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| 1702 |
| | | The Augustan Age begins in English literature, claiming comparison with the equivalent flowering under Augustus Caesar | |
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| 1709 |
| | | The Tatler launches a new style of journalism in Britain's coffee houses, followed two years later by the Spectator | |
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| 1710 |
| | | 25-year-old George Berkeley attacks Locke in his Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge | |
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| 1712 |
| | | Alexander Pope's Rape of the Lock introduces a delicate vein of mock-heroic in English poetry | |
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| 1719 |
| | | Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, with its detailed realism, can be seen as the first English novel | |
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| 1726 |
| | | Jonathan Swift launches his hero on a series of bitterly satirical adventures in Gulliver's Travels | |
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| 1739 |
| | | David Hume publishes his Treatise of Human Nature, in which he applies to the human mind the principles of experimental science | |
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| 1747 |
| | | Samuel Richardson's Clarissa begins the correspondence which grows into the longest novel in the English language | |
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| 1749 |
| | | Henry Fielding introduces a character of lasting appeal in the lusty but good-hearted Tom Jones | |
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| 1751 |
| | | English poet Thomas Gray publishes his Elegy written in a Country Church Yard | |
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