EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
LITERATURE
Richard Steele, The Funeral (1701).
François-Joseph de La Grange-Chancel, Medus (1702).
Nicholas Rowe, The Fair Penitent (1703).
Colley Cibber, The Careless Husband (1704).
Joseph Addison, The Campaign (1705).
George Farquhar, The Recruiting Officer (1706).
Alain-René Lesage, The Devil upon Two Sticks (1707).
Jean-François Regnard, The Residuary Legatee (1708).
Antoine Houdar de La Motte, Semele (1709).
Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Goban Taiheiki (1710).
Crébillon père, Rhadamistus and Zenobia (1711).
Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, Sacred Odes (1712).
Antoine Hamilton, Memoirs of Count Grammont (1713).
Scipione Maffei, Merope (1714).
Charles Dufresny, The Village Coquette (1715).
♀ Susanna Centlivre, The Cruel Gift (1716).
Alexander Pope, Eloisa to Abelard (1717).
Matthew Prior, Solomon on the Vanity of the World (1718).
Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (1719).
Simon Tyssot de Patot, Pierre de Mésange (1720).
Charles de Montesquieu, Persian Letters (1721).
Ludvig Holberg, Jeppe of the Hill (1722).
Johann Christian Günther, Poems (1723).
Pietro Metastasio, Dido Abandoned (1724).
♀ Eliza Haywood, Fantomina (1725).
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels (1726).
Destouches, The Married Philosopher (1727).
John Gay, The Beggar’s Opera (1728).
James Thomson, Britannia (1729).
Alexis Piron, Callisthene (1730).
George Lillo, The London Merchant (1731).
Albrecht von Haller, The Alps (1732).
♀ Mary Chandler, A Description of Bath (1733).
Jean-Baptiste Gresset, Vert-Vert (1734).
♀ Madame de Tencin, Memoirs of the Count of Comminge (1735).
Wu Jingzi, Unofficial History of the Scholars (1736).
António José da Silva, The Wars of Rosemary and Marjoram (1737).
Crébillon fils, The Wanderings of the Heart and Mind (1738).
Antoine François Prévost d’Exiles, Cleveland (1739).
Samuel Richardson, Pamela (1740).
Charles Duclos, The Confessions of Count *** (1741).
Olof von Dalin, The Swedish Freedom (1742).
Diego de Torres Villarroel, Life (1743).
Marivaux, A Matter of Dispute (1744).
Edward Young, Night-Thoughts (1745).
Takeda Izumo, Sugawara and the Secrets of Calligraphy (1746).
Voltaire, Zadig (1747).
Denis Diderot, The Indiscreet Jewels (1748).
Henry Fielding, Tom Jones (1749).
William Collins, The Passions (1750).
Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1751).
Bharatchandra Ray, Annada Mangal (1752).
Carlo Goldoni, The Mistress of the Inn (1753).
Lefranc de Pompignan, Sacred Poems (1754).
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Miss Sara Sampson (1755).
Friedrich Wilhelm Zachariae, Times of the Day (1756).
Mikhail Lomonosov, Hymn to the Beard (1757).
♀ Madame Riccoboni, The History of the Marquis of Cressy (1758).
Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759).
James Macpherson, Fragments of Ancient Poetry (1760).
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Julie, or the New Heloise (1761).
Carlo Gozzi, Turandot (1762).
Giuseppe Parini, Morning (1763).
Cao Xueqin, Dream of the Red Chamber (1764).
Michel-Jean Sedaine, The Philosopher without his Knowledge (1765).
Baculard d’Arnaud, Sydney and Volsan (1766).
Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1767).
Carmontelle, Dramatic Proverbs (1768).
Jean-François de Saint-Lambert, The Seasons (1769).
Louis-Sébastien Mercier, The Year 2440 (1770).
Tobias Smollett, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771).
Jacques Cazotte, The Devil in Love (1772).
Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer (1773).
Johann Wolfgang Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774).
Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, The Barber of Seville (1775).
Ueda Akinari, Tales of Rain and the Moon (1776).
Vivant Denon, No Tomorrow (1777).
♀ Fanny Burney, Evelina (1778).
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Critic (1779).
Christoph Martin Wieland, Oberon (1780).
Friedrich Schiller, The Robbers (1781).
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Dangerous Liaisons (1782).
Vittorio Alfieri, Orestes (1783).
Rétif de La Bretonne, The Perverted Peasant Woman (1784).
William Cowper, The Task (1785).
Robert Burns, Poems (1786).
Évariste de Parny, Madagascan Songs (1787).
Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Paul and Virginia (1788).
William Blake, Songs of Innocence (1789).
Carl Michael Bellman, Fredman’s Epistles (1790).
André Chénier, The Tennis Court Oath (1791).
Tomás António Gonzaga, Dirceu’s Marília (1792).
Donatien de Sade, Aline and Valcour (1793).
William Godwin, The Adventures of Caleb Williams (1794).
Jean Paul, Hesperus (1795).
Ludwig Tieck, The Story of Mr William Lovell (1796).
♀ Ann Radcliffe, The Italian (1797).
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798).
Friedrich Schlegel, Lucinda (1799).
Novalis, Hymns to the Night (1800).
APPENDIX
Robert Challe, The Illustrious French Lovers (1713).
Abdul-Qadir Bedil, Poems (1720).
Barthélémy-Christophe Fagan, The Styles of Thalia (1737).
Charles-Simon Favart, The Seeker of Mind (1741).
Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée, The School for Mothers (1744).
Desmahis, The Lost Letter (1750).
Nicolas-Germain Léonard, Moral Idylls (1766).
José Cadalso, Wise Men Without Learning (1772).
Nicolas-Joseph-Laurent Gilbert, My Apology (1778).
