Chapter II: Part I: “these Three Hundred Years”

THE FIRST PERIOD

1596 Francis Meres 35
1598 Richard Barnfield 36
1599 John Weever 37
1610 John Davies 38
1614 Thomas Freeman 39
1622 William Basse 40
1623 Anonymous 41
1623 Ben Jonson 42
1623 Hugh Holland 45
1623 John Heminge and Henrie Condell 46
1623 Leonard Digges 47
1627 Michael Drayton 48
1630 John Milton 49
1632 I. M. S. 50
_a._ 1633 John Hales 53
1637 Sir William D’Avenant 54
_c._ 1637 Anonymous 55
1639 Thomas Bancroft 57
1647 George Daniel 58
1651 Samuel Sheppard 59
_c._ 1661 Thomas Fuller 61
1662-7 Samuel Pepys 62
1664 Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle 64
1667 John Dryden 66
1668 John Dryden 67
1672 Anonymous 69
1675 Edward Phillips 71
1680 Thomas Otway 72
1681 “A Person of Honour” 74
1693 Sir Charles Sedley 75

THE SECOND PERIOD

1709 Sir Richard Steele 76
1709 Nicholas Rowe 78
1711 Elijah Fenton 80
1712 John Dennis 82
1712 Edward Young 83
1714 Joseph Addison 84
1725 Alexander Pope 85
1727 James Thomson 88
1733 Lewis Theobald 89
1740 Joseph Warton 91
1743 William Collins 92
1744 Sir Thomas Hanmer 93
1747 Samuel Johnson 94
1747 Bishop William Warburton 95
1751 Christopher Smart 96
1754 David Hume 97
1756 Horace Walpole 99
1758 John Armstrong 100
1759 William Mason 101
1759 Thomas Gray 102
1759 David Mallet 103
1759 Edward Young 104
_c._ 1760 Mark Akenside 105
1760 Robert Lloyd 106
1760 Edward Capell 107
1761 Charles Churchill 108
1762 William Whitehead 109
1763 William Thompson 110
1765 Samuel Johnson 111
1768 George Keate 112
1769 David Garrick 113
1769 Anonymous 116
1774 William Richardson 117
1775 William Julius Mickle 119
1777 William Hayley 120
1777 Thomas Warton 121
_a._ 1782 Anna Seward 123
1794 William Lisle Bowles 124

THE THIRD PERIOD

1802 William Wordsworth 127
1804 Felicia Dorothea Hemans 128
1814 Sir Walter Scott 129
1817 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 130
1817 Francis, Lord Jeffrey 133
1818 William Hazlitt 135
_c._ 1818 John Keats 138
_c._ 1818 John Keats 138
1819 John Wilson 140
1824 Charles Sprague 142
1824 Charles Lamb 144
1827 Julius Charles Hare 145
1831 James Hogg 146
1833 Charles Lamb 148
1833 Hartley Coleridge 149
1838 Thomas de Quincey 150
1839 John Sterling 153
1839 Henry Hallam 155
1840 —— Johnstone 156
1840 Thomas Carlyle 157
1841 William Wordsworth 159
1843 Lord Macaulay 160
1844 Ralph Waldo Emerson 162
1850 Frederick William Robertson 164
1851 Leigh Hunt 166
1852 James Anthony Froude 167
1853 David Masson 168
1853 Matthew Arnold 169
1853 Walter Savage Landor 170
1858 John Henry Newman 171
_c._ 1858 James Russell Lowell 173
1863 Nathaniel Hawthorne 175
1864 Bishop Charles Wordsworth 176
1864 Oliver Wendell Holmes 177
1865 Cardinal Wiseman 179
1865 Archbishop Trench 180
1865 Francis Turner Palgrave 181
1866 Frances Anne Kemble 183
1868 John Ruskin 184
1871 Dante Gabriel Rossetti 185
1872 Bayard Taylor 186
1874 William Minto 189
1875 Edward Dowden 190
1877 George Meredith 191
1877 Frederick James Furnivall 192
1878 Walter Horatio Pater 193
1879 Matthew Arnold 195
? _c._ 1880 Anonymous 197
1880 Algernon Charles Swinburne 199
1882 Algernon Charles Swinburne 201
1883 George Meredith 202
1884 Robert Browning 204
1886 William Wetmore Story 205
1886 Thomas Spencer Baynes 207
1888 Gerald Massey 209
1890 Walt Whitman 210
1891 Richard Watson Gilder 212
_c._ 1894 Mathilde Blind 213
_a._ 1892 Alfred, Lord Tennyson 214
1899 Sidney Lee 215