Chapter XXVIII: Appendix: I

GENERAL TABLES

(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 | ESSAY | NOVEL | MISCELLANEOUS |
| | ROMANCE | | | |
+------+----------+-----------+------------+---------------+
| | | | | |
| | | | | |
| | | | | Pecock |
| | | | | |
| | | | | |
| | Malory | | | |
| 1500 | | | | |
+------+----------+-----------+------------+---------------+
| | | | | |
| | | | _Utopia_ | |
| | | | | 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 | HISTORICAL | DIDACTIC |
| | | DOMESTIC | | |
+------+-------------------+--------------+-------------------+----------+
| | | | | |
| | | | | |
| | | | | |
| | | | | |
|1500 | | | | |
+------+-------------------+--------------+-------------------+----------+
| | | | | _Utopia_ |
| | | | | |
| | | | | |
| |_The Unfortunate | | | _Arcadia |
|1600 | Traveller_ | | | |
+------+-------------------+--------------+-------------------+----------+
| | | | | |
| | | | | |
| | | | | |
| | 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 |
| | Marlowe | J. Heywood | Henry the Fifth_ |
| | 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)

+------+----------------+--------------+-------------+-------------+
| DATE | ALLEGORY[241] | SATIRE[241] | ELEGY[241] | LETTERS AND |
| | [242] | [242] | | DIARY[242] |
+------+----------------+--------------+-------------+-------------+
| | | | | |
| | | | | |
| | Lydgate[241] | | | |
| | | | | |
| | | | | |
| 1500 | | Skelton[241] | | |
+------+----------------+--------------+-------------+-------------+
| | Douglas[241] | Barclay[241] | Dunbar[241] | |
| | Dunbar[241] | | | |
| | | Lyndsay[241] | | |
| | | | | |
| | | | | |
| | Spenser[241] | | | |
| 1600 | | Donne[241] | | |
+------+----------------+--------------+-------------+-------------+
| | | | | |
| | | | | |
| |P. Fletcher[241]| | | |
| | | | | Howell[242] |
| | | | Milton[241] | |
| | Bunyan[242] | Dryden[241] | | Pepys[242] |
| 1700 | | | | Evelyn[242] |
+------+----------------+--------------+-------------+-------------+
| | Addison[242] | Swift[242] | | |
| | | Pope[241] | | Lady M. W. |
| | | | | Montagu[242]|
| | | | | |
| | | Johnson[241] | Gray[241] | Gray[242] |
| | | | | Cowper[242] |
| | Goldsmith[242] | Burns[241] | | |
| 1800 | | | | |
+------+----------------+--------------+-------------+-------------+
| | | | | Lamb[242] |
| | | Byron[241] | Shelley[241]| Scott[242] |
| | | | | |
| | | |Tennyson[241]| |
| | Tennyson[241] | | Arnold[241] | |
| | | | | |
| | | Butler[242] | | |
| 1900 | | | | |
+------+----------------+--------------+-------------+-------------+

VIII. CHIEF METRICAL FORMS: PART I

+----+----------------------+----------------------+--------------------+-------------+
|DATE| HEROIC COUPLET[243][244]| OCTOSYLLABIC COUPLET| BALLAD METER | BLANK VERSE |
| | [244] | | | |
+----+----------------------+----------------------+--------------------+-------------+
| | | | | |
| | Chaucer[243][244] | Chaucer | Numerous ballads | |
| | (_d._ 1400) | | | |
| | | | | |
| | | | _Sir Patrick Spens_| |
| | | | | |
| | | | | |
|1500| | | _Chevy Chace_ | |
+----+----------------------+----------------------+--------------------+-------------+
| | | | | |
| | | | | Surrey |
| | | | | |
| | Spenser[244] | Spenser | | Marlowe |
|1600| | | | Shakespeare |
+----+----------------------+----------------------+--------------------+-------------+
| | Wither[243] | P. Fletcher | | Jonson |
| | | | | |
| | Cowley[243] | Milton | | |
| | _Cooper’s Hill_[243] | | | |
| | | | | Milton |
| | Dryden[243] | Butler | | |
| | | | | Dryden |
|1700| | | | |
+----+----------------------+----------------------+--------------------+-------------+
| | Pope[243] | Swift | | |
| | | | | Thomson |
| | | | Percy | |
| | Johnson[243] | | | |
| | | | Chatterton | |
| | | | | |
| | Goldsmith[243] | | Goldsmith | Cowper |
|1800| | Coleridge | Coleridge | Wordsworth |
+----+----------------------+----------------------+--------------------+-------------+
| | Keats[244] | Scott | Scott | Keats |
| | Byron[243] | Byron | | Shelley |
| | | | | |
| | | | Tennyson | |
| | Arnold[244] | | | Tennyson |
| | W. Morris[244] | W. Morris | D. G. Rossetti | Browning |
| | | | | Arnold |
|1900| Swinburne[244] | | | Swinburne |
+----+----------------------+----------------------+--------------------+-------------+

IX. CHIEF METRICAL FORMS: PART II

+-------+--------------------+-----------------------+---------------------+-------------------+
|DATE | SPENSERIAN STANZA | OTTAVA RIMA | RHYME ROYAL | SONNET |
+-------+--------------------+-----------------------+---------------------+-------------------+
| | | | | |
| | | | Chaucer (_d._ 1400) | |
| | | | | |
| | | | James I of Scotland | |
| | | | | |
| | | | | |
| | | | | |
|1500 | | | Henryson | |
+-------+--------------------+-----------------------+---------------------+-------------------+
| | | | | |
| | | | | |
| | | | | |
| | | | Sackville | Wyat[246] |
| | Spenser | | | Surrey[245] |
|1600 | | | | Spenser[245] |
+-------+--------------------+-----------------------+---------------------+-------------------+
| | |_Britannia’s Pastorals_| | Shakespeare[245] |
| | | | | Drayton[246] |
| | | | | |
| | | | | |
| | | | | Milton[246] |
| | | | | |
|1700 | | | | |
+-------+--------------------+-----------------------+---------------------+-------------------+
| | | | | |
| | Thomson | | | |
| | Shenstone | | | |
| | | | | |
| | | | | |
|1800 | | | | Wordsworth[246] |
+-------+--------------------+-----------------------+---------------------+-------------------+
| | Keats | Byron | | Byron[246] |
| | Shelley | Keats | | Keats[246] |
| | Byron | | | Shelley[246] |
| | Tennyson | | | Tennyson[246] |
| | | | W. Morris | |
| | | | |D. G. Rossetti[246]|
|1900 | | | | |
+-------+--------------------+-----------------------+---------------------+-------------------+