720: Lindisfarne Gospels

731: Bede, Ecclesiastical History of the English People

992: AElfric, Catholic Homilies

1000: The four major surviving manuscripts of Anglo-Saxon poetry: Vercelli, Exeter, Caedmon, and Beowulf MSS

1138: Geoffrey of Monmouth, History of the Kings of Britain

1184-6: Andreas Capellanus, De amore

1188: History of Canterbury

1200: The Owl and the Nightingale: Lazamon, Brut; Jocelin ofBrakelond, Chronicle

1220: Ancrene Riwlw

1225: King Horn

1275: Guillaume de Lorris, Roman de la rose

1370: Chaucer, Book of the Duchess

1377: Langland, Piers Plowman (B Text)

1385: Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde

1387: Chaucer begins The Canterbury Tales

1390: Gower: Confessio Amantis

1400: Sole surviving MS of Sir Gawain, Pearl, Cleanness, and Patience

1411-12: Hoccleve, The Regimen of Princes

1431-8: The Fall of Princes

1435: James Stewart, The Kingis Quair

1473-4: Caxton, History of Troy, the first book printed in English

1485: Malory, Morte Darthur

1500: Skelton, Bouge of Court

1504: Skelton, Philip Sparrow

1513: Douglas, translation of Aeneid

1516: More, Utopia; Skelton, Magnificence

1523: Skelton, Garlande of Laurell

1531: Elyot, Boke named the Governour

1549: Book of Common Prayer

1557: Tottel`s edition of Songes and Sonettes (“Tottel`s Miscellany”); Surrey`s translation of Aeneid, II and IV

1560: “Geneva” Bible

1561: Hoby`s translation of Castiglione`s The Courtyer

1563: Foxe, Actes and Monuments

1568: Bishops`Bible

1570: Ascham, The Schoolmaster

1577: Sidney, “Old” Arcadia; Holinshed, Chronicles

1578: Lyly, Euphues

1579: Spenser, Shepherardes Calendar

1581-6: Sidney, Astrophil and Stella (1581-3); Defence of Poesie (1582); “New” Arcadia

1587: Camdem, Britannia

1588-92: Shakespeare`s early plays including 1, 2, 3 Henry VI, Taming of the Shrew, Love`s Labours Lost, Richard III

1589: Puttenham, Art of English Poesie

1590: Spenser, Faerie Queene (I-III); Lodge, Rosalynde

1592: Kyd, The Spanish Tragedy; Dniel, Delia

1593: Marlowe, Hero and Leander; Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis; Dryton, Idea; Hooker, Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity (I-IV)

1594: Shakespeare, Sonnets

1594-1600: Shakespeare, plays including Midsummer Night´s Dream; 1,2 Henry IV; As You Like It; MerryWives of Windsor; Julius Caesar

1595: Daniel, Civil Wars (I-IV); Spenser, Amoretti; Epithalamion

1596: Daniel, Faerie Queene (I-VI); Davies, Orchestra

1597: Bacon, Essays

1598: Chapman-Marlowe, Hero and Leander; Stow, Survey of London; Jonson, first versión of Everyman in His Humour

1599: Daniel, Poetical Essays; Nashe, Lenten Stuffe

1601-4: Shakespeare plays including Hamlest, Twelfth Night, Measure for Measure

Jonson, Sejanus

1604-8: Shakesperare plays including Othelo, King Lear, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus

1605: Bacon, Advancement of Learning

1608-13: Shakespeare´s last plays including Tempest, Winter´s Tale, Henry VII

1611: “Authorized” versión of Bible

1613: Webster, The White Devil

1616: Ben Jonson, Works

1621: Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy; Mary Wroth, Urania

1622: Middleton, The Changeling

1623: First Folio of Shakespeare

1625: Purchas his Pilgrimes

1629: Andrewes, XCVI Sermons

1633: Donne, Poems; Herbert, The Temple; Ford, `Tis Pity She`s a Whore

1634: Milton, Comus performed

1635: Quarles, Emblems

1637: Milton, Lycidas

1644: Milton, Areopagitica

1646: Crashaw, Steps to the Temple

1647: Cowlwy, The Mistress

1648: Herrick, Hesperides

1649: Lovelace, Lucasta

1650: Marvel, “An Horation Ode”; Vaughan, Silex Scintillans

1651: Hobbes, Leviathan

1656: Harrington, Oceana

1660: Dryden, Astraea Redux; Pepys begin his diary

1664: Katherine Philips, Poems

1667: Dryden, Annus Mirabilis; Milton, Paradise Lost

1671: Milton, Paradise Regain`d

1675: Rochester, “A Satyre against Mankind”, Wycherly, The Country Wife

1677: Dryden, All for Love; Behn, The Rover

1678: Bunyan, The Pilgrim`s Progress (Part I)

1680: Pochester, Poems

1681: Marvell, Miscellaneous Poems (posthumously published); Dryden, Absolom Achitophel

1687: Newton, Principia

1690: Locke, Essay Concerning Human Understanding

1695: Congreve, Love for Love

1700: Congreve, The Way of the World

1702-3: Clarendon, History of the Rebellion

1704: Swift, The Battle of the Books and A Taleof a Tub

1706: Farquhar, The Recruiting Officer

1707: Farquhar, The Beaux Stratagem

1709: Steele (and others), The Tatler

1711: Shaftesbury, Characteristicks

1711-12: The Spectator

1712: Pope, The Rape of the Lock

1713: Anne Finch, Miscellany Poems

1717: Pope, Works

1719: Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

1722: Defoe, Moll Flanders and Journal of the Plague Year

1726: Swift, Gulliver`s Travels; Thomson, Winter

1728: Gay, Beggars Opera; Pope, Dunciad (1st versión)

1733: Pope, Essay on Man

1738: Johnson, London

1739: Charles Wesley, first collection of hymns

1740: Richardson, Pamela

1742: Fielding, Joseph Andrews

1743: Pope, The Dunciad (final versión)

1744: Sarah Fielding, David Simple

1747-9: Richardson, Clarissa

1748: Smollett, Roderick Random

1749: Fielding, Tom Jones

1750-2: Johnsn, The Rambler

1751: Smollett, Peregrine Pickle

1752: Lennox, The Femmale Quixote

1754: Richardson, Grandison

1755: Johnson, Dictionary

1757: Burke, A Philosophical Enquireinto the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

1759: Johnson, Rasselas

1759-67: Sterne, Tristam Shandy

1764: Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

1765: Percy, Reliques

1766: Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield

1768: Sterne, A Sentimental Journey

1770: Goldsmith, The Deserted Village

1773: Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer

1775: Sheridan, The Rivals

1776-88: Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

1777: Sheridan, school for Scandal; Reeve, The Old English Baron

1778: Burney, Evelina

1779-81: Johnson, The Lives of the Poets

1781: Sheridan, The Critic

1785: Cowper, The Task

1786: Beckford, Vathek; Burns, Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect

1788: Wollstonecraft, Mary

1789: Blake, Songs of Innocence

1790: Burke, Reflections of the Revolution in France; Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

1791: Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson; Paine, The Rights of Man (Part I)

1792: Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of Rights  of Woman; Holcroft, Anna St Ives

1793: Blake, America; Godwin, Political Justice; Smith, The Old Manor

1794: Blake, Songs of Experience; Godwin, Caleb Williams; Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho; Holcrof, Hugh Trevor

1796: Burney, Camilla; Bage, Hermsprong; Lewis, The Monk

1798: Wordsworth and Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads; Wollstonecraft, The Wrongs of Woman

1800: Edgeworth, Castle Rackrent

1802: Scott, Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border; foundation of the Edinburgh Review; Cobbett begins his Political Register

1804: Blake, Milton

1805: Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel; Wordsworth at work on a versión of The Prelude

1807: Wordsworth, Poems

1808: Scott, Marmion; Hunt, The Examiner

1809: Byron, English Bards and Scotch Reviwers; foundation of the Quarterly Review

1810: Crabbe, The The Borough; Scott, The Lady of the Lake

1811: Austen, Sense and Sensibility

1812: Crabbe, Tales; Byron, Childe Harold`s Pilgrimage; Edgeworth, The Absentee

1813: Austen, Pride and Prejudice; Shelley, Queen Mab

1814: Wordsworth, The Excursion; Byron, The Corsair; Austen, Mansfield Park; Scott, Waverley; Burney, The Wanderer

1815: Wordsworth, Poems; Scott, Guy Mannering

1816: Coleridge, Christabel and Kubla Khan; Shelley, Alastor; Austen, Emma; Scott, The Antiquary and Old Mortality; Peacock, Headlong Hall

1817: Coleridge, Biographia Literaria; Byron, Manfred; Keats, Poems; Hazlitt, The Characters of Shakespeare`s Plays; foundation of Blackwood`s Edinburgh Magazine

1818: Austen, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion; Keats, Endymion; Scott, Rob Roy and The Heart of Midlothian; Mary Shelley, Frankenstein; Hazlitt, Lectures on the English Poets; Ferrier, Marriage

1819: Crabbe, Tales of the Hall; Byron, Don Juan; Scott, The Bride of Lammermoor

1820: Shelley, Prometheus Unbound; Keats, Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes and Other Poems; Clare, Poems Descriptive of Rural Life; Scott, Ibvanhoe; Lamb, Essays of Elia begun; Cobbett, RuralRides began; Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer

1821: Byron, Cain; Shelley, Adonais; Clare, The Village Minstrel; De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium Eater, Galt, Annals of the Parish

1822: Wordsworth, Ecclesiastical Sketches; Byron, The Vision of Judgement; Galt, Annals of the Entail1824: Scott, Redgauntlet; Hogg, Private Confessions of a Justified Sinner; fondation of the Westminister Review

1825: Hazlitt, The Spirit of the Age; publication of Pepys`s diary

1827: Clare, The Shepherd`s Calendar; Keble, The Christian Year

1830: Tennyson, Poems, Chiefly Lyrical

1832: Tennyson, Poems (dated 1833)

1833: Carlyle, Sartor Resartus

1835: Browning, Paraclesus

1836: Dickens, Sketches by “Boz” and the first number of Pickwick Papers (1836-7)

1837: Carlyle, The French Revolution; Dickens, Oliver Twist

1838: Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby

1839: Carlyle, hartism

1840: Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge (1840-1); Browning, Sordello

1841: Carlyle, On Heroes and Hero Worship; Newman, Tract XC; foundation of Punsh

1842: Tennyson, Poems; Browning, Dramatic Lyrics

1843: Macaulay, Essays; Carlyle, Past and Present; Ruskin, Modern Painters (vol. I); Dickens, A Christmas Carol

1844: Disraeli, Coningsby; Thackeray, Barry Lyndon

1845: Disraeli, Sybil; Browning, Dramatic Romances and Lyrics

1846-8: Dickens, Dombey and Son

1847: Tennyson, The Princess; Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre; Emily Brontë, Wuthering  Heighths; Anne Brontë, Agnes grey; Thackeray, Vanity Fair (1847-8)

1848: Gaskll, Mary Barton; Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall; Thackeray, Pendennis (1848-9)

1849: Charlotte Brontë, Shirley; Ruskin, Seven Lamps of Architecture; Dickens, David Copperfield (1849-50); Macaulay, History of England

1850: Tennyson, In Memorian AHH; Carlyle, Latter-Day Pamphlets; E.B. Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese; Kingsley, Alton Locke

1851: Gaskell, Cranford, Ruskin, The Stones of Venice (1851-3)

1852: Thackeray, Henry Esmond; Arnold, Empedocles on Etna; Dickens, Bleak House (1852-3)

1853: Charlotte Brontë, Villette; Gaskell, Ruth; Arnold, Poems

1854: Dickens, Hard Times; Thackeray, The Newcomes (1854-5)

1855: Tennyson, Maud; Kingsley, Westward Ho!; Browning, Men and Women; Gaskell, North and South; Trollope, The Warden ; Dickens, Little Dorritt (1855-7)

1857: E.B. Browning, Aurora Leigh; Trollope, Barchester Towers; Gaskell, The Life of Charlotte Brontë; Eliot, Scenes of Clerical Life; Thachkeray, The Virginians

1858: Clough, Amours de Voyage; Carlyle, Frederick the Great

1859: Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities; Eliot, Adam Bede; Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel; Mill, On Liberty; Darwin, The Origin of Species; Tennyson, The Ldylls of the King (1859-72)

1860: Eliot, The Millo n the Floss; Collins, The Woman in White; ruskin, Unto this Last; Dickens, Great Expectations

1861: Eliot, Silas Marner; Trollope, Framley Parsonage

1862: C. Rossetti, Goblin Market; Meredith, Modern Love; Eliot, Romola (1862-3); Braddon, Lady Audley`s Secret

1863: Gaskell, Sylvia`s Lover

1864: Gaskell, Wives and Daughters; Newman, Apologia pro vita sua; Dickens, Our Mutual Friend (1864-5)

1865: Arnold, Essays in Criticism; Swinburne, Atlanta in Calydon; Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

1866: Eliot, Felix Holt; Swinburne, Poems and Ballads

1867: Arnold, New Poems; Trollope, The Last Chronicle of Barset

1868: Collins, The Moonstone; Browning, The Ring and the Book (1868-99; Morris, The Earthly Paradise (1868-70)

1869: Trollope, Phineas Finn; Mill, The Subjection of Women

1870: Dickens, Edwin Drood; D.G. Rossetti, Poems

1871: Lear, The Owl and the Pussy Cat

1871-2: Eliot, Through the Lookingglass; Butler, Erewhon; Hardy, Under the Greenwood Tree

1873: Arnold, Literature and Dogma; Mill, Autobiography; Pater, Studies in the History of the Renaissance; Trollope, The Way We Live Now (1873-4)

1874: harfdy, Far From the Madding Croud

1776. Eliot, Daniel Deronda

1878: Hardy, The Return of the Native

1879: Meredith, The Egoist

1880: Hardy, The Trumpet Major

1881: White, Mark Rutherford´s Autobiography

1882: Hardy, Two on a Tower

1885: Pater, Marius the Epicurean; Meredith, Diana of the Crossways

1886: Moore, A Drama in Muslim; Stevenson, Kidnapped and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde; Gissing, Demos

1887: White, Revolution in Tanner`s Lane; Doyle, first Holmes story published in the Strand Magazine

1888: Kipling, Plain Tales from the Hills; Ward, Robert Elsmere

1889: Yeats, The Wonderings of Oisin; Stevenson, The Master of Ballantrae

1890: Kipling, Barrack Room Ballads

1891: Hardy, Tess of the DÙrbervilles; Gissing, The New Grub Street

1892: Shaw, Widowers`Houses; Yeats, The Countess Cathleen

1893: Pinero, The Second Mrs Tanqueray; Shaw, Mrs Warren`s Profession

1894: Ward, Marcella; Moore, Esther Waters

1895: Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest and An Ideal Husband; Wells, The Time Machine

1896: Hardy, Jude the Obscure; Houseman, A Shropshire Lad; Shaw, You Never Can Tell

1897: Stoker, Dracula

1898: Hardy, Wessex Poems

1900: Conrad, Lord Jim

1901: Kipling, Kim

1902: Bennett, Anna of the Five Towns

1903: Butler, The Way of All Flesh; Gissing, Henry Ryecroft

1904: Conrad, Nostromo; Hardy, The Dynasts (1904-8)

1905: Shaw, Major Barbara and Man and Superman; Wells, Kipps

1907: Synge, The Playboy of the Western World; Conrad, The Secret Agernt

1908: Bennett, The Old Viwes` Tale; Forster, A Room with a View; Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday

1909: Wells, Tono Bungay

1910: Bennett, Clayhanger; Forster, Howards End

1911: Conrad, Under Western Eyes; Wells, The New Machiavelli

1913: Lawrance, Sons and Lovers

1914: Lewis, Blast; Joyce, Dubliners; Yeats, Responsabilities; Hardy, Satires of Circumstances

1915: Ford, The Good Soldier; Woolf, The Voyage out; Lawrence, The Rainbow; Brooke, 1914 and Other Poems; Rishardson, Pointed Roofs

1916: Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

1917: Eliot, Prufrock and Other Observations

1918: Lewis, Tarr; Hopkins, Poems; Strachey, Eminent Victorians

1919: Sinclair, Mary Olivier

1920: Owen, Poems; Lawrence, Women in Love; Shaw, Heartbreak House; Fry, Vision and Design

1921: Huxley, Crome Yellow

1922: Eliot, The Waste Land; Joycem, Ulysses; Lawrence, Fantasia of the Unconcious

1923: Huxley, Antic Hay; Shaw, St Joan; Bennett, Riceyman Steps

1924: Fordter, A Passage to India; O`Casey, Juno and the Paycock; Coward, The Vortex

1925: Woolf, Mrs Dolloway; Gerhardie, The Polyglots

1926: MacDirmid, A Drunk Man looks at the Thistle

1927: Woolf, To the Lighthouse

1928: Yeats, The Tower; Lawrence, Lady Chatterley`s Lover; Waugh, Decline and Fall; Sherriff, Journey`s End

1929: Aldington, Death of a Hero; Green, Living

1930: Auden, Poems, Eliot, Ash Wednesday; Waugh, Vile Bodies; Coward, Private Lives

1931: Woolf, The Waves

1932: Huxley, Brave New World; Gibbon, Sunset Song (first part of a Scots Quair)