A Brief Handbook of English Authors Part 16

=Keightley [k[=i]t'l[)i]], Thomas.= 1789-1872. Historian. Author Hist.

England to 1839, Outlines of Hist., Mythology of Ancient Greece, etc.

_Pub. Apl. Har. Lip._

=Kemble, Adelaide.= See Sartoris, Mrs.

=Kemble, Frances Anne.= 181 Poet and miscellaneous writer. _See Allibone's Dict._ _Pub. Har. Ho._

=Kemble, John Mitch.e.l.l.= 1807-1857. Anglo-Saxon scholar. Bro to A. K.

and F. A. K. Author of The Saxons in England, etc. A writer of authority in his department.

=Ken, Thomas.= 1637-1711. Bp. Bath and Wells. Poet. His Morning and Evening Hymns introduced a simpler, sincerer style of religious poetry. _See Life, by Duyckinck._

=Kenney, Charles Lamb.= 1823-1881. Dramatist. Author lives of Balzac and Balfe, etc. _Pub. Rou._

=Kenney, James.= 1780-1849. Dramatist. Author Raising the Wind, etc.

=King, Henry.= 1591-1669. Bp. Chichester. Religious poet.

=Kinglake, Alex. Wm.= 180 Historian. A brilliant and powerful writer. Author Hist. Crimean War, Eothen, etc. _Pub. Arm. Har._

=Kingsley, Charles.= 1819-1875. Novelist and poet. Author of Andromeda, the finest Eng. hexameter poem, and the stories, Alton Locke, Yeast, Westward Ho, Hypatia, At Last, etc. Style forcible but uneven. _See Life by Mrs. Kingsley, 1876._ _Pub. Apl. Har. Mac. Lip.

Scr._

=Kingsley, Henry.= 1830-1876. Novelist. Bro. to C. K. Author Ravenshoe, Silcote of Silcotes, Austin Elliott, Hetty, etc. _Pub. Do.

Har. Mac. Rou._

=Kingston, Wm. H. G.= 1843-1880. Author of spirited tales of adventure for young readers. _Pub. Arm. Cas. Lip. Rou._

=Kitchener, Wm.= 1775-1827. Physician. Author of the Cook's Oracle, etc. _Pub. Har._

=Kitto, John.= 1804-1854. Author of the Pictorial Bible, Cyc. of Biblical Lit., etc. _Pub. Ca. Phi._

=Knatchbull-Hugesson, Edward.= 182 Writer for children. Author Crackers for Christmas and several vols. of fairy tales. _Pub. Apl.

Har. Rou._

=Knight, Charles.= 1791-1873. Shakespearean scholar and miscellaneous writer. Author of a Pictorial Hist. England, etc. Editor of a Pictorial Shakespeare, etc. _See Pa.s.sages from the Life of (pub.

Put.)._ _Pub. Fu. Lip. Por._

=Knight, Richard Payne.= 1750-1824. Poet and antiquary. His verse is worthless, but his archaeological works are much esteemed. _See edition, 1874, N. Y._

=Knolles [n[=o]lz], Richard.= 1540-1610. Historian. His Hist. of the Turks was much praised by Dr. Johnson and Hallam.

=Knowles, Herbert.= 1798-1817. Religious poet.

=Knowles, James Sheridan.= 1794-1862. Irish dramatist. His best tragedies are Caius Gracchus, Virginius, and Wm. Tell. The Hunchback is his finest comedy. While his works will not bear severe criticism, they are popular and among the best acting of modern plays. _See edition, 1873._

=Knowles, Richard Brinsley.= 1819?-1882. Son to J. S. K. Journalist and historical writer. Was author of the comedy The Maiden Aunt.

=Knox, Mrs. Craig.= See Craig-Knox.

=Knox, John.= 1505-1572. Scotch theologian. Author Hist. Reformation in Scotland, and First Blast Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women.

_See Lives by Smeaton, 1572; McCrie, 1812; Niemeyer, 1824; Laing, 1847, and Brandes, 1863._ _See Fraser's Mag. April, 1875; also Lorimer's John Knox and the Church of England._

=Knox, Vicesimus.= 1752-1821. Essayist. Author Winter Evenings, Family Lect., etc.

=Knox, Wm.= 1789-1825. Scotch poet. Best remembered for his poem "O why should the spirit of mortal be proud!" _Pub. Le._

=Kyd, Thomas.= fl. c. 1590. Dramatist. Author Hieronimo, The Spanish Tragedy, etc. _See Lamb's Dramatic Poets._

=Kynaston, Francis.= 1587-1642. Poet.

=Laffan, May.= 18-- ----. Novelist. Author Hogan, M. P., Flitters, Tatters and the Counsellor, Christy Carew, and The Honorable Miss Ferrard. _Pub. Ho. Mac._

=Lang, David.= 1793-1878. Librarian and bibliographer. A literary student of great diligence, and editor and author of some two hundred and fifty works.

=Laing, Malcolm.= 1762-1818. Scotch historian. Author Hist. of Scotland, etc. Style independent and truthful.

=Laing, Samuel.= 1780-1868. Traveler. Author Norway, Tour in Sweden, etc., and translator of the Heimskringla, or Chronicle of the Kings of Norway.

=Lamb, Caroline, Lady.= 1785-1828. Novelist. Author Glenarvon, Graham Hamilton, etc.

=Lamb, Charles.= 1775-1834. Essayist. A humorist who is unsurpa.s.sed for gentleness and purity of style. Essays of Elia, Rosamond Gray, a tale, John Woodvil, a drama; and Specimens of Old Eng. Dramatists are his chief works. Among the Essays Dream-Children is the most nearly perfect. _See Lives by Talfourd, Fitzgerald, and Procter._ _See Centenary edition of, 1875._ _Pub. Arm. Clx. Har. Lip. Rou._

=Lamb, Mary Anne.= 1765-1847. Sister to C. L. and co-author with him of Tales from Shakespeare, Poetry for Children, etc. _See W. Carew Hazlitt's edition of Poems, Letters, etc. of Chas. and Mary_ _Lamb, 1874; and Mary Lamb, by Anne Gilchrist, in Famous Women._

=Landon, Let.i.tia Elizabeth= [Mrs. Maclean], 1802-1838. Poet and novelist. Her verse is melodious and delicate, but is lacking in force. _See Poems of, edited by W. B. Scott, 1873._ _See Life by L.

Blanchard, 1841, and Living Age, Jan. 6, 1883._ _Pub. Apl._

=Landor, Walter Savage.= 1775-1864. Poet and prose writer. Author Gebir, Heroic Idyls, h.e.l.lenics, etc., and of numerous prose works, of which the Imaginary Conversations is the chief. A strong, original writer, self a.s.serting and unrestrained. _See Forster's Life of, Stedman's Victorian Poets, Atlantic Monthly, April, May, and June, 1864, and Feb. 1883, H. Martineau's Biographical Sketches, and Landor, by Colvin, in Eng. Men of Letters._ _Pub. Lip. Rob._

=Lane, Edward Wm.= 1801-1876. Orientalist. Author Modern Egyptians, Arabic Lexicon, etc., and translator of the Arabian Nights. _Pub.

Lit._

=Lang, Andrew.= 184 Poet. Author Ballads in Blue China, Helen of Troy, etc. _See Harper's Mag. May, 1882, "Some London Poets."_ _Pub.

Mac._

=Langhorne, John.= 1735-1779. Poet and translator of Plutarch.

=Langland, Wm.= c. 1322-c. 1400. Poet. Author Vision of Piers Plowman, an allegorical, satirical poem, aimed at the corruptions of the church. _See edition by Wright, 1856; also Skeat's edition._ _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 1._ _Pub. Mac._

=Lardner, Dionysius.= 1793-1859. Scientific writer.

=Lardner, Nathaniel.= 1684-1768. Theological writer. _See Collected Works, with Memoir by Kippis, 1788._

=Latham, Rob't Gordon.= 181 Ethnologist. Author Man and His Migrations, etc.