Restoration & 18th Century Authors and Works Joseph Addison Aphra Behn William Beckford James Boswell Frances Brooke Frances "Fanny" Burney Elizabeth Carter John Cleland William Collins William Congreve William Cowper Erasmus Darwin Daniel Defoe John Dryden Henry Fielding Anne Finch (Countess Of Winchilsea), John Gay Edward Gibbon Oliver Goldsmith Thomas Gray Samuel Johnson Eliza Haywood The Poems of Mary Leapor Samuel Pepys Alexander Pope Samuel Richardson Earl Of Rochester (John Wilmot) Laurence Sterne Jonathan Swift John Wesley William Hogarth Anna Laetitia (Aikin) Barbauld James Macpherson ("Ossian")