About this book
COPYRIGHT 1906, 1907, BY Dodd, MEAD & COMPANY
Published, October, 1907
L. Schucman 10-27-42 46597
CONTENTS
CHAPTER VI-TRANSITIONAL POETS
Cowley-Waller-Marvell-Rochester, Sedley, and
Dorset-The Westminster wits-Charles Cotton
409
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CHAPTER VII—FROM THIS WORLD TO THE
NEXT: JOHN BUNYAN
The Pilgrim's Progress and its creator
424
60
CHAPTER VIII-ENGLAND'S SECOND POET:
" SHAKESPEARE FIRST, AND NEXT-MIL-
TON”
PAGE
432
Early life Italian travel-Pedagogy and proseRe-
tirement-Chalfont-Completion of Paradise Lost-
Last years—Critical estimate Bibliography
CHAPTER IX-PROTO-RATIONALISTS: THOMAS
HOBBES
Lord Herbert of Cherbury and Thomas Hobbes of
Malmesbury-Lord Clarendon—The Royal Society
462
BOOK IV
SATIRE AND ESSAY
CHAPTER 1-THE RESTORATION: SAMUEL BUT-
LER
Charles II, and literature-The birth of modern Eng.
lish prose-Samuel Butler-A master of rhyme and
caricature
477
CHAPTER II-DRYDEN AND THE RESTORATION
DRAMA
John Dryden-Early poems—Comedies-Heroic trage-
dies—Satires–Fables-Critical essays-Congreve
Otway–Nat Lee and Nicholas Rowe
486
V
CHAPTER III—THE COMIC DRAMATISTS OF THE
RESTORATION
French models—The Restoration stage-Etherege
Wycherley-Sedley-Crowne-Shadwell Congreve
-Farquhar—Vanbrugh—The Collier controversy
509
CHAPTER IV-ESSAYS, LETTERS, AND MEMOIRS:
CONTROVERSIAL AND MINOR PROSE
Mr. Pepys and his Diary-John Evelyn-Bishop Bur-
net-The Lives of the Norths—Lucy Hutchinson-
George Savile, Marquis of Halifax-Sir William
Temple_The Battle of the Books—Whitelocke, Lut-
trell, Ludlow, and Lilly-Three great antiquaries :
Dugdale, Wood, and Aubrey
529
CHAPTER 1-JOHN LOCKE AND THE FREEDOM
OF THE PRESS
The Essay on the Human Understanding—The Star
Chamber and the Press—Some early newspapers-
Newspapers and style
558
CHAPTER VI-DEFOE
Early education—The True-born Englishman,Polit-
ical pamphlets—Robinson Crusoe-A great mystifier
—Minor novels—Defoe's realism
670
CHAPTER VII-ALEXANDER POPB
Lisping in numbers—Pastorals—Translation of Homer
—The Rape of the Lock-The Dunciad-Essays and
Satires-Pope's contemporary fame and posthumous
influence
582
CHAPTER VIII-SWIFT
With Temple at Moor Park—The Battle of the Books
-A Tale of a Tub_Stella and Vanessa—The Scrib-
lerus Club—Gulliver's Travels-Literary character-
istics-Arbuthnot
595
CHAPTER IX-THE RISE OF THE ESSAY: ADDI-
SON AND STEELE
Post-Restoration London-Addison—The Kit-cat Club
-Steele's playsThe Tatler—The Spectator ,
607
CHAPTER X-MAT PRIOR, GAY, AND OTHER PER-
FORMERS IN THE SCHOOL OF POPE
The familiar style of Prior and Gay-Parnell-Pom-
fret-Garth-Philips-Akenside Young
621
BOOK V
MORALS AND MEMOIRS
CHAPTER 1-THE RISE OF THE NOVEL
Richardson and Fielding
635
CHAPTER II—THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY NOVEL
Smollett-Sterne Minor novelists
663
CHAPTER III-MEMOIRS AND LETTERS-I
Lord Chesterfield-Lord Hervey-Lady Mary Mon-
tagu-Earl of Waldegrave-Bubb Dodington—The
Grenville Papers
683
CHAPTER IV-MEMOIRS AND LETTERS-II
Horace Walpole-Mrs. Delany-Mrs. Thrale Fanny
Burney-Wraxall-Richard Cumberland - Thomas
Creevey
696
CHAPTER V-THE HISTORIANS OF THE EIGHT-
EENTH CENTURY
Gibbon-Hume Robertson-Hearne Minor histori-
ang-Blackstone
708
CHAPTER VI–THE CAVE OF THE POETS
Poetic nonconformists—“ Jemmy" Thomson-William
ShenstoneThomas Grey-William Collins-The
Wartons
728
CHAPTER VII-SAMUEL JOHNSON
Education-Early struggle in London—The Dictionary
-The Rambler-The Lives of the Poets-Dictator
of the Club-Letter to Lord Chesterfield
750
CHAPTER VIII-OLIVER GOLDSMITH AND R. B.
SHERIDAN
Goldsmith's LifeThe Critical Review-" The Citizen
of the World"- Goldsmith's Poems and Plays-
Retaliation—The Vicar of Wakefield-Sheridan's
Comedies
765
CHAPTER IX-WILLIAM COWPER AND GEORGE
CRABBE
The life of Cowper-Early writings-The Task-An
unrivalled letter-writer-George Crabbe—“Nature's
sternest painter, yet the best”
782
CHAPTER X-POLITICS, PHILOSOPHY, NATURE,
AND RELIGION
Edmund Burke-Junius—Tom Payne William Cob-
bett-Adam Smith-Gilbert White-Natural history
—The open-air school—The attack and defence of
ancient creeds and philosophiesShaftesbury-
Berkeley-Butler-Paley-Watson
795
CHAPTER XI–MINOR NOVELISTS, MAINLY RO-
MANTIC: FROM “ OTRANTO" TO “HAJJI
BABA"
Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto-The Mysteries of
Ann Radcliffe" Monk ” Lewis—" Melmoth " Ma-
