A History of the Eighteenth Century
Literature (1660-1780)
By EDMUND GOSSE, M.A.
Clark Lecturer in English Literature at Trinity College, Cambridge.
Cloth, 12mo. $1.00
Contents:—Poetry after the Restoration; Drama after the Restoration; Prose after the Restoration; Pope; Swift and the Deists; Defoe and the Essayists; The Dawn of Naturalism in Poetry; The Novelists; Johnson and the Philosophers; The Poets of the Decadence; The Prose of the Decadence; Conclusion. Bibliography, Index.
Oswald Crawford, in London Academy:
“Mr. Gosse’s book is one for the student because of its fulness, its trustworthiness, and its thorough soundness of criticism.”
The Age of Johnson (1744-1798)
By T. SECCOMBE
Cloth, 16mo, $1.00