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

cends the
throne in 1685.

Revolution of
1688.

William III. and

Mary II. ascend
the throne, 1689.

Battle of the 1690
Boyne, 1690.

TOBIAS GEORGE SMOLLETT. 1721-1771.

Doctor; pamphleteer; literary hack; novelist.

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

Censorship of the
Press abolished,

1695.

Queen Anne 1700
ascends the
throne in 1702.

Battle of Blen-
heim, 1704.

Joseph Andrews (1742);
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.

Union of Eng-
land and Scot-

land, 1707.

George I. ascends 1710
the throne in
1714.

land in 1715.

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.

bursts, 1720

Roderick Random (1748); South-Sea Bubble 1720
Humphrey Clinker (1771).
He also continued Hume's
History of England.
published also some Plays
and Poems.

He

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."

Earthquake
Lisbon, 1755.

at

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.

THOMAS MOORE. Odes and Epistles (1806);

1779-1852.

Poet; prose-writer.

Lalla Rookh (1817); His-
tory of Ireland (1827); Life
of Byron (1830); Irish
Melodies (1834); and many
prose works.