English Literature: Restoration and 18th-Century (1660-1785)



	

	


			

			
			

			
			

			
			

			
			

			





	

      
			
	





Introduction  |  Samuel Butler |  John Dryden |  Samuel Pepys | John Bunyan |  Aphra Behn


John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester | Anne Kingsmill Finch, Countess of Winchilsea | Mary Astell


William Congreve |  Matthew Prior |  Daniel Defoe | John Gay | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu


Jonathan Swift |  Joseph Addison |  Sir Richard Steele |  James Thomson |  Alexander Pope


Dr. Samuel Johnson |  Thomas Gray | William Collins | Christopher Smart | Oliver Goldsmith


George Crabbe | William Cowper | James Boswell |  Essays and Articles | Additional Sources








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Art: Caesar van Everdingen: The Four Muses with Pegasus, c.
1650. Huis ten Bosch, The Hague.