The True-born Englishman Restoration, 1660. 1660
(1701); Robinson Crusoe
(1719); Journal of the
Plague (1722); and more
than a hundred books in
all.

First standing
army, 1661.

Essay on Criticism (1711); James II. as- 1680

Rape of the Lock (1714);
Translation of Homer's
Iliad and Odyssey, finished
in 1726; Dunciad (1729);
Essay on Man (1739).
few prose Essays, and a
volume of Letters.

A

cends the
throne in 1685.

Revolution of
1688.

William III. and

Mary II. ascend
the throne, 1689.

Battle of the 1690
Boyne, 1690.

WRITERS.

WORKS.

CONTEMPORARY
EVENTS.

DECADES.

JAMES THOMSON. The Seasons; a poem in blank

1700-1748.

Poet.

verse (1730): The Castle of
Indolence; a mock - heroic
poem in the Spenserian stan-
za (1748).

HENRY FIELDING. Joseph Andrews (1742);

1707-1754.

Police magistrate; journalist; novelist.

DR SAMUEL
JOHNSON.

1709-1784.

Schoolmaster; literary man; essayist; poet; dictionarymaker.

DAVID HUME. 1711-1776.

Librarian; Secretary to the French Embassy; philosopher; literary man.

THOMAS GRAY.

1716-1771.

Student; poet; letter-writer: Professor of Modern History in the University of Cambridge.

TOBIAS GEORGE

SMOLLETT. 1721-1771. Doctor; pamphleteer; literary hack; novelist.

Censorship of the
Press abolished,
1695.

Queen Anne 1700
ascends the
throne in 1702.

Battle of Blen-
heim, 1704.

Amelia (1751). He was
"the first great English Gibraltar taken,
novelist."

London (1738); The Vanity
of Human Wishes (1749);
Dictionary of the English
Language (1755); Rasse-
las (1759); Lives of the
Poets (1781). He also
wrote The Idler, The Ram-
bler, and a play called Irené.

History of England (1754-
1762); and a number of
His
philosophical Essays.
prose is singularly clear,
easy, and pleasant.

Odes; Elegy Written in a

1704.

Country Churchyard (1750) Rebellion in Scot
-one of the most perfect
poems in our language. He
was a great stylist, and an
extremely careful workman.

Roderick Random (1748);
Humphrey Clinker (1771).
He also continued Hume's
History of England. He
published also some Plays
and Poems.

South-Sea Bubble 1720 bursts, 1720

OLIVER GOLDSMITH. 1728-1774. Literary man; playwriter; poet.

The Traveller (1764); The
Vicar of Wakefield (1766);
The Deserted Village (1770);
She Stoops to Conquer-a
Play (1773); and a large
number of books, pam-
phlets, and compilations.

George II. as-
cends the
throne, 1727.

ROBERT BURNS. 1759-1796.

Farm labourer; ploughman; farmer; excise-officer; lyrical poet.

1750-60.

Poems and Songs (1786-96. Clive in India, 1750
His prose consists chiefly of
Letters. "His pictures of
social life, of quaint humour,
come up to nature and
they cannot go beyond it."

at

Earthquake
Lisbon, 1755.
Black Hole of
Calcutta, 1756.

WRITERS.

WORKS.

CONTEMPORARY
EVENTS.

DECADES.

Lyrical Ballads (with Cole- George III. as- 1760

ridge, 1798); The Excursion
(1814); Yarrow Revisited

(1835), and

many other
poems.
The Prelude was
published after his death.
His prose, which is very
good, consists chiefly of
Prefaces and Introductions.

cends the
throne in 1760.

Napoleon and
Wellington
born, 1769.