The state of the novel

Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert

1856

The Merchant of Venice

William Shakespeare

1600

Heretics

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

1905

Poetics

Aristotle

1536

Biographia literaria

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1817

The rambler

Samuel Johnson

1750

Essays

Matthew Arnold

1865

Essay on criticism

Alexander Pope

1711