+----+----------------------------------------------+-------------------------+----------------------------------------+ | | POETRY | DRAMA | PROSE | | +----------+---------------------+-------------+------------+------------+--------------+-----------+-------------+ |DATE| | | Satirical | | | | | | | | Lyrical |Narrative-Descriptive| and | Comedy | Tragedy | Novel | Essay |Miscellaneous| | | | | Didactic | | | | | | +----+----------+---------------------+-------------+------------+------------+--------------+-----------+-------------+ | | | |Johnson[173] | | |Richardson[174]| |Hume | | | | Shenstone | | | |Fielding[175] | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |Collins | | | | | | | | | | | Thomson[176] | | | |Smollett | | | |1750| | |Johnson[177] | |Johnson[178]| | | | +----+----------+---------------------+-------------+------------+------------+--------------+-----------+-------------+ | | | | | | | |Johnson[179]| | | | | Gray[180] | | |Hume | | | | | | | | | | | | | Burke | | | | | | | |Johnson[181] | | | |1760| | | | | |Sterne |Goldsmith | Robertson | +----+----------+---------------------+-------------+------------+------------+--------------+-----------+-------------+ | | | | | | | | | | | | | |Churchill[182]| | |Walpole | | | | | |Goldsmith[183] | | | | | | |