A cantankerous squire tours Britain with his household, whose letters give comic, clashing views. Smollett's genial epistolary travel novel.
Books mentioned in The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (4)
The Ever Green by Allan Ramsay: “he mentioned a considerable number of pieces, which he insisted were equal in point of humour to any thing extant in any language dead or living--He, in particular, recommended a collection of detached poems, in two small volumes, intituled, The Ever-Green”
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy by Laurence Sterne: “Baretti’s, together with Shandy’s Sentimental Travels, the public seems to be cloyed with that kind of entertainment”
Odes by Horace: “as appears in Van Vloudel’s translation of Horace, in that beautiful ode, Quis multa gracilis, &c.”
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes: “Here he was interrupted by my uncle; who asked peevishly if he was Don Quixote enough, at this time of day, to throw down his gauntlet as champion for a man who had treated him with such ungrateful neglect.”