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PRINCIPAL AUTHORS OF THE HANOVERIAN PERIOD, 
JosEerH AvDIsoN, 1672-1719 essayist and poet -—— chief peoem, 
Nato, a tragedy—chief prose writings, essay8 in The Spectator. 
RICHARD STEELE, 1675-1729—essayist and dramatist—started £tho 
well-known periodicals The Tatler and Spectator, 
DAnıeL DEror, 1661-1731—journalist and novelist-—chief works, 
Robinson Crusoe and Great Plague of London. 
ALEXANDER Popr, 1688-1744--—poet-— chief works, translation of 
Homer, Essay on Criticism, The Dunciad, The Rape of the Lock, and 
Essay on Man. 
JOoNATHAN SwIrT, 1667-1745 -— clergyman — chief works, Gulliver’s 
Travels, Tale of « Tub, and the Drapier Letters, 
JAMES THOMSON, 1709-1748—poet-—chief work, Zhe Seasons, 
Haunay FIELDING, 1707-1754—novelist. 
SaMUEr RICHARDSON, 1689-1761—novelist — chief work, Sir Charles 
Arandison. 
LAURENCE STERNE, 1713-1768 —novelist — chief works, Tristram 
Shandy and The Sentimental Journey. 
THOMAS CHATTERTON, 1752 1770-—poet-—wrote under the name of 
#Rowley” several poetical essays when a ınere boy —died by his own 
hand when eighteen years old, 
Topras SmoLLErT, 1721-1771—novelist and historian. 
THOMAS GRAY, 1716-1771-—poet-—chief poecm, Klegu Wriülten in a 
%ountry Churchyard. 
OLIVER GOLDSMITH, 1728-1774-—poet—chief works, The Traveller, 
The Deserted. Villane, and The Vicar of Wakefield, a novel. 
Davın Hung, 1711-1776—historian and philosopher—chief work, 
History of England. 
JuNimvus--the anonymous author of a series of famous Political Letters, 
the publication of which began in 1769. No positive olue to the real 
authorship of these Letters has ever been discovered. 
SAMUEL ‚TOHNSON, 1709-1784— essayist—wrote in The Rambler and 
other periodieals-- author of the first great English Dietionary. 
ADAM SMITH, 1723-1790—writer on political economy—chief work, 
The Wealth of Nutions. 
WILLIAM ROBERTSON, 1721-1793 historian—chief work, History of 
Scotland, 
EnDwARD GIBBON, 1737-1794 —historian—— wrote Decline and Fall of 
he Roman Empire. & 
RosErt Burns, 1759-1796—poet—‘“ the bard of Scotland ”—chief 
poems, Tam o’ Shanter, Cottar’s Saturdau 7 5), 6.