John Knox(1505-1572): Admonition; History of the Reformation of
Religion within the Realm of Scotland; Sermons. George Puttenham
(d. 1590?): Art of English Poesie. Edward Dyer (1550?-1607): My
Mind to Me a Kingdom Is. Samuel Daniel (1562-1619): The Complaint of
Rosamund; A Defence of Rhyme (prose). Fulke Greville (Lord Brooke,
1554-1628): Caelica. Stephen Gosson (1555-1624): The School of
Abuse. George Gascoigne (1525?-1577):The Steele Glas. William
Warner (1558?-1609): Albion's England.
1603-1660:
Prose Writers.—Robert Burton (1577-1640): The Anatomy of Melancholy. John Selden (1584-1654): Table Talk. Richard Baxter (1615-1691): The Saints' Everlasting Rest.
Poets and Dramatists.—Phineas Fletcher (1582-1650?): The Purple Island. William Drummond (1585-1649): Sonnets; The Cypresse Grove (prose). Giles Fletcher (1588?-1623): Christ's Victory and Triumph. George Wither (1588-1667): Juvenilia. William Browne (1591-1643?) Britannia's Pastorals. Sir William D'Avenant (1606-1668): Gondibert. Edmund Waller (1606-1687): Poems; Song—"Go, lovely Rose." Richard Crashaw (1613?—1649): Steps to the Temple; The Delights of the Muses. Sir John Denham (1615-1669): Cooper's Hill. Abraham Cowley (1618-1667): Anacreontiques. Andrew Marvell (1621-1678): The Garden.
1660-1740:
Dramatists of the Restoration.—Sir William D'Avenant (1606-1668): Love and Honor. George Etherege (1635?-1691?): The Man of Mode. William Wycherley (1640-1715): The Plain Dealer. Thomas Shadwell (1642?-1692): Epson Wells. Thomas Otway (1652-1685): Venice Preserved. John Vanbrugh (1666?-1726): The Confederacy. Colley Cibber (1671-1757): The Careless Husband. George Farquhar (1678-1707): The Beaux' Stratagem.
Prose Writers.—Sir William Temple (1628-1699): Essays. Isaac
Barrow (1630-1677): Sermons. Robert South (1634-1716): Sermons.
Richard Bentley (1662-1742): Epistles of Phalaris. Gilbert Burnet
(1643-1715): Sermons. John Arbuthnot (1667-1735): The History of
John Bull. Lord Bolingbroke (1678-1751): Letter to Sir William
Windham. Bishop Berkeley (1685-1753): Alciphron or the Minute
Philosopher. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762): Letters. Bishop
Butler (1692-1752): Analogy of Natural and Revealed Religion.
William Warburton (1698-1779): The Divine Legation of Moses.
Poets.—Matthew Prior (1664-1721): Shorter Poems. Isaac Watts
(1673-1748): Psalms and Hymns. Thomas Parnell (1679-1718): A
Night-Piece on Death; The Hermit. John Gay (1685-1732): Fables; The
Beggar's Opera. Allan Ramsay (1686-1758): The Gentle Shepherd. John
Dyer (1700?-1758): Grongar Hill.
1740-1780:
Prose Writers.—Gilbert White (1720-1793): Natural History of Selborne. William Robertson (1721-1793): History of the Reign of Charles V. Adam Smith (1723-1790): Wealth of Nations. Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792): Discourses on Painting. Thomas Warton (1728-1790): History of English Poetry. Sir Philip Francis (1740-1818): Letters of Junius. Fanny Burney (1752-1840): Evelina.