LATER WRITERS.
| Aulus Gellius: the Noctes Atticæ | [323] |
| Macrobius: the Saturnalia | [329] |
| Servius on Virgil | [334] |
| Other commentators | [341] |
| Ausonius | [342] |
| The Anthologia Latina | [344] |
| The Latin Rhetoricians | [345] |
| Rutilius Lupus, &c. | [346] |
| Curius Fortunatianus: his Catechism | [346] |
| Marius Victorinus on Cicero | [348] |
| Others | [349] |
| Martianus Capella | [349] |
| INTERCHAPTER II. | [355] |
BOOK III.
MEDIÆVAL CRITICISM.
CHAPTER I.
BEFORE DANTE.
| Characteristics of mediæval literature | [372] |
| Its attitude to criticism | [373] |
| Importance of prosody | [373] |
| The early formal Rhetorics—Bede | [374] |
| Isidore | [375] |
| Alcuin(?) | [375] |
| Another track of inquiry | [377] |
| St Augustine a Professor of Rhetoric | [377] |
| His attitude to literature before and after his conversion | [378] |
| Analysis of the Confessions from this point of view | [378] |
| A conclusion from this to the general patristic view of literature | [380] |
| Sidonius Apollinaris | [383] |
| His elaborate epithet-comparison | [385] |
| And minute criticisms of style and metre | [386] |
| A deliberate critique | [388] |
| Cassiodorus | [389] |
| Boethius | [390] |
| Critical attitude of the fifth century | [391] |
| The sixth—Fulgentius | [392] |
| The Fulgentii and their books | [393] |
| The Super Thebaiden and Expositio Virgiliana | [394] |
| Venantius Fortunatus | [396] |
| Isidore of Seville again | [400] |
| Bede again | [402] |
| His Ars Metrica | [403] |
| The Central Middle Ages to be more rapidly passed over | [405] |
| Provençal and Latin treatises | [407] |
| The De Dictamine Rhythmico | [407] |
| John of Garlandia | [408] |
| The Labyrinthus | [408] |
| Critical review of poets contained in it | [409] |
| Minor rhythmical treatises | [411] |
| Geoffrey de Vinsauf: his Nova Poetria | [412] |