Chambers's Cyclopedia of English Literature (1879)

Volume 3 of a 3 volume set. A history, critical and biographical, of British and American authors, with specimens of their writings. A chronological series of extracts from our national authors. Partial Contents: Various Theologians, Metaphysical and Scientific Writers: John Locke; Sir Isaac Newton, Critical and Miscellaneous Writers: James Howell, James Howell, Sir Thomas Herbret, John Earle, Lady Fanshawe, Poets: Joseph Addison, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, Scottish Poets: Francis Sempill, Allan Ramsay, Various Dramatists: William Congreve, Sir John Vanbrugh, Prose Literature: R. Steele, Eustace Budgell, Various Theologians and Metaphysicians: Richard Bentley, John Norris, Miscellaneous Writers: Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, Poets: Matthew Green, John Dyer, James Thomson. Volume 1 ISBN 0766183874, Volume 2 ISBN 0766184056.