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Across 5. He suffered from tuberculosis of the bone that was probably contracted from his wet-nurse and which left him permanently deformed (he was described as about four feet six high), so he was taught at home, and became a self-educated man. 7. Contemporary of Daniel Defoe, he was well-known for his extremely sharp satires. As he was born in Ireland, in many of his works he protested against injustices inflected on the Irish by the English government. The best example is his work "A Modest Proposal". 8. Joseph Addison joined Richard Steele at the Tattler and they later founded this new daily journal. 9. In this work Daniel Defoe describes the horrifying daily events in London city as it was besieged by a terrible epidemic. 10. Johnson met him in a bookstore in London. The two became fast friends. He took notes of their conversations, and wrote "The Life of Samuel Johnson." This work is considered to be the first modern biography. 11. The second half of the 1700's is known as "His" Age. It follows the Age of Swift and Pope and is followed by The Romantic Age which began in 1798. He dominated the English intellectual life more so because of his extraordinary personality than his writing. He was, apparently, a marvelous public speaker. 12. English novelist, pamphleteer, and journalist. Along with Samuel Richardson, he is considered the founder of the English novel. In his time he was known as journalist, although today he is mainly known for his adventure tales.

Down 1. The most important work of Dr. Samuel Johnson was... 2. His work “An Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard” is one of the best known of English lyric poems. This poem reveals his thoughts upon looking at the town stones in a small country cementry. It expressed universal sentiments as it reflects all the opportunities these people had missed by leaving a sheltered life in small town. 3. This story was based partly on the memoirs of voyagers and castaways, such as Alexander Selkirk, who spent on his island four years and four months. The author is Daniel Defoe who wrote these primariy imaginary accounts as if they were recording facts. 4. It is considered one of the greatest pieces of satire ever written. Jonathan Swift wrote this novel, in which a surgeon narrates his voyages to foreign lands. 6. He started editing The Tattler, the first important newspaper, which talked about gossips or unimportant things discussed by the people.