DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION 
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English literature 
Canadian literature may be clast’las British, if preferd, but separated by prefixing Cto 
820, See note to 810 
820.1 Philosofy .2 Compends .3 Dictionaries .4 Essays on English literature 
.5 Periodicals .6 Societies  .7 Study and teaching  .8 Collections  .g9 History 
English poetry 
,02 Dramatic .03 Romantic and epic .04 Lyric, ballads .05 Didactic 
,06 Descriptiv = .07 Satiric and humorous .08 Collections .09 History of 
English poetry 
Early English 1066-1400 
Layamon 
Ormin 
Robert of Gloucester 
Minot, Lawrence 
Langland, William 
Barbour, John 
Chaucer, Geoffrey 
Gower, John 
Minor writers 
Dre-Elizabethan 1400-1558 
Lydgate, John 
Skelton, John 
Dunbar, William 
Douglas, Gavin 
Hawes, Stephen 
Lyndsay, Sir David 
Wyatt, Sir Thomas 
Surrey, Henry Howard, earl of 
Minor writers 
Elizabethan 1558-1625 
Spenser, Edmund 
Sidney, Sir Philip 
Daniel, Samuel 
Drayton, Michael 
Davies, John 
Drummond, William 
Fletcher, Giles and Phineas 
Herbert, George 
Minor writers 
Post-Elizabethan 1625-1702 
Suckling, Sir John 
Crashaw, Richard 
Herrick, Robert 
Waller, Edmund 
Lovelace, Richard 
Cowley, Abraham 
Milton, John 
Dryden, John 
Minor writers 
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