2. LIST OF MINOR AUTHORS AND THEIR CHIEF WORKS. THE ELIZABETHAN AGE. POETS. (See text for Sackville, Spenser, Sidney.) (BEFORE 1600.) George Gascoigne, 1525?-1577. The Steel Glass, 1576. Thomas Watson, 1557?-1592. Hecatompathia, or Passionate Century of Love, 1582. Samuel Daniel, 1562-1619. Sonnets to Delia, 1592. George Chapman, 1559?-1634. Completion of Marlowe's Hero and Leander, 1598; Translation of the Iliad and the Odyssey, 1598-1615. Michael Drayton, 1563-1631. Idea's Mirror (sonnets), 1594; Ballad of Agincourt, c. 1605; Polyolbion, 1613-1622; Nymphidia, 1627. (AFTER 1600.) Thomas Campion, d. 1619. Book of Airs, 1601, etc. Christ's Victory and Triumph, 1610. George Wither, 1588-1667. Satires, Hymns, etc., 1613 onward. John Donne, 1573-1631. Divine Poems, Sonnets, etc., collected 1633. DRAMATISTS. (Seetext for Marlowe, Shakespeare, Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, Webster.) (BEFORE 1600.) John Lyly, 1554?-1606. Alexander and Campaspe, 1584, and other court comedies, mostly in prose. George Peele, 1558?-1597? The Arraignment of Paris, 1584, and other masques and plays. Robert Greene, 1560?-1592. Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay, acted 1594, and other romantic plays, novels, etc. (AFTER 1600.) George Chapman, 1559?-1634. All Fools, acted 1599, and other comedies; Bussy d'Ambois, 1607, and other tragedies. Thomas Middleton, 1570?-1627. The Roaring Girl (with Dekker), 1611; The Changeling (with Rowley), acted 1621; Women, Beware Women, etc. Thomas Dekker, 1570?-1641? Fortunatus, 1600, etc. Thomas Heywood, c. 1575-1650. A Woman Killed with Kindness, 1603, etc. Cyril Tourneur, 1575?-1626. The Revenger's Tragedy, 1607, etc. Philip Massinger, 1583-1640. A New Way to Pay Old Debts, 1632, etc. John Ford, fl. 1639. The Broken Heart, 1633, etc. James Shirley, 1596-1666. The Traitor, 1631, etc. PROSE WRITERS. (See text for Lyly, Sidney, Hooker, Bacon, Burton.) Richard Hakluyt, 1552?-1616. Navigations, Voyages, and Discoveries, 1589. Sir Walter Raleigh, 1552?-1618. The Discovery of Guiana, 1596; History of the World, 1614. Thomas Lodge, 1558?-1625. Rosalind, 1590, a romance; also a play, poems, and miscellaneous work. Thomas Nash, 1567-1601. Pierce Penniless, 1592, a satire; The Unfortunate Traveller, 1594, a novel of adventure; etc. Also Spenser, Greene, Dekker, etc. CAROLINE AND PURITAN PERIOD. AGE OF MILTON. MIDDLE OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. POETS. (See text for Crashaw, Herrick, Cowley, Milton.) George Herbert, 1593-1633. The Temple, c. 1631 (printed 1652.) Francis Quarles, 1592-1644. Emblems, Divine and Moral, 1635. Poems, 1640. Fragmenta Aurea, 1646. Richard Lovelace, 1618-1658. Lucasta, 1649. Sir William Davenant, 1606-1668. Gondibert, 1651; also plays, masques, and operas. Andrew Marvell, 1621-1678. Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland, written 1650. Edmund Waller, 1606-1687. Poems (many in the "new" couplet), 1645. Sir John Denham, 1615-1669. Cooper's Hill (in couplets), 1642. PROSE WRITERS. (See text for Taylor, Browne, Walton, Milton.) Thomas Hobbes, 1588-1679. Leviathan, 1651. James Howell, 1594?-1666. Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ, 1645–1655. Thomas Fuller, 1608-1661. Church History, 1655; Worthies of England, 1662. Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, 1609-1674. History of the Great Rebellion, published 1702-1704. THE RESTORATION PERIOD. AGE OF DRYDEN. 1660-1700. (See text for Butler, Pepys, Bunyan, Dryden.) DRAMATISTS (mostly comic). Thomas Otway, 1652-1685. Don Carlos (in couplets), 1676; Venice Preserved (a blank verse tragedy), 1682; etc. Sir George Etherege, 1635?-1691. She Would if She Could, 1667; The Man of Mode, 1676; etc. William Wycherley, 1640?-1716. The Country Wife, 1675; The William Congreve, 1670-1729. Love for Love, 1695; The Mourning PROSE WRITERS. John Evelyn, 1620-1706. Diary [1641-1697], published 1818. Essays, 1680, 1692. Sir Isaac Newton, 1642-1727. Principia (Latin), 1687. John Locke, 1632-1704. Essay concerning Human Understanding, 1690; etc. Jeremy Collier, 1650-1726. Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage, 1698. Richard Bentley, 1662–1742. Dissertation on the Letters of Phalaris, 1699. AGE OF SWIFT AND POPE. 1700-1740. POETS. (See text for Swift, Young, and Pope.) Matthew Prior, 1664–1721. Poems (occasional pieces, epigrams, etc.) 1709. Thomas Parnell, 1679-1718. Poems (The Hermit, in heroics, 1710; Hymn to Contentment, in octosyllabics, etc.), collected 1721. John Gay, 1685-1732. Shepherd's Week (satirical eclogues), 1714; Trivia, 1716; Fables, 1727; Beggar's Opera, 1728. Isaac Watts, 1674-1748. Hymns, 1707; Divine Songs, 1715. Allan Ramsay (Scottish), 1686-1758. The Gentle Shepherd (a pastoral drama), 1725. Also songs in dialect. PROSE WRITERS. (See text for Swift, Steele, and Addison-Defoe in a succeeding chapter.) Earl of Shaftesbury (Anthony Ashley Cooper), 1671-1713. teristics of Men, Manners, etc., 1711. John Arbuthnot, 1667-1735. gory, 1712. Charac History of John Bull, a satirical alle Viscount Bolingbroke (Henry St. John), 1678-1751. Reflections upon Exile (written 1716), 1735; Letters to Sir Wm. Windham (written 1717), 1753; etc. George Berkeley (Bishop), 1685-1753. Treatise Concerning Human Knowledge, 1710; Alciphron, 1732. Joseph Butler (Bishop), 1692-1752. Sermons, 1726; Analogy of Religion, 1736. AGE OF JOHNSON AND BURKE. 1740-1798. (See text for the novelists, Richardson, Fielding, Smollett, and Sterne, and for Johnson, Goldsmith, Sheridan, Gibbon, Burke, Thomson, Collins, Gray, "Ossian," Chatterton, Cowper, Crabbe, Blake, and Burns.) POETS. William Shenstone, 1714-1763. The Schoolmistress, 1737. John Wesley, 1703-1791. Psalms and Hymns (with his brother Charles), 1738. Robert Blair, 1699-1746. The Grave, 1743. Mark Akenside, 1721-1770. Pleasures of the Imagination, 1744. Charles Churchill, 1731-1764. The Rosciad, 1761; The Ghost, 1762; and other satires. James Beattie, 1735-1803. The Minstrel, 1771–1774. PROSE WRITERS. David Hume, 1711-1776. Essays Moral and Political, 1741–1742; History of England, 1754-1762. William Robertson, 1721-1793. History of Scotland, 1759. Thomas Warton, 1728-1790. History of English Poetry, 1774-1781. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, 1689-1762. Letters, 1763. |