Just to reply to Tom, I suppose I was thinking that since Gulliver's Travels preceded Richardson and Fielding, it was generally considered something vaguely different, like prose romance or prose satire rather than novel proper. I certainly have no objections to it being called a novel.
Since I've opened up this new post, I'll just add that Graves also strikes me as equally skilled in both fields. I guess that's the meaning of Michael Slipp's bracketed exclamation mark after his name. Kipling too perhaps.
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