Historical overview of English literature

6. 6- Age of sensibility: 1750-1798

This period is also labeled as the "Age of Johnson" after “Samuel Johnson” writer of the poem "The Vanity of human wishes". Other important figures include During Horace Walpole and Ann Radcliffe. The graveyard poets’ also are considered as the forefathers of the Gothic genre.  Furthermore the bad working situations, the clash of classes and pollution, led to arguing about industrialization and focusing on the value of nature