American Library), contains MacNeice's version of Faust, Part 1, and many other works worth reading.
Further reading: G.W. Lewes, The Life and Works of Goethe; the essay on Goethe in Santayanas Three Philosophical Poets; vari- ous essays on Goethe in Thomas Mann's Essays of Three Decades; Nicholas Boyle, Faust, Part 1. Emil Ludwigs Goethe: The History of a Man, 174Q-1832 is a readable, popularized biography.
William Blake—A very good edition is Oxford's Complete Writings of William Blake. Penguin has the Complete Poems as well as a good Portable Blake, ed. Alfred Kazin.
Further reading: Mona Wilson, The Life of William Blake; S. Foster Damon, William Blake: His Philosophy and Symbols; Mark Schorer, William Blake; essay on Blake in T.S. Eliot's Selected Essays; Jacob Bronowski, William Blake and the Age of Revolution ; Northrop Frye, Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake. An investigation in depth by a fine Blake scholar is Kathleen J. Raine's Blake and Tradition (2 vols.). See also her William Blake. The latest study is Blake by Peter Ackroyd.
William Wordsworth—The best moderately priced edition is Oxford's Poetical Works with Introduction and Notes. Less com- prehensive but good: Riverside's Selected Poems and Prefaces; Modern Library's Selected Poetry, ed. Mark Van Doren.
Further reading: For a standard biography, see G. McL. Harper, William Wordsworth, His Life, Works, and Influence (2 vols.). See also Mary Moorman's William Wordsworth: A Biography (2 vols.), and Hunter Davies, William Wordsworth. For diverse criticai appraisals, see H.I. Faussett, The Lost Leader: A Study of Wordsworth; H.W. Garrod, Wordsworth: Lectures and Essays; Coleridge's Biographia Literatia; J. Wordsworth, The Music of Humanity ; Matthew Arnold's essay in Essays in Criticism, 2nd series.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge—Modern Library has Selected Poetry and Prose; Oxford has Complete Poems; Penguin has a Portable Coleridge; Everyman has the Biographia Literaria.
Further reading: Oswald Doughty, Perturbed Spirit: The Life and Personality of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Another good modern brief biography is W.J. Bate's Coleridge. E.K. Chambers's Samuel Taylor Coleridge is fuller, but dated. See also Lawrence Hansons The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The finest book on Coleridge's genius and a masterpiece in its own right is John Livingston Lowes's The Road to Xanadu. See also: Thomas De Quincey, Reminiscences of the English Lake Poets, for a firsthand glimpse; I.A. Richards, Coleridge on Imagination; Basil Willey, Samuel Taylor Coleridge; S. Prickett, Coleridge and Wordsworth: The Poetry of Growth.
Jane Austen—Pride and Prejudice can be found everywhere: among others, Riverside (ed. Mark Schorer, a fine scholar). Modern Library binds it with Sense and Sensibility, introd. by David Daiches. Riverside's Emma is introduced by the brilliant critic Lionel Trilling. The magisterial R.W. Chapman edition (Oxford) comes in six volumes and includes the minor works.
Further reading: The standard life is Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters, by W. and R.A. Austen-Leigh. See also Elizabeth Jenkins, Jane Austen; essay by Virginia Woolf in The Common Reader; Marghanita Laski, Jane Austen and Her World; John Halperin, The Life of Jane Austen; Tony Tanner, Jane Austen; Mary Lascelles, Jane Austen; David Cecil, A Portrait of Jane Austen; and two new biographies, Jane Austen: Obstinate Heart, by Valerie Grosvenor Myer and Jane Austen: A Life by David Nokes.
Stendhal—Signet's edition of The Red and the Black is good; so is the Bantam edition, tr. Lowell Bair. Charterhouse is in Penguin and Signet—the latter, tr. C. K Scott-Moncrieff, is better. University of Chicago Press publishes The Life of Henry Brulard: The Autobiography of Stendhal.
Further reading: For a sound biography in English see Matthew Josephson's Stendhal. Martin Turnell's brilliant The Novel in France offers penetrating analyses of Stendhal along with Balzac (68), Flaubert (86), and Proust (105). The excellent Lowell Bair translation of The Red and the Black contains a longish introduction by Clifton Fadiman. See also: Harry Levin, The Gates of Horn: A Study of Five French Realists; Storm Jameson, Speaking of Stendhal.
Honore de Balzac—Pиre Goriot is in Airmont, Signet, and Penguin (under the title Old Goriot). Eugйnie Grandet is in Penguin and Everyman. Cousin Bette is in Penguin.
Further reading: Some good biographies and studies are V.S. Pritchett, Balzac; Andrй Maurois, Prometheus: The Life of Balzac; Herbert J. Hunt, Honorй de Balzac; Stefan Zweig, Balzac. Shorter studies are to be found in Harry Levin's Toward Balzac and particularly Henry James's "The Lesson of Balzac" in The Future of the Novel, ed. Leon Edel. The latter also contains estimates of Flaubert (86), Turgenev (81), Tolstoy (88), and Conrad (100).
Ralph Waldo Emerson—Good collections of the Essays are to be found in Penguin, Everyman, Modern Library, Signet, Riverside. The Library of America has an omnibus volume of Essays and Lectures.
Further reading: A standard biography is R.L. Rusk's The Life of Ralph Waldo Emerson. See also: Lewis Leary, Ralph Waldo Emerson: An Interpretive Essay; Van Wyck Brooks, The Flowering of New England; F.O. Matthiessen, American Renaissance; Bliss
Perry, ed., The Heart of Emerson s Journals; George Santayanas essay on Emerson in Interpretations of Poetry and Religion; Kenneth Walter Cameron, Emerson the Essayist; Stephen E. Whicher, Freedom and Fate: An Inner Life of Ralph Waldo Emerson. On the transcendentalists as a group, see Carlos Baker, Emerson among the Eccentrics. See also the recent book by Robert D. Richardson, Jr. and Barry Moser, Emerson: The Mind on Fire.
Nathaniel Hawthorne—Too many editions available to war- rant listing. Penguin issues a Portable Hawthorne, and Vintage his Short Stories. The Library of America has a volume of Collected Novйis, and another of Tales and Sketches.