BRITISH LITERATURE – CHRONOLOGY PART – VIII/XXII

BRITISH LITERATURE – CHRONOLOGY

PART – VIII/XXII

CHRONOLOGY OF LITERARY WORKS

1717 Pope, Works (including 'Elosia to abelard)

1719 Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

1722 Defoe, Moll Flanders and Journal of the Plague Year

1726 Swift, Gulliver's Travels; Thomson, Winter

1728 Gay, The Beggar's Opera; Pope, The Dunciad (First Version)

1733 Pope, First imitation of Horace, First epistle in An Essay on Man

1738 Pope, Epilogue to the Satires; Johnson, London

1739 Charles Wesley, first collection of hymns

1740 Richardson, Pamela (part-1)

1742 Fielding, Joseph Andrews

1743 Pope, The Dunciad (final version)

1744 Sarah Fielding, David Simple

1747-8 Richardson, Clarissa

1748 Smollett, Roderick Random

1749 Johnson, The Vanity of Human Wishes; Fielding, Tom Jones

1751 Smollett, Peregrine Pickle

1750-2 Johnson, The Ramblers

1757 Burk, A Philosophic Enquiry into the Orgin of Our Ideas of the Sublime

and Beautiful

1759 Johnson, Rasselas

1759-67 Sterne, Tristram Shandy

1764 Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

1765 Percy, Reliques

1766 Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield

1768 Stern, A Sentimental Journey

1770 Goldsmith, The Deserted Village

1773 Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer

1775 Sheridan, The Rivals; Johnson, Journey to the Western Isles

1776-88 Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

1777 Sheridan, The School for Scandal; Reeve, The Old English Baron

1778 Burney, Evelina

1779-81 Johnson, The Lives of the Poets

1781 Sheridan, The Critic; Rousseau, Confessions; Schiller, The Robbers;

Kant, A Critique of Pure Reason

1783 Blake, Poetical Sketches

1785 Cowper, The Task

1786 Beckford, Vathek; Burns, Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect

1787 Mary Wollstonecraft, Thoughts on the Education of Daughters

1788 Daily Universal Register(started 1785) becomes The Times

1789 Blake, Songs of Innocence; Gilbert White, Natural History of Selborne

1790 Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell; Burke, Reflections on the

Revolution in France

1791 Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson; Paine,

The Rights of Man, (Part-1)

1792 Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Holcroft, Anna St Ives

1793 Blake, Visions of the Daughters of Albion, America; Godwin, Political

Justice; Smith, The Old Man or House

1794 Blake, Songs of Experience; The Book of Urizen; Godwin, Caleb

Williams; Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho; Holcroft,

Hugh Treyor

1795 Lewis, The Monk

1796 Fanny Burney, Camilla; Lewis, The Monk; Bage, Hermsprong

1797 Ann Radcliffe, The Italian

1798 Wordsworth and Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads

Wollstonecraft, The Wrongs of Woman

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