English novel John Bunyan's "The Pilgrim's Progress" (1678) and Aphra Behn's "Oroonoko" (1688) are also contenders, while earlier works such as Sir Thomas Malory's "Morte d'Arthur", and even the "Prologue" to Geoffrey Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" have been suggested. Another important early novel is "Gulliver's Travels" (1726, amended 1735), by Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, which is both a satire of human nature, as well as a parody of travellers' tales like "Robinson Crusoe". The rise of the novel as an important literary genre is generally associated with the growth of the middle class in England. Other major 18th-century English novelists are
The Creek of the Four Graves The Creek of the Four Graves "The Creek of the Four Graves" is a poem by Australian writer Charles Harpur that was first published in three parts in "The Weekly Register of Politics, Facts and General Literature" on 9 August, 16 August and 23 August 1845. The author then published an erratum in the same paper on 30 August 1845 which corrects what appears to be a misprinting. It was later included in the author's poetry collection "The Bushrangers, a Play in Five Acts, and Other Poems" (1853), and was subsequently reprinted in various newspapers, magazines and poetry anthologies. Harpur