Timeline

Every author in the library, from birth to death, with a mark for each of their works where it was first published.

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History of the Peloponnesian War, c. 400 BC‹Thucydides c. 460–c. 400 BC

The Defence of Poesy, 1595‹Sidney 1554–1586

The Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall, 1625Novum Organum, 1620Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning, Divine and Humane, 1605‹Bacon 1561–1626

Leviathan, or the Matter, Forme, and Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill, 1651‹Hobbes 1588–1679

The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards, 1672‹Dryden 1631–1700

Essays, Moral and Political, 1741–42Four Dissertations, 1757The History of England, 1754–62A Treatise of Human Nature, 1739–40‹Hume 1711–1776

The Poetical Works Of William Jones, 1810The Works of Sir William Jones, 1799‹Jones 1746–1794

The History of the Assassins, 1818‹Hammer-Purgstall 1774–1856

The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson, 1813‹Southey 1774–1843

Characters of Shakespeare's Plays, 1817Lectures on the English Poets, 1818‹Hazlitt 1778–1830

The Four Ages of Poetry, 1820‹Peacock 1785–1866

The Federalist, 1788‹Publius 1787–1788

A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays, 1840‹Shelley 1792–1822

The French Revolution: A History, 1837On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History, 1841Sartor Resartus, 1833–34‹Carlyle 1795–1881

The Idea of a University, 1873‹Newman 1801–1890

The Conduct of Life, 1860English Traits, 1856Essays: First Series, 1841Essays: Second Series, 1844Letters and Social Aims, 1876Nature; Addresses, and Lectures, 1849Representative Men: Seven Lectures, 1850Society and Solitude, 1870‹Emerson 1803–1882

On Liberty, 1859‹Mill 1806–1873

On the Origin of Species, 1859‹Darwin 1809–1882

Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers, 1866‹Thoreau 1817–1862

Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street, 1853‹Melville 1819–1891

Specimen Days, 1882‹Whitman 1819–1892

The Philosophy of Style, 1852‹Spencer 1820–1903

Culture and Anarchy: An Essay in Political and Social Criticism, 1869‹Arnold 1822–1888

The Flaw in Supremacy, 1893Napoleon I: A Historical Lecture, 1863Pluriverse: An Essay in the Philosophy of Pluralism, 1920‹Blood 1832–1919

The Fixation of Belief, 1877‹Peirce 1839–1914

The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature, 1902The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, 1897‹James 1842–1910

A Year Amongst the Persians, 1893‹Browne 1862–1926

The Celtic Twilight, 1893‹Yeats 1865–1939

The Elements of Style, 1918‹Strunk 1869–1946