LIST OF THE CHIEF WORKS AND AUTHORS MENTIONED
The dates attached to the authors are those of birth and death; those with the books, of publication.
CHAPTER I
Sir Thomas More, 1480-1535.
Utopia. 1516 (in Latin).
William Tindall, 1484-1536.
Translation of the New Testament, 1526.
Sir John Cheke, 1514-1557.
Roger Ascham, 1515-1568.
Toxophilus, 1545.
Schoolmaster, 1570.
Richard Hakluyt, 1553-1616.
His Voyages, 1598.
CHAPTER II
Sir Thomas Wyatt, 1503-1542.
The Earl of Surrey, 1517-1547.
Tottel's Miscellany (containing their poems), 1557.
Sir Philip Sidney. 1554-1586.
Arcadia, 1590.
Astrophel and Stella, 1591.
Edmund Spenser, 1552-1599.
Shepherd's Calendar, 1579.
Fairy Queen, 1589, 1596.
John Lyly, 1554-1606.
Euphues, 1579.
Euphues and his England, 1580.
Richard Hooker, 1553-1600.
Ecclesiastical Polity, 1594.
CHAPTER III
Christopher Marlowe, 1564-1593.
Tamburlaine, 1587 (date of performance).
Dr. Faustus, 1588 (date of performance).
Edward II., 1593.
Thomas Kyd, 1557(?)-1595(?).
The Spanish Tragedy, 1594 (published).
John Webster, 1580(?)-1625(?).
The White Devil, 1608 (date of performance).
Duchess of Malfi, 1616 (date of performance).
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.