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,