English literature of the Enlightenment
Across
- 2. Lexicographer, compiler of A Dictionary of the English Language.
- 5. Author of Pamela, innovator in the genre of the epistolary novel.
- 7. An 18th-century movement associated with science, rationalism, and progress.
- 9. A popular style of drama from the Enlightenment that depicted social mores and vices.
- 11. Author of Gulliver's Travels, who wrote satire on the society of the time.
Down
- 1. Playwright, author of The Way of the World, known for his comedies of manners.
- 3. A philosophical concept of the Enlightenment that holds that reason is the primary source of knowledge.
- 4. An 18th-century literary genre that ridicules the vices of society through exaggeration and ridicule.
- 6. Poet, satirist, author of The Rape of the Lock, master of heroic-comic poetry.
- 8. Author of The Seasons, a work celebrating nature.
- 10. Author Robinson Crusoe, one of the first English novelists.