Table 1:

Note: The order followed here is Hazlitt’s, except for the poets who appear in his section entitled “Miscellaneous Pieces”; I have followed Hazlitt’s and the Norton’s typography for names.

Hazlitt, 1825 Norton 4 th 1979

Old English Poetry – (Caedmon’s Hymn, Dream of the Rood, Beowulf) CHAUCER GEOFFREY CHAUCER

Middle English Poetry – (Orfeo, Gawain, Pearl, Piers Plowman, Everyman) SIR THOMAS MALORY

WILLIAM CAXTON

SIR THOMAS MORE

JOHN SKELTON

SIR THOMAS WYATT THE ELDER

HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY

SPENSER EDMUND SPENSER (after Sidney)

SIDNEY (1 poem) SIR PHILIP SIDNEY (before Spenser)

[Marlow [sic.] (1 poem) in CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE “Miscellaneous Pieces”] [Shakespeare, sonnets and WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE songs in “Miscellaneous Pieces”] THOMAS NASHE

[Raleigh in “Miscellaneous SIR WALTER RALEIGH Pieces”] ROBERT SOUTHWELL

DRAYTON MICHAEL DRAYTON (after Daniel) DANIEL SAMUEL DANIEL (before Drayton)

THOMAS CAMPION

Prose of the Sixteenth Century – (John Foxe, Hoby, Hooker, Hariot)

JOHN DONNE

[Ben Johnson in “Miscellaneous BEN JONSON Pieces”] [John Webster (1 poem) in JOHN WEBSTER “Miscellaneous Pieces”] [Herrick (1 poem) in ROBERT HERRICK “Miscellaneous Pieces”] GEORGE HERBERT

RICHARD CRASHAW

HENRY VAUGHAN

[Beaumont and Fletcher in BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER “Miscellaneous Pieces”] [Carew (1 poem) in THOMAS CAREW “Miscellaneous Pieces”] [Lovelace (1 poem) in RICHARD LOVELACE “Miscellaneous Pieces”] THOMAS TRAHERNE

SUCKLING SIR JOHN SUCKLING (after Waller)

WITHER (1 poem)

WALLER EDMUND WALLER (after Carew)

MILTON JOHN MILTON (after Marvell)

COWLEY ABRAHAM COWLEY (after Traherne)

MARVELL ANDREW MARVELL (after Vaughan)

[Burton (1 poem) in Prose of the Seventeenth Century – “Miscellaneous Pieces”] (Bacon, Burton, Hobbes, Walton, Browne, Locke, Pepys, Sprat, Newton) JOHN BUNYAN

WILLIAM CONGREVE

DANIEL DEFOE

ANNE FINCH, COUNTESS OF WINCHILSEA (after Rochester) LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU (after Gay) JOSEPH ADDISON AND SIR RICHARD STEELE (after Swift) SAMUEL JOHNSON (after Pope)

JAMES BOSWELL

EDMUND BURKE

BUTLER SAMUEL BUTLER (after Defoe)

DENHAM (2 poems)

DRYDEN JOHN DRYDEN (after Prose)

ROCHESTER JOHN WILMOT, SECOND EARL OF ROCHESTER (after Butler)

ROSCOMMON (1 poem) POMFRET (1 poem) DORSET (3 poems) PHILIPS (1 poem) HALIFAX (2 poems) PARNELL (3 poems) PRIOR MATTHEW PRIOR (after Finch)

POPE ALEXANDER POPE (after Addison and Steele) GAY JOHN GAY

BLAIR (1 poem) SWIFT JONATHAN SWIFT (after Montagu)

THOMSON JAMES THOMSON (after Burke)

A. PHILIPS (2 poems) COLLINS WILLIAM COLLINS (after Gray)

DYER (1 poem) SHENSTONE (3 poems) MALLET (2 poems) AKENSIDE (1 poem) YOUNG (2 poems) GRAY THOMAS GRAY (after Thomson)

CHURCHILL (2 poems) GOLDSMITH OLIVER GOLDSMITH (before Crabbe)

ARMSTRONG (1 poem) CHATTERTON (2 poems) WARTON (3 poems) COWPER WILLIAM COWPER (after Crabbe)

BURNS

CHRISTOPHER SMART (after Collins)

GEORGE CRABBE (after Goldsmith)

Miscellaneous Pieces: authors included who are not mentioned above are Ford, Lyly [sic.], Drummond, Browne, King, Walton, Hamilton, and Anonymous.

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