Christopher Marlowe, 1564-1593. _Tamburlaine_, 1587 (date of performance). _Dr. Faustus_, 1588 (date of performance). _Edward II._, 1593. Thomas Kyd, 1557(?)-1595(?). _The Spanish Tragedy_, 1594 (published). John Webster, 1580(?)-1625(?). _The White Devil_, 1608 (date of performance). _Duchess of Malfi_, 1616 (date of performance). Ben Jonson, 1573-1637. _Every Man in his Humour_, 1598. _Volpone_, 1605. _Poems_, 1616. CHAPTER IV John Donne, 1573-1631. _Poems_, 1633 (first published, but known, like those of all Elizabethan poets, in manuscript long before). William Browne, 1591-1643. George Herbert, 1593-1633. Robert Herrick, 1593-1674. Richard Crashaw, 1613-1649. Francis Bacon, 1561-1626. _Advancement of Learning_, 1605. _Essays_, 1625. The Bible, _Authorised Version_, 1611. Robert Burton, 1577-1640. _Anatomy of Melancholy_, 1621. Sir Thomas Browne, 1605-1682. _Religio Medici_, 1642. John Bunyan, 1628-1688. _Pilgrim's Progress_, 1678. John Milton, 1608-1674. _Paradise Lost_, 1667. _Paradise Regained_ and _Samson Agonistes_, 1671. CHAPTER V John Dryden, 1631-1700. _Absalom and Achitophel_ and _Religio Laici_, 1682. _The Hind and the Panther_, 1687. Alexander Pope, 1688-1744. _Essay on Criticism_, 1711. _Rape of the Lock_, 1714. James Thomson, 1700-1748. _The Seasons_, 1730. Daniel Defoe, 1661-1731. _Robinson Crusoe_, 1719. Jonathan Swift, 1667-1745. _The Tale of a Tub_, 1704. _Gulliver's Travels_, 1726. Joseph Addison, 1672-1719. Richard Steele, 1675-1729. _The Tatler_, 1709-1711. _The Spectator_, 1711-1712. CHAPTER VI Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784. Edmund Burke, 1728-1797. Oliver Goldsmith, 1728-1774. Thomas Gray, 1716-1771. William Collins, 1721-1759. Robert Burns, 1759-1796. _Poems_, 1786. William Blake, 1757-1827. _Songs of Innocence_, 1789. CHAPTER VII William Wordsworth, 1770-1850. _Lyrical Ballads_, 1798. Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 1772-1834. Sir Walter Scott, 1771-1832. Lord Byron, 1788-1824. _Child Harold's Pilgrimage_, 1812-1817. Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1792-1822. John Keats, 1796-1821. Charles Lamb, 1775-1884. _Essays of Elia_, 1823. William Hazlitt, 1778-1830. Thomas de Quincey, 1785-1859. CHAPTER VIII Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892. _Poems_, 1842. _Idylls of the King_, 1859. Robert Browning, 1812-1889. _Men and Women_, 1855. _The Ring and the Book_, 1868. D. G. Rossetti, 1828-1882. William Morris, 1834-1896. A. C. Swinburne, 1836-1909. Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1880. John Ruskin, 1819-1900. CHAPTER IX Samuel Richardson, 1689-1761. _Pamela_, 1740. _Clarissa Harlowe_, 1750. Henry Fielding, 1707-1754. _Joseph Andrews_, 1742. _Tom Jones_, 1749. Jane Austen, 1775-1817. William Makepeace Thackeray, 1811-1863. Charles Dickens, 1812-1870. George Meredith, 1832-1909. INDEX