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)


Sites That You May Find Useful

The Milton Quarterly
The Daniel Defoe Page
The San Antonio College LitWeb Daniel Defoe Page
Gulliver's Travels - Sources: main page
Gulliver's Travels - Sources - Other Swift Texts
Eighteenth-Century E-Texts
Electronic Text Center -- University of Virginia
Restoration and Eighteenth Century Studies
Links
Journal Citations In MLA
Eighteenth-Century Chronology
Eighteenth-Century Resources

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