Of all the eighteenth - century novelists ( ) was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specially a “comic epic in prose”, the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.
Of all the eighteenth - century novelists ( ) was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specially a “comic epic in prose”, the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.
A.Thomas Gray
B.Richard Brinsley Sheridan
C.Jonathan Swift
D.Henry Fielding