Note 23 — Chapter II · ENGLISH SATIRE FROM DRYDEN TO BYRON
Reading edition
Examples are the Essay on Reason (1733) by Walter Harte (1709–1774); the Vanity of Human Enjoyments (1749) by James Cawthorn (1718–1761), the most slavish of all Pope’s imitators; Honour (1737) by John Brown; Advice and Reproof (1747) by Smollett; Of Retired and Active Life (1735) by William Helmoth (1710–1799); Ridicule (1743) by William Whitehead; Taste (1753) by John Armstrong (1709–1779); An Essay on Conversation (1748) by Benjamin Stillingfleet (1702–1771).