| 1709 | Richard Steele, The Tatler |
| 1711 |
Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism Joseph Addison and Steele, The Spectator |
| 1714 | Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock |
| 1719 | Daniel DeFoe, Robinson Crusoe |
| 1725 | Pope's edition of Shakespeare |
| 1726 | Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels |
| 1729 | Jonathan Swift, "A Modest Proposal" |
| 1733 | Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man |
| 1740 | Samuel Richardson, Pamela |
| 1747 | Samuel Richardson, Clarissa |
| 1749 | Henry Fielding, Tom Jones |
| 1750 | Samuel Johnson, The Rambler |
| 1755 | Samuel Johnson's Dictionary |
| 1757 | Edmund Burke, On the Sublime and Beautiful |
| 1758 | Samuel Johnson, The Idler |
| 1759 |
Samuel Johnson, History of Rasselas Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy |
| 1765 | Samuel Johnson's edition of Shakespeare. |
| 1773 | Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer |
| 1775 |
Richard Sheridan, The Rivals [Johann von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther] |
| 1776 | Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire |
| 1781 | Samuel Johnson, Lives of the Poets |
| 1787 | Robert Burns, Poems |
| 1789 | William Blake, Songs of Innocence |
| 1790 | Edmund Burke, Reflection on the Revolution in France |
| 1791 | James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D |
| 1792 | Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women |
| 1793 | William Wordsworth, Descriptive Sketches |
| 1794 |
Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho |
| 1796 | Matthew G. Lewis, The Monk |
| 1798 | William Wordsworth and S. T. Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads |
| 1801 | Walter Scott, Ballads |
| 1802 | William Wordsworth, "Preface to Lyrical Ballads." |
| 1803 | Thomas Chatterton, Works (posthumous) |
| 1804 | Williamn Blake, Jerusalem |
| 1805 | Walter Scott, Lay of the Last Minstrel |
| 1808 | [Goethe, Faust (Part 1)] |
| 1809 | London exhibition of paintings by William Blake |
| 1810 | Walter Scott, Lady of the Lake |
| 1812 |
George Gordon, Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (I & 11). [Grimms Fairy Tales ] |
| 1813 |
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice Percy Byshhe Shelley, Queen Mab |
| 1814 | Walter Scott, Waverley |
| 1816 |
Percy Byshhe Shelley, "Alastor" Jane Austen, Emma |
| 1817 |
John Keats, Poems. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazinefounded |
| 1818 |
John Keats, Endymion Mary Shelley, Frankenstein Walter Scott, Rob Roy |
| 1819 | Walter Scott, Ivanhoe |
| 1820 |
John Keats, "Lamia," "Isabella," "The Eve of St. Agnes,"
and other poems Percy Byshhe Shelley, Prometheus Unbound |
| 1821 |
John Keats dies Percy Byshhe Shelley, "Adonais" and Defence of Poetry Thomas DeQuincey, Confessions of an Opium Eater |
| 1822 |
Shelley drowns near Lerici, Italy Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia |
| 1823 | Goerge Gordon Lord Byron, Don Juan |
| 1824 |
Byron dies near Missilonghi, Greece. Thomas Carlyle transl. of Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship |
| 1826 | [James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans] |
| 1829 | Thomas Carlyle, "Signs of the Times" |
| 1830 | Alfred Tennyson, Poems Chiefly Lyrical |
| 1831 | Alfred Tennyson, Poems |
| 1833 | Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus |
| 1836 |
Charles Dickens, Pickwick Papers [Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Nature"] |
| 1837 |
Thomas Carlyle, French Revolution [Nathaniel Hawthorne, Twice Told Tales] |
| 1838 | Lady Guest, Mabinogion |
| 1839 | Shelley, Poetical Works (posthumous). |
| 1841 |
Punch begins publication Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes and Hero-Worship |
| 1842 |
Robert Browning, Dramatic Lyrics Alfred Tennyson, Poems Mudie establishes the Circulating Library Thomas B. Macauley, Lays of Ancient Rome |
| 1843 |
Wordsworth appointed Poet Laureate. John Ruskin, Modern Painters (1). |
| 1845 | [E. A. Poe, Tales of Mystery and Imagination]< |
| 1846 |
George Eliot, translation of Strauss's Life of Jesus Ruskin, Modern Painters (II) |
| 1847 |
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair |
| 1848 | Dante Gabriel Rosetti, William Holman Hunt, and John Everett Millais form the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood |
| 1849 | [Henry David Thoreau, "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience"] |
| 1850 |
Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam William Wordsworth dies and The Prelude published. Tennyson appointed Poet Laureate [Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter] Arthur Hugh Clough, Dipsychus |
| 1851 |
John Ruskin, Stones of Venice (through 1853). [Herman Melville, Moby Dick] |
| 1852 |
Matthew Arnold, Empedocles on Etna John Henry Newman, The Idea of a University |
| 1854 |
Charles Dickens, Hard Times [Henry David Thoreau, Walden] Coventry Patmore, The Angel in the House, Part 1. |
| 1855 |
Robert Browning, Men and Women Alfred Tennyson, Maud and Other Poems Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, North and South [Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass] [Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hiawatha] Harriet Martineau, Autobiography |
| 1856 | William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones, The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine |
| 1857 |
Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's Schooldays Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers [Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary] [Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs de Mal] |
| 1858 |
John Ruskin, "Traffic" Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne William Morris, The Defence of Guenevere |
| 1859 |
Tennyson, Idylls of the King George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel Edward Fitzgerald, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam John Stuart Mill On Liberty Samuel Smiles, Self-Help Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species |
| 1860 |
John Ruskin, Unto This Last George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss |
| 1861 |
[H.C. Andersen, Fairy Tales] Charles Dickens, Great Expectations |
| 1862 |
Christina Rossetti, Goblin Market and Other Poems.Text -- Overview George Meredith. Modern Love [Victor Hugo, Les Miserables] |
| 1864 |
Matthew Arnold, "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time." John Henry Newman, Apologia pro vita sua |
| 1865 |
Lewis CarrolI, Alice in Wonderland [Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace] |
| 1866 |
Algernon Charles Swinburne, Poems and Ballads, First Series. [Fyodor Dostoyevski, Crime and Punishment] |
| 1868 | Robert Browning, The Ring and the Book |
| 1869 |
Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Holy Grail and Other Poems John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women Matthew Arnold, Culture and Anarchy |
| 1870 | Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Poems |
| 1873 |
Walter Pater, The Renaissance
John Stuart Mill Autobiography (posthumous) |
| 1874 | Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd |
| 1875 | Anthony Trollope, The Way We Live Now |
| 1878 | Thomas Hardy, Return of the Native |
| 1879 |
[Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House] George Meredith, The Egoist |
| 1881 |
D. G. Rossetti, Ballads and Sonnets [Ibsen, Ghosts] [Henry James, Portrait of a Lady] |
| 1883 | Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island |
| 1884 | [Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn] |
| 1888 | Rudyard Kipling, Plain Tales from the Hills |
| 1890 |
Rudyard Kipling, Barrack-Room Ballads [Henrik Ibsen, Hedda Gabler] |
| 1891 |
Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes W. B. Yeats, Ernest Dowson, and Lionel Johnson form The Rhymers' Club. |
| 1894 |
The Yellow Book (includes Max Beerbohm and Aubrey Beardsley). Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Books |
| 1895 |
Oscard Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest W. B. Yeats, Poems |
| 1896 | [Anton Chekhov, The Seagull] |
| 1898 |
Thomas Hardy, Wessex Poems George Bernard Shaw, Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant |
| 1899 | [Anton Chekhov, Uncle Vanya] |
| 1900 |
Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim [Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie] |
| 1901 | Rudyard Kipling, Kim |
| 1902 | Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness |
| 1903 | [Henry James, The Ambassadors] |
| 1904 |
William Butler Yeats and Lady Gregory open the Abbey Theatre
in Dublin. [Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard] |
| 1905 | George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara |
| 1907 | J. M. Synge, The Playboy of the Western World |
| 1908 | William Butler Yeats, Collected Works |
| 1912 | D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers |
| 1914 |
William Butler Yeats, Responsibilities James Joyce, Dubliners |
| 1915 | D. H. Lawrence, The Rainbow |
| 1916 | James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man |
| 1917 | T.S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" |
| 1918 | Gerard Manley Hopkins, Poems (posthumous) |
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