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en-wikipedia-org-9230		18th century in literature - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	2722	339	68	2 English Literature in the Eighteenth Century by Year European literature of the 18th century refers to literature (poetry, drama, satire, and novels) produced in Europe during this period. The 18th century saw the development of the modern novel as literary genre, in fact many candidates for the first novel in English date from this period, of which Daniel Defoe's 1719 Robinson Crusoe is probably the best known. English Literature in the Eighteenth Century by Year[edit] In 1708, Simon Ockley publishes an English translation of Ibn Tufail's Hayy ibn Yaqdhan, a 12th-century philosophical novel, as The Improvement of Human Reason: Exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan. Daniel Defoe was another political pamphleteer turned novelist like Jonathan Swift and was publishing in the early 18th century. 1779–1781 Samuel Johnson writes and publishes Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets. Others Literature in the Eighteenth Century by Year[edit]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9230.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9230.txt