Word Portraits of Famous Writers

1. Introduction

   6:04

2. Joseph Addison

   4:48

3. Harrison Ainsworth

   4:20

4. Jane Austen

   3:43

5. Francis, Lord Bacon

   2:45

6. Joanna Baillie

   3:01

7. Benjamin, Lord Beaconsfield

   3:00

8. Jeremy Bentham

   3:33

9. Richard Bentley

   1:38

10. James Boswell

    3:29

11. Charlotte Brontë

    4:30

12. Henry, Lord Brougham

    8:57

13. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

    2:30

14. John Bunyan

    3:17

15. Edmund Burke

    4:36

16. Robert Burns

    6:43

17. Samuel Butler

    1:12

18. George, Lord Byron

    3:53

19. Thomas Campbell

    5:46

20. Thomas Carlyle

    4:10

21. Thomas Chatterton

    2:48

22. Geoffrey Chaucer

    3:21

23. Philip, Lord Chesterfield

    3:52

24. William Cobbett

    5:03

25. Hartley Coleridge

    5:06

26. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

    4:01

27. William Collins

    2:03

28. William Cowper

    2:49

29. George Crabbe

    3:18

30. Daniel De Foe

    3:07

31. Charles Dickens

    7:09

32. Isaac D’Israeli

    3:41

33. John Dryden

    5:51

34. Mary Anne Evans (George Eliot)

    4:53

35. Henry Fielding

    3:11

36. John Gay

    3:07

37. Edward Gibbon

    3:44

38. William Godwin

    3:11

39. Oliver Goldsmith

    2:31

40. David Gray

    2:38

41. Thomas Gray

    2:32

42. Henry Hallam

    2:20

43. William Hazlitt

    5:53

44. Felicia Hemans

    3:15

45. James Hogg

    3:58

46. Thomas Hood

    6:03

47. Theodore Hook

    3:06

48. David Hume

    4:00

49. Leigh Hunt

    4:21

50. Elizabeth Inchbald

    2:08

51. Francis, Lord Jeffrey

    3:29

52. Douglas Jerrold

    2:53

53. Samuel Johnson

    3:41

54. Ben Jonson

    3:21

55. John Keats

    4:13

56. John Keble

    5:48

57. Charles Kingsley

    5:21

58. Charles Lamb

    5:19

59. Letitia Elizabeth Landon

    3:20

60. Walter Savage Landor

    3:59

61. Charles Lever

    2:07

62. Matthew Gregory Lewis

    2:36

63. John Gibson Lockhart

    1:20

64. Sir Richard Lovelace

    2:47

65. Edward, Lord Lytton

    4:01

66. Thomas Babington Macaulay

    4:09

67. William Maginn

    4:54

68. Francis Mahony (Father Prout)

    5:16

69. Frederick Marryat

    3:22

70. Harriet Martineau

    2:48

71. Frederick Denison Maurice

    3:03

72. John Milton

    4:09

73. Mary Russell Mitford

    5:07

74. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

    3:12

75. Thomas Moore

    4:20

76. Hannah More

    5:00

77. Sir Thomas More

    3:05

78. Caroline Norton

    4:41

79. Thomas Otway

    2:18

80. Samuel Pepys

    3:12

81. Alexander Pope

    3:07

82. Bryan Waller Procter

    2:48

83. Thomas de Quincey

    6:36

84. Ann Radcliffe

    1:53

85. Sir Walter Raleigh

    4:42

86. Charles Reade

    3:44

87. Samuel Richardson

    4:05

88. Samuel Rogers

    3:03

89. Dante Gabriel Rossetti

    9:38

90. Richard Savage

    2:36

91. Sir Walter Scott

    4:54

92. William Shakespeare

    9:10

93. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

    2:42

94. Percy Bysshe Shelley

    5:36

95. Richard Brinsley Sheridan

    2:47

96. Sir Philip Sidney

    2:21

97. Horace Smith

    2:01

98. Sydney Smith

    3:19

99. Tobias Smollett

    1:44

100. Robert Southey

     5:18

101. Edmund Spenser

     4:35

102. Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

     2:58

103. Sir Richard Steele

     4:27

104. Laurence Sterne

     3:03

105. Sir John Suckling

     2:05

106. Jonathan Swift

     3:25

107. William Makepeace Thackeray

     3:25

108. James Thomson

     2:33

109. Anthony Trollope

     4:15

110. Edmund Waller

     3:30

111. Horace Walpole

     4:23

112. Izaac Walton

     1:57

113. John Wilson

     5:39

114. Ellen Wood (Mrs. Henry Wood)

     2:34

115. William Wordsworth

     4:26

116. Sir Henry Wotton

     3:06

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