Introduction

List of Reference Books

1. Philip Sidney "An Apology for Poetry"

2. Thomas North Translation of Plutarch

3. John Lyly Euphues

4. Francis Bacon "Of Studies"

5. John Donne "Devotions upon Emergent Occasions"

6. Joseph Hall "The Hypocrite"

7. Thomas Hobbes Leviathan

8. John Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress

9. John Locke "Letters Concerning Toleration"

10. Joseph Addison "Sir Roger at Church"

11. Henry Fielding Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great

12. Samuel Johnson " The Preface to Shakespeare"

13. Edward Gibbon The Decline and Fall ot the Roman Empire

14. Oliver Goldsmith "Distresses of a Common Soldier" 15. James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson

16. Charles Lamb "Poor Relations"

17. Thomas De Quincey Confessions of an English Opium Eater

18. Thomas Babington Macaulay " Milton"

19. William Makepeace Thackeray Vanity Fair

20. Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter

21. John Ruskin The Stones of Venice

22. William Dean Howells Criticism and Fiction

23. Virginia Woolf Orlando

24. John Cowper Powys The Meaning of Culture

25. Arthur Stanley Eddington Science and the Unseen World

26. Aldous Huxley Point Counterpoint

27. J.B. Priestley "An Apology for Talkers"

28. David Cecil "The Augustan Age"