English Literature of the Eighteenth Century

Addison admired Arbuthnot Augustan Age Augustan literature Augustan poetry ballads Beggar's Opera Blake Boswell Burke burlesque Burns called Castle of Otranto character Christianity Church classical Cobbett coffee-house comedy comic Congreve contemporary Cowper criticism Crusoe death Defoe Defoe's Dickens drama Dryden Dunciad E. L. XVIII early edition eighteenth century Elegy England English Epistle essays famous fiction Fielding Fielding's French Revolution genius Gibbon Goldsmith Gray Gulliver Gulliver's Travels Houyhnhnms influence instance interest Johnson Joseph Andrews Journal later letters literary literature living London modern Moll Flanders moral natural novel novelist observed original Pamela pamphlet passage period philosophy poem poet poetic poetry political Pope Pope's popular published reader religion Revolution Richardson satire Scriblerus Club sentimentality Shakespeare Songs Spectator Steele style success Swift Tatler Thomas Warton thought tion Tom Jones Tory tradition verse virtue Walpole Whig Wordsworth writing written wrote