15. Blake.  What are the characteristics of Blake’s poetry?  Can you explain why Blake, though the greatest poetic genius of the age, is so little appreciated?

16. Percy.  In what respect did Percy’s Reliques influence the romantic movement?  What are the defects in his collection of ballads?  Can you explain why such a crude poem as “Chevy Chase” should be popular with an age that delighted in Pope’s “Essay on Man”?

17. Macpherson.  What is meant by Macpherson’s “Ossian”?  Can you account for the remarkable success of the Ossianic forgeries?

18. Chatterton.  Tell the story of Chatterton and the Rowley Poems.  Read Chatterton’s “Bristowe Tragedie,” and compare it, in style and interest, with the old ballads, like “The Battle of Otterburn” or “The Hunting of the Cheviot” (all in Manly’s English Poetry).

19. The First Novelists.  What is meant by the modern novel?  How does it differ from the early romance and from the adventure story?  What are some of the precursors of the novel?  What was the purpose of stories modeled after Don Quixote?  What is the significance of Pamela?  What elements did Fielding add to the novel?  What good work did Goldsmith’s Vicar of Wakefield accomplish?  Compare Goldsmith, in this respect, with Steele and Addison.

CHRONOLOGY
End of Seventeenth and the Eighteenth Century
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HISTORY | LITERATURE
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---------------- 1689.  William and Mary | 1683-1719.  Defoe’s early writings
Bill of Rights. |
Toleration Act |
| 1695.  Press made free
1700(?) Beginning of London clubs |
1702.  Anne (d. 1714) |
War of Spanish Succession |
| 1702.  First daily newspaper
1704.  Battle of Blenheim | 1704.  Addison’s The Campaign
| Swift’s Tale of a Tub
1707.  Union of England and Scotland |
| 1709.  The Tatler
| Johnson born (d. 1784)
| 1710-1713.  Swift in London.  Journal
| to Stella
| 1711.  The Spectator
| 1712.  Pope’s Rape of the Lock
1714.  George I (d. 1727) |
| 1719.  Robinson Crusoe
1721.  Cabinet government, Walpole |
first prime minister |
| 1726.  Gulliver’s Travels
| 1726-1730.  Thomson’s The Seasons
1727.  George II (d. 1760) |
| 1732-1734.  Essay on Man
1738.  Rise of Methodism |
| 1740.  Richardson’s Pamela
1740.  War of Austrian Succession |
| 1742.  Fielding’s Joesph Andrews
1746.  Jacobite Rebellion |
| 1749.  Fielding’s Tom Jones
| 1750-1752.  Johnson’s The Rambler
1750-1757.  Conquest of India | 1751.  Gray’s Elegy
| 1755.  Johnson’s