The Norton Anthology of English literature 5th ed

Volume 1 includes poems, stories, essays, and plays from the Middle Ages to 1800 by Bede, Chaucer, Margery Kempe, Sir Thomas Malory, Sir Thomas More, John Skelton, Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, Sir Walter Ralegh, Christopher Marlowe, Shakespeare, Thomas Nashe, Arthur Golding, Mary (Sidney) Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, Queen Elizabeth I, George Gascoigne, Robert Southwell, Thomas Campion, Samuel Daniel, Michael Drayton, Sir John Davies, Fulke Greville, Lady Mary Wroth, Sir Thomas Hoby, Roger Ascham, John Foxe, John Lyly, Richard Hooker, Ralph Lane, Aemilia Lanyer, John Donne, Ben Jonson, John Webster, Robert Herrick, George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, Henry Vaughan, Andrew Marvell, John Milton, Henry King, Thomas Carew, Sir John Suckling, Richard Lovelace, Edmund Waller, Sir John Denham, Abraham Cowley, Thomas Traherne, Francis Bacon, Robert Burton, Thomas Hobbes, Izaak Walton, Sir Thomas Browne, Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, John Lilburne, Lady Anne Halkett, Dorothy Osborne, John Locke, Sir Isaac Newton, John Dryden, Samuel Pepys, John Bunyan, William Congreve, Mary Astell, Daniel Defoe, Samuel Butler, John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, Matthew Prior, John Gay, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Jonathan Swift, Joseph Addison and Sir Richard Steele, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, James Thomson, Thomas Gray, William Collins, Christopher Smart, Oliver Goldsmith, George Crabbe, and William Cowper.