IN THIS LESSON

Selected Readings

  • “The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century, 1660 - 1785” from The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century, pp. 3-31

  • Defoe, Daniel. “A true relation of the apparition of Mrs. Veal, the next day after her death, to Mrs. Bargrave, at Canterbury, the eighth day of September, 1705. Which recommends the perusal of Drelincourt's book of consolations against the fear of death” (1706)

  • Goldsmith, Oliver. “The Deserted Village” (1770)

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