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Modern English Writers:
Being a Study of Imaginative Literature 1890-1914
By Harold Williams
Author of ‘Two Centuries of the English Novel,’ etc.CONTENTS
INTRODUCTORY
FAGB
NEW INFLUENCES AND TENDENCIES …. 1
PART I
POETRY
CHAPTER
I. POETS OF THE TRANSITION . . . 23-39
Oscar Wilde Alfred Austin ;Robert riBridge^r Watts-Dunton Andrew Lang Edmund Gosse Wilfrid Scawen Blunt Alice Meynell Margaret
Louisa Woods.
II. HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS 41-75
1. Arth’ur Symons John Davidson W. E. Henley Rudyard Kipling.
2. Sir William WgtgQp Ernest Dowson William Sharp-rancis Thompson.
III. THE PASSAGE OF THE CENTURIES . . . 77-160
1. Thomas Hardy A. E. Housman Herbert Tre*ncE::::::::SS^Iien Phillips Laurence Binyon
Maurice Hewlett C. M. Doughty W. W. Gibson John Masefleld Lascelles Abercrombie.
2. Laurence Housman Richard Le Gallienne A. C. Benson H. C. Beeching Norman Gale Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch Sir Henry Newbolt.
3. H. D. Lowry Alfred Noyes T. Sturge Moore Hilaire Belloc G. K. Chesterton Alfred Williams W. H. Davies John Drinkwater Walter de la Mare Ralph Hodgson Rupert Brooke James Elroy Flecker,
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x CONTENTS
CHAITBR PAGE
TV. THE POETESSES 161-171
Laurence Hope Michael Field Mary Coleridge Rosamund Marriott Watson Lady Margaret Sackville Ethel Clifford.
PART II
IRISH POETS AND PLAYWRIGHTS
I. THE CELTIC REVIVAL 175-182
IL IRISH POETS . 183-201
W. B. YeatsA.E. Douglas Hyde Lionel Pigot Johnson J^M. Synge Padraic Colum James Stephens * John Eglinton ‘ Charles
Weekes J. H. Cousins Thomas Keohler George Sigerson * Seosamh MacCathmhaoil ‘
Seumas ‘Sullivan.
III. IRISH POETESSES 203-212 Jane Barlow ‘ Moira O’Neill ‘Eva Gore- Booth Alice Milligan Ella Young Nora Hopper Katharine Tynan Dora Sigerson Shorter.
IV. THE IRISH LITERARY THEATRE…. 218-216
V. THE IRISH PLAYWRIGHTS 217-240
W. B. Yeats A.E. Edward Marty^ George Moore Lady Gregory J. M. Synge William Boyle Padraic Colum Lennox Robinson T. C. Murray Rutherford Mayne St. John Ervine.
PART III
LITERARY AND INTELLECTUAL DRAMA IN
ENGLAND %
I. BEFORE IBSEN 248-256 T. W. Robertson Oscar Wilde Sir Arthur Pinero Henry Arthur Jones Sydney Grundy Charles Haddon Chambers? R. C. Carton H. V. Esmond.
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CHAPTER PAGB
II. AFTER IBSEN ……. 257-282 Bernard Shaw Granyillp-Barker St. John Hanlun^^^
Houghton Gilbert Caiman Githa Sowerby John Masefield.
III. THE UNCEBTAIN NOTE 283-288
Sir James Barrie Alfred Sutro Arnold Bennett Somerset Maugham W. H. Davies RudolfBesier B. M. Hastings.
PART IV
THE NOVEL
I. LATE DEVELOPMENTS 291-297
II. NEWCOMERS 299-372
1. Oscar Wilde George Moore George Gissing Rudyard Kipling Samuel Butler.
2. Watts-Dunton ‘ Mark Rutherford/
3. Hubert Crackanthorpe Henry Harland Ernest Dowson H. D. Lowry Arthur Symons John Davidson Max Beerbohm Laurence Housman Bernard Shaw.
4. Cunninghame Graham W. H. Hudson Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch Sir Henry Rider Haggard Baring-Gould Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Sir Gilbert Parker Henry Seton Merriman Grant Allen Israel Zangwill W. E. Tirebuck.
5. David Christie Murray Sir Hall Caine Frankfort Moore E. F. Benson Morley Roberts g F. Anstey
9 Jerome K. Jerome W. W. Jacobs.
SCOTCH NOVELISTS
6. Steverfson, Macdonald, Black William Sharp Neil Munro Sir James Barrie ‘ Ian Maclaren ‘ S. R. Crockett ‘ George Douglas
J. H. Findlater and Mary Findlater.
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CHAPTER
III. THE CONTEMPORARY NOVEL …. 373-433
H. G. Wells Arnold Bennett John Galsworthy
Eden 3Phillpotts

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* John ‘Trevena ‘Gilbert Cannan B. M. Forster William deMorgan The Cockney Dialect Novel : Arthur Morrison, Somerset Maugham, Barry Pain, Pett Ridge Hugh Walpole, Compton Mackenzie, J. D. Beresford, Frank Swinnerton, D. H. Lawrence Josp4xjCoiad F. T. Bullen John Masefield Robert Hichens Maurice Hewlett Sir Henry Newbolt R. H. Benson * Anthony Hope ‘ W. J. Locke Alfred Ollivant G. S. Street Hilaire Belloc G. K. Chesterton * Saki ‘ E. V. Lucas Stephen Gwynn * G. A. Birmingham ‘ Canon Sheehan Barnes Stephens.
IV. WOMEN NOVELISTS 435-472
Mrs. Humphry Ward ‘ Olive Schreiner 9 Sarah Grand * George Egerton ‘ ‘ Iota ‘ Elizabeth Robins May Sinclair M. P. Willcocks Beatrice Harraden * Lucas Malet ‘ c John Oliver Hobbes ‘ Mary Coleridge Elizabeth * Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler Lady Ritchie M. L. Woods < John Strange Winter ‘ W. K. Clifford Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick Netta Syrett Una L. Silberrad Ethel Sidgwick Jane Barlow Katharine Tynan Nora Hopper * Somerville and Ross ‘ c Ouida ‘ M. E. Braddon Marie Corelli.
V. A NOTE ON AMERICAN NOVELISTS . . . 473-498 Henry James W. D. Howells F. Marion Crawford G. W. Cable James Lane Allen Harold Frederic Mary Eleanor Wilkins 6 Charles Egbert Craddock ‘ Thomas Nelson Page Ellen Glasgow Owen Wister Frank Norris Upton Sinclair Winston Churchill Robert Herrick Ambrose Bierce Jack London Mrs. Atherton Kate Douglas Wiggin Edith Wharton.
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX ….. 499-508
INDEX 509-582
INTRODUCTORY

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