The Restoration and Eighteenth Century

The Restoration and Eighteenth Century http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/18century/welcome.htm

The Restoration
John Dryden http://www.luminarium.org/eightlit/dryden/drydenbio.htm
An Essay of Dramatic Poesy http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display/displayprose.cfm?prosenum=14 [lines 1280-1359] http://home.comcast.net/~spmsh/EighteenthCenturyUnit/DrydenAnEssayofDramaticPoesyHandout.rtf

Samuel Pepsy http://www.luminarium.org/eightlit/pepys/pepysbio.htm
The Diary of Samuel Pepys [August 19, 1660; November 21, 1660; January 3, 1661; March 27, 1661; May 31, 1661; December 31, 1661; June 8, 1662; October 13, 1660; April 23, 1661; Seotember 2, 1666] http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=4200 http://www.pepysdiary.com/archive/

The Age of Pope
Jonathan Swift http://www.luminarium.org/eightlit/swift/swiftbio.htm
Gulliver’s Travels http://books.google.com/books?vid=01Ua6k53jka1p-Co&id=xcQBAAAAQAAJ&printsec=titlepage http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/s/swift/jonathan/s97g/
A Modest Proposal http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/modest.html http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/s/swift/jonathan/s97m/

Alexander Pope http://www.luminarium.org/eightlit/pope/popebio.php
The Rape of the Lock http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC03147633&id=xXciKdpaH0oC&pg=PA11&lpg=PA1#PPA10,M1 http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~sconstan/poemlink.html
Epigrams

The Age of Johnson
Samuel Johnson http://www.luminarium.org/eightlit/johnson/johnsonbio.htm
Letter to Lord Chesterfield http://www.luminarium.org/eightlit/johnson/chesterfield.htm
Definitions from Johnson’s Dictionary http://books.google.com/books?id=bXsCAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA7-PA1&as_brr=1#PPP197,M1
Preface to Shakespeare http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display/displayprose.cfm?prosenum=9 [lines 105-216]

Thomas Gray http://www.luminarium.org/eightlit/gray/graybio.php
Elegy Written in a Country Courtyard http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dsucha/elegy.html http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=elcc

Robert Burns
Ae Fond Kiss http://www.robertburns.org/works/358.shtml http://www.bartleby.com/101/499.html
O, Wert Thou in the Cauld Blast http://www.robertburns.org/works/557.shtml http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/4076/
To a Mouse http://www.robertburns.org/works/75.shtml http://quotations.about.com/cs/poemlyrics/a/To_A_Mouse.htm

William Blake
Songs of Innocence
The Lamb http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/2404/ http://www.allspirit.co.uk/lamb.html
Songs of Experience
The Tyger http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/2376/ http://www.allspirit.co.uk/tyger.html