British and Anglophone Literatures: 1500 – Present pre-1650: Renaissance – Elizabethan Literature; Jacobean Literature; Civil War Poetry John Skelton (ca. 1460-1529); Thomas Wyatt (ca. 1503-1542); Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (ca. 1517-1547); Thomas Watson (ca. 1557-1592); Edmund Spenser (ca. 1552-1599); Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586); John Lyly (ca. 1554-1606); Samuel Daniel (1562-1619); Michael Drayton (1563-1631); Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593); William Shakespeare (1564-1616); John Donne (ca. 1573-1631); Benjamin Jonson (ca. 1573-1637); Richard Barnfield (1574-1620); Robert Herrick (1591-1674); George Herbert (1593-1633); John Milton (1608-1674); Samuel Butler (1612-1680); Henry Vaughan (ca.1622-1695); Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) Edmund Spenser (ca. 1552-1599) The Shepheardes Calender (1579) The Faerie Queene (1590-1596) Drama Thomas Kyd (ca. 1557-ca. 1595) The Spanish Tragedy (1592) Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) Edward II (1594) Doctor Faustus (1604) William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Richard III (1593) Henry V (1599) Julius Cesar (1599) A Midsummer Night's Dream (1600) Twelfth Night (1601/1602) Hamlet (1603) Othello (1603) King Lear (1608) The Tempest (1610) Ben Jonson (ca.1573-1637) Volpone or the Fox (1607) The Alchemist (1612) John Webster (ca. 1580- ca. 1625) The White Devil (1612) The Duchess of Malfi (1612-1613) Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) and Thomas Dekker (1572-1632) The Roaring Girl (1607-1610) John Ford (1586-1639) 'Tis Pity She's a Whore (1629-1633) 1 Fiction Thomas More (ca. 1478-1535) Utopia (1551) Thomas Nashe (1567-1601) The Unfortunate Traveller or The Life of Jack Wilton (1594) Others Walter Raleigh (ca. 1552-1618) Discovery of the Large, Rich and Beautiful Empire of Guiana (1596) Richard Hakluyt (1553-1616) Principle Navigations, Voyages, and Discoveries of the English Nation (1589-1600) Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586) An Apology for Poetry (1595) Francis Bacon (1561-1626) The Advancement of Learning (1605) Essays, or: Counsels, Civill and Morall, newly written (1625) John Donne (ca. 1573-1631) Sermons (Selection) Robert Burton (1577-1640) The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) Leviathan (1651) Thomas Browne (1605-1682) Religio Medici (1643) John Milton (1608-1674, see also below) "Areopagitica" (1644) 1650 – 1750: Commonwealth/Republic; Restoration; 18th Century Poetry John Milton (1608-1674); John Dryden (1631-1700); John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647- 1680); Edward Young (1683-1765); Alexander Pope (1688-1744); James Thomson (1700-1748) John Milton (1608-1674, see also above) Paradise Lost (1667/1674) Drama Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673) The Blazing World (1666) John Dryden (1631-1700) All for Love (1678) 2 George Etherege (1636-1692) The Man of Mode (1676) Aphra Behn (1640-1689) The Rover (1677-81) William Wycherley (1641-1715) The Country Wife (1675) William Congreve (1670-1729) The Way of the World (1700) John Gay (1685-1732) The Beggar's Opera (1728) George Lillo (1691-1739) The London Merchant (1739) Fiction John Bunyan (1628-1688) Pilgrim's Progress (1678-1684) Richard Head (1637-1686) The English Rogue (1665) Aphra Behn (1640-1689) Oroonoko: or, The Royal Slave (1688) Daniel Defoe (1661-1731) Robinson Crusoe (1719) Moll Flanders (1722) Delarivier Manley (1663-1724) The New Atalantis (1709) Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) Gulliver's Travels (1726) Samuel Madden (1686-1765) Memoirs of the Twentieth Century (1733) Samuel Richardson (1689-1761) Pamela: or, Virtue Rewarded (1740) Clarissa: or, The History of a Young Lady (1747-48) Eliza Haywood (1693-1756) Love in Excess (1719-1720) Henry Fielding (1707-1754) Joseph Andrews (1742) The History of Tom Jones (1749) John Cleland (1709-1789) Fanny Hill, or: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1748) 3 Others John Dryden (1631-1700) Of Dramatic Poesie (1668) Discourse on the Original and Progress of Satire (1693) John Locke (1632-1704) An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690) Two Treatises of Government (1690) Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) Diary (1825) Mary Astell (1666-1731) A Serious Proposal to the Ladies (1694) Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) A Modest Proposal (1729) Bernard Mandeville (1670-1733) The Fable of the Bees (1705/1714/1729) Joseph Addison (1672-1719) Spectator 3, 35, 47, 58-63, 160, 249, 409, 411-421 (1711) Nicholas Rowe (1674-1718) "Preface" to The Works of William Shakespear (1709) David Hume (1711-1776) A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-1740) An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748) 1750 – 1850: 18th Century, Romantic Literature; Early Victorian Literature Poetry Samuel Johnson (1709-1784); Thomas Gray (1716-1771); William Collins (1721-1759); Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774); William Blake (1757-1827); Robert Burns (1759-1796); William Wordsworth (1770-1850); Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834); George Gordon Lord Byron (1788-1824); Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1824); John Keats (1795-1821) Drama Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) She Stoops to Conquer (1773) Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) The Rivals (1775) The School for Scandal (1777) Fiction Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767, esp. Books 1-4) A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy (1768) 4 Horace Walpole (1717-1797) The Castle of Otranto (1765) Tobias Smollett (1721-1771) The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker (1771) Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774) The Vicar of Wakefield (1766) Henry Mackenzie (1745-1831) The Man of Feeling (1771) Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797) The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African (1789) Frances Burney (1752-1840) Evelina (1778) William Godwin (1756-1836) Caleb Williams (1794) William Beckford (1760-1844) Vathek (1786) Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823) The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) The Italian (1797) Maria Edgeworth (1767-1849) Castle Rackrent (1800) James Hogg (1770-1835) The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824) Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) Waverley: or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since (1814) Heart of Midlothian (1818) Ivanhoe (1819) Jane Austen (1775-1817) Sense and Sensibility (1811) Pride and Prejudice (1813) Emma (1816) Matthew Gregory Lewis (1775-1818) The Monk (1796) Charles Robert Maturin (1782-1824) Melmoth the Wanderer (1820) Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Sartor Resartus (1836) Mary Shelley (1797-1851) Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818) Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865, see also below) Mary Barton (1848) William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) Vanity Fair (1847-48) 5 Charles Dickens (1812-1870; see also below) Oliver Twist (1837-39) David Copperfield (1849-50) Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) In a Glass Darkly (1872) Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855) Jane Eyre (1847) Emily Brontë (1818-1848) Wuthering Heights (1847) Anne Brontë (1820-1849) The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) Others Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) "Preface" to The Plays of William Shakespeare (1765) Adam Smith (1723-1790) Wealth of Nations (1776) Edmund Burke (1729-1797) A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1756) Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) Thomas Paine (1737-1809) The Rights of Man (1791/92) James Boswell (1740-1795) The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791, 1793, 1799) William Godwin (1756-1836) An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (1793) Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798) William Wordsworth (1770-1850) "Preface" to the Second Edition of Lyrical Ballads (1802) Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) Biographia Literaria, XIV, XVII (1817) Thomas de Quincey (1785-1859) "Confessions of an English Opium Eater" (1821) Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1824) A Defense of Poetry (1821) Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) "Signs of the Times" (1829) 6 1850-1950: Mid-/Late-Victorian Literature; Modernist Literature Poetry Elizabeth Barrett-Browning (1806-1861); Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892); Robert Browning (1812- 1889); Matthew Arnold (1822-1888); Christina Rossetti (1830-1894); James Thomson (1834- 1882); Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909); Thomas Hardy (1840-1928); Gerald Manley Hopkins (1844-1889); Michael Field (Katharine Harris Bradley, 1846-1914, and Edith Emma Cooper, 1862-1913); Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936); William Butler Yeats (1865-1939); Philip Edward Thomas (1878-1917); D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930); Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967); Edwin Muir (1887-1959); Rupert Brooke (1887-1915); T.S. Eliot (1888-1965); Isaac Rosenberg (1890- 1918); Hugh MacDiarmid (Christopher Murray Grieve, 1892-1978); Wilfred Owen (1893-1918); Stevie Smith (1902-1971); Patrick Kavanagh (1904-1967); Idris Davies (1905-1953); Wystan Hugh Auden (1907-1973); Louis MacNeice (1907-1963); Stephen Spender (1909-1995); R. S. Thomas (1913-2000); Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) Gitanjali (1913) A.B. 'Banjo' Paterson (1864-1941) Ballads T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915) The Waste Land (1922) Four Quartets (1943) Drama Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Salomé (1894) The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) Arthur Wing Pinero (1855-1934) The Second Mrs. Tanqueray (1893) George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Pygmalion (1912) William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) The Countess Cathleen (1892) John Millington Synge (1871-1909) The Playboy of the Western World (1907) Sean O'Casey (1884-1964) The Dublin Trilogy (The Shadow of a Gunman (1923), Juno and the Paycock (1924), The Plough and the Stars (1926)) T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) Murder in the Cathedral (1935) J.B. Priestley (1894-1984) An Inspector Calls (1945) 7 R.C. Sherriff