ELEVEN CHIEF AUTHORS OF THE AGE OF TRANSITION

1.    Thomson -1700-48

2.    Collins – 1721-59

3.    Gray – 1716-71

4.    Cowper -1731-1800

5.    Burns – 1759-96

6.    Richardson – 1689-1761

7.     Fielding – 1707-54

8.    Johnson – 1709-84

9.    Goldsmith -1728-74

10. Gibbon -1737-94

11. Burke – 1729-97