Augustan literature
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Augustan literature is a style of British literature produced during the reigns of Queen Anne, King George I, and George II in the first half of the 18th century and ending in the 1740s, with the deat
Queen Anne
William Hogarth's Gin Lane is not entirely caricature, as in 1750, over a fourth of all houses in St Giles were gin shops, all unlicensed.
A woodcut of Daniel Defoe
A portrait of Tobias Smollett
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope was an English poet, translator, and satirist of the Enlightenment era who is considered one of the most prominent English poets of the early 18th century. An exponent of Augustan liter
Augustan literature
…produced during the reigns of Queen Anne, King George I, and George II in the first half of the 18th century and ending in the 1740s, with the deaths of Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift, in 1744 and 1745, respectively. It was a literary epoch that featured the rapid development of the novel, an explosion in satire…
Portrait by Michael Dahl, c. 1727
1835 woodcut of "Pope's tree", under which Pope was believed to have composed several early poems
Mawson Arms, Chiswick Lane, with blue plaque to Pope
c. 1736 portrait of Pope attributed Jonathan Richardson