PREFATORY NOTE.
The first five of the following Essays are reprinted from the Author’s Essays Biographical and Critical: chiefly on English Poets, published in 1856. The present Volume and two similar Volumes issued separately (under the titles “Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, and other Essays” and “Chatterton: A Story of the Year 1770”) may be taken together as forming a new and somewhat enlarged edition of the older book. The addition in the present Volume consists of the last Essay.
Edinburgh:
November 1874.
CONTENTS.
| PAGE | ||
| I. | THE THREE DEVILS: LUTHER’S, MILTON’S, AND GOETHE’S | [1] |
| II. | SHAKESPEARE AND GOETHE | [61] |
| III. | MILTON’S YOUTH | [125] |
| IV. | DRYDEN AND THE LITERATURE OF THE RESTORATION | [153] |
| V. | DEAN SWIFT | [235] |
| VI. | HOW LITERATURE MAY ILLUSTRATE HISTORY | [301] |
THE THREE DEVILS:
LUTHER’S, MILTON’S, AND GOETHE’S.