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

ADDISON, JOSEPH 1672-1719
AKENSIDE, MARK 1721-1770
ARBUTHNOT, JOHN 1667-1735
ARMSTRONG, JOHN 1709-1779
ATTERBURY, FRANCIS 1662-1732
BENTLEY, RICHARD 1662-1742
BERKELEY, GEORGE 1685-1753
BINNING, LORD 1696-1732
BLACKMORE, SIR RICHARD 1650-1729
BLAIR, ROBERT 1699-1746
BOLINGBROKE, LORD 1678-1751
BOYLE, CHARLES 1676-1731
BROOKE, HENRY 1706-1783
BROOME, WILLIAM 1689-1745
BUTLER, JOSEPH 1692-1752
BYROM, JOHN 1691-17