=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 Pa.s.sion_.

=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= _a.n.a.logy 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_.