LIST OF AUTHORS TO ACCOMPANY LITERARY MAP. The following is a list of some of the most representative men in English literature. By referring to the accompanying map, the student will be able to find their birthplaces as well as some of the localities in which they have lived. Where the names of the smaller places have been omitted on the map, the county in which they are situated can be found from the following list, and their general situation on the map approximately detern.ined. Addison, Joseph, b. Millston, Wilts, 1. London. Alfred, King, b. Wantage, Berks, 1. Winchester, Hants. Arthurian Legends, chiefly located in Cornwall. Bacon, Francis (Lord St. Albans), b. London, 1. St. Albans, Hertford. Bede, or Baeda, b. Monkwearmouth, Durham, 1. Jarrow, Northumberland. Beaumont, Francis, b. Grace-Dieu, Leicester. Blake, Wm., b. and 1. London. Browne, Sir Thomas, b. and 1. London. Browning, Robert, b. and 1. London. Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, b. Durham, 1. London. Bunyan, John, b. Elstow, near Bedford, Bedfordshire. Butler, Samuel, b. Strensham, Worcester. Burns, Robert, b. near Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotland. Byron, Lord George Gordon, b. London, 1. Newstead Abbey, Nottingham. Cadmon, b. (?), 1. Whitby, York. Carlyle, Thomas, b. Ecclefechan, near Annan, Scotland. Chatterton, Thomas, b. Bristol, Gloucester. Chaucer, Geoffrey, b. and 1. London. Clough, Arthur Hugh, b. Liverpool, Lancaster. Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, b. Ottery-St.-Mary, Devon, 1. Keswick, Cumber land (Lake Country). Collins, Wm., b. Chichester, Sussex. Cowley, Abraham, b. and 1. London. Cowper, Wm., b. Great Berkhampstead, Hertford, 1. Olney, Bucks. Crabbe, George, b. Aldborough, Suffolk. Crashaw, Richard, b. and 1. London. Dekker, Thomas, b. and 1. London. De Quincey, Thomas, b. near Manchester, 1. Grasmere, Westmoreland (Lake Country). Dickens, Charles, b. Landport, Hampshire. Donne, John, b. and 1. London. Drummond, Wm., b. Hawthornden, near Edinburgh. Dryden, John, b. Aldwinkle, All Saints, Northampton, 1. London. Eliot, George (Mary Ann Evans Cross), b. Coventry, Warwick. Fielding, Henry, b. Sharpham Park, Somerset. Fletcher, John, b. Northampton, 1. Ryeland, Sussex. Gay, John, b. Frithelstock, Devon, 1. Barnstaple, Devon. Gray, Thomas, b. London, Stoke Pogis, Bucks. Habington, Wm., b. Hendlip, near Worcester, Worcestershire. Hall, Joseph, b. Bristow Park, Leicester. Herbert, George, b. near Montgomery, Shropshire, 1. Bemerton, near Salis bury. Herrick, Robert, b. London, 1. Dean's Prior, Devon. Hogg, James, b. Ettrick, Selkirkshire, Scotland. Howard, Henry (Earl of Surrey), b. (?), 1. Surrey, Sussex. Johnson, Samuel, b. Lichfield, Stafford, 1. London. Keats, John, b. and 1. London. Lamb, Charles, b. and 1. London. Langland, Wm., b. probably in Shropshire, 1. Malvern Hills. Macaulay, Thos. Babington, b. Rothley Temple, Leicester, 1. London. Marlowe, Christopher, b. Canterbury, Kent, 1. London. Marvell, Andrew, b. Winestead, near Hull, York, 1. London. Milton, John, b. and 1. London, and Horton, Bucks. More, Sir Thomas, b. and 1. London. Peele, George, b. (?), 1. London. Pope, Alexander, b. and 1. London, and Twickenham, Middlesex. Raleigh, Sir Walter, b. Devon, 1. London. Ramsay, Allan, b. Lanarkshire, Scotland, 1. Edinburgh. Richardson, Samuel, b. probably Derbyshire, 1. London. Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, b. and 1. London. Sackville, Thomas (Lord Buckhurst), b. Buckhurst, Sussex, 1. London. Scott, Sir Walter, b. Edinburgh, 1. Abbotsford, near Melrose, Scotland. Shakespeare, Wm., b. Stratford-on-Avon, Warwick, 1. London. Shelley, Percy Bysshe, b. Field Place, near Horsham, Sussex. Southey, Robert, b. Bristol, Gloucester, 1. Keswick, Cumberland (Lake Country). Steele, Richard, b. Dublin, I. London. Suckling, John, b. Twickenham, Middlesex, 1. London. Taylor, Jeremy, b. Cambridge. Tennyson, Lord Alfred, b. Somersby, Lincoln, 1. Farringford House, Isle of Wight, and Blackdown, near Petersfield, Hampshire. Thomson, James, b. and 1. Ednam, Roxburgh. Young, Edward, b. Upham, near Winchester, Hampshire. Waller, Edmund, b. Coleshill, Hertford, 1. London. Walton, Izaac, b. Stafford, 1. London. Wiclif, John, b. Hipswell (?), near Richmond, York, 1. Oxford. Wither, George, b. Brentnorth, Hampshire. Wordsworth, Wm., b. Cockermouth, 1. Grasmere and Rydal Mount (Lake GLOSSARY OF WORDS AND MEANINGS NO LONGER CURRENT, IN SELECTIONS FROM CHAUCER. Awayt, watch. O. Fr. Brouke, to have the use of, enjoy, brook. Bulte, to bolt (corn), sift meal. Ayein, Ayeins, Ayens, again, back, Bywreye, make known, bewray. against, towards. Damoysele, damsel. O. Fr. Dan, Daun, Lord, was a title commonly given to monks; also a prefix to names of persons of all sorts. From Lat. Dominus. Dar, dare (first pers. sing. present tense); Darst (second pers. sing.); Dorste, Durste (pret.). Dawenynge, dawn, dawning. Debonaire, kind, gracious. Dede, Deed, Deede, dead. Deer, Deere, Dere, dear, dearly. Del, part, portion, whit. Delyverly, quickly. Deye, a female servant. Doke, a duck. Don, Doon, to do, cause, make. Dong. Donge, dung. Dorste, see Dar. Doughtren, daughters. Drecched, troubled by dreams. Drede, Dreden, to fear, dread, doubt. Dreynt (pp. of drenche), drowned. Dwelle, to tarry. E Eek, Ek, also, moreover. Elles, else (in A. S. composition elsignifies another foreigner). Embrowded, embroidered. Fer, far; ferreste, farthest. Fer. Fere, fear, terror. Ferthing, farthing, hence a small portion. Fithele, a fiddle. Flatour, a flatterer. Flen, to flee, flee from. Floughe, Fleigh, flew. Floytynge, playing on a flute. Fors, 'Do no fors of,' make no account of. Forslouthe, to lose through sloth. Forwetyng, foreknowledge. Forwot, foreknows. Fume, effects of drunkenness or gluttony. Fumetere, name of a plant, fumi |