A List of Works & Authors in Chronological Order

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Butler “Hudibras” 1662
Dryden “Annus Mirabilis” 1667
Pepys “Diary” 1660-69
Bunyan “Pilgrim’s Progress” 1678-79
Rochester “Satire against Reason and Mankind” 1679
“Imperfect Enjoyment” 1680
Dryden “Absalom and Achitophel” 1681
Behn “Oroonoka” 1688
Dryden “Essay of Dramatic Poesy” 1688
Locke “Essay on Understanding” 1690
Congreve “Way of the World” 1700
Steele “Inkle and Yarico” 1711
Addison “Aims of a Spectator” 1711
“The Royal Exchange” 1711
“Pleasures of the Imagination” 1711
Pope “An Essay on Criticism” 1711
Swift “Gulliver’s Travels” 1726
Swift “A Modest Proposal” 1729
Thomson “The Seasons” 1730
Pope “Essay on Man” 1733-4
Hogarth “Marriage a al mode” 1743-45
Collins “Ode to Evening” 1746
Johnson “Rambler” 1750
Gray “Elegy Written in a Country Courtyard” 1742-50
Johnson “Preface to Dictionary” 1755
“Preface to Shakespeare” 1765
Goldsmith “The Deserted Village” 1770
Smith “Written at the Close of Spring” 1784
“To Sleep” 1784
Cowper “The Task” 1785
Blake “All Religions Are One” 1788
“There Is No Natural Religion” 1788
“Songs of Innocence and Experience” 1789-94
“The Marriage of Heaven and Hell” 1790-93
Burke “Reflections on the Revolution in France” 1790
Paine “Rights of Man” 1791
Boswell “From the Life of Johnson” 1791
Coleridge “This Lime Tree Bower My Prison” 1797
Equiano “An Interesting Narrative” 1789
Barbauld “Epistle to William Wilberforce” 1791
Wollstonecraft “Vindication of the Rights of Woman” 1792
Burns “Such a parcel of rogues in a nation” 1792
Blake “Visions of the Daughters of Albion” 1793
Burns “Auld Lang Syne” 1796
Wordsworth “Lyrical Ballads” 1798
Robinson “London’s Summer Morning” 1800
Edgeworth “The Irish Incognito” 1802
Wordsworth “Preface to Lyrical Ballads” 1802
Byron “The Giaour” 1813
Austen “Persuasion” 1816
Byron “Childe Harold” 1816
Coleridge “Kubla Khan” 1816
Shelley “Mont Blanc” 1817
“Ozymandias” 1818
Keats “Ode to a Nightingale” 1819
Shelley “Prometheus Unbound” 1820
De Quincy “Confessions of an English Opium-Eater” 1821
Hemans “England’s Dead” 1822
Hazlitt “My First Acquaintance with Poets” 1823
Byron “Don Juan” 1824
Scott “Wandering Willie’s Tale” 1824
Barbauld “The Rights of Woman” 1825
Hemans “The Homes of England” 1827
Lamb “Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading” 1833
Shelley “Men of England” 1839
“England in 1819” 1839
Burney “Journal” 1768-1840
Shelley “A Defense of Poetry” 1840
Clare “I Am” 1842-48
Wordsworth “The Prelude” 1805-50