edition at present current, in 4 vols., edited by W. C. Hazlitt with the co-operation of a number of scholars, including Furnivall and Henry Sweet. The prefaces and dissertations are placed in vol. I; vol. II covers the time from the Anglo-Saxon period to Chaucer; vol. III, Chaucer to Surrey; vol. IV, Writers of the XVI century. According to a statement made by Furnival in Trial Forew. p. 99, he is the adviser alluded to in Hazlitt's preface p. ix, at whose suggestion "the wrong, obsolete, and insufficient parts" of Warton were cut out, and "made right by insertions in brackets." Also "large additions" were made, and "all the notes incorporated with the texts." ... Of this edition Sidney Lee says in the Dict. Nat. Biog., art. Warton, that Warton's text was "ruthlessly abbreviated or extended in an illadvised attempt to bring the information up to the latest level of philological research." Of the work in its original form Lee says that it "is impregnated by an intellectual vigor which reconciles the educated reader to almost all its irregularities and defects." In these opinions every Early English student will coincide. For all scholarly purposes, the first edition of Warton is much the most desirable, though reference is made to WartonHazlitt because of its greater accessibility. It is not possible to discover from the edition of 1871 what Warton's original statements were, e.g., Warton said, "There is a further proof that the Floure and the Lefe preceded the Confessio Amantis"; which in 1871 becomes "There is [an indication] that the [writer of the] Flower and the Leaf [studied] the Confessio Amantis.” Another edition of the first Warton has not the "Emendations and Additions" at the end of vol. II, but has at the close of vol. III a separately paged "Observations on the Three First Volumes of the History of English Poetry, in a Familiar Letter to the Author." This letter, of 1782, is by Joseph Ritson, and is expressed in Ritson's usual violent and abusive style. He terms Warton's work "an injudicious farrago, a gallimaufry of things which do and do not belong to the subject,-a continued tissue of falsehood from beginning to end." He advises Warton to consult Tyrwhitt in revising his work; and it may be noted that the Emendations and Additions, when they appeared, contained, as above remarked, frequent allusions to Tyrwhitt. Ritson was severely censured for the disregard of decency in this attack upon Warton. On Warton see Courthope, Hist. Eng. Poetry I, preface. Wright. Anecdota Litteraria. Lond. 1844. A collection of English, French, and Latin poems of the 13th century. Anglo-Latin Satirical Poets of the Twelfth Century. 2 vols. Political Poems and Songs from Edward III to Henry VIII. Specimens of Lyric Poetry of the Reign of Edward I. Lond. 1842. Thomas Wright, English antiquary, 1819-1877, was author or editor of over 120 works dealing with medieval England and its literature; his studies have been printed by the Percy Society, the Camden Society, the Rolls Series, and the Roxburghe Club, He was well known and of high reputation in his own time, but later opinion of him is thus summed up by Lee in Dict. Nat. Biog.:-"Nearly all his philological books are defaced by errors of transcription and extraordinary misinterpretations of Latin and etc. Early English and Early French words and phrases. But as a pioneer in the study of Anglo-Saxon and medieval literature and on British archaeology he deserves grateful remembrance." Wright and Halliwell together edited the Reliq. Antiq., q.v. Wülker, Altengl. Lesebuch. Altenglisches Lesebuch, ed. R. P. Wülker. Halle 1874, 2 vols. Gesch. d. engl. Lit. Geschichte der englischen Literatur. zig 1896. Of no independent value. Leip Ztschr. f. roman. Phil. Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie. Halle 1877 ff. Ztschr. f. vergl. Littgesch. Zeitschrift für vergleichende Litteraturgeschichte. New Series, Berlin 1887 ff. INDEX A fragment of the Cant. Tales, | Alexandrines in Chaucer, 499. 158-9, 265. ABC, 354. Accent of French words, 500. Adam Scrivener, Adam, 405. see Words to Added group of Pilgrims, 254. Tales, 173. Adds. 9832, manuscript of the Adds. 12044, manuscript of Troilus, Adds. 12524, manuscript of Troilus, Adds. 25718, manuscript of Cant. Alison, 407. "All thyng ys ordanyd", see Poems Alliteration, 501. "Allone withouten any companye", 490. Allusions to Place in Cant. Tales, 160. to Time in Cant. Tales, 161 ff. Alone Walking, see Virelay, 461. Ames, see Dibdin in Reference List. Amorous Complaint, see Complaint Anderson's Bee, imitation in, 226. 125, 537. Adds. 28617, manuscript of the Antiquary, play by Shackerley Mar- Ainsworth, worked on Urry Chau- Arundel 140, manuscript of Cant. of Bech, on the Legend of Good Ashburnham 127, manuscript 316. Augea et Telepho, Bale's title for Augustine, 85. Aurora, see Petrus de Riga, 101. à Beckett and Stansfield, operetta on Bee, imitation in Anderson's, 226. 141. his glossary, 509. modernization of Chaucer, 230. on meeting of Chaucer and Belloc, on the road to Canterbury, 269. Bennewitz, on Sir Thopas, 288. Autotypes, Chaucer Society, 527, Benvenuto da Imola, cited, 269. And see Decameron. Bodleian Library at Oxford, 512. admission to, 513. photography at, 510. Briscoe, reprints Horne, 232. Bodley 414, manuscript of Cant. Broatch, on Troilus, 399. Tales, 183. Bodley 638, manuscript of Minor Poems, 335-337. And see p. 338. Brock, in Chaucer Society Essays, 221. Bodley 686, manuscript of Cant. Brooch of Thebes, 69, 384-5. Tales, 183. BoDuch, see Book of the Duchesse, Poece, see Boethius. Boethius, influence on Chaucer, 86. Brooke, his modernization Chaucer, 224, 226. of Brown, C. F., on the Prioress' Tale, Brown, Ford Madox, painter of Brown Bread and Honour, 223. Boll, on Wife of Bath's Ptolemy, Browne, Matthew, author of Chau- 299. Bond, in Life-Records, 538. Bonham, printer of 1542 Chaucer, Book of Cupid, see Cuckoo and Book of the Duchesse, 362-366. in Fairfax and Bodley, 336. Book of the Lion, 68. Book of the Twenty-five Ladies, 68. Braddon, drama on Griselda, 308. on the canon, 67. And see p. 520. the Cant. Brae, on date of Prologue, 266. in Chaucer Society Essays, 539. Brathwait, his cer's England, 521. Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, mod. on Chaucer, 536, 521. Bullein, his Dialogue, 220. Burne Jones, his picture of Dori- gen, 314. Byron and Chaucer, 238. C fragment of Cant. Tales, 158-9, Caecilius Balbus, 87. Calder, W., modernizer of Chaucer, Cambridge English Literature, see Cambridge University Library, 514. manuscripts of University Lib- Cambuscan, see under Squire's Camden, William, on Chaucer, 34. Campsall manuscript of Troilus, Canace, story of, 279-80. comments on Canon, on the, 51-68. Chaucer, 275. on Rhetoric of Chaucer's verse, 504. Skeat's work on the, 55. Tyrwhitt on the, 210. |