British Literature 1640-1789

Robert DeMaria, Jr., is the Henry Noble MacCracken Professor of English at Vassar College, where he has taught and often served as chair of his department since 1975. He has been a Guggenheim fellow and a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. He is the author of several books about Samuel Johnson and the editor (with the late Gwin Kolb) of Johnson on the English Language, volume 18 in the Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson. Most recently he has edited (with Robert D. Brown) Classical Literature and its Reception (Blackwell, 2007).

List of Authors. Chronology. Thematic Table of Contents. Introduction. Editorial Principles. Preface to the Third Edition. Acknowledgments. Ballads and Newsbooks from the Civil War (1640-1649). Robert Filmer (1588?-1653). Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679). Robert Herrick (1591-1674). John Reeve (1608-1658) and Lodowicke Muggleton (1609-1698). John Milton (1608-1674). Margaret Fell Fox (1614-1702). Richard Lovelace (1618-1657). Abraham Cowley (1618-1667). Abiezer Coppe (1619-1672). Lucy Apsley Hutchinson (1620-1681). Andrew Marvell (1621-1678). Henry Vaughan (1621-1695). Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673). Dorothy Osborne Temple (1627-1695). John Bunyan (1628-1688). John Dryden (1631-1700). Katherine Philips (1632-1664). John Locke (1632-1704). Samuel Pepys (1633-1703). Aphra Behn (1640?-1689). John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester (1647-1680). Jane Barker (1652-1732). Anne Wharton (1659-1685). Daniel Defoe (1660-1731). Anne Kingsmill Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661-1720). Matthew Prior (1664-1721). Mary Astell (1666-1731). Jonathan Swift (1667-1745). Sarah Fyge Egerton (1670-1723). Delarivier Manley (c.1670-1724). William Congreve (1670-1729). Bernard Mandeville (1670-1733). Joseph Addison (1672-1719) and Richard Steele (1672-1729). Isaac Watts (1674-1748). Mary Molesworth Monck (1677?-1715). Allan Ramsay (1684-1758). John Gay (1685-1732). Mary Barber (c.1685-1755). Alexander Pope (1688-1744). Mary Collier (1688?-1762). Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762). Trials at the Old Bailey (1722-1727). Eliza Fowler Haywood (1693-1756). James Thomson (1700-1748). Stephen Duck (1705-1756). Mary Jones (1707-1778). John Armstrong (1708/9-1779). Samuel Johnson (1709-1784). David Hume (1711-1776). Jane Collier (1714/15-1755). Thomas Gray (1716-1771). Elizabeth Carter (1717-1806). William Collins (1721-1759). Mary Leapor (1722-1746). Christopher Smart (1722-1771). Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792). Oliver Goldsmith (1728?-1774). Edmund Burke (1729-1797). William Cowper (1731-1800). James Macpherson (1736-1796). Edward Gibbon (1737-1794). Thomas Paine (1737-1809). James Boswell (1740-1795). Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi (1741-1821). Anna Laetitia Aiken Barbauld (1743-1825). Olaudah Equiano (1745?-1797). Hannah More (1745-1833). Charlotte Smith (1749-1806). Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816). Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770). Frances Burney (later d'Arblay) (1752-1840). Ann Cromartie Yearsley (1753-1806). George Crabbe (1754-1832). William Blake (1757-1827). Robert Burns (1759-1796). Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin (1759-1797). Select Bibliography. Index of Titles and First Lines. Index to the Introductions and Footnotes.