ABSTRACT
The second volume of CBEL is devoted to this period and should always be the student’s first port of call. It lists all the separate publications of the principal writers (over a thousand), all the poetry miscellanies, newspapers, and magazines, and a great deal else, including innumerable books and articles about the period to c. 1935. The Supplement brings such secondary titles down to 1955. For work on the period since 1925 a somewhat fuller bibliography has appeared annually in PQ (1925–60 lists reissued with indexes by L. Landa et al., 4 vols., 1950–62), which includes expert comments by American specialists, those of R. S. C[rane] being especially instructive. Donald Wing’s meticulous Short-Title Catalogue, 1641–1700 (3 vols., 1945–51) lists every English publication within his terminal dates except periodicals. The eighteenth century has nothing comparable to Wing, though detailed bibliographies exist for some twenty of the principal authors.
