HOGG. The "Ettrick Shepherd." Born at Ettrick in Selkirkshire, and in early life a shepherd and farmer laborer. Though so closely following Scott in order of birth, his poems are of later date. The first in time and importance is his Queen's Wake, 1813, not written till he was forty years of age. He wrote afterward the Pilgrims of the Sun; Queen Hynde; and numerous short pieces and songs; took part with Professor Wilson in the Noctes Ambrosiane of Blackwood's Magazine; and in 1819 and 1821 edited a collection of "Jacobite Relics."

The laverock is the lark.

LAMB. Born in London. Besides the Essays of Elia and other prose works, he wrote a few poems: some printed with those of Coleridge in 1797; John Woodvil, a tragedy, 1802; the Wife's Trial, 1828; Album Verses, 1830.

LANDOR. Born at Ipsley House, Warwickshire. The magnificence of Landor's prose works has overshadowed the excellence of his poetry, ranging over nearly three-quarters of a century. Besides his most poetic prose, the Imaginary Conversations, the Citation and Examination of Shakespeare (which Lamb said " only two men could have written "), Pericles and Aspasia, and the Pentameron,—he wrote an epic poem in seven books, Gebir, in 1797; a tragedy, Count Julian, in 1811; in later time Hellenics, Heroic Idylls, Dramatic Scenes; and short poems and epigrams down to the very close of life, in his ninetieth year.

Agen is a spelling insisted upon by him.

CAMPBELL. Born at Glasgow, but, like Montgomery, only for place of birth to be called a Scottish poet. The Pleasures of Hope appeared in 1798; Gertrude of Wyoming in 1809; Theodoric in 1824. The MARINERS OF ENGLAND was written in 1800; the BATTLE OF THE BALTIC commemorates the seizure in Copenhagen harbor, by Nelson, in 1807, of the Danish fleet, to prevent its being of service to Napoleon.

MOORE. Born in Dublin. Odes of Anacreon, 1800; Irish Melodies (and Songs to other national airs), from 1807 to 1834; Lalla Rookh, 1817; Loves of the Angels, 1823.

SMITH (Horace or Horatio). Amarynthus, the Nympholept, a pastoral drama, 1821; Gaieties and Gravities, 1825. He also had part with his brother James in Rejected Addresses, parodies of Wordsworth, Byron, and other contemporary poets.

ELLIOTT. Born near Rotherham in Yorkshire. Working at his father's foundry in early days, and afterward in business as an ironmonger in Sheffield. Chiefly known as the "Corn-law Rhymer," his rhymes having materially aided the popular movement in England for repeal of the bread-tax. His longer poems are the Vernal Walk, written in his seventeenth year, 1798; and the Village Patriarch, 1829.

LEIGH HUNT. Poet and Essayist. Juvenilia appeared in 1801; his most important poem, the Story of Rimini, in 1816. Besides many shorter poems, and translations, should be noted a very noble play, the Legend of Florence, written and acted in 1840. The SONG OF PEACE is from the Descent of Liberty, a masque, written in 1814 while in prison (imprisoned for two years) for ridiculing the Prince Regent, afterward George the Fourth. The Grasshopper and Cricket (p. 63) was composed in competition with and at the same time as that by Keats, p. 101.

CUNNINGHAM. In 1810 one Cromek published Remains of Nithsdale and Galloway Song, supposed to have been collected, but certainly much of it written, by Allan Cunningham, a Dumfries stone-mason. The song at page 65 Cromek gives as sent to him by a lady; but Peter Cunningham claims it for his father, and the father printed it, with some variations, in his collected works. It is hard to know certainly what is really and entirely his, as he was in the habit (as Burns was) of adapting and completing ancient fragments: this song therefore may be taken as his, but doubtfully. He is chiefly known for his Lives of British Painters.

DARLEY. The Errors of Ecstasie, and other poems, 1822; Sylvia, or the May-Queen, a lyrical drama, 1827; Ethelstan and Becket, dramatic chronicles, 1840 and 1841.

PEACOCK. Novelist, satirist, and poet. His poetry consists of Songs in his novels (Headlong Hall, Maid Marian, Gryll Grange, etc.); Palmyra, 1806; the Genius of the Thames, 1810; Rhododaphne, a long, learned, fanciful poem, 1818 (the year of Endymion); the Deceived, a comedy, 1831; Paper-money Lyrics, 1837; and Ælia Lælia Crispis, 1862.

PROCTER. Play-wright as well as writer of Songs. Better known by his pseudonym, "Barry Cornwall." Born in London. He published Dramatic Scenes in 1819; Marcian Colonna and Mirandola, plays, in 1820 and 1821; the Flood of Thessaly, 1823; and English Songs, 1832, with additions in 1851.

DANA. Born at Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Idle Man, 1821; The Buccanier and Other Poems, 1827; Poems and Prose Writings, 1850.

BYRON. Born in London. Hours of Idleness, 1807; English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, 1809; the first two cantos of Childe Harold, 1812; the third and fourth, 1816-17; metrical romances,-the Bride of Abydos, Corsair, etc., Beppo, and Manfred, between 1813 and 1818; Marino Faliero, 1820; Heaven and Earth, Sardanapalus, the Two Foscari, and Cain, in 1821. Don Juan, his greatest work, was begun in 1818.

THE ISLES OF GREECE from Don Juan; AND Thou art DeAD, one of several poems "to Thyrza," written in 1812; the SONG OF SAUL, the PATRIOT, and SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY, from Hebrew Melodies. Byron's LAST VERSE was written at Missolonghi on the 22d of January, 1824, within three months of his death.

SHELLEY. Born at Field Place, Sussex. Queen Mab, 1813; Alastor, 1816; Laon and Cythna (the Revolt of Islam), 1817; Rosalind and Helen, 1817-18; the Cenci, the Masque of Anarchy, and Peter Bell the Third, 1819; Promotheus Unbound, Edipus Tyrannus (Swell-foot the Tyrant), and the Witch of Atlas, 1820; Epipsychidion and Adonais, 1821; Charles the First (a fragment), 1821-22; Hellas, 1822.

The different editions of Shelley (Forman's latest and best) have various readings of his poems, but not often so important as to justify departure from that issued by Mrs. Shelley. Allingham suggests pine, for fail (an evident misprint), in the second stanza of LINES TO AN INDIAN AIR; and surely strain should be taken instead of the usually printed stain in the WAIL at page 92. In the song To-NIGHT all the authorities have Day both male and female, probably following Shelley's careless manuscript. Rossetti suggests her for his in the third stanza; but the alteration in the second stanza, in our text, seems preferable, Day being always male and Night female. In most, if not all, editions wrong punctuation destroys the poetic beauty and the sense of the first four lines of A BRIDAL SONG, p. 90.

KEATS. Born in London. His first verse appeared in 1817. In 1818 he published Endymion (in which are the ROUNDELAY and HYMN TO PAN, PP. 92, 94); and in the two following years Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, his shorter poems, and the glorious fragment-Hyperion.

WOLFE. Born in Dublin. He owes his immortality to this one poem : besides which he wrote only a few songs of little importance.

Sir John Moore, in command of the British army in Spain, in the war against Napoleon, was slain at the battle of Corunna, in 1809, when covering the embarkation of his troops, in their retreat before Ney and Soult. In the last stanza but one sullenly is generally misprinted for suddenly. Wolfe's manuscript has suddenly; and in the account in the Edinburgh Annual Register (which suggested the poem) we find it stated that the burial "was hastened, for about eight in the morning some firing was heard,"- -a renewed attack feared.

HEMANS. Felicia Dorothea Browne, afterward Mrs. Hemans, was born at Liverpool. Between 1803 and 1835 she wrote numerous poems, graceful and musical, if not of high imagination or intellectuality: historic poems on Welsh, Greek, Spanish themes; two dramas, the Siege of Valencia and the Vespers of Palermo; Scenes and Hymns of Life; Songs of the Affections; translations from Horace; etc., etc.

BRYANT. Born at Cummington, Massachusetts. The Embargo, 1809; The Ages, 1821; Poems, 1832; The Fountain and Other Poems, 1842; The White-Footed Deer and Other Poems, 1844; Poems, 1846; Letters of a Traveller, 1850; Thirty Poems, 1863; Letters from the East, 1859; Translation of the Iliad, 1870; Translation of the Odyssey, 1871–72.

CARLYLE. Some few slight verses were written by the great historian and essayist.

REYNOLDS, Hood's brother-in-law. The author of Peter Bell the Second, making fun of Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads, in the same year as and seemingly suggestive of Shelley's Peter Bell the Third, a profounder and more elaborate criticism, serious though jocose. He wrote also the Garden of Florence, with other poems, "by John Hamilton," 1821.

COLERIDGE (Hartley), eldest son of the Poet, wrote a number of minor poems, published in 1833.

MOTHERWELL. Born at Glasgow. Poems, lyrical and narrative, 1832-3. In 1827 he edited Ancient and Modern Minstrelsy (a collection). Beltane-May-day; Yule-Christmas; blinks-glances; ae laigh bink— one low seat; leir ilk ither lear-teach each other; loof-palm; brentburn'd; weans-children; cleek'd-hook'd, clung; skailt-dispersed ; speel—climb; hinnied—honey'd; simmer—summer; deavin'—deafening; croon-murmur; whusslit-whistled; knowe-knoll; abune or aboonabove; grat-wept ; gin-if; grit-full.

HOOD. Born in London. Great not only as a humorist, but also as a serious poet, though not so recognized until the appearance of his Song of the Shirt in Punch, in 1843, barely two years before his death. The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies (with Hero and Leander, Lycus the Centaur, and other poems) was printed in 1827. Tylney Hall, a novel (in which our poem of CONSTANCY), came out in 1834; Miss Kilmansegg and her Golden Leg, a serio-comic poem, in 1840; the Haunted House and the Bridge of Sighs in 1844.

WELLS. The friend of Keats. Author of Joseph and his Brethren, a Scriptural drama, published with the pseudonym of Howard," in 1824, republished in 1876. He wrote also poetical-prose Stories after Nature, in one of which is the SONG at page 124.

TAYLOR (Sir Henry). Dramatist. His principal work is Philip Van Artevelde, an historical play, published in 1834. His other plays are Isaac Comnenus, Edwin the Fair, A Sicilian Summer (called in the first edition the Virgin Widow), and St. Clement's Eve.

BARNES. The Rev. William Barnes, a Dorsetshire clergyman, is author of some three or four hundred, or more, poems of rural life, in the Dorset dialect, and others in common English.

NEWMAN. John Henry, Cardinal Newman. Verses on several occasions, 1868. THE ELEMENTS, p. 127, written in 1833; A VOICE FROM AFAR, 1829.

MARTINEAU. This single hymn and a song in one of her tales may entitle Harriet Martineau to a corner in our anthologies.

BEDDOES. The son of Dr. Beddoes (physician) and nephew of Maria Edgeworth. He published the Improvisatore in 1821 and the Bride's Tragedy in 1822. Death's Fest Book, or the Fool's Tragedy, the Second Brother and Torrismond (unfinished dramas), dramatic fragments and poems, were printed after his death.

HORNE. Poet, dramatist, and prose writer. He has published,-in 1835, the Death of Marlowe, a tragedy in one act; in 1837, Cosmo de' Medici, a tragedy; in 1840, Gregory the Seventh, a tragedy, and the DeathFetch; in 1843, Orion, an epic poem; in 1846, Ballad Romances; in 1864, Prometheus the Fire-Bringer (written in Australia); in 1880, Laura Di