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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
CHAPTER VII-FROM THIS WORLD TO THE
NEXT: JOHN BUNYAN
The Pilgrim's Progress and its creator
CHAPTER
409
VIII-ENGLAND'S SECOND POET:
SHAKESPEARE FIRST, AND NEXT-MIL-
TON"
Early life-Italian travel-Pedagogy and prose-Re-
tirement-Chalfont-Completion of Paradise Lost—
Last years-Critical estimate-Bibliography
IX-PROTO-RATIONALISTS: THOMAS
HOBBES
Lord Herbert of Cherbury and Thomas Hobbes of
Malmesbury-Lord Clarendon-The Royal Society .
BOOK IV
424
PAGE
432
462
SATIRE AND ESSAY
477
CHAPTER I-THE RESTORATION: SAMUEL BUT-
LER
Charles II. and literature-The birth of modern Eng-
lish prose-Samuel Butler-A master of rhyme and
caricature
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
V
486
CHAPTER III-THE COMIC DRAMATISTS OF THE
RESTORATION
French models-The Restoration stage-Etherege-
Congreve
Wycherley-Sedley-Crowne-Shadwell
-
-Farquhar-Vanbrugh-The Collier controversy
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
CHAPTER V-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
CHAPTER VI-DEFOE
Early education-The True-born Englishman-Polit-
ical pamphlets-Robinson Crusoe-A great mystifier
-Minor novels-Defoe's realism
529
558
570
CHAPTER VII-ALEXANDER POPE
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 plays-The 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
BOOK V
MORALS AND MEMOIRS
CHAPTER I-THE RISE OF THE NOVEL
Richardson and Fielding
621
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
CHAPTER VI-THE CAVE OF THE POETS
Poetic nonconformists-" Jemmy" Thomson-William
Collins-The
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
CHAPTER VIII-OLIVER GOLDSMITH AND R. B.
SHERIDAN
Goldsmith's Life-The Critical Review-" The Citizen
of the World"-Goldsmith's Poems and Plays-
Retaliation-The Vicar of Wakefield-Sheridan's
Comedies
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"
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
philosophies-Shaftesbury—
creeds
and
Berkeley-Butler-Paley-Watson
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-
750
765
782
795