Francis Bacon, 1561-1626.
  Advancement of Learning, 1605.
  Essays, 1625. 
  The Bible, Authorised Version, 1611. 
Robert Burton, 1577-1640.
  Anatomy of Melancholy, 1621. 
Sir Thomas Browne, 1605-1682.
  Religio Medici, 1642. 
John Bunyan, 1628-1688.
  Pilgrim’s Progress, 1678. 
John Milton, 1608-1674.
  Paradise Lost, 1667.
  Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes, 1671.

CHAPTER V

John Dryden, 1631-1700.
  Absalom and Achitophel and Religio Laici, 1682.
  The Hind and the Panther, 1687. 
Alexander Pope, 1688-1744.
  Essay on Criticism, 1711.
  Rape of the Lock, 1714. 
James Thomson, 1700-1748.
  The Seasons, 1730. 
Daniel Defoe, 1661-1731.
  Robinson Crusoe, 1719. 
Jonathan Swift, 1667-1745.
  The Tale of a Tub, 1704.
  Gulliver’s Travels, 1726. 
Joseph Addison, 1672-1719. 
Richard Steele, 1675-1729.
  The Tatler, 1709-1711.
  The Spectator, 1711-1712.

CHAPTER VI

Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784. 
Edmund Burke, 1728-1797. 
Oliver Goldsmith, 1728-1774. 
Thomas Gray, 1716-1771. 
William Collins, 1721-1759. 
Robert Burns, 1759-1796.
  Poems, 1786. 
William Blake, 1757-1827.
  Songs of Innocence, 1789.

CHAPTER VII

William Wordsworth, 1770-1850.
  Lyrical Ballads, 1798. 
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 1772-1834. 
Sir Walter Scott, 1771-1832. 
Lord Byron, 1788-1824.
  Child Harold’s Pilgrimage, 1812-1817. 
Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1792-1822. 
John Keats, 1796-1821. 
Charles Lamb, 1775-1884.
  Essays of Elia, 1823. 
William Hazlitt, 1778-1830. 
Thomas de Quincey, 1785-1859.

CHAPTER VIII

Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892.
  Poems, 1842.
  Idylls of the King, 1859. 
Robert Browning, 1812-1889.
  Men and Women, 1855.
  The Ring and the Book, 1868. 
D. G. Rossetti, 1828-1882. 
William Morris, 1834-1896. 
A. C. Swinburne, 1836-1909. 
Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1880. 
John Ruskin, 1819-1900.

CHAPTER IX

Samuel Richardson, 1689-1761.
  Pamela, 1740.
  Clarissa Harlowe, 1750. 
Henry Fielding, 1707-1754.
  Joseph Andrews, 1742.
  Tom Jones, 1749. 
Jane Austen, 1775-1817. 
William Makepeace Thackeray, 1811-1863. 
Charles Dickens, 1812-1870. 
George Meredith, 1832-1909.

INDEX

ADDISON, JOSEPH, Advancement of Learning, The, Anatomy of Melancholy, The, Antonio and Mellida, Arcadia, the Countess of Pembroke’s, Arnold, Matthew, Ascham, Roger, Astrophel and Stella, Atheist’s Tragedy, The, Augustan Age, Austen, Jane, Autobiography,