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political literature (pamphlet, articles (Robert Harley (politician) asks…

- - - - The Tatler by Richard Steele and The spectator by Joseph Addison
        
        topics: from politic to fashion and about social and family relation
        
        they supported the whig party (liberal and modern) and made fun of the Tories( conservative closer to aristocracy) accusing them of being weak and anachronistic
        
        they supported the mercantile community which they considered guardian of positive and honorable
        
        they conveyed the idea of "culture open to many" for example they published popular forms of poetry such as the ballad. they were an example and so followed by the others.
        
        newspapers
        
        Alexander pope (who was a writer and a journalist) contributed to The spectator, but he than changed towards the Tory intellectuals
        
        he wrote the mock heroic epic poem "the rape of the lock" (1714) where he speaks ironically about his contemporary society
        
        Eloisa to Abelard, on the form of Ovid's heroic epistles (1717)
        
        translation of homer's Iliad and odyssey ( 1713-1720)
        
        Moral essays (1731-1735), series of Horation imitation
        
        the dunciad (1743) where he criticizes the moral anarchy and perversion of his contemporary commercial society
      - magazines
        
        Edward cave founded the Gentlemen's Magazine in 1731. Samuel Johnson Fielding and goldsmith wrote from this publication. Tobias smallett edited the critical rewiew, founded 1756