| Introduction: Poets and Poetry |
| Richard Glover (1712–1785) |
| Leonidas, 1737 |
| William Whitehead (1715–1785) |
| John Hall-Stevenson (1718–1785) |
| Thomas Tyrwhitt (1730–1786) |
| Edition of Chaucer, 1775–78 |
| Gilbert Stuart (1742–1786) |
| Robert Lowth (1710–1787) |
| De Sacra Poesi Hebræorum, 1753 |
| Soame Jenyns (1704–1787) |
| Charles Wesley (1707–1788) |
| Hymns |
| William Julius Mickle (1735–1788) |
| The Mariner’s Wife |
| Lusiad, 1775 |
| John Logan (1748–1788) |
| Thomas Sheridan (1719–1788) |
| Thomas Amory (1691?–1788?) |
| Life of John Buncle, 1756–66 |
| Thomas Day (1748–1789) |
| Sandford and Merton, 1783–89 |
| Sir John Hawkins (1719–1789) |
| History of Music, 1776 |
| Life of Samuel Johnson, 1787 |
| Adam Smith (1723–1790) |
| The Theory of Moral Sentiments, 1759 |
| The Wealth of Nations, 1776 |
| Thomas Warton (1728–1790) |
| History of English Poetry, 1774–81 |
| Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) |
| The Hutchinson Letters |
| Poor Richard’s Almanac, 1733 |
| Autobiography |
| Robert Henry (1718–1790) |
| History of Great Britain, 1771–90 |
| William Livingston (1723–1790) |
| Philosophic Solitude, 1747 |
| John Wesley (1703–1791) |
| Marriage |
| As a Preacher |
| Wesleyism |
| Thomas Blacklock (1721–1791) |
| Francis Hopkinson (1737–1791) |
| Catherine Macaulay (1731–1791) |
| History of England |
| Richard Price (1723–1791) |
| Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792) |
| Art |
| George Horne (1730–1792) |
| Commentary on the Psalms, 1771 |
| David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes (1726–1792) |
| Gilbert White (1720–1793) |
| William Robertson (1721–1793) |
| The Situation of the World at the Time of Christ’s Appearance, 1755 |
| History of Scotland, 1759 |
| Charles V., 1769 |
| History of America, 1777 |
| History of India, 1791 |
| John Hunter (1728–1793) |
| William Murray, Earl of Mansfield (1705–1793) |
| Edward Gibbon (1737–1794) |
| Mademoiselle Curchod |
| Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1776–88 |
| Autobiography, 1796–1896 |
| Letters and Miscellaneous Works, 1796–1897 |
| General |
| Sir William Jones (1746–1794) |
| George Colman the Elder (1732–1794) |
| Susanna Blamire (1747–1794) |
| James Bruce (1730–1794) |
| Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, 1790 |
| James Boswell (1740–1795) |
| An Account of Corsica, 1768 |
| Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, 1785 |
| Life of Johnson, 1791–93 |
| Robert Burns (1759–1796) |
| Jean |
| Highland Mary |
| Clarinda |
| Mrs. Dunlop |
| The Holy Fair |
| Cotter’s Saturday Night |
| Tam o’Shanter, 1793 |
| The Jolly Beggars |
| Holy Willie’s Prayer |
| Letters |
| General |
| James Macpherson (1736–1796) |
| Poems of Ossian |
| Thomas Reid (1710–1796) |
| Edmund Burke (1729–1797) |
| Speeches and Oratory |
| A Vindication of Natural Society, 1756 |
| The Sublime and Beautiful, 1757 |
| Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1790 |
| General |
| Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford (1717–1797) |
| Strawberry Hill |
| Royal and Noble Authors, 1758 |
| Castle of Otranto, 1765 |
| The Mysterious Mother, 1768 |
| Letters |
| William Mason (1724–1797) |
| Elfrida, 1752 |
| Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797) |
| Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 1792 |
| John Wilkes (1727–1797) |
| James Hutton (1726–1797) |
| Richard Farmer (1735–1797) |
| Charles Macklin (c. 1697–1797) |
| Joseph Black (1728–1799) |
| James Burnett, Lord Monboddo (1714–1799) |
| Patrick Henry (1736–1799) |
| Speeches |
| George Washington (1732–1799) |
| Farewell Address |
| Josiah Tucker (1712–1799) |
| William Cowper (1731–1800) |
| Mary Unwin |
| Lady Austen |
| Olney Hymns, 1779 |
| John Gilpin, 1783 |
| The Task, 1785 |
| Homer, 1791 |
| On the Receipt of My Mother’s Picture, 1798 |
| Sonnets |
| Letters |
| Joseph Warton (1722–1800) |
| Essay and Edition of Pope |
| Elizabeth Montagu (1720–1800) |
| Essay on the Genius of Shakespeare, 1769 |
| Letters |
| Hugh Blair (1718–1800) |
| Sermons |
| Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles-Lettres, 1783 |
| James Macknight (1721–1800) |
| George Steevens (1736–1800) |
| Edition of Shakespeare |
| Mary Robinson (1758–1800) |
| Charles Johnstone (1719?–1800?) |
| Robert Orme (1728–1801) |
| History of British India, 1763–78 |
| Gilbert Wakefield (1756–1801) |
| Hester Chapone (1727–1801) |
| Robert Bage (1728–1801) |
| Erasmus Darwin (1731–1802) |
| The Botanic Garden, 1781 |
| Zoönomia, 1794–96 |
| John Moore (1729–1802) |
| Zeluco, 1789 |
| James Beattie (1735–1803) |
| Essay on Truth, 1770 |
| The Minstrel, 1771–74 |
| Joseph Ritson (1752–1803) |
| Samuel Hopkins (1721–1803) |
| Samuel Adams (1722–1803) |
| Joseph Priestley (1733–1804) |
| Scientific Work |
| Alexander Hamilton (1757–1804) |
| Statesman |
| The Federalist |
| Charlotte Lennox (c. 1729–1804) |
| William Paley (1743–1805) |
| Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy, 1785 |
| Horæ Paulinæ, 1790 |
| Evidences of Christianity, 1793 |
| Natural Theology, 1802 |
| Christopher Anstey (1724–1805) |
| The New Bath Guide, 1766 |
| Arthur Murphy (1727–1805) |
| Mungo Park (1771–1806) |
| Travels |
| Henry Kirke White (1785–1806) |
| Elizabeth Carter (1717–1806) |
| Samuel Horsley (1733–1806) |
| Sermons |
| Charlotte Smith (1749–1806) |
| Sonnets |
| Charles James Fox (1749–1806) |
| Speeches |
| History |
| William Pitt (1759–1806) |
| Speeches |
| Clara Reeve (1729–1807) |
| John Home (1722–1808) |
| Douglas, 1754 |
| Bishop Richard Hurd (1720–1808) |
| Richard Porson (1759–1808) |
| Fisher Ames (1758–1808) |
| Speeches |
| Thomas Paine (1737–1809) |
| Common Sense, 1776 |
| The American Crisis, 1776–83 |
| The Rights of Man, 1791–92 |
| Age of Reason, 1794–95–1811 |
| Anna Seward (1747–1809) |
| Thomas Holcroft (1745–1809) |
| Robert Tannahill (1774–1810) |
| Mary Tighe (1772–1810) |
| Psyche |
| Charles Brockden Brown (1771–1810) |
| Wieland, 1798 |
| Ormond, 1799 |
| Arthur Mervyn, 1799–1800 |
| Edgar Huntly, 1801 |
| Richard Cumberland (1732–1811) |
| Thomas Percy (1729–1811) |
| Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, 1765 |
| James Grahame (1765–1811) |
| John Horne Tooke (1736–1812) |
| The Diversions of Purley, 1786–98–1805 |
| Joel Barlow (1754–1812) |
| The Columbiad, 1787–1807 |
| The Hasty Pudding |
| Edmond Malone (1741–1812) |
| Editions of Shakespeare |
| Henry James Pye (1745–1813) |
| Alexander Wilson (1766–1813) |
| Poems |
| American Ornithology, 1808–13 |
| Charles Dibdin (1745–1814) |
| Charles Burney (1726–1814) |
| Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford (1753–1814) |
| Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816) |
| Speeches |
| The Rivals, 1775 |
| The Duenna, 1775 |
| School for Scandal, 1777 |
| The Critic, 1779–81 |
| Adam Ferguson (1723–1816) |
| Jane Austen (1775–1817) |
| Pride and Prejudice, 1796–1813 |
| Sense and Sensibility, 1797–1811 |
| Northanger Abbey, 1797–1818 |
| Mansfield Park, 1814 |
| Emma, 1816 |
| Persuasion, 1818 |
| General |
| Timothy Dwight (1752–1817) |
| Francis Horner (1778–1817) |
| Matthew Gregory Lewis (“Monk Lewis”) (1775–1818) |
| The Monk |
| Samuel Romilly (1757–1818) |
| Speeches |
| Philip Francis (1740–1818) |
| Junius |
| John Wolcot (Peter Pindar) (1738–1819) |
| William Hayley (1745–1820) |
| Arthur Young (1741–1820) |
| Thomas Brown (1778–1820) |
| Joseph Rodman Drake (1795–1820) |
| The Culprit Fay |
| John Keats (1795–1821) |
| Fanny Brawne |
| Love Letters |
| Endymion, 1818 |
| Lamia, 1820 |
| The Eve of St. Agnes, 1820 |
| Hyperion, 1820 |
| Odes |
| Sonnets |
| General |
| Hester Lynch Piozzi (1741–1821) |
| Elizabeth Inchbald (1753–1821) |
| A Simple Story, 1791 |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) |
| Necessity of Atheism, 1811 |
| Queen Mab, 1813 |
| Alastor, 1815 |
| The Revolt of Islam, 1817 |
| Julian and Maddalo, 1818 |
| Prometheus Unbound, 1819 |
| The Cenci, 1819 |
| Adonais, 1821 |
| General |
| Ann (Ward) Radcliffe (1764–1823) |
| Charles Wolfe (1791–1823) |
| Robert Bloomfield (1766–1823) |
| David Ricardo (1772–1823) |
| Thomas, Baron Erskine (1750–1823) |
| Lord Byron (1788–1824) |
| Lady Byron |
| Hours of Idleness, 1807 |
| English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, 1809 |
| Childe Harold, 1812–16–18 |
| The Giaour, 1813 |
| The Corsair, 1814 |
| Prisoner of Chillon, 1816 |
| Manfred, 1817 |
| Don Juan, 1819–24 |
| Marino Faliero, 1820 |
| Cain, 1821 |
| Letters |
| General |
| Charles Robert Maturin (1782–1824) |
| Bertram, 1816 |
| Melmoth the Wanderer, 1820 |
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