VI. POETICAL FORMS

Date	Epic	Lyric and Ode	Narrative-Descriptive	Didactic
		The Nut-brown Maid	Chaucer (d. 1400)
			James I of Scotland	Lydgate
1500			Hawes	Hawes
		Wyat	Sackville
		Surrey
1600		Shakespeare	Spenser	Drayton
		Donne	P. and G. Fletcher
	Cowley	Herbert
	Davenant	Carew
	Milton
		Dryden	Dryden	Dryden
1700			Butler
	Blackmore	Prior	Pope
				Pope
		Collins
		Gray		Johnson
			Cowper
		Burns	Crabbe
1800		Wordsworth	Coleridge
		Keats	Scott	Shelley
		Shelley	Byron	Byron
		Tennyson	Tennyson
		Browning		Tennyson
	Tennyson		Browning
		Arnold	Arnold
		D. G. Rossetti	Swinburne
1900