CONTENTS OF THE LETTERS.

Letter I.[The Subject proposed.]
II.[Origin of Chivalry.]
III.[Characteristics of, accounted for.]
IV.[Heroic and Gothic manners, compared.]
V.[Their differences, noted.]
VI.[Gothic manners more poetical, than the Heroic.]
VII.[Their effect on Spenser, Milton, Shakespear.]
VIII.[Fairy Queen criticized—the method of that poem explained and justified.]
IX.[Tasso’s Gier. Lib. considered—history of the Italian poetry.]
X.[Fairy way of writing—vindicated.]
XI.[Gothic poetry, whence fallen into disrepute.]
XII.[Steps of its decline, traced.]

LETTERS
ON
CHIVALRY AND ROMANCE.