A Brief History of English-language Literature

Continued from this page 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] John Cleland (Britain, 1709): "Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure" or "Fanny Hill" (1748) 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] + Erasmus Darwin (Britain, 1731): "Botanic Garden" (1791) [p] Erasmus Darwin (Britain, 1731): "The Temple of Nature" (1803) [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] Rudolf Raspe (Germany, 1736): "The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen" (1785) 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) William Dunlap (USA, 1766): "A Trip to Niagara" (1828) [t] 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] George Darley (Ireland, 1795): "Nepenthe" (1897) [p] Maria Shelley (Britain, 1797): "Frankenstein" (1818) Thomas Hood (Britain, 1799): "The Song of the Shirt" (1843) [p] Thomas Hood (Britain, 1799): "The Bridge of Sighs" (1844) [p] Continues on this page