Execution of Raleigh, 1618. JEREMY TAYLOR. +1613-1667+. English clergyman; Bishop of Down and Connor in Ireland. +Holy Living+ and +Holy Dying+ (1649); and a number of other religious books. +1620+ JOHN BUNYAN. +1628-1688+. Tinker and traveling preacher. +The Pilgrim’s Progress+ (1678); the +Holy War+; and other religious works. Charles I. ascends the throne in 1625. Petition of Right, 1628. +1630+ JOHN DRYDEN. +1631-1700+. Poet-Laureate and Historiographer-Royal; playwright; poet; prose-writer. +Annus Mirabilis+ (= “The Wonderful Year,” 1665-66, on the Plague and the Fire of London); +Absalom and Achitophel+ (1681), a poem on political parties; +Hind and Panther+ (1687), a religious poem. He also wrote many plays, some odes and a translation of Virgil’s +Æneid+. His prose consists chiefly of prefaces and introductions to his poems. No Parliament from 1629-40. Scottish National Covenant, 1638. +1640+ Long Parliament, 1640-53. Marston Moor, 1644. Execution of Charles I., 1649. +1650+ JOHN LOCKE. +1632-1704+. Diplomatist; Secretary to the Board of Trade; philosopher; prose-writer. +Essay concerning the Human Understanding+ (1690); +Thoughts on Education+; and other prose works. The Commonwealth, 1649-60. Cromwell Lord Protector, 1653-58. +1660+ DANIEL DEFOE. +1661-1731+. Literary man; pamphleteer; journalist; member of Commission on Union with Scotland. +The True-born Englishman+ (1701); +Robinson Crusoe+ (1719); +Journal of the Plague+ (1722); and more than a hundred books in all. Restoration, 1660. First standing army, 1661. First newspaper in England, 1663. JONATHAN SWIFT. +1667-1745+. English clergyman; literary man; satirist; prose-writer; poet; Dean of St Patrick’s, in Dublin. +Battle of the Books+; +Tale of a Tub+ (1704), an allegory on the Churches of Rome, England, and Scotland; +Gulliver’s Travels+ (1726); a few poems; and a number of very vigorous political pamphlets. Plague of London, 1665. Fire of London, 1666. +1670+ SIR RICHARD STEELE. +1671-1729+. Soldier; literary man; courtier; journalist; M.P. Steele founded the ‘Tatler,’ ‘Spectator,’ ‘Guardian,’ and other small journals. He also wrote some plays. Charles II. pensioned by Louis XIV. of France, 1674. JOSEPH ADDISON. +1672-1719+. Essayist; poet; Secretary of State for the Home Department. +Essays+ in the ‘Tatler,’ ‘Spectator,’ and ‘Guardian.’ Cato, a Tragedy (1713). Several _Poems_ and _Hymns_. The Habeas Corpus Act, 1679. +1680+ ALEXANDER POPE. +1688-1744+. Poet. +Essay on Criticism+ (1711); +Rape of the Lock+ (1714); Translation of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, finished in 1726; +Dunciad+ (1729); +Essay on Man+ (1739). A few prose _Essays_, and a volume of _Letters_.