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1623
 
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John Heminge and Henry Condell publish thirty-six Shakespeare plays in the First Folio        
1633
 
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George Herbert's only volume of poems, The Temple, is published posthumously      
1637
 
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John Milton's Lycidas is published in memory of a Cambridge friend, Edward King       
1650
 
    
The poems of Massachusetts author Anne Bradstreet are published in London under the title The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America       
1653
 
    
Devoted fisherman Izaak Walton publishes the classic work on the subject, The Compleat Angler       
1660
 
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On the first day of the new year Samuel Pepys gets up late, eats the remains of the turkey and begins his diary      
First page of Pepys's diary
Magdalene College, Cambridge
1667
 
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Paradise Lost is published, earning its author John Milton just £10       
1669
 
   
Samuel Pepys ends his diary, after only writing it for nine years      
1678
 
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Part I of The Pilgrim's Progress, written during John Bunyan's two spells in Bedford Gaol, is published and is immediately popular       
John Bunyan, by Sadler, 1678
National Portrait Gallery, London

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1680
 
    
John Bunyan publishes The Life and Death of Mr Badman, an allegory of a misspent life that is akin to a novel