Poetry/Satire:

Prose (Diaries):

Samuel Pepys:
1. The Diary of Samuel Pepys (Account of daily life, plague, and Great Fire)

Queen Anne, George I, George II: This period is named after the Roman Emperor Augustus, whose reign was considered a golden age of literature. English writers aimed for similar classical ideals of order, balance, and wit.
Political Stability and Whig Supremacy: Relative political stability under the Hanoverian monarchs, though party politics (Whigs vs. Tories) were intense.
Growth of Public Sphere: The rise of coffee houses, literary clubs, and periodicals (like The Spectator) fostered public discourse and a wider readership.
Satire and Didacticism: Literature often served to satirize social follies, political corruption, and human vice, or to instruct and moralize.

Satirical Poetry:
- Alexander Pope:
  1. The Rape of the Lock (Mock-heroic poem)
  2. An Essay on Man (Philosophical poem)
  3. The Dunciad (Satirical poem)
  4. An Essay on Criticism (Poetic essay)
  5. Translation of the Iliad (Epic translation)
Satirical Prose/Novel:
- Jonathan Swift:
  1. Gulliver's Travels (Satirical novel)
  2. A Modest Proposal (Satirical essay)
  3. A Tale of a Tub (Satirical allegory)
  4. The Battle of the Books (Satirical prose)
  5. Drapier's Letters (Political pamphlets)
- Daniel Defoe:
  1. Robinson Crusoe (Adventure novel)
  2. Moll Flanders (Picaresque novel)
  3. A Journal of the Plague Year (Fictionalized historical account)
  4. Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress (Novel)
  5. Captain Singleton (Adventure novel)
Periodical Essays:
- Joseph Addison & Richard Steele:
  1. The Spectator (Essays)
  2. The Tatler (Essays)

Emergence of Sentiment: A gradual shift away from pure reason towards an appreciation of emotion, natural feeling, and individual experienc