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This concise introduction surveys modern English literature by emphasizing ideas, tendencies, and representative works rather than exhaustive biographical detail or dates. It traces major literary developments from the Renaissance forward, relating cultural and intellectual causes—such as the revival of classical learning, scientific discovery, and exploration—to changes in poetry, drama, and prose. Chapters concentrate on movements, stylistic innovations, and thematic concerns, and the text aims to stimulate further reading by offering clear period summaries, critical perspectives, and a selected bibliography to guide independent study.


Ben Jonson, 1573-1637.

Every Man in his Humour, 1598.

Volpone, 1605.

Poems, 1616.



CHAPTER IV


John Donne, 1573-1631.

Poems, 1633 (first published, but known, like those of all Elizabethan poets, in manuscript long before).

William Browne, 1591-1643.

George Herbert, 1593-1633.

Robert Herrick, 1593-1674.

Richard Crashaw, 1613-1649.

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,


Bacon, Francis,

Ballad, the,

Beaumont and Fletcher,

Bennett, Arnold,

Bible, the,

Biography,

Blake, William,

Blank Verse,

Boswell, James,

Brontës, the,

Browne, Sir Thomas,

Browne, William,

Browning, Robert,

Bunyan, John,

Burke, Edmund,

Burns, Robert,

Burton, Robert,

Byron, Lord,


Carew, Thomas,

Carlyle, Thomas,

Celtic Revival,

Character-writing,

Chatterton, Thomas,

Cheke, Sir John,

Christ's Victory and Death
,

Classicism,

Clough, Thomas,

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor,

Collins, William,

Conrad, Joseph,

Cowley, Abraham,

Cowper, William,

Crabbe, George,

Crashaw, Richard,

Criticism,


Decadence,

Defoe, Daniel,

De Quincey, Thomas,

Dekker, Thomas,

Dickens, Charles,

Discovery, Voyages of,

Disraeli, Benjamin,

Dr. Faustus
,

Donne, John,

Drama, the,

Dryden, John,

Duchess of Malfi, The
,


Earle, John,

Edward II.
,

Elia, Essays of
,

Elizabethan Poetry,

Elizabethan Prose,

Essays, Civil and Moral
,

Euphues
,

Everyman
,


Fairy Queen, The
,

Fantastics, the,

Fielding, Henry,

Fitzgerald, Edward,

Fletcher, Giles,

Fletcher, Phineas,

Ford, John,

French Revolution, the,


Gaskell, Mrs.,

George Eliot,

Gibbon, Edward,

Gissing, George,

Goldsmith, Oliver,

Gorboduc
,

Gray, Thomas,

Greene, Robert,

Greville, Sir Fulke,

Gulliver's Travels
,


Hakluyt's Voyages
,

Hardy, Thomas,

Hazlitt, William,

Hawthorne, Nathaniel,

Henry VII., History of
,

Herbert, George,

Herrick, Robert,

Hobbes, Thomas,

Hooper, Richard,


Italy, influence of,


Jew of Malta
,

Johnson, Samuel,

Jonson, Ben,


Keats, John,

Kipling, Rudyard,

Kyd, Thomas,


Lamb, Charles,

Locke, John,

Lodge, Thomas,

Lyly, John,

Lyric, the,

Lyrical Ballads,


Marlowe, Christopher,

Marston, John,

Massinger, Philip,

Meredith, George,

Middleton, Thomas,

Milton, John,

Miracle Play, the,

Moore, George,

Morality, the,

More, Sir Thomas,

Morris, William,


New Atlantis, The
,

Novel, the,


Obscurity in Poetry,

Omar Khayyam
,

Ossian
,

Oxford Movement, the,


Paradise Lost
,

Pastoral Prose and Poetry,

Peele, George,

Percy, William,

Pilgrim's Progress
,

Platonism,

Poetic Diction,

Pope, Alexander,

Puritanism,

Purple Island, The
,


Raleigh, Sir Walter,

Rape of the Lock
,

Realism,

Religio Medici
,

Renaissance, the,

Reynolds, Sir Joshua,

Rhetoric, study of,

Richardson, Samuel,

Robinson Crusoe
,

Romanticism,

Romantic Revival, the,

Rossetti, D. G.,

Ruskin, John,


Sackville, Thomas,

Satire,

Scott, Sir Walter,

Senecan Tragedy,

Seventeenth Century, the,

Shaw, G. Bernard,

Shelley, P. B.,

Shenstone, Thomas,

Sheridan, R. B.,

Shirley, John,

Sidney, Sir Philip,

Smollett, T.,

Sonnet, the,

Sonneteers, the,

Spanish Tragedy, The
,

Spectator, The
,

Spenser, Edmund,

Spenserians, the,

Steele, Richard,

Sterne, Lawrence,

Stevenson, R. L.,

Supernatural, the,