_1._ POETRY.--(_a_) _The Lyrists_: Dryden. Marvell. The court poets: Rochester, Sedley, etc. (_b_) _Narrative_: Dryden. Butler. (_c_) _Satirical and Didactic_: Dryden. Butler. Oldham. Shadwell. (_d_) _Criticism in Verse_: Mulgrave and Roscommon. _2._ THE DRAMA.--Spanish and French influences: Molière, Corneille. Racine, etc. (_a_) _The Heroic Play_: _Dryden_. Orrery. Killigrew. Settle. Lee. (_b_) _Comedy_: Dryden. Etheredge. Shadwell. Wycherley. Congreve. Vanbrugh. Farquhar. Behn. Cibber. Centlivre. (_c_) _Tragedy_: Otway. Lee. Crowne. Southerne. Rowe. _3._ THE NOVEL.--Bunyan. Aphra Behn. _4._ THE ESSAY.--The beginnings of modern English prose. Science and the demand for clarity and simplicity. Pulpit plainness. French influences. Dryden. Cowley. Osborne. Temple. Halifax. _5._ MEMOIRS, LETTERS AND DIARIES.--Evelyn. Pepys. Hamilton. Whitelocke. _6._ POLITICAL WRITERS.--Locke. Sidney. The pamphleteers and the news letter. _7._ STUDY AND RESEARCH.--(_a_) _Economists_: Locke. Petty. (_b_) _Science_: Digby. Newton. Harvey. Boyle. Glanvil. (_c_) _Religion_: Barrow. Pearson. Wilkins. Stillingfleet. Tillotson. South. Bunyan. Fox. Penn. Barclay, (_d_) _Philosophy_: Locke. Whichcote and the Cambridge Platonists. More. Cudworth. Culverwell. Cumberland. Glanvil. (_e_) _History, Travel and Antiquities_: Burnet. Ludlow. Temple. Coke. à Wood. Dugdale. Ashmole. Knox. Dampier. Molesworth. PART III.--AGE OF POPE (_1700-1740_). _Forces at Work._--Under Anne the chief influences which left their mark on literature were the War of the Spanish succession, the rise of political parties, the Act of Settlement and the new study of social and industrial conditions. Under George I. history is largely Whig politics and the development of English trade. Political life was corrupt and cynical and social outlook materialistic. The year _1714_, was the culminating point of the strife between Whigs and Tories. The accession of the House of Hanover was a triumph for the Low Church and the middle classes generally. _Literary Features._--The age is chiefly one of development in prose style. The tendency in poetry is all towards convention and polish rather than fervour and freedom. Under Pope and his school the heroic couplet reaches its climax as a weapon of criticism and satire, and is often no more than rhymed prose. The political strife influenced literature in several ways: (_a_) it unloosed an avalanche of pamphlets and developed a virulent prose style, (_b_) assisted in the formation of those clubs and coffee houses which were to have so great an influence on the essay, (_c_) produced a swarm of party periodicals and literary journals, (_d_) helped to create an increased reading public and led to the development of the new publishing houses and the race of hack writers of “Grub Street.”