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English Studies
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details, see T. G. Stevenson, A bibliographical list of the various publications
by James Maidment from 1817 to 1878, Edinburgh 1883.
George Perkins Marsh 1801–82
Lectures on the English language. New York 1860.
The origins and history of the English language and the early literature
it embodies. 1862.
Contributions to periodicals
Notes on Mr Hensleigh Wedgwood’s dictionary of English etymology.
Trans of the Philological Soc 1865.
Old English literature. Nation 1865.
Notes on the new edition of Webster’s dictionary. Nation 1866–7.
Marsh translated Rask’s Old Icelandic grammar. He wrote on history,
geography and American affairs. A number of his speeches to the House of
Representatives were printed.
John Miller Dow Meiklejohn 1836–1902
An easy grammar for beginners. 1864.
The standard grammar. Edinburgh 1882.
The English language. Its grammar, history and literature. 1886.
A new grammar of the English tongue. 1887.
A short grammar of the English tongue with 300 exercises. 1890.
The book of the English language. 1891.
Contributions to periodicals
Plain English. All the Year Round 1868.
Meiklejohn also edited Chaucer and Shakespeare and wrote textbooks on
geography. He translated Kant’s Critique of pure reason (1862).
George Washington Moon 1823–1909
A defence of the Queen’s English. In reply to ‘a plea for the Queen’s
English’ by the Dean of Canterbury. 2 pts 1863; 2nd edn as The
Dean’s English: a criticism of the Dean of Canterbury’s essays on
the Queen’s English, 1864.
The bad English of Lindley Murray and other writers. 1868.
Common errors in spelling and writing. 1875.
Bad English exposed: a series of criticisms on the errors of Lindley
Murray and other grammarians. 1876.
The King’s English. 1881.
The reviser’s English. 1882–6.
The Bishop’s English. 2nd edn 1904.
Moon wrote a novel, poetry and numerous works on art and theology as well
as a tract on shortcomings in semaphore and the morse code.
Richard Morris 1833–94
The etymology of local names. Pt 1 (all pbd) 1857.
Historical outlines of English accidence, comprising chapters on
the history and development of the language, and on wordformation.
1872; rev H. Bradley 1893.
Elementary lessons in historical English grammar. 1874; rev H.
Bradley 1897.
English grammar. 1875. One of J. R. Green’s Literature primers.
Notes and queries [on Pali lexicography]. [1887].
Also minor philological writings.
Editions
Roll’s Pricke of conscience. 1863.
Early English alliterative poems of the West Midlands dialect of the
fourteenth century. 1864 (EETS), 1934.
Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight: an alliterative romance-poem.
1864 (EETS), 1925.
The story of Genesis and Exodus: an Early English song. 1865
(EETS), 1895.
Dan Michel’s Ayenbite of Inwyt: or remorse of conscience. 1866
(EETS).
Specimens of early English AD 1250–AD 1400, with grammatical
introduction, notes and glossary. Oxford 1867; rev W. W. Skeat,
Oxford 1872.
Old English homilies and homiletic treatises of the twelfth and
thirteenth centuries. EETS 2 ser 1868–73.
Chaucer’s translation of Boethius’s De consolatione philosophiae.
1868 (EETS), 1886.
Legends of the Holy Rood; symbols of the Passion and crosspoems.
In Old English of the eleventh, fourteenth and fifteenth centuries,
1871 (EETS).
An Old English miscellany: containing a bestiary, Kentish sermons,
Proverbs of Alfred, religious poems of the thirteenth century.
1872 (EETS).
Cursor mundi: the cursur of the world – a Northumbrian poem of
the XIVth century in four versions. 6 pts 1874–93 (EETS).
The Blickling homilies of the tenth century. 3 pts [1874–80] (EETS).
Morris’s other editorial work included the Aldine Chaucer (1866), and the
Globe Spenser (1869).
Sir James Augustus Henry Murray 1837–1915
Outline of English language and literature. 1858 (priv ptd).
Editions
Sir David Lindesay’s works: the minor poems. 1863 (EETS).
The complaynt of Scotlande, vyth ane exortatione to the thre estaits
to be vigilante in the deffens of their public veil. 1872 (EETS).
The romance and prophecies of Thomas of Erceldoune, with illustrations
from the prophetic literature of the 15th and 16th centuries.
1875 (EETS).
A new English dictionary on historical principles, founded mainly
on materials collected by the Philological Society. 11 vols Oxford
1884–1933, 13 vols Oxford 1933 (a corrected re-issue, with introd,
suppl and bibliography, as The Oxford English dictionary).
Murray was chief of the NED, though his actual editorial responsibility
covered only A–D, H–K, O, P and T.
Writings
The dialect of the southern counties of Scotland: its pronunciation,
grammar and historical relations, with an appendix and a linguistical
map of Scotland. 1873 (Philological Soc).
The Romanes lecture 1900: the evolution of English lexicography.
Oxford 1900.
Contributions to periodicals
The Rushworth glosses. Academy 1874.
Old English verbs in -cgan and their subsequent history. Trans of
the Philological Soc 1882–4.
The English diphthong -ay. Academy 1890.
Also a book on Orkney. For an appreciation, see H. Bradley, Sir James
Murray, Proc Br Acad 8 1919 and S. Baldwin, The Oxford English
Dictionary 1884–1928; an address, [1928] and K. M. E. Murray, Caught
in the web of words: James Murray and the Oxford English
Dictionary, Oxford 1979.
Murray contributed some of the notes to Zupitza’s EETS edn of Guy of
Warwick. He was one of the founding members of the Hawick Archaeological
Soc. His earliest lectures on philology are recorded in the Soc’s minute book and
were summarised in the Hawick Advertiser. He also contributed the article
on the English language to the 9th edn (1879) of the Encyclopaedia
Britannica (rptd with revisions in the 11th edn, 1910).
Robert Nares 1753–1829
Elements of Orthoepy, containing the whole analogy of the English
language so far as it relates to pronunciation, accent and quan-