A Brief History of English-language Literature/ Part I

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Bibliography.

These are generic "histories of literature":

  • Cambridge: Concise History of English Literature
  • Penguin: History of English Literature
  • Oxford: Concise Companion to English Literature
  • Oxford: Companion to American Literature
  • Avenel: Companion to English and American Literature
  • Oxford: Companion to American Literature
  • Marcus Cunliffe: American Literature
Excellent books for the 20th century:
  • Harry Blamires: A Guide to Twentieth Century Literature in English (1983)
  • Frederick Karl: American Fictions 1940-80 (1983)
  • Harvard: Guide to Contemporary American Writing (1979)
Not recommended:
  • Oxford: A Reader's Guide to the Twentieth-Century Novel (1995)
  • Oxford: A Reader's Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers (1995)
(Despite the ambitious scope, these are mostly British surveys with little attention to non-British literature in English, particularly American, but also Australian, African, Indian, etc. Furthermore, they place a disproportionate emphasis on homosexual and feminist writing, and display a bias towards left-wing political writers).


Caedmon (6##): "Genesis" (67#) [p]
Cynewolf (7##): "Elene" (75#) [p]
Cynewolf (7##): "The Dream of the Rood" (75#) [p]
Cynewolf (7##): "The Phoenix" (75#) [p]
"Judith" (91#) [p]
"Beowulf" (9##) [p] ++
"Waldhere" (9##) [p]
"The Battle of Maldon" (10##) [p]
"Carmina Cantabrigiensia" (1050) [p]
Geoffrey Arthur of Monmouth (110#): "Historia Regnum Britanniae" (115#) [h]
Norman Wace (11##): "Li Romans de Brut" (1155) [p]
"Canute Song" (1167) [p]
"Barlaam and Josaphat" (119#) [p]
"The Owl and the Nightingale" (120#) [p] +
Layamon (11##): "Brut" (120#) [p]
"King Horn" (122#) [p]
"Havelock the Dane" (12##) [p]
"Floris and Blancheflour" (125#) [p]
Robert Manning (12##): "Handlying Synne" (130#) [p]
"Seven Sages of Rome" (13##) [p]
"Sir Orfeo" (13##) [p]
"The Tale of Gamelyn" (135#) [p]
"Wynnere and Wastour" (136#) [p]
"The Parlement of the Thre Ages" (136#) [p]
"Pearl" (13##) [p]
"Sir Gawayne and the Grene Knight" (13##) [p] +
Thomas Chestre: "Sir Launfal" (139#) [p]
"The Travels of Sir John Mandeville" (1375)
John Barbour (1320): "The Bruce" (13##) [p]
John Gower (1325): "Confessio Amantis" (1393) [p]
William Langland (1331): "Piers the Plowman" (1386) [p] +
Geoffrey Chaucer (134#): "The House of Fame" (138#)
Geoffrey Chaucer (134#): "Parliament of Fowls"(138#)
Geoffrey Chaucer (134#): "Troilus and Criseyde" (138#) +
Geoffrey Chaucer (134#): "The Legend of Good Women" (138#)
Geoffrey Chaucer (134#): "Canterbury Tales" (1400) [p] ++
"Ywain and Gawain" (14##) [p]
"Mystery Cycle" (140#) [t]
John Lydgate (137#): "The Life Of Our Lady" (14##) [p]
Robert Henryson (142#): "Testament of Cresseid" (14##) [p]
Blind Harry (14##): "Wallace" (146#) [p]
Thomas Malory (14##): "Le Morte D'Arthur" (1470) +
William Dunbar (146#): "The Dance of the Seven Deidlie Synnis" (14##) [p]
William Dunbar (146#): "The Lament for the Makaris" (14##) [p]
"The Kingis Quair" (14##) [p]
"Lytell Geste of Robyn Hode" (1495)
Thomas Medwall (14##): "Fulgens and Lucrece" (1497) [t]
"Everyman" (149#) [t]
John Skelton (146#): "The Tunnying of Elynour Rummying" (15##) [p]
John Skelton (146#): "MAgnyfycence" (15##) [t]
John Bourchier (1467): "Houn of Bordeaux" (15##)
Gawain Douglas (147#): "The Palice of Honour" (15##) [p]
Stephen Hawes (147#): "Passetyme of Pleasure" (1509) [p]
Alexander Barclay (1475): "The Shyp of Folys of the Worlde" (1509)
Thomas More (1478): "Utopia" (1518) [h]
David Lindsay (1490): "Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis" (154#) [t]
Thomas Wyatt (1503): "Poems" (154#) [p]
Nicholas Udall (1505): "Ralph Roister Doister" (1554) [t]
George Gascoigne (153#): "The Steele Glas" (1576) [p]
George Gascoigne (153#): "The Pleasant Fable of Ferdinando Jeronimi" (1573)
George Gascoigne (153#): "Supposes" (1566) [t]
Thomas Norton (1532): "Gorboduc" (1562) [t]
Edmund Spenser (1552): "The Shepheards Calendar" (1579) [p]
Edmund Spenser (1552): "The Faerie Queene" (1596) [p] +
Edmund Spenser (1552): "Complaints" (1591) [p]
Edmund Spenser (1552): "Epithalamion" (1595) [p]
Philip Sidney (1554): "Astrophel and Stella" (1584) [p]
Philip Sidney (1554): "Arcadia" (1584) +
John Lyly (1554): "Euphues" (1580)
John Lyly (1554): "Endimion" (1591) [t]
Walter Raleigh (155#): "History of the World" (1614) [h]
Walter Raleigh (155#): "Ocean to Scinthia" (1595) [p]
Walter Raleigh (155#): "The Passionate Man's Pilgrimage" (1603) [p] +
William Warner (155#): "Albions England" (1586) [p]
Fulke Greville (1554): "Caelica" (1628) [p]
George Peele (1558): "The Old Wives Tale" (1593) [t]
Thomas Lodge (1558): "Rosalynde" (1590) +
Thomas Lodge (1558): "A Margarite of America" (1596)
Thomas Kyd (1558): "The Spanish Tragedie" (1589) [t] +
Robert Greene (1558): "Pandosto" (1588)
Robert Greene (1558): "Manaphon" (1589)
Robert Greene (1558): "Frier Bacon and Frier Bongay" (1594) [t] +
Robert Greene (1558): "James IV" (1598) [t]
George Chapman (1559): "All Fooles" (1605) [t]
George Chapman (1559): "Bussy D'Ambois" (1607) [t]
George Chapman (1559): "Eastward Hoe" (1605) [t] +
Thomas Deloney (156#): "The Gentle Craft" (1598)
Francis Bacon (1561): "Novum Organon" (1620) [h]
Robert Southwell (1561): "Maeoniae" (1595) [p]
Samuel Daniel (1562): "The Civil Wares" (1595) [p]
Michael Drayton (1563): "Ideas Mirrour" (1594) [p]
Michael Drayton (1563): "The Poly-Olbion" (1622) [p] +
Christopher Marlowe (1564): "Tamburlaine the Great" (1584) [t] +
Christopher Marlowe (1564): "Doctor Faustus" (1592) [t] ++
Christopher Marlowe (1564): "The Jew of Malta" (1592) [t] +
Christopher Marlowe (1564): "Edward the Second" (1594) [t]
Christopher Marlowe (1564): "Hero and Leander" (1593) [p]
William Shakespeare (1564): "Venus and Adonis" (1593) [p]
William Shakespeare (1564): "The Rape of Lucrece" (1594) [p]
William Shakespeare (1564): "Sonnets" (1609) [p] +
William Shakespeare (1564): "The Comedy of Errors" (1592) [t]
William Shakespeare (1564): "The Taming of the Shrew" (1593) [t]
William Shakespeare (1564): "The Two Gentlemen of Verona" (1594) [t]
William Shakespeare (1564): "Love's Labour's Lost" (1594) [t]
William Shakespeare (1564): "Richard II" (1595) [t] +
William Shakespeare (1564): "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (1595) [t] +
William Shakespeare (1564): "Romeo and Juliet" (1595) [t] +
William Shakespeare (1564): "The Merchant of Venice" (1596) [t]
William Shakespeare (1564): "Henry IV" (1597) [t] ++
William Shakespeare (1564): "Much Ado About Nothing" (1599) [t]
William Shakespeare (1564): "As You Like It" (1599) [t]
William Shakespeare (1564): "The Merry Wives of Windsor" (1599) [t] +
William Shakespeare (1564): "Julius Caesar" (1599) [t]
William Shakespeare (1564): "Twelfth Night" (1600) [t] +
William Shakespeare (1564): "Hamlet" (1601) [t] +++
William Shakespeare (1564): "Troilus and Cressida" (1602) [t]
William Shakespeare (1564): "All's Well That Ends Well" (1602) [t]
William Shakespeare (1564): "Measure for Measure" (1604) [t]
William Shakespeare (1564): "Othello" (1604) [t] ++
William Shakespeare (1564): "King Lear" (1605) [t] +++
William Shakespeare (1564): "Antony and Cleopatra" (1606) [t] ++
William Shakespeare (1564): "Macbeth" (1606) [t] +++
William Shakespeare (1564): "Coriolanus" (1608) [t]
William Shakespeare (1564): "Timon of Athens" (1608) [t]
William Shakespeare (1564): "Cymbeline" (1610) [t]
William Shakespeare (1564): "The Winter's Tale" (1610) [t]
William Shakespeare (1564): "The Tempest" (1611) [t] +
John Davies (1565): "Microcosmos" (1603) [p]
Youstol Dispage (1565): "Piero Scaruffi" (1649) [p]
Thomas Nashe (1567): "The Unfortunate Traveller" (1594) +
Thomas Nashe (1567): "Pierce Penniless" (1592)
Thomas Nashe (1567): "Summer's Last Will and Testament" (1592) [t]
John Davies (1569): "Orchestra" (1596) [p] +
John Davies (1569): "Nosce Teipsum" (1599) [p]
Thomas Dekker (1570): "Shoemaker's Holiday" (1599) [t] +
Thomas Dekker (1570): "The Honest Whore" (1605) [t]
Thomas Dekker (1570): "The Wonderful Yeare" (1603) [h]
Thomas Middleton (1570): "A Chast Mayd in Cheapeside" (1611) [t]
Thomas Middleton (1570): "A Trick to Catch the Old One" (1608) [t]
Thomas Middleton (1570): "The Changeling" (1622) [t] +
Thomas Middleton (1570): "Women Beware Women" (1627) [t]
John Donne (1572): "Songs and Sonnets" (1601) [p] +
John Donne (1572): "Elegies" (1601) [p] +
John Donne (1572): "An Anatomy of the World" (1611) [p] +
John Donne (1572): "Of the Progress of the Soul" (1612) [p] +
John Donne (1572): "Holy Sonnets" (1618) [p] ++
John Donne (1572): "The Progresse of the Soule" (1601) [p] +
Ben Jonson (1572): "Every Man Out of His Humour" (1606) [t]
Ben Jonson (1572): "Volpone" (1606) [t] +
Ben Jonson (1572): "Epicene" (1609) [t]
Ben Jonson (1572): "The Alchemist (1610) [t]
Ben Jonson (1572): "Bartholomew Fair" (1614) [t] +
Ben Jonson (1572): "The Forest" (1616) [p]
Thomas Heywood (1574): "A Woman Killed with Kindness" (1603) [t] +
Thomas Heywood (1574): "The Wise Woman of Hogsdon" (1604) [t]
Thomas Heywood (1574): "The Fair Maid of the West" (1631) [t]
Thomas Heywood (1574): "The English Traveller" (1633) [t]
John Marston (1575): "Dutch Courtezan" (1605) [t]
John Marston (1575): "The Malcontent" (1604) [t] +
Cyril Tourneur (1575): "The Revengers Tragedie" (1607) [t] +
Thomas Campion (1576): "Bookes of Ayres" (1617) [p]
Robert Burton (1577): "The Anatomy of Melancholy" (1621) [h]
John Webster (1580): "The White Devil" (161612) [t] +
John Webster (1580): "The Dutchesse of Malfy" (1623) [t] +
John Barclay (1582): "Argenis" (1621)
Phineas Fletcher (1582): "The Purple Island" (1633) [p]
Philip Massinger (1583): "The Roman Actor" (1626) [t]
Philip Massinger (1583): "New Way to Pay Old Debts" (1632) [t]
Philip Massinger (1583): "A City Madam" (1632) [t] +
Philip Massinger (1583): "The Picture" (1629) [t]
Francis Beaumont (1584): "The Knight of Burning Pestle" (1607) [t] +
Francis Beaumont (1584): "The Woman Hater" (1606)
Francis Beaumont (1584) & John Fletcher (1579): "The Maides Tragedy" (1611) [t]
Francis Beaumont (1584) & John Fletcher (1579): "The Coxcombe" (1610) [t]
William Drummond (1585): "Flowers of Sion" (1623) [p]
William Rowley (1585): "All's Lost By Lust" (1619) [t]
John Ford (1586): "Love's Sacrifice" (1630) [t]
John Ford (1586): "'Tis a Pity She's a Whore" (1633) [t] +
John Ford (1586): "The Broken Heart" (1633) [t]
George Wither (1588): "Faire Virtue" (1622) [p]
Thomas Hobbes (1588): "Leviathan" (1651) [h]
Giles Fletcher (1588): "Christs Victorie" (1610) [p]
Thomas Hobbes (1588): "Leviathan" (1651) [h]
George Herbert (1593): "The Temple" (1633) [p] +
Thomas Carew (1595): "The Rapture" (1640) [p]
James Shirley (1596): "The Traytor" (1631) [t]
James Shirley (1596): "The Cardinal" (1641) [t]
James Shirley (1596): "The Lady of Pleasure" (1635) [t] +
James Shirley (1596): "St Patrick of Ireland" (1640) [t]
Thomas Browne (1605): "Religio Medici" (1642) [h]
Edmund Waller (1606): "The Battle of the Summer Islands" (1685) [p]
John Milton (1608): "Arcades" (1633) [t]
John Milton (1608): "Comus" (1634) [t]
John Milton (1608): "Paradise Lost" (1667) [p] +++
John Milton (1608): "Paradise Regained" (1671) [p]
John Milton (1608): "Samson Agonistes" (1671) [t] +
John Suckling (1609): "A Ballad Upon A Wedding" (1642) [p]
Richard Crashaw (1613): "Steps to the Temple" (1646) [p]
Samuel Butler (1613): "Hudibras" (1674) [p] +
Richard Lovelace (1618): "Lucasta" (1649) [p]
Abraham Cowley (1618): "The Mistress" (1647) [p]
Andrew Marvell (1621): "The Garden" (1633) [p] +
Andrew Marvell (1621): "Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland" (1659) [p] +
Andrew Marvell (1621): "A Dialogue Between the Resolved Soul and Created Pleasure" (1681) [p] +
Henry Vaughan (1622): "Silex Scintillans" (1650) [p]
John Bunyan (1628): "The Pilgrim's Progress" (1679) +
John Dryden (1631): "Heroic Stanzas" (1659) [p]
John Dryden (1631): "The Rival Ladies" (1664) [t]
John Dryden (1631): "The Indian Queen" (1664) [t]
John Dryden (1631): "Annus Mirabilis" (1667) [p]
John Dryden (1631): "The Conquest of Granada" (1670) [t] +
John Dryden (1631): "Marriage A` la Mode" (1672) [t]
John Dryden (1631): "All for Love" (1678) [t] +
John Dryden (1631): "Absalom and Achitophel" (1681) [p] +
John Dryden (1631): "The Medall" (1682) [p]
John Dryden (1631): "MacFlecknoe" (1682) [p]
John Dryden (1631): "Religio Laici" (1682) [p] +
John Dryden (1631): "The Hind and the Panther" (1687) [p] +
John Dryden (1631): "A Song for Saint Cecilia's Day" (1687) [p]
John Dryden (1631): "Alexander's Feast" (1697) [p]
Samuel Pepys (1633): "Diary" (1703) [h]
George Etherege (1634): "She Wou'd If She Cou'd" (1668) [t]
George Etherege (1634): "Man Of Mode" (1676) [t] +
William Wycherley (1640): "Plain Dealer" (1673) [t]
William Wycherley (1640): "The Country Wife" (1675) [t] +
Afra Behn (1640): "Oroonoko" (1688)
Afra Behn (1640): "Abdelazar" (1677) [p]
Thomas Shadwell (1642): "The Squire of Alsatia" (1688) [t]
John Wilmot of Rochester (1647): "Poems" (1680) [p]
Thomas Otway (1652): "Don Carlos" (1676) [t]
Thomas Otway (1652): "The Orphan" (1680) [t]
Thomas Otway (1652): "Venice Preserved" (1682) [t] +
Thomas Southerne (1659): "Oroonoko" (1696) [t]
Daniel DeFoe (1660): "Robinson Crusoe" (1719) +
Daniel DeFoe (1660): "Moll Flanders" (1722)
Daniel DeFoe (1660): "Roxana" (1724)
Matthew Prior (1664): "Alma" (1718) [p]
John Vanbrugh (1664): "Provoked Life" (1697) [t]
Jonathan Swift (1667): "Tale of a Tub" (1704)
Jonathan Swift (1667): "Gulliver's Travels" (1726) +
Jonathan Swift (1667): "A Modest Proposal" (1729) [h]
Jonathan Swift (1667): "On the Death of Dr Swift" (1731) [p]
William Congreve (1670): "The Way of the World" (1700) [t] +
William Congreve (1670): "Old Bachelor" (1693) [t]
William Congreve (1670): "Double Leader" (1694) [t]
William Congreve (1670): "Love for Love" (1695) [t]
Nicholas Rowe (1674): "Fair Penitent" (1703) [t]
Nicholas Rowe (1674): "Jane Shore"" (1714) [t]
George Farquhar (1678): "The Recruiting Officer" (1706) [t]
George Farquhar (1678): "The Beaux Stratagem" (1707) [t]
Edward Young (1683): "Night Thougths" (1745) [p]
John Gay (1685): "The Beggar's Opera"" (1728) [t] +
John Gay (1685): "Shepherd's Week"" (1714) [p]
John Gay (1685): "Trivia"" (1715) [p]
Alexander Pope (1688): "The Rape of the Lock" (1714) [p] +
Alexander Pope (1688): "The Dunciad" (1743) [p]
Alexander Pope (1688): "Epistles to Arbuthnot" (1735) [p] +
Alexander Pope (1688): "Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady" (1717) [p]
Alexander Pope (1688): "Eloisa to Abelard" (1717) [p]
Alexander Pope (1688): "Imitations of Horace" (1738) [p]
Alexander Pope (1688): "An Essay on Man" (1734) [p] +
Samuel Richardson (1689): "Pamela" (1740) +
Samuel Richardson (1689): "Clarissa" (1747)
Thomas Amory (1689): "John Buncle" (1756)
George Lillo (1693): "London Merchant" (1731) [t]
John Dyer (1699): "Grongar Hill" (1725) [p]
Robert Blair (1699): "The Grave" (1743) [p]
James Thomson (Britain, 1700): "The Seasons" (1730) [p]
James Thomson (Britain, 1700): "The Castle of Indolence" (1748) [p]
Henry Fielding (Britain, 1707): "Joseph Andrews" (1742)
Henry Fielding (Britain, 1707): "Jonathan Wild" (1743)
Henry Fielding (Britain, 1707): "Tom Jones" (1749) +
Henry Fielding (Britain, 1707): "Amelia" (1751)
Samuel Johnson (Britain, 1709): "Rasselas" (1759)
Samuel Johnson (Britain, 1709): "The Vanity of Human Wishes" (1749) [p]
Samuel Johnson (Britain, 1709): "The Lives of the English Poets" (1783) [h]
Edward Moore (Britain, 1712): "Gamester" (1753) [t]
Laurence Sterne (Britain, 1713): "Tristram Shandy" (1760) +
Laurence Sterne (Britain, 1713): "A Sentimental Journey" (1778)
William Shenstone (Britain, 1714): "The Schoolmistress" (1742) [p]
Thomas Gray (Britain, 1716): "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" (1751) [p] +
Thomas Gray (Britain, 1716): "The Bard" (1757) [p]
Horace Walpole (Britain, 1717): "The Castle of Otranto" (1764)
Tobias Smollett (Britain, 1721): "HUmphrey Clinker" (1771)
Mark Akenside (Britain, 1721): "The Pleasures of Imagination" (1744) [p]
William Collins (Britain, 1721): "Odes" (1759) [p]
Christopher Smart (Britain, 1722): "Song to David" (1763) [p] +
Christopher Smart (Britain, 1722): "Jubilate Agno" (1771) [p]
Clara Reeve (Britain, 1729): "The Old English Baron" (1777)
Edmund Burke (Britain, 1729): "The Sublime" (1757) [h]
Oliver Goldsmith (Britain, 1730): "The Vicar of Wakefield" (1766)
Oliver Goldsmith (Britain, 1730): "The Good Natur'd Man" (1768) [t]
Oliver Goldsmith (Britain, 1730): "She Stoops to Conquer" (1773) [t]
Oliver Goldsmith (Britain, 1730): "The Deserted Village" (1770) [p] +
Oliver Goldsmith (Britain, 1730): "The Traveler" (1776) [p]
William Cowper (Britain, 1731): "John Gilpin" (1784) [p]
William Cowper (Britain, 1731): "The Task" (1785) [p] +
William Cowper (Britain, 1731): "The Castaway" (1800) [p] +
John Colman (Britain, 1732): "The Clandestine Marriage" (1706) [t]
James Macpherson (Britain, 1736): "Fingal" (1762) [p]
Edward Gibbon (Britain, 1737): "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" (1788) [h]
James Boswell (Britain, 1740): "The Life of Samuel Johnson" (1791) [h]
Henry Mackenzie (Britain, 1745): "The Man of Feeling" (1771)
Richard Graves (Britain, 1745): "The Spiritual Quixote" (1773)
Richard Sheridan (Britain, 1751): "The School for Scandal" (1777) [t] +
Richard Sheridan (Britain, 1751): "The Rivals" (1775) [t]
Fanny Burney (Britain, 1752): "Evelina" (1778)
Thomas Cahatterton (Britain, 1752): "Christabel" (1777) [p]
George Crabbe (Britain, 1754): "The Village" (1783) [p] +
George Crabbe (Britain, 1754): "The Parish Register" (1807) [p]
George Crabbe (Britain, 1754): "The Borough" (1810) [p]
George Crabbe (Britain, 1754): "Tales of the Hall" (1819) [p]
William Godwin (Britain, 1756): "Caleb Williams" (1794)
William Blake (Britain, 1757): "Songs of Innocence" (1789) [p]
William Blake (Britain, 1757): "Songs of Experience" (1794) [p] +
William Blake (Britain, 1757): "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" (1793) [h] +
William Blake (Britain, 1757): "America" (1793) [p]
William Blake (Britain, 1757): "Visions of the Daughters of Albion" (1793) [p]
William Blake (Britain, 1757): "Europe" (1794) [p]
William Blake (Britain, 1757): "The Book of Urizen" (1794) [p]
William Blake (Britain, 1757): "The Book of Ahania" (1795) [p]
William Blake (Britain, 1757): "The Book of Los" (1795) [p]
William Blake (Britain, 1757): "Vala" (1797) [p] +
William Blake (Britain, 1757): "The Mental Traveller" (1803) [p]
William Blake (Britain, 1757): "Milton" (1808) [p] +
William Blake (Britain, 1757): "Jerusalem" (1820) [p] ++
William Beckford (Britain, 1759): "Vathek" (1786)
Robert Burns (Britain, 1759): "Poems" (1786) [p]
Ann Radcliffe (Britain, 1764): "Mysteries of Udolpho" (1794)
Maria Edgeworth (Britain, 1768): "Castle Rackrent" (1800)
William Wordsworth (Britain, 1770): "Prelude" (1805) [p] ++
William Wordsworth (Britain, 1770): "Tintern Abbey" (1798) [p]
William Wordsworth (Britain, 1770): "Michael" (1800) [p] +
William Wordsworth (Britain, 1770): "The Affliction of Margaret" (1804) [p]
William Wordsworth (Britain, 1770): "Intimations of Immortality" (1807) [p] +
William Wordsworth (Britain, 1770): "The Excursion" (1814) [p]
Walter Scott (Britain, 1771: "The Lady of the Lake" (1810) [p]
Walter Scott (Britain, 1771): "Waverley" (1814) +
Walter Scott (Britain, 1771: "Antiquary" (1816) +
Walter Scott (Britain, 1771): "Guy Mannering" (1815) +
Walter Scott (Britain, 1771): "Old mortality" (1816) +
Walter Scott (Britain, 1771): "Heart of Midlotian" (1818)
Walter Scott (Britain, 1771): "Ivanhoe" (1820)
Walter Scott (Britain, 1771): "Rob Roy" (1818)
Walter Scott (Britain, 1771): "The Bride of Lammermoor" (1819)
Walter Scott (Britain, 1771): "Kenilworth" (1821)
Walter Scott (Britain, 1771): "Quentin Durward" (1823)
Charles Brown (USA, 1771): "Wieland" (1798)
Samuel-Taylor Coleridge (Britain, 1772): "Dejection" (1798) [p]
Samuel-Taylor Coleridge (Britain, 1772): "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" (1798) [p] +
Samuel-Taylor Coleridge (Britain, 1772): "Kubla Khan" (1816) [p]
Samuel-Taylor Coleridge (Britain, 1772): "Christabel" (1816) [p]
Robert Southey (Britain, 1774): "Thalaba the Destroyer" (1801) [p]
Walter-Savage Landor (Britain, 1775): "Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen" (1853) [h]
Jane Austen (Britain, 1775): "Sense and Sensibility" (1811)
Jane Austen (Britain, 1775): "Pride and Prejudice" (1813) ++
Jane Austen (Britain, 1775): "Mansfield Park" (1814) +
Jane Austen (Britain, 1775): "Emma" (1816) +
Jane Austen (Britain, 1775): "Persuasion" (1817) +
Jane Austen (Britain, 1775): "Northanger Abbey" (1817)
Charles Lamb (Britain, 1775): "Essays of Elia" (1833) [h]
Matthew Lewis (Britain, 1775): "The Monk" (1796)
William Hazlitt (Britain, 1778): "The Spirit of the Age" (1825) [h]
Thomas Moore (Britain, 1779): "Irish Melodies" (1834) [p]
Charles Maturin (Ireland, 1782): "Melmoth" (1820)
Thomas DeQuincey (Britain, 1785): "Confessions of an English Opium Eater" (1821) [h]
Thomas-Love Peacock (Britain, 1785): "Nightmare Abbey" (1818)
Thomas-Love Peacock (Britain, 1785): "Melincourt" (1817)
Thomas-Love Peacock (Britain, 1785): "Crotchet Castle" (1831)
Thomas-Love Peacock (Britain, 1785): "Gryll Grange" (1860) +
George-Gordon Byron (Britain, 1788): "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" (1818) [p]
George-Gordon Byron (Britain, 1788): "Manfred" (1817) [t]
George-Gordon Byron (Britain, 1788): "Don Juan" (1823) [p] +
George-Gordon Byron (Britain, 1788): "Mazeppa" (1817) [p]
George-Gordon Byron (Britain, 1788): "Beppo" (1818) [p]
George-Gordon Byron (Britain, 1788): "Marino Faliero" (1820) [t]
George-Gordon Byron (Britain, 1788): "The Prophecy of Dante" (1820) [p]
George-Gordon Byron (Britain, 1788): "Vision of Judgement" (1822) [p]
James-Fenimore Cooper (USA, 1789): "The Pioneers" (1823) +
James-Fenimore Cooper (USA, 1789): "The Last of Mohicans" (1826)
James-Fenimore Cooper (USA, 1789): "The Prairie" (1827)
James-Fenimore Cooper (USA, 1789): "The Pathfinder" (1840)
James-Fenimore Cooper (USA, 1789): "The Deerslayer" (1841)
Percy Shelley (Britain, 1792): "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty" (1816) [p]
Percy Shelley (Britain, 1792): "Mont Blanc" (1816) [p]
Percy Shelley (Britain, 1792): "Laon and Cythna" (1817) [p]
Percy Shelley (Britain, 1792): "To a Skylark" (1820) [p]
Percy Shelley (Britain, 1792): "To the West Wind" (1819) [p]
Percy Shelley (Britain, 1792): "The Cloud" (1820) [p]
Percy Shelley (Britain, 1792): "Adonais" (1821) [p]
Percy Shelley (Britain, 1792): "Prometheus Unbound" (1821) [p] +
Percy Shelley (Britain, 1792): "The Cenci" (1819) [t]
John Clare (Britain, 1793): "Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery" (1820) [p] +
John Clare (Britain, 1793): "The Shepherd's Calendar" (1827) [p]
William-Cullen Bryant (USA, 1794): "Thanatopsis" (1821) [p]
John Keats (Britain, 1795): "Endymion" (1818) [p] +
John Keats (Britain, 1795): "Lamia" (1820) [p]
John Keats (Britain, 1795): "Isabella" (1820) [p]
John Keats (Britain, 1795): "The Eve of St Agnes" (1820) [p] +
John Keats (Britain, 1795): "The Fall of Hyperion" (1820) [p]
John Keats (Britain, 1795): "Ode To Autumn" (1820) [p] ++
John Keats (Britain, 1795): "Ode on a Grecian Urn" (1820) [p] ++
John Keats (Britain, 1795): "Ode on Melancholy" (1820) [p] ++
John Keats (Britain, 1795): "Ode to a Nightingale" (1820) [p] ++
John Keats (Britain, 1795): "The Eve of St Mark" (1821) [p] +
John Keats (Britain, 1795): "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" (1821) [p] +
Thomas Carlyle (Britain, 1795): "Sartor Resartus" (1833) [h]
Thomas Carlyle (Britain, 1795): "Past and Present" (1843) [h]
Maria Shelley (Britain, 1797): "Frankenstein" (1818)
Thomas-Babington Macaulay (1800): "History of England" (1855) [h]
John Newman (Britain, 1801): "Dream of Gerontius" (1867) [p]
Nicholas Wiseman (Britain, 1802): "Fabiola" (1854)
Ed Bulwer-Lytton: "The Last Days of Pompei" (1835)
Ed Bulwer-Lytton: "The Coming Race" (1871) +
Thomas Beddoes (Britain, 1803): "Death's Jest Book" (1850) [t]
Ralph-Waldo Emerson (USA, 1803): "Nature" (1836) [h]
Ralph-Waldo Emerson (USA, 1803): "Poems" (1846) [p]
Youstol Dispage (1803): "Piero Scaruffi" (1849) [p]
Nathaniel Hawthorne (USA, 1804): "The Scarlet Letter" (1850) +
Nathaniel Hawthorne (USA, 1804): "The House of the Seven Gables" (1851) +
Nathaniel Hawthorne (USA, 1804): "The Blithedale Romance" (1852)
Nathaniel Hawthorne (USA, 1804): "The Marble Faun" (1860)
Benjamin Disraeli (Britain, 1804): "Coningsby" (1844)
Benjamin Disraeli (Britain, 1804): "Sybil" (1845)
William Simms (USA, 1806): "Yemassee" (1835)
Henry Longfellow (USA, 1807): "The Song of Hiawatha" (1855) [p]
John Whittier (USA, 1807): "Snow Bound" (1866) [p]
Alfred Tennyson (Britain, 1809): "In Memoriam" (1850) [p]
Alfred Tennyson (Britain, 1809): "Maud" (1855) [p]
Alfred Tennyson (Britain, 1809): "Idylls of the King" (1885) [p] +
Edgar-Allan Poe (USA, 1809): "Tamerlane" (1827) [p]
Edgar-Allan Poe (USA, 1809): "The Raven" (1845) [p]
Edgar-Allan Poe (USA, 1809): "The Bells" (1849) [p]
Edgar-Allan Poe (USA, 1809): "The Sleeper" (1831) [p]
Edgar-Allan Poe (USA, 1809): "Lenore" (1831) [p]
Edgar-Allan Poe (USA, 1809): "Annabel Lee" (1849) [p]
Edgar-Allan Poe (USA, 1809): "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym" (1838)
Edgar-Allan Poe (USA, 1809): "The Fall of the House of Usher" (1839)
Edgar-Allan Poe (USA, 1809): "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841) +
Edgar-Allan Poe (USA, 1809): "The Pit and the Pendulum" (1842)
Edgar-Allan Poe (USA, 1809): "The Mystery of Marie Roget" (1842)
Edgar-Allan Poe (USA, 1809): "The Gold Bug" (1843)
Edgar-Allan Poe (USA, 1809): "The Mystery of Marie Rogˆt" (1843)
Edgar-Allan Poe (USA, 1809): "The Purloined Letter" (1844) +
Edgar-Allan Poe (USA, 1809): "The Tell-Tale Heart" (1843)
Edgar-Allan Poe (USA, 1809): "The Cask of Amontillado" (1846)
Oliver Holmes (USA, 1809): "The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table" (1858) [h]
Elizabeth Gaskell (Britain, 1810): "Cranford" (1853)
Harriet Stowe (USA, 1811): "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (1852)
William Thackeray (Britain, 1811): "The Luck of Barry Lyndon" (1844) +
William Thackeray (Britain, 1811): "The Vanity Fair" (1848) +
William Thackeray (Britain, 1811): "Pendennis" (1850)
William Thackeray (Britain, 1811): "The History of Henry Esmond" (1852)
Charles Dickens (Britain, 1812): "Pickwick Club" (1837)
Charles Dickens (Britain, 1812): "Oliver Twist" (1838)
Charles Dickens (Britain, 1812): "Nicholas Nickleby" (1839)
Charles Dickens (Britain, 1812): "The Old Curiosity Shop" (1840) +
Charles Dickens (Britain, 1812): "Barnaby Rudge" (1841)
Charles Dickens (Britain, 1812): "A Christmas Carol" (1843)
Charles Dickens (Britain, 1812): "Martin Chuzzlewit" (1844) +
Charles Dickens (Britain, 1812): "Dombey and Son" (1848)
Charles Dickens (Britain, 1812): "David Copperfield" (1850) +
Charles Dickens (Britain, 1812): "Bleak House" (1853) +
Charles Dickens (Britain, 1812): "Hard Times" (1854)
Charles Dickens (Britain, 1812): "Little Dorritt" (1858)
Charles Dickens (Britain, 1812): "A Tale of two Cities" (1859)
Charles Dickens (Britain, 1812): "Great Expectations" (1861) +
Charles Dickens (Britain, 1812): "Our Mutual Friend" (1865) +
Edward Lear (Britain, 1812): "A Book of Nonsense" (1845) [p]
Robert Browning (Britain, 1812): "Men and Women" (1855) [p] +
Robert Browning (Britain, 1812): "Dramatis Personae" (1864) [p] +
Robert Browning (Britain, 1812): "The Ring and the Book" (1869) [p] ++
Charles Reade (Britain, 1814): "The Cloister and the Hearth" (1861)
Joseph LeFanu (Ireland, 1814): "Uncle Silas" (1864)
Anthony Trollope (Britain, 1815): "Barchester Towers" (1857) +
Anthony Trollope (Britain, 1815): "The Last Chronicle of Barset" (1867)
Charlotte Bronte (Britain, 1816): "Jane Eyre" (1847) +
Charlotte Bronte (Britain, 1816): "Shirley" (1849)
Charlotte Bronte (Britain, 1816): "Villette" (1853)
Henry-David Thoreau (USA, 1817): "Civil Disobedience" (1849) [h]
Henry-David Thoreau (USA, 1817): "Walden" (1854) [h]
Emily Bronte (Britain, 1818): "Wuthering Heights" (1847) ++
George Eliot (Britain, 1819): "Adam Bede" (1859) +
George Eliot (Britain, 1819): "The Mill on the Floss" (1860) +
George Eliot (Britain, 1819): "Silas Marner" (1861) +
George Eliot (Britain, 1819): "Middlemarch" (1872) ++
George Eliot (Britain, 1819): "Daniel Deronda" (1876)
Charles Kingsley (Britain, 1819): "Westward Ho" (1855)
James-Russell Lowell (Britain, 1819): "Biglow Papers" (1867) [h]
John Ruskin (Britain, 1819): "Unto This Last" (1860) [h]
Arthur-Hugh Clough (Britain, 1819): "The Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich" (1848) [p]
Herman Melville (USA, 1819): "Typee" (1846)
Herman Melville (USA, 1819): "Omoo" (1847)
Herman Melville (USA, 1819): "Mardi" (1849) +
Herman Melville (USA, 1819): "Redburn" (1849)
Herman Melville (USA, 1819): "White Jacket" (1850)
Herman Melville (USA, 1819): "Moby Dick" (1851) ++
Herman Melville (USA, 1819): "Pierre" (1852) +
Herman Melville (USA, 1819): "Bartleby" (1856) +
Herman Melville (USA, 1819): "Benito Cereno" (1856)
Herman Melville (USA, 1819): "The Confindence Man" (1857) +
Herman Melville (USA, 1819): "Billy Budd" (1891) +
Walt Whitman (USA, 1819): "The Leaves of Grass" (1892) [p] +
Matthew Arnold (Britain, 1822): "Culture and Anarchy" (1869) [h]
Matthew Arnold (Britain, 1822): "Empedocles on Etna" (1852) [p]
Coventry Patmore (Britain, 1823): "The Unknown Eros" (1877) [p]
William Collins (Britain, 1824): "The Woman in White" (1860) +
William Collins (Britain, 1824): "The Moonstone" (1860)
John DeForest (USA, 1826): "Miss Ravenel" (1867)
Lew Wallace (USA, 1827): "Ben Hur" (1880)
George Meredith (Britain, 1828): "The Ordeal of Richard Feverel" (1859)
George Meredith (Britain, 1828): "The Egoist" (1879) +
George Meredith (Britain, 1828): "Diana of the Crossaways" (1885)
George Meredith (Britain, 1828): "One of Our Conquerors" (1891)
George Meredith (Britain, 1828): "Modern Love" (1862) [p]
Dante-Gabriel Rossetti (Britain, 1828): "The Blessed Damozel" (1856) [p]
Emily Dickinson (USA, 1830): "Poems" (1886) [p] +
William-Hale White (USA, 1831): "The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford" (1881) [h]
Louisa Alcott (USA, 1832): "Little Women" (1869) +
Lewis Carroll (Britain, 1832): "Alice in Wonderland" (1865) +
Lewis Carroll (Britain, 1832): "Through the Looking Glass" (1871)
Lewis Carroll (Britain, 1832): "The Hunting of the Snark" (1876)
Adam Lindsay Gordon (Australia, 1833): "Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes" (1870) [p]
George du Maurier (Britain, 1834): "Trilby" (1894)
William Morris (Britain, 1834): "Sigurd de Volsung" (1876) [p]
William Morris (Britain, 1834): "News from Nowhere" (1891)
James Thomson (Britain, 1834): "The City of Dreadful Night" (1880) [p]
Samuel Butler (Britain, 1835): "Erewhon" (1872) +
Samuel Butler (Britain, 1835): "The Way of all Flesh" (1903)
Mark Twain (USA, 1835): "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" (1876)
Mark Twain (USA, 1835): "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" (1884) +
Mark Twain (USA, 1835): "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" (1889)
Mark Twain (USA, 1835): "The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson" (1894)
Bret Harte (USA, 1836): "Luck of Roaring Camp" (1870)
William Gilbert (Britain, 1836): "Patience" (1881) [t]
Algernon Swinburne (Britain, 1837): "Atalanta in Calydon" (1865) [t]
Algernon Swinburne (Britain, 1837): "Poems and Ballads" (1866) [p] +
Algernon Swinburne (Britain, 1837): "Chastelard" (1865) [t]
Algernon Swinburne (Britain, 1837): "Tristram of Lyonesse" (1882) [p]
William-Dean Howells (USA, 1837): "The Rise of Silas Lapham" (1885) +
William-Dean Howells (USA, 1837): "A Modern Instance" (1882)
William-Dean Howells (USA, 1837): "A Hazard of New Fortunes" (1889)
Henry Adams (USA, 1838): "Education" (1907)
Albion Tourgee (USA, 1838): "Fool's errand" (1879)
Edwin Abbott (USA, 1838): "Flatland" (1884)
Walter Pater (Britain, 1839): "Marius the Epicurean" (1885) [h]
William DeMorgan (Britain, 1839): "Joseph Vance" (1906)
Henry Kendall (Australia, 1839): "Leaves from the Australian Forests" (1869) [p]
Thomas Hardy (Britain, 1840): "Far From the Madding Crowd" (1874)
Thomas Hardy (Britain, 1840): "The Return of the Native" (1878)
Thomas Hardy (Britain, 1840): "The Mayor of Casterbridge" (1886) +
Thomas Hardy (Britain, 1840): "The Woodlanders" (1887)
Thomas Hardy (Britain, 1840): "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" (1891) +
Thomas Hardy (Britain, 1840): "Jude the Obscure" (1896)
Thomas Hardy (Britain, 1840): "The Dynasts" (1908) [t] +
Thomas Hardy (Britain, 1840): "Satires of Circumstance" (1914) [p]
William Hudson (Britain, 1841): "Green Mansions" (1904)
Ambrose Bierce (USA, 1842): "Can Such Things Be" (1893)
Sidney Lanier (USA, 1842): "Poems" (1877) [p]
Henry James (USA, 1843): "Daisy Miller" (1879)
Henry James (USA, 1843): "Portait of a Lady" (1879) +
Henry James (USA, 1843): "The Bostonians" (1886) +
Henry James (USA, 1843): "Princess Casamassima" (1888)
Henry James (USA, 1843): "Altar of the Dead" (1895)
Henry James (USA, 1843): "What Maisie Knew" (1897) +
Henry James (USA, 1843): "The Spoils of Poynton" (1897) +
Henry James (USA, 1843): "Turn of the Screw" (1898) +
Henry James (USA, 1843): "The Aspern Papers" (1888)
Henry James (USA, 1843): "The Awkward Age" (1899)
Henry James (USA, 1843): "The Sacred fount" (1901) +
Henry James (USA, 1843): "The Wings of the Dove" (1902) ++
Henry James (USA, 1843): "The Ambassadors" (1903) ++
Henry James (USA, 1843): "The Beast in the Jungle" (1903)
Henry James (USA, 1843): "The Golden Bowl" (1904) +++
Floren Montgomery (Britain, 1843): "Incompreso" (1869)
Gerard-Manley Hopkins (Britain, 1844): "The Wreck of the Deutschland" (1875) [p] +
Gerard-Manley Hopkins (Britain, 1844): "The Windhovere" (1877) [p]
Gerard-Manley Hopkins (Britain, 1844): "Felix Randal" (1880) [p]
Gerard-Manley Hopkins (Britain, 1844): "Carrion Comfort" (1885) [p]
Robert Bridges (Britain, 1844): "The Testament of Beauty" (1929) [p]
George Cable (USA, 1844): "Grandissimes" (1880)
Bram Stoker (Ireland, 1847): "Dracula" (1897)
Joel Harris (USA, 1848): "Uncle Remus" (1907)
Richard Jefferies (Britain, 1848): "After London" (1885)
Frances Burnett (Britain, 1849): "The Secret Garden" (1911)
Edmund Gosse (Britain, 1849): "Father and Son" (1907)
Edward Bellamy (USA, 1850): "Looking Backward" (1888)
Robert Stevenson (Britain, 1850): "The Master of Ballantrae" (1889)
Robert Stevenson (Britain, 1850): "Treasure Island" (1883)
Robert Stevenson (Britain, 1850): "Weir of Hermiston" (1896)
Robert Stevenson (Britain, 1850): "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" (1886) +
Henry-Arthur Jones (Britain, 1851): "The Silver King" (1882) [t]
George Moore (Ireland, 1852): "Esther Waters" (1894) +
George Moore (Ireland, 1852): "Heloise and Abelard" (1921)
Isabella Gregory (Ireland, 1852): "The Rising of the Moon" (1906) [t]
Isabella Gregory (Ireland, 1852): "The Workhouse Ward" (1908) [t]
Kate Chopin (USA, 1853): "The Awakening" (1899)
Oscar Wilde (Britain, 1854): "The Picture of Dorian Gray" (1891) +
Oscar Wilde (Britain, 1854): "The Importance of Being Ernest" (1895) [t] ++
Oscar Wilde (Britain, 1854): "Lady Windermere's Fan" (1892) [t]+
Oscar Wilde (Britain, 1854): "A Woman of no Importance" (1893) [t]+
Oscar Wilde (Britain, 1854): "The Ideal Husband" (1894) [t]+
Oscar Wilde (Britain, 1854): "Salome`" (1894) [t]
Oscar Wilde (Britain, 1854): "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" (1898) [p]
Howard Sturgis (Britain, 1855): "Belchamber" (1904)
Olive Schreiner (South Africa, 1855): "Story of an African Farm" (1883)
Arthur-Wing Pinero (Britain, 1855): "The Second Mrs Tanqueray" (1893) [t]
Harold Frederic (USA, 1856): "The Damnation of Therone ware" (1896)
Frank Baum (USA, 1856): "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" (1900)
George-Bernard Shaw (Ireland, 1856): "Mrs Warren" (1894) [t]
George-Bernard Shaw (Ireland, 1856): "Candida" (1895) [t] +
George-Bernard Shaw (Ireland, 1856): "Man and Superman" (1903) [t]
George-Bernard Shaw (Ireland, 1856): "Major Barbara" (1905) [t]
George-Bernard Shaw (Ireland, 1856): "The Doctor's Dilemma" (1906)[t]
George-Bernard Shaw (Ireland, 1856): "Pygmalion" (1914) [t] +
George-Bernard Shaw (Ireland, 1856): "Androcles" (1913) [t]
George-Bernard Shaw (Ireland, 1856): "Heartbreak House" (1919) [t] +
George-Bernard Shaw (Ireland, 1856): "Saint Joan" (1923) [t]
George-Bernard Shaw (Ireland, 1856): "The Apple Cart" (1929) [t]
George-Bernard Shaw (Ireland, 1856): "Adventures of the Black Girl" (1932)
Joseph Conrad (Poland, 1857): "Almayer's Folly" (1895)
Joseph Conrad (Poland, 1857): "An Outcast of the Islands" (1896)
Joseph Conrad (Poland, 1857): "The Nigger of Narcissus" (1898) +
Joseph Conrad (Poland, 1857): "Lord Jim" (1900) +
Joseph Conrad (Poland, 1857): "Heart of Darkness" (1902)
Joseph Conrad (Poland, 1857): "Youth" (1902)
Joseph Conrad (Poland, 1857): "Typhoon" (1903)
Joseph Conrad (Poland, 1857): "Nostromo" (1904) ++
Joseph Conrad (Poland, 1857): "The Secret Agent" (1907)
Joseph Conrad (Poland, 1857): "Under Western Eyes" (1911)
Joseph Conrad (Poland, 1857): "The Secret Sharer" (1912)
Joseph Conrad (Poland, 1857): "Victory" (1915)
Joseph Conrad (Poland, 1857): "The Shadow Line" (1917)
George Gissing (Britain, 1857): "New Grub Street" (1891)
George Gissing (Britain, 1857): "The Odd Women" (1893)
Edith-Oenone Somerville (Britain, 1858): "The Real Charlotte" (1894)
Edith-Oenone Somerville (Britain, 1858): "Some Experiences" (1899)
Edith Nesbit (Britain, 1858): "The Railway Children" (1906)
Arthur-Conan Doyle (Britain, 1859): "The Sign of Four" (1890) +
Arthur-Conan Doyle (Britain, 1859): "The Hound of the Baskervilles" (1902)
Kenneth Grahame (Britain, 1859): "The Wind in the Willows" (1908)
Alfred-Edward Housman (Britain, 1859): "A Shropshire Lad" (1896) [p]
Francis Thompson (Britain, 1859): "Poems" (1893) [p]
Hamlin Garland (USA, 1860): "A Little Norsk" (1892)
Charlotte Gilman (USA, 1860): "Hertland" (1915)
Frederick Rolfe (Britain, 1860): "Hadrian the Seventh" (1904)
James Barrie (Britain, 1860): "Quality Street" (1902) [t]
James Barrie (Britain, 1860): "The Admirable Crichton" (1902) [t]
James Barrie (Britain, 1860): "What Every Woman Knows" (1908) [t] +
James Barrie (Britain, 1860): "Dear Brutus" (1917) [t]
James Barrie (Britain, 1860): "Mary Rose" (1920) [t]
James Barrie (Britain, 1860): "Peter Pan" (1904) [t] +
Abraham Cahan (USA, 1860): "The Rise of David Levinsky" (1917)
Henry Harland (USA, 1861): "The Cardinal's Snuff Box" (1900)
Ada Leverson (Britain, 1862): "Love's Shadow" (1908)
Oliver Henry (USA, 1862): "The Four Million" (1906)
Edith Wharton (USA, 1862): "The House of Mirth" (1905)
Edith Wharton (USA, 1862): "Ethan Frome" (1911)
Edith Wharton (USA, 1862): "The Custom of the Country" (1913)
Edith Wharton (USA, 1862): "The Age of Innocence" (1920) +
James Montague (Britain, 1862): "Ghost Stories" (1904)
George Santayana (USA, 1863): "The Last Puritan" (1935) [h]
May Sinclair (USA, 1863): "Life and Death of Harriett Frean" (1922)
Arthur Machen (Britain, 1863): "The Inmost Light" (1894)
Arthur Machen (Britain, 1863): "The White Powder" (1896)
Andrew-Barton Paterson (Australia, 1864): "The Man from Snowy River" (1895) [p]
Stephen Phillips (Britain, 1864): "Paolo and Francesca" (1899) [t]
Rudyard Kipling (Britain, 1865): "Kim" (1901)
Rudyard Kipling (Britain, 1865): "Barrack Room Ballads" (1892) [p]
Alfred Mason (Britain, 1865): "The Four Feathers" (1902)
Laurence Housman (Britain, 1865): "Bethlehem" (1902) [t]
William-Butler Yeats (Ireland, 1865): "The Countess Cathleen" (1891) [t] +
William-Butler Yeats (Ireland, 1865): "Cathleen-ni-Houlihan" (1904) [t]
William-Butler Yeats (Ireland, 1865): "A Vision" (1925) [h]
William-Butler Yeats (Ireland, 1865): "In The Seven Woods" (1907) [p]
William-Butler Yeats (Ireland, 1865): "The Green Helmet" (1910) [p]
William-Butler Yeats (Ireland, 1865): "The Wild Swans at Coole" (1917) [p] +
William-Butler Yeats (Ireland, 1865): "Michael Robartes and the Dancer" (1921) [p] +
William-Butler Yeats (Ireland, 1865): "The Tower" (1928) [p] ++
William-Butler Yeats (Ireland, 1865): "The Winding Stair" (1929) [p] ++
William-Butler Yeats (Ireland, 1865): "A Full Moon in March" (1935) [p] +
Alfred Mason (Britain, 1865): "At the Villa Rose" (1910)
Alfred Mason (Britain, 1865): "House of Arrow" (1924)
Matthew Shiel (Britain, 1865): "Purple Cloud" (1901)
Mary Arnim (Australia, 1866): "Elizabeth and Her German Garden" (1898)
Mary Arnim (Australia, 1866): "Fraulein Schmidt" (1907)
Mary Arnim (Australia, 1866): "Vera" (1921)
Beatrix Potter (Britain, 1866): "Tale of Peter Rabbit" (1902)
Herbert-George Wells (Britain, 1866): "The Time Machine" (1895) +
Herbert-George Wells (Britain, 1866): "The Invisible Man" (1897)
Herbert-George Wells (Britain, 1866): "The Island of Dr Moreau" (1896)
Herbert-George Wells (Britain, 1866): "The War of the Worlds" (1898) +
Herbert-George Wells (Britain, 1866): "Love and Mr Lewisham" (1900)
Herbert-George Wells (Britain, 1866): "The First Men in the Moon" (1901)
Herbert-George Wells (Britain, 1866): "Kipps" (1905) +
Herbert-George Wells (Britain, 1866): "Ann Veronica" (1909)
Herbert-George Wells (Britain, 1866): "Tono-Bungay" (1909)
Herbert-George Wells (Britain, 1866): "The History of Mr Polly" (1910) +
Herbert-George Wells (Britain, 1866): "The New Machiavelli" (1911)
Youstol Dispage (1866): "Piero Scaruffi" (1909) [p]
Arnold Bennett (Britain, 1867): "Anna of the Five Towns" (1902)
Arnold Bennett (Britain, 1867): "The Old Wive's Tale" (1908) +
Arnold Bennett (Britain, 1867): "Clayhanger" (1910)
Arnold Bennett (Britain, 1867): "Riceyman Steps" (1923)
Edward-Frederic Benson (Britain, 1867): "Dodo" (1893)
John Galsworthy (Britain, 1867): "The Man of Property" (1906) +
John Galsworthy (Britain, 1867): "The White Monkey" (1924)
John Galsworthy (Britain, 1867): "The Silver Box" (1906) [t]
John Galsworthy (Britain, 1867): "Old English" (1924) [t]
Norman Douglas (Britain, 1868): "South Wind" (1917)
William DuBois (USA, 1868): "The Quest of the Silver Fleece" (1921)
Robert Herrick (USA, 1868): "The Common Lot" (1904)
William-Edward-Burghardt Du Bois (USA, 1868): "The Quest for the Silver Fleece" (1911)
George Douglas (Britain, 1869): "The House with the Green Shutters" (1901)
Charlotte Mew (Britain, 1869): "The Farmer's Bride" (1916) [p]
Booth Tarkington (USA, 1869): "The Magnificent Ambersons" (1918)
Booth Tarkington (USA, 1869): "Alice Adams" (1921) +
Edgar-Lee Masters (USA, 1869): "Spoon River Anthology" (1915) [p]
Edwin-Arlington Robinson (USA, 1869): "The Children of the Night" (1897) [p]
Edwin-Arlington Robinson (USA, 1869): "Merlin" (1917) [p]
Erskine Childers (Britain, 1870): "Riddle of the Sands" (1903)
Frank Norris (USA, 1870): "Vandover" (1894)
Frank Norris (USA, 1870): "Mc Teague" (1899) +
Frank Norris (USA, 1870): "The Octopus" (1901) +
Henry Richardson (Australia, 1870): "The Getting of Wisdom" (1910)
Henry Richardson (Australia, 1870): "Richard Mahony" (1930) +
Robert Tressel (Ireland, 1870): "The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist" (1914)
Hector-Hugh "Saki" Munro (Britain, 1870): "Reginald" (1904)
Hector-Hugh "Saki" Munro (Britain, 1870): "The Unbearable Bassington" (1912) +
Christopher Brennan (Australia, 1871): "Poems" (1913) [p] +
Theodore Dreiser (USA, 1871): "An American Tragedy" (1915) +
Theodore Dreiser (USA, 1871): "Sister Carrie" (1900)
James Johnson (USA, 1871): "Autobiography of an Ex-colored Man" (1912)
John Synge (Ireland, 1871): "Riders to the Sea" (1904) [t] +
John Synge (Ireland, 1871): "The Well of the Saints" (1905) [t]
John Synge (Ireland, 1871): "The Playboy of The Western World" (1907) [t] ++
John Synge (Ireland, 1871): "Deirdre of the Sorrows" (1910) [t]
Max Beerbohm (Britain, 1872): "Zuleika Dobson" (1911)
Flora-Macdonald Mayor (Britain, 1872): "The Third Miss Symons" (1913)
Flora-Macdonald Mayor (Britain, 1872): "The Rector's Daughter" (1924) +
Paul-Laurence Dunbar (USA, 1872): "Lyrics Of A Lowly Life" (1896) [p]
John-Cowper Powys (Britain, 1872): "A Glastonbury Romance" (1932)
Cicely Hamilton (Britain, 1872): "How the Vote was Won" (1909) [t]
Cicely Hamilton (Britain, 1872): "Theodore Savage" (1922)
Stephen Crane (USA, 1873): "The Red Badge of Courage" (1894) +
Stephen Crane (USA, 1873): "Maggie" (1893)
Walter DeLaMare (Britain, 1873): "Memoirs of a Midget" (1921)
Walter DeLaMare (Britain, 1873): "The Listeners" (1912) [p]
Walter DeLaMare (Britain, 1873): "The Traveller" (1946) [p] +
Walter DeLaMare (Britain, 1873): "The Winged Chariot" (1951) [p]
Ford-Madox Ford (Britain, 1873): "The Good Soldier" (1915)
Ford-Madox Ford (Britain, 1873): "Parade's End" (1928) +
Dorothy Richardson (Britain, 1873): "Pointed Roofs" (1915)
Henry Tomlinson (Britain, 1873): "Gallion's Reach" (1927)
George-Oliver Onions (Britain, 1873): "Widdershins" (1911)
Gilbert Chesterton (Britain, 1874): "The Napoleon of Notting Hill" (1904)
Gilbert Chesterton (Britain, 1874): "The Man Who Was Thursday" (1908) +
Ellen Glasgow (USA, 1874): "Barren Ground" (1925)
Ellen Glasgow (USA, 1874): "Sheltered Life" (1932)
Ellen Glasgow (USA, 1874): "Vein of Iron" (1935)
William-Somerset Maugham (Britain, 1874): "Of Human Bondage" (1915)
William-Somerset Maugham (Britain, 1874): "The Moon and Sixpence" (1919)
William-Somerset Maugham (Britain, 1874): "Cakes and Ale" (1930) +
William-Somerset Maugham (Britain, 1874): "The Razor's Edge" (1944)
William-Somerset Maugham (Britain, 1874): "The Circle" (1921) [t]
Gertrude Stein (USA, 1874): "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas" (1933)
Gertrude Stein (USA, 1874): "Three lives" (1908)
Gertrude Stein (USA, 1874): "The Making of Americans" (1925) +
Robert-Lee Frost (USA, 1874): "A Boy's Will" (1913) [p]
Robert-Lee Frost (USA, 1874): "North of Boston" (1914) [p]
Robert-Lee Frost (USA, 1874): "Mountain Interval" (1916) [p]
Robert-Lee Frost (USA, 1874): "New Hampshire" (1923) [p]
Robert-Lee Frost (USA, 1874): "West-Running Brook" (1928) [p]
Robert-Lee Frost (USA, 1874): "A Further Range" (1936) [p] +
Robert-Lee Frost (USA, 1874): "A Masque of Reason" (1945) [p]
Robert-Lee Frost (USA, 1874): "In the Clearing" (1962) [p]
Amy Lowell (USA, 1874): "Men Women and Ghosts" (1916) [p]
Edmund Bentley (Britain, 1875): "Trent's Last Case" (1912)
Edgar-Rice Burroughs (USA, 1875): "Tarzan of the Apes" (1914)
Theodore-Francis Powys (Britain, 1875): "Mr Weston's Good Wine" (1927) +
Theodore-Francis Powys (Britain, 1875): "Unclay" (1931)
Forrest Reid (Britain, 1875): "Young Tom" (1944)
John Buchan (Britain, 1875): "The Thirty-nine Steps" (1915)
John Buchan (Britain, 1875): "Greenmantle" (1916)
Edgar Wallace (Britain, 1875): "Four Just Men" (1905)
Sherwood Anderson (USA, 1876): "Winesburg Ohio" (1919)
Willa Cather (USA, 1876): "O Pioneers" (1913)
Willa Cather (USA, 1876): "My Antonia" (1918)
Willa Cather (USA, 1876): "One of Ours" (1922)
Willa Cather (USA, 1876): "The Professor'S house" (1925) +
Willa Cather (USA, 1876): "Death Comes for the Archbishop" (1927) +
Willa Cather (USA, 1876): "Song of the Lark" (1909)
Jack London (USA, 1876): "The Sea Wolf" (1904)
Jack London (USA, 1876): "The Call of the Wild" (1903)
Jack London (USA, 1876): "Martin Eden" (1909)
John Masefield (Britain, 1878): "The Everlasting Mercy" (1911) [p]
John Masefield (Britain, 1878): "Dauber" (1913) [p]
John Masefield (Britain, 1878): "Reynard the Fox" (1919) +
John Masefield (Britain, 1878): "Box of Delights" (1935)
John Masefield (Britain, 1878): "The Tragedy of Nan" (1908) [t]
Harley Granville-Barker: (Britain, 1877): "The Voysey Inheritance" (1905) [t] +
Harley Granville-Barker: (Britain, 1877): "Waste" (1907) [t]
Harley Granville-Barker: (Britain, 1877): "The Madras House" (1910) [t]
Caradoc Evans (Britain, 1878): "Nothing to Pay" (1930)
Caradoc Evans (Britain, 1878): "Taffy" (1924) [t]
Upton Sinclair (USA, 1878): "The Jungle" (1906)
Carl Sandburg (USA, 1878): "Chicago Poems" (1916) [p]
Carl Sandburg (USA, 1878): "Corn Huskers" (1918) [p]
Carl Sandburg (USA, 1878): "Smoke and Steel" (1920) [p]
Carl Sandburg (USA, 1878): "The People Yes" (1936) [p] +
Edward Thomas (Britain, 1878): "Poems" (1917) [p] +
James Cabell (USA, 1879): "Jurgen" (1919)
Edward-Morgan Forster (Britain, 1879): "Where Angels Fear to Tread" (1905)
Edward-Morgan Forster (Britain, 1879): "The Longest Journey" (1907)
Edward-Morgan Forster (Britain, 1879): "A Room with a View" (1908)
Edward-Morgan Forster (Britain, 1879): "Howards End" (1910) ++
Edward-Morgan Forster (Britain, 1879): "A Passage to India" (1924) +
Miles Franklin (Australia, 1879): "My Brilliant Career" (1901)
Miles Franklin (Australia, 1879): "My Career Goes Bung" (1946)
Vachel Lindsay (USA, 1879): "Rhymes to be Traded for Bread" (1912) [p]
Wallace Stevens (USA, 1879): "Harmonium" (1923) [p]
Wallace Stevens (USA, 1879): "Ideas of Order" (1935) [p] +
Wallace Stevens (USA, 1879): "Notes Towards A Supreme Fiction" (1942) [p] ++
Wallace Stevens (USA, 1879): "The Auroras of Autumn" (1950) [p]
Norman Lindsay (Australia, 1879): "Redheap" (1930)

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