_1._ POETRY.--(_a_) _The Classical Tradition_: Cibber. Whitehead. Pye. Johnson. Goldsmith. Dyer. Blair. Shenstone. Akenside. Glover. E. Darwin. (_See also_ Satire). (_b_) _Poets of Transition_: Thomson. Collins. Gray. The Wartons. Russell. Smart. Cowper. Blake. Crabbe. (_c_) _Influence of the Middle Ages_: Macpherson. Percy’s “Reliques.” Ritson. Chatterton and Spenser. The Wartons. Tyrrwhitt and Chaucer. (_d_) _The Scottish Revival_: The Hamiltons. Jean Elliott. Beattie. Ross. Mickle. Logan. Bruce. Fergusson. Burns. _2._ DRAMA.--The predominance of repertoire until _1770_. Translations from the French, and the influence of Voltaire. (_a_) _Tragedy_: Johnson. Lillo. Moore. Home. (_b_) _Panto and Ballad Opera_: Rich. Gay. Centlivre. Young. Hughes. Thomson. (_c_) _Burlesque and Farce_: Fielding. Foote. (_d_) _Comedy_: Colman. Murphy. Towneley. Garrick. Goldsmith. Sheridan. O’Keefe. Macklin. Holcroft. (_e_) _Sentimental Drama_: Kelly. Cumberland. _3._ NOVEL.--The perfecting of the novel proper. (_a_) _The Picaresque Romance_: Fielding. Smollett. Sterne. (_b_) _The Novel of Manners and Sentiment_: Richardson. Sterne. Mackenzie. Burney. Brooks. (_c_) _The Romance of Terror_: Amory. Walpole. Beckford. Radcliffe. Reeve. Lewis. (_d_) _The Revolutionary Romance_: Godwin. Holcroft. Bage. Inchbald. (_e_) _The Didactic Tale_: Johnson. Goldsmith. H. More. _4._ ESSAYISTS AND CRITICS.--Johnson. Goldsmith. The Wartons. Gray. The periodical press. Mrs. Thrale. Mrs. Trench. Twining. _5._ ORATORY.--Burke. Fox. Pitt. Sheridan. _6._ DIARISTS, LETTER-WRITERS AND MEMOIRS.--Boswell. Burdy. Holcroft. Walpole. Wolfe Tone. Chesterfield. Burney. Hannah More. The Warwickshire coterie: Somervile. Shenstone. Jago. Graves. Cowper. Mrs. Montagu. _7._ SATIRE.--Churchill. Wolcot. Anstey. “The Rolliad.” “The Anti-Jacobin,” “The Baviad,” etc. “Junius.” Gifford. Canning. Frere. Burns, etc. _8._ POLITICAL LITERATURE.--Whig and Tory pamphleteers. Smollett. Wilkes. Burke. Paine. Godwin. Mary Wollstonecroft. Cobbett. _9._ STUDY AND RESEARCH.--(_a_) _Philosophy_: Hume. Adam. Smith. Hartley. Reid and the “commonsense” school. Bentham. Mill and Utilitarianism. Malthus. Young. E. Darwin. Stewart. (_b_) _Religion_: Dislike of enthusiasm and general tolerance. The divines: Wake. Sherlock. The Apologists: Paley. Horsley. Watson. Lowth. Warburton. The Sceptics: Priestley, Middleton, Paine and the deists. The evangelists: Whitefield, Fletcher, and the Wesleys. (_c_) _Classical Scholars, etc._: Parr. Horne Tooke. Wakefield. Porson. Toup. (_d_) _Science and Discovery_: Black. Cavendish. Priestley. Hutton. Dalton. White. Pennant. Pinkerton. Bruce. A. Young. (_e_) _Historians_: Gibbon. Hume. Robertson. Smollett. Goldsmith. Watson. Walpole. Mitford. Middleton. Whitaker. Ferguson. Strutt. _10._ CHILDREN’S BOOKS.--The Newberys. Edgeworth. Sherwood. Blake. Trimmer. Day. Barbauld. PART II.--AGE OF WORDSWORTH (_1798-1832_).