III. The Essay

Date Scientific and Didactic Literary Criticism Miscellaneous

1500

Apologie for Poetrie

1600 Bacon

Milton Cowley

Dryden Howell

1700 Locke Temple

Addison Addison

Steele Steele

Bolingbroke Swift

Hume Johnson Johnson

Goldsmith Goldsmith

1800

Cobbett Jeffrey Hazlitt

Coleridge Lamb

Hazlitt Thackeray

Carlyle Froude

Macaulay Stevenson

1900 Symonds