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Fiction
Aphra Behn
Oroonoko, or, The Royal Slave
Daniel Defoe
Anonymous (Daniel Defoe?) The Apparition of Mrs. Veal
Robinson Crusoe
The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
Moll Flanders
Henry Fielding, Shamela
Eliza Haywood
Eliza Haywood, Fantomina
Samuel Johnson, “Rasselas”
James Joyce–The Dead
Susanna Rowson, Charlotte Temple
Horace Walpole
Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
Virginia Woolf–Mrs. Dalloway
Essays
Joseph Addison & Richard Steele
The Tatler
Tatler 1, April 12, 1709 (Steele)
Tatler 4, April 16, 1709 (Steele)
Tatler 9 (April 28, 1709) (Steele and Swift)
Tatler 10, April 30, 1709 (Steele)
Tatler 25, June 4, 1709 (Steele)
Tatler 116 January 5, 1709 (Addison)
The Spectator
Spectator #1, 1 March 1711 (Addison)
Spectator #2, 2 March 1711 (Steele)
Spectator #10, 12 March 1711 (Addison)
Spectator #11, 13 March 1711 (Steele)
Spectator # 65, 15 May 1711 (Steele)
William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation
Benjamin Franklin, The “Silence Dogood” Essays
Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton, Federalist #1
John Locke, “Of Civil Government” (The Second Treatise of Government)
Jonathan Swift
A Modest Proposal
Jonathan Edwards, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence
Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
Poetry
Aphra Behn
The Disappointment
Anne Bradstreet
The Prologue
A Dialogue between Old England and New; concerning their present Troubles
David’s Lamentation, for Saul, and Jonathan
A Letter to her husband, absent upon Publick Employment
Childhood
Upon the Burning of My House, July 10, 1666
Robert Burns, Auld Lang Syne
John Dryden
“Mac Flecknoe”
Anne Finch
Anne Finch, The Introduction
Anne Finch, The Spleen
To the Nightingale
A Noctural Reverie
Thomas Gray
Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Samuel Johnson
Translation of Horace, Ode ii.20
London: The Third Satire of Juvenal, Imitated
“London,” First Edition
The Vanity of Human Wishes
On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet
To Sir John Lade, on His Coming of Age
Alexander Pope
An Essay on Criticism
Windsor-Forest
The Rape of the Lock, 1712 version
The Rape of the Lock
Katherine Philips
Preface to Poems by the Most Deservedly Admired Mrs. Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, by Charles Cotterell
1. Upon the Double Murder of K. Charles
11. On the 3rd of September 1651
17. Friendship’s Mysterys, To My Dearest Lucasia
18. Content, to My Dearest Lucasia
22. A Retir’d Friendship. To Ardelia
25. To the Excellent Mrs. A. O. upon her receiving the name of Lucasia, and adoption into our society. 29 Decemb 1651
29. Friendship in Emblem, or, the Seale, to my dearest Lucasia
33. To Antenor, on a Paper of Mine
47. Against Pleasure
54. To My Dearest Antenor, on his parting
61. A Countrey life
105. On the death of the truly honourable Sir Walter Lloid Knight
Phillis Wheatley
To the University of Cambridge, in New-England
On the Death of George Whitefield
On Being Brought from Africa to America
A Hymn to the Morning
To the Earl of Dartmouth
Niobe in Distress for her Children slain by Apollo
John Wilmot, the Earl of Rochester
An Allusion to Horace
The Maim’d Debauchee
The Imperfect Enjoyment
Signior Dildo
A Ramble in St. James’s Park
Satyr
Life Writing
Benjamin Franklin, “Autobiography”
Thomas Jefferson, “Autobiography”
Samuel Pepys, from The Diary
The Sovereignty and Goodness of God: A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
Drama
William Wycherley, The Country Wife: Introduction
The Country Wife, Act I
The Country Wife, Act II
The Country Wife Act III
The Country Wife, Act IV
The Country Wife, Act V
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal
Royall Tyler, The Contrast
Authors
Joseph Addison & Richard Steele
Aphra Behn
Anne Bradstreet
Daniel Defoe
John Dryden
Anne Finch
Thomas Gray
Eliza Haywood
Katherine Philips
Alexander Pope
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Horace Walpole
Phillis Wheatley
John Wilmot, the Earl of Rochester
Benjamin Franklin, “Autobiography”
Getting started with Anne Bradstreet
Horace Walpole and Wikipedia
Authors