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  2. Alexander Pope • Alexander was best known for his satircial verse and for his translation of Homer. • Pope is famous for his use of heroic couplet.

  3. Daniel Defoe • Daniel Defoe was a journalist and pamphleteer, who gained fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe. • Daniel is a notable for being one of the earliest proponents of the novel

  4. Jonathan Swift • Swift is remembered for some of his popular works such as Gulliver’s Travels, A Modest Proposal, Drapier’s Letters, and A Tale of a Tub. • Jonathan is the foremost prose satirist in the English language.

  5. Samuel Johnson • Gained popularity and success with the completion of the Oxford English Dictionary. • Johnson’s later works were essays and influential annotated edition of Shakespeare’s plays.

  6. John Bunyan • Wrote The Pilgrim's Progress in two parts, of which the first appeared at London in 1678,which he had begun during his imprisonment in 1676. The second part appeared in 1684. • The Pilgrim's Progressis the most successful allegory ever written, and like the Bible has been extensively translated into other languages • became a popular preacher as well as a very voluminous author, though most of his works consist of expanded sermons

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