English Literature

APPENDIX

1732-1734. Essay on Man

1738. Rise of Methodism


1739. Richardson’s Pamela


1740. War of Austrian Succession


1741. Fielding’s Joesph Andrews


1742. Jacobite Rebellion


1743. Fielding’s Tom Jones
      1750-1752. Johnson’s The Rambler
      1750-1757. Conquest of India 1751. Gray’s Elegy


1744. Johnson’s Dictionary


1745. War with France


1746. Wolf at Quebec


1747. George III (d. 1820) 1760-1767. Sterne’s Tristram Shandy


1748. Johnson’s Literary Club


1749. Stamp Act 1765. Percy’s Reliques


1750. Goldsmith’s Vicar of
      Wakefield


1751. Goldsmith’s Deserted Village


1752. Beginning of great newspapers


1753. Boston Tea Party


1754. Howard’s prison reforms 1774-1775. Burke’s American speeches


1755. American Revolution 1776-1788. Gibbon’s Rome


1756. Declaration of Independence 1779. Cowper’s Olney Hymns
      1779-81. Johnson’s Lives of the Poets


1757. Treaty of Paris 1783. Blake’s Poetical Sketches


1758. Cowper’s The Task
      The London Times


1759. Trial of Warren Hastings


1760. Burns’s first poems (the
      Kilmarnock Burns)
      Burke’s Warren Hastings
      1789-1799. French Revolution


1761. Burke’s French Revolution


1762. Boswell’s Life of Johnson


1763. War with France

1760-1820. George III
1770-1850. Wordsworth