dern English Period. From the death of Pope to the present
time.
1. The Beginnings. From the death of Pope to 1780.
Samuel Richardson, 1689-1761.
Henry Fielding, 1707-1754.
Dr. Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784.
David Hume, 1711-1776.
Laurence Sterne, 1713-1768.
Thomas Gray, 1716-1771.
Tobias George Smollett, 1721-1771.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH, 1728-1774.
Edmund Burke, 1729-1797.
Edward Gibbon, 1737-1794.

2. The Romantic School. From 1780 to 1837,
the Accession of Queen Victoria.
William Cowper, 1731-1800.
Robert Burns, 1759-1796.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, 1770-1850.
SIR WALTER SCOTT, 1771-1832.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772-1834.
Robert Southey, 1774-1843.
Charles Lamb, 1775-1834.
Lord Byron, 1788-1824.
Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1792-1822.
John Keats, 1795-1821.

3. The Victorian Age. From the Accession of Victoria to the
present time.
Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881.
Thomas Macaulay, 1800-1859.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1806-1861.
ALFRED TENNYSON, 1809-1892.
William Makepeace Thackeray, 1811-1863.
Charles Dickens, 1812-1870.
Robert Browning, 1812-1889.
John Ruskin, 1819-1900.
GEORGE ELIOT, 1819-1880.
Matthew Arnold, 1822-1888.
Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850-1894.

HANDY TABLE OF AMERICAN WRITERS

A. The Colonial Period. The seventeenth and eighteenth century writers.
Anne Bradstreet, 1612-1672.
Cotton Mather, 1663-1728.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, 1706-1790.

B. The National Period. The nineteenth century writers.
I. The Earlier Group.
William Ellery Channing, 1780-1842.
WASHINGTON IRVING, 1783-1859.
James Fenimore Cooper, 1789-1851.
William Cullen Bryant, 1794-1878.
William Hickling Prescott, 1796-1859.
Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849.

II. The Civil War Group.
George Bancroft, 1800-1891.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON, 1803-1882.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, 1804-1864.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, 1807-1882.
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER, 1807-1892.