=1667.= =Swift born.= =1672.= =Steele born.= =1672.= =Addison born.= 1674. Milton died. =1688.= =Gay born.= =1688.= =Pope born.= 1688. Bunyan died. 1690. Locke's _Essay Concerning Human Understanding_. 1694. Voltaire born. 1699. Racine died. =1700.= =Thomson born.= =1700.= =Dryden died.= 1700. Fénelon's _Télémaque_. 1703. John Wesley born. 1704. Locke died. =1704.= =Addison's= _Campaign_. =1704.= =Swift's= _Tale of a Tub_ and _Battle of the Books_. 1707. Fielding born. 1709. Johnson born. =1709.= =Pope's= _Pastorals_. =1709-1711.= _The Tatler._ =1710.= =Berkeley's= _Principles of Human Knowledge_. =1711.= =Pope's= _Essay on Criticism_. 1711-1712,} _The Spectator._ and 1714. } 1711. Hume born. =1712.= =Pope's= _Rape of the Lock_. 1712. Rousseau born. =1713.= =Addison's= _Cato_. 1713. Sterne born. =1714.= =Mandeville's= _Fable of the Bees_. =1715.= =Gay's= _Trivia_. =1715-1720.= =Pope's= _Translation of Homer's Iliad_. 1715. Wycherley died. =1718.= =Prior's= _Poems on Several Occasions_ =(folio)=. =1719-1720.= =Defoe's= _Robinson Crusoe_ =(first part)=. =1719.= =Addison died.= =1721.= =Prior died.= 1721. Smollett born. =1723-1725.= =Pope's= _Translation of Homer's Odyssey_. =1724.= =Swift's= _Drapier's Letters_. 1724. Kant born. 1724. Klopstock born. =1725-1730.= =Thomson's= _Seasons_. =1725.= =Ramsay's= _Gentle Shepherd_. =1725.= =Young's= _Universal Passion_. =1726.= =Swift's= _Gulliver's Travels_. =1727.= =Gay's= _Fables_. =1728.= =Pope's= _Dunciad_. =1728.= =Gay's= _Beggar's Opera_. 1728. Goldsmith born. =1729.= =Law's= _Serious Call_. 1729. Burke born. 1729. Lessing born. =1729.= =Steele died.= =1731.= =Defoe died.= 1731. Cowper born. =1732-1735.= =Pope's= _Moral Essays_. =1732-1734.= =Pope's= _Essay on Man_. =1732.= =Gay died.= =1733-1737.= =Pope's= _Imitations of Horace_. =1735.= =Pope's= _Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot_. =1736.= =Butler's= _Analogy of Religion_. 1737. Gibbon born. =1738.= =Hume's= _Treatise of Human Nature_. =1740.= =Cibber's= _Apology for his Life_. 1740. Richardson's _Pamela_. 1742. Fielding's _Joseph Andrews_. =1742.= =Pope's= _Dunciad_ =(fourth book added)=. =1742.= =Young's= _Night Thoughts_. =1743.= =Blair's= _Grave_. =1744.= =Akenside's= _Pleasures of Imagination_. =1744.= =Pope died.= =1745.= =Swift died.= =1748.= =Thomson died.= 1748. Hume's _Inquiry concerning Human Understanding_. 1748. Richardson's _Clarissa Harlowe_. 1748. Smollett's _Roderick Random_. 1749. Goethe born. 1749. Fielding's _Tom Jones_. ALPHABETICAL LIST OF WRITERS