ENGLISH LITERATURE 



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ENGLISH LITERATURE 



AN OUTLINE ON ENGLISH LITERATURE 



An article on each author named appears in its alphabetical place in these volumes. 



I. EARLY I.I 11.15 \ I I IU 

 Poetry 



Caedmon's Paraphrase 



Vision of Piers Plowman 

 Geoffrey Chaucer 



The Canterbury Tales 

 Prose 



The Venerable Bede 



King Alfred 



John Wyclif 



II. ELIZABETHAN AGE 



I'... is and Their Chief Work* 



Non-Dramatic 

 Edmund Spenser. 1552-1599 



Faerie Queene 



Dramatic 

 William Shakespeare. 1564-1616 



Hamlet 



As You Like It 

 Ben Jonson. 1573-1637 



Every Man in His Humor 

 Christopher Marlowe. 1564-1593 



Tamburlaine 

 Prose \Vriter and Their Chief 



Works 

 Sir Walter Raleigh. 1552-1618 



History of the World 

 Francis Bacon. 1561-1625 



Essays 



III. THE PURITAN AGE 



Poets 



John Milton. 1608-1674 



Paradise -Lost 

 Prose Writers 



Izaak Walton. 1593-1683 



The Compleat Angler 

 Jeremy Taylor. 1613-1667 



Holy Living and Holy Dying 

 John Milton 



Areopagitica 



IV. THE AGE OF RESTORATION 

 Poets 



John Dryden. 1631-1700 



Alexander's Feast 

 Prose AVriters 



John Bunyan. 1628-1688 



Pilgrim's Progress 

 John Locke. 1632-1704 



Essay Concerning Human Under- 

 standing 



Sir Isaac Newton. 1642-1727 

 Optics 



V. AUGUSTAN AGE 



Poets 



Alexander Pope. 1688-1744 



Essay on Man 

 Edward Young. 1683-1765 



Night Thoughts 

 Prose AVriters 

 Joseph Addison. 1672-1719 



Sir Roger de Coverley Papers 



Essays 

 Richard Steele. 1672-1729 



Essays 

 Jonathan Swift. 1667-1745 



Gulliver's Travels 

 Daniel Defoe. 1661-1731 



Robinson Crusoe 



VI. THE AGE OF JOHNSON 

 Poets 



Thomas Gray. 1716-1771 

 , Elegy Written in a Country Church- 

 yard 

 Oliver Goldsmith. 1728-1774 



The Traveller 



She Stoops to Conquer 

 William Cowper. 1731-1800 



The Task 

 Robert Burns. 1759-1796 



Cotter's Saturday- Night 

 Prose Writers 

 Samuel Richardson. 1689-1761 



Clarissa Harlowe 

 Henry Fielding. 1707-1754 



Tom Jones 

 Samuel Johnson. 1709-1784 



Rasselas 

 David Hume. 1711-1776 



History of England 

 Edward Gibbon. 1737-1794 



Decline and Fall of the Roman 



Empire 

 Edmund Burke. 1729-1797 



On Conciliation with America 



VII. THE ROMANTIC AGE 

 Poets 



Walter Scott. 1771-1832 



The Lady of the Lake 

 George Gordon Byron. 1788-1824 



Childe Harold's Pilgrimage 

 John Keats. 1795-1821 



Endymion 



Eve of St. Agnes 



