I. PROSE FORMS
| Date | Tale and Romance | Essay | Novel | Miscellaneous |
| Pecock | ||||
| Malory | ||||
| 1500 | ||||
| Utopi | ||||
| Ascham | ||||
| Nash | ||||
| Arcadia | Arcadia | |||
| 1600 | Ford | Bacon | Hooker | |
| Overbury | ||||
| Bacon | ||||
| Burton | ||||
| Browne | ||||
| Boyle | Clarendon | |||
| Dryden | Milton | |||
| Temple | Behn | Dryden | ||
| 1700 | ||||
| Addison | ||||
| Defoe | Steele | Defoe | Swift | |
| Richardson | ||||
| Johnson | Fielding | |||
| Johnson | Goldsmith | Smollett | Burke | |
| Sterne | ||||
| Goldsmith | Gibbon | |||
| 1800 | Coleridge | Austen | ||
| Southey | ||||
| Hazlitt | Scott | |||
| Lamb | Lockhart | |||
| Marryat | Dickens | |||
| Lever | Thackeray | Ruskin | ||
| Borrow | Thackeray | |||
| Stevenson | Meredith | |||
| 1900 | Hardy | Stevenson |