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III. The Restoration & the 18th Century (1650-1798)
(also known as Neo-classicism)
Representative works including:
- Robinson Crusoe —Daniel Defoe (1659-1731)
- Gulliver’s Travels and "A Modest Proposal"
--Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
- "The Rape of the Lock" and from An Essay on Man
--Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
- works by Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
- from The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
—James Boswell (1740-1795)
- "Rule, Britannia!"—James Thompson (1700-1748)
- "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" --Thomas Gray (1716-1771)
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