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THE following List, selected from about one thousand different authors given in the CYCLOPEDIA OF ENGLISH LITERATURE, will enable the reader to form some idea of the comprehensive character of the work. The writers are all arranged under successive periods of time, and are classed as Poets, Historians, Dramatists, Philosophers, Metaphysicians, Divines, etc., with choice specimens of their writings,— connected by a Biographical, Historical, and Critical Narrative,—thus presenting a complete view of English Literature, from the earliest to the present time.

Geoffrey Chaucer,

John Gower, John Barbour, Andrew Wyntoun, Sir John Mandeville, John Wickliffe, James I. of Scotland, Gavin Douglass, John Skelton, Earl of Surrey, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Sir John Fortescue, William Caxton, Sir Thomas More, Hugh Latimer, John Fox, John Leland, George Cavendish, William Tyndale, Miles Coverdale, Roger Ascham, Thomas Sackville, Sir Philip Sidney, Sir Walter Raleigh, Christopher Marlow, Edmund Spenser, Sir John Harrington, Sir Henry Wotton, William Shakspeare, Sir John Davies, Dr. John Donne, Ben Jonson, Richard Corbet, Sir John Beaumont, Francis Beaumont, Francis Quarles, George Herbert, William Habington, William Cartwright, Thomas Randolph, Alexander Scot, Sir Richard Maitland, Alexander Hume, King James VI. Earl of Ancrum, Earl of Stirling, William Drummond, Sir Robert Ayton, George Buchanan, John Lyly, John Fletcher, Thomas Dekker, John Webster, Thomas Middleton, Robert Taylor, George Cook,

John Ford,

Sir John Denham, William Chamberlayne, Edmund Waller, John Milton, Andrew Marvell, Samuel Butler, Charles Cotton, Earl of Roscommon, Earl of Rochester, Sir Charles Sedley, Duchess of Newcastle, Katherine Philips, John Dryden, John Philips, Earl of Dorset, Thomas Otway, Nathaniel Lee, Sir George Etherege, Abraham Cowley, Algernon Sidney, Lady Rachel Russell, Thomas Fuller, Izaak Walton, Sir Roger L'Estrange, Dr. Ralph Cudworth, Dr. Richard Cumberland, Dr. Isaac Barrow, Archbishop Tillotson, Bishop Stillingfleet, Dr. William Sherlock, Dr. Robert South, Dr. Thomas Burnet, Richard Baxter, John Owen, Edmund Calamy, John Flavel, Matthew Henry, George Fox, Robert Barclay, William Penn, John Bunyan, Lord Clarendon, Gilbert Burnet, Sir William Temple, William Wotton, John Locke, Sir Isaac Newton, John Ray, John Aubrey, Thomas Rymer, Sir G. Mackenzie, Matthew Prior, Joseph Addison, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, Thomas Tickell,

Thomas Parnell,

Philip Massinger,

Matthew Green,

Thomas Heywood,

Countess of Winchelsea,

William Somerville,

Allan Ramsay,

George Farquhar,

Lord Burleigh, Richard Hooker, Lord Bacon, Richard Grafton, Raphael Holinshed, William Harrison, Richard Hakluyt, George Sandys, Sir Thomas Herbert, William Camden, Sir Henry Spelman, Sir Robert Cotton, Sir John Hayward, Sir Richard Baker, Thomas Hobbes, Lord Herbert, Robert Burton, Owen Felltham, Peter Heylin, John Selden, Archbishop Usher, William Chillingworth, John Hales, Jeremy Taylor,

Sir Richard Steele,

Daniel Defoe,
Lord Bolingbroke,

Lady Mary W. Montagu,
Earl of Shaftesbury,
Bishop Berkeley,
John Strype,
Richard Bentley,
Dr. Samuel Clarke,
Charles Leslie,
William Whiston,
Dr. Philip Doddridge,
Dr. Matthew Tyndal,

Dr. Humphrey Prideaux,
Richard Savage,
Robert Blair,

Dr. Watts,
Edward Young,
James Thomson,
John Dyer,

Dr. Samuel Johnson,
William Collins.

William Mason,
Oliver Goldsmith,
Tobias George Smollett,
John Armstrong,
Dr. John Langhorne,
James Macpherson,
Thomas Chatterton,
William Falconer,
Thomas Warton,
James Beattie,
Richard Glover,
Sir William Jones,
John Cunningham,
Mrs. Thrale,
Alexander Ross,
Robert Fergusson,
George Colman,
Richard B. Sheridan,
David Garrick,
Samuel Foote,
Samuel Richardson,
Henry Fielding,
Laurence Sterne,
Horace Walpole,
Henry Mackenzie,
Dr. C. Middleton,
David Hume,
Dr. W. Robertson,
Lord Hailes,
Dr. W. Russell,
Edward Gibbon,
Dr. Adam Smith,
Dr. Reid,
Lord Kames,
Dr. Beattie,
Abraham Tucker,
Dr. Joseph Priestley,
Bishop Warburton,
Dr. Robert Lowth,
George Whitefield,
John Wesley,
Nathaniel Lardner,
Dr. James Foster,
John Leland,
Dr. Hugh Blair,
Dr. G. Campbell,
Edmund Burke,
Junius,

Dr. Benjamin Franklin,
Sir W. Blackstone,
Earl of Chesterfield,
Soame Jenyns,
Earl of Chatham,
William Cowper,
William Hayley,
Mrs. Barbauld,
Miss Seward,
Mrs. Hunter,

Mrs. Opie,

Mrs. Grant,
Mrs. Tighe,

Robert Bloomfield,

John Leyden,
George Canning,

Henry Kirke White,
James Graham,
George Crabbe,
Samuel Rogers,
William Wordsworth,
S. T. Coleridge,
Rev. W. L. Bowles,
Robert Southey,
Charles Lamb,
William Sotheby,
Thomas Moore,
Thomas Campbell,
M. G. Lewis,
Sir Walter Scott,
Lord Byron,

Percy Bysshe Shelley,
John Keats,

Dr. Reginald Heber,
Robert Pollok,
James Montgomery,

Henry Hart Milman,
Rev. George Croly,
L. E. Landon,
J. Baillie,

Robert Montgomery,
Ebenezer Elliott,
Mrs. Norton,
Mrs. Southey,
Mary Howitt,
Thomas Hood,
A. Tennyson,
T. B. Macauley,
Robert Burns,
A. Wilson,
James Hogg,
Allan Cunningham,
William Motherwell,
James Sheridan Knowles,
Thomas Noon Talfourd,
Miss Mitford,

Sir Edw. Lytton Bulwer,
Mrs. E. Inchbald,
William Beckford,
Charlotte Smith,
Ann Radcliffe,
Miss Edgeworth,
Miss Austen,
Hannah More,
Lady Morgan,
Mrs. Shelley,
Rev. C. R. Maturin,
John Galt,
Washington Irving,
John G. Lockhart,
Professor Wilson,
James B. Fraser,
Theodore E Hook,
Benjamin D'Israeli,
Mrs. Trollope,
T. Crofton Croker,
Countess of Blessington,
Mrs. S. C. Hall,
Captain Marryat,
Mrs. Gore,

Miss Martineau,

George P. R. James,

James Fenimore Cooper,

Wm. Harrison Ainsworth,

Samuel Warren,

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William Roscoe,

Henry Hallam,

Patrick Fraser Tytler,

Colonel Napier,
Archibald Alison, Esq.
James Boswell,
Dr. James Currie,
Dugald Stewart,
Dr. Thomas Brown,
Sir James Mackintosh,
Dr. William Paley,
Rev Sidney Smith,

Rev. Robert Hall,

Rev. John Foster,

Dr Thomas Chalmers,

James Bruce,

Mungo Park,

Denham and Clapperton, Richard Lander, J. B. Belzoni, Dr. E. D. Clarke, Captain Ross, Sir E. Parry, Sir R. K. Porter, Sir J. Malcolm, Captain Basil Hall, Sir Francis Head, George Combe, William Cobbett, Thomas de Quincey,

William Hazlitt,

Thomas Carlyle,

Lord Jeffrey,

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