Poets and Dramatists.—­Phineas Fletcher (1582-1650?):  The Purple Island.  William Drummond (1585-1649):  Sonnets; The Cypresse Grove (prose).  Giles Fletcher (1588?-1623):  Christ’s Victory and Triumph.  George Wither (1588-1667):  Juvenilia.  William Browne (1591-1643?) Britannia’s Pastorals.  Sir William D’Avenant (1606-1668):  Gondibert.  Edmund Waller (1606-1687):  Poems; Song—­“Go, lovely Rose.”  Richard Crashaw (1613?—­1649):  Steps to the Temple; The Delights of the Muses.  Sir John Denham (1615-1669):  Cooper’s Hill.  Abraham Cowley (1618-1667):  Anacreontiques.  Andrew Marvell (1621-1678):  The Garden.

1660-1740: 

Dramatists of the Restoration.—­Sir William D’Avenant (1606-1668):  Love and Honor.  George Etherege (1635?-1691?):  The Man of Mode.  William Wycherley (1640-1715):  The Plain Dealer.  Thomas Shadwell (1642?-1692):  Epson Wells.  Thomas Otway (1652-1685):  Venice Preserved.  John Vanbrugh (1666?-1726):  The Confederacy.  Colley Cibber (1671-1757):  The Careless Husband.  George Farquhar (1678-1707):  The Beaux’ Stratagem.

Prose Writers.—­Sir William Temple (1628-1699):  Essays.  Isaac Barrow (1630-1677):  Sermons.  Robert South (1634-1716):  Sermons.  Richard Bentley (1662-1742):  Epistles of Phalaris.  Gilbert Burnet (1643-1715):  Sermons.  John Arbuthnot (1667-1735):  The History of John Bull.  Lord Bolingbroke (1678-1751):  Letter to Sir William Windham.  Bishop Berkeley (1685-1753):  Alciphron or the Minute Philosopher.  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762):  Letters.  Bishop Butler (1692-1752):  Analogy of Natural and Revealed Religion.  William Warburton (1698-1779):  The Divine Legation of Moses.

Poets.—­Matthew Prior (1664-1721):  Shorter Poems.  Isaac Watts (1673-1748):  Psalms and Hymns.  Thomas Parnell (1679-1718):  A Night-Piece on Death; The Hermit.  John Gay (1685-1732):  Fables; The Beggar’s Opera.  Allan Ramsay (1686-1758):  The Gentle Shepherd.  John Dyer (1700?-1758):  Grongar Hill.

1740-1780: 

Prose Writers.—­Gilbert White (1720-1793):  Natural History of Selborne. William Robertson (1721-1793):  History of the Reign of Charles V. Adam Smith (1723-1790):  Wealth of Nations. Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792):  Discourses on Painting. Thomas Warton (1728-1790):  History of English Poetry. Sir Philip Francis (1740-1818):  Letters of Junius. Fanny Burney (1752-1840):  Evelina.

Poets.—­Edward Young (1681-1765):  Night Thoughts. Charles Wesley (1708-1788):  Hymns. Mark Akenside (1721-1803):  The Minstrel. Robert Fergusson (1750-1774):  Braid Claith; Ode to the Gowdspink.

1780-1837: