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Later 18th Century

Thomas Babbington (Lord) MACAULAY (1800-1859) Etext: The Online Books Page | Modern History Sourcebook | Opposing Copyright Extension Reference: The Victorian Web I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything. --William Lamb
The History of England (1849-61) [I]ts author never tired of drawing comparisons between the backwardness of earlier times and the progressiveness of his own. Whig orthodoxy--Whig complacency, too--became the measure of all political virtue, became, indeed, the measure of virtue itself. --Hilton Kramer, The New Criterion, March, 2001, p. 57
Poems

William Holmes McGUFFEY (1800-1873) Etext: The Online Books Page
Eclectic Readers (1836-37)

Alexander Sergeyevich PUSHKIN (1799-1837) Etext: The Online Books Page | Poem Hunter
Boris Godunov (1825)
Peter the Great's Negro (1828)
One star: "The Station Master" from Tales of Belkin (1831)
One star: Eugene Onegin (1833) The eight 'chapters', or more properly 'canti', of the verse novel each contain some fifty fourteen-line stanzas, ranging from the expression of Pushkin's own poetic theories, parody, and polemics, on the one hand, to the most exquisite songs... --Philip Ward, A Lifetime's Reading (1982) p. 146 A variation on Byron's 'Don Juan,' 'Eugene Onegin' is a tale of loves at cross-purposes, jealousy and a fatal duel, whose charm resides as mucn in the author's digressions as in his spinning out of the narrative itself. --Richard Lourie, 'The New York Times Book Review' September 12, 1999 p. 44
Queen of Spades (1834)
The Captain's Daughter (1836)
Dubrovsky (1841)
Collected Poetry

James HOGG (1799-1845) Etext: The Online Books Page
Kilmeny(The Queen's Wake 1813)
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824)

Thomas HOOD (1799-1845) Etext: The Online Books Page
Poems

Honore de BALZAC (1799-1850) Etext: The Online Books Page
One star: The Wild Ass's Skin (La Peau de Chagrin 1831)
One star: Louis Lambert (1832) an autobiographical novel of a boy prodigy... --Philip Ward, A Lifetime's Reading (1982) p. 35
Three stars: Eugenie Grandet (1833) tracing the rise of a small vine-grower to a position of wealth and power... --Philip Ward, A Lifetime's Reading (1982) p. 35
Three stars: Le Pere Goriot (1835) showing 'civilized' Paris as an urban 'jungle'... --Philip Ward, A Lifetime's Reading (1982) p. 35
One star: The Girl with the Golden Eyes (Fille aux yeux d’or 1835)
Seraphita (1835) ...Swedenborgian romance... --Philip Ward, A Lifetime's Reading (1982) p. 36
Cesar Birotteau (1838)
One star: Ursule Mirouet (1841)
Two stars: La Cousine Bette (1846)
One star: A Harlot High and Low (Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes 1847)
Cousin Pons (1847)

Giacomo LEOPARDI (1798-1837) Etext: Project Gutenberg
One star: Canti (1820-1837)
Essays and Dialogues (translated by Charles Edwards 1882)
The Moral Essays (translated by Patrich Creagh 1983)

Adam Bernard MICKIEWICZ (1798-1855) Etext: The Online Books Page
Pan Tadeusz (1834)

Auguste COMTE (Isadore Auguste Marie Francois Comte 1798-1857) Etext: The Online Books Page
Two stars: A Course of Positive Philosophy (1830-42) According to his system, the laws established by science reveal a cosmic order, a permanent order of human societies, and an order of historical development. --Raymond Aron, 'The Opium of the Intellectuals' (1957), p. 279 The procession is from the simple to the complex, with each field supplying basic elements for the science that follows it. Furthermore, Comte states, each branch of knowledge has passed through the three historical stages: the theological, the metaphysical or abstract, and the scientific or positive. --Robert B. Downs, Molders of the Modern Mind (1961), p. 225 [his] religious interests suffused positivism with a metaphysics strongly influenced by Catholic theology. --Carolina Armenteros, 'From Human Nature to Norman Humanity: Joseph de Maistre, Rousseau, and the Origins of Moral Statistics', Journal of the History of Ideas, January 2007, p. 108

Adalbert STIFTER (1797-1868)
Indian Summer
Tales

Mary SHELLEY (1797-1851) Etext: Reference: Criticism: post
One star: Frankenstein (1818)

Jeremias GOTTHELF (1797-1854)
The Black Spider

Heinrich HEINE (1797-1856) Etext: The Online Books Page
Complete Poems

Alfred de VIGNY (1797-1863) Etext: The Online Books Page
Chatterton
Poems

GHALIB (Mirza Asadullah beg Khan, 1797 or 1798-1869) ...generally regarded as the greatest of Urdu poets. --A Guide to Oriental Classics (3rd Ed. 1989) p. 148
One star: Divan-i-Ghalib [Ghazals of Ghalib]

Sir Charles LYELL (1797-1875) Etext: The Online Books Page which the future historian will recognize as having produced a revolution in natural science... --Charles Darwin, 'The Origin of Species' (1859), Ch. IX
One star: Principles of Geology (1830-33) full title: Principles of Geology, Being an Attempt to Explain the Former Changes of the Earth's Surface, by Reference to Causes Now in Operation His three-volume 'Principles of Geology' (1830-1833) and his 'Elements of Geology' (1838) still remain the foundation works of modern geology ... --Jane Jacobs, The New York Review of Books, July 19, 2001, p. 30
The Antiquity of Man (1863)

W. H. PRESCOTT (1796-1859) Etext: The Online Books Page He frequently [due to his impaired eyesight] kept about sixty pages in his memory for several days, and went over the whole mass five or six times, molding and remolding the sentences at each successive turn. --Allan Nevins, 'The Gateway to History' p. 376, quoted in 'The Lawyer's Guide to Writing Well' by Tom Goldstein and Jethro K. Lieberman, p. 96
One star: History of the Conquest of Mexico (1843)
History of the Conquest of Peru (1847)

John KEATS (1795-1821) Etext: The Online Books Page
Letter to Benjamin Bailey (Nov. 22, 1817)
Two stars: Endymion (1818)
Letter to John Taylor (Feb. 27, 1818)
Letter to John H. Reynolds (May 3, 1818)
Letter to George and Georgiana Keats (c. Oct. 25, 1818)
Two stars: The Eve of St. Agnes
Epistle to John Hamilton Reynolds
Fancy
I Stood Tiptoe Upon a Little Hill
Lamia
Lines on the Mermaid Tavern
One star: Ode to a Grecian Urn
One star: Ode to a Nightingale
One star: On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
Ode to Psyche
La Belle Dame sans Merci
Ode on Melancholy
Hyperion
To Autumn

George DARLEY (1795-1846)
Nepenthe
Poems

Thomas CARLYLE (1795-1881) Etext: The Online Books Page | Letters Criticism: Brownson
One star: Sartor Resartus (1833-34)
One star: History of the French Revolution (1837)
One star: On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (1841) This historian-essayist held the theory that the history of mankind consisted in the biographies of its great men and that there was such a cult as hero worhip. To an author with such a preconceived theory the temptation to strain facts to illustrate it is well-nigh irrestistible. --Philip K. Hitti, 'Islam and the West' (1962) pp. 61-62
Past and Present (1843) But in an age when religious belief and the social order were increasingly under assault, Carlyle's 'gospel of earnestness,' as it was called, was a revelation. --Rochelle Gursein, 'The Case of Thomas Carlyle', The American Scholar, Summer 2001, p. 81
One star: Frederick the Great (1858-65)

John Gibson LOCKHART (1794-1854) Etext: The Online Books Page
The Life of Robert Burns (1828)
Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott (1836-38)

George GROTE (1794-1871)
The History of Greece (1846-1856)

William Cullen BRYANT (1794-1878) Etext: The Online Books Page
One star: Robert of Lincoln
One star: To a Waterfowl

Nicolas LOBACHEVSKI (1793-1856) Reference: Non-Euclidean
Geometrical Researches on the Theory of Parallels (1840)

John CLARE ( 1793-1864) Etext: The Online Books Page
Poems

Percy Bysshe SHELLEY (1792-1822) Etext: The Online Books Page Criticism: Kirsch [A] man infinitely too weak for that solitary scaling of the Alps which he undertook in spite of all the world. --Thomas Carlyle
One star: Queen Mab (1813)
One star: The Revolt of Islam (1818)
One star: Ozymandias (1818)
One star: Peter Bell the Third (1819)
One star: Prometheus Unbound (1820)
One star: To a Skylark (1820)
Ode to the West Wind (1820)
One star: Adonais (1821)
One star: Hellas (1821)
One star: To ---- (Posthumous Poems 1824) 'One Word is Too Often Profaned...'
One star: A Defence of Poetry [1821] (1840)

Johann Peter ECKERMANN (1792-1854)
Conversations with Goethe (1836)

Sir John HERSCHEL (1792-1871) Etext: The Online Books Page
Outlines of Astronomy (1849)

Sergey AKSAKOV (1791-1859) Reference: ArtNet
A Family Chronicle

Giuseppe Gioacchino BELLI (1791-1863)
One star: The Roman Sonnets (1886-1889)

Michael FARADAY (1791-1867) Etext: The Online Books Page His discoveries laid the foundation for the electric motor and the electrical generator, and thus for electrification in general. --The Economist, August 3rd 2002, p. 70
One star: Experimental Researches in Electricity (1839-55)
The Chemical History of a Candle (1860-61)
Observations on Mental Education

Franz GRILLPARZER (1791-1872) Etext: Infomotions
Medea (1820) the last play in Grillparzer's 'Golden Fleece' trilogy: it is less about the daughter of the King of Colchis than about the fleece itself, which symbolizes guilt, victory, and revenge, ambition and wilfulness. --Philip Ward, A Lifetime's Reading (1982) p. 41

Alphonse de LAMARTINE (1790-1869)
Meditations

James Fenimore COOPER (1789-1851) Etext: The Online Books Page Reference: Phillips
The Deerslayer

Lord BYRON (George Gordon, 1788-1824) Etext: The Online Books Page Reference: see Moore | Web Ring Criticism: Shulevitz | Wasserman | Barton | Hitchens | Stowe Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects he is a child. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One star: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1812)
Two stars: Don Juan (1819-24) It is the greatest comic epic in English, greater even than 'Tristram Shandy', the only other work remotely like it. --Paul Dean, The New Criterion, June 2003, p. 85
One star: The Prisoner of Chillon
One star: The Destruction of Sennacherib
One star: The Isles of Greece
One star: Beppo
One star: The Dream
One star: Inscription on the Monument of a New Foundland Dog
One star: Manfred
One star: Sardanapalus
One star: She Walks in Beauty
One star: Stanzas Written on the Road between Florence and Pisa

Joseph, Freiherr von EICHENDORFF (1788-1857)
Memoirs of a Good-for-Nothing (1826)

Arthur SCHOPENHAUER (1788-1860) Etext: The Online Books Page Criticism: Walden It is hard to take Schopenhauer at his ascetic word when we know what splendid dinners he had put on, day after day, at the Hotel Schwan in Frankfort. --Philip Rieff, The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith After Freud (1966) p. 17
One star: The World as Will and Idea (1819)
Parega und Paralipomena (1851)
On the Fourfold Root of the Principal of Sufficient Reason (1864)
Essays

One star: The Constitution of the United States of America (1787) Reference: The Constitutional Sources Project | Interpreting Our Written Constititution | The Founders' Constitution | SCOTUSblog | The Founders' Constitution | Liberty Criticism: Novak | Kaminski | Hertzberg | Arkes | Smith | Smith | Arkes | Uhlmann | Baldacchino | Ahern | Smith | Hoebeke | Uhlmann | Wagner | Craycraft | Mansfield | Adler | Intercollegiate Review | Brownson | see The Federalist Humor: Onion | Onion The Articles of Confederation established a league of thirteen sovereign states, deriving its power from the states. The Constitution, however, established a new sovereign government, deriving its power directly from the people. ----Peter Wolff, Philosophy of Law and Jurisprudence (1961), p. 194

Three stars: The Federalist (1787-1788) Etext: The Online Books Page Reference: The Perennial Publius | Liberty Library full title 'The Federalist: A Collection of Essays Written in Favor of the New Constitution' They were articles written for several New York newspapers, in order to urge the people of the state of New York to ratify the Constitution. --Peter Wolff, A General Introduction to the Great Books and to a Liberal Education (1959), p. 161
By "PUBLIUS" (Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison)

F. P. G. GUIZOT (1787-1874) Etext: The Online Books Page
General History of Civilization in Europe (1837)
History of Civilization in France (1845)

Thomas Love PEACOCK (1785-1866) Etext: The Online Books Page
Nightmare Abbey
Gryll Grange

Alessandro MANZONI (1785-1873) Etext: The Online Books Page In Manzoni's house in Milan, in the room where he died in 1873, his rosary is pinned to the pillow of his deathbed. --Ralph McInerney, Crisis, October 2001, p. 64
One star: The Betrothed: a Tale of XVII Century Milan (I Promessi Sposi 1840-42)
On the Historical Novel

Thomas DE QUINCEY (1785-1859) Criticism: Ward Etext: The Online Books Page
One star: Confessions of an English Opium Eater (1821)

Jacob Ludwig Carl GRIMM (1785-1863) and Wilhelm Carl GRIMM (1786-1859) Etext: The Online Books Page
One star: Fairy Tales (Kinder- und Hausmarchen 1812-1815) Criticism: Gaiman | Zaleski

Leigh HUNT (1784-1859) Criticism: Glover
Abou Ben Adhem (The Book of Gems 1838)
Autobiography (1850)

STENDHAL (Henri Beyle, 1783-1842) Etext: The Online Books Page
Three stars: The Red and the Black (Le Rouge et le Noir 1830) Criticism: Rexroth Today, poor people have innumerable career options: personal training, consulting, cabaret. If Stendhal were writing today, what color would he use to symbolize a career as a private equity fund manager? --Joe Queenan, There Will Be a Quiz, New York Times, April 6, 2008 --
Two stars: The Charterhouse of Parma (La Chartreuse de Parma 1839) Criticism: Greenberg 'The Charterhouse of Parma' was dashed off by Stendhal in fifty-two days, at the end of 1838; and the circumstances of its composition (or should I say performance?) show: in its penchant for summary, in its likeness to a single whoosh of sustained exhalation, in its tour-de-force bravura quality, but also in its repetitions and hasty summing-up. --Phillip Lopate, 'The Worldly Stendhal', The American Scholar, Winter 2001, p. 140
One star: On Love (1928)

Washington IRVING (1783-1859) Etext: Reference: Criticism: post
The Sketch Book by Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. (1819-1820)

John C. CALHOUN (1782-1850) Etext: The Online Books Page | Team Nesbitt | Project Gutenberg Calhoun, however, emphatically denies that man is either a simple prepolitical solitary or a political being. He declares instead that man is a social being, and his sociality takes precedence over political life. --Brendan Dunn, Review of Politics, Fall 2001
Disquisition on Government Calhoun's sophisticated theory of the 'concurrent majority' as the American republic's alternative to both despotism and anarchy holds much that might appeal, if they understood it, to both liberal and conservative parties today. --First Things, December 2001, p. 66
Speech on the Reception of Abolitionist Petitions (1837)

The Articles of Confederation (1781) Etext: The Online Books Page Reference: Liberty Library

Charles MATURIN (1780-1824)
Melmoth the Wanderer

Karl von CLAUSEWITZ (1780-1831) Etext: The Online Books Page Criticism: Fleming
One star: On War (1832-34)

John GALT (1779-1839) Etext: The Online Books Page
The Entail

Thomas MOORE (1779-1852) Etext: The Online Books Page [O]ver-intellectual modern-day critics should take a lesson from his capacity to write intelligently about emotion. --The Economist, January 27th 2001, p. 85
The Life, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron (1830)
The Light of Other Days
Pro Patria Mori
The Meeting of the Waters
The Last Rose of Summer
The Harp that Once Through Tara's Halls
A Canadian Boat-Song
The Journey Onwards
The Young May Moon
Echo
At the Mid Hour of Night

Ugo FOSCOLO (1778-1827)
On Sepulchres
Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis
Odes
The Graces

Sir Humphry DAVY (1778-1829)
Elements of Chemical Philosophy (1812)

William HAZLITT (1778-1830) Etext: The Online Books Page Criticism: Bromwich | Epstein
Lectures on the English Poets (1818)

Heinrich von KLEIST (1777-1811)
Erzanlungen (1810-1811)
Amphitryon
The broken jug
One star: Penthesilea (1808) a clash between the heroine as wholly feminine and Achilles the hero as wholly masculine. --Philip Ward, A Lifetime's Reading (1982) p. 41
Prince Frederick of Homburg
The tragedy of Robert Guiscard, Duke of the Normans
Stories

Thomas CAMPBELL (1777-1844)
The Pleasures of Hope (1799)
Poems

Henry HALLAM (1777-1859) Etext: The Online Books Page
Europe in the Middle Ages (1818)
Introduction to the Literature of Europe (1837-39)

One star: The Declaration of Independence (1776) Etext: Reference: Criticism: post Humor: Mencken The Declaration of Independence is largely the work of Thomas Jefferson... --Peter Wolff, A General Introduction to the Great Books and to a Liberal Education (1959), p. 161 The fundamental doctrine of the right of revolution, or at least of secession from a tyrranical overlord, is based on Jefferson's (correct) reading of Locke's 'Essay on Civil Government'. The doctrine, in a nutshell, holds that a people who are now tyrranized by a government that may have once been legitimate have every right to rebel, or at least secede, in order to protect themselves. --Charles Van Doren, The Joy of Reading (1985) p. 247 the first public diplomacy document of the United States. Everything done in U.S. public diplomacy is, or should be, an elaboration of this pronouncement. --Robert B. Reilly, Winning the War of Ideas, Claremont Review of Books, Summer 2007, p. 35

E. T. A. HOFFMANN (1776-1822) Etext: The Online Books Page
The Devil's Elixir
Tales

Jane AUSTEN (1775-1817) Etext: Reference: Criticism: post
Three stars: Pride and Prejudice (1813)
Mansfield Park (1814)
Two stars: Emma (1816)
One star: Persuasion (1817)

Charles LAMB (1775-1834) Etext: The Online Books Page
One star: Essays of Elia (1823)
The Last Essays of Elia (1833)

Walter Savage LANDOR (1775-1864) Etext: The Online Books Page
One star: Imaginary Conversations (1824-29)
Poems

Robert SOUTHEY (1774-1843) Etext: The Online Books Page Criticism: Bromwich
The Life of Nelson (1813)

NOVALIS (Friedrich von Hardenburg, 1772-1801) Etext: The Online Books Page
Hymns to the Night
Aphorisms

David RICARDO (1772-1823) Etext: Study: Reference: Criticism: post
The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (1817)

Friedrich SCHLEGEL (1772-1829) Etext: The Online Books Page
Criticism
Aphorisms

Samuel Taylor COLERIDGE (1772-1834) Etext: The Online Books Page Reference: The Coleridge Archive Criticism: Rexroth | Everett
Two stars: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798)
One star: Writings on Shakespeare (1811-1812)
One star: Christabel (1816)
Two stars: Kubla Khan (1816) He had set down a fragment of fewer than three hundred lines when he was interrupted by 'a person from Porlock' and his train of thought was never reconstructed. --Philip Ward, A Lifetime's Reading (1982) p. 10
One star: Biographia Literaria (1817)
One star: Aids to Reflection (1825)
One star: Table Talk and Omniana (1835)

Sir Walter SCOTT (1771-1832) Etext: Reference: post Literary fashion is a mysterious thing. Why is it that Sir Walter Scott, for example, whom generations of readers found absolutely spellbinding, is unread and, for many of us, unreadable today? --Roger Kimball, The New Criterion, December 2000, p. 4
The Lady of the Lake (1810)
One star: Waverly; or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since (1814)
Ivanhoe (1820)
One star: Heart of Midlothian (1818)
Poems
Redgauntlet
Old Mortality

Dorothy WORDSWORTH (1771-1855) Criticism: Mallaby
The Grasmere Journal

Robert OWEN (1771-1858) Etext: The Online Books Page A manufacturer and practical reformer, he was not content to conceive--or adopt--the idea of small self-sufficing communities, producing and consuming their means of livelihood according to communist principles in the word's boldest acceptance. He actually went about realizing it. --Joseph Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (3rd ed. 1950) Ch. XXIV pp. 306-307
A New of Society, or, Essays on the Formation of the Human Character (1813-14)

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HEGEL (1770-1831) Etext: The Online Books Page Criticism: Ricci | Kimball Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce. --Karl Mark, 'The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte' (1852) what makes America unique, especially in contrast to Europe, is its resistance to the philosophy of Hegel with its concept of a unifying world spirit. --Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Blind Faiths, review of 'The Suicide of Reason: Radical Islams' Threat to the Enlightenment', by Lee Harris, The New York Times Book Review, January 6, 2007, p. 15
The Phenomenology of Spirit (1807) No one could ever inveigle Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Into offering the slightest apology for his 'Phenomenology.' --W. H. Auden
The Science of Logic (1812-1816) This is Spinosism in its most superficial form. --Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Collected Works 12, Marginalia II, 993
One star: The Philosophy of Right (1821) If there were only subjective freedom, then state and freedom would be opposed, since the state limits the extent to which an individual can do as he pleases. But since there is objective freedom, the freedom that comes from doing one's duty, the state serves freedom. A subject's duties and rights are determined for him by the state. Hence, in the state, and only in the state, can man be free. --Peter Wolff, The Development of Political Theory and Government (1959), p. 202 ...it is one of his basic philosophical assumptions that 'the real is the ideal'--that thought is the most basic and concrete thing there is in the world. Attention to the manifold materials of experience contributes nothing but confusion when we are looking for principles. It is thought alone which can get at the essence of things. ----Peter Wolff, Philosophy of Law and Jurisprudence (1961), p. 208 Hegel identifies the ethical with the universal and concrete--both at once. He acknowledges the partial validity of the sense of duty and the important factor of individual conscience in moral matters, but, unlike Kant, he refuses to accept what he calls mere 'morality' as the central aspect of ethics. For Hegel, ethics in its perfection is social, not individual. --Seymour Cain, Ethics: The Study of Moral Values (1962), p. 242 Whether or not we accept the dialectical method and all that is implied in it, Hegel's distinction between the three spheres of political life, family, civil society, and state, and his account of the rights and duties which arise within each one, carries great conviction. --Roger Scruton, Conservative Texts, p. 130
One star: The Philosophy of History (1830-31) To his mind, America was deficient because it lacked a state church, a European-style ministry of culture, and receptivity to the rationalized Protestantism that he sought to advance. --Thomas Albert Howard, 'America in the European Mind', First Things, November 2006, p. 13
The Philosophy of Religion (1832)
Philosophy of Fine Art (1886)
Selections (1929) or the Philosophy of Hegel: Hegel's Basic Writings (1965)

Friedrich HOLDERLIN (1770-1843) Etext: The Online Books Page Criticism: Hofmann
One star: Poems and Fragments

William WORDSWORTH (1770-1850) Etext: The Online Books Page Wordsworth, like Freud,...knew that the child's way of apprehension was but a stage which, in the course of nature, would give way to another. --Lionel Trilling
Expostulation and Reply (1798)
The Tables Turned (1798)
We Are Seven (1798)
Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1800)
Westminster Bridge (1807)
It is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free (1807)
London 1802 (1807)
My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold (1807)
Nuns Fret Not at Their Convent's Narrow Room (1807)
The World Is Too Much With Us (1807)
Three stars: The Excursion (1814)
Ecclesiastical Sonnets (1822)
Scorn Not the Sonnet (1827)
The Borderers (1842)
The Simplon Pass (1845)
One star: The Prelude (1850)
A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal
The Small Calandine
Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle
Thought of a Briton on the Subjugation of Switzerland
Influence of Natural Objects
Tintern Abbey
She Dwelt Among Untrodden Ways
I Traveled Among Unknown Men
The Solitary Reaper
Ode to Duty
To Sleep
Personal Talk
Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollection of Early Childhood

Georges CUVIER (1769-1832) Etext: The Online Books Page Based on his research, he originated the idea of different geological epochs in the past. Before Cuvier, the past was just the same as the present, and all the species the same. --Edward J. Larson, Before Darwin, 'The Theory of Evolution: A History of Controversy' Lecture 1, The Teaching Company
The Surface of the Globe (1825)

Alexander von HUMBOLDT (Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt 1769-1859) Etext: Reference: Criticism: post
One star: Cosmos (1845-47)

Encyclopaedia Britannica [1st Ed. 1768, 11th Ed. 1910-11 When T. S. Eliot wrote 'Soul curled upon the window seat reading the Encyclopaedia Britannica' he was certainly thinking of the eleventh edition. --Kenneth Clark, 15th Ed. 1975] Etext: 15th Edition | Rexroth | 11th Edition Reference: Britannica Blog | Wikipedia

Jean-Baptiste-Joseph FOURIER (1768-1830)
Analytical Theory of Heat (Theorie analytique de la chaleur 1822) wrote a set of equations that accurately described how heat behaves regardless of what it 'really' is, which, Fourier contended, was not a scientific question at all. --Science Wars: What Scientists Know and How They Know It, by Steven L. Goodman, The Teaching Company

Vicomte Francois-Rene de CHATEAUBRIAND (1768-1848)
One star: Memoirs from Beyond the Grave (1849-50)
Atala
Rene
The Genius of Christianity

Benjamin CONSTANT (1767-1830)
Adolphe
The Red Notebook

Maria EDGEWORTH (1767-1849) Etext: The Online Books Page
Castle Rackrent

Madame de STAEL nee Germaine Necker (1766-1817) Criticism: Lewis
Memoirs (c. 1755)

Thomas Robert MALTHUS (1766-1834) Etext: The Online Books Page Study: Roberts
Two stars: An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798) Malthus's 'Essay on the Principle of Population as it affects the Future Improvement of Society', originally published in 1798, asserts that the human race naturally breeds too fast for its food supply. The consequence--anounced with the sangfroid common then among philosophical men of the upper class--is that the poor are miserable and will always remain so. --D. T. Max, 'Two Cheers for Darwin', The American Scholar, Spring 2003, p. 70 Malthus saw the human population experiencing what appeared to be exponential growth, and he pointed out correctly that exponential growth could not be sustained forever. Malthus predicted that there would soon be rising mortality rates as an inevitable consequence of overpopulation. --Stephen Nowicki, The Science of Life: Lecture 71, Human Population Growth, The Teaching Company

John DALTON (1766-1844)
One star: A New System of Chemical Philosophy (1808-27)

Johann Paul Friedrich RICHTER "Jean Paul" (1763-1825)
Autobiography (1825)

Johann Gottlieb FICHTE (1762-1814) Parenthetically, neither Marx nor Hegel ever used the 'thesis, antithesis, synthesis' formulation. They owe the phrase to Fichte. --Robert L. Heilbroner, 'Marxism: For and Against' (1980) p. 42 Gentlemen! Look at the washbasket! Let your thoughts be the washbasket! Have you thought the washbasket? Now then, gentlemen, let your thought be on *that* that thought the washbasket! --Penelope Fitzgerald, 'The Blue Flower', quoted in 'Between head & heart: Penelope Fitzgerald's Novels' by Tess Lewis, 'The New Criterion' March 2000 p. 35
The Vocation of Man (1800)
Address to the German Nation (1807-08)

William COBBETT (1762-1835) Etext: The Online Books Page
Rural Rides (1830)

Robert BURNS (1759-1796) Etext: The Online Books Page Reference: Burns Country | Lockhart
One star: Poems (1759-96)
One star: Songs

Mary WOLLSTONECRAFT (1759-1797) Etext: The Online Books Page | Online Library of Liberty Reference: Jump Criticism: Eilenberg
Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792) They were entitled, she argued, to a good education, the opening of the professions and an end to their embittering dependence on men. --Richard Davenport-Hines, The New York Times Book Review, May 13, 2001 p. 18

Friedrich von SCHILLER (1759-1805) Etext: The Online Books Page Criticism: Kimball He is one of the most conspicuous and most impressive figures among the host of theologically displaced persons who found a precarious refuge in the emergency camp of art. --Erich Heller
One star: Don Carlos, Infant von Spanien: ein dramatisches Gedicht (1787)
One star: Mary Stuart (Maria Stuart 1800) showing Elizabeth I's confrontation with the Catholic Mary Stuart (which never in historical truth took place). --Philip Ward, A Lifetime's Reading (1982) p. 40
Wilhelm Tell (1804)
The Robbers
The Death of Wallenstein
On the Naive and Sentimental in Literature
Simple and Sentimental Poetry

Noah WEBSTER (1758-1843) Etext: The Online Books Page
An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)

William BLAKE (1757-1827) Etext: The Online Books Page | Blake Digital Text Project Reference: William Blake Archive Criticism: post What his genius required, and what it sadly lacked, was a framework of accepted and traditional ideas which would have prevented him from indulging in a philosophy of his own. --T. S. Eliot
One star: Poetical Sketches (1783)
Two stars: Songs of Innocence (1789)
One star: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790-1793)
Two stars: Songs of Experience (1794)
One star: Milton (1808)
One star: The Everlasting Gospel
One star: All Religions Are One
One star: There Is No Natural Religion
One star: Annotations to Discourses by Sir Joshua Reynolds
Auguries of Innocence
Gnomic Verses
Mock On, Mock On, Voltaire, Rousseau
A Vision of the Last Judgment

William GODWIN (1756-1836) Etext: The Online Books Page Criticism: Kimball
An Inquiry Concering the Principles of Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness (1793)

Alexander HAMILTON (c. 1755-1804) Criticism: post
See The Federalist
The Continentalist
Report on Manufactures

George CRABBE (1754-1832) Etext: The Online Books Page
One star: The Parish Register (1807)

Fanny BURNEY (1752-1840) Etext: The Online Books Page
Diary and Letters of Mme. D'Arblay (1842-46)
Evelina

James MADISON (1751-1826) Etext: The Online Books Page Reference: James Madison Center
see The Federalist
Letter to Thomas Jefferson (October 24, 1787)
Property (March 29, 1792) Papers 14:266-68

Richard Brinsley SHERIDAN (1751-1816) Etext: The Online Books Page Criticism: Allen
One star: The School for Scandal
One star: The Rivals

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