1. A Movement in Europe
2. Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) He wrote his world famous novel "The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe" when he was nearly 60 years old.
2.1. Jonathan Swift, Anglo-Irish author, who was the foremost prose satirist in the English language novel Gulliver’s Travels (1726)
3. The first period (1668-1730)
3.1. Classicism in poetry
4. The second period (1740-1750)
4.1. realistic social novels
5. The third period or Sentimentalism
5.1. new trend called Sentimentalism
5.1.1. Oliver Goldsmith,Anglo-Irish essayist, poet, novelist, dramatist, and eccentric, made famous by such works as the series of essays The Citizen of the World, or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher (1762)
5.1.1.1. Samuel Richardson, English novelist who expanded the dramatic possibilities of the novel by his invention and use of the letter form. His major novels were Pamela (1740) and Clarissa (1747–48).
5.1.1.1.1. Henry Fielding, novelist and playwright,is considered a founder of the English novel. Among his major novels are Joseph Andrews (1742) and Tom Jones (1749).
5.1.1.2. Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish-born playwright, impresario, orator, and Whig politician. His plays, notably The School for Scandal (1777)
5.1.1.2.1. Robert Burns, national poet of Scotland, who wrote lyrics and songs in Scots and in English. He was also famous for his amours and his rebellion against orthodox religion and morality.