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=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.
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