- 1Epigraph
- 2Preface
- 3Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?-1400)
- 4John Gower (1325?-1408)
- 5Sir Thomas Malory (1430?-1470?)
- 6The Book of Common Prayer
- 7William Langland (1330?-1400?)
- 8Raphael Holinshed or Hollingshead (D. 1580?)
- 9William Baldwin (Fl. 1547), Thomas Sackville, First Earl of Dorset…
- 10Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517?-1547), and Others
- 11Thomas Norton (1532-1584) and Thomas Sackville, First Earl of Dorse…
- 12John Lyly (1553?-1606)
- 13Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586)
- 14Edmund Spenser (1552?-1599)
- 15Francis Bacon, Baron Verulam (1561-1626)
- 16Richard Hakluyt (1552?-1616)
- 17George Chapman (1559-1634)
- 18The Holy Bible
- 19Benjamin Jonson (1573?-1637)
- 20Robert Burton (1577-1640)
- 21William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
- 22John Webster (1580?-1625?)
- 23Philip Massinger (1583-1640)
- 24John Ford (1586-1639)
- 25Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)
- 26George Herbert (1593-1643)
- 27John Donne (1573-1631)
- 28Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682)
- 29Edmund Waller (1606-1687)
- 30Francis Beaumont (1584-1616) and John Fletcher (1579-1625)
- 31Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
- 32Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667)
- 33Izaak Walton (1593-1683)
- 34Samuel Butler (1612-1680)
- 35John Milton (1608-1674)
- 36John Bunyan (1628-1688)
- 37John Dryden (1631-1700)
- 38John Locke (1632-1704)
- 39William Congreve (1670-1729)
- 40Edward Hyde — First Earl of Clarendon (1609-1674)
- 41The Tatler
- 42The Spectator
- 43Daniel Defoe (1661?-1731)
- 44Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
- 45Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
- 46Joseph Butler — Bishop of Durham (1692-1752)
- 47Thomas Percy — Bishop of Dromore (1729-1811)
- 48William Collins (1721-1759)
- 49Samuel Richardson (1689-1761)
- 50Henry Fielding (1707-1754)
- 51Thomas Gray (1716-1771)
- 52Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
- 53Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
- 54Sir William Blackstone (1723-1780)
- 55Oliver Goldsmith (1728 — 1774)
- 56Laurence Sterne (1713 — 1768)
- 57The Federalist
- 58Tobias George Smollett (1721-1771)
- 59Adam Smith (1723-1790)
- 60Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)
- 61Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816)
- 62William Cowper (1731-1800)
- 63Robert Burns (1759-1796)
- 64Gilbert White (1720-1793)
- 65Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
- 66Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
- 67James Boswell (1740 — 1795)
- 68William Wordsworth (1770-1850) and Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
- 69Washington Irving (1783-1859)
- 70George Gordon Byron, Sixth Baron (1788-1824)
- 71Jane Austen (1775-1817)
- 72Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
- 73Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
- 74John Keats (1795-1821)
- 75Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
- 76Charles Lamb (1775-1834)
- 77Samuel Pepys (1633-1703)
- 78James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)
- 79Walter Savage Landor (1775 — 1864)
- 80Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
- 81Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
- 82Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
- 83William Hickling Prescott (1796-1859)
- 84Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
- 85Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855)
- 86Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
- 87Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)
- 88James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)
- 89William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863)
- 90Thomas Babington Macaulay, First Baron Macaulay (1800-1859)
- 91Alfred Tennyson, First Baron Tennyson (1809-1892)
- 92Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
- 93Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)
- 94John Ruskin (1819-1900)
- 95Robert Browning (1812-1889)
- 96John Lothrop Motley (1814-1877)
- 97George Eliot — Mary Ann or Marian Cross (1819-1880)
- 98Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882)
- 99Edward Fitzgerald (1809-1883)
- 100John Henry Newman, Cardinal (1801-1890)
- 101Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
- 102John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)
- 103Epigraph
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