Restoration and Eighteenth Century English Literature Index
By Roger Blackwell Bailey, Ph.D.
Maintained by pmcquien@accd.edu
The Assembly Room at Bath By Thomas Rowlandson
The Restoration, 1660-1702
Samuel Butler ( 1612-1680 ).
John Evelyn ( 1620-1706 ).
John Bunyan ( 1628-1688 ).
John Dryden ( 1631-1700 ).
John Locke ( 1632-1704 ).
Samuel Pepys ( 1633-1703 ).
Aphra Behn ( 1640-1689 ).
Sir Isaac Newton ( 1642-1727 ).
John Pomfret ( 1667 - 1702 ). "The Choice" ( 1700 ). Local HTML Text On Line. A composition that enjoyed phenomenal popularity during the Eighteenth Century.
William Congreve ( 1670-1729 ).
Isaac Watts ( 1674 - 1748 ).
The Eighteenth Century From the Accession of Queen Anne until the Death of Johnson, 1702-1784
Daniel Defoe ( 1659-1731 ).
Jonathan Swift ( 1667-1745 ).
Bernard Mandeville ( 1670 - 1733 ).
Joseph Addison ( 1672-1719 ).
Sir Richard Steele ( 1672-1729 ).
John Gay ( 1685-1732 ).
Alexander Pope ( 1688-1744 ). The premier poet of his age.
Samuel Richardson ( 1689-1761 ).
Philip Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield ( 1694-1773 ).
James Thomson ( 1700-1748 ).
John Wesley ( 1703 - 1791 ).
Henry Fielding ( 1707-1754 ).
Samuel Johnson ( 1709-1784 ). The ultimate man of letters of the 18th Century, The Great Cham of Literature.
David Hume ( 1711 - 1777 ).
Laurence Sterne ( 1713-1768 ).
Thomas Gray ( 1716-1771 ).
Horace Walpole ( 1717-1797 ).
William Collins ( 1721-1759 ).
Tobias Smollett ( 1721-1771 ).
Christopher Smart ( 1722 - 1771 ).
Edmund Burke ( 1729-1797 ).
Oliver Goldsmith ( 1730-1774 ).
William Cowper ( 1731-1800 ).
Edward Gibbon ( 1737-1794 ).
Richard Brinsley Sheridan ( 1751-1816 ).
Fanny Burney ( 1752-1840 ).
William Godwin ( 1756-1836 ).
Ann Radcliffe ( 1764-1823 ).
About Restoration and Eighteen Century Literature
A Dictionary of Sensibility. From Virginia.
Eighteenth Century Chronology. From Jack Lynch at Rutgers. Crosses disciplines.
Eighteenth Century Resources More from Jack Lynch.
Restoration and 18th Century from Voice of the Shuttle.
Last Updated 6/21/02
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