English Neoclassical poet.

• Wrote The Rape of the Lock

French Enlightenment philosopher and writer.

• Edited the Encylopédie

Italian writer.

• Wrote a multi-volume memoir of his romantic exploits

German playwright and critic.

• Wrote Miss Sara Sampson

English novelist.

• Wrote Tom Jones

English novelist.

• Wrote Tristram Shandy

Irish playwright and novelist.

• Wrote She Stoops to Conquer

Irish playwright.

• Wrote The School for Scandal

English novelist.

• Wrote Pamela

American political philosopher.

• Wrote Common Sense

English poet.

• Wrote ''''Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard''''

French poet, satirist and historian. Original name: François Marie Arouet.

• Wrote Candide

English satirical poet.

• Wrote Hudibras

English preacher and writer.

• Wrote the religious allegory The Pilgrim''s Progress

English poet, playwright, translator and critic.

• Wrote Absalom and Achitophel

English Neoclassical playwright.

• Wrote The Way of the World

English journalist and novelist.

• Wrote Robinson Crusoe

Irish satirist, poet and clergyman.

• Wrote Gulliver''s Travels

English poet, essayist, journalist and statesman.

• Wrote ''''On the Scale of Being''''

English essayist and playwright.

• Founded the journals Tatler and (with Joseph Addison) Spectator

English poet.

• Wrote ''''Alma''''

Scottish poet.

• Wrote The Seasons

English poet.

• Wrote Odes on Several Descriptive and Allegorical Subjects

English poet.

• Wrote The Task

English poet.

• Wrote The Village

English poet, essayist and lexicographer.

• Wrote Lives of the Poets

British biographer.

• Wrote Life of Samuel Johnson

English priest, educator and hagiographer.

• Wrote The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints

French-American farmer and essayist.

• Wrote Letters from an American Farmer

German Enlightenment poet and novelist.

• Wrote Fabeln und Erzählungen (''''Fables and Tales'''')

English satirical novelist.

• Wrote The Adventures of Roderick Random

English writer, legislator, nobleman and collector. Known for his ornate residence, Strawberry Hill.

• Wrote The Castle of Otranto

Ottoman Turkish poet known for his songs and lyric odes.

• He really did die for his art, killed by rioters protesting the frivolousness of court life

English poet.

• Wrote ''''The Spleen''''

English writer.

• Wrote Letters from the East

African-born slave who became America's first black female poet.

• Wrote Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral

English poet and translator.

• Wrote Poems upon Particular Occasions

Dutch writer.

• Co-wrote the first Dutch novel, De historie van mejuffrouw Sara Burgerhart (''''The History of Miss Sara Burgerhart'''')

Dutch poet and novelist.

• Co-wrote the first Dutch novel, De historie van mejuffrouw Sara Burgerhart (''''The History of Miss Sara Burgerhart'''')

German novelist and leader of a literary salon.

• Wrote Geschichte des Fräleins von Sternheim

Swedish Neoclassical poet.

• Wrote ''''Den glada festen'''' (''''The Merry Festival'''')

American-born English novelist.

• Wrote The Female Quixote

Swedish poet and feminist.

• Wrote Den sörjande turturduvan (''''The Mourning Turtledove'''')

English writer.

• Wrote Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson, LL.D., during the last Twenty Years of his Life

English novelist and poet.

• Wrote The Old Manor-House