ose, the most important achievement of the age was the creation
of the modern novel in works like Richardson's _Pamela_ and _Clarissa
Harlowe_, Fielding's _Tom Jones_, Sterne's _Tristram Shandy_,
Smollett's _Humphrey Clinker_, and Goldsmith's _Vicar of Wakefield_.
There were also noted prose works in philosophy and history by Hume
and Gibbon, in politics by Burke, in criticism by Johnson, and in
biography by Boswell. Goldsmith's comedy of manners, _She Stoops to
Conquer_, won a decided victory over the insipid sentimental drama.

REFERENCES FOR FURTHER STUDY

HISTORICAL

For contemporary English history, consult Gardiner,[3] Green, Walker,
or Cheney. For the social side, see Traill, V. Lecky's _History of the
Eighteenth Century_ is specially full.

LITERARY

_The Cambridge History of English Literature_.

Courthope's _History of English Poetry_, Vol. V.

Seccombe's _The Age of Johnson_.

Gosse's _History of English Literature in the Eighteenth Century_.

Stephen's _English Literature in the Eighteenth Century_.

Minto's _Manual of English Prose Literature_.

Symons's _The Romantic Movement in English Poetry_.

Beers's _English Romanticism_.

Phelps's _Beginnings of the English Romantic Movement_.

Nutt's _Ossian and Ossianic Literature_.

Jusserand's _The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare_.

Cross's _The Development of the English Novel_.

Minto's _Defoe_ (E.M.L.)

Dobson's _Samuel Richardson_. (E.M.L.)

Dobson's _Henry Fielding_. (E.M.L.)

Godden's _Henry Fielding, a Memoir_.

Stephen's _Hours in a Library_ (Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding).

Thackeray's _English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century_ (Fielding,
Smollett, Sterne, Goldsmith).

Gosse's _Life of Gray_. (E.M.L.)

Huxley's _Life of Hume_. (E.M.L.)

Morrison's _Life of Gibbon_. (E.M.L.)

Woodrow Wilson's _Mere Literature_ (Burke).

Boswell's _Life of Johnson_.

Stephen's _Life of Johnson_. (E.M.L.)

Macaulay's _Essay on Croker's Edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson_.

Irving's, Forster's, Dobson's, Black's (E.M.L.), or B. Frankfort
Moore's _Life of Goldsmith_.

SUGGESTED READINGS WITH QUESTIONS AND SUGGESTIONS

The Romantic Movement.--In order to note the difference in feeling,
imagery, and ideals, between the romantic and the classic schools, it
will be advisable for the student to make a special comparison of
Dryden's and Pope's satiric and didactic verse with Spenser's _Faerie
Queene_, Milton's _Il Penseroso_