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1. Samuel Richardson

   Author of Pamela: or, Virtue Rewarded, Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady

2. Edmund Spenser

   Author of The Faerie Queene, Edmund Spenser's Poetry (Norton Critical Edition)

3. Maria Edgeworth

   Author of Castle Rackrent, Belinda

4. Daniel Defoe

   Author of Robinson Crusoe (Norton Critical Edition), Moll Flanders (Norton Critical Edition)

5. John Brewer

   Author of The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century

6. Percy Bysshe Shelley

   Author of Shelley's Poetry and Prose (Norton Critical Edition), Zastrozzi and St. Irvyne (The World's Classics)

7. William Blake

   Author of Blake's Poetry and Designs (Norton Critical Edition)

8. Ian Watt

   Author of The rise of the novel : studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding

9. Elizabeth Inchbald

   Author of A Simple Story

10. Jonathan Swift

    Author of The Writings of Jonathan Swift (Norton Critical Edition)

11. Hugh Maclean

    Author of Ben Jonson and the Cavalier Poets (Norton Critical Edition)

12. John Webster

    Author of The Duchess of Malfi

13. William Shakespeare

    Author of The Tragedy of King Richard the Second, Hamlet (Norton Critical Edition)

14. Eliza Fowler Haywood

    Author of Love in Excess

15. Charles Dickens

    Author of Dombey and Son, Hard Times (Norton Critical Edition)

16. John Gay

    Author of The Beggar's Opera

17. Charlotte Lennox

    Author of The Female Quixote

18. Oliver Goldsmith

    Author of She Stoops to Conquer

19. William Wycherley

    Author of The Country Wife

20. M. H. Abrams

    Author of The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition