APPENDIX I GENERAL TABLES
Reading edition
(1) Authors’ names appear in roman type; the titles of books are given in italics.
(2) Every author and book that is mentioned in the tables has already found a place earlier in this history. Reference to the index at the end will lead to further information.
(3) The chief use of each table is to provide a clear view of some aspect of English literature. To effect this a certain amount of rigidity is unavoidable in the classification. The reader should clearly understand that a greater elasticity of opinion is possible than appears in the tables. Caution, therefore, is necessary in the use of them.
I. PROSE FORMS
Date Tale and Romance Essay Novel Miscellaneous
Pecock
Malory
1500
Utopi
Ascham
Nash
Arcadia Arcadia
1600 Ford Bacon Hooker
Overbury
Bacon
Burton
Browne
Boyle Clarendon
Dryden Milton
Temple Behn Dryden
1700
Addison
Defoe Steele Defoe Swift
Richardson
Johnson Fielding
Johnson Goldsmith Smollett Burke
Sterne
Goldsmith Gibbon
1800 Coleridge Austen
Southey
Hazlitt Scott
Lamb Lockhart
Marryat Dickens
Lever Thackeray Ruskin
Borrow Thackeray
Stevenson Meredith
1900 Hardy Stevenson
II. THE NOVEL
Date Picaresque Society and Domestic Historical Didactic
1500
Utopia
The Unfortunate Traveller Arcadia
1600
Head
1700 Behn
Addison
Defoe
Richardson
Fielding Johnson
Smollett
Sterne Burney
1800 Austen
Edgeworth Porter
Marryat Scott
Dickens Bulwer-Lytton
Borrow Thackeray G. P. R. James
Meredith Thackeray
1900 Hardy Stevenson Pater
III. THE ESSAY
Date Scientific and Didactic Literary Criticism Miscellaneous
1500
Apologie for Poetrie
1600 Bacon
Milton Cowley
Dryden Howell
1700 Locke Temple
Addison Addison
Steele Steele
Bolingbroke Swift
Hume Johnson Johnson
Goldsmith Goldsmith
1800
Cobbett Jeffrey Hazlitt
Coleridge Lamb
Hazlitt Thackeray
Carlyle Froude
Macaulay Stevenson
1900 Symonds
IV. PROSE STYLE
N.B.—In this table the classification is often only approximate.
Date Plain Middle Ornate Poetic
Mandeville (d. 1372)
Malory
1500
More
Fisher
Ascham
Nash
Hooker Lyly
1600 Bacon
Overbury The Bible
Burton Milton
Browne
Walton Hobbes Jeremy Taylor
Bunyan Dryden
Locke Temple
1700
Addison
Swift
Fielding Goldsmith Johnson
Burke Macpherson
Cowper Gibbon
1800
Cobbett Southey De Quincey
Lamb Wilson
Macaulay Ruskin Carlyle
Thackeray Meredith W. Morris
1900 G. B. Shaw
V. THE DRAMA
N.B.—Some cross-classification is unavoidable in this table.
Date Tragedy Comedy Historical and Pastoral
1500
Ralph Roister Doister
Gorboduc
Kyd The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth
Marlowe J. Heywood
Greene Lyly
1600 Nash Shakespeare Shakespeare
Shakespeare Jonson Jonson
Jonson Massinger Fletcher
Webster
Ford
Milton Dryden
Dryden
1700 Lee Congreve
Addison Steele
Johnson
Goldsmith Home
Sheridan
1800 Baillie
Byron Byron
Shelley
Browning
Swinburne
Tennyson Wilde Tennyson
1900 G. B. Shaw Swinburne
VI. POETICAL FORMS
Date Epic Lyric and Ode Narrative-Descriptive Didactic
The Nut-brown Maid Chaucer (d. 1400)
James I of Scotland Lydgate
1500 Hawes Hawes
Wyat Sackville
Surrey
1600 Shakespeare Spenser Drayton
Donne P. and G. Fletcher
Cowley Herbert
Davenant Carew
Milton
Dryden Dryden Dryden
1700 Butler
Blackmore Prior Pope
Pope
Collins
Gray Johnson
Cowper
Burns Crabbe
1800 Wordsworth Coleridge
Keats Scott Shelley
Shelley Byron Byron
Tennyson Tennyson
Browning Tennyson
Tennyson Browning
Arnold Arnold
D. G. Rossetti Swinburne
1900
VII. MISCELLANEOUS FORMS (PROSE AND POETRY)
Lydgate[241]
1500 Skelton[241]
Dunbar[241]
Lyndsay[241]
Spenser[241]
1600 Donne[241]
P. Fletcher[241]
Howell[242]
Milton[241]
1700 Evelyn[242]
Cowper[242]
1800
Lamb[242]
Tennyson[241]
Butler[242]
1900