1747–1794. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| William and Helen |
| The Wives of Weinsberg |
| Edmund Burke.
1729–1797. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Edwin Lawrence Godkin |
| From the Speech on ‘Conciliation with America’ |
| From the Speech on ‘The Nabob of Arcot’s Debts’ |
| From the Speech on ‘The French Revolution’ |
| Frances Hodgson Burnett.
1849–1924. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| At the Pit |
| Frances (Fanny) Burney (Madame d’Arblay).
1752–1840. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Evelina’s Letter to the Rev. Mr. Villars |
| A Man of the Ton |
| Miss Burney’s Friends |
| Robert Burns.
1759–1796. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Richard Henry Stoddard |
| The Cotter’s Saturday Night |
| John Anderson, my Jo |
| Man Was Made to Mourn |
| Green Grow the Rashes |
| A Man’s a Man for A’ Tha |
| To a Mouse |
| To a Mountain Daisy |
| Tam o’ Shanter |
| Bruce to his Men at Bannockburn |
| Highland Mary |
| My Heart’s in the Highlands |
| The Banks o’ Doon |
| John Burroughs.
1837–1921. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Sharp Eyes |
| Waiting |
| Sir Richard Francis Burton.
1821–1890. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Preternatural in Fiction |
| A Journey in Disguise |
| En Route |
| Robert Burton.
1577–1640. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Conclusions as to Melancholy |
| Horace Bushnell.
1802–1876. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Theodore Thornton Munger |
| Work and Play |
| From ‘The Age of Homespun’ |
| The Founders |
| Religious Music |
| Samuel Butler.
1612–1680. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Hudibras Described |
| Samuel Butler.
1835–1902. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Jefferson Butler Fletcher |
| A Psalm of Montreal |
| The Book of the Machines |
| Lord Byron.
1788–1824. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Charles Dudley Warner |
| Maid of Athens |
| Translation of a Romaic Song |
| Greece |
| The Hellespont and Troy |
| Greece and her Heroes |
| The Isles of Greece |
| Greece and the Greeks before the Revolution |
| To Rome |
| The Coliseum |
| Chorus of Spirits |
| Venice |
| Ode to Venice |
| The East |
| Oriental Royalty |
| A Grecian Sunset |
| An Italian Sunset |
| Twilight |
| An Alpine Storm |
| The Ocean |
| The Shipwreck |
| Love on the Island |
| The Two Butterflies |
| To his Sister |
| From ‘Ode to Napoleon’ |
| The Battle of Waterloo |
| Mazeppa’s Ride |
| The Irish Avatàr |
| The Dream |
| She Walks in Beauty |
| The Destruction of Sennacherib |
| From ‘The Prisoner of Chillon’ |
| Prometheus |
| A Summing-Up |
| On this Day I Complete my Thirty-Sixth Year |
