I. Prose Forms

Date Tale and
Romance Essay Novel Miscellaneous

Pecock

Malory

1500

Utopi

Ascham

Nash

Arcadia Arcadia

1600 Ford Bacon Hooker

Overbury

Bacon

Burton

Browne

Boyle Clarendon

Dryden Milton

Temple Behn Dryden

1700

Addison

Defoe Steele Defoe Swift

Richardson

Johnson Fielding

Johnson Goldsmith Smollett Burke

Sterne

Goldsmith Gibbon

1800 Coleridge Austen

Southey

Hazlitt Scott

Lamb Lockhart

Marryat Dickens

Lever Thackeray Ruskin

Borrow Thackeray

Stevenson Meredith

1900 Hardy Stevenson