Pp. 89-128

1612. Butler born.

1630. John Tillotson born.

1630. Dr. Isaac Barrow born.

1631. John Dryden born.

1632. John Locke born.

1633. Robert South born.

1635. Edward Stillingfleet born.

1640. William Wycherley born.

1641. William Sherlock born.

1642. Sir Isaac Newton born.

1643. Gilbert Burnet born.

1651. Thomas Otway born.
1658. Dryden's first poem published.
1660. Dryden's "Astræa Redux."
1661. Dryden's "Panegyric on the
Coronation."

1662. Royal Society incorporated.

1662. First part of Butler's "Hudi-

bras."

1662. Dryden's "Epis'le on the

Lord Chancellor."

1663. Second part of "Hudibras."

1663. Dryden's "Epistle to Dr.
Charlton "
and "Wild

Gallant."

1663. Dryden married.

1666. Sir John Vanbrugh born.

1667. Dryden's "Annus Mirabilis."

1668. Dryden's "Essay of Dramatic

Poesy."

66

1687. Dryden's Hind and Pan-
ther."

1687. Sir Isaac Newton's "Prin-

1698. Jeremy

View."

Collier's

vii

Short

1699. Edward Stillingfleet died.

1699. Dryden's "Fables."

1700. Dryden died.

1700. Congreve's "Way of the
World."

1704. John Locke died.

1706. Farquhar's "Recruiting Offi-

cer."

side,

1664. Prior born.

1667. Arbuthnott born.

1667. Swift born.

1671. Steele born.

1672. Addison born.

1678. Bolingbroke born.

1681. Young born.

1684. Berkeley born.

1688. Pope born.

1692. Butler born.

Pp. 162-202

1704. Addison's "The Campaign."

1707. Addison's "Present State of

the War."

1708-9. Swift's "Argument against

the Abolishing of Chris-

tianity" and "Predictions

of Isaac Bickerstaff."

1709. Steele's "Tatler" begun.

1709. Pope's "Pastorals."

1711. Pope's "Essay on Criticism."

1711. The "Tatler" closed.

1711. The "Spectator" begun.

1712. Pope's first edition of the
"Rape of the Lock."

1713. Gay's "Rural Sports.”

1713. Addison's "Cato."

1713. Steele's "Guardian."

1714. Steele's Englishman" and

"The Crisis."

1714. Pope's second edition of the

"Rape of the Lock."

1715-16. Addison's "Freeholder.'
1716. Gray born.

1719. Addison died.

1720. Swift's "Universal Use of
Irish Manufactures."

1720. Collins born.

1720. Pope's "Iliad."

1721. Prior dead.

1722. Steele's "The Conscious

Lovers."

1723. Swift's "Drapier's Letters."

1725. Pope's "Odyssey."

1726-27. Swift's "Gulliver's Tra-

vels."

1726-30. Thomson's "Seasons."

1728. Gay's "Beggar's Opera."

1728. Pope's "Dunciad.'

1729. Steele died.

1731. Churchill born.

1732. Pope's "Essay on Man."

1732. Gay died.

1733-38. Pope's "Satires and Ep.

istles of Horace Imitated.”

1735. Arbuthnott died.

1736. Butler's "Analogy of Reli

gion."

1741. Pope's revised edition of the

"Dunciad."

1744. Young's "Night Thoughts."

1744. Pope died.

1744. Akenside's

"Pleasures

the Imagination.”

1745. Swift died.

of

1748. Thomson's "Castle of Indo-

lence."

1748. Thomson died.

1750. Gray's "Elegy in a Country

Churchyard."

1751. Bolingbroke died.

1752. Butler died.

1753. Berkeley died.

1756. Collins died.

1764. Churchill died.

1765. Young died.

1771. Gray died.

1779. Warburton died.

1661. Defoe born.

1689. Richardson born.

1704. Defoe's "Review" started.

1707. Fielding born.

1713. Sterne born.

1719. Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe."

1721. Smollett born.

1722. Defoe's "Journal of the

Plague.'

1731. Defoe died.

1740. Richardson's "Pamela."

1742. Fielding's "Joseph And-

rews.

1743. Fielding's "Jonathan Wild.”

1748. Richardson's "Clarissa."

1748. Smollett's "Roderick Ran

dom."

1749. Fielding's "Tom Jones."