But, above all, the student who wishes to gain a sympathetic acquaintance with the life of this most interesting period, and to enter into its spirit, should read more of its literature—especially the Tatler and Spectator, Swift's Journal to Stella, Pope's Satires and Epistles, Gay's Trivia, and the Letters of Steele, Swift, Pope, and Bolingbroke.
Literary
A History of Eighteenth Century Literature (1889), and From Shakespeare to Pope (1885), by Edmund Gosse.
English Literature in the Eighteenth Century, by T. S. Perry (1883).
An Illustrated History of English Literature, by Richard Garnett and Edmund Gosse, Volume III., From Milton to Johnson, by Edmund Gosse (1903), Chapter III. A popular survey of English literary history, most profusely illustrated with portraits and facsimiles.
A Few Words about the Eighteenth Century, by Frederic Harrison. (The Choice of Books, 1886.)
Le Public et les Hommes de Lettres en Angleterre au XVIIIe Siècle, by A. Beljame, 1881.
Lectures on the Comic Writers and Periodical Essayists, by William Hazlitt. (Delivered in 1819; best edition in the Temple Classics, edited by Austin Dobson, 1900.)