600 : The Gododdin, Aneirin 800 : The History of the Britons, Nennius 1469 : The Death of Arthur, Sir Thomas Malory 901 : Beowulf, Anonymous 1400 : The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer 1590 : The faerie Queene, Edmund Spencer 1587 : Tamburlaine the Greate, Christopher Marlowe 1722 : A Journal of the Plague Year, Daniel Defoe 1719 : Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe 1722 : Moll Flanders, Daniel Defoe 1572 : John Donne 1608 : John Milton 1678 : Pilgrim's Progress, Andrew Marvell 1561 : Francis Bacon 1690 : An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, John Locke 1726 : Gulliver's travels, Johnatan Swift 1714 : Rape of the Lock, Alexander Pope 1740 : Pamela, Samuel Richardson 1760 : Tristram Shandy, Laurence Sterne 1776 : Vathek, William Beckford 1794 : The Mysteries of Udolpho, Ann Radcliffe 1796 : The Monk, Matthew Lewis 1789 : Songs of Innocence, William Blake