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| Date | Title | Author | Country | Type | |||||||
| 1712–14 | The Rape of the Lock | Alexander Pope | England | Poem | |||||||
| 1719 | Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe | England | Novel | |||||||
| 1722 | Moll Flanders | Daniel Defoe | England | Novel | |||||||
| 1726 | Gulliver’s Travels | Jonathan Swift | England | Novel | |||||||
| 1728 | The Beggar’s Opera | John Gay | England | Drama | |||||||
| 1728–42 | The Dunciad | Alexander Pope | England | Poetry | |||||||
| 1731 | Manon Lescant | l’Abbé (Antoine François) Prévost | France | Novel | |||||||
| 1731–41 | The Life of Marianne | Pierre Marivaux | France | Novel | |||||||
| 1740 | Pamela | Samuel Richardson | England | Novel | |||||||
| 1742 | Joseph Andrews | Henry Fielding | England | Novel | |||||||
| 1748 | Clarissa | Samuel Richardson | England | Novel | |||||||
| 1749 | Tom Jones | Henry Fielding | England | Novel | |||||||
| Elegy Written in a Churchyard | Thomas Gray | England | Poem | ||||||||
| 1751 | The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle | Tobias Smollett | England | Novel | |||||||
| 1753 | The Mistress of the Inn | Carlo Goldoni | Italy | Drama | |||||||
| 1759–67 | Tristram Shandy | Laurence Sterne | England | Novel | |||||||
| 1759 | Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia | Samuel Johnson | France | Novel | |||||||
| Candide | François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire | England | Novel | ||||||||
| 1764 | The Castle of Otranto | Horace Walpole | England | Novel | |||||||
| 1766 | The Vicar of Wakefield | Oliver Goldsmith | England | Novel | |||||||
| 1771 | Humphrey Clinker | Tobias Smollett | England | Novel | |||||||
| 1773 | She Stoops to Conquer | Oliver Goldsmith | England | Drama | |||||||
| 1774 | The Sorrows of Young Werther | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Germany | Novel | |||||||
| 1775 | The Rivals | Richard Sheridan | England | Drama | |||||||
| The Barber of Seville | Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais | France | Drama | ||||||||
| c.1776 | Saul | Vittorio Alfieri | Italy | Drama | |||||||
| 1777 | The School for Scandal | Richard Sheridan | England | Drama | |||||||
| 1778 | Evelina | Fanny Burney | England | Novel | |||||||
| 1779 | Nathan the Wise | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | Germany | Drama | |||||||
| 1782 | Dangerous Liaisons | Pierre Choderlos de Laclos | France | Novel | |||||||
| 1785 | The Marriage of Figaro | Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais | France | Drama | |||||||
| 1786 | Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect | Robert Burns | Scotland | Poetry | |||||||
| 1789 | Songs of Innocence | William Blake | England | Poetry | |||||||
| 1791 | The Dream of the Red Chamber | Cao Zhan | China | Novel | |||||||
| Life of Samuel Johnson | James Boswell | England | Biography | ||||||||
| Autobiography | Benjamin Franklin | USA | Biography | ||||||||
| 1794 | The Mysteries of Udolpho | Ann Radcliff | England | Novel | |||||||
| Songs of Experience | William Blake | England | Poetry | ||||||||
| 1795 | Ode to Joy | Friedrich Schiller | Germany | Poem | |||||||
| 1795-96 | William Meister’s Apprenticeship | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Germany | Novel | |||||||
| 1796 | Jacques the Fatalist and His Master | Denis Diderot | France | Novel | |||||||
| 1797 | The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | England | Poem | |||||||
| 1797-99 | Hyperion | Friedrich Hölderlin | Germany | Novel | |||||||
| 1797-1806 | Hymns and Fragments | Friedrich Hölderlin | Germany | Poetry | |||||||
| 1798 | Speed the Plough | Thomas Morton | England | Drama | |||||||
| Lyrical Ballads | William Wordsworth, Samuel Coleridge | England | Poetry | ||||||||
| Wieland | Charles Brockden Brown | USA | Novel | ||||||||
| 1799 | Ormond | Charles Brockden Brown | USA | Novel | |||||||
| 1800 | Castle Rackrent | Maria Edgeworth | Ireland | Novel | |||||||
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