A History of English Literature

Name: A History of English Literature
Author: Fletcher, Robert Huntington

Fletcher, Robert Huntington

English literature -- History and criticism

VI. The Restoration Period, from the Restoration of Charles II
      in 1660 to the death of Dryden in 1700.
    Charles II, 1660-1685. James II, 1685 to the Revolution
      in 1688. William and Mary, 1688-1702.
    Butler's 'Hudibras.' Pepys' 'Diary.' The Restoration
      Drama. Dryden, 1631-1700.

VII. The Eighteenth Century.
         Queen Anne, 1702-1715. The four Georges, 1715-1830.

    PSEUDO-CLASSIC
     LITERATURE.
   Swift, 1667-1745.
   Addison, 1672-1719.
   Steele, 1672-1729.
   Pope, 1688-1744.
   Johnson, 1709-1784.

     THE LATER PROSE.
   Burke, 1729-1797.
   Gibbon, 'Decline and
     Fall,' 1776-1788.
   Boswell, 'Life of
     Johnson,' 1791.

     THE NOVEL.
   'Sir Roger de Coverly,'
     1711-12.
   Defoe, 1661-1731.
     'Robinson Crusoe,'
     1718-20.
   Richardson, 1689-1761.
     'Clarissa Harlowe,'
     1747-8.
   Fielding, 1707-1754.
   Smollett.
   Sterne.
   Goldsmith, 'Vicar of
   Wakefield,' 1766.
   Historical and 'Gothic'
     Novels.
   Miss Burney, 'Evelina,'
     1778.
   Revolutionary Novels
     of Purpose. Godwin,
     'Caleb Williams.'
   Miss Edgeworth.
   Miss Austen.

     THE ROMANTIC REVOLT
          --Poetry.
   Thomson, 'The Seasons,'
     1726-30.
   Collins, 'Odes,' 1747.
   Gray, 1716-71.
   Percy's 'Reliques,'
     1765.
   Goldsmith, 'The Deserted
     Village,'
     1770.
   Cowper.
   Chatterton.
   Macpherson, Ossianic
     imitations.
   Burns, 1759-96.
   Blake.

     THE DRAMA.
   Pseudo-Classical Tragedy,
     Addison's
     'Cato,' 1713.
   Sentimental Comedy.
   Domestic Tragedy.
   Revival of genuine
     Comedy of
     Manners. Goldsmith,
     'She Stoops to
     Conquer,' 1773.
     Sheridan.

VIII. The Romantic Triumph, 1798 to about 1830.
    Coleridge, 1772-1834. Wordsworth, 1770-1850. Southey,
      1774-1843. Scott, 1771-1832.
    Byron, 1788-1824. Shelley, 1792-1822. Keats, 1759-1821.

IX. The Victorian Period, about 1830-1901.
       Victoria Queen, 1837-1901.

  ESSAYISTS.              POETS.                   NOVELISTS.

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